With each act of terror, our elites sound off not against those who committed, or tried to commit, the heinous acts, but against the innocent who have done nothing wrong as the feared backlashes rarely materialize.

Some will argue whether the would-be Christmas tree bomber intended to target Christians at the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony in Portland, Oregon last week. What’s beyond dispute is that the ideology that fueled his hatred, radical Islam, is targeting Christianity in a religious war meant to destroy the Judeo-Christian foundation of our country.

But the American jihadists are a little late to the war on Christianity. Radical Islam’s secular enablers have been driving Christianity from the public square for decades. Notice I said tree lighting – not Christmas tree. The tree in Portland has already been downgraded to a mere “Tree Lighting” by the liberal city fathers. There was no room for Christ on tree lighting night.

Mohamed Mohamud, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was taken into custody late last week after FBI authorities alleged he had tried to ignite a phony bomb at the crowded public tree lighting in Portland.

Mohamud’s actions and statements make it clear he was a committed jihadist. As he plotted the attack, Mohamud reportedly told FBI agents posing as Islamist sympathizers, “I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured”; “You know what I like to see? Is when I see the enemy of Allah then, you know, their bodies are torn everywhere.”

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