Winds of War: The Double Bind of Jihad

Glenn Beck, no stranger to controversy, lays it on the line for Muslims. He says that unless Muslims wake up to the fact that a terrorist attack that kills tens of thousands of innocent Americans Muslims will be viewing the West through razor wire.

I hope he’s wrong.

If what Beck says comes to pass, we will be giving the Jihadists just what they want. 1.2 billion Muslims screaming Holy War.

In a post I wrote in mid-September I outlined the process Islamism is using to conquer the non-Muslim world. The militant jihadists use terrorism to reach their goal while the fundamentalist Muslims use political Islam. The tactics of political Islam is a slow patient process where they work to slowly Islamatize both Muslim and non-Muslim societies while militant jihad seeks to overthrow those societies through terrorism and impose Islam directly.

You would think that the violent tactics of the jihadists would undercut the process of political Islam making targeted societies more defensive and less likely to submit to Islamism. But that may not be entirely true.

The Jihadists, like al-Qaeda, are trying to start a holy war between Islam and the West. They preach that the free democracies are at war with Islam itself and seek to destroy it. But to create that dream of a global holy war, the Jihadists need the active support of the 1.2 billion Muslims through the world. But it will take more than the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan, more than successful terrorist attacks, more than fringe hate elements on the right to awaken the ummah to the manufactured threat of a holy war by the Jihadists.

The 1.2 billion worldwide Muslims need to see their religion, in no uncertain terms, under attack by the free democracies. For that, the Jihadists need to create events so monstrous that the population of a non-Muslim country will respond by attacking and/or persecuting any and all Muslims and their organizations and mosques in their midst or, if through a massive WMD attack, respond with a nuclear attack on a Muslim country.

That is Beck’s ‘Muslims will be viewing the West through razor wire’ scenario.

In order to prevent this scenario from happening, our political leadership has to step up NOW and explain to their Muslim and non-Muslim constituent who the enemy is and how they are going t confront the many different forms of Jihad that violent and non-violent Islamist are using to Islamatize the world like media jihad, legal jihad, institutional jihad, financial jihad, etc. etc.

So how are they doing? The current administration has bought into the Islam is peace lie lock, stock and barrel. Why don’t they open up any textbook on Islam and see that Islam means submission. Pease in Islam only comes when all submit to Allah. They finally came around to some semblance of understanding – but not far enough.

The bush administration lost valuable time before it finally defined radical Islam as the premier national security threat in October 2005. Initially in the post-9/11 period, the president targeted "evildoers" and "terrorism" as the enemy. Moreover, Islam was declared a "religion of peace" and Saudi Arabia, which has spent the last 30 years spreading its Wahhabi/Salafi gospel, was labeled as" our friend." Unsurprisingly, the nation and the military were somewhat disoriented.

As for the Democrats, they refuse to even mention the words Jihad and Caliphate. When Romney ran a small political add saying what most analysts both military and civilian admit – that Islamists are waging Jihad and want to re-establish the Caliphate – the DNC went ballistic. How dare he use "caliphate" and "jihad" in the same 30 second spot!

So, for now, the prediction of Beck’s razor wire does not only threatens Muslims but also provide the tool that the jihadists need to create their global Holy War.

Al we can do now is hope we get a President in 2008 that sees the threat for what it is and strongly and aggressively confronts political Islam and explain to America – both Muslim and non-Muslim alike – what is at stake.

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