Analyst's note: Having trouble understanding what is coming out of Washington with regards to our policy regarding the groups that our gov't is referring to as "radical Muslims" and "moderate Muslims?" You're not alone. This misunderstanding has been going on for years.
Now we -- that is with our tax money -- are even paying for the mosques used by our enemy to stir hate against us. Yes our DoS is listing 29 projects said to under "cultural preservation" around the world. What was that famous movie line? Something about "stupid is as stupid does." I can only hope that this article and the embedded URLs will ignite your desire to understand our global Islamist jihadist enemy.
"[....] there are no such groups as “radical Muslims” or “moderate Muslims.” These designations do not exist in the Islamic world. These terms were invented in recent times only because Islamic goals and values are not understood or shared by the West.
[....] Westerners also incorrectly group Muslims politically, using Western terms such as “moderate,” “conservative,” and “radical.” So different are Western and Muslim world views, that identical words can have two different meanings. In the West, “freedom” is the right of individuals to participate in the formation, conduct, and lawful removal of governments from power - the basis of constitutionalism and parliamentary government. For the Islamic world, “freedom” means “independence”from foreign rule, which they equate with “tyranny.” In the West, the opposite of tyranny is “freedom.” In Islam, the opposite of tyranny is “justice.” For Muslim thinkers, “justice” is the ideal, and justice distinguishes good leaders from bad leaders. For the majority of Muslims, bad leaders are those who have Western values and are allied with the West. The rise to power of Islamist political parties everywhere free elections are held in the Middle East speaks volumes.
Because the West considers its development of “separation of church and state” and "secularism" as the highest evolution of humanity, those not sharing Western values are dismissed as “radical,” or essentially “nuts.”
[....]A more accurate description of political loyalties in the Islamic world is that the majority of Muslims are either active or passive supporters of the movement of Islamism. [....] Rather, Islamists strive to rebuild internally by applying traditional principles to reestablish the past strength and glory of Islam. A return to success necessitates the purification of Islamic society from secular government systems, legislation, and institutions borrowed from or imposed by the West.
[....] This misunderstanding has been the basis of US foreign policy failures for years.
Dialog: East Coast - West Coast broadcast on 6/2/2010 is an absolutely must hear item to help you connect-the-dots regarding critical issues on our national security. Listen to this broadcast from 6/2/2010 arranged to present a number of the best discussions now available regarding Mainstream "Moderate Muslims Vs Radical Islamist Jihad." Learn what drives each and how to quickly tell the dlifference. Your life may well depend on it. Listen to how the radicalization process occurs from those who have been there.
This information is currently NOT being discussed in most critical federal gov't circles or made available to you via the "mainstream" media. Listen and learn why. Also click here to listen to Dialog: East Coast – West Coast – “Understanding the Jihadist” and "Hidden Facts on Stunning Federal Debt" this information will also significantly impact our national defense posture.
Tell your friends, as this information is needed by all American citizens, if we are to insist on and do what is required to save this nation from our current insidious enemy. I am talking about those who support the global Islamist jihad -- an enemy who is working every day, in many cases from within our borders, to destroy this nation. Following this broadcast, I also strongly recommend that you do an internal search on this CSIA Report on the term "Sharia" to learn more about how this enemy operates and why. We have over 7,000 news items in our database from viable resources, most of which you will not have seen or heard.
These radio broadcast and readings are timely, relevant, and provides critical insight and analysis by such luminaries as Dr. Walid Phares, Dr. Tawfik Hamid, and Dr. Lloyd Case.
The guests calmly and intellectually reveal the mindset of our enemies – in one case in the enemies own words - as well as how to identify them, and the necessary strategy to defeat them. An “absolute must hear” broadcast for every American citizen.
The interviews peel away layers of misunderstanding showing how jihadism has become a strategic threat to peace loving people worldwide. It provides needed insight into the very enemy that attacked
The total lack of understanding that comes from the American elite of our country's regarding the Islamist enemy. An fascinating argument is made that, "Three trillion dollars is surely enough in squandered and desperately needed wealth to cause some to think, or rethink, about the folly of policies based on confusion, ignorance, wishful thinking -- that is, on a refusal to understand the ideology of Islam." Three reasons are provided for the reemergence of the global Islamist jihad. Dr. Phares lays totally bare the faulty understanding by the extremely rich in the West who would try to demonstrate there newly found self-perceived "skills" at strategic thinking and their still faulty understandings of what they call "nation building" in the Middle East. Dr. Walid Phares, in his article "How the Failure to Understand Jihad is Costing Americans Trillions" found in this CSIA Report points out the following
The failure to be well prepared has had many disturbing consequences. The failure, that is, to learn about the doctrines of Islam has had many disturbing consequences. Those doctrines are immutable because they are based primarily on the Qur'an and on the Sunnah. The Sunnah consists primarily of the attitudes and practices derived from the sayings and acts and details of the life of Muhammad, believed by Muslims to have been preserved in written form in the Hadith (the record of his sayings and deeds) and the Sira (his biography, as written for Believers). The people in charge in our political system, and the people who are in charge of our media - that is, the two groups of people who presume to protect and instruct us - have singularly failed to take on the task of learning about Islam. They have not read and reread the relevant texts. They have not read, much less reread, the scholarly material available that has been compiled by dedicated Western scholars from dozens of different lands, in the century of Western scholarship that came to an end round about 1970. At that time, Arab money began buying up, or even helping to open, "academic" centers where only those who toed the apologist's line were hired or promoted.
But just as ideas have consequences, the lack of ideas, or the lack of knowledge, has had consequences. The doctrines of Islam have not changed in 1350 years. While there are certainly differences of sect (Sunni, Shi'a, Ibadi) and differences of approach to God (the Sufis, for example) and differences in emphasis, it cannot be said that the essential irreducible doctrines of Islam vary, even if Muslims themselves may vary in the degree to which they fully accept, or fully apply in their own lives, the doctrines that are inculcated.
The doctrine of Jihad did not disappear between the time Europe entered the Middle East in 1798, with Napoleon's entry into Egypt, and the latter half of the twentieth century. And it did not suddenly reappear in the last few decades. Rather, it was always present, but in a period of perceived Muslim weakness and Western strength, was not, in the West, acted upon. All that has changed, and changed for three reasons. The first is that I have already mentioned - the trillions of dollars in OPEC revenues that the recipients of that colossal wealth did nothing to deserve. But with that money, they have bought trillions in arms, bought the ability to spread Islam through mosques, madrasas, propaganda, Westerners on the payroll. The second are the millions of Muslims who have been allowed to settle deep within the countries of Western Europe, without any thought being given as to whether or not Islam itself, the ideology of Islam, might make it impossible for all but a handful to truly integrate into Western societies.
Those immigrants came not to be loyal and grateful to the Infidels for saving them from the hellholes of their own countries but, rather, came to enjoy what the Western world had created and could not have created had that Western world been Muslim. Yet failing to understand this, these Muslim immigrants held fast to their contempt for Infidel laws and institutions and social arrangements. A great many supported the same goals as the many Muslim terrorist groups, even if they did not participate in terrorism, or indeed in violent acts, directly. The third change that helped to bring about the "return of Jihad" was the exploitation by Muslim propagandists of Western technology - audiocassettes, videocassettes, satellite television, the Internet - to spread the full message of Islam both to those who were always Muslims but knew very little about the faith beyond the Five Pillars. So many illiterate villagers have now, alas, been made more aware of what is required of them as Muslims, and more aware, too, of just how wicked are the Infidels.
[....] the atmospherics of Islam encourage violence and aggression. [...] We'll soon find out, and I am convinced that many Americans will suffer pangs of remorse for having been so foolish as to indulge their nation-making polypragmonic impulse, rather than to follow and even happily embrace the wisdom of exploiting, by doing nothing, the pre-existing fissures, sectarian, ethnic, and economic, within that Camp of Islam.
[....] Because not everyone thrills to the subject of what Islam inculcates. Not everyone quite wants to go through learning about Jizyah, or dhimmis, or naskh, or isnad-chains, or any of the rest. But everyone in the United States knows that we have been having a terrible time economically, and that we are talking about losses of tens or possibly hundreds of billions of dollars, and are regarding these losses with horror - just look at the State of California. Yet we have not focused on the greatest (continuing) expenditure of them all - the wars to protect ourselves against jihad by refusing to see it as primarily an ideological war, and by continuing to fool ourselves into thinking that if we create better (by our lights) societies in Iraq and Afghanistan, that will somehow - no one has ever explained how, or even thought he had an obligation to explain how - dampen the enthusiasm of Muslims worldwide for Jihad. That Jihad, however, is based, let it be emphasized, not on an "interpretation" of Islam that can be changed, but on the immutable text of the Qur'an, and the Hadith that more than a millennium ago were studied, and winnowed. What remained was assigned different ranks of "authenticity" by those deemed to be the most authoritative muhaddithin, such as Al-Bukhari and Muslim. This can't be undone, not by Bright Young Muslim Reformers who keep getting grants from the American government and the Carnegie Foundation, or who keep getting hired and promoted on the basis of their entirely factitious achievements in this line."
[....]How many Muslims have you heard of who, ignorant of much of Islam, upon finding out more about it, and what it says about the treatment of non-Muslims, recoiled in horror and decided to drop Islam? There are remarkable exceptions, people who did jettison Islam. But how many? Can policies be constructed on the hope that the numbers of the remarkable exceptions will magically increase? Does that make sense? Is that wise?
Higher education has clearly failed America in order to receive and protect their sources of foreign funding, according to Dr. Walid Phares. As a result, over many years the U.S. has produced a large group of academia, diplomats and journalist as well as some of our senior military who have been so "educated" who are unknowingly "preaching" for the jihadist enemy.
It helps to put this discussion into perspective to understand that according to Dr. Walid Phares, 90% of American Middle Eastern studies programs - from which our nation has been receiving much of our information on the jihadist enemy - is run by Wahabist out of Saudi Arabia. So we have graduates from a department of history who are not taught the true evolution of the jihadist and their movements or their globalist Islamist goals. As a result, these same "educated" people have been writing and discussing such Islamist terrorists as "insurgents" or members of some kind of "rebel movement." We have been too long under the huge power whelded by pro-jihadist lobbies in the U.S. and Europe who work to numb the instincts of our citizens as to these global Islamist jihadi terrorist. We have failed to understand their true origin and goals of world domination.
Is it any wonder that the average American is confused about what we see going on down in Washington
