What Americans Need to Know About Jihad by Spencer Robert

Author:Spencer, Robert [Spencer, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: David Horowitz Freedom Center
Published: 2007-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

THE JIHAD IS NOT THE RESULT OF ISLAMISTS' CURRENT GRIEVANCES ABOUT AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ OR OTHER HOTSPOTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

Italian journalist Magdi Allam recently noted that "the West thinks the Islamic terrorism that struck New York, London and Madrid is a reaction, a kind of uprising of the poor against the wealthy."12 The jihadis are under no such illusion. With a canny understanding of how to sway public opinion in the West, they and their allies in the American and European Left have learned to portray themselves as victims and their actions as an effort to fight back against colonial oppression.

12 Assaf Uni, "Hamas' terror is not a reaction to the occupation," Haaretz, May 23, 2006.

Underscoring the fact that the jihad proceeds from theological imperatives within Islam, not from political grievances, is the fact that jihadis are active today in virtually every corner of the globe. The international media focus on conflict in Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan, but the jihad continues in a lower key and largely out of sight on a daily basis in places such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Chechnya, the Balkans, and Nigeria, to say nothing of the "soft jihad" being waged in Europe.

Samuel Huntington observes in The Clash of Civilizations: "Wherever one looks along the perimeter of Islam, Muslims have problems living peacefully with their neighbors ... . Muslims make up one-fifth of the world's population but in the 1990s they have been far more involved in intergroup violence than people of any other civilization ... In the early 1990s Muslims were engaged in more intergroup violence than were non-Muslims, and two-thirds to threequarters of intercivilizational wars were between Muslims and nonMuslims. Islam's borders are bloody, and so are its innards."13

13 Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Touchstone, 1997. Pp. 256-8.

The jihad likewise targets all religious groups. Historically it has been even more virulent against Hindu India than against Christian Europe; Hindus, since they were not "People of the Book" as the Qur'an calls Christians and Jews, were treated even worse by their Islamic conquerors.

There is nowhere in the world where one can escape the jihad. Wherever Muslims are found, which is in almost every country on the planet, there are adherents of the ideology of jihad and Sharia supremacism. Peaceful Muslims have made no large-scale, organized attempt to delineate a countervailing vision of Islam that calls for indefinite peaceful coexistence as equals with non-Muslims, freedom of conscience, or for the laying aside of elements of Sharia that are at variance with otherwise universally accepted human rights norms.

THE JIHAD ADVANCES THROUGH SUBVERSION OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS.

Because of the imperative to subjugate unbelievers and dominate the world in the name of Islam, jihadis work wherever there are Muslim settlements in the West to undermine democracy and constitutional law. They use democratic institutions and their own status as aggrieved minorities denied the fruits of equality to subvert the democratic process itself.

Using the West's respect

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