As the blood flows

Another week another massacre by radical Islamist. A startling statistic came out this week. More people have been killed by Jihadist since 9/11 then in the 250 years of the Spanish Inquisition. The group responsible comes from Somalia but as the Kenyan authorities are suggesting are a multinational group some say including Americans. There are even unconfirmed witness accounts that a female British national is among the dead terrorists. The stories that emerge are horrific, with the very pregnant wife of a famed British architect being shot point blank after being unable to recite a verse from the Koran. The world is dripping with the blood of innocents, their lives snuffed out in Syria, Philippine, Indonesia, England and I could go on. The Muslim world clamouring for freedom to practice their faith and run their countries as they please make little efforts to defend or speak out against the killing of ethnic and religious minorities.

What does it say about a cause when a brutal dictator like Bashar Al-Assad protected Christians in his country better than the Jihadist that now claim to be freeing it? Name a massacre of Christians that occured during the Mubarak presidency initiated by the government of Egypt. I notice that the people of the Muslim faith bring up 9/11 as a reason they feel oppressed in our country. That since that gruesome day they have been presecuted. What America wants to see from our Muslim American brothers and sisters is a united call in public, on the news, in Mosque, in social media, that they are sick of the Jihadist and the killings and that they will clean up their faith and make it the faith of peace they are constantly saying it is. My question is, why hasn't that already happened?

I never understood why is death so necessary to so many major faiths? Submit or die has been used in the Christian faith as well as Islam? What finally ended it for Christianity? Since the Reformation there have been very little calls for violence to be used by Christians on nonbelievers. There has been Christians vs Christians violence as we saw for decades in Northern Ireland and even that has chilled. In the twelve years since 9/11 why hasn't there been a call for introspection within the global Muslim community? Even the Catholic have councils, though few and far between, to set dogma and policies and modernize their religion. How much more blood must flow before the moderates rise up to reign in the radicals that are creating a universal disdain in some cases for their faith? I do not think the world can take much more before there is a backlash worse than a dirty look on an airplane.