Raymond Ibrahim: Are We Safer 10 Years Later?

The Center for Security Policy just published "Are We Safer? An Online Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11." My response follows:

In order to decide whether we are safer today, a decade after the events of 9/11, we must first establish who “we” are.

If “we” means the immediate us, you and me, this particular generation, then the situation is slightly improved: Osama bin Laden, who came to personify al-Qaeda, is dead, as are other reportedly high level terrorists. According to White House counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, al-Qaeda is “On a steady slide. On the ropes. Taking shots to the body and head.”

Conversely, if “we” means Western civilization, including future generations, then the situation is dire, gone from bad to worse. The fact is, from a macro perspective, even if al-Qaeda were totally eradicated tomorrow, the threat to the West would hardly recede, for al-Qaeda was never the source of the threat, but simply one of its multitudinous manifestations (other threats include the stealth jihad to overthrow Western civilization from within).

Even the Obama administration is inadvertently beginning to acknowledge the existential nature of the conflict (though of course without articulating it as such): it recently declared that lone wolf terrorists—jihadists who have no connection to al-Qaeda other than that they share the same Islamist-inspired worldview, people like the Fort Hood jihadist, the Christmas Day Bomber, the Shoe Bomber, ad infinitum—are a greater threat than al-Qaeda. That is, jihad metastasized....

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We're less safe now. The level of enforced self-censorship (fictive reality) is about the same as before, but now we have:

1) More Moslems in-migrated and on the dole,

2) External Jihad terror operations war training camps in South America and even Pennsylvania, and

3) The ongoing emergence of the Crimson Crescent under Prez Osama's benign watch.

Things could get explosive. The ever deepening cooption of our gubmint and societal institutions by Moslems and their Dhimmis is becoming a minor story as we move towards the next big bang, which should be a helluva lot bigger than Madrid or London, even bigger than 9/11.

In short, we need to get beyond obsessing over names and faces—al-Qaeda and bin Laden, for example—and begin focusing on the ideas and motivations that create them...

Bravo. al-Qaeda was no more the cause of 9/11 than the Waffen SS was of the Nazi invasion of Poland. But our learned, multi-culti relativist leaders lack not only the courage to fight the ideology driving the current conflict, but the cognitive clarity to even recognize it. The political and cultural elites are either complicit with the west's enemies or so removed from objective reality that they don't realize it has any.

In the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad, pages 511-517 (758-766 in the Arabic) we learn how in Khaybar Muhammad ordered the torture of a man in order to get hold of a treasure, then beheaded the man, and how that night Muhammad took into his private tent for consummation of "marriage" the tortured man's widow, whose father and other male relatives Muhammad had just killed:

Kinana b. al-Rabi', who had the custody of the treasure of the B. al-Nadir, was brought to the apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was. A Jew came (Tabari says "was brought") to the apostle and said that he had seen Kinana going round a certain ruin every morning early. When the apostle [Muhammad] said to Kinana, 'Do you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?' he said Yes. The apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and some of the treasure was found. When he asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the apostle [Muhammad] gave orders to al-Zubayr b. al-'Awwam, 'Torture him until you extract what he has,' so he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and he struck off his head in revenge for his brother Mahmud. [-- page 515 (763-764 in the Arabic)]
...The apostle took captives...among whom was Safiya d. Huyayy b. Akhtab who had been the wife of Kinana b. al-Rabi’ b. Abu’l-Huqayq, and two cousins of hers. The apostle chose Safiya for himself. [-- page 511 (758 in the Arabic)]
When the apostle married Safiya in Khaybar or on the way, she having been beautified and combed, and got in a fit state for the apostle by Umm Sulaym d. Milhan mother of Anas b. Malik, the apostle passed the night with her in a tent of his. Abu Ayyub, Khalid b. Zayd brother of B. al-Najjar passed the night girt with his sword, guarding the apostle and going round the tent until in the morning the apostle saw him and asked him what he meant by his action. He replied, ‘I was afraid for you with this woman for you have killed her father, her husband, and her people, and till recently she was in unbelief, so I was afraid for you on her account.’ They allege that the apostle said ‘O God, preserve Abu Ayyub as he spent the night preserving me.’ [-- page 516-517 (766 in the Arabic)]

From Quoting Islam.

Hey Traeh, does the Ishaq say whether the campfire on Kinana's chest burned through to the ground?

*** 33:21 ***

Or sand, I mean.

Al-Qaeda indeed was never the source of the threat to the West. Al-Qaeda is "merely" an effect of the real source. And that source is Islam.

Once this is grasped everything else will fall into place respecting what needs to be known and what needs to be done. If not grasped, the stupid and self-destructive PC/MC policies of Western nations imperil everything that distinguishes the superior civilization which is Western Civilization from the inferior Islamic pseudo-civilization.

The thin ends of a thousand wedges are slowly being inserted into the structure of Western civilisation.

Here are just a few of the forms that jihad can take, no doubt you can think of others:

ARMED JIHAD - The objective is not only to cause death and destruction , such as 9/11, 7/7 and Beslan, but also to force the kuffars to waste vast amounts of money and military manpower on security, thus furthering the Economic Jihad.

CENSORSHIP JIHAD - The Islamic belief system is primitive, tribal and illogical and cannot withstand the light of rational analysis . All criticism of Islam must therefore be shut down.

CORRUPTION JIHAD - The objective is to undermine kuffar public confidence in institutions such as the police, medical profession etc.

CULTURAL JIHAD Jihadists try to destroy infidels' monuments, sacred sites, heritage, culture and works of art.

DEMOGRAPHIC JIHAD - The objective is for jihadists to gain power by breeding faster than other sections of the population. Jihadist women are breeding machines who produce vast numbers of children and now that polygamy has been legalised jihadist men are free to import up to four wives each.

DOMINATION JIHAD - Jihadists try to dominate public space in the cities they are overrunning.

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL JIHAD - The objective is to weaken the economies of kuffar nations by whatever means are possible, including welfare parasitism , crime and breeding of large useless swarms of inbred retards.

EDUCATIONAL JIHAD - Jihadists are seeking to remove non-Islamic subjects from the school curriculum and to Islamify schools by introducing jihadist observances and revisions of history.

FOREST FIRE JIHAD - Jihadists cause death and environmental devastation by setting fire to forests in Australia and Israel.

HIT AND RUN JIHAD - Cars are used as weapons in 'accidents' to kill kuffars.

HUMILIATION JIHAD - Islam is a culture obsessed with honor/shame and domination/subjugation. Islam will therefore look for any opportunity to degrade and humiliate the kuffars, such as the popular 'jihad-snuff videos' where kuffars are made to beg for their lives and then ritually slaughtered anyway.

IMMIGRATION JIHAD - Jihadists are illegally swarming into Western Europe. Once established they bring in their very extended families by 'chain-migration' so that before you know it one jihadist has brought in his entire village.

INFILTRATION JIHAD - Similar to Corruption Jihad except that the objective is to infiltrate institutions in order to make them useful to jihadists.

INTIMIDATION JIHAD - Jihadists are quick to take offence at the slightest provovation . This makes the kuffars eager to appease their demands to avoid trouble. Of course appeasement only gives rise to further demands - give an inch and they'll take a mile.

LAWFARE OR LITIGATION JIHAD - Offended jihadists are very keen to sue kuffars on the slightest pretext. The objective is not necessarily to win the case but to harass the kuffars and force them to spend vast amounts of money on their legal defence.

MOSQUE-BLIGHT JIHAD - Having a mosque near you is about the worst form of property blight imaginable. Mosques act as the nuclei of jihadist ghettos around which ever-expanding no-go areas grow. Infidels are forced to sell their homes to jihadists at massively reduced prices by campaigns of intimidation.

NARCO JIHAD - Jihadists are the major suppliers of heroin. This trade supplies funding for jihad and helps destroy kuffar society.

SEXUAL JIHAD - Rape and paedophilia are and always have been essential weapons in jihad. Kuffar women and children are booty to be enjoyed by their conquerors. Paedophile abductions of kuffar children by jihadist pimps have become commonplace.

STREET JIHAD - Young kuffar boys, usually alone or in small groups, are set upon and viciously attacked by much larger groups of older youths and men. These crimes are usually hushed up by the media eg
Kriss Donald castrated, blinded and burned alive; Henry Webster skull smashed in three places and permanently brain-damaged, and many more only reported in the local press. Gays are particular targets for street jihad.

TOXIC JIHAD - Jihadists contaminate food to be served to kuffars with their feces and urine and human remains of their victims., plus mislabelled and dangerous food.
Latest - Water Supply and Salad bar jihad.

VICTIMHOOD JIHAD - Jihadist aggressors and supremacists usually try the role reversal trick. They claim victimhood for themselves and accuse their victims of 'racism', despite the fact that Islam is not a race... http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2011/03/many-faces-of-jihad.html

No, Alarmed Pig Farmer, doesn't say that. I don't think Ishaq says anything more about that torture incident than what I've quoted from the text, unless the somewhat expurgated version we have today, edited by Hisham (Hisham died 833), cut out other info...which is possible, since Hisham (on page 691 of the Guillaume addition I linked in my 1:41 pm comment above) refers to leaving out various things from Ishaq's original version, including matters Hisham calls "disgraceful to discuss." What Hisham means by "disgraceful" will perhaps be different from what a non-Muslim would mean by that word, of course.

former prime minister Tony Blair.


here is the problem in a nutshell. just listen to this
interview, ex PM Tony Blair,(now well used to middle east
islamic imperatives), & a dhimmy dummy bbc interviewer.
no matter how Blair tells it like it is, totally impervious
the beeboid keeps putting fingers in ears, & drones apologist.

BBC iplayer,

10/09/2011
Radio 4 Today

08.34 Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of September 11th, a single day that changed the world. John Humphrys is joined by former prime minister Tony Blair.


Thanks for your very complete listing of mostly non-terrorist ways the Islamists are using to wrest unearned power and influence in their host countries.

As far as the news, especially National Public Radio, to which I will never contribute again, the 9/11 events might have been a natural disaster, like an earthquake, or at worst, a random street mugging. It's not simply that they whitewash Islam, which would not upset me. They ignore it. I listened to several long, tear-dripping, misty-eyed, hoarse-voice accounts of 9/11 tragedy and heroism, and not once was Islam or Muslims mentioned. I don't know how those people can live with themselves, and call themselves reporters.

Your list, sean, is thorough. Too bad our leaders still don't get it. I'm watching the Flight 93 dedication and listening to Bill Clinton and Bush 43. Both talk a good game but what have they done in the last ten years to make sure those heroes' sacrifice was not in vain? Instead of contracting, the jihad expands. Instead of Muslims changing their ways to fit in with us in our society, we continue to do what we can to make them feel at home. We are willing to give up our way of life for the sake of comity. We prefer surrender to fighting for our values.

Raymond is right, we aren't safe in the long run, there will always be these lone runners and other loonies who adhere to the religion of peace(TM).

Thanks to Sean for that elaborate list of jihadi crimes, great work. Islam is a perversion that nobody can have any doubt about.

The huge transfer of wealth to OPEC has a lot to do with Islamic resurgence because it lends an aura of divinely justified success to Jihad.

No place is safe as long as Islam stays.

In just one sentence - " It's the religion, stupid"!! As long as this ideology is alive and well, no non-Muslim is safe. Killing OBL only halts the jihad momentarily but it will go on. The followers of ROP are all al Qaeda.

Thanks for that list, sean. Very thorough. Damn depressing too, not so much because of the list per se, reading most disturbingly though it does, but principally because the Western elites continue to go about blithely ignorant of what that list clearly reveals and that is that Islam is a mortal threat to liberty.

In fact, I dare anyone, anyone at all, to argue the point that Islam and freedom can go hand-in-hand. I say it can't be done. Any challengers out there to this? Any troll or dhimmi at all? Anyone?

Meanwhile in taxpayer-funded wacademia…

For the 10th anniversary of 9/11, University of Maryland hosted yet another outrageous pro-sharia da'wah lecture (this year by Yasir Qadhi) at Stamp Union.

Qadhi had this to say in Washington Post that same day.

MYTH: “Muslims are out to overthrow the Constitution and establish Sharia in America.” This is actually so preposterous as to be comical, were it not for the fact that it is being used to indoctrinate hatred and fear against Muslims. There is no national organization that aims to overthrow the Constitution and replace it with Islamic law. Practicing the Sharia is not only fully compatible with the Constitution, it is a right that is protected by our Constitution, and American Muslims are proud to be both American and Muslim. Efforts to ban the Sharia are completely unconstitutional, and have always been ruled as such in all federal court cases.

Flashback: Qadhi’s Houston-based Ilmquest infamously hawked jihad incitement CDs by Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki shortly after the Ft. Hood massacre.

Video: Yasir Qadhi preaching Holocaust denial

We have almost reached the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Lets look at those other 9/11s which secured our freedoms - at least for three and a half centuries:

The 328th annioversary of the Battle of Vienna, 1683.

The 446th anniversary of Jean Parisol de la Valettes victory over the Turks, 1565.

The 314th anniversary of Prince Eugene's crushing victory over the Turks at Zenta, 1697.

Lets give the V-sign to thwe Jihadis by commemorating these victories.

Let 9/11 be Vienna, Malta and Zenta day.

We have almost reached the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Lets look at those other 9/11s which secured our freedoms - at least for three and a half centuries:

The 328th anniversary of the Battle of Vienna, 1683.

The 446th anniversary of Jean Parisol de la Valette's victory over the Turks, 1565.

The 314th anniversary of Prince Eugene's crushing victory over the Turks at Zenta, 1697.

Lets give the V-sign to the Jihadis by commemorating these victories.

The hit and run Jihad also includes using bulldozers to cary out Jihad.

OT

I hope this is ok to post here, I've modified it somewhat.

I think this is a really good idea so I'm passing it along, please help to spread the word.

If you attend the official 9/11 memorial, let Bloomberg (the arrogant ass who has banned clergy & first responders) know how you feel and everyone start singing "Amazing Grace" when he starts speaking.

http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2011/09/pics-from-around-wtc.html

Here are the instructions:

http://ironicsurrealism.com/2011/09/10/must-go-viral-ground-zero-memorial-flash-singing-of-amazing-grace-when-bloomberg-speaks/

"Practicing the Sharia is not only fully compatible with the Constitution, it is a right that is protected by our Constitution"

It pays to know how Muslims use terms.

Sharia constitutes both the rules of personal observance, and the laws governing a community which are enforceable, called hudud if I'm not mistaken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudud

Naturally, the proposed state laws forbidding Sharia are not intended to affect personal worship, but Muslims use the argument that laws against Sharia are forbidding them from personally worshiping as Muslims, which is a ridiculous interpretation.

Similarly, when Muslims claim that Sharia is compatible with the US Constitution, if pressed, they will define Sharia as the practices of individual worship, and will say that hudud is just a small part of Sharia, easily separable in a non-Muslim country.

Of course, as the proportion of Muslims grow in a community, the distinctions between individual practices and enforceable practices grows fuzzier. But, if you ever get into a dispute with a Muslim about banning Sharia, this is likely the tact they will take.

Guillaume ... refers to leaving out various things from Ishaq's original version, including matters Hisham calls "disgraceful to discuss."

To me, discussing the known scriptures and Hah-Deaths is disgraceful, so whatever was elided musta been purty awful.

*** 33:60 ***

Truly, if the Infidels stir up sedition, we shall urge you to go against them and set you over them. Then they will not be able to stay as your neighbors for any length of time. They shall have a curse on them. Whenever Infidels are found, they shall be seized and slain without mercy - a fierce slaughter - murdered, a horrible murdering."

But based on what I've seen with Moslems, even that hidden content wouldn't have stopped the rise of Moslemism. These people are capable of anything.

*** 9/11 ***

And to all devout Moslems I say: have a joyous Islam Holiday tomorrow! Every religion deserves its sacred days, and tomorrow, September 11, is yours.

We are safer in that more and more people have become aware that this is a war on more than just a physical front. The important task is to keep this up. Not just right now but for decades.

The enemy has long term multi generational goals. The most important task is to make sure as much of the public as possible remains aware of their many strategies, techniques and goals AND remains aware in later generations.

I prefer to discuss actions rather than underlying religious motivations. Most people really do not understand that a religeon can cause someone to think in ways that are fundmentally different from the way they themselves have been socialised to think. If you are in a religious situation then whatever.

The conservative nature of many sites about this subject is problematic when using them to convince people. I ALWAYS link to the original stories and not the issue dedicated sites that link to them.

When using ROP to show how just how many atrocities are being commited I link to lists of entire years rather than their home page as it has editorializing and links to conservative commentators. I fully understand the reasons for this but it still makes the page problematic as a tool to convince the unconvinced or those who've been propogansised into thinking it is a conservative or "anti islam" issue.

Fortunately ROP has lists for entire years on seperate pages free of editorial or links.

I never ever use the islamophobia shibboleth. When people use it I inform them it was crafted by radicals with an imperialist agenda to use it against the people who speak out about their one specific political group. They use it to accuse people who speak against them only- of doing so only because they dislike the the entire group to which they happen to belong.

At this point I will say two things.

I will then say something along the lines of:

"If I say the Rwandan Genocide should have been prevented, does that mean I am racist against all Africans and people of African Descent?"

I will discuss how a Republican whisper campagn was used to make people automatically say "Bitch" when Hillary Clintons name came up in conversation. This is good when talking to librals because they more readily believe republicans do such things. So if one political group has done it, it becomes more believable that another can do it.

The fact that conservatives seem attracted to this is very problematic when discussing it with non conservatives so I try to think of non conservative ways to discuss the issue.

I often point out that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have championed the exact same issues for decades.

Yes thats right. So every muslim that complains about torture is insulting the Prophet and is technically subject to a death sentance.

911 was like the '29 Crash.
The '29 Crash caught us unprepared to cope with a modern economy: The Fed raised interest rates, let banks fail en masse, there was no FDIC and there were few social safety nets. Gradually, our understanding has improved - not that we're impervious, of course.
When 911 happened, Islam was on the periphery. Bush could only talk about it in platitudes (the R.O.P., democracy for ordinary Moms and Dads in Iraq etc). Obama is even more pathetic. But politicians aside, the public is slowly but surely ascending the learning curve.
Some day Robert Spencer will be the norm, not the exception.
Islam is like a vampire: It hates the light.

Of course we're all safer now, ever since our President-cum-Khalifah Obama inaugurated Perpetual Peace with Islam within weeks of taking office, over there in Cairo. There was the Pax Romana; then, centuries later, there was the post-war Pax Americana; and now, finally, we have the Peace to End All Peace, the Pax Obamana.

Alarmed Pig Farmer,
Yes, one wonders what the "disgraceful" things were. I guess Hisham (not Guillaume, who was just the modern translator), in referring to his omission of "disgraceful" things from the earliest biography of Muhammad, was thinking of Islamic texts like this one, from Bukhari, the most canonical hadith collection:

Volume 8, Book 73, Number 95:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

I heard Allah's Apostle saying. "All the sins of my followers will be forgiven except those of the Mujahirin (those who commit a sin openly or disclose their sins to the people). An example of such disclosure is that a person commits a sin at night and though Allah screens it from the public, then he [the sinner] comes in the morning, and says, 'O so-and-so, I did such-and-such (evil) deed yesterday,' though he spent his night screened by his Lord (none knowing about his sin) and in the morning he removes Allah's screen from himself."

The above hadith, besides being an admonition to hide disgraceful things -- as Hisham tells us he did when he removed some material from the earliest biography of Muhammad -- besides that, the upshot of the above hadith is that God will forgive Muslims any sin, provided they can get away with it. Think about it: All the sins of my followers will be forgiven except those...who commit a sin openly or disclose their sins to the people.

Concealment will only help real Muslims, of course, not closet apostates. Therefore, judging by the above hadith, apostasy is the one sin whose concealment will not gain Allah's forgiveness.

Truthiocity, it's pretty astounding, isn't it, that the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad, a popular book available in almost any Islamic bookstore, contains an account of Muhammad torturing someone to get hold of treasure. If torture is used to get a person to reveal the location of, say, a large bomb set to kill many, then I think people of good will can disagree about the justification for using some kinds of torture to get information that will save lives.

But who but a monster would affirm that torture is okay as Muhammad used it, in order to locate a treasure? Yet that's what is reported in the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad.

Just arrived at Newark Penn Station (NY), and there was a swat guy with a machine gun patrolling in front of the station, plus several cop cars and a police van. I thanked him and the transit police for keeping us safe. At least some people are being vigilant.

Ima

I will be the lone optimist, for today:

The article is correct but only on the negative side.

1-Millions of citizens of the world are being slowly awakened to the reality of Islam.

2-We have smashed the leadership of terrorist countries.

3-Not only the West but India and China are more willing to fight Jihad.

4-Information is leaking into the Muslim mind not just from Jihadis but freedom lovers, too.

5-What victories can Islam or Sharia states claim? In reality, all Muslims are secretly embarrassed by the terrorists and the pathetic countries they rule.

Finally-Islam is a fragile mind controlling system that is ready to collapse from within. As we are taught PC bs by the elite, people within Islam see its insecurity. Islam is in its death throes but it will take decades to collapse.

God Bless America, all the dhimmis living under oppression, and please God help the Muslim break free from the sins of the false prophet.

comments?

Sean:
DEMOGRAPHIC JIHAD - The objective is for jihadists to gain power by breeding faster than other sections of the population. Jihadist women are breeding machines who produce vast numbers of children and now that polygamy has been legalised jihadist men are free to import up to four wives each.

I was wondering sean, whether or not polygamy, which is despicable for me, is in effect, good or just neutral for demographic jihad?

From the Islamic standpoint it is beneficial that the per capita-number of children for Muslima's is high. This number is crucial. Not the number a man makes fertilizes.

Perhaps it does not matter whether the Muslima's are fertilized by one man to four women or by one man to one woman. And a husband of four will still be guarding all four wives against other men. The point is that the four women of one man not necessarily get more children than they would have had when they all were married to one man.

For demographic jihad it would only be beneficial if otherwise unmarried Muslima's with no children because of the possibility of polygamy do get children, like single moms do. And no doubt, many single mum Muslima's may well be secretly in a polygamous marriage de facto.

"Are We Safer"?

If "we" includes all of us, then no we are not safe. Daily I read on different web-sites about terrorisum and radical Muslims murdering people around the world.

Hamas has demanized a land that was peaceful. Iraq and Syria are both unstable at best. Iran is laughing at the free world because of our apparent ineptless. Eygpt and Libya are out of control and their counties are law less. Both the stealth jihad and the cultural jihad are working very well for Islam. And maybe able to conqure the world without having to fight a major war. They are already in our public schools, university's,FBI, CIA, Dept. of Justice, our Dept. of Defense, our local law enforcment agencies, and our legislation in this country. How can we feel safe under these murdering conditions and countries in our world?

For decades my country (USA) has treated Islam like a spoiled grandchild is treated by his grandfather and grandmother. My counties legislators should be ashammed of themselves. Ten years after the fact our leaders still have no clue who the enemy is. Or what the enemies ideology is.

How can we end terrorism when we don't even know how he or his hero thinks? Are we safer? No, but we are learning. We are slowly learning that Islam can not ever be trusted. We are learning that Islam's adgenda and ideology will not mix with free people any where. That Islam is never a good neighbor. And that Islam has hundreds of headquarters throughout the world used as training bases. We should know that Sharia Law and Muhammads ideology has no place in a civilized nation.

If Muslims want to relocate to my country they may do so provided they all except our laws federal and local and our constitution. Don't come if your intent is to change my country into the one you just left. Everytime you cut some persons hand or head off we are reminded that we don't want Sharia Law in America.

Are we truly winning Al-Qaeda?
By Tawfik Hamid
www.tawfikhamid.com
"On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, we are hearing increased political expressions that give us hope that Al-Qaeda has been weakened after the killing Bin Laden. There is no doubt that killing Bin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda leaders in recent few months has been an excellent step in weakening the organization; however, we should be realistic about the long-term implications. Public relations statements highlighting U.S. efforts that have disrupted al-Qaeda's command and control, communications, morale, and freedom of movement are great. Nevertheless, we need to look at the statistical reality rather than political sound bites.
The sad reality is that the rate of Islamists terror attacks has increased since Bin Laden killing.
This can be shocking news for many of us; however, according to some sources Islamists terrorist acts before and after the killing of Bin Laden shows the following results:
In the 4 month period BEFORE Bin Laden Killing: (from Jan 1 2011 to April 30 1 2011):
The total number of terrorist acts conducted by Radical Muslims during this period (globally) was: 615
The number of the terrorist acts in Pakistan was: 128
The number of terrorist acts in Afghanistan was: 79
In the 4 month period AFTER Bin Laden killing (from May 1 2011 to Aug 30 2011):
The number of the terrorist acts in Pakistan was: 143
The number of terrorist acts in Afghanistan was: 103
This increase in terrorist attacks globally and the increase of attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan after the killing of Bin Laden illustrates how the killing the head of an organization can be less effective in weakening it if the leader was the product- not the originator-of its ideology. If left unchallenged or incorrectly challenged, the ideology can always create new leaders.
The US needs to analyze how and why it could not prevent Al-Qaeda from fulfilling their promise of taking revenge for the killing of Bin Laden. This increase in terrorism rates after the killing of Bin Laden may only represent a transient increase as a revenge reaction for Bin Laden's killing. However, the possibility that this trend can continue and grow must be seriously considered.
In brief, When Bin Laden was killed, Al-Qaeda vowed revenge. The increase in the rate of terror acts after the killing of Bin Laden simply means Al-Qaeda has succeeded in fulfilling their promise of revenge and we failed to stop them".
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The United States is only a part of the size of this jihad. There are jihads go on in one form or another, in every country in the world. No country is safe with reguards to Islam. Islams agenda is to rule over the entire world within 50 years by any means neccessary. Haven't they made that perfectly clear for the last 4 decades?

Perhaps we should get our heads out of the sand and take these threats much to complacently. Islam is 100 times more dangerous than Hitler was. But they are also 100 times more stealth (under the radar) than Hitler. Islam is also smarter than Hitlers armies were. Islam is trying to gain our trust so they can move in for the final jihad unnoticed. Islam has figured out that you don't need to win any wars to conqure a nation. You simply have to enfiltrait their trust and change his laws to your laws. And bingo you own them. Islam already has most Americans under the age of 35 convienced they are the religion of peace. And therefor are not only trusted but are also our friends and long lost brothers. They are welcomed with open arms nearly everywhere in the world.

We haven't even talked about honour killings, justice by stonings, cuting off hands and heads, barbaric treatment of women and the unrelentless ideology of the must twisted culture known to mankind.

Very thorough list, Sean. Very disheartening.

Poster jt makes some good points, though. Some in the West *are* waking up, at long last—I just hope it is not too little, and too late.

Dear Gravenimage

Do you know Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings'? Not the films, but the books.

Toward the end, at one of the deepest and darkest and bleakest moments in the story, Sam the hobbit sings a song. It isn't great poetry, but when I read it as a young teenager I liked it enough that I learned it by heart.

Here it is.

"In western lands beneath the sun
the flowers may rise in spring
the trees may bud, the waters run,
the merry finches sing;
or there may be 'tis cloudless night
and swaying beeches bear
the elven-stars as jewels white
amid their branching hair.
"Though here at journey's end I lie
in darkness buried deep
beyond all towers strong and high
beyond all mountains steep
above all shadows rides the Sun
and Stars for ever dwell
I will not say the day is done
nor bid the Stars farewell".

Those last two lines are good ones for all us counter-jihadists when we are tempted to despair - 'I **will** not say the day is done/ nor bid the Stars farewell".

And have you read G K Chesterton's poems? - "The Battle of Lepanto", "The Ballad of St Barbara" and "The Ballad of the White Horse" (this last being about King Alfred's defence of England against the pagan Danes, who at that stage were terrifying warriors, followers of a war-cult, worshippers of Odin, Glutter of the Crows).

"The Battle of Lepanto" has a great passage that defines the difference between the fatalism - the spiritual paralysis - of Islam, and the freedom (or the hope) of Western man.

Chesterton imagines 'Mahound' calling to the evil jinn, as he hears 'Don John of Austria' raising a Crusade to challenge the Ottoman fleet:

"..that which was our trouble comes again out of the West.
'We have set the seal of Solomon on all things under sun
of knowledge and of sorrow and endurance of things done
but a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know
the voice that shook our palaces, four hundred years ago;
**It is he that saith not, 'Kismet', it is he that knows not Fate;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate!**
It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth
put down your feet upon him, that our peace be on the earth".

'It is he that saith not, 'Kismet', it is he that knows not Fate'.

The same theme runs through Chesterton's 'Ballad of the White Horse'; the contrast between fatalism and freedom (under Grace).

He retells a legend of Alfred, in hiding on the isle of Ely, having a vision of the Mother of the Lord, and asking her if he will win, or if the Danes will prevail. She replies:

"the men of the East may spell the stars
and times and triumphs mark
but the men signed of the Cross of Christ
go gaily in the dark.
'The men of the East may search the scrolls
for sure fates and fame
but the men that drink the blood of God
go singing to their shame.
'The wise men know what wicked things
are written on the sky,
they trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings
hearing the heavy purple wings
where the forgotten seraph kings
still plot how God shall die...
"But you and all the kind of Christ
are ignorant and brave
and you have wars you hardly win
and souls you hardly save.
"I tell you naught for your comfort
yea, naught for your desire,
save that the sky grows darker yet
and the sea rises higher.
'Night shall be thrice night over you
and heaven an iron cope,
Do you have joy without a cause
yea, faith without a hope?"

Later in the poem Chesterton has Alfred disguised as a harper, entering the camp of the invading Danes. He hears them singing songs full of dark, bleak fatalism and nihilism - a worldview not that far from the pessimism and fatalism of Islam - and then he sings his reply:

"When God put man in a garden
he girt him with a sword
and sent him forth a free knight
that might betray his lord;
He brake Him and betrayed Him
and fast and far he fell
till you and I may stretch our necks
and burn our beards in hell.
But though I lie on the floor of the world
with the seven sins for rods
I would rather fall with Adam
than rise with all your gods.
'What have the strong gods given
where have the glad gods led?
When Guthrum sits on a hero's throne
and asks if he is dead?...

"I will even answer the mighty earl
that asked of Wessex men
why they be meek and monkish folk
and bow to the White Lord's broken yoke:
what sign have we save blood and smoke?
Here is my answer then.

"That upon you is fallen the shadow
and not upon the Name;
that though we scatter and though we fly
and you hang over us like the sky
you are more tired of victory
than we are tired of shame.
That though you hunt the Christian man
like a hare on the hill side
the hare has still more heart to run
than you have heart to ride..

"Our monks go robed in rain and snow
but the heart of flame therein;
but you go clothed in feasts and flames
when all is ice within;

{And that is not unlike the condition of Muslims. I have heard Patrick Sookhdeo, apostate from Islam, Christian priest, explaining that at the core of Islam is a spiritual void, not a relationship but an absence of relationship - fear and nothingness - dda}

"Nor shall all iron dooms make dumb
Men wondering ceaselessly
if it be not better to fast for joy
than feast for misery."..

"For our God hath blessed creation
calling it good. I know
what spirit with whom you blindly band
hath blessed destruction with his hand;
yet by God's grace the stars shall stand
and the small apples grow".

I think each of us in the counter-jihad has to fight off the dementors of despair; we each have to find our equivalent of (to borrow the image from Rowling's books) the Expecto Patronum.

As well as certain Psalms and other passages from Scripture, it's things like Chesterton's poems that work like that for me.

We forget that Hope is one of the three supernatural, or spiritual, virtues. It's not something we 'feel' but something we have to 'choose'.

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