Our Children

Eighteen months ago, Barack Obama asserted that “ISIS is contained.”

Today, my rage is not contained.  It is white hot.

I first learned of the Manchester bombing  when I checked my Twitter feed  while I was playing a few holes of golf.   Soon thereafter, the wrenching images of youngsters began to appear on social media, forwarded by parents frantically trying to contact their kids.  “This is Amanda.  She is not answering my calls.  Please help me,” was the typical posting.   My stomach churned as I read through them—dozens of them—anguished, fearful messages attached to images of beautiful, smiling boys and girls.

This vicious, barbaric attack clearly targeted children. The victims, the method and the venue were deliberately selected by the dark enemies of civilization.  The attack came a day after Donald Trump landed in the heart of the Islamic Middle East to assert America’s new posture toward Islamic extremism.   Paris, Brussels,  San Bernardino.   Each time, ISIS or ISIS inspired terrorists have raised their game and demonstrated a new level of depravity.  ISIS took aim at gays in San Bernardino; now its operatives perpetrated a mass attack on young girls. 

Earlier in the day, the news broke about allegations that San Francisco mayor Ed Murray paid teens for sex.  The New York Times began their story with the inexplicable headline, “Sadness reigns in the LGBT community…”  Sadness?   How about outrage?  Where is the concern for the exploited children-the children damaged in so many ways by this beast?  Instead, the emphasis of the NYT was on the amorphous “LGBT Community.”

And in the first of its kind prosecution, two Muslim doctors are being charged in Livonia, Michigan for performing female genital mutilation on seven year old girls.  Predictably, the defendants are raising religious freedom as their principal defense.   That taxpayers have to pay prosecutors to deal with that claim is abhorrent.    Even worse, given the track record of some of the Obama appointed judges, is the fear that that defense may get traction.

CNN’s  Chris Cillizza begged people to “stop talking about Anthony Weiner.”  The New York Times showed more concern for the “LGBT community” than the child victims of Ed Murray.  The lawyers for the Attar’s are using religious freedom as cover for their barbaric practice.  The mayor of London, Justin Trudeau, and Emmanuel Macron have all made statements suggesting that terror is something that we must get used to in our daily lives.

This is utter nonsense.  Our children are being murdered, mutilated and exploited and the MSM and P.C. culture are enabling it.  Our defense of our young must be loud, determined and unequivocal.  It is past the time when we can sacrifice our children on the altar of P.C.   The predators that prey on the children of Western Civilization must not be given sanctuary,  pity or be excused in any way.  

A civilization that will not do what it takes to defend its children is in deep, deep trouble.  This week, we are seeing dark forces that will kill, disfigure and exploit our children while the mainstream media and the politically correct crowd excuses, rationalizes, downplays and enables it.  If a culture and society permits the fear of being labelled a “bigot” from fiercely protecting its young, it doesn’t have much time left.

Donald Trump was absolutely correct when he implored Middle Eastern leaders to drive out the extremists.   The West must be absolutely unyielding in its defense of its children from those that would kill, mutilate and exploit them, and that includes erecting an absolute barrier to the people that practice parts of Islam that cannot be tolerated in the West–terror, female genital mutilation, and child marriage, and we cannot be bashful about saying so—in the loudest voices we can find.   Likewise, creeps like Ed Murray and Anthony Weiner should not be shielded or normalized by the LGBT community or the MSM for their despicable behavior.

The predators that would harm our children must be driven out and obliterated, and those that would exploit them, jailed, and their enablers in the mainstream media must be shamed for covering for them.

If we cannot bring ourselves do what it takes to do this, the West is finished.