Finally, a True American Who Understands Islam and the Qu'ran

This article and video just came across the transom from the American Family Association.  Lt. Col. Allen West, U.S. Army (Ret.), represents the kind of man who would have been a much better president of the United States (POTUS) than the one in there right now who is a disgrace to our great country.  If Col. West was in there as the POTUS, he would go down as the greatest POTUS in history.  Unfortunately, the embarrassment of a president in there is ruining it for people like Col. West.  Obama could be the greatest POTUS in history if he moved to the middle and stop acting like a Marxist-socialist.

For Veteran’s Day: A vet who understands the enemy we face

President Obama this week once again called Islam “a great religion” which has been “distorted” by a small number of “extremists” to justify committing acts of violence against the West.  But the Qur’an (or Koran) itself, the holy book of Islam, contains over 100 verses calling for violence against Christians and Jews. To give just one example, Sura 9:5 says, “Slay the idolaters wherever you find them.”

During a panel discussion sponsored by the Hudson Institute last January 2010, retired Army Lt. Colonel Allen West, who did combat duty in Iraq, responded to a Marine who asked the question, how do you answer people who say that terrorists are following a “warped” version of Islam?  The panel consisted of a number of former military personnel, who fumbled around trying to answer the question. Col. West finally stepped forward answered the question directly and truthfully. Listen to the words of a former military man who understands the nature of the enemy we face: secure.afa.net/afa/activism/takeaction.asp?id=384.

Notice again Col. West’s straightforward assessment: “This is not a perversion. They are doing exactly what this book (i.e., the Qur’an) says.”  Col. West, by the way, was elected on November 2, 2010, to Congress to represent Florida’s 22nd congressional district. He will be the first African-American Republican congressman to represent Florida since 1870.