IDENTIFYING THE ENEMY

Many people, including a lot of our leaders, don’t understand our nation’s conflict with the Muslims. The following article from “Frontline” magazine is a brief and clear description of what we are facing:

 

  “For the first time in its history, the United states is trying to wage and win a war without accurately identifying the enemy or its motivations for seeking to destroy us.”  Both civilian and military leaders have failed to speak clearly about our attackers, calling them ‘militant Muslims,’ radical Islam, extremist Islam, Islamofascists, or just ‘terrorists.’  Both civilian and military leaders fail to make clear that we face a totalitarian ideology bent on our destruction.  Their intent is just as clear as that of Hitler, but more dangerous, for they consider that their mission of global conquest is divinely inspired, and they are already well dispersed among these “enemy” nations, including the United States.

 

The ‘marching orders’ for this conquest are called the Shariah.  Shariah is considered binding law.  The ultimate goal is a global Islamic state, governed by Shariah.  The means for this complete conquest is the ‘jihad.’  Many Muslims take the violent path of jihad, the acts of violence that terrorize innocent neighbors.  Others (the majority) follow the path of “stealth jihad” (dawah), but the goal is still world conquest.  These “peaceful” Musims demand recognition of their right to dress differently, to have special rights at a workplace, Shariah-compliant finance, etc.  Even an attempt to portray Mohammed can result in massive civil disruption.

 

Shariah offers nonbelievers, when they come to rule an area, three choices:  conversion to Islam, submission (dhimmitude), or death.  In reality, their anticipated global state is not “religious” but political and dictatorial in nature.  We are at war, not with Iraq or Afghanistan, but in attempted self defense because of the attitudes and actions of those who adhere to Shariah law, believing that they must impose it on the rest of us.  Al-Qaeda is an enemy, but only because they actively are endeavoring to spread Shariah law.  Our leaders need to speak clearly about the intent of Shariah and the encroachments of stealth jihad as well as militant jihad.

 

We also need to assert that certain actions are contrary to our constitution.  Native Americans were clearly instructed that the use of mind-altering drugs, customary in some of their religious ceremonies, are not permitted in our culture.  When Mormons desired to become a state, they were clearly informed that bigamy was not “religious” but socially unacceptable.  We need to find a way to make clear that Shariah is not acceptable under our constitution and in our culture.  I would like to see the state of Michigan take the lead, whether by legislation or constitutional amendment, refusing the right to vote in local, state, or national elections, for instance, to those who refuse to declare that they are not adherents to Shariah.

 

The “enemy” in our midst needs to be recognized as dangerous.  They desire to be known as “peaceful Muslims,” but only by disavowing Shariah can they be treated as other than potential conquerors.  The time has clearly come to make a far more serious effort to defeat both the violent and stealthy forms of Jihad being waged against this country.   See the full article by Frank J, Gaffney. Jr., Stealth Jihad, FrontLine Magazine, May/June 2010, reprinted from The American Legion, April 2010.