9/11 Thoughts

15 years ago the demented forces of radical Islam against the world declared war

Sending hijackers on a one way delusional ticket to a Paradise in acts all civilized humans must deplore

Today the hijackers of Islam around the world continue to seek other bloody and fatal encores

More suicide bombings, mass shooting attacks of innocents have become the norm as we struggle for safety to restore

Lost in the grief over the almost 3000 innocents who on 9/11 died

61 nations also lost citizens when the hijacked planes went on their suicide ride

Radical Islam is a deadly, unforgiving  cancer that non Muslims and Muslims kills

Unless we together identify it, reform it and stamp it out an ever increasing butchers’ bill

Radical Islamists are the vicious, blood thirsty pirates of the 21^st Century

And like the pirates of old we cannot allow them any physical or theological sanctuary

Islam like early Christianity plagued by Crusades and the Inquisition with its auto-da-fes

Needs a Reformation to lead it away from Sharia and its radical killing martyrdom ways

Where is the Muslim Luther who will this religion try to reform?

Who will install tolerance and respect for other faiths that radical Islam has shorn?

We cannot drone or kill our way out of this deadly existential threat

Ever reminded on 9/11 of the sacrifices of the first responders to whom we owe a great debt

This has to be also a war to reform the mullahs’ and imams’  hearts and minds

To from the mosques and madrassas command that to enter Paradise acts of terror must be shed and left behind

As long as young men and women are taught that terror is the only way to gain entrance to Paradise for their soul

Bombings, shootings, stabbings and all means of death and destruction on civilization will continue to take its toll

© September 11, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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