It has always been good advice to take anyone threatening to kill you seriously. This advice does not change on the basis of “treaties made to be broken.”

The other morning as I was sitting here writing, something caught my eye out one of the windows. It was the resident cat playing with something in the yard; and knowing cats as I do, I was quickly up and out the door. Sure enough, it was some small critter the cat had caught, in this case a lizard, one of the black blue-bellied varieties common hereabouts.

Now this cat showed up at my place here in the country as a very young dumpee nearly eight years ago; and my having fed her, she decided to hang around. We know each other pretty well by now, enough so that she demands her “pets” in my lap and other attention as is the wont of cats in general, and she knows when I appear at such times as with her playing with the lizard I am going to intervene.

Sure enough, I was no sooner out the door when cat went one way and lizard another. It took some doing, but I’m still agile enough to cut the mustard on occasion, and in this case, I soon had the lizard in hand. Having captured the little critter, I took it over to a convenient pile of rocks and released it.

Readers will no doubt realize the futility of all this. Cat is still outside; it is still the cat’s nature to catch lizards and other critters. Some time ago my friend Mike Turner even took a picture of the cat perched on the rocks and made up a cute poster stating, “Wanted for Lizard Killin’.” The cat was unimpressed.

But the cat catching gophers suits me just fine. She sometimes shows up at the back door with a gopher proving she does know the difference between acceptable and unacceptable with me and I suspect to prove to me she earns her keep, though no doubt puzzled, understandably, why I approve her catching gophers but not lizards. I once watched as she missed a gopher, then pretending the nonchalance of Garfield looked at me and acted as though nothing had gone amiss; typical cat behavior.

Notwithstanding the futility of it all, as it is the nature of cats to be predators, so it is my nature to make every attempt to intervene in order to save little critters like the lizard. I’m not going to be able to change the nature of the cat, and no amount of the cat’s nature will change mine in intervening to save the cat’s prey on occasion. Nature red in tooth and claw is true of the beasts, but it is my nature as a civilized human being to intervene with such of Nature red in tooth and claw when possible; well, except for gophers and a few other undesirables.

Now I know some people really do hate cats, and while I have always liked them I can’t imagine what was in the minds of the gods to create lions and tigers on the one hand and produce the small furry creatures that warm many a lap while contentedly purring away. But whether dogs or cats I find it unconscionable for people to allow the indiscriminate breeding of these animals, especially when feral cats decimate bird populations and so many unwanted dogs and cats wind up being destroyed. This easily leads to my thoughts about the indiscriminate breeding by people that give no thought to the future of the resulting babies; however ...

There is no changing the nature of cats big or small; they are born predators and remain predators regardless all efforts to make them otherwise, regardless of the many cute pictures of cats with birds and hamsters perched on their heads, even the pictures of a momma cat nursing baby squirrels. Warm and fuzzy does not make a cat other than what it is—but what about Muslim terrorists?

Western Civilization is facing an implacable foe in Islam, a woman-hating religion of the sword that is a breeding ground for hatred of all who are not Muslims. The particularly virulent strains of Islam is fed children with their mother’s milk, and the resulting murderers of the innocent do not all come from barbaric conditions of want and poverty, some graduate from the schools in civilized nations.

Granted I do believe there are in fact “children of the Devil,” the monsters in human guise that prey on women and children, the kind of monsters that delight in the torture and murder of human beings. In a civilized society such monsters, whether of the Devil or not, are put away when caught. But what can be done when a religion teaches and encourages such monsters? Such is the risk all civilized nations are taking by allowing the religion of Islam to be protected and flourish in their midst.

While the cat is a predator by instinct, by its nature, we choose to believe this is not true of human beings. We want to believe a child raised in the proper environment of love and tolerance can never be taught to hate and murder others. But while we know what cruel poverty and ignorance can do in the life of any child, these are no more reliable predictors of behavior than the child raised in the best of circumstances. Some just seem to be born monsters.

We do know the teaching of hatred of those who are “different” by any measure can be taught children; and it is the responsibility of civilized people to avoid this kind of teaching, to root it out wherever it is found. Unfortunately for America the viper of “tolerance” for hatred has allowed for every kind of teaching of hatred for America and Americans to be found throughout our nation, especially in mosques and the inner cities, in jails and prisons where the most converts to Islam are being made. The result has to be an increase of what we see happening in Britain, and accelerating attempts to make such things happen here in America. It is only sensible to realize 9/11 was the gauntlet being thrown by the Islamic haters of all non-Muslims.

It seems good people do not have representation. No doubt the great majority of Muslims are good people, but they lack representation; there is no concerted outcry among Muslims to end the atrocities being committed by Muslims. And the accommodations to Islam by Western nations are construed by the Muslim teachers of hatred of all non-Muslims to be weakness with ever bit the disdain Hitler had for Chamberlain. Right now the “Chamberlains” are in charge because of oil and global corporations. And I continue to fear and look south through my windows for that mushroom cloud rising over Los Angeles as a consequence of greed and avarice cloaked in the politically correct speech of politicians and the MSM.

I can trust my cat to be a cat. That is its nature. But until Muslim leaders begin to make a concentrated effort to cooperate in holding their own accountable, to eradicate the teaching of hatred of all non-Muslims in the mosques throughout civilized nations I will only trust a Muslim to be a Muslim. And so long as greed and avarice control our government with the accompanying corruption born of greed and avarice so long will our borders remain porous inviting terrorist attacks whether our enemies are home grown or imported.