By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, has emphatically declared, “We are not at war with Islam.” This is comparable to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt saying “We are not at war with Nazism,” whose Storm troopers were poised to overrun and terrorize all of Europe as well as North Africa.

In this war America raise 15 million solders to defeat any nation that flew the Swastika, Germany’s death’s head insignia, the equivalent of Islam’s scimitar.

In saying “We are not at war with Islam, Obama was not engaging in the cultivated prevarication of Islamic taqiyya. After all, did not President George W. Bush say as much the day after 9/11 when he described Islam as “a religion of peace,” as have academics such as John Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University?

Indeed, what else but denial could Obama utter since he publicly exalts the Qur’an as “holy”? How could America possibly be at war with Obama’s holy book without being at war with Obama?

True, former Muslims, having renounced Islam, have called Islam a religion of war. They echo Winston Churchill’s famous remark that the Qur’an is the “Mein Kampf” of war, which may compound the reason why President Obama returned a bust of Churchill to London. Churchill was also a colonialist who said this of Muslims:

Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.[i]

If Churchill were alive today, his warning of the 1930s regarding the imminent war with Nazi Germany would be magnified tenfold regarding Islam’s declared war against Western Civilization. Obama’s denial of this war not only intensifies and magnifies its scope, His denial disarms us and may lead to Islam’s conquest of the world, the goal of Muslim leaders from Mohammad to the Ayatollah Khomeini, whose hatred of the West is Islam’s spearhead, Iran.