THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VII, Issue # 58, March 22, 2005
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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ISLAMIC TERRORISM: A WORLDWIDE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
By Alan Caruba
THE ISLAMIST INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST NETWORK: AN ONGOING THREAT TO WORLD PEACE & STABILITY & A
WORLDWIDE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE THAT ENRICHES ITS LEADERS & FUNDS ITS JIHAD AGAINST JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY,
& THE WEST WITH MONEY DERIVED LARGELY FROM THE SALE OF NARCOTICS, FROM EXTORTION & A VARIETY OF OTHER
CRIMINAL SCHEMES, & FROM DONATIONS TO SOCALLED "CHARITIES" MADE BY THE CORRUPT, OIL-RICH SAUDIS
I don’t know when it first dawned on me that the study of history was the study of a worldwide criminal enterprise, but a look back at
just the last century reveals that the Nazis had it in mind to control and loot all of Europe, while the Empire of Japan sought to do the
same with China and the Pacific Basin nations.
If you go back in history, Pax Romana, imposed by the Roman Empire, was, in essence, a huge extortion scheme in which the
conquered nations paid Rome to “protect” them and provide some good roads. If you come forward to our times, for some seventy
years until 1991, the Soviet Union basically plundered its captive nations in the Baltics and elsewhere, until it fell apart, due to its
inability to do anything in a rational and productive manner. The examples are endless and the most recent is the massive United
Nations “Oil for Food” rip-off of billions of dollars intended to benefit the people of Iraq, but which Saddam Hussein kept or used to
bribe the French and others.
I got to thinking about this as I read Funding Evil by Rachel Ehrenfeld ($14.95, Bonus Books softcover); an extraordinary book
about the way the Islamic Jihad is funded largely through the sale of narcotics and a variety of other criminal schemes. It also derives
much of its funding from donations to “charities,” mostly by and from Saudis, the worst perpetrators of Wahhabi fundamentalism on
the face of the Earth.
Think about this, however. The whole justification for Islam is that it is morally superior to all other religions. The Saudis and their
Middle Eastern brethren are forever denouncing America, Israel, and the West in general as dens of iniquity, places of corruption
where pornography is rampant, people gather to drink and to dance together, casual sex is the norm, and just about everything else
we do needs the curative effects of Sharia (Islamic) law.
May I suggest that any religion that funds worldwide terrorism to advance the destruction of Judaism, Christianity and all other
religions, and to attack the citadel of liberty and freedom, the United States of America, is the new criminal enterprise that has
replaced those of the past? The Islamic extremists do this through the worldwide sales of illegal narcotics and through other criminal
schemes. Moreover, they are funded as well by the billions Americans, Europeans, and other nations spend to acquire the Islamic
world's only legitimate natural resource, oil.
The appalling hypocrisy of this seems to have escaped many otherwise law-abiding Muslims, but it is increasingly clear that the
relentless terrorism which they claim is intended to advance Islam is wearing thin. So much of it has been directed against other
Muslims that it was only a matter of time before the illogic of this began to set in. In addition, there appears to be evidence that,
throughout the Middle East, the universal, human desire to live in freedom, under a system of laws that provide human rights and
real justice, is beginning to manifest itself.
If you think about it, Iraq was a criminal enterprise run by the family and cronies of Saddam Hussein. Syria and Lebanon, under the
control of the Assad family, constitute yet another example. Iran, under the control of its mullahs, poses still another threat as it
pours its wealth into various terrorist organizations.
When one looks at the Middle East, one sees nation after nation controlled by oligarchies passing themselves off as monarchs,
mullahs, or we see warlords in places like the Sudan and Somalia running the show. Egypt is, for all intents and purposes, a
dictatorship, as is, of course, Libya. Under the control of Arafat, the socalled Palestinian cause was little more than a way to line his
pockets. Much of Africa is a sinkhole of corruption.
The greatest legacy George W. Bush and the much-maligned “neo-cons” in his administration will leave behind is a transformed
Middle East.
Ehrenfeld has provided a detailed look at the billions being spent by the Saudis in particular and the Islamists in general. For anyone
who wants to gain an insight to the scope of the Jihadist war, this book is required reading. “A significant portion of the financing
of many terrorist organizations stems from the illegal drug trade,” says Ehrenfeld, and then she meticulously documents how it
stretches from Afghanistan to South America.
Along the way she notes that, “It was bin Laden who had managed the drug profits (from Afghanistan’s production of Heroin) for
the Taliban and arranged money laundering operations with the Russian Mafia.” She traces the drug trade, its Islamic producers and
distributors, to Uzbekistan, through the Balkans, and to yet another center, South America where a “lawless jungle corner of
Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay is “the heart of Islamist terrorist activity in Latin America, and home to tens of thousands of Muslims,
mainly from the Middle East.”
Jihad may be the justification for this criminality that includes every kind imaginable, but the driving force behind it and the ongoing
threat to peace and stability is traceable to the complete and utter corruption fostered by Saudi billions and the billions derived from
the scourge of illegal drugs.
Do not be fooled by the presence of Saudi “charities,” some of which still function openly in the United States, nor the pretensions
of groups such as al-Qa'ida, al Fatah, Hamas, and Hizbollah. These are criminal enterprises whose purpose is to line the pockets of
those who control them. The war against America, against Israel, and “the crusaders”, i.e., Christianity, is just a subterfuge for the
power being exercised by Middle Eastern dictators and others who use Jihad as their excuse and Islam as their instrument.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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The Middle East & the Arabs
War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
© Alan Caruba 2005
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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