It is interesting occasionally keeping track of the activism of Netherlander Gert Wilders. He has announced that he will travel to the UK, at the request of a member of Parliament, despite the UK government’s label on him as persona-non-grata. Wilders, of course, is the producer of the film Fitna. It is this film that has caused him to be looked upon with infamy. A film that merely puts Islam on display using the words of Islam, and the contemporary deeds that have been attributed to Islam by the various perpetrators.
Nine/Eleven Finding Answers (NEFA) is a new discovery here. The NEFA web site contains a huge collection of information about Jihadi violence and the funding and training that supports it.
Frequently, many of us in the United States may think that the “Terror” threat to us began on a clear autumn day in the year 2001. The ideological dimension of the threat has been persistent for 14 centuries. The contemporary threat has been growing in parallel with increases in global travel and the growing wealth of the Muslim world.
The current version of the threat can be described to have begun in the 1970’s. We did not really notice it much then due to our preoccupation with the raging Cold War. Nevertheless, the bad guys were already among us, plying their craft. Way back in 1973, one of these bad guys attempted acts of mass murder on US soil. We caught him in 1991 and put him in jail. Now, having “paid his debt to society,” he will soon be released and deported.
There is a very thorough account of the story over at Fox News. Read the whole thing to get an appreciation for the persistence and nature of the treat. Like many of the bad guys that have been released from Gitmo, this fellow is sure to similarly return to his life-ling sworn mission of existence.
I belive that civil law, and our strategy (more accurately our lack of strategy) are characteristically inadequate to counter the threat over the long term. In many cases, success will really depend on the front-line folks, like agent Mike Finnegan to do the right thing while the beauracacy above and behind them wallows in political self-interest and tidal motions of indecision.
Here is an interesting note that should not be missed: Al-Jawary used airline flight training as his cover purpose for being in the United States in the 1970’s.
Here is a precise description of how the current Gaza ‘conflict’ is connected with the greater battle between good and evil.
This war began 30 years ago with the Islamic Revolution in Iran and is now global in scope. Its agenda is the extermination of the Jews and the destruction of the West.
The Islamic terrorist organization Hamas makes no secret of this agenda. Its Egyptian founders and Palestinian inspirers were active followers of Adolf Hitler and enthusiasts of the Nazi Holocaust. The founding charter of Hamas, which promises that “Islam will obliterate Israel,” memorializes the Egyptian admirer of Hitler, Hassan al-Banna, as “the martyr…of blessed memory.” The same document contains the genocidal incitement of the Prophet Mohammed to “kill the Jews,” to hunt them down “until they hide behind the rocks and the trees, and the rocks and trees cry out ‘O Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.’”
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And all around the world, and across Europe and throughout the United States, Muslim and secular radicals are rallying to this Nazi cause, supporting Hamas and attacking Israel and the Jews. The unholy alliance formed by Muslim fanatics and socialist radicals is the face of the terrorist future in the West. It is a coalition for whom no party is so evil that it does not deserve aid and comfort if its enemies are Israel and the United States, and if it is willing to attack them.
Indeed, this battle that has been on-going for the past several weeks is merely on of many that are part of a larger war that of which we are all a part. The rocket attacks launched from Gaza upon the Isaeli civilians are identical in inspiration and goal as the “terrorist” attack that raged through the train station in Mumbia. The Israeli military response that aims to interdict the Gaza rockets is the same right and moral response of a government taking action to protect the earthly existence of their citizens. Any other interpretation is political subterfuge inacted for vile purposes or out of criminal ignorance.
Among the comments to a post at Atlas Shrugs, I found this gem of understanding below. I have made one bracketed edit to increase the clarity on an important point. The rest speaks very well for itself.
I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth — Europe died in Auschwitz.
We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 40 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world.
These are the people we burned.
And under the pretence of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Holed up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.
And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition. We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, [we have exchanged these people and values for] for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe and whole world.
Here is the rational explanation of what is being done to protect life, a thing that the living should honor:
And here is an example of the violent ones (the loud mob) who would like to end liberty and end the honoring of life:
Back to the rational part. Here is an excellent analysis from a warrior’s perspective - that being from a warrior who is interested in fighting for the right things. See the entire post at Blackfive.
This is about to get ugly and the Gazans are going to suffer the retribution they have brought on themselves. As a human being I hate nothing more than war and the loss of lives about to happen disturbs me. As a warrior I understand that when you have an enemy that tries every day to kill your children, while running and hiding from you amongst his own, then he sows their destruction along with his own. So be it.
Unless we relearn how to vote and act in mature and thoughtful ways, we are likely to experience the 21st Century version of the horrors depicted in this video.
