Coming to Terms

Coming to Terms

What’s so radical

About misuse of a term?

Words classical,

Once healthy, now deadly germ.

Radical Islam is a misnomer.

Its practice, Koran pure.

So-called moderates, the sarcoma,

The real radical offers no cure.

Radical is not

Pure Islam.

Its principles, its thought,

No peace, no balm.

Pure Islam is

Commitment, conviction.

On infidels quiz

Belief, impose affliction.

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The secular west

Did its best

To rid its root

Of Christian fruit.

First in Europe

Began to stir up

Old convictions

Creating frictions.

No need for tradition

With the Enlightenment mission

Of thinking the rational,

Being one, killing the national.

Fluid thinking,

No principles linking

To past truths.

 The secular requires no proof.

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Pure Islam and the secular

In strange alliance

Make spectacular

A frightful compliance.

The secular so blind

With no principles at all

Must resign

With submission, withal.

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"Radical," you see

Really are the "Moderate."

The rational and secular plea

Have succumbed to the pure threat.

Is it too late

To come to terms?

How long will the secular wait

Before western culture burns?

If it smells like a rose …

If it smells like a rose …

It probably is

If it smells so.

Probably not

When you so know.

How so

With an institution?

Something as basic

As the American Constitution.

When a certain Article

Legitimates the manner

Of election,

Only one wins the banner.

An Amendment, First,

Announced freedoms

Institutionally allocated,

Created necessary legislative tediums.

When dissatisfied with

The banner bearer,

And institutional respect

Identifies no error,

Unhappy, some press

For executive removal and

Joined by legislative losers left,

Wax reproval.

Those left out

Lost.

Only left now with fire,

We teeter on chaos.

With ne’er a scintilla

Of deep inspection,

A thousand baseless fits

Form insurrection.

What then smells

Like a rose?

The Constitution

We chose!