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Islam's War Against Us John LeBoutillier The biggest news of last week was not the Israeli-Hezbollah cease-fire or the failed plot to bomb 10 cross-Atlantic jets, or Joe Lieberman's defeat in the Connecticut Democratic primary. No, the biggest news - almost five years too late - was President Bush's statement that we are at war with "Islamic fascists." It is about time! Ever since 9/11, President Bush has sheepishly avoided the basic fact that we are at war with the radical element of Islam - and maybe with all of Islam because no Muslims ever seem to try to clean up the mess created by their religious brethren. Just a few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, the Bush White House was celebrating Ramadan in the East Room with a big, fancy dinner while the president extolled Islam as "a peace-loving religion." Oh, really? Perhaps Team Bush was courting Muslim votes; or perhaps they were hoping Islam was peaceful, but the plain fact is that Islam long ago declared jihad against us.
On Nov. 4, 1979 in Tehran: a group of so-called students over-ran the U.S. embassy and seized all American personnel as hostages. That was the first blatant act of the holy war against the West - and in particular - against the United States.
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Within Islam itself there are many different strains: the Wahabi strain, Sunni, Shia. They often hate each other more than they hate us. They live according to their own civil law - the Shariah - that over-rides local or national or federal law.
To use logic to understand these people is a waste of energy. They simply do not think like we do.
Their values do not mesh with ours: their view of women, the superiority of men, the use of "martyrdom" - these are all views on life that will never fit in with our way of life.
Here in the United States, the Muslim population has fit in quite well. They chose to live in the United States - presumably to enjoy the freedoms we have - and they have comported themselves well.
Perhaps they, too, are now disdained by their Muslims brothers around the world for becoming part of the West? (The American Muslim population does provide convenient hiding places and cover for terrorist cells; plus there are repeated instances such as the 1,000 cell phones-in-the-truck guys who may be home-grown terrorists.) Some believe that Osama bin Laden has declared a defensive jihad against America for several reasons: A) Our troops' presence on Muslim lands; B) Our support of corrupt Muslim governments (Saudi Arabia, Egypt etc., which exploit Muslim people); C) Our plundering of Arab oil; D) Our support of Israel; E) the pathetic conditions of the Palestinians. In this view, we Americans are at fault - mostly due to our consumption of oil and our support of Israel. Of course, these radical Muslims want to "wipe Israel off the map," as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly stated. Now, let's face a few facts: 1) The United States is not going to lose a war against Islam - or against the radical wing of Islam. The more they try these acts of murder, the angrier and more determined the American people become. 2) We are not going to allow Iran or their proxies to "wipe Israel off the map." Israel is smarter and more clever - and, when necessary, even more brutal then their enemies. They will do anything to survive. 3) The anti-American feelings inside the Muslim world have clearly been exacerbated by our unnecessary pre-emptive invasion and occupation of Iraq. Oddly, America gets no points for having deposed one of the Muslim world's most brutal dictators - Saddam Hussein - and the gift of freedom and Democracy to 35 million Iraqi citizens. 4) The Muslims are committing - my term here - social segregation - by choosing a backward path as the rest of the world zooms ahead into science and technology. Schools that teach only the Quran - the Madrassas - and ignore math, science, computers and learning all the tools we need to prosper in the 21st century - are a signal that much of the Muslim world is choosing a path to nowhere. 5) Politically here at home, we need to rethink every aspect of our conduct of this war with Islam. Our foreign policy, energy policy and domestic policing policy all need to recognize that some of the Muslim world is dedicated to dying - and taking as many of us along with them. That makes fighting them much more difficult.
Conclusion: We are one assassination away from the radical fundamentalist Muslims getting very sophisticated nuclear weapons.
If Pakistan's Pervez Musharref were to be killed - and they have tried several times - the radicals who dominate Pakistani intelligence and the lower officer corps of their Army would seize control of their nukes. It is not unreasonable to see Osama do to Pakistan what he has done to two other Muslim countries he has lived in - Somalia and Afghanistan - and basically run the government from behind the scenes. You can bet he has plans to kill Musharref and take control of the nuclear arsenal. We better wake up to the evil nature of our enemy - and what they are planning.
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