Militant Islam and The War on Terror

Liberals seemed to be forever confused and not quite sure who to "root” for when it came to the Cold War. We see a repeat of that failing when it comes to the War on Terror. Conservatives never considered themselves in a moral quandary when it came to the Cold War and do not suffer moral confusion when it comes to fighting the enemies that now wage war upon the West.

Those who champion the moral equivalency of brutal dictators, mass murderers, terrorist states, and the enemies of liberty to the United States and the civilized Western world are only exercising intellectual mediocrity and the willful suspension of reality. There is no comparison. Shame on those who have led us down that path and attempted to cloak it in the aura of respectability.

To truly understand the nature of this enemy we must digest their viciousness and use it to fuel the avenging fire that was initially kindled on September 11th 2001. War is not pretty, fun, or pleasant but sometimes it is not only necessary but desirable when dealing with an enemy that has such diabolical methods and goals.

The commitment to victory can only be solidified by free and just peoples when they are faced with the countless outrages of the enemy and their heartless butchery throughout the globe.

Some commentators have made the observation that Islam has shown itself to be less of a religion than a bloody ideology. Where is the outrage in reaction to such crime from the good peaceful Muslims we are told are the vast majority of Islam? The silence is deafening and the followers of Mohammad bear a portion of responsibility and blame due to their failure to condemn such actions and for the continued support, shelter, and protection of such terror artists offered by their clerics, mosques, and communities.

I have had the opportunity and pleasure to meet several former Muslims in my lifetime and they make excellent and powerful Christians. It is a sometimes dangerous conversion as Islam calls for the death of all Muslims who leave the religion. Islam calls for the conversion, subjegation, or elimination of all peoples who fall under its control. Leaving the religion to join another is simply not an option in Islam and frequently leads to the death or imprisonment of those who decide that the teachings of Muhammed are not for them.

Never forget that many of us saw, way back on Sept. 11, 2001, that the enemy of the Americans was the same enemy that was fighting Israel, and India, and Russia, and Indonesia and the Philippines, and infiltrating Europe, and advocating in America, and throwing acid in the face of unveiled women across the world, and preaching fanaticism in Saudi Arabia, and blowing up statues in Afghanistan, and manning the madrasses in Pakistan, and pushing propaganda on al-Jazeera, and blowing up schoolchildren in Tel-Aviv, and beheading Jewish young men from Philadelphia. – Damien Veatch

Truer words have never been spoken. The mindset of Islamofascism is one of genocidal mania, the celebration of death and butchery, and revelry in the slaughter of innocents. Americans and civilized people the world over have been shocked by such sub-human behavior but they should not be. That is the character of the enemy that they face. It is the nature of a religious ideology that seeks the death or subjugation of all infidels and the extermination of the Jew. Al-Qaeda is just the latest manifestation of a seventh-century barbarism that has waged an endless war on all who oppose it.

Politicians in particular insist that this is not a war of religion or clash of civilizations. We see an endless spewing of "religion of peace” quotes, diatribes on "a nation of immigrants,” and complaints about ethnic profiling at airports. I wish that someone would tell that to the enemy, for that is exactly the war that they are waging.

Whether it is the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Al-Tawhid, Abu Sayyaf, the Taliban, Al-Ansar Islam, Al-Sadr’s militia, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Beyyiat el-Imam, Jund al-Shams, or the dozens of other militant terrorist groups infesting the globe their methodology, goals, tactics, cruelty, tenacity, and victims are often eerily the same. It is a strange world of martyrdom, jihad, cries of Allahu Akbar! and fantasies of a heavenly reward of seventy-two virgins. They may differ by sect, creed, or nationality but each wages war on the innocent, the Christian and the Jew, the concepts of Liberty and Justice, and Western Civilization itself.

The adherents of militant Islam are not some small, isolated group of malcontents as they are so often portrayed. Millions of Muslims are adherents to the ideology and religious fervor that wages war on the West. The cries of jihad echo in the bloody guerilla warfare of Algeria. It is the ideology of the Arab slavers waging war on Christians in Sudan. It is the call from hundreds of minarets in Saudi Arabia and the gospel of the mullahs of Iran. It is the creed of the border tribes of Pakistan and is the heart and soul of the Taliban. It flourishes in the jungles of the Philippines and the slums of Indonesia. It sallies forth from the green valleys of Lebanon and preaches its hate in the mosques of Europe.

There will be no easy victory and the legions of the deluded zealots who vent their rage in the blood of the vulnerable, innocent, and helpless will not be quickly defeated. Civilized peoples across the globe must learn to steel themselves against continued barbarity and prepare for the long struggle against those who would slice your throat and murder your children in their beds if given half a chance. Their fanaticism cannot be underestimated and the righteousness of the cause of those who fight against them cannot be doubted. The world must answer terrorism and those who fancy themselves the warriors of Allah with a resolve for utter and total victory.

Always clever, the Muslims. Always at the top. Always ingenious. In philosophy, in mathematics, in gastronomy, in literature, in architecture, in medicine, in music, in law, in hydraulics, in cooking. Always stupid, we Westerners. Always inadequate, always inferior. Therefore obliged to thank some son of Allah who preceded us.

The hate for the West swells like a fire fed by the wind. The clash between us and them is not a military one. It is a cultural one, a religious one, and the worst is still to come.

If you are a Westerner, and you say your civilization is superior, the most developed that this planet has ever seen, you go to the stake. But if you are a son of Allah or one of their collaborationists and you say that Islam has always been a superior civilization, a ray of light . . . nobody touches you. Nobody sues you. Nobody condemns you.

-quotes by Oriana Fallaci 

Sometimes it all seems like a bad dream but it is all too real. The "fourth” world war plods on day after day and stretches from the jungles of the Philippines to the rugged mountains of Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq to the mosques of Europe. The clash between the forces of Islamic fundamentalism and the forces of Western Civilization is one of colossal scope but one that must be fought and pursued relentlessly.

 The twentieth century was the century in which we helped to crush fascism, Nazism, Japanese militarism, and Soviet imperialism. The first century of the new millennium must be the one in which we crush Islamic fascism, nuclear proliferation, rogue regimes, and terror death cults.

The enemy we fight is just as fanatical, just as dangerous, and just as worthy of destruction as the other evil ideologies we have challenged and defeated.

The real question is whether the West has lost its soul or is able to overcome the deplorable liberal cancer that lobotomizes otherwise intelligent people and creates an endless line of apologists, capitulators, and seditionists.

If Western Civilization can wake up from its stupefying stupor of suicidal tendencies and deal with the destruction of its culture, identity, and vision then it has a fighting chance against those who believe only in conversion, subjugation, or death at the hand of the armies of Allah.

Our moral base is superior, and to be preferred. Our Judeo Christian moral base teaches: "Love thy neighbor as thyself!” This is reflected (largely, though decreasingly) in our laws. Democracy (”consensual government”), freedom, restraint of power, and other concepts all flow out of this singular command. The Islamic tint of government in totalitarian Pakistan and Iran, and nihilism in China and N. Korea give us no such confidence. – columnist Bates Estabrooks 

Let us never forget the sacrifices of "the greatest generation,” especially now in the post 9-11 era. We are engaged in our own world war and as surely as they achieved their victory over the enemies that they faced, the freedom-loving people of the world must triumph over the genocidal death cult of Islamic fascism. Can you imagine the United States fighting WWII the way the War on Terror has been fought? We’d all be speaking Japanese if we had shown such timidity and self-doubt then as we do now.

House by house, city by city, country by country, the Islamic militants must be destroyed. It’s a global War on Terror, remember? No more politically correct warfare; pursue, kill and destroy the vicious thugs who slaughter in the name of Allah and butcher innocent victims. Always carry the war to the enemy and let him wonder if he is going to be snatched in the middle of the night or sniped as he walks by the window.

Opposing the death cult of beheaders and suicide bombers should unite us, not divide us.

The enemy takes no prisoners (well, only long enough to make a video and behead them) and all those who oppose Islamic fascism and multiculturalism as practiced by the Left need to stand up in force to save their cultures, society, and way of life. One must take the time to digest the information available if one is to have a semblance of understanding of the war the West is fighting against our Islamo-fascist friends.

We must be clear about what the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are about. The enemy stands for the principles of Baathism and Islamism, and expresses these principles in the form of human bombs. These are totalitarian movements stemming from the worst European tradition. And yet it has been difficult to rally the world to its side. Most nations seem eager to wash their hands of the whole situation. 

The United States and its allies are facing the confusion that, history shows, has traditionally plagued liberal-minded people in the face of totalitarian movements. As much as terrorism itself, this confusion remains one of the great problems of our time. And dispelling it remains one of our great challenges.

                                                               – Paul Berman

Few nations who experience aggression and unprovoked attacks are truly prepared for the war that they are forced to wage. The Clinton/Democratic military wasn’t ready for the Bush/neocon war. It was weakened by downsizing and riddled with the crippling effects of political correctness. You can’t fight and win a politically correct war.

When it comes to the homefront, the feel good measures designated to protect us from terrorism have been anemic, misdirected, and nearly completely useless.

Poorly trained, window-dressing airport security details feeling up sixteen-year-old girls, making grandpa take off his shoes, pouring out perfume bottles, and confiscating fingernail clippers by the thousands contribute nothing to making this country safer and allows those who pose the most danger off the hook. Misguided and purely symbolic measures, not to mention the absence of racial profiling, shows the crippling effects of  political correctness that continues to hamstring security for the ideal of "being sensitive and tolerant.” This will undoubtedly end up costing many American lives. But at least we can sleep at night knowing we haven’t offended anyone.

Despite the rhetoric of the Left, and the sometimes questionable entanglements in Iraq, the list of terrorist thugs tracked down, killed, or captured since 9-11 is impressive. The War on Terror continues. It is often out of sight and out of mind, but we should be proud that it continues and that one by one the rats are dragged out of their holes and dispatched to the afterlife with extreme prejudice and little fanfare.

While our troops were willing to put their lives on the line to carry out their missions, they did not go overseas for the purpose of dying. Nor have they died without taking a lot more of the enemy with them. Every terrorist killed in Iraq is one that will never come over here to commit another 9/11. – Thomas Sowell

If the mainstream media and the Left would show 1/100th of the outrage they expend on Guantanamo instead of on the nearly endless atrocities of the enemy I might have some respect for them. But what are the chances of that happening? The same people who would mourn Arafat or the Hussein boys put themselves on the side of those who commit such barbarities for publicity and to make a political point.

Liberals have a horrible track record when it comes to dealing with America’s enemies and their meager, sporadic attempts to talk tough ring hollow and are completely worthless.

In 1998 our fearless leader Bill Clinton solemnly vowed that he would hunt down those who committed the Africa embassy bombings. This promise turned out to be as truthful as his "I did not have sexual relations with that woman [my girlfriend]” statement and was unfulfilled as the typical liberal vow of "never again” in solemn commemorations of the Holocaust [see Rwanda]. 

Fast forward to the Iraq war. You could just feel the hostility that liberals and their media allies had towards the troops and their mission.

I can find no single instance in 3,000 years of history when violent religious fanatics were pacified by concessions. Religious fanaticism, with its apocalyptic currents, can never be contented. The appetite for blood only increases. The rule is brutal, but ironclad. If you don’t kill the killers, the killers will kill you. - Ralph Peters, New York Post

For years I have listened to the endless mantra about how President Bush caused the U.S. to lose its allies throughout the world. There were shrill cries from the Left that our dear and beloved allies (meaning the French and Germans) did not approve of our Middle East policies and the tough line that the U.S. had taken against Islamic terrorism the world over. This was a staple talking point endlessly parroted by liberals of all stripes. It was continually trotted out as proof positive that our foreign policy was a failure because our formerly "best friends forever” were now anti-American.

Elections in both Germany and France have now left those nations with elected officials that might not be necessarily branded as pro-American but are certainly less hostile than their predecessors. Sarkozy especially has shown himself to be both anti-socialist and intolerant of the Islamists who have managed to launch what has at times become a campaign of near civil insurrection against French authorities.

The war against global jihadism will be long, and we will experience success and setbacks along the way. The temptation of the West will be to grow impatient and, in the face of this long struggle, to grow weary. Some will demand a quick victory and, absent that, they will want to withdraw from the battle. But this is a war from which we cannot withdraw. As we saw on September 11th, there are no safe harbors in which to hide. Our enemies have declared war on us, and their hatreds cannot be sated. We will either defeat them, or they will come after us with the unsheathed sword. All of us would prefer years of repose to years of conflict. But history will not allow it. And so it once again rests with this remarkable republic to do what we have done in the past: our duty. –Peter Wehner in his column Why They Fight: And what it means for us from the Wall Street Journal

If there ever was a major terrorist attack on the Super Bowl, there would be riots in the streets, Tehran would in smoldering ruins in twenty-four hours, Mecca a parking lot in forty-eight, and the War on Terror won in under a week.

This is a global war with many fronts and different types of battlefields. Americans tend to be spoiled and demand quick solutions to complicated problems, but this one will be a generational fight and we must be prepared to engage in it for decades to come.

The liberal limousine elite are continually blaming the American middle class for global warming, terrorism, and most of the world’s problems. Simply put, it is all your fault.

People in the third world are aware of this difference in per capita consumption, although most of them couldn’t specify that it’s by a factor of 32. When they believe their chances of catching up to be hopeless, they sometimes get frustrated and angry, and some become terrorists, or tolerate or support terrorists. Since Sept. 11, 2001, it has become clear that the oceans that once protected the United States no longer do so. There will be more terrorist attacks against us and Europe, and perhaps against Japan and Australia, as long as that factorial difference of 32 in consumption rates persists. - Jared Diamond -What’s Your Consumption Factor? 

And if the guilt and emotional blackmail over the melting glaciers and shrinking polar bear genitalia wasn’t enough, now the fact that all of the world does not share our lifestyle (or conversely, we are not as poverty stricken as they are) is cause for serious self-examination and self-blame. After staggering for years under a burden of guilt for a thousand years of colonization and exploitation of those of a darker hue, now I must shoulder the burden for causing Islamic terrorism and the devastating changes to our planet that will quickly lead to the extinction of the human race.

All because my children have clean water to drink and live in a heated home while their father drives a vehicle to work and buys his socks, toothpaste, and cereal at a big box store. Even worse is the fact that their mother washes their clothes in a machine instead of scrubbing them clean on the rocks in the river and has the audacity to make them pop tarts once in awhile.

Liberalism endlessly exudes a "blame the victim” mentality when it comes to dealing with the barbarian peddlers-of-terror.

Both the United States and Great Britain have now dropped the term "War on Terror.” More accurately, one can say we have now officially wet ourselves in hopes of not offending Muslims or sounding warlike.

Sir Ken Macdonald is the UK’s chief prosecutor and has said terrorist fanatics were not soldiers fighting a war but simply members of an aimless "death cult.”

I’m sorry, is Mister Macdonald really that naive and uninformed? If anything, the members of the accurately labeled "death cult” are far from aimless. Instead, they are often part of (or influenced by) the highly organized and global spanning network of jihadist organizations that have a plan, a vision, and a detailed agenda for the future.

We have been informed that the term "Islamic terrorist” will also no longer be used. Officials believe it is unhelpful because it appears to directly link the religion to terrorist atrocities.

Ya think?

Once again I must excuse myself. Is it really helpful to attempt to portray something as something it as not? Is it helpful to attempt to fool the public into believing something that is false or misleading? Are we to believe that there is in fact no direct link between the Islamic religion and terrorist atrocities? Perhaps the esteemed aristocrats of the once mighty British Empire should pay attention to what is happening around them in the real world. They might learn a thing or two.

The term War on Terror was a poor label to begin with, but not for the reasons that the British are offering. The Pentagon now uses the term "the Long War” and many on the Right have adopted the far more correct but controversial term "War on Islamofascism” or very similar names such as "War on Islamic Jihadists” or "War on Islamic extremism.” The Left never seemed to want to call it anything at all besides some rambling, incoherent mess like "Bush’s illegal fascist war on behalf of Halliburton” or some other gibberish. The best label the Obama administration seems to be able to  come up with is "overseas operational contingencies.” It’s maddening beyond words.

This is yet another example of how liberalism has managed to reach into every nook and cranny of government, education, and public policy throughout the Western world. Such "Newspeak” affects the way the public comprehends and understands the present worldwide conflict.

You might as well label it a public health hazard and call for its eradication from the face of society and civilization. That would be alright with me.

Winston Churchill, the grandson of THE Winston Churchill had this to say on the Glenn Beck program.

CHURCHILL: … last week, the British Foreign Office issued an injunction to Mr. Blair and British ministers that they mustn’t anymore refer to the war on terror, because that might give offense to the Muslims.

Now, I recall that in the 1930s, my grandfather was out front in condemning the dangers of the rise of Nazism in Germany and the threat that they posed to the whole world, and the British Foreign Office and the British Broadcasting Corporation said, "No, no, no, we mustn’t have any of this. It might make Herr Hitler angry.”

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CHURCHILL: If we continue down this road, if our will fails in Iraq, first of all, the Iraqis who have committed themselves to our side, their lives will be on the line.

Secondly, all the immediate neighbors of Iraq, our friends in Saudi Arabia, in the Gulf States, and Kuwait, they will have the skids put under them. And we will see develop in Iraq the base that is being denied the terrorists of Al Qaeda. They will re-establish what we deprived them of in Afghanistan.

And all the work of the last five or six years will be out the window. And they will have, as a training base, an operational base, the country with the fourth largest oil reserves in the world. And armed with those petrol-dollar billions, they will be able to foment a lot of terrorism around the world, including on the streets of the United States of America.

Western Civilization desperately needs another Churchill to arise to sound a warning and message for all to hear. Appeasement does not work.

Despite what a significant portion of the American electorate may feel or wish to believe, the War on Terror is not just a joke, sideshow, distraction, a few criminal acts, or some neocon plot to enrich Haliburton while depriving fine Muslim folks of their hard earned oil reserves. Instead the threat we face is a real and present danger by a worldwide network of faithful fanatics following the teachings of a bloodthirsty cult directly out of the seventh century. Worldwide economic, military, and political systems are threatened and undermined and we are closer to the beginning of this war than we are to its end.

The burden of being a superpower and battling the thugs, terrorists, Islamic radicals, and rogue regimes that threaten the civilized world is a heavy one and carries a price. Are we up to the task, or have we so degenerated as a people and as a culture that we can no longer do what is necessary to achieve victory and success? That is the question.

The war against global jihadism will be long, and we will experience success and setbacks along the way. The temptation of the West will be to grow impatient and, in the face of this long struggle, to grow weary. Some will demand a quick victory and, absent that, they will want to withdraw from the battle. But this is a war from which we cannot withdraw. As we saw on September 11th, there are no safe harbors in which to hide. Our enemies have declared war on us, and their hatreds cannot be sated. We will either defeat them, or they will come after us with the unsheathed sword.

All of us would prefer years of repose to years of conflict. But history will not allow it. And so it once again rests with this remarkable republic to do what we have done in the past: our duty. – Peter Wehner – Why They Fight

What’s the matter with some people? Does remembering not only 9/11 but the stakes in this world war interfere too much with our pursuit of money, things, and pleasure? Serious times require serious thought and serious action. In our frivolous times, full of trivialities and irrelevancies, to be serious is to abandon self-indulgence for survival, entertainment for the stiffened spine. – Cal Thomas

When was the last time you heard an Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Reid, or any other of the appeasement crowd stand up and proclaim the need for victory over Al-Qaeda, Jihadists, Islamic fundamentalism, or those who practice the tactics of terrorism? Can you tell me their plans to wage the global War on Terror and defeat those who would gladly kill you simply because you are an American and not a Muslim? Where are the calls to expand the military, strike globally against these barbaric killers, and crush those who wage a vicious war against the West wherever and however they can? Is it too much to ask for some leadership in this country that is not afraid to fight for what is right and defeat our enemies wherever they may be found?

If the Dems have a workable plan to put a permanent end to Islamist terror, let’s hear it. Prove me wrong. But if they haven’t got a serious plan, they need to shut up and help. – Ralph Peters, New York Post 

Perhaps I ask too many questions, but why do we receive no answers at all from those who reside on the left side of the political spectrum? I’d curse them as cowards but it would be a waste of breath.

Unfortunately, the War on Terror is real and Muslim jihadists really do exist and want to produce as much havoc and casualties as possible. The DOD designation as the "Long War” is accurate and the typical teenage Western response of short attention spans, temper tantrums over the absence of quick results, and the inability to stomach casualties will have to be overcome until the neutralization of the enemy has been achieved. Patience is necessary in this struggle against those who blindly flail at the West in jihadist furor. History is on our side if we are willing to do what is necessary to engage and defeat the enemy.

Ask any Democrat about fighting terrorism or the War on Terror and you will get a bland response that manages to encompass broad, meaningless monologues on the need of restraint, diplomacy, and vague efforts of global cooperation that (...)