Your post is an indication of what daesh want to achieve. They want to set Christian against Muslim thereby causing chaos. These terrorists are not Muslim as Muslims will be first to say. Islam is a faith of peace and brotherly love. The word Islam means surrender to Gods will and Muslim means one who surrenders to Gods will
Sadly I hear the continual drum beat that Islam is peaceful. Read the history of the founder of Islam, a warlord, thief, slave trader, sexual pervert (having sex with children is perverted)....could go on, but you get it. Mohammad had two messages. The Mecca message of peace and tolerance. At that time he was in the minority and actually kicked out of Mecca for mucking up the society. He fled to Median. Gained power, began slaughtering Jews, Christians and any other group that would not convert to his way of thinking. In Islamic teaching, the teachings from Median over rule the teachings in Mecca. Meaning, if the Koran contradicts itself, the later teachings are the ones to follow as they replace the earlier teachings. Taqiyya. This is a Muslim doctrine. The gist of it is it is acceptable and even encouraged to LIE to advance Islam or protect yourself. It even allows the Muslim to "convert" to another faith while secretly remaining Muslim. This is done to fool your enemies, protect yourself. Islam erupted out of the Saudi desert in the 6th century AD destroying everything in its path. The great Christian library in Alexandria, remember the area now Islamic was once Christian. By the 700's it had conquered the middle east, North Africa, Spain, Portugal, invaded Italy, Sicily and France. The battle of Tours 732 AD stopped them. They turned into Northern Italy. By the 900's they had sacked Rome twice. If you see redheaded folks from Southern Italy, their Norman ancestor moved there to fight off the Muslims. My wife's people spent 700 years fighting the reconquista to free Spain. To give you a historical mark, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella had just drove the last of the Muslim invades out and then sent Columbus out to find the "New World" in 1492. Luther nailed his 95 Thesis to the Church Door in 1517. 1683, was the last time Vienna was attacked by the Muslims. Vald the Impaler, we call him Dracula (son of Dracu) of Transylvania was held as a prisoner by the Muslims and learned many things from them. England was getting ready for the Glorious Revolution at this time. This does not cover the invasions of China, the Indian subcontinent, Africa and SW Asia. The first enemy the United States had after our Revolution was Muslims. When we no longer had the protection of the Royal Navy, our shipping fell prey to the Muslims. When talks and tribute did not work, for they still captured our ships, enslaved or killed our crews, the US Government rebuilt our Navy, Army and Marine Corps. Thomas Jefferson sent them to North Africa, Navy and Marines, and engaged them in a two year war. We used Greek Mercenaries etc. The Marines Hymn talks about it in the first line and US Marine Officers still carry the Mameluke sword to remind us of our first international war and our first enemy. (I still have my Mameluke sword). Marine LT Presley O'Bannon, with 12 Marines, 2 Midshipmen and @ 300 Mercenaries defeated 3000 Muslims at the Battle of Derna. Ending the War. Compare with the teachings of Christ to those of Mohammad. What the Muslims did in Paris follows the teaching of Mohammad and is Islam. A Christian would have to violate and ignore the teachings of Christ and God to act in such a manner. We must pray for their true conversion, while at the same time keeping our powder dry and in readiness to fight them. Fr. Mark