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Alexander's Column
Islamic Jihad -- Target America Should You Be Concerned?
By *Mark Alexander* · September 24, 2014 [image: Print]
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/29413/print>
"The establishment of civil and religious liberty was the Motive which
induced me to the Field." --George Washington
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/12704> (1783)
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Despite assurances to the contrary from our nation's commander in chief, it
turns out that global Jihad is thriving. And it constitutes a greater
threat to our nation's security today than at any time in history.
Should you be concerned?
Of course, the answer is "yes," but with qualification.
The most imminent domestic threat to your life and property, statistically,
emanates from the sociopathic drug/gang culture, which continues to
metastasize on urban poverty plantations
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/14816> and is now spilling into suburban
and rural communities. That threat has been cultivated for the last five
decades by ruinous political and social policies
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/9235> that were, ostensibly, enacted
to eradicate
the poverty <http://patriotpost.us/alexander/25949> those policies
institutionalized.
That notwithstanding, the elevated threat to your life from Islamic
extremists should be a concern -- not because the probability of being an
individual victim of an Islamist assault will soon be higher than the
drug/gang culture threat, but because the probability of being among the
cumulative victims of a catastrophic attack on our homeland -- be it
conventional, nuclear <http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2811> or biological
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/28007> -- is escalating largely unabated.
The 9/11 attack <http://patriotpost.us/pages/277> on our country was
perpetrated by 19 al-Qa'ida operatives. Its immediate effects -- the loss
of lives and the longer-term economic impact -- were devastating. It would
only take five to 10 al-Qa'ida operatives to create destruction on a
100-fold scale, with a little help from Iran
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/23474> or other terror-sponsoring states.
How real is that threat?
Islamic terrorist groups are surging worldwide, including Jabhat al-Nusra,
Boko Haram, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, Jamaat-e-Islami,
Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Khorasan Group
<http://patriotpost.us/posts/29320> and now, front and center, ISIL, a.k.a.
the Islamic State <http://patriotpost.us/alexander/28994> -- all of which
together constitute Jihadistan <http://patriotpost.us/alexander/4051>, that
borderless nation of Islamic extremists aligned under the Qur'anic umbrella.
Currently there are many American Islamists
<http://patriotpost.us/posts/28782> actively fighting among the ranks of
ISIL in the Middle East -- and they have significant networks of support in
the United States. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
concludes that the direct links between ISIL and those domestic networks
has created "the most diverse array of threats
<http://patriotpost.us/posts/29282> and challenges as I've seen in my
50-plus years in the [intelligence] business."
How did this surge get underway?
In 2012, amid the cascading failure of his domestic economic and social
policies, Barack Obama centered his re-election campaign on his faux
foreign policy successes <http://patriotpost.us/alexander/26545>, which
were built upon the following two boasts: "Four years ago, I promised to end
the war in Iraq <http://patriotpost.us/posts/28816>. I did." And "al-Qa'ida
is on the run <http://patriotpost.us/posts/28856>."
The reality, however, is that Obama's "hope and change" retreat from Iraq
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/26943> left a vacuum for the resurgence of
a far more dangerous incarnation of Muslim terrorism under the ISIL label
<http://patriotpost.us/posts/28632>, which has displaced al-Qa'ida
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/23474> as the dominant asymmetric Islamic
terrorist threat to the West.
Clearly, it is Obama's foreign policy malfeasance
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/26545> that poses the greatest threat to
U.S. national and homeland security.
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So, is the Islamic State actually, well, Islamic?
Not according to Obama. While he subscribes to the hate-driven
rhetoric of Afro-centric
theology <http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2766>, six formative years of his
early life were spent attending Islamic schools in Indonesia.
In his address to the nation <http://patriotpost.us/alexander/29028> last
week, he claimed, "Let’s make two things clear: ISIL is not Islamic. ...
And ISIL is certainly not a state.”
Reasonable people may disagree on whether the Islamic State now occupying
much of Syria and Iraq is, at least by the Western definition, a state, but
it certainly *is a state* in the Jihadistan context given the Islamic World
of the Qur'an recognizes no political borders.
But for Obama to suggest "ISIL is *not* Islamic" is flatly absurd. Why else
are American taxpayers providing Islamist prisoners at Gitmo
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/26253> copies of the Qur'an and payer rugs?
It is equally asinine, of course, for Secretary of State John Kerry to
perpetuate the lie that "Islam is the Religion of Peace™
<http://patriotpost.us/posts/29250>" by claiming, "We must continue to
repudiate the gross distortion of Islam that ISIL is spreading."
Their errant assertions prompted this rebuke from Islamic State spokesman
Abu Muhammad al-Adnani: "[Obama and Kerry] turned into Islamic jurists,
muftis, sheikhs and preachers, standing up for Islam and the Muslims, so it
appears that they no longer have confidence in the ability or sincerity of
their sorcerers..."
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So, is Islamic Jihad really "Islamic"?
There are many excellent resources for understanding Islamic extremism
<http://www.clarionproject.org/understanding-islamism/islamic-extremism>
and the rise of Islamic terrorism
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/modern.html>. But
allow me to offer a brief overview of Islam and the schism that gave rise
to global Islamic Jihad.
In 570 AD, Abū al-Qāsim Muhammad was born in Mecca (in modern-day Saudi
Arabia). In the year 610, Muhammad went into the hills and claims to have
received instruction from an angel to spend the next 22 years as the
exclusive transcriber of Allah's message, the Qur'an, which means
"recitation." Its 114 Surahs, or chapters, outline the religious, military,
civil, social, commercial and legal systems of Islam. Most Muslims believe
that Islam originated with the prophet Adam, and that Noah, Abraham, Moses
and Jesus were Islamic prophets.
After Muhammad's death in 632, Islam split into two factions, Sunni and
Shi’ite -- a split originating from a dispute about whether the religion
should be led by strict adherence to the Qur'an, or led by Ali, the
son-in-law of Muhammad. The Sunnis (from "Ahl al-Sunna," meaning ”people of
the tradition”) bonded through Muslim orthodoxy. The Shias (from “Shiat
Ali,” meaning ”party of Ali”) were a political alliance formed around
Muhammad's descendant.
Despite the split, Islam thrived, and by the 17th century, a vast Muslim
empire was controlled by a powerful military and was the cultural cradle of
mathematics, architecture, art, law and science. But the rise of Western
military power would divide and conquer the Muslim empire by the end of the
18th century, followed by European occupations of much of that former
empire over the next century.
By the end of World War I, Islam's Ottoman Empire was lost. Many Muslims
adapted to Western culture, while some held to old Islamic traditions. But
the re-constitution of the State of Israel in 1948 seeded a resurgence of
Islamic fervor, a fervor that would unleash itself 30 years later under the
watch of Jimmy Carter's administration.
In 1979, the powerful and strategic state of Iran fell to the Islamic
Revolution, and Shia cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to power.
Student revolutionaries seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52
Americans hostage, and that act galvanized both Shia and Sunni Islamist
activists throughout the Middle East.
Today, Shia Muslims represent majorities only in Iran, Iraq and Bahrain.
But Islamic Jihad, including al-Qa'ida and subsequent terrorist groups, is
rooted in Sunni orthodoxy. Sunnis represent about 85% of Muslims worldwide,
including countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
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So again, is Islamic Jihad "Islamic"? Indeed, it is.
The Suras of the Qur'an and the Hadith (Muhammad's teachings) require
jihad, or "holy war," against all "the enemies of God." For the record,
orthodox Sunnis understand that these "infidels" include all Muslim or
non-Muslim people who refute any teachings of Muhammad -- which is why ISIL
Sunnis are slaughtering Iraqi Shias.
Rebutting Obama's assertion that Islamic Jihad is disconnected from Islam,
Hoover Institution Fellow Dennis Prager
<http://patriotpost.us/opinion/29348> writes: "Killing 'unbelievers' has
been part of -- of course not all of -- Islam since its inception. Within
10 years of Muhammad’s death Muslims had conquered and violently converted
whole peoples from Iran to Egypt and from Yemen to Syria. Muslims have
offered conquered people death or conversion since that time. ... More than
600 years after Muhammad, Ibn Khaldun, the greatest Muslim writer who ever
lived, explained why Islam is the superior religion in the most highly
regarded Muslim work ever written, 'Muqaddimah,' or 'Introduction to
History': 'In the Muslim community, the holy war is religious duty, because
of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert
everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.'"
Thus, if you're among those who resist or refute Muhammad's teachings,
you're a de facto enemy of Islam.
According to Muhammad in the Qur'anic verses, Allah commands, "I will cast
terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their
heads and strike off every fingertip of them."
Do you refute any teachings of Muhammad?
Based on the Sunni Islamist history of violence
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2978>, it is clear that Islam is *not*
"the Religion of Peace," though there are obviously many Muslims worldwide
and in the U.S. who do not subscribe to Islamist Jihad theology. But the
number of Sunni Muslims who do support that totalitarian theology is
staggering.
According to the Pew Research Center, there are 2.75 million Muslims in the
U.S. today. Notably, about 90% of American Muslims are Sunni. The Council
on American-Islamic Relations <http://www.cair.com> and the Nation of Islam
<http://www.noi.org> have now established more than 2,200 mosques, some of
which have become hotbeds of support for Sunni Islamist extremists. The
ethnic group with the fastest growing conversion rate to Islam is Latino --
12 million of whom are now in the U.S. illegally, and who continue to pour
across our southern border.
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Do any of those grim statistics concern you?
At the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War, George Washington
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/12704> wrote that our nation has its roots
in "the establishment of civil and religious liberty
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/3467>."
Islam, on the other hand, is founded on the abolition of civil and
religious liberty -- which is to say it is diametrically opposed to the
notion that Liberty is "endowed by our Creator
<http://patriotpost.us/alexander/18968>."
Pro Deo et Constitutione -- Libertas aut Mors
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