To Win This War: First, Know Your Enemy

Snap out of it folks! There is a war on, and it's time to get serious about it. The attacks in London and new warnings from Al Queda should be a wake up call. Will we wait until something far worse than September 11th happens? It's time for the left to stop the excuse making, terror apologist and appeasement and move beyond Bush name-calling and join their fellow Americans, and Britons and peace and freedom loving people around the globe in a united effort to prevent calamity that would darken this world for generations.

But first, you have to be honest about who and what we are fighting.

Just before his throat was cut down to the spinal cord ending his life, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh begged for mercy: "Can't we talk about this?" he said to his killer, Mohammed Bouyeri, Dutch born of Morrocan parents. At Bouyeri's sentencing for murder he turned to the Theo's mother and said: "I don't feel your pain. I don't have any sympathy for you. I can't feel for you because I think you're a non-believer." Holding a copy of the Koran in one hand Bouyeri told the court: "the law compels me to chop off the head of anyone who insults Allah and the prophet".

What was van Gogh's insult to Allah and the prophet? Was he a defender of U.S. foreign policy and the Iraq war? Did he support Israel at the expense of the Palestinians? No... sorry lefty apologists. He had recently produced a documentary on the role of women in Islam entitled "Submission."

A subject of that film, Hirsi Ali, a member of the Dutch Parliament and a former Muslim describes the path she took to escape the abuse and killing of women under Islamic law:

How did she do it? "The American dream," says Hirsi Ali. "I think it's in every individual, if you have the will to improve your life."

She shook up Dutch politics by pointing to the blind spots in this tolerant democracy, like the murder of Muslim women who stray from the faith, so-called honor killings.

"My accusation towards the Dutch society was, 'You think you are tolerant, but if you look behind those curtains in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, there are women who are abused. There are women who are taken to Morocco and Turkey and are killed there. They're murdered. And there are no records of those murders,' " says Hirsi Ali.

For that insult to Islam, van Gogh was murdered and Ms. Ali lives under 24 hour armed guard.

Zawahiri's Latest Propaganda Lie: Appealing to Lefty Playbook

In the latest video tape Al Queda #2, Ayman Zawahiri listed another string of demands designed to further split resolve in wavering democracies:

"Our message to you is crystal clear: Your salvation will only come in your withdrawal from our land, stop stealing our oil and wealth and stop supporting corrupt rulers.
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[W]hat you saw in New York and Washington [on September 11] and what you are seeing in Afghanistan and Iraq, all these are nothing compared to what you will see next. If you go on with the same policy of aggression against Muslims, you will see, with God's will, something that will make you forget the horrible things that you saw in Vietnam.
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bin Laden told you that you will not dream of security before there is security in Palestine and before all the infidel armies withdraw from the land of Mohammed."

So basically, paying over $60 for a barrel of oil is "stealing" and the only thing that will satisfy these butchers is the complete and total withdrawal of the West from the Middle East. And what would happen then? After the inital bloodbath where millions of the apostates (anyone who disagrees with the radicals) were murdered, a Caliphate or extreme Islamic superstate would be created.

And of course the ultimate goal of that Caliphate is the extension of Islam to the entire world where the rest of us will be offered a choice: convert, submit or die!

From the London Times: God sent Muhammad as the last of His prophets and the bearer of His ultimate message, Islam. With the advent of Islam all previous religions were "abrogated" (mansukh), and their followers regarded as "infidel" (kuffar). The aim of all good Muslims, therefore, is to convert humanity to Islam....the Western-dominated world is too mired in corruption to hear any argument, and must be shocked into conversion through spectacular ghazavat (raids) of the kind we saw in New York and Washington in 2001, in Madrid last year, and now in London.

If you think 3,000 Americans killed on September 11 was horror, pay close attention to what Zawahiri said "nothing compared to what you will see next." This is global jihad in which all "good" Muslims are called on to obey the teachings and take whatever steps are necessary to ensure the domination of Islam.

Three years before September 11th Zawahiri issued this warning:" We will be sending a message to Americans, which we hope they read with care, because we will write it, with God's help, in a language they will understand."

If you are still not convinced that the goals of fanatic Islamists extend to world domination, the Islamic Thinking Society in New York gives it to you in their video, which I discussed in June.

In New York accented English, these hometown terrorists trampel an American flag underfoot while holding a Koran high and declaring : "Our loyalty does not belong to this flag but to the laws of Allah...[the goal of Islam is] to dominate all other religions, to dominate the United States, to dominate the world."

This monster goes on to encourage fellow American Muslims to join their Jihad "Do not be afraid, this is not so much like your countries at home where you raise your voice and they come after you and they take you in for torture. No! One of the loopholes in this country is that they allow the freedom of expression. "

Admitting that the great freedoms he enjoys to practice hate is a "loophole" and encouraging others to do the same because you won't be "tortured" won't win him any votes in the leftwing borroughs of New York, but should give the rest of us pause to consider how the enemy uses our own freedom against us.

Cleaning this mess up before something worse than September 11th happens is not going to be easy. But the first step is to know your enemy and stop swallowing the propaganda about how the U.S. is to blame. Readers will recall that these Muslim "greivances" go all the way back to the Crusades, FIVE HUNDRED YEARS before this nation was founded. Blaming Americans for the Crusades and every bad thing that has happened to Muslims is like expecting white emmigrants to the United States to pay reparations for slavery which was abolished before they arrived.

Was this little boy rescued from the school house massacre in Beslan, Russia to blame for offenses against Islam? More graphic images from the school house slaugher are available if you know a lefty apologist who still wants to excuse terrorists!

Iraq Central Front In War On Terror

Those on the left who constantly bleat that "Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terror" may wish to re-read Zawahiri's statement. Terrorists, or as the reporter Steven Vincent, who was recently killed in Bara Iraq, called them "paramilitary death squads" are pouring into Iraq precisely because they know if they can hang tough until Democrats force a premature withdrawal of American troops, that we will not have the will to resist them when they begin a civil war in Saudi Arabia.

Bush's strategy in Iraq has always been as a keystone in the war on terror. Success there changes the dynamic in the whole region. Failure there means darker clouds that offer no hope for peace or safety.

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For an expanded discussion on the pathology which seems to block the left from uniting in efforts to win this war, see a thoughtful piece by NeoNeocon.

Also, one of the most comprehensive resources for monitoring Islamic jihad is at Jihad Watch. You're unlikely to see many of the reports described at Jihad Watch in the "mainstream" media until AFTER another attack.

Jackson's Junction also had another interesting report from the mouths of the Jihadis themselves.

Our new motto here at Mike's America: "Inform, Defend, Prepare."