USA Today: "Even before the attacks on the London mass transit system, FBI Director Robert Mueller said the Madrid bombings 'have heightened our concern regarding the possible role that indigenous Islamic extremists, already in the U.S., may play in future terrorist plots. I remain very concerned about what we are not seeing.'"

Jerome Corsi, author of "Unfit for Command," and "Atomic Iran" - "A sleeper cell like the 19 terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center and hit the Pentagon may be living with us right now, unseen, below the surface, ready to strike when the order is given. It is frightening to think that people who are living among us now as apparently ordinary citizens are secretly planning when, where and how to explode a nuclear weapon in one of our major cities."

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"Let us look at American policies. America conducted three wars in the 1990s. The Gulf War saved the Kuwaiti people from Saddam. American intervention in the Balkans saved Bosnia. And then we saved Kosovo from Serbia. What do these three military campaigns have in common? In every one we saved a Muslim people." --Charles Krauthammer

And before the war in Iraq...

1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

2. In 1979, the United States embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

3. During the 1980s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

4. In 1983, the United States Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his  wheelchair by Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

6. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a United States Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

7. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

9. In 1998, the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one  crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted to a crash by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

11. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

"You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Matthew 5:13-16

He (Jesus) answered and said unto them, He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. Matthew 13:37-42

The Christian's role is to be an ambassador for the Kingdom of God which Jesus has established. "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be you therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Matthew 10:16 As opposed to killing in the name of your god, or being a Catholic politician.

The inference here is that life is not always going to be a beautiful calm. The peace that is spoken of here is not the peace of the calm but it is the peace of the storm. If it were the peace of the calm it would not pass understanding. That would be perfectly natural. Even the world experiences a peace like that. It is, if you will think a little, the peace that we enjoy in the midst of the storm. It is the quiet that we possess in turmoil. It is the silence of the heart in the noise of a busy world. That is what makes it so inexplicable. That is what makes it so wonderful. When worldly philosophers witness the manifestation of such a peace as that, they shake their heads in bewilderment and cannot comprehend what has happened to people who are rich enough to possess it.  (Click here for the complete sermon.)

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