Analyst's note: Absolutely must read. Clearly we must pick our friends and presidents wisely. Our Constitution even suggests that very point - at least about who is eligible for the Office of President.
Islamist enmity for infidels, regularly manifested in the jihad, is by now moderately well known. Lesser known, however, but of equal concern, is the mandate for Muslims to be loyal to fellow Muslims and Islam — a loyalty that all too often translates into disloyalty to all things non-Muslim, including the American people and their government.
This dichotomy of loyalty to Muslims and enmity for infidels — which, incidentally, corresponds well with Islamic law's division of the world into the abode of war (deserving of enmity) and the abode of Islam (deserving of loyalty) — is founded on a Muslim doctrine called wala' wa bara' (best translated as "loyalty and enmity"). I first encountered this doctrine while translating various Arabic documents for The Al Qaeda Reader. In fact, the longest and arguably most revealing document I included in that volume is titled "Loyalty and Enmity" (pgs.63-115), compiled by Aymen Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's number two.
[....] The ramifications of this doctrine are clearly troubling, especially since far less than .1% of America's Muslims will ever be required to enlist in the U.S. military and deploy to Muslim nations. Yet this is the only scenario that determines whether Muslim loyalties lie with fellow Muslims or with fellow, albeit infidel, citizens. Moreover, it is one thing if the average American Muslim harbors loyalty to fellow Muslims, including terrorists such as al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah. It is quite another if that Muslim happens to be in a position of authority in the United States. This observation naturally leads to a president who up to 24% of Americans and many Muslims believe is a clandestine Muslim and who at least appears to have been raised a Muslim: Barrack Hussein Obama.
While there is no proof that he is a Muslim — indeed, no less an authority than Jeremiah Wright, the fellow who used to bellow "God damn America!" recently vouched for Obama's Christianity — the point here is simple: if an American president was a secret Muslim, and if he was lying about it, and even if he was secretly working to subvert the U.S. to Islam's advantage — not only would such an approach comport with Islam's doctrines on loyalty and deception, but it would have ample precedents, stretching back to the dawn of Islam. Such as when Muhammad commanded one Na'im bin Mas'ud, a convert from an adversarial tribe that refused to submit to Islam, to conceal his new Muslim identity, go back to his tribe — which he cajoled with a perfidious "You are my stock and my family, the dearest of men to me" — only to betray them to Islam.
Raymond Ibrahim is associate director of the Middle East Forum, author of The Al Qaeda Reader, and guest lecturer at the National Defense Intelligence College.
Even to this day, we must also ask ourselves, "What on earth is the President doing fraternizing with, and thereby legitimating, operatives of an organization (The Muslim Brotherhood) with a seditious mission - to say nothing of the Ground Zero Mosque?" It is bad enough at any time, but does anyone in Washington remember that we are still at war with the global Islamist jihadist. I almost forgot, our federal "leaders'' no longer use such terms. Why would the "ostrich" come to mind as I draft these remarks?
We now see Obama's adherence to the principles of shariah law and the results of his Muslim upbringing during his most formative early years of life. Are these questions being asked on our evening news from our standard media? If not, why not?
Where is the outrage from our Congress? It may not be reported in Washington and by our once standard media, but I can assure you that the outrage is out here on the streets of America.
Since at least 2008, Newt Gingrich gets it and is speaking out -- we have a "Stealth Jihad" underway inside America. The question is, "How long will it take the rest of America to understand what we are up against?" There is no question that when sharia and American law are in conflict -- to the global Islamist Jihadist -- it is American law that is not considered. We must remember that "Peace" within the minds of too many Muslims is the absence of disagreement with the views of the radical Islamist.
America, along with much of the West, generally still fails realize that a Stealth Jihad or war is being waged against us on our own soil. It is being waged by an ideological movement that manifests itself in different forms of power: regimes, circles within governments, indoctrination of institutions, and other organizations. Because of the stealth, we have failed to detect and thus recognize the jihadist (Salafist & Khumeinists) menace that moves within our society and have done so since at least 1990. We still see much of the mainstream press, maybe as much as 90%, still trying to find non-existent roots other than jihadism to explain the terrorism in this country since 9/11.
Oil money remains the most significant factor contributing to this grand deception. Gulf oil-producing regimes and individuals continue to make money available through various means to colleges, schools, and universities. Oil money also makes its way to public libraries, the public media and government agencies dealing with education, defense and national security. The influence has spread like a cancer through all layers of public life. As such it has directly influenced the well-being of our economy, and our political establishment. Such power and influence from oil money is also found within the United Nations.
This corruption by oil money has poisoned much of our public perception. This includes our newsrooms, courtrooms, artrooms (including what comes out of Hollywood), too many of our war rooms, and finally our legislature and business suites. We are seeing the consequences of this today.
