Analyst's note: Absolutely must read. A fascinating "[...] interview with Andrew McCarthy, author of the best-selling THE GRAND JIHAD: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (Encounter Books May 2010) As you can see by the quotes below from the interview, this well-read researcher has a number of comments worthy of further consideration in today's harsh environment. You owe it to yourself and your nation to click on the title above for a most interesting read of the full article.
"[...] One thing we must fight back on is the absurd notion that rejecting an Islamic center cum mosque on that particular site makes us intolerant. We permit thousands of mosques in our country and hundreds just in the New York area. Contrast that with Mecca and Medina, where – forget about churches or synagogues – non-Muslims are not permitted to enter. And that's not some purported al-Qaeda "perversion" of Islam; that's mainstream Islam. The Saudis are upholding intolerant Koranic scripture.
"[...] We don't have a strategy for winning the war. The war is not taking place in two fronts. The war is regional, and in many ways global. We have chosen to make a stand in two places – neither of which is the center of the problem – and the stand we are making is a wayward effort to create modern Islamic democracies.
"[...] Even if you thought we should be using the military to promote democracy in Muslim countries – and I don't – this is like starting the Marshall Plan in 1943. We didn't rebuild Japan and Western Europe until we had convincingly defeated our enemies wherever they were, forced them to surrender, and eliminated their capacity to project power against us.
"[...] Obama’s father was a Kenyan Muslim and a communist. He was a member of the Luo tribe, whose leader, Jaramongi Oginga Odinga, was a raging communist who bitterly opposed the pro-Western, pro-American Kenyatta government. Obama’s father wrote a paper – which the press in this country refused to report about during the 2008 election – that was called “Problems Facing Our Socialism.” The paper was a communist (or “scientific socialism”) critique of Kenyatta’s economic policies, placing Obama Sr. firmly in the Odinga camp. In many ways, Pres. Obama seems ambivalent about the father he hardly knew, but he has effusively praised Obama Sr.’s academic accomplishments in economics and what he euphemistically calls the “promise” his father had to fulfill to Africa. That “promise” was Marxism – that was Obama Sr.’s ideology.
"[...] As I argue in The Grand Jihad, you are not a moderate if you want to supplant American law and individual liberty with a totalitarian system of any kind, be it sharia or any other such system. The fact that you are not looking to blow up bridges to get your way makes you a non-terrorist, and I suppose we should all be grateful for that. But you are not a moderate, and we should not let you get away with pretending you are. Nor are countries that enforce sharia law moderate countries. There is nothing moderate about sharia.
