One's clueless neighbors fail to see it because they conflate Christ and Christianity with Mohammed and Islam are blinded to the danger posed by the latter.
And then there is probably the biggest mistake of that sort ever made, at least in modern times.
Jimmy Carter considered Khomeini a 'holy man' and believed every crisis could be resolved with diplomacy.
FATHER OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION
Carter's ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint." Carter's Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, "Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure." Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview on February 12, 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of "impeccable integrity and honesty." The shah was terrified of Carter. He told his personal confidant, "Who knows what sort of calamity he [Carter] may unleash on the world?"
I agree.
The fundamentals of Islam as found in the Koran, Hadith's and life of Muhammad and the 4 caliphs immediately following Muhammed, and 1400 years of history are to subjugate , convert, or kill, all people who are not Muslims.
Christianity is a girly boy religion compared to Islam.
Christians are encouraged to forgive and forget, be nice to one another and strangers, and turn the other cheek when wronged, and pray for forgiveness for the aggressor.
This makes Christians perfect saps when confronting Muslims.
Islam came along 600 years after Christianity and knows how to take advantage of long established Christian naivetivity.. - Tom