The "ideological foothold" is Islam itself. In order to encourage anti-Islamic sentiment within black Africa more attention should be paid to 1) the history of the Arab slave trade in Africa, which began nearly a thousand years earlier, and ended later, than it did anywhere else. Indeed, in Mali, Mauritania, the Sudan, and Saudi Arabia (outside the prying eyes of Westerners, as ads for such slaves -- "will trade for late-model car" etc. -- still appear in Arabic-language papers) black slavery continues. Support should be given to African Christian missions, for geopolitical as well as religious reasons. The real racism of Islam, where Arabs and the Arabic language are placed above all others (here quotations from Qur'an and hadith may be plentifully supplied) should be insistently publicized. The banning of music in Islam in church services should be noted; the totalitarian interference with virtually every area of existenc3e. Finally, if it becomes clear that to the extent that the Muslim populations expand, the non-Muslims in any African country will suffer -- not only directly, through assaults on their own wellbeing, and attempts to impose the shari'a, but because their countries will be seen as greater threats to security, and contacts with Western countries diminished rather than enhanced, the peoples of those countries will themselves act against the spread of Islam.

Never again should the Western countries allow internal Jihads to proceed; military intervention -- a handful of Western troops -- could stop the genocide in southern Sudan and should win wide support. Should a new Biafra be declared -- the Biafran cause that was misunderstood, was in fact a desperate attempt by the Ibo and other southern Christians to stop the theft of the oil in southern Nigeria by the Muslims of the North, who used the money taken from southern oil wells to enforce their will on the south -- that Biafra should be supported to the hilt. Perhaps black churches should be enrolled, and subsidized in order to limit the power of Islam.

Surely there is a case for splitting off the southern Sudan and protecting its people from the northern Jihadis. The southern Sudan has a right not to be forced to continue to live subject to the Arab Muslims of the North. The oil of the Sudan, incidentally, is in the south -- why should that money not go to rehabilitate the ravaged south and its people? And when, within a decade, Egypt attempts to suppress the effort of Ethiopia to at long last obtain some benefits for itself from the headwaters of the Nile (the Muslim Arabs of Egypt have always treated the Nile as their property, to which the black Africans of the south have no rights), the non-Muslim powers should back Ethiopia (itself facing a demographic problem from its Muslim population, which must be identified and dealt with) to the hilt. There are ways to push back, at every point, the worldwide Jihad; it requires an understanding of the enemy's weaknesses, and how to exploit them (just as the Arabs have been so good at exploiting pre-existing mental conditions in Europe, such as anti-Americanism and antisemitism, to split Europe from America to the benefit of the Jihadist agenda, and not only as it relates to the Arab siege of Infidel Israel). Two can play divide et impera; forget all the talk about "democracy" in Iraq, and wionning Muslim "hearts and minds" (can't be done); instead, concentrate on the 85% of the world that is non-Muslim, whose peoples need to understand the common threat, and to support one another against a Jihad that is without end, and that cannot be eliminated but only permanently contained.,

I don't know about everyone else, but all of the findings by our intelligence around the world is showing us a pattern of small pockets of terrorist cells everywhere.

Primarily, what concerns me most are Mexico and Canada. I read that our Soccer team played Mexico in Mexico a few days ago and the crowd was chanting 'Usama' 'Usama'......they then booed our players during the playing of our National Anthem.

It looks like the Jihadis are making an attempt to surround us by use of our neighboring countries. Amnesty for illegal aliens is a gigantic mistake, and this gives proof why.

I find it very hard to believe that Mexico's President Fox doesn't know about terrorists being harbored in his country. Do we really have to wait for another attack before we obliterate an Islamic nation for good measure? Do we have to wait until suicide/homicide bombers start blowing up buses here? Maybe there's a big master plan to end all of this that none of us are aware of, but I can't guess what it would be.

Can anyone please explain why our borders have not been shut down until we get this figured out?
Even the liberals have to admit that our safety far outweighs any form of political correctness.

D.C.

Hugh - excellent analysis of a problem given little attention by media or most US citizens.