If I were to see five Christians standing over a Muslim, Christians hooded with knives lifted toward the Muslim’s neck, I would weep and weep and weep until I had no more tears.

Then I would call every church around the world to demand that those Christians pictured in the newsfeed be strung up by dawn. Their necks would be sewn so tightly with rope they would not have room to whisper. Their corpses would hang till dry.

I would pray for the God of wrath to descend upon those Christians with such furry that their innards would spill out on the ground. I would pray in Jesus’ name that every angel in glory come upon the hooded ones, spreading their ribs from east to west.

I would contact the National Council of Churches, informing that Council that their official voice had better be telecast by sundown. They had better give forth a pointed address to the hooded ones to put down their weaponry or face their own slaughter.

I would contact the World Council of Churches with the same.

I would phone every Christian publication’s editor I could locate on the Internet, appealing for all editors to voice their utmost righteous anger at the hooded ones holding a Muslim hostage.

I would erect my own web site, defending the Muslim in the name of religious freedom. I would publish articles stating that there is no justice sought in Jesus’ name by beheading a Muslim or any other mortal.

Then I would fast and pray before the Father’s heavenly throne, beseeching justice in the Almighty’s perfect manner and interceding on behalf of the Muslim. I would also pray for the duped Christians in hoods that they come to their soul senses, repent of their sins, and make restitution to the Muslim wronged.

I would then explain as best I could to the world that any hooded ones standing over a Muslim ready to behead him is not truly a Christian. He is not truly a Jesus follower in any way possible. Not at all. Never could be.

I would then relate the Gospel passages where Jesus informs His disciples to love their enemies, pray for those who persecute them, and do good to those who despise them.

I would point out to Muslims that real Christians don’t act that way. Real Christians do not hold another human being in chains, hanging between life and death, all in the name of the Bible God. With that I would point to the biblical passages relating the story of the Good Samaritan and the Love Chapter of I Corinthians 13. I would recount the sacrificial death of Jesus, the Holy One hanging upon the cross because He loved repentant souls enough to offer His own life in our stead.

That’s what I would do.

And I would then recall Jesus rushing through Jerusalem’s temple with whip in hand. He threw over the tables. He screamed at the money hungry. He castigated the temple "spirituals" robed in worldly splendor. And then He cried out. He yelled. He screeched so all heaven could hear: "Let my Father’s house be called the House of Prayer."

With that, I would follow Jesus into my village streets. All Maine would hear my screaming. I would pray my screams would spill over into New Brunswick and Massachusetts.

There is no way I would sit on my religious hands while Christians in hoods put a knife to a Muslim’s neck. No way. It just wouldn’t happen. Never. Not in Jesus’ name. Or I’d rather lose my soul to hell.

A non-Muslim sits before the hooded Muslims’ feet while Muslims hold swords ready for the take. Hooded Muslims spit blood from their teeth. Hooded Muslims breathe hot air from hell. A poor helpless non-Muslim sweats blood drops.

This happens once. It happens twice. It happens a third time. It happens ad infinitum. And it’s just another news story.

And all this while, national Muslim leaders say nothing.

Muslim web sites say nothing.

Muslim clerics say nothing.

Muslim professors say nothing.

Muslim writers write nothing.

Muslim mosques continue Friday prayers with no intercession for the helpless hostage.

Muslim women continue their shopping.

Muslim children continue their knife throwing.

Muslim males continue to mutilate their daughters’ genitals.

Muslim Iranians take another teen girl to the noose.

Muslim neighbors pound in a woman’s head buried in the sand because she’s been accused of adultery.

Muslim liaisons with US Congresspersons continue to smile as they move from office to office.

Muslim lobbyists continue to appeal for Muslim human rights via Washington clout.

Muslim writers send their letters to local newspaper editors appealing for their community rights.

Muslim mobs clot the globe’s boulevards because of a cartoon.

But no Muslim dares point to the hooded Allah-henchmen, demanding that they unhood, put down their swords, and let the hostage flee.

I say to the silent Muslims of the planet: OFF WITH YOUR HEADS.

Copyright © 2006 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Web: http://www.truthinconviction.us

Email: joseph_swank@yahoo.com