Jihad 101, by Frank Gaffney
12/29/09
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano came in for some well-deserved criticism for declaring over the weekend that "the system worked" with respect to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's effort to blow up the plane he was flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. By Monday, she was backpedalling, acknowledging that "our system did not work in this instance."
In truth, for a lot of Americans, Ms. Napolitano has not had much credibility since she tried to ban "terrorism" from the official lexicon of her department. But arguably the most serious indication that she is wholly ill-equipped to carry out her present responsibilities can be found in another - as yet uncorrected - statement she made on Sunday. She told CNN's "State of the Union" that, "Right now, we have no indication [that Abdulmutallab's actions were] part of anything larger."
Not "part of anything larger"? Is she serious? Does she take us for fools?
Read my lips, Secretary Napolitano: Abdulmutallab's actions were absolutely, positively part of something larger. What they were part of is the comprehensive theo-political-legal program that authoritative Islam calls Shariah.
This supremacist program requires its adherents to engage in jihad, or holy war, to bring about the triumph of Islam under a global theocracy, one that will impose Shariah on Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Pursuant to Shariah, jihad should - wherever practicable - be pursued through the terrifying use of violence. Where violent jihad is impractical or would be counterproductive, Shariah directs faithful Muslims to use other means to advance the same goal. Koran expert Robert Spencer calls the latter "stealth jihad."
The question must be asked: Are we seeing a dramatic increase in violent jihadism in America - National Public Radio reported on Saturday that there had been fourteen attempts in 2009 (compared to two or three in recent years) and that they had been increasingly "operational" in character, not just "aspirational" - because violence is now seen to be practicable here?
Specifically, could it be that jihadists have been emboldened by what they see as weakness and/or fecklessness on the part of the U.S. administration? Could steps Team Obama has taken - such as the closure of Guantanamo Bay, the release of some hardened terrorists held there to Yemen (where Abdulmuttalab claims he got his plastic explosive device), granting others access to civilian courts and constitutional rights, etc. - actually be emboldening them to believe that murder and mayhem will accelerate the defeat and conquest of the infidel West?
The U.S. government was warned by Abdulmutallab's father at least two months ago that his son had been "radicalized" - in other words, that he had embraced Shariah. That being the case, he was transformed from being one of the hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world who are not a problem into one of those who are.
In the wake of the latest, narrowly averted massacre at the hands of jihadists, we are being promised executive branch reviews of the practice that, in the wake of his father's warning, put Abdulmuttalab on the improbably named Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) database - but did not revoke his multiple entry U.S. visa or otherwise keep him from flying. Multiple congressional investigations will be launched, as well.
Such reviews will, however, amount to little more than a waste of time and taxpayer resources - and possibly a serious distraction - if they do not address, and henceforth require screening for, the motivation for such attacks. It is absurd to think that "the system" is going to do anything other than exponentially increase the amount of discomfort for airline passengers as long as it does not weed out those who embrace as an article of faith their duty to destroy us.
We need to be equally clear about the menace posed by those who adhere to Shariah but profess to seek to "Islamicize" America through non-violent means. In the wake of the recent actual and averted attacks, the press has, for example, trumpeted the views of parents of five jihadists from Northern Virginia, imams at mosques where they worshipped and prominent fixtures in the various Muslim Brotherhood front organizations. Unsurprisingly, all of them profess shock - shock! - that these young people would want to do as they have been taught to, pursuant to Shariah: namely, follow the way of jihad against the Dar al-Harb (the "House of War" that is the non-Muslim world).
Nowhere in these disinformation operations is any mention made of the Muslim Brotherhood's self-declared mission in America. According to an internal Brotherhood strategic plan dating from 1991, that mission is: "A kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
As long as Janet Napolitano, Attorney General Eric Holder, the intelligence community, law enforcement, the military, the media and most especially President Obama refuse to acknowledge what animates our enemies, we will never develop an effective strategy for defeating them, let alone successfully implement it. Part and parcel of achieving such an understanding is to stop allowing the stealth jihadists in our midst to blind us to this reality.
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is
President of the Center for Security Policy, a columnist for the
Washington Times and host of the nationally syndicated program, "Secure Freedom Radio."
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I just don't get it why more people are being involved in this sect.Have you read their Quran? Instead of promoting love and peace just like other religions,they promote war and violence.Not to mention the discrimination they have for women.
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Obviously the loosing of murderers into our midst
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Because she was a prominent Democrat in the election and she didn't get Attorney General. She has no business in that position. I live in Arizona, I voted for her as Governor, and our illegal immigration problem was WORSE than any other state. Barrack was the golfer, and Janet was the water girl just as the Tiger Woods saga, without the sex... I'm figuring. The woman outta come outta the closet!She had NO BIZ in that position. INTERNATIONAL SECURITY is a bit different from breeding rattlers in the desert so the illegals would shy our border. She couldn't catch Mexicans, and now she's on TERRORISTS???? CRIPES! All the Mexicans want is a JOB, Not a MISSION!
I don't believe anyone in Intelligence, or Security, or the Army is unaware of The Third Jihad or what extremist Muslims are doing. Why did Obama send more troops to Afghanistan? Our Intelligence is not stupid. Security would have been informed. Her answers regarding the bomber are strategic and she would have been told what to say by higher than her. The system failed and it's been addressed. What exactly should North American do now with regard to the source of the problem? We need to think through every possible solution and consider its logical repercussions and logical outcome. Our countries are formed by immigrants. We've let people in from all nations, all religions, and all races. Most of our roots are elsewhere. We can't tell the good Muslims from the bad Muslims anymore than we can tell the good guys from the bad guys in society. Many Muslims are USA and Canadian citizens. Many Muslims are good people. Many Muslims in Canada and the USA are extremists. There are now 2 billion Muslims, MILLIONS of them in Canada and the USA and the rest spread worldwide. Even good Muslims, who are US and Canadian citizens, are afraid of the extremists. What is the right solution? There are solutions. We need to remember history, wake up the sleeping dragon, the people of North America, and take right action and not action we will ever regret. First, wake up everyone by distributing Obsession and The Third Jihad. That's step one. Next...
She knows. I don't believe anyone in Intelligence, or Security, or the Army is unaware of The Third Jihad or what extremist Muslims are doing. Why did Obama send more troops to Afghanistan? Our Intelligence is not stupid. She would have been informed. Her answers are strategic and she would have been told what to say by higher than her. The system failed and it's been addressed. What exactly should all of North American do now with regard to the source of the problem? We need to think through every possible solution and consider its logical repercussions and logical outcome. Our countries are formed by immigrants. We've let people in from all nations, all religions, and all races. Most of our roots are elsewhere. We can't tell the good Muslims from the bad Muslims anymore than we can tell the good guys from the bad guys in society. Many Muslims are USA and Canadian citizens. Many Muslims are good people. Many Muslims in Canada and the USA are extremists. There are now 2 billion Muslims, MILLIONS of them in Canada and the USA and the rest spread worldwide. Even good Muslims, who are US and Canadian citizens, are afraid of the extremists. What is the right solution? There are solutions. We need to remember history, wake up the sleeping dragon, the people of North America, and take right action and not action we will ever regret. First, wake up everyone by distributing Obsession and The Third Jihad. That's step one. Next...
Hasn’t anyone in our current administration read about the Rashidun or the Umayyads or the Abbasids or even the Ottoman Muslim empires? Islamic Imperialism makes the US look like child’s play especially considering just the Ottoman Empire, like the Islam of today, created special taxes on non Muslims, forced entire populations to convert to Islam or to be killed or sold into slavery (Sudan, Nigeria, and Somalia). Right here in America the “Pew Research” institute took a survey of American Muslims and right out in the open, almost 30% or Muslims between the ages of 17-30 years of age considered Martyrdom/suicide bombers an acceptable Religious practice under Islam.
Since the start of Islam by Muhammad, the political arm of Islam has reached across the world through both peaceful and violent practices. However, when peaceful methods pushed on non-Muslims didn’t work, forced conversion has always been, and will be the method of choice. Muhammad himself started it with his most notable large scale slaughter of his own village because they wouldn’t convert to Islam; nothing has changed. Only days after Muhammad's death, Abu Bakr set in motion whole scale annihilation of entire populations after raping all the women, murdering in cold blood every single male, and selling every live female into slavery that wasn't beautiful enough to give to his warriors. From the Rashidun Islamic empire, to the Umayyad Islamic empire, to the Abbasid and Ottoman empires, Islam has brought total destruction to entire races of people and religions and has managed to wipe out most of the Coptic Christians within a 200 year span; this of course doesn't include all the other Relgions that got in the way. Considering most of Iraq, Syria, and present day were mostly Christian, I’d say nothing has changed, the imperialistic arm of Islam, Dar al-Harb, is still the one dictacting Islam's direction.
This woman is a joke,with people like that around in prominent positions of power The West will be defeated before we start!
Why do these people stick their heads in the sand and trivialise the threat we are all under?
Because this is the way liberals are taught to oparate as the grow up. They are scared of how the world will view them
Napolitano, by something larger, meant a coordinated attack like 9-11. Everyone knows this, so stop trying to sensationalize an issue that doesn't need to be.