Everyone in the press seems to be using the adjectives "radical" or "extremist" to describe the Muslims who are waging war against our Judeo-Christian heritage. But, as Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Germany propaganda chief, suggested, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

Are we simply deluding ourselves in thinking that Islam is made up of only a few bad apples? Or is the whole barrel sour?

The evidence seems to favor the "all radical theory."

Even Muslim apologists like John Kaltner, who wrote Islam: What Non-Muslims Should Know, have difficulty burying the "every Muslim is a radical" theory. Despite an important Qur'an passage that says, "There is no compulsion in religion," Kaltner wrote:

"Local populations were given a number of options when Islamic forces entered their territory. They were first invited to join the faith and become Muslims. If they chose to do so, they were accepted as full members of the 'ummah' and were granted all rights that went along with that status. A second option available to Jews and Christians was that they could keep their faith if they paid a special tax called 'the jizya.' This placed them in the category of the 'dhimmi,' or protected minority, and gave them freedom of religion to worship as they wished. Only in the event that neither of these two options was taken did military confrontation and violence ensue."

Does that sound like a peaceful religion? "Invade 'em, convert 'em, tax 'em or destroy 'em" is a historical, mainstream Muslim policy that doesn't sound very peaceful or "non-compulsive" to me.

Then there was Abdul Rahman, the Afghan fellow who converted to Christianity 15 years ago. When a child custody battle made his conversion from Islam public, Afghans rose up angrily and demanded death for poor Rahman, who had committed the sin of "insulting Islam." Thousands marched demanding death for Rahman's apostasy. He was put on trial while preachers urged the Islamic court to execute him.

Does the Rahman case make you think that Afghan Muslims are moderates?

Suppose our Jewish and Christian faiths held that those converting to Islam should be put to death for apostasy. Should we have killed the thousands of men who converted from Christianity to become "Black Muslims" after the assassination of Martin Luther King? We might have, if our Jewish and Christian beliefs were as "moderate" as those of mainstream Islam.

This seeming contradiction rests on the fact that "moderate Muslims" have been trained to believe that those of other beliefs are heretics and deserve to be destroyed. Especially if they do anything to "insult Islam."

A fatwa calling for death was put upon the head of Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses, which ridiculed Islamist extremism. While in hiding, Rushdie learned that Iranian ayatollahs had elevated the bounty on his head to $2 million. Later, his Norwegian publisher was attacked and injured.

A Muslim assassinated Theo Van Gogh in Holland for his motion picture transgressions against the same "moderate" faith. The killer slit Van Gogh's throat, shot him eight times and stabbed him in the chest while shouting curses.

Mainstream Muslims all over the world erupted in violence over a few Danish cartoons which lampooned the peaceful pose of Islam and its prophet. Yet Jesus Christ has been "insulted" many times over by artists, writers, cartoonists and moviemakers from Hollywood to Timbuktu. Christians were angry and sad, but never violent.

When American Christian and Jewish soldiers accidentally damage a mosque being used as a military installation, the whole world of moderate Islam erupts into rage and violence. But when Palestine terrorists took refuge in a Christian Church and desecrated it, not a single Christian rose up in anger or was violent.

Recent interviews with Muslims in the USA show the fiction of the "moderate Muslim." Asked about their attitudes toward President Bush, most have dealt him scathing appraisals. But what was unusual was not their problems with the Iraq war (shared by many Christians and Jews), but instead their perception that the President had attacked Islam. There was no similar outrage expressed over the fact that Iraq is a case of Muslims killing Muslims.

This seeming contradiction is based on the moderate Muslim's extreme prejudice against the Jewish and Christian faiths. While the Qur'an recognizes Allah as the God of Christians and Jews, as well as that of Muslims, Islamists consider Muhammad to have been Allah's messenger or "main man." The Qur'an also considers Moses, David and Jesus to have been God's messengers, but they were clearly bench warmers, a fact demonstrated by their exclusion from Islam's creed: "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger."

While the Qur'an recognized the Bible and Torah as emanating from God, it does not fully approve of them. The Qur'an projects the idea that the Bible and Torah have many sound writings, but also many passages which have been badly interpreted and distorted by highly fallible writers. Thus the Qur'an was sent down by Allah to "clarify" the errors in the Bible and Torah. It seems that those parts of the Christian and Jewish books which do not agree with the Qur'an are the passages which are in error. Thus everyone who wishes to believe in God must believe in the teachings of the Qur'an.

This serves as the moral authority for moderate Islamists to attack the Christian and Hebrew faiths through the traditional means of invasion, intimidation, taxation and violence.

In the United States, Muslims are now invading the political arena. In some areas, their growing populations will allow them to have swing-vote power, allowing for political intimidation. Tax breaks and vouchers for Muslim schools which preach anti-American violence (Wahabbism) could be next. Eventually, this would lead to local and state governments by Islamists which firmly believe that there is no separation between state and Islam. (Remember that Muhammad was not only a religious leader and soldier, he was the powerful judge and lawgiver who presided over the city that came to be called Medina.)

If you believe that Islam could never control the United States, think back to 9/11 when planes were crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing 3,000 Christians and Jews. Not a single Muslim preacher spoke out against the attacks.

And when Muslims were interviewed on the street, even those who decried the terrorist attack did so in a very strange way. Especially one who said, "This is terrible. We did not want this to happen. Why, only last week, a group of us met to discuss how we could make the United States a Muslim country."

Watch out, America.

The Muslim invasion has started.

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