THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VIII, Issue # 13, January 14, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD
By Alan Caruba
ISLAMISM & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC JIHAD: THE CURRENT THREAT TO WORLD PEACE & WESTERN
CIVILIZATION -- AWAKENING & FACING UP TO THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST US BY MILITANT ISLAM
-- GROWING REALIZATION OF THE NEED FOR THE EUROPEAN NATION-STATES, AS WELL AS THE UNITES STATES OF
AMERICA, TO PUT THEMSELVES ON A WAR FOOTING & IMPLEMENT THE MEASURES REQUIRED TO PROTECT THEIR
RESPECTIVE HOMELANDS
FULL STORY:
The October, 2005, rioting throughout France managed to convince the French that they were playing host to an enemy, the
French having been awakened in much the same fashion as the July, 2005, bombings in London woke the British from their
slumber. The destruction of the Twin Towers had the same affect on America in 2001.
Elsewhere around the world, in the Philippines, Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey and Russia, those entrusted with the
globalization that will connect us all are facing up to the single greatest challenge to freedom since the rise and fall of
Communism in the former Soviet Union, and its quiet, but steady, dissolution in the People's Republic of China. Communism
thrives on poverty, so we will continue to see pockets of it where nations resist the capitalist, free trade, and entrepreneurial
ingredients of prosperity.
Few regions of the world are more plagued with poverty than the Middle East and Africa, both places where Islam is widely
practiced. So, despite the billion or more Muslims in the world, the new enemy of the world is Islam, as manifested in its most
extreme form, the ideology of Islamism, or Islamo-Fascism. Nothing about Islam, however, is benign.
Anyone who has read the Koran, Islam’s holy book, knows that it is replete with constant calls to war, constant
reinforcement of the belief that those who do not submit to Islam are unworthy of life. “Disbelievers will be burned with fire.”
“Kill disbelievers wherever you find them.” “War is ordained by Allah.” This theme is relentlessly driven home in chapter after
chapter. (Visit www.faithfreedom.org/
Quran.htm).
A friend of mine who is fighting to free his fellow Iranians from the grip of the ayatollahs says:
“You can’t reason with people blinded by hate. Islam hates the
power of the individual. Islam hates the achievements of women.
Islam hates the religious freedom of others. Islam is against the
free will and hates liberty and justice for all.”
Now that Europe has awakened to the threat, there is evidence that its various security and law enforcement agencies are
beginning to take action. Consider a small news item in late November, 2005, that did not make it into the mainstream media.
Morocco and Spain smashed a large al-Qa'ida network that was gearing up for new attacks in Western Europe. Some twenty
suspects were arrested in Morocco, ten in Spain, and several more were secretly picked up in the United Kingdom, Germany,
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark. Several members of the network had been meeting in Turkey to coordinate attacks
on American, Israeli, and Jewish targets.
Meanwhile, in Iraq, where, according to the “antiwar” objectors, we are losing, its citizens braved death to vote for a
constitution and a democracy such as does not exist in any other comparable Arab nation.
In addition, the US military’s latest offensive in the western region of Iraq succeeded in killing more than 700 terrorists and
capturing 1,500 in the last two months or so. The offensive in Iraq has done what it was intended to do -- remove the dictator
Saddam Hussein and then become a killing ground of every wannabe martyr for Islam. You can either kill them there or you
can pull out our troops and end up having to fight them in the streets of America.
An excellent book, titled Al-Qa'ida in Europe and authored by Lorenzo Vidino, spells out just how great a struggle
lies ahead for a continent that, despite a magnificent cultural history of great art, architecture, music and literature, gave us
two major wars in the last century. It was, in fact, the positioning of vast US military forces throughout Europe and the
creation of NATO that insured the freedom that was formerly threatened first by Nazism and then Communism, and now
faces the new threat of militant Islam.
While Europe remains a great tourist attraction, with its great churches, largely unattended by a local population that has
turned away from Christianity, the industrial base of the continent is threatened by an archaic Socialist system and an
indigenous population whose every need is tended to cradle-to-grave and which has failed to demographically reproduce
itself sufficiently. Europe is running out of Europeans.
Indeed, the social system Europe created proved to be a magnet for millions from Northern Africa and the Middle East after
colonialism retreated. Thanks to Socialism, however, jobs did not increase, nor did anything resembling assimilation.
Muslims saw themselves as living amidst unbelievers and, with the certitude the Koran confers, found no cause to
abandon the religion which had failed to produce any freedom in the nations they left behind and which is responsible for
those nations' failed economies.
As Vidino notes, for “over forty years, European countries have knowingly and voluntarily hosted hundreds of Islamic
fundamentalists. Acting on humanitarian motives, for decades, countries such as Britain, Sweden, Holland, and Germany
have made it their official policy to welcome political refugees from all over the world.” Unfortunately, “most European
countries rarely distinguished between democracy-supporting opponents of autocratic regimes and Islamic
fundamentalists who had bloodied their hands in their home countries with heinous terrorist acts.”
Indeed, the duty of all Muslims is to bring Islam to the Europe their predecessors had failed to conquer in earlier centuries.
The “crusaders” had to be subjugated and converted to Islam, and Muslim immigrants believe that, given enough time, they
can achieve this subjugation and conversion.
Europe, however, must now institute a whole new system of integrated law enforcement to meet the threat of terror. That is
why the news of a coordinated effort to smash a large al-Qa'ida network is such good news. For too long, Europeans have
lacked the machinery of law and internal security to meet the now too-obvious threat in their midst.
There is some irony in all this because terrorism in France and elsewhere is not a new phenomenon. In the Summer of 1995,
France experienced an unprecedented string of attacks and, in July of that year, a bomb exploded in a Paris metro station,
killing seven people. French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has recently announced new, tightened controls on
immigration.
Before we chide Europe, it is well to remember that, in 1993, the first, albeit unsuccessful, attack on the Twin Towers
occurred on our soil. Americans at that time were encouraged to regard it as a criminal act, not part of a determined effort to
destroy our society. Attacks on American Marines in Beirut, on American embassies in Africa, and on the USS Cole also
had failed to generate a level of awareness or concern about the Islamic Jihad.
We know better now. Or do we? While Europe begins to identify and rid itself of the cancerous Islamo-Fascism in its midst,
Americans are still debating over getting control of our own national borders, despite a population of illegal immigrants
estimated to be upwards of ten to twelve million. This suggests that we are still far short of putting this nation on a war
footing, implementing the measures needed to protect the homeland.
The Islamic Jihad, or terror war, is global. And while, of the more than a billion adherents of Islam, surely the vast majority are
good people who may well deplore what is done in the name of Islam, the fact remains that millions of Muslims hold fast to
and support the deadly fantasies of radical Islam.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Europe, Europeans, & American Foreign Policy
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
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
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
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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