The Threat from Islam
There are elements of our Government willing to accept on unsupported authority that terrorists are merely politically-motivated criminals and that Islamic allegiances are inconsequential. They are, however, unwilling to accept the great amount of evidence linking Islam with Terrorism. Such politically expedient self-deception is extremely dangerous, and intentional ignorance of any such enemy will have devastating consequences for our nation and our way of life.
Last November, Nidal Hasan walked into a crowded medical processing center, shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and opened fire, killing fourteen people, including an unborn child, and wounding thirty others. Nidal Hasan was a Major in the United States Army, who vocally believes that America has teamed up with the Jews in order to keep Muslims poor, oppressed, and unhappy. He made business cards that labeled him a soldier of Allah. In 2007, he gave a PowerPoint presentation entitled The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military. The presentation consisted of fifty slides. On one slide, Hasan describes the presentation's objectives as identifying "what the Koran inculcates in the minds of Muslims and the potential implications this may have for the U.S. military." This was not a man seeking to fly under the radar, but a pro-Islamic psychiatrist clearly articulating his beliefs. Yet neither the Department of Defense nor the Department of Justice wanted to raise suspicions against him. They preferred 14 people dead to honestly examining the connections between his Islamic belief and his move toward terrorist action.
I own and have read sections of the Quran, attended Friday prayers at a mosque, gone to Islamic seminars, conducted personal academic research, visited Muslim countries, and lived for a decade and a half in a country which shares its border with Indonesia—the largest Muslim population in the world. What I say here is not out of ignorance or prejudice.
I see two distinct and very different Islamic threats. There is, of course, the obvious physical threat of continuing Islamic terrorism, which remains of utmost concern. However, perhaps even more dangerous and holding the potential to be ultimately far more destructive than the first, is the very well-organized, “under the radar” effort by Islam to undermine and destroy the American system from the inside. This potential has been thoroughly documented by individuals like Andrew McCarthy, who was one of America’s top federal prosecutors. McCarthy was “decorated with the Justice Department’s highest honors” and was directly involved in the prosecution of the original (1993) World Trade Center truck bombers. He also “helped launch the 9/11 investigation.” McCarthy perceptively explains:
“It is called jihad by dawa…Dawa is the missionary work by which Islam is spread. But don’t be fooled by the term ‘missionary.’ Dawa no more resembles the Western connotation of ‘missionary work’ than Islam resembles the Western notion of religion. Just as Islamism aspires to domination rather than a place at our ecumenical table, dawa is not mere proselytism…Islamists have shrewdly adapted to the enemy’s—to America’s, to the West’s—incoherent posture of obsessing over terrorism while turning a blind eye to terrorism’s animating ideology. U.S. experts stubbornly maintain, regardless of the evidence, that Muslim hostility to the West is a result of poverty, Israel, resentment, Israel, misinformation, Israel, or whatever other excuse we are using this week. Meantime, the Brotherhood methodically proceeds with its grand jihad-by-sabotage, and the unabashed (Muslim leader) Qaradawi openly proclaims, ‘We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America, not through the sword but through dawa.”
It is already happening in Great Britain, and such efforts are already well under way here in America. The CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and a number of other Muslim groups and individuals are already working with and influencing U.S. government departments and policies, with a view to moving America in a very different and extremely ominous direction. Like Great Britain, there is a very real possibility of future legal changes and accommodations to Sharia law in our country. Sharia law is contrary to our Constitutional liberties and freedoms.
I am an unapologetic advocate of the U.S. Constitution, and I unreservedly support freedom of religion. However, I also recognize the grave danger Islam currently poses to the United State of America. While there are obviously many law-abiding Muslims, I am fully convinced that Islam is at its core not a religion of peace. I am committed to exposing and opposing the dangers of Islam, doing everything I can to protect America’s Constitutional liberties.
Added by Dave Edwards
