Crossing the 10,000 Mark

For centuries, the West and Islam have been at war. The Quran calls for the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate governed by sharia law, where the few infidels fortunate enough to be spared from the sword (or unfortunate depending upon how you look at it) are forced to pay protection fees to the government called the jizyah. Of course, for the majority of its history, Isalm was not on the radar of the West. Certainly there were periods where the two sides fought, from the crusades to the Iberian peninsula. But for the most part, they were too weak in Europe to matter.

In recent decades, this has changed somewhat. It started when Hitler recruited Muslims to serve in special SS units, and has continued to this day. Since the 1979 embassy seizure in Iran’s Islamic revolution, the West has been a target. Having failed to destroy Israel for multiple decades, the Jihadists decided to expand their efforts, and export their brand of terror outside of the Middle East. But the West failed to notice. Though Carter lost re-election because of his non-response to the hostage crisis, the United States failed to understand what this signaled. Few realized that the Islamic revolution or Iran would re-energize violent Islamists again. The lack of foresight and understanding by the West was best shown by the arming of the anti-Soviet forces of Afghanistan, who would go on to form the Taliban, and by the Iran-Contra affair, where the US sold weapons to Iran.

In the years that followed, there would be a number of smaller attacks on the West, the United States in particular, by Islamists. Leaders failed to respond to most attacks, ranging from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to the attack on the USS Cole towards the end of Clinton’s term. It wasn’t until September 11th that a few people started to take notice. That was the event that turned Little Green Footballs into a blog whose focus is on reporting about the threat of Islamist activity around the world.

You would think that following this event, one in which the death toll was around 3000, that the West would wake up in a major way, and respond accordingly. But that never happened. Leaders went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, expecting it erase the threat of radical Islam. There’s just one problem with that theory: the 9/11 terrorist hijackers weren’t practicing radical Islam. They were doing what the Quran wanted, and what tradition had shown them was honorable by Islamic standards. The same goes for Taliban forces in Afghanistan and insurgents in Iraq. Yes, there was some merit to each war, even if they weren’t executed all that well. But that isn’t the end by any means. And we likely won’t see it any time soon. Why? Because those in power believe the rhetoric of groups like CAIR, and hold that Islam is essentially a peaceful religion that doesn’t threaten the Western way of life. This is simply untrue.

The majority of people who were born Muslims are peaceful. And why is that? Simply put, most of them “practice” Islam by standards so relaxed that the Quran would consider them apostates. Of course, were sharia implementable on a broad scale, they’d all be executed for that. But that is hardly the point. What does matter is that though 9/11 brought the threat of Islam to the attention of some, it still has not impacted most people. This is especially troubling when you consider that the death toll from post-9/11 terrorist attacks in the name of Islam broke 10,000. And that doesn’t even begin to tell the story of Muslim murder, since it doesn’t include things like the Darfur genocide factional slaughters taking place between Hamas and Fatah in Palestine.

It is about damn time we cut the political correctness, talk about Islam in frank terms, and pursue a real strategy, since we are at war, whether we line it or not.

If you liked this post, you may also enjoy these recent articles:

• Croatia A Victim? Not in This Century
• More on the Universal Beatz Controversy
• Multiculuturalism: Anti-Semitism’s New Mantel
• Minimizing Tragedy: The Damning Effects of False Rape
• Israel’s Mexicans