The usual chaos, mayhem,carnage and hand-wringing. All the predictable adjectives from shocking and horrific to barbaric and inhuman.
But now a fresh note has been sounded by Francois Hollande, the French president, who has said that militant Islam has issued a "Call to War" and by others, who have defined this most recent attack as "War upon the West"
At last the reality of the day in which we live has dawned upon our leaders, who have been forced from the thickets of political correctness and from the cowardice of being branded as racists, to recognize that we are indeed at war.
In 1939, when I was born, we were at war with Germany. Everyone knew it and nobody was guessing who the enemy was.
Turn the clock forward 75 years and now a different battle is being fought, not so easily defined but just as deadly.
It is a war, not against terror but against MILITANT ISLAM.
No longer is the battle confined to the Middle East for a Fatwa
has been issued to bring Jihad to the West and it could soon be coming to a city near you.
Once I took refuge in a Morrison Shelter against the bombs that were falling round my house. Now my life is 'hid with Christ in God'. May I suggest, in this perilous hour, that you come to Christ and find that "He is a refuge and a fortress; a very present help in time of trouble."
Jubilate.
Ian
