Is this the true face of Islam?

I ask that you forgive me for my extended silence today. I really do not like to write, when I am uninspired.  However, I believe that I now have found a reason to put forth words.  I have been grappling with the feeling, that Islam is a threat to American Democracy and an Enemy of freedom.  However, being the measured person that I am, I do not like to case forth judgments, because I am not much interested in being painted by the left, as being a reactionary.  However, I will fully concede that there are times when my emotions get the best of me and I do lash out in print.

Islam, the very name conjures up images in the recesses of my rather mid-aged mind.  Some good and some that are horrifying.  At some point, one becomes numb to the constant news of terror attacks; in fact, there was one again today —in Germany, of all places.  It is the usual affair, man reaches into a bag, gets a gun and screams, “God is Great!” and proceeds to inflict carnage upon those around him.  However, one cannot think that all Muslims are murders, that is reactionary thinking, that is what the terrorists want me to believe, so that I can hate all Muslims.  At least that is what they tell me and I keep telling myself repeatedly.  Therefore, I have to remember that, I cannot allow myself to be sucked into that extremist mindset.

Shahbaz Bhatti was Arab man from Pakistan, he was not a Muslim, — he was a Roman Catholic. Today Shahbaz Bhatti was killed —- well, actually the man was killed brutally and viciously by Muslims.  Extremists, so they say.  This seems to be the argument coming from the likes of the Center for Islamic and American Relations.

The Corner, a Blog over at the National Review Remembers the man:

He had waged a strong campaign — inside the government as a minister and outside it in cooperation with human-rights groups — for the repeal of the country’s draconian blasphemy law, which mandates the death penalty for insulting Islam. The 42-year-old was a Roman Catholic, the government’s only Christian minister, and the longtime head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, a non-governmental organization promoting national unity, interfaith harmony, social justice, and human equality…

Death threats were a constant in Bhatti’s life for many years. He once told me that he had never married because he did not think it would be fair to a wife and children to subject them to this concern. His work was his life: At the end of each day, he left his government Cabinet office and headed over to his office at the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, where he continued to help Pakistan’s persecuted minorities until late into the night.

“I personally stand for religious freedom, even if I will pay the price of my life,” he had said when he received the USCIRF award. “I live for this principle and I want to die for this principle.

I ask humbly that you watch this video where Mr. Bhatti speaks of the threats against his life.  I also ask to look at this video to see what these —- animals did to this servant of the Lord.  Horrifying and disgusting to most sane rational people.

Now back to my original thought.  I keep hearing this same line from the majority of America that not all Muslims are terrorists and that we need to co-exist and accept them as normal people.  The problem is, that the reality of what is going on here in America and around the world; the noise of that, is making it harder and harder to ignore the reality and remember what one is told.

(H/T HotAir)