The same week President Obama gave a foreign policy speech which called for the closing of Gitmo, winding down the war on terror and repeating his belief that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful a British soldier with a two year old son was beheaded by Islamists in broad daylight in the heart of London. Perhaps these evil men had not gotten the memo from Obama that the threat is not Islamist and the terrorists are winding down their threat . In reality though the President nor the left wing media would not admit it Islamism- Muslim extremism remains a threat and though not all Muslims are terrorists the majority of terrorists worldwide are Muslim, To win a war we must know what we are up against and to mislead as to the ideology of the enemy makes the threat more difficult to defeat. No these are not isolated acts of violence but rather a worldwide wrath of terror from Islamists who wish to create a global caliphate and defeat Western civilization wishing this were not true will not make it go away.
Since 9/11 numerous attacks against America have either been foiled or carried out. At Fort Hood army base 13 US soldiers were murdered by a Islamist who said Allahu Akbar while gunning down soldiers in cold blood. In addition a Islamist tried to blow up an American airplane in midair and he would have done so had an alert passenger not noticed smoke coming from his body where he had hid the bomb. Then there was the Time Square bomber who tried to blow up a bomb in the middle of Manhattan and again was only stopped due to an alert public and his own malfunction this bomber had been from Pakistan and was now working in the USA. Then there was Bangahzi a brutal attack on our embassy carried out on the anniversary of 9/11. The most recent attack and most high profile was the Boston Marathon bombing. Two brothers one of whom was a US citizen who came to this country from an Islamic region near Chechneya in the central Asian part of Russia and the other whom was not a US citizen set off bombs at the Boston marathon killing 3 people including a little kid and wounding hundreds of others. In the aftermath of this attack like Fort Hood and the Time Square plot commentators and politicians tried to avoid linking this gruesome attack to Islamists instead some blamed patriots, the tea party and anti-tax people. When the truth came out that these two men were Islamists killing in the name of jihad the msm urged the public not to jump to conclusions and assuring us this had nothing to do with an ideology just radicalization and them being loosers. In reality as we would later learn the mother along with these terrorists had become more Islamic over the years and blamed 9/11 on The US the country which had provided them with welfare services and schooling. We would also learn that the older brother had visited with Chechyan radical mosques in Russia and that they were related to a senior Chechyan terrorist. They also posted Jihadist videos about killing Americans on there social media pages. They were clearly as those who targeted this country before them Islamic jihadists determined to kill those they viewed as infidels,
Despite all the evidence to the contrary the media and left wing Democratic politicians continue to propagate the myth that these are isolated incidents that have nothing to do with Islam and anything that does happen is really somehow the fault of our foreign policy. Obama's administration called the terrorist at Ford Hood who handed out Korans the morning before his attack an act of "workplace violence", Attorney General Holder has refused to use the terms radical Islam or jihad when referring to terrorists and administration officials initially blamed a you tube video for a terrorist attack on our Benghazi embassy on 9/11. While the you tube video was insensitive it is part of free speech and clamping down on free speech goes against what America is about. Furthermore it never justifies violence and the fact that riots ensued throughout the Muslim world disproves Obama's assertion that those who are not peaceful in the Muslim world is a tiny minority.
Despite the media cover up and left wing pandering to Islamists evidence suggests that in reality America is at war not with terror which is a tactic but with Islamism or as Andrew McCarthy a Jihad expert and writer for the National Review calls it Islamic supremacy. This most certainly does not include all Muslims but it is no tiny minority either. While we may not want to be at war with them they are certainly at war with us that is Western Civilization. While the mainstream media does not like to collect the dots The Jihad against Russia by the Islamists , the attacks against London, Bali, Thailand, Israel, Spain and France are all connected and part of the Islamist Jihad on the West and those who share our values. What say the Muslim clerics well a famous Islamist leader in England Anjum Chaudhry said in the aftermath of the savage killing of the British soldier in Woolwich "What he said in the clip which is being televised, not many Muslims can disagree with it." (express.co.uk) This is just one example of Islamist clerics worldwide including some in the United States such as Brooklyn Imam Reda Shata who according to the NY Times called a female Palestinian homicide bomber who blew herself up a "martyr." While many of these clerics condemn terrorism in public from their mosques they preach hate and justification of terrorism.
While it cannot be denied that millions of Muslims believe in Jihad and violently forcing Islam on others the question remains what should be done. The answer is not in getting involved in Arab civil wars like Syria where both sides have ties to Islamists. Nor is it to send our troops to do nation building risking their lives for ungrateful people who often support terror. Instead we should support our allies like Great Britain, Israel and India in standing up as a united front against Islamo fascism. We should elect politicians who understand that like communism and Nazism, Islamo fascism is a dangerous ideology which cannot be ignored. The US and our allies should continue to take out Al Qaeda leadership and at home monitor radical Mosques and Imams who support subverting the constitution and advocate violence. We should also secure our boarder and prevent future terrorists like the Boston bombers from becoming US citizens by ending or scrutinizing immigration from Jihadist regions like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and The West Bank and Gaza. We should also focus our student visa program on bringing students from Latin America, Japan and Europe not from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Those on the terrorist watch list or a history of travel to Yemen, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia should be subjected to tight security at airports not 90 year old American Grandmas. Our goal should be to understand the threat not compromise our security for the sake of Political correctness. Taking some of these steps will help us to more effectively and wisely prevent terrorism and defeat Islamo fascism.
