Westernized Muslims have learned that they can get away with almost anything — so long as they slap the words "tolerance," "pluralism," "dialogue," or "bridge-building" to their endeavors, as the 9/11 mosque supporters do regularly. In short, a correlation exists between how well or how little a Muslim knows the West, and how aggressive or passive their Islamism becomes.
IN THE NYT article, Targeted Killing Is New U.S. Focus in Afghanistan, we read that the U.S. is working to target specific leaders of the Taliban. This is their new strategy. Also, they're working to lure Taliban fighters away from fighting by using money. The U.S. is trying to negotiate peace agreements with Taliban leaders, and maybe even give them a say in the Afghan government.
This all seems so stupid. According to Islamic doctrine, any truces or agreements will be considered to be temporary by the Muslims — long enough to gain sufficient strength to remount an attack, or they're just stalling until U.S. troops depart.
A lack of understanding of basic Islamic principles makes these American higher-ups seem like innocent, ignorant, naive morons. It's hard to fathom that people in those positions can possibly be so uneducated about Islam.
The military is tiptoeing around the source of the problem: Islamic doctrine. So every "solution" they come up with doesn't stand a chance.
The best solution I have heard so far would be difficult, and couldn't be done unless all the higher-ups understood Islam. Robert Spencer proposed it. He said we might be able to use the model of what happened in Japan after World War II. Apparently the provisional government allowed anyone to worship as they wished in the Shinto religion, but Shinto would not be allowed in schools or in the government.
Islam has a political element. It's actually a large percentage of Islamic doctrine. But it also has a religious element — methods of worship and prayer, rituals of purification, fasting, etc. If you don't separate the political part from the religious part, if you allow it in the government, and if you continue to allow madrassas to indoctrinate the young in pure Islam, you will get an unending stream of new jihadis, you will get unending war, and you will have an unending stream of idiots on our side frantically trying to find out "what it would take them to stop."
Sorry to rant, but this is so frustrating. The Quran is not that hard to read!
IN AN ARTICLE entitled, Obama Cleanses the Terrorism Glossary, writer Rowan Scarborough quotes John Brennan saying, "Nor do we describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists because jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself of one's community."
Hopefully you know better. But if not, here are the facts: "The Hadith of Bukhari gives all of the tactical details of jihad. A simple counting method shows that 3% of the hadiths are about the inner struggle, whereas, 97% of the hadiths are about jihad as war. So is jihad the inner struggle? Yes, 3%. Is jihad the war against kafirs? Yes, 97%." Source: Interesting Facts About Islamic Doctrine.
This is amazing. Brennan is the President's closest advisor on homeland security and COUNTER-TERRORISM! He knows nothing about Islam! This is truly astonishing. A ten year-old kid looking into the subject for three days could easily learn enough about Islam to know that Brennan is ignorant of some of the most basic principles of Islam.
The article goes on:
"Brennan cleanses Muslim cleric Anwar Awlaki, the American in Yemen who encourages murder, of any tie to Islam."
"'Individuals like Anwar Awlaki, who recently released a video, demonstrated that his rhetoric is anything but peaceful,' Brennan said. 'It's anything but Islamic. It is dedicated to murder and lashing out.'"
Brennan was a long-time CIA analyst. You would think he would know better. So either he is lying, which is kind of scary, or he really has no clue, which is really scary.
"It is dedicated to murder and lashing out," therefore it is NOT Islamic? What part of "kill them wherever you find them" don't you understand?
That's from the Quran (2.191): "And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers."
He wouldn't have to even read the Quran, although in his position as counter-terrorist advisor, you would think that would be the obvious first step. He could just look at the news. He wouldn't even have to do that. He could look at thereligionofpeace.com for five minutes to get an inkling that perhaps Muslim violence might have something to do with Islam.
IF POVERTY leads to terrorism, why don't all the poor in Africa, China, and India blow people up all the time? Most people in the world, no matter how poor or oppressed, have not and would not, do such a thing as walk into a crowd and blow themselves up. Duh.
"In a newly-released directory of Islamist attacks and convictions in the U.K. over the past decade, the Center for Social Cohesion, a British think tank focusing on extremism," wrote the international editor, Patrick Goodenough, "reported that at least 31 percent of the individuals involved 'had at some point attended university or a higher education institute.'
"And at the time of the attack or criminal proceeding, 42 percent of the individuals were either employed or in full-time higher education.
"The Center for Social Cohesion said its analysis 'does not support the assertion made by some that there is a correlation between terrorist activity and low educational achievement and employment status.'
"Abdulmutallab, the would-be Christmas Day bomber, was a mechanical engineering graduate of one of Britain’s most prestigious institutions, University College London, where he also headed the Islamic Society in 2006-2007."
They blow each other up by mistake. They bungle even simple schemes. They get intimate with cows and donkeys. Our terrorist enemies trade on the perception that they’re well trained and religiously devout, but in fact, many are fools and perverts who are far less organized and sophisticated than we imagine. Can being more realistic about who our foes actually are help us stop the truly dangerous ones?
...Nowhere is the gap between sinister stereotype and ridiculous reality more apparent than in Afghanistan, where it’s fair to say that the Taliban employ the world’s worst suicide bombers: one in two manages to kill only himself. And this success rate hasn’t improved at all in the five years they’ve been using suicide bombers, despite the experience of hundreds of attacks—or attempted attacks. In Afghanistan, as in many cultures, a manly embrace is a time-honored tradition for warriors before they go off to face death. Thus, many suicide bombers never even make it out of their training camp or safe house, as the pressure from these group hugs triggers the explosives in suicide vests. According to several sources at the United Nations, as many as six would-be suicide bombers died last July after one such embrace in Paktika.
...Their leaders and recruiters can be lethally subtle and manipulative, but the quiet truth is that many of the deluded foot soldiers are foolish and untrained, perhaps even untrainable. Acknowledging this fact could help us tailor our counterterrorism priorities—and publicizing it could help us erode the powerful images of strength and piety that terrorists rely on for recruiting and funding.
"The media and academia have whitewashed jihad or ducked the issue entirely, petrified as they are of looking intolerant toward Muslims. Meantime, well-funded apologists such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations have gone on the offensive against the few critics who have spoken out, further confusing Americans about the gravity of the threat.
"The jihadists have become incredibly advanced in their public relations efforts," Myrick lamented. And we have limited tools to counteract their propaganda, thanks to institutionalized religious tolerance even for creeds hostile to our way of life.
"The Anti-Jihad Caucus dares to right that imbalance. Its main goal is to educate members of Congress about the Islamic threat so they can talk candidly to their constituents about it."
Some people say Islam is a religion of peace and that Islam has been hijacked by extremists, terrorists, and stealth jihadists who twist and distort the peaceful teachings of the Quran and quote it out of context.
Others say that political, supremacist, and even violent teachings are fundamental to Islam, and that people who say otherwise either haven’t read the Quran or are protecting Islam with religious deception (taqiyya).
The general confusion about the nature of Islam makes us collectively unable to make informed decisions. You can help end this confusion by reading the Quran. Stop believing what other people say and find out for yourself.
The bag of non-violent tactics used by the jihadists is deep indeed. Over the last few decades they have perfected a series of effective Jihads against the non-Muslim world while it slumbered in its politically-correct dream-world. There are many Jihads the Islamists use and they all support their ultimate goal — an Islamic world ruled by Shari'a Law. Here they are:
