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Here is a
forthright article on "Radical Islam's Worldwide War on Liberal Democracies"
Excerpts:
Demographic conquest is the most permanent form of conquest.
The infiltration of both legal and illegal Universal Jihadists to
Western
Europe and North America is fundamentally altering the very fabric of Western
civilization. Political Islam is a State within a State no matter what nation it
enters....What the Western mind has failed to grasp is that in Islam, separation
of church and state is categorically, scripturally, emphatically, and
dogmatically impossible
The Seats of the Empire of Universal
Jihad are Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan. These are Command
Central. These are the declared enemies of democracy and of fundamental human
rights and freedoms across the globe. Unless and until they are recognized,
named, and treated as such, Universal Jihad will continue to ravage every
non-Islamic nation and culture everywhere around the world into perpetuity.
To survive at all and preserve our
cherished rights and freedoms, our cultures, our religions, our civilizations,
we must declare an ideological war against Universal Jihadists. We must do so
now. They long ago declared war on us.
Universal
Jihad: Radical Islam's Worldwide War on Liberal Democracies
Vijay
Kumar
September 11, 2009
http://www.politicalislam.com/
On September 11, 2001,
a war was brought to our shores by a band of men, bound by a militant ideology,
in an act of mass murder. The response by the
United States
was a so-called "War on Terror," a reflex that has proved to be as ineffective
as it has been costly.
We have
spent more than a trillion dollars on invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. More
than 5,000 American soldiers have died in the last eight years, and tens of
thousands of American soldiers have been wounded.
What has this flood of blood and money bought
us?
There has
been no sustainable victory for the United States. There is no strategic
victory; there is no political victory; there is no moral victory. And there is
no peace. Islamic terrorism continues around the globe unabated.
The Obama
administration lately wants to avoid any taint by the phrase "War on Terror,"
papering it over with even more ambiguity, calling it now an "Overseas
Contingency Operation." It's still the same losing war, just as costly, just as
ineffective.
The Bush
and Obama administrations' "War on Terror"-by any name-has failed for a simple
reason. It is because there is no such a thing as war on terror. Terrorism is a
technique, a method, a weapon, a means to an end. Terrorism is not an enemy that
can be named or identified, much less fought effectively. A "War on Terror" is a
war on shadows, a war on nothing and on no one. It is a fool's errand.
Yet there
is a war raging. It is a war that already had raged for 1,400 years before it
was brought to our shores, a war that has laid waste to entire nations,
cultures, and civilizations. The war is Universal Jihad: the eternal worldwide
war on all infidel nations.
Turkey,
Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt were
Christian nations before Christianity was supplanted by Political Islam.
Afghanistan was Buddhist, Iran was Zoroastrian, and Pakistan was Hindu before
Radical Islam consumed their civilizations and cultures.
The
long-running Israeli and Palestinian conflict is not some unique standalone
dispute over real estate or factionalism or any of the other wrong reasons given
for it. It is simply another front in Universal Jihad's imperialistic war for
the minds and souls of man. There has never been a lasting peace there because
Political Islam has no interest in making peace with infidels-and every man,
woman, or child anywhere in the world who is not Muslim is branded as infidel.
The
crisis in the Middle East never ends because Political Islam never yields to another
ideology. It does not believe in or permit of peaceful co-existence. The problem
is not Jews or Israel.
The only thing keeping the conflict in endless, irresolvable foment is a
universal supremacist ideology that demands the conquest of Jews, Christians,
Hindus, Buddhists, Chinese, the West and sub-Saharan
Africa.
The purpose of Universal Jihad, its
mandate, its raison d'etre is conquest of the infidels and their nations - all
of them - whether by conversion, domination, or death. In Political Islam, there
is no fourth choice. It does not countenance any form of permanent peace with
infidels.
Where
Muslims are weak demographically and politically, they will propose truce. But
we must understand the difference between truce and peace. Truce is a temporary
ploy to buy time until one is stronger. Peace is lasting mutual respect. Muslims
care not for peace, ever, with infidels, who are seen as inferiors. Where
Muslims are strong they wage Universal Jihad, a worldwide war against the
infidel. Jihad is the scriptural imperative of Political Islam, and the infidel
is fair game.
For
Universal Jihadists, therefore, any tactic, any means, any weapon is fully
justified, so terrorism and mass murder are considered to be perfectly valid
methods in attaining their theological and political goals.
The
Lockerbie mass murderer was given a hero's welcome recently in Libya because in
Islam's Universal Jihad he is a war hero.
The
September 11, 2001
mass murder in the United States was a holy act, not only sanctioned but also
celebrated.
The
doctrine of Universal Jihad has a clear global goal: the supremacy of Islam
everywhere in the world. It demands theological, political, and cultural
supremacy-Islamic Imperialism-over the entire world. There is no room for
political pluralism.
In
Political Islam, there is no valid law other than the Islamic law, Sharia. The
constitutions of liberal democracies are nothing more than the folly of fallible
men and not worth the paper and ink wasted on them.
Universal
Jihad is a war on the cornerstones of democratic principles: individual rights
and freedoms. It is a declared war on the very existence of democracy and the
freedom of mind in the world.
Islamic
Imperialism is the greatest imperialist force the world has ever seen. Until
recently, the Western Hemisphere has been largely isolated and protected from Universal
Jihad by geographical and technological barriers. Today, all of that has
changed.
The
United States
merely is among the latest nations to be targeted for attack and invasion by
Universal Jihad. It is infantile to believe that the Universal Jihadists have
brought their 1,400 hundred years war to the West because of America's support
of Israel. Universal Jihad predates the birth of the
United States
and of Israel by a thousand years, and already has conquered much the
Middle East and parts of
Europe.
America is
falling prey to the same overt and covert strategies and tactics. Terrorism has
been only one of those tactics.
Demographic conquest is the most
permanent form of conquest. The infiltration of both legal and illegal Universal
Jihadists to
Western Europe and
North America is fundamentally altering the very fabric of Western civilization.
Political Islam is a State within a State no matter what nation it enters.
Political
Islam views the world as being divided into two eternally opposing camps: Darul
al-Harb (Land of
Hostility,
governed by the infidels) and Darul al-Islam (Land of
Peace,
ruled by Muslims). Any land that is not Islamic and not ruled by Muslims is
considered Land of Hostility. Universal Jihadists have a theological obligation
to conquer non-Muslim nations by any means and supplant the governments of men
with Islamic theocracy. Hence, there is no such a thing as assimilation of Islam
into a host society.
What the Western mind has failed to
grasp is that in Islam, separation of church and state is categorically,
scripturally, emphatically, and dogmatically impossible.
That is
why the inherent imperialism of Universal Jihad is a greater threat to liberal
democracies than Nazism and Communism combined. Unlike Islamists, Nazis and
Communists lacked a transcendental metaphysics and global demographic strength.
Nazism was defeated within ten years of its rise to power in Germany, and
Communism has collapsed because of its own internal contradictions;
post-Communist Russia and post-Nazi Germany became liberal democracies.
Not so
the nations and civilizations conquered by Universal Jihadists.
A thousand years ago, the Indian Hindus were in
the same predicament as is the Western world today. Their epistemologies were
too rational, their metaphysical views too abstract and embracive. Their concept
of non-violence even against those who wanted to annihilate them and their way
of life was their greatest flaw. It was a fatal flaw. The Western world's
present approach is reminiscent of the ancient Hindus.
The
current crisis between the West and the doctrine of Universal Jihad is
epistemological; it is a war of rationalism and intellectual freedom against
virulent theological dogma. But it is a war. It was declared 1,400 years ago.
Now it has been brought to America's shores.
Universal
Jihadists have been winning through eternal patience and persistence engendered
and empowered by their transcendental metaphysics, and their central belief that
the entire world was meant to be governed by Islamic theocracy. What they lack
in technology, they make up in demographic strength, geographic diversity,
ideological clarity, and a fanaticism that is only "business as usual."
Compounding the threat is widespread ignorance among the rank and file. Of the
purported 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, 90% do not speak Arabic, yet Islam's
most lionized theologians claim that the Quran cannot be translated into any
other language. By their measure, 90% of Muslims cling to the ragged edges of a
dogma that they cannot hope to fully understand.
At stake are our intellectual and
spiritual freedoms, and the most cherished principles of democracy.
To preserve them, we must win this war not of our making. The alternative is
unconditional surrender. Universal Jihadists are the product of militant
ideologies and not vice-versa. Unless and until we confront that ideology for
what it is, logically and persistently, all of our efforts are, and will
continue to be, futile.
American
politicians of both parties have failed or refused to define the true nature of
the enemy and its intentions. The enemy is not Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas,
Islamic Brotherhood, or any of the hundreds of Islamic fundamentalist groups
from Algeria
to the Middle East to South Asia to Indonesia. Each of those is merely a
tentacle of the same voracious beast called Universal Jihad. The very fact of
the multitude of factions is nothing more than another strategy of Universal
Jihadists to disperse and confuse and weaken the infidel by making him fight too
many enemies on too many fronts. And it is working.
The only real enemy is Universal
Jihad in all its manifestations. It is an existential crisis that threatens
equally every non-Muslim nation, no matter what their culture, heritage,
philosophy, or form of government.
The
current military campaign by the United States and an ever-shrinking handful of
its allies in the failed "War on Terror" (by any name) are beyond ineffective;
it is suicidal. For eight long years it has squandered billions of dollars and
thousands of innocent lives attacking the wrong enemies, while leaving the real
seats of power of Universal Jihad unscathed, and even embracing them as "allies"
and trading partners.
The war
in Afghanistan
is escalating, with the last two months alone having been the two deadliest
months in the eight long years of U.S. involvement there. Yet Afghanistan is
only a client state, a proxy, for
Pakistan,
one of the nations in the triumvirate that is the Empire of Universal Jihad. It
is Pakistan's clandestine agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), that rules
Pakistan. Using Saudi money, the ISI created Taliban and Al-Qaeda. It is
Pakistan's ISI that fosters Afghanistan's chief exports of heroin and terrorism,
and that supplies refuge for Universal Jihadists. Yet we embrace Pakistan as an
"ally."
The Seats of the Empire of Universal
Jihad are
Saudi Arabia, Iran,
and Pakistan. These are Command Central. These are the declared enemies of
democracy and of fundamental human rights and freedoms across the globe. Unless
and until they are recognized, named, and treated as such, Universal Jihad will
continue to ravage every non-Islamic nation and culture everywhere around the
world into perpetuity.
The war
being waged against humanity and democracy by Universal Jihadists can be won
decisively. We can find a lasting and comprehensive solution to the greatest
imperialistic threat Western civilization has ever seen. We have billions of
willing allies in every place on the globe. But our success, our victory is
predicated upon knowing and naming the real enemy, knowing the scope and reality
of the threat, and taking decisive and directed action.
I
maintain:
** War against Universal Jihadists can
be won globally in less than five years.
** It can be won for less than one billion
dollars.
** It can be won without any more loss of
American or Western Life.
In order
to win this war that has been declared against us through no fault of our own,
the first requisite is to acknowledge that it is an ideological war. It is the
totalitarian Islamic theocracy against fundamental human rights and freedoms and
against every democracy in the world.
It's also
necessary to recognize that causes of poverty, illiteracy, and misery prevalent
in Islamic nations are over-population, suppression of intellectual freedom,
hostility to critical thinking, and a dictatorial theocracy as the form of
government. Colonialism or Zionist or Anglo-American conspiracies are not the
cause.
The
conflict between Universal Jihadists and the West is philosophical. Strength is
necessary to bring and maintain order, but force alone can never prevail.
Reason, empiricism, and the scientific method are our greatest weapons against
the religious fanaticism of Political Islam's militant theocracy.
Non-Islamic nations must correctly classify the doctrine of Universal Jihad as a
subversive paramilitary political movement whose core ideology, of record,
demands the overthrow of the existing forms of governments. Civilized nations
recognize that such subversion, in times of war, constitutes treason.
And Universal Jihad is a declared
war. It is a war of Islamic theological exclusivism against pluralistic
democratic traditions. They are mutually exclusive. Islam's Sharia is the
antithesis of individual intellectual and spiritual freedom. It stands in direct
opposition to the very existence of any constitutional democracy, and to the
very right to existence of any other religion or belief.
Therefore, in order to prevail in this war against the rest of mankind, we must
do the following:
**
Build a global united alliance of nations against Universal Jihad. Jew and
Gentile, Anglo-Saxon and Slav, Hindu and Buddhist, Norwegian and Nigerian-all
have been victimized by Jihad. Never has any barbaric imperialism so universally
threatened mankind without regard to national or ethnic or philosophical or
geopolitical boundaries. Whatever our differences, in this war we are allies
unified by a common ruthless enemy that will not rest until we and our cultures
and nations have been conquered through conversion, domination, or death.
United, we cannot be overcome.
** Systematically remove all advocates of
Political Islam's Universal Jihad from every nation of the Western world -
which, by their own definition, is Darul al-Harb (Land
of Hostility, governed by the infidels). The claims and requirements of Literal
Islam's mandated theocracy call for overthrow of the American and Western forms
of government in a declared war, and the supporters of Universal Jihad have
committed and condoned acts of war on our soil against our people and our
nations. That is treason.
** As a united alliance of nations against
Universal Jihad, cut off all trade and diplomatic ties to the Empire of
Universal Jihad:
Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi
Arabia. Enforce these sanctions until their governments publicly, formally
renounce and disavow Universal Jihad by official proclamation.
** As a united alliance of nations against
Universal Jihad, use the combined resources of all affected nations to
demilitarize, secularize, and democratize the Empire of Universal Jihad.
** As a united alliance of nations against
Universal Jihad, demand and exact compensation from the Empire of Universal
Jihad for having supported global terrorism for at least the past half-century.
If any of
these steps to victory seem draconian or undemocratic, pause to reflect that
they are far more humane and civilized then the strategies and tactics of
Political Islam and its 1,400 years war that has decimated entire civilizations
and murdered countless millions. These steps are far more humane and civilized
than dropping atomic bombs on civilian populations. These are not some "Modest
Proposals" in the tradition of Swift. These are sober, attainable and necessary
steps that must be taken if the rationality and freedoms gained by mankind over
thousands of years of social evolution stand any chance of surviving the
Universal Jihadist's onslaught of barbarism and mass murder to the end of
totalitarian rule of the world.
To survive at all and preserve our cherished
rights and freedoms, our cultures, our religions, our civilizations, we must
declare an ideological war against Universal Jihadists. We must do so now. They
long ago declared war on us.
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