Moon

Well, I went for a run yesterday at 0500 as usual. Guilt got the better of me—that and the fact that the weather wasn’t as bad as I thought. The clouds quickly cleared and it was clear as a bell by the time I got out. While I was running, I saw a dark red crescent moon rising between the minarets of a local mosque. Since the red crescent moon is a Muslim symbol (they use it to mark hospitals—you know the places where they hide weapon caches and snipers), I thought hat it would be a motivating sight for some jihadist. As I ran along pondering the sight, it occurred to me that these jihadists don’t require any motivation—they are simply evil. In today’s sanitized world, we like to pretend that evil doesn’t exist. We rationalize it and try to explain away evil—in effect we hide our heads under the covers and hope that it passes us by. The sad truth is that if we don’t track this evil down and defeat it, it will come looking for us.