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Monday night we left Kansas for the last leg of our trip home. The satellite on the bus was working well, I had my grandson, Evan, on the trip, the Nashville Predators were playing on home ice, one win away from bringing the Stanley Cup Finals to Music City for the first time in history, and we looked anxiously forward to watching the game.

Just a little while before it was time to drop the puck in Nashville, there was a news flash that there had been some kind of an explosion at a concert hall in Manchester, England and there had been death and injuries.

And there began the dichotomy, the highly-anticipated evening of excitement and fun tainted by another depraved act of Islamic terror on the other side of the world.

As the scene unfolded it became plain what most people on the planet knew already, although many are not willing to admit it, there will be no peace, no security, no mercy, no sanity and no quarter given by these depraved fanatics who think they can Islamize the world by terrifying it, and that planet Earth has two choices:

1. The first is to sit back in politically correct denial, telling the world how wonderful and peaceful the Islamic religion is and that taking the steps to track down and destroy the fringe element would be too traumatic to the innocent majority.

Well I say a resounding BS! What about the trauma these vermin are causing the innocent majority of the world? How about the parents of the eight-year-old girl who was slaughtered by this demonic act of evil last week? How about the innocents who will spend months in hospitals and rehab centers just to get their lives back?

It seems that to have an increased police presence in Islamic neighborhoods and the authority to do whatever it takes to clean out the guilty from amongst the innocent would be a small price to pay for the Muslim communities who enjoy the freedoms and opportunities of the nation they live in.

2. Since this is an international problem it will take an international response to adequately deal with it, and I'm not speaking about the impossibility of some "unilateral action" that would involve massive cooperation with nations who don't like or trust us or some monolithic international police force, just a constantly updated and comprehensive database and an agreement to increase and maintain close surveillance on those known to be a danger.

Everybody loves their children, regardless of politics and ethnicity. Is this asking too much?

Liberalism and laxity seem to go together. The more liberal the government, the laxer the immigration policies and the surveillance techniques employed.

One of these days one of our "sanctuary cities" is going to blow sky high because of some radical who has fallen through the cracks and has protected status provided by politicians who claim humane reasons, but are really only motivated by the prospect of an enlarged future voting base.

This thing in Manchester is not just a random act of violence. It was a targeted attempt to cause as much pain, fear and suffering as possible. This was a concert by Ariana Grande, an artist who appeals to little girls still in elementary school. They knew who would be there and cared not a whit that children would be slaughtered and maimed.

Do these people and those who harbor them deserve a special deferment? Is there any other segment of any population that would be treated with kid gloves after such wanton taking of innocent life?

Would the Irish neighborhoods in Boston, the Scandinavian neighborhoods of the Middle West or the African American neighborhoods of New Orleans be given hands off treatment because of offending sensibilities?

Were the Italian neighborhoods off limits in the feds relentless hunt for organized crime figures?

You can't hunt moles in the ocean, and you can't hunt sharks on dry land.

I believe that one of the primary reasons for the threatened breakup of the European Union is the organization's willingness to accept millions of refugees, who refuse to assimilate, disrespect females and go about making their host country the same kind of hell hole they were running from in the first place.

The day will soon come on the European continent – in fact, it may have already arrived – when the immigrant population will wield the majority of political power and certainly the majority of ethnic power as the native population aborts their way into a minority.

Do we deal with it or die with it?

We need to decide while we still have a choice.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels is a legendary American singer, song writer, guitarist, and fiddler famous for his contributions to country and southern rock music. Daniels has been active as a singer since the early 1950s. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008.

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