The April edition of the American Legion Magazine featured an eye-popping article with regard to ISIS here in America.  According to the Foreign Policy Institute, the source of this article, in 2015…

• 56 Americans were arrested for their connection to ISIS.

• As of 2016, more than 20 American ISIS recruits have been killed in action.

• 71 Americans have been arrested, indicted, or convicted for joining or supporting ISIS.

• 250 Americans have attempted to travel to the Middle East to join ISIS.

• There are at least 900 active FBI investigations against stateside terrorists.  Most are linked to ISIS.

While on the one hand, it's encouraging to know that Homeland Security, the FBI and CIA are on the job, on the other hand, it's disturbing to ponder just how many Americans are lining up to join ISIS. 

These Americans have to know...

• Number one, they are not linking up with a mere political entity or philosophy.  They are signing up for a lifestyle that will engage them in torture, mutilation, murder, decapitation and worse.
• Number two, they are aligning themselves with a group viciously opposed to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to assemble—and most every other right Americans hold dear. 

In other words, ISIS is committed to the destruction of America—and any nation like it.   Strict adherence to Islam—by whatever name it goes by—usually has the same objective.

Young Muslim children taught to recite the entire Quran are usually indoctrinated to believe that anyone who does not believe in Allah is an infidel.  Infidels, according to the Quran must usually be subjugated or killed.

But please (please!) note.  We are not at war with our Islamic friends and neighbors.  Our fight—a spiritual one, reminds Ephesians 6—is against the deception of a dark  system of belief.   

Got your armor on?