For Muslims, the Quran imposes the obligation of Jihad on its followers – to struggle in the path of God.  It has come to justify holy war against anyone who fails to submit to Islam.  Indeed, the word “Islam” means submission to God.  Like most religious teachings, over the centuries “Jihad” has been reinterpreted so as to justify violence against anyone labelled “an infidel.”

For fundamentalist Muslims, “infidels” include not only non-Muslims, but also Muslims who fail to adhere to what they believe are the true Islamic teachings.  For instance, Sunni Muslims attack Shiite Muslims because one sect believes the line from Mohammad descends from his cousin, and the other believes it descends from his good friend.  During the Iran/Iraq War, up to a million people died because of this disagreement over doctrine.

Unfortunately, the Democrat Party, an institution that champions unquestioned tolerance for fundamentalist Muslims, who are the least tolerant people on the face of the Earth, has embarked on its own Jihad.  The Democrat Jihad is an unholy war against anything and everything proposed or supported by Donald Trump.

Opposition to the sitting president from the other Party is a fact of life.  No one is criticizing Democrats for the normal quantum of opposition.  The problem is that, throughout our history until 2015, the out-of-power Party was known as “the loyal opposition.”  Not loyal to the incumbent, but loyal to the country, and dedicated to the national interest.  The maxim used to be “politics stops at the water’s edge.”

For today’s Democrats, the maxim has become, “politics uber alles.”  Democrats are dedicated to opposing any action taken by the Trump Administration.  Not so long ago, every prominent Democrat, to include Obama, Biden, Schumer, and Hillary Clinton, supported a secure border and voter identification requirements to prevent non-citizens from voting.  Now they’re bucking 80% of the electorate to oppose these commonsense actions, solely because Trump is for them.

Democrats have shut down the government, and have subjected Americans to hours in TSA lines at airports in support of illegal aliens.  Although 85% of Americans support voter ID requirements, 46 Democrats in the Senate are denying the will of more than 225 million Americans, who support the SAVE Act.

But for my money, the most egregious facet of the unholy Democrat Jihad is their undermining of the Trump efforts to end the half century threat posed by Iran.  Less than three weeks into the war against Iran, Democrats are hard at work undermining the Administration, and our military.

Keep in mind that the same Democrat leaders who are claiming that the war is  “an illegal war of choice,” and that Iran posed no imminent threat to the U.S., are on record for decades warning that Iran posed a nuclear threat to the world.  Bill Clinton said that.  Hillary, in 2016, promised that, if she was elected, she would attack Iran.  Obama recognized the nuclear threat posed by Iran.  Of course, his remedy was to offer bribes in return for empty promises.  Even Joe Biden recognized the problem, expressing growing concern over Iran’s advancing ballistic missile program, long-range drones, and expanding arsenal, all of which, he said, posed significant threats to regional stability.

Lots of presidents talked tough about Iran.  However, until Trump, none of them did anything about it.   Winston Churchill is credited with the saying, “Jaw, jaw is better than war, war.”  In other words, it’s better to talk than to fight.

Trump tried the jaw, jaw for years.  Iran, on the other hand, was practicing lie, lie, and delay, delay.  In the end, Iranian intransigence on the issues of ending their nuclear program, and their production of long range missiles and drones left no alternative other than war, war.  But because it’s Trump who took action against Iran, Democrats must oppose it.

So we attacked Iran.  In record time, several layers of Iranian government leaders were killed.  Their air assets were destroyed.  Their Chinese-made radar and anti-aircraft defenses were wiped out.  Their navy was sunk.  Their ballistic missile and drone assets have been reduced more than 90%.

Democrats, still engaged in their anti-Trump Jihad, are unimpressed.  They say Iran wasn’t really a threat, and that Trump had no plan.  The lap dog media is suggesting that we’re losing the war.  The delusional James Carville just said the situation in Iran is a catastrophe.  To quote one Donald Trump, “These people are crazy.”

The brutal Iranian regime held the world hostage for 47 years.  Recently, it killed tens of thousands of its own citizens.  It’s desperately trying to hold on to power.  Its leaders are being removed daily by U.S. and Israeli attacks.  The Israeli Mossad has reached out and eliminated dozens of Iranian political, intelligence, military, and police officials.  They are now attempting to turn the remaining leaders away from the current regime, and toward support for a new regime led by the beleaguered Iranian people.

This week, The Wall Street Journal reported on the Israelis’ killings of Iran’s security chief and the head of Iran’s Basij militia, who had enslaved the Iranian people for decades.  The Israelis are contacting the remaining Iranian leaders in their hiding places to scare them straight.  The Mossad has placed telephone calls to Iranian leaders, one of whom thought he was safe in a tent in a park.  The message was simple, “we know where you are, and we can kill you unless you bring about change.”

So far, the criminal regime in Iran is hanging on.  It couldn’t stop our attacks.  It struck their Muslim brothers in 12 neighboring countries in a vain attempt to turn Mideast opinion against the U.S.  That didn’t work.  The last card in the Iranian regime’s deck is the attempt to close the Straight of Hormuz to shipping.  Their efforts have caused a price spike in the oil markets, resulting in a temporary increase in gasoline prices.  While the U.S. and other nations plan to escort ships through the Straight, the higher gas prices are causing pain.

Iran is counting on that pain to force the U.S. to end the war.  Some Republicans are very nervous, fearing a backlash in the midterm elections.  My perspective is very simple.  I don’t care.  Screw the midterms.  Suck it up and endure the temporarily inflated gas prices.  If paying a bit more at the pump is all your country calls on you to do to bring about a more stable Middle East, and increased security at home, just pay it and be grateful.  Gas prices were higher under Obama and Biden, while they did nothing to end Iran’s nuclear ambitions and allowed them to threaten the world.

The war in Iran must be seen to its conclusion.  The Iranian attempt to hold the world hostage by stopping oil and natural gas shipments is not a reason to end the war, it’s just the opposite.  The current Iranian regime, being run by murderous, perverted Mullahs, who are operating under the delusion that it’s still the Ninth Century, have no business dictating to world at the point of a gun.

Their Muslim brothers in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the U.A.E., and other nations, have figured out how to maintain their devotion to Allah, while still permitting their citizens to prosper in the modern world.    A rogue regime that can’t manage to do so, which relies on the brutal repression of its people, and which threatens the rest of the world with death, cannot and should not be tolerated.

To paraphrase Calvin Coolidge, “the business of the world is business.”  I keep coming back to Paddy’s Chayefsky’s, Network.  “You have tampered with the primal forces of nature Mr. Beale, and now you must atone.”  By holding the World economy hostage, the Iranian Mullahs have tampered with the primal forces of nature.  Unless we break the back of the Iranian regime, it will continue to do what it’s done for 47 years – use energy as a weapon to bring the enlightened world to its knees.  We don’t have to put up with that anymore.  They must atone.

Democrats have lost their way.   Their Trump-hating Jihad is putting each and every one of us at risk.  If American voters are too stupid to understand that in November, then we’ll get the government we deserve.