It has been said before, but it is worth repeating.

We are at war!

Our enemy has been in the war business ever since Muhammad received his mission statement from Allah,

“Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.” — Qur’an:9:5

“Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.” — Qur’an:9:29

“The Believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, kill and are killed.” — Qur’an:9:112

“So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).” — Qur’an:8:39

Should the enemy succeed, our civilization, the freest and most prosperous the world has ever seen, will come to an end. Lest you think this is hyperbole, look up Zoroastrian civilization, history of, in your favorite encyclopedia.

Arab Muslims conquered Iran and Central Asia during the 7th century ad. Over the next six centuries most Zoroastrians converted to Islam. A minority of Zoroastrians grouped together to practice their religion in central and eastern Iran at cities such as Yazd and Kerman. Others migrated; some went to China where the community eventually died out, while others moved to the west coast of India where they became known as Parsis (Persians). Zoroastrians who continued to reside in Islamic Iran had to endure periodic persecutions and pay a special tax to Muslim authorities until 1854, when Zoroastrians from India convinced the Qajar dynasty of Iran to abolish the religious tax.

During the 20th century the Iranian Zoroastrian community experienced a few decades of well-being under the Pahlavi dynasty, whose rulers glorified Iran’s pre-Islamic past. Approximately 60,000 Zoroastrians lived in Iran during the 1960s. During the late 20th and early 21st centuries, under the Islamic Republic, the number of Zoroastrians in Iran declined as a result of increased conversion to Islam and emigration to Europe and North America. Iranian Zoroastrians currently number about 45,000 people, living mainly in the cities of Tehran, Kerman, and Yazd.

Sure, things did not end well for the Zoroastrians, you say, but that does not mean the same will happen to us.

Why take the risk?

We did not start this war but we should deploy every weapon in our arsenal to finish it now.