Your see, with Christians, ?Onward Christian Soldiers? has always been a metaphor ? think of the Salvation Army ? for us to fight with love issues of hate, poverty and homelessness.  Not so with Islam and Mohammed.

So what can we do? 

1.  Globally wake up and recognize the nature of radical Islam?s threat. 
2.  Get briefed about Islam.  For starters, read Robert Spencer?s seminal book  
     ?Onward Muslim Soldiers? and check out his informative, carefully researched
     website, www.jihadwatch.org.  Then, study an unabridged version of the
     Qur?an ... and get ready to be freaked out.
3.  Monitor mosques.  We must check out and, if necessary, prohibit violence 
     being preached and taught in mosques and religious schools in our country. 
4.  Make serious background checks on would be Muslim immigrants.  We must
     find out whether they vocally and consistently have renounced jihad ideology
     and the elements of Islamic Shari?a law that are incompatible with the UN  
     declaration of Human Rights.
5.  Tighten up our borders -- land, sea and air -- against foreign intruders and their
     weapons of destruction.
6. Encourage the Reformation of Islam, from within by moderate
      Muslim scholars.   

My ClashPoint is this:  There certainly are millions of Muslims in the U.S. and abroad who do not support Bin Laden and his lethal ilk and al-Sadr?s bloody threats.  Please correct me if I?m wrong but it seems to me that cool Muslims are the minority report, at least of those who are willing to take a stand.  From what I?ve read of Islamic writings, unlike the New Testament of the Christian Bible, violence seems to be the specialty of the Islamic house.

If it?s not, then moderate Muslim clerics must stand up and be counted.  They need to short leash their violent adherents and revise their owner?s manual, because both clearly work against their newly launched ?peaceful-easy-feelin?? public relations campaign.

Doug Giles? latest book, ?Ruling in Babylon?, is available via Amazon.com .  He pastors a church in Miami and hosts two award winning radio programs [www.clashradio.com].