Political correctness concerning Islam must cease immediately.

• Author: Erickson, Tricia
• Position: American Thought

AS A CRISIS management strategist, I learned quickly that the first step to winning a battle is to know as much about your enemy as possible. Only when you understand the motive of the attacker can you develop a battle plan and strategy for protection. Going into battle without knowing your opposition is like throwing tennis balls at person who is coming after you with a machete. As much as the political elite want to keep their heads in the sand, the politically incorrect truth of this battle the U.S. faces does not change.

For the sake of clarity of who we are indeed at war with and why, see the scriptures from the Koran: "Kill the Mushrikun [non-Muslims] wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush.... They [non-Muslims] shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off from opposite sides, or be exiled from the land.... Martyrdom is therefore the ONLY way for a Muslim to obtain forgiveness of sins.... Jihad [fighting for Allah's cause] is ordained for you ... and if you are killed or die in the Way of Allah, forgiveness and mercy from Allah are far better than all that they amass."

The prophet Muhammad and the Koran states that a Muslim who is killed in battle against infidels will receive eternal life and total forgiveness of his sins. It is important to note that the only way that the Koran provides for forgiveness of sins is to kill, maim, or be killed in battle against the infidel Christians, Jews, and nonbelievers.

It is interesting that the word Islam means submission. In Islam, Muhammad and the Koran, author Labib Mikhail states: "Today, we hear on radio and television many Muslim clerics say that Islam means 'peace,' but the word Islam means 'submission' and a Muslim is one who is in submission to Allah. Their goal as stated in the Koran is to bring the entire world into submission to Allah and the Koran under a Muslim Caliph and to have a global Islamic empire. This is Islam today, the same Islam of yesterday. Americans, Jews, and Christians should be aware of this."

The Koran instructs to go in peacefully until you are in numbers to take them (people, nations) over. France and other countries already are experiencing this, as Sharia law is pushing its way through.

It is a great public relations achievement to twist an extremely violent religion to be perceived as a religion of peace. I would challenge anyone to go back through the history of...