Second American Killed Fighting For ISIS

by JASmius

You know the old saying: "Once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, thrice is a trend":

A second American reportedly killed fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria has been identified as Abdirahmaan Muhumed, of Minneapolis, two sources told Fox News late Wednesday.

KMSP-TV in Minneapolis reported that Muhumed was killed in the same battle as Douglas McAuthur McCain, who grew up outside Minneapolis in the town of New Hope and most recently lived in San Diego. The State Department confirmed McCain's death earlier this week, but spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday that the U.S. has no independent confirmation of the second American's death. "We're looking into it," she said.

I just bet they are.  If any young American jihadi-symp has any desire to cease to exist in every sense of the term (as opposed to going into Democrat politics, as though that wasn't hardcore enough), y'all know where to go.

Man is a spiritual being, ladies and gentlemen.  Each and every one of us is born with a sin nature we cannot escape by our own efforts and a Christ-shaped hole in our souls that can only be adequately filled via accepting the gift of grace-facilitated forgiveness that He died on Calvary's cross to provide us.  Take a traditionally and historically Christian culture, such as America used to have, and forcibly de-Christianize it over several generations and young people especially, having discovered that sex, drugs, rock & roll, fame, fortune, and big-eared false messiahs do not and cannot fill that Christ-shaped soul hole, will gravitate towards, er, "alternative" modes of "spirituality."  And what better alternative mode of spirituality than the one that looks like the real-life Call of Duty and lets them blow stuff up real good?

And perhaps not just over in Syria and Iraq:

Here's a very sobering thought: One of these American converts to Islam could look real innocent-like, walks into a church on a packed service, and detonates the bomb jacket he wore entering the building. If this gets you to think, good, it's that serious.

Truthfully?  That thought crosses my mind every Sunday morning.  At least once every service I look over at the door that provides ingress to the sanctuary and wonder - well, about any number of possible threats, not limited to armed federal agents come to arrest the pastoral staff for refusing to not preach biblically on life and sexuality issues and, yes, Islamic suicide bombers.  It would be so easy to do, too, especially in America, where we're not conditioned to fear deadly persecution (yet) and churches are so welcoming to any who come through their doors.

It'd put a whole new twist on Communion Sunday.