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This is a GREAT article by Larry Abraham about the rise of Islam and its anti-West setiments. Also given is an explanation of the war in Iraq so clear and consice a democrat could understand. Also, here's something to consider:
What surprised the Jihadists following the 9/11 attack was how
American sentiment mobilized around the president and a profound sense
of patriotism spread across the country. They were not expecting this
reaction, based on what had happened in the past, nor were they
expecting the determined resolve of the President himself.
Al Qaeda brought down the Spanish govt with one attack that killed a fration of the people killed here in 9/11. This was what they wanted: to dash the peoples faith in the type of govt that will NOT kowtow to the terrorists. An attack will cause the people to blame their govt for getting involved, and they will vote in politicians and leaders that will appease the terrorists and withdraw any military support against Al Qaeda. However, unlike other countries, we rallied around our leader after the attack, so the terrorists lost this fight. Doesn't it make sense to do what the terrorists DON'T want us to do? Shouldn't we continue to rally around our president, the only one who will fight them? Aren't shooting ourselves in the foot to allow Kerry the appeaser win Bush the fighter to lose? Think about it, won't you?
Subject: Another Look at The Third Jihad
THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE GREAT CALIPHATE
by Larry Abraham, January 29, 2004
I urge all of my readers to make copies of this report and send
them to your friends and relatives. The information is too critical to
be over looked in the madness of this election year.
Watching and listening to the Democrat Party candidates is
tantamount to enduring the Chinese water torture. The blah, blah, blah
goes on and on and nothing of value comes out except the pain of
listening to the same nothingness over and over again. I won't take
the time or space to repeat what you have heard so many mind numbing
times but what you have not heard is crucial.
President Bush and his administration spokesmen are not telling
the American people what they really need to know about this "war" If
they don't do that between now and November it may cost them the
election.
The war against terror did not begin on September 11, 2001, nor
will it end with the peaceful transition to civilian authority in
Iraq, whenever that may be. In fact, Iraq is but a footnote in the
bigger context of this encounter, but an important one none the less.
This war is what the Jihadists themselves are calling the "Third
Great Jihad." They are operating within the framework of a time line
which reaches back to the very creation of Islam in the seventh
century and are presently attempting to recreate the dynamics which
gave rise to the religion in the first two hundred years of its
existence. No religion in history grew as fast, in its infancy, and
the reasons for the initial growth of Islam are not hard to explain
when you understand what the world was like at the time of Muhammad's
death in 632 AD. Remember that the Western Roman Empire was in ruins
and the Eastern Empire, based in Constantinople, was trying
desperately to keep the power of its early grandeur while
transitioning to Christianity as a de facto state religion. The costs
to the average person were large as he was being required to meet the
constantly rising taxes levied by the state along with the tithes
coerced by the Church.
What Islam offered was the "carrot or the sword". If you became
a convert, your taxes were immediately eliminated, as was your tithe.
If you didn't, you faced death. The choice was not hard for most to
make, unless you were a very devoted martyr in the making. At the
beginning, even the theology was not too hard for most to swallow,
considering that both Jewry and Christianity were given their due by
the Prophet. There is but one God-Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet,
as was Jesus, and the pre-Christian Jewish prophets of the Torah (Old
Testament). Both were called "children of the book"--the book being
the Koran, which replaced both the Old and New Testaments for former
Christians and Jews.
With this practical approach to spreading the "word" Islam grew
like wild-fire, reaching out from the Saudi Arabian Peninsula in all
directions. This early growth is what the Muslims call the "First"
great Jihad and it met with little resistance until Charles Martel of
France, the father of Charlemagne, stopped them in the battle of Tours
in France, after they had firmly established Islam on the Iberian
Peninsula. This first onslaught against the West continued in various
forms and at various times until Islam was finally driven out of Spain
in 1492 at the battle of Granada.
The "Second great jihad" came with the Ottoman Turks. This
empire succeeded in bringing about the downfall of Constantinople as a
Christian stronghold and an end to Roman hegemony in all of its forms.
The Ottoman Empire was Islam's most successful expansion of territory
even though the religion itself had fractured into warring sects and
bitter rivalries with each claiming the ultimate truths in "the ways
of the Prophet". By 1683 the Ottomans had suffered a series of defeats
on both land and sea and the final, unsuccessful attempt to capture
Vienna set the stage for the collapse of any further territorial
ambitions and Islam shrunk into various sheikhdoms, emir dominated
principalities, and roving tribes of nomads. However, by this time a
growing anti-western sentiment, blaming its internal failures on
anyone but themselves, was taking hold and setting the stage for a new
revival known as Wahhabism, a sect which came into full bloom under
the House of Saud on the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the onset of
WWI. It is this Wahhabi version of Islam which has infected the
religion itself, now finding adherents in almost all branches and
sects, especially the Shiites.
Wahhabism calls for the complete and total rejection or
destruction of anything and everything which is not based in the
original teachings of The Prophet and finds its most glaring practice
in the policies of the Afghani Taliban or the Shiite practices of the
late Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Its Ali Pasha (Field Marshall) is now
known as Osama bin Laden, the leader of the "Third Jihad", who is
Wahhabi as were his 9/11 attack teams, 18 of which were also Saudi.
The strategy for this "holy war" did not begin with the planning
of the destruction of the World Trade Center. It began with the
toppling of the Shah of Iran back in the late 1970's. With his plans
and programs to "westernize" his country, along with his close ties to
the U.S. and subdued acceptance of the State of Israel, the Shah was
the soft target. Remember "America Held Hostage"?
Thanks, in large part to the hypocritical and disastrous
policies of the Jimmy Carter State Department, the revolution was set
into motion, the Shah was deposed, his armed forces scattered or
murdered and stage one was complete. The Third Jihad now had a base of
operations and the oil wealth to support its grand design or what they
call the "Great Caliphate".
What this design calls for is the replacement of all secular
leadership in any country with Muslim majorities. This would include,
Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, all the Emirates, Sudan, Tunisia,
Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Malaysia,
Indonesia and finally what they call the "occupied territory" Israel.
As a part of this strategy, forces of the jihad will infiltrate
governments and the military as a prelude to taking control, once the
secular leadership is ousted or assassinated. Such was the case in
Lebanon leading to the Syrian occupation and in Egypt with the murder
of Anwar Sadat, along with the multiple attempts on the lives of
Hussein in Jordan, Mubarak of Egypt and Musharraf in Pakistan.
Pakistan is a particular prize because of its nuclear weapons. (Please
note al Qaeda call for the Islamic-militant overthrow of Musharraf in
Pakistan on March 25, just yesterday.)
The long-range strategy of the Third Jihad counts on three
strategic goals. First, the U.S. withdrawing from the region just as
it did in Southeast Asia, following Vietnam. Second, taking control of
the oil wealth in the Muslim countries, which would be upwards to 75%
of known reserves; third, using nuclear weapons or other WMDs to
annihilate Israel. A further outcome of successfully achieving these
objectives would be to place the United Nations as the sole arbiter in
East/West negotiations and paralyze western resistance, leading to
total withdrawal from all Islamic dominated countries.
Evidence of the Bush Administration awareness of this plan is
found in the events immediately following the 9/11 attack. The
administration's first move was to shore up Pakistan and Egypt,
believing that these two would be the next targets for al Qaeda, while
Americans focused on the disaster in New York. The administration also
knew that the most important objective was to send a loud and clear
message that the U.S. was in the region to stay, not only to shore up
our allies but to send a message to the Jihadists.
The attack on Afghanistan was necessary to break-up a secure al
Qaeda base of operations and put their leadership on the run or in
prison. The war in Iraq also met a very strategic necessity in that no
one knew how much collaboration existed between Saddam Hussein and the
master planners of the Third Jihad or Hussein's willingness to hand
off WMDs to terrorist groups including the PLO in Israel. What was
known were serious indications of on-going collaboration as Saddam
funneled money to families of suicide bombers attacking the Israelis
and others in Kuwait.
What the U.S. needed to establish was a significant base of
operations smack dab in the middle of the Islamic world, in a location
which effectively cut it in half. Iraq was the ideal target for this
and a host of other strategic reasons. Leadership of various
anti-American groups both here and abroad understood the vital nature
of the Bush initiative and thus launched their demonstrations,
world-wide, to "Stop The War". Failing this, they also laid plans to
build a political campaign inside the country, with the War in Iraq as
a plebiscite, using a little known politician as the thrust
point--Howard Dean. This helps to explain how quickly the Radical Left
moved into the Dean campaign with both people and money, creating what
the clueless media called the "Dean Phenomenon".
By building on the left-wing base in the Democrat party and the
"Hate Bush" crowd, the campaign has already resulted in a consensus
among the aspirants, minus Joe Lieberman, to withdraw the U.S. from
Iraq and turn the operation over to the U.N. And, if past is prologue,
i.e., Vietnam, once the U.S. leaves it will not go back under any
circumstances, possibly even the destruction of Israel. Should George
W. Bush be defeated in November we could expect to see the dominoes
start to fall in the secular Islamic countries and The Clash of
Civilizations, predicted several years ago by Samuel Huntington, would
then become a life changing event in all of our lives.
What surprised the Jihadists following the 9/11 attack was how
American sentiment mobilized around the president and a profound sense
of patriotism spread across the country. They were not expecting this
reaction, based on what had happened in the past, nor were they
expecting the determined resolve of the President himself. I also
believe this is one of the reasons we have not had any further attacks
within our borders. They are content to wait, just as one of their
tactical mentors; V.I. Lenin admonished..."two steps forward, one step
back".
A couple additional events serve as valuable footnotes to the
current circumstances we face: the destruction of the human assets
factor of the CIA during the Carter presidency, presided over by the
late Senator Frank Church. This fact has plagued our intelligence
agencies right up to this very day with consequences which are now
obvious. And, Jimmy Carter himself, the one man who must bear the bulk
of the responsibility for setting the stage of the Third Jihad.
Americans should find little comfort in how the Democrat contenders
constantly seek the "advice and counsel" of this despicable hypocrite.
Lastly, we should not expect to see any meaningful cooperation
from Western Europe, especially the French. Since failing to protect
their own interests in Algeria (by turning the country over to the
first of the Arab terrorists, Ammad Ben Bella), the country itself is
now occupied by Islamic immigrants totaling twenty percent of the
population.
We are in the battle of our lives, a battle which will go on for
many years possibly even generations. If we fail to understand what we
are facing or falter in the challenge of "knowing our enemy" the
results will be catastrophic. Imagine a world where al Qaeda regimes
control 75% of the world's oil, have at their disposal nuclear
weapons, legions of willing suicide soldiers, and our national
survival is dependent on the good graces of Kofi Annan and the United
Nations.
There is one final footnote which may be the scariest of all.
Either none of the Democrats currently leading the drive to their
party's nomination are aware of the facts of the Great Caliphate and
Third Jihad or they do know and they don't care so long as their power
lust is satisfied. But, I can guarantee you one thing for sure: some
of their most ardent supporters are aware of this and will do anything
they can to bring it about.
What surprised the Jihadists following the 9/11 attack was how
American sentiment mobilized around the president and a profound sense
of patriotism spread across the country. They were not expecting this
reaction, based on what had happened in the past, nor were they
expecting the determined resolve of the President himself.
Al Qaeda brought down the Spanish govt with one attack that killed a fration of the people killed here in 9/11. This was what they wanted: to dash the peoples faith in the type of govt that will NOT kowtow to the terrorists. An attack will cause the people to blame their govt for getting involved, and they will vote in politicians and leaders that will appease the terrorists and withdraw any military support against Al Qaeda. However, unlike other countries, we rallied around our leader after the attack, so the terrorists lost this fight. Doesn't it make sense to do what the terrorists DON'T want us to do? Shouldn't we continue to rally around our president, the only one who will fight them? Aren't shooting ourselves in the foot to allow Kerry the appeaser win Bush the fighter to lose? Think about it, won't you?
Subject: Another Look at The Third Jihad
THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE GREAT CALIPHATE
by Larry Abraham, January 29, 2004
I urge all of my readers to make copies of this report and send
them to your friends and relatives. The information is too critical to
be over looked in the madness of this election year.
Watching and listening to the Democrat Party candidates is
tantamount to enduring the Chinese water torture. The blah, blah, blah
goes on and on and nothing of value comes out except the pain of
listening to the same nothingness over and over again. I won't take
the time or space to repeat what you have heard so many mind numbing
times but what you have not heard is crucial.
President Bush and his administration spokesmen are not telling
the American people what they really need to know about this "war" If
they don't do that between now and November it may cost them the
election.
The war against terror did not begin on September 11, 2001, nor
will it end with the peaceful transition to civilian authority in
Iraq, whenever that may be. In fact, Iraq is but a footnote in the
bigger context of this encounter, but an important one none the less.
This war is what the Jihadists themselves are calling the "Third
Great Jihad." They are operating within the framework of a time line
which reaches back to the very creation of Islam in the seventh
century and are presently attempting to recreate the dynamics which
gave rise to the religion in the first two hundred years of its
existence. No religion in history grew as fast, in its infancy, and
the reasons for the initial growth of Islam are not hard to explain
when you understand what the world was like at the time of Muhammad's
death in 632 AD. Remember that the Western Roman Empire was in ruins
and the Eastern Empire, based in Constantinople, was trying
desperately to keep the power of its early grandeur while
transitioning to Christianity as a de facto state religion. The costs
to the average person were large as he was being required to meet the
constantly rising taxes levied by the state along with the tithes
coerced by the Church.
What Islam offered was the "carrot or the sword". If you became
a convert, your taxes were immediately eliminated, as was your tithe.
If you didn't, you faced death. The choice was not hard for most to
make, unless you were a very devoted martyr in the making. At the
beginning, even the theology was not too hard for most to swallow,
considering that both Jewry and Christianity were given their due by
the Prophet. There is but one God-Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet,
as was Jesus, and the pre-Christian Jewish prophets of the Torah (Old
Testament). Both were called "children of the book"--the book being
the Koran, which replaced both the Old and New Testaments for former
Christians and Jews.
With this practical approach to spreading the "word" Islam grew
like wild-fire, reaching out from the Saudi Arabian Peninsula in all
directions. This early growth is what the Muslims call the "First"
great Jihad and it met with little resistance until Charles Martel of
France, the father of Charlemagne, stopped them in the battle of Tours
in France, after they had firmly established Islam on the Iberian
Peninsula. This first onslaught against the West continued in various
forms and at various times until Islam was finally driven out of Spain
in 1492 at the battle of Granada.
The "Second great jihad" came with the Ottoman Turks. This
empire succeeded in bringing about the downfall of Constantinople as a
Christian stronghold and an end to Roman hegemony in all of its forms.
The Ottoman Empire was Islam's most successful expansion of territory
even though the religion itself had fractured into warring sects and
bitter rivalries with each claiming the ultimate truths in "the ways
of the Prophet". By 1683 the Ottomans had suffered a series of defeats
on both land and sea and the final, unsuccessful attempt to capture
Vienna set the stage for the collapse of any further territorial
ambitions and Islam shrunk into various sheikhdoms, emir dominated
principalities, and roving tribes of nomads. However, by this time a
growing anti-western sentiment, blaming its internal failures on
anyone but themselves, was taking hold and setting the stage for a new
revival known as Wahhabism, a sect which came into full bloom under
the House of Saud on the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the onset of
WWI. It is this Wahhabi version of Islam which has infected the
religion itself, now finding adherents in almost all branches and
sects, especially the Shiites.
Wahhabism calls for the complete and total rejection or
destruction of anything and everything which is not based in the
original teachings of The Prophet and finds its most glaring practice
in the policies of the Afghani Taliban or the Shiite practices of the
late Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Its Ali Pasha (Field Marshall) is now
known as Osama bin Laden, the leader of the "Third Jihad", who is
Wahhabi as were his 9/11 attack teams, 18 of which were also Saudi.
The strategy for this "holy war" did not begin with the planning
of the destruction of the World Trade Center. It began with the
toppling of the Shah of Iran back in the late 1970's. With his plans
and programs to "westernize" his country, along with his close ties to
the U.S. and subdued acceptance of the State of Israel, the Shah was
the soft target. Remember "America Held Hostage"?
Thanks, in large part to the hypocritical and disastrous
policies of the Jimmy Carter State Department, the revolution was set
into motion, the Shah was deposed, his armed forces scattered or
murdered and stage one was complete. The Third Jihad now had a base of
operations and the oil wealth to support its grand design or what they
call the "Great Caliphate".
What this design calls for is the replacement of all secular
leadership in any country with Muslim majorities. This would include,
Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, all the Emirates, Sudan, Tunisia,
Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Malaysia,
Indonesia and finally what they call the "occupied territory" Israel.
As a part of this strategy, forces of the jihad will infiltrate
governments and the military as a prelude to taking control, once the
secular leadership is ousted or assassinated. Such was the case in
Lebanon leading to the Syrian occupation and in Egypt with the murder
of Anwar Sadat, along with the multiple attempts on the lives of
Hussein in Jordan, Mubarak of Egypt and Musharraf in Pakistan.
Pakistan is a particular prize because of its nuclear weapons. (Please
note al Qaeda call for the Islamic-militant overthrow of Musharraf in
Pakistan on March 25, just yesterday.)
The long-range strategy of the Third Jihad counts on three
strategic goals. First, the U.S. withdrawing from the region just as
it did in Southeast Asia, following Vietnam. Second, taking control of
the oil wealth in the Muslim countries, which would be upwards to 75%
of known reserves; third, using nuclear weapons or other WMDs to
annihilate Israel. A further outcome of successfully achieving these
objectives would be to place the United Nations as the sole arbiter in
East/West negotiations and paralyze western resistance, leading to
total withdrawal from all Islamic dominated countries.
Evidence of the Bush Administration awareness of this plan is
found in the events immediately following the 9/11 attack. The
administration's first move was to shore up Pakistan and Egypt,
believing that these two would be the next targets for al Qaeda, while
Americans focused on the disaster in New York. The administration also
knew that the most important objective was to send a loud and clear
message that the U.S. was in the region to stay, not only to shore up
our allies but to send a message to the Jihadists.
The attack on Afghanistan was necessary to break-up a secure al
Qaeda base of operations and put their leadership on the run or in
prison. The war in Iraq also met a very strategic necessity in that no
one knew how much collaboration existed between Saddam Hussein and the
master planners of the Third Jihad or Hussein's willingness to hand
off WMDs to terrorist groups including the PLO in Israel. What was
known were serious indications of on-going collaboration as Saddam
funneled money to families of suicide bombers attacking the Israelis
and others in Kuwait.
What the U.S. needed to establish was a significant base of
operations smack dab in the middle of the Islamic world, in a location
which effectively cut it in half. Iraq was the ideal target for this
and a host of other strategic reasons. Leadership of various
anti-American groups both here and abroad understood the vital nature
of the Bush initiative and thus launched their demonstrations,
world-wide, to "Stop The War". Failing this, they also laid plans to
build a political campaign inside the country, with the War in Iraq as
a plebiscite, using a little known politician as the thrust
point--Howard Dean. This helps to explain how quickly the Radical Left
moved into the Dean campaign with both people and money, creating what
the clueless media called the "Dean Phenomenon".
By building on the left-wing base in the Democrat party and the
"Hate Bush" crowd, the campaign has already resulted in a consensus
among the aspirants, minus Joe Lieberman, to withdraw the U.S. from
Iraq and turn the operation over to the U.N. And, if past is prologue,
i.e., Vietnam, once the U.S. leaves it will not go back under any
circumstances, possibly even the destruction of Israel. Should George
W. Bush be defeated in November we could expect to see the dominoes
start to fall in the secular Islamic countries and The Clash of
Civilizations, predicted several years ago by Samuel Huntington, would
then become a life changing event in all of our lives.
What surprised the Jihadists following the 9/11 attack was how
American sentiment mobilized around the president and a profound sense
of patriotism spread across the country. They were not expecting this
reaction, based on what had happened in the past, nor were they
expecting the determined resolve of the President himself. I also
believe this is one of the reasons we have not had any further attacks
within our borders. They are content to wait, just as one of their
tactical mentors; V.I. Lenin admonished..."two steps forward, one step
back".
A couple additional events serve as valuable footnotes to the
current circumstances we face: the destruction of the human assets
factor of the CIA during the Carter presidency, presided over by the
late Senator Frank Church. This fact has plagued our intelligence
agencies right up to this very day with consequences which are now
obvious. And, Jimmy Carter himself, the one man who must bear the bulk
of the responsibility for setting the stage of the Third Jihad.
Americans should find little comfort in how the Democrat contenders
constantly seek the "advice and counsel" of this despicable hypocrite.
Lastly, we should not expect to see any meaningful cooperation
from Western Europe, especially the French. Since failing to protect
their own interests in Algeria (by turning the country over to the
first of the Arab terrorists, Ammad Ben Bella), the country itself is
now occupied by Islamic immigrants totaling twenty percent of the
population.
We are in the battle of our lives, a battle which will go on for
many years possibly even generations. If we fail to understand what we
are facing or falter in the challenge of "knowing our enemy" the
results will be catastrophic. Imagine a world where al Qaeda regimes
control 75% of the world's oil, have at their disposal nuclear
weapons, legions of willing suicide soldiers, and our national
survival is dependent on the good graces of Kofi Annan and the United
Nations.
There is one final footnote which may be the scariest of all.
Either none of the Democrats currently leading the drive to their
party's nomination are aware of the facts of the Great Caliphate and
Third Jihad or they do know and they don't care so long as their power
lust is satisfied. But, I can guarantee you one thing for sure: some
of their most ardent supporters are aware of this and will do anything
they can to bring it about.
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