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Volume IX, Issue # 244, December 27, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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TERRORISTS? NOT US, SAY MUSLIMS
By Alan Caruba
ISLAMIC CULTURE & THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION: ISLAMIST INROADS INTO GREAT BRITAIN
& THE RESULTING TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN THAT COUNTRY -- THE POLITICAL & SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSLIMS
RESIDING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: SEEING MUSLIMS AS VICTIMS OF PREJUDICE & DISCRIMINATION, DECLINING
TO CONDEMN ACTS OF TERRORISM COMMITTED IN THE NAME OF ISLAM, DEFINING THE "WAR ON TERRORISM" AS A
TERROR WAR WAGED BY WAR-MONGERING WESTERN INFIDELS AGAINST PEACEFUL MUSLIMS, & ENGAGING IN BEHAVIOR
REFLECTING THE INTENTION OF ISLAM TO SUBJUGATE & RULE ABSOLUTELY ANY COUNTRY IN WHICH MUSLIMS GAIN A
POPULATION FOOTHOLD -- A WARNING SIGN TO BRITAIN, AMERICA, & ALL OF EUROPE: THE EXTREME DIFFICULTY
OF ASSIMILATING MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS & THEIR DESCENDANTS INTO A WESTERN SOCIETY & ENSURING THEIR LOYALTY
TO THEIR NEW HOMELAND
FULL STORY:
In view of the assassination of Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto, it is necessary, once again, for those in the West to gain some
insight into the culture of Islam and, in particular, of the Middle East. What can be easily observed is the abject refusal to
take any responsibility for anything done in the name of Islam.
While the memory of September 11, 2001 recedes for Americans, our British cousins have been subjected to a number of
Islamic terrorist acts since then. On July 7, 2005, there were four separate suicide bombings in London that killed 56 people
and injured 700. More recently, on June 30, 2007, there was the attack on the Glasgow International Airport in Scotland.
On December 27, 2007, I received an email from the London School of Islamics with a text by Iftkhar Ahmad titled
Terrorist V Terrorism. It is a window into the mind of Muslims living in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland.
“The recent events have strengthened the prejudiced belief that ‘Islam is the religion of the sword,” said Ahmad, who
asserted that, “Islamophobia is not only a cause of discrimination against Muslims, but also an open threat to world
peace.” The peace of the Middle East has once again been put in jeopardy by the instability of Pakistan. One might
conclude that American and British troops are in Afghanistan because of an open threat to world peace posed by
al-Qa'ida and the spread of Islamism, but not Ahmad.
So far as he was concerned, “There is not a single day when Islam and Muslims are not attacked by the mainstream news
media outlets.” Apparently, reporting on Muslim atrocities around the world constitutes an attack. It is worth noting, at
this point, that no Muslim community in America has suffered an attack, and I cannot recall any reports of comparable
attacks in Britain. Who then is afraid of another suicide bombing? It is Americans and British citizens who are not
Muslim.
With considerable irony, on December 13, 2007, a Federal judge in Miami declared a mistrial after a jury failed to reach a
verdict in the trial of six men accused in 2006 of plotting to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and several government
buildings. A seventh suspect was acquitted in what analysts describe as a setback for the US government's domestic
counterterrorism program. Jury selection for a retrial of the other six suspects will start next month. The group was
described as being “inspired” by al-Qa'ida. A new trial will try to find a jury that will look at the overwhelming proof of
their intentions.
Meanwhile, in Britain, according to Ahmad,
“There is an undeclared World War III going on in the name
of [the] War on Terrorism. The fact of the matter is that Islam
is all peace and hence this war is [a] war of terrorism and not
against terrorism.”
A person has to be seriously deluded or making a serious effort to delude others to conclude that, “Islam is all peace.”
Just consider the victims of Islamist attacks from Bali to London to New York, to name just a few places where Jihadists
have killed people who were not at war with them.
Ahmad, like a great number of Middle Eastern Muslims, is easily offended by anything. He cited that uniforms of the
Milan, Italy, soccer team whose uniforms sport “Crusader-Style red crosses which is offensive to Muslims.” In his view,
the crosses “symbolized ‘western racist superiority over Islam.” He also railed against the “republication of Danish
cartoons (that) clearly shows the prevalent ignorance about Islam.” It is hard to be ignorant of the many Islamist terror
attacks in recent years.
Ahmad concluded: “It is the fundamental duty of Muslims settled in the West to raise awareness of [the] spirit and core
of Islam.” I think the terrorist attacks have done that.
Ahmad was far from finished in his diatribe. He attacked the United Kingdom’s National Curriculum, in which “There is
no mention of [the] Muslim contribution in the world.” And what might that contribution be, given the centuries of
oppression that have existed wherever Islam is the dominant religion. These days, Arab Christians are literally fleeing
for their lives from Iraq and other nations where they are under constant attack, including murder.
Ahmad concluded with the proposal that, in “those state schools [in Britain] where Muslim pupils are in majority may
be designated as Muslim Community Schools, managed and controlled by Muslim Educational Trusts and Charities.”
There’s a Yiddish word for this. It’s called chutzpah! (The meaning of "chutzpah": unmitigated effrontery or impudence;
gall; audacity; nerve.)
The Islamists in Britain, throughout Europe, and here in America do not lack for nerve. Indeed, they are carrying out a
process by which Islam has imposed its will wherever the Muslim community has achieved majority or near majority
status.
Muslim gall reflects the intention of Islam to subjugate any nation-state in which Muslims gain a population foothold.
Where Islam is the dominant religion, it expects to be the law of the land, rejecting a secular approach to government.
This is its threat to Western nation-states whose tradition of tolerance permits juries to deadlock over trials of terrorists,
whose loss commitment to their own religious beliefs allows the nation to be undermined by claims of prejudice.
Islam was never the religion of Britain, though the schism between Catholics and Protestants had its bloody chapters.
The British, by any definition, are Christians. If Ahmad and his deceptions succeed, the British may yet see their
constitutional democratic Kingdom fall into the pit of ignorance, corruption, and oppression that defines Muslim
countries to this day.
Finally, it should be noted that many of the terrorist acts perpetrated in Britain were by Muslims who were born and
raised there. It’s a warning sign to all of Europe, and to America as well.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Britain -- The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland:
Mother Country & Close Ally of the United States of America
The Anglosphere -- The English-Speaking World:
The U.S.A., Britain, Canada, Australia, & New Zealand
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
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.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2007
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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