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Editor’s note: In light of the skyrocketing phenomenon of Muslim migrants stabbing unbelievers in random stabbing sprees in Europe, as well as the calculated denial that leaders, authorities and media are enforcing about it, Jihad Watch has deemed it important to bring attention to the crucial steps America and the West must take to robustly confront the unceasing onslaught by Jihad and its leftist enablers. We are, therefore, reprinting below Frontpage editor Jamie Glazov’s July 12, 2016 Breitbart article, “9 Steps to Successfully Counter Jihad”. Having written the article in the closing chapter of the disastrous Obama administration, the author recognizes and celebrates the life-saving turn-around disposition that the Trump administration has brought in to counter Jihad. Dr. Glazov is most confident that the suggested steps below will continue to be the overall focus of the new administration — which, thankfully, is now taking many of the crucial and constructive steps vis-à-vis our enemy.
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9 Steps to Successfully Counter Jihad.
By Jamie Glazov
While the Obama administration continues to allow the Muslim Brotherhood to direct American foreign policy and, therefore, to implement “strategies” that render America defenseless in the face of Jihad and stealth Jihad, there are some alternative strategies that have the potential to turn this catastrophic situation around completely in America’s favor.
Below are 9 concrete steps that, if implemented by a future American administration, would make a big difference in preserving our civilization and in defending Americans from terrorism:
1. Label the Enemy and Make a Threat Assessment.
The Obama administration continues to refuse to label our enemy and, therefore, it continues to enable our defeat in the terror war. It is urgent that we name our enemy (i.e. Islamic Jihad) and definitively identify what ideology inspires our enemy (i.e. Islamic law).
2. Scrap “Countering Violent Extremism.”
“Countering Violent Extremism” is the pathetic and destructive focus of the Obama administration in allegedly fighting the terror war. On the one hand, this “focus” is vague to the point of being meaningless and completely incapacitates us. On the other hand, this focus allows the administration to perpetuate the destructive fantasy that there are other types of “extremists” — who just happen to be the Left’s political opponents — that pose a great threat to the country.
For example, as Stephen Coughlin has revealed, the “violent extremists” the administration is clearly worried about are the “right-wing Islamophobes” whom the administration obviously considers to be the real threat to American security.
The “Countering Violent Extremism” is trash and needs to be thrown in the garbage.
3. Stop “Partnering” With Muslim Brotherhood Front Groups.
The government needs to stop cooperating with, and listening to, Muslim Brotherhood front groups such as CAIR and ISNA immediately. The Muslim Brotherhood document, the Explanatory Memorandum, has made it clear that the Brotherhood’s objective is to destroy our civilization from within by our own hands with the influence of these groups. Moreover, as Robert Spencer advises, there needs to be legislation that will bar all such groups and affiliated individuals from advising the government or receiving any grants from it.
4. Implement a Concrete “Countering-Jihad” Strategy.
After discarding the “Countering Violent Extremism” absurdity, a concrete Counter-Jihad strategy must become an official policy. It must specifically register that Jihadists are the enemies and that Islamic law (Sharia) is what specifically motivates them.
Most importantly, as Sebastian Gorka urges in Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, the government needs to lay down a vision, an actual “threat doctrine analysis” in a thorough document, just like George Kennan’s Long Telegram and NSC-68 did in laying out the strategic foundation to fighting communism in the Cold War. It is absolutely mind-boggling that nothing of this sort exists today in our terror war — and it is a reflection of the Left being in charge and of the destructive defeat that it is sowing.
5. Launch Our Own Counter-propaganda Campaign.
The Left and Islamists engage in propaganda 24/7. What does our propaganda war entail? Zilch.
Sebastian Gorka is crucially correct, therefore, when he recommends a national counter-propaganda campaign that involves a two-part approach: the first being the bolstering of efforts to define our enemy (Steps #1 and #4 above) and, second, the strengthening of our allies and partners in their own counter-propaganda efforts – which must include our empowering of Muslims who are trying to form an anti-Jihadist version of Islam.
Consequently, educational programs have to be set up everywhere, from public schools to universities to workplaces, in businesses and numerous other institutions. These programs must crystallize what exactly Islamic Law is and how it inspires and sanctions violence against unbelievers. This has to also involve, as Gorka urges, “a nationwide program of education that includes the armed services as well as federal, state, and local police forces and the intelligence community.”
The education campaign must also focus on the second part of Gorka’s counter-propaganda campaign, which is to help strengthen Muslims who seek to seize Islam from the jihadists’ hands.
6. Affirm Sharia’s Assault on the U.S. Constitution as Seditious.
Once the truth is accepted that jihadis are inspired and sanctioned by their Islamic texts, it must logically become required that mosques, Islamic schools and groups have to immediately curtail any teaching that motivates sedition, violence, and hatred of unbelievers (i.e. remember how CAIR advised Muslims not to talk to the FBI). Indeed, once the government discerns and labels the elements of Islamic law that threaten the American Constitution, any preaching and spreading of those elements in America must be labelled as seditious.
7. Put Pressure on Mosques, Islamic Groups and Schools.
Authorities have to start subjecting mosques and other Islamic institutions to surveillance — and discard the suicidal leftist notion that it is “racist” and Islamophobic to do so. Islamic institutions have to be made to buffer their lip-service against terror with actually doing something about it. As Robert Spencer counsels, this has to involve introducing programs that teach against jihadists’ understanding of Islam — and these programs have to be regularly monitored by the government. (This will be a part of Gorka’s suggested counter-propaganda campaign discussed in Step #5).
Spencer rightly stresses that the paradigm has to become that Muslim communities have to win the “trust” of intelligence and law enforcement agents, rather than the other way around, which is, absurdly and tragically, the case right now.
8. Bring Counter-Jihadists into the Government.
Instead of having Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers like Mohamed Elibiary serving on the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council (he “resigned” in Sept. 2014 under mysterious circumstances), and Muslim Brotherhood-linked individuals like Huma Abedin serving as the right-hand woman of Hillary Clinton, we need to bring in people who actually love America and want to protect it. We all know who these noble and courageous individuals are – and some of them are referenced in this article. The government must also bring in brave Muslim individuals who genuinely reject Jihad and empower them in propagating their anti-jihadist vision for Islam.
(P.S. Yes, there is an argument to be made that Islam cannot be Islam without Jihad. But the debate over this belongs in another forum. And whatever the answer, it does not mean that the effort to empower Muslims who want to make the anti-jihadist Islamic vision possible should not be made.)
9. Ridicule the Enemy.
Ridicule is a vicious and potent weapon. There is a baffling and shameful silence in our culture’s sphere of comedy, especially in Hollywood and our media, with regard to the myriad ingredients of Sharia and Jihad that merit at least a million hilarious satirical sketches.
Bill Maher, for whatever unappealing drawbacks he has in conservatives’ eyes, has set a bold standard in this respect in his Burka Fashion Show skit. American comedians need to start writing scripts that follow in Maher’s footsteps and Americans need to encourage and equip them to do so – and to also vigorously defend them from the attacks and slanders they will inevitably receive from totalitarian leftist and Islamic forces.
We must never underestimate the crippling effect of comedy on the totalitarian Mullahs of the world. Indeed, the contemptuous, snickering and roaring laughter of people, as they gaze at the pathetic rules and lives of Sharia’s gatekeepers, poses a danger to tyrants like no other.
Jamie Glazov holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Russian, U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He is the editor of Frontpagemag.com, the author of the critically-acclaimed, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror, and the host of the web-tv show, The Glazov Gang. His new book is Jihadist Psychopath: How He is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us. Visit his site at JamieGlazov.com, follow him on Twitter: @JamieGlazov, and reach him at jamieglazov11@gmail.com.
Haha says
Who listens?..
Maran says
Excellent proposals! Let’s go…
Geoffrey Britain says
Well, those are steps in the right direction. But… it’s still contains a core of willful blindness.
Glazov states; “Once the truth is accepted that jihadis are inspired and sanctioned by their Islamic texts, it must logically become required that mosques, Islamic schools and groups have to immediately curtail any teaching that motivates sedition, violence, and hatred of unbelievers…”
This standard would require that every mosque, Islamic school and ‘group'(?) in America throw the Qur’an itself in the trash. As there are at least 109 passages* in the Qur’an in which Allah commands violence against the infidel. Nor can that Qur’an be revised for the reason given below.
*https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx
Glazov goes on to say that, “Indeed, once the government discerns and labels the elements of Islamic law that threaten the American Constitution, any preaching and spreading of those elements in America must be labelled as seditious.”
Again, by that standard, Islam itself is inherently seditious.
Some hard truths:
Islam’s tenets are fundamentally antithetical to American liberties. Thus, a Muslim who claims loyalty to America is either willfully blind to the basic and inescapable incompatibility of Islamic tenets and American liberties OR… a liar, practicing Taqiyya/Muruna.
Shariah Law is simply legal formulation of the Qur’an’s edicts. They cannot be separated.
Islam cannot be reformed, neither externally or internally because of Muhammad’s most basic and oft repeated claim; that he is NOT the Qur’an’s author. That he merely took dictation from the archangel Gabriel who perfectly transmitted Allah’s words. To reject that claim is to implicitly declare that Muhammad was either deluded or a monstrous liar. In either case, Islam’s theological foundations collapse. Whereas, acceptance of Muhammad’s claim prevents reform because fallible mankind is incapable of ‘correcting’ infallible Allah.
Islamic jihadists are devout, fundamentalists following Allah’s edicts and Muhammad’s commands faithfully.
The least violent way to defeat Islamic totalitarianism;
Expulsion of all Muslims from the West, which ends hijrah (migratory) jihad. Quarantine the Ummah, which stops ‘soft’ jihad. Use their own beliefs against them and stop violent Jihad in it’s tracks. Specifically, Allah’s declaration in the Qur’an that an ‘unclean’ Muslim cannot enter paradise. ANY contact with ANY part of a pig renders a Muslim unclean and unable to enter paradise without first undergoing a special cleansing ritual. So… issue hollow point ammo that encapsulates dried pig’s blood to our troops. Then jihadists risk permanent residence in hell if they are slain or wounded and captured. That will gravely effect recruitment. As ‘paradise’ and those promised 72 virgins are the main incentive for young jihadists.
Secondly, quick military trials for captured jihadists and jihad promoting Imams and Mullahs with execution by drowning in pig’s blood. Video of the executions uploaded to the internet. Execution of naked jihadists drowned in a clear acrylic vat of pig’s blood will “put the fear of God” into jihadists. Now dying for Allah carries great risk, becoming a new form of Russian Roulette…
You gain leverage over an enemy by attaching, what for them is intolerable consequence to their aggression.
Chand says
The censor board might not pass this gory flick!
Michael Copeland says
Have a spare copy of “Reliance of the Traveller”, or a sendable download of it, and lend it to others so that they may see for themselves.
Ditto with Robert Spencer’s “History of Jihad”.
These are a small contribution, but they help.
Encourage people to INFORM THEMSELVES.
Walter Sieruk says
The politically correct idea if refusing “to label our enemy” is both foolish and weak. As item number one of the above list explains . This PC policy of folly was terrible furthered by the Obama administration.
It’s very important to call things and individuals as they actually and really are,in accord with reality, or in keeping with the bounds of reality. So there’s nothing ,at all, wrong with ,for example, calling a cat a cat ,a dog a dog and an Islamic terrorist a Muslim terrorist.
It’s a strange but common phenomena in America’s and Europe’s modern PC culture that when it comes to Islamic terrorism there are many people who are afraid to call it what it is. That’s odd because no one is afraid to call a person who engages in violence for anarchy and “anarchist terrorist”. Nor are people afraid to call a Marxist who engages in violence for the ideology of communism a “Communist terrorist.” Likewise, a person who commits violence for Environmentalism an “Environmentalist terrorists. “Nevertheless, when it comes to a Muslim terrorist who engages in deadly violence because of the theology and ideology of Islam, many people fear to call that person an “Islamic terrorists.” Strange but true.
Geoffrey Britain says
It’s not strange at all. As long as Islam is perceived to be a ‘religion’ instead of what it is… a violently expansionist, totalitarian ideology that wraps itself in a facade of religious pretense… then identifying murderous terrorists as “Muslim” terrorists or even “Islamic” terrorists is verbotten because it gets people far too close to identifying Islam itself as the source of jihadist terrorism. Confronting the cowardly and naively gullible with Islam’s 1.5 BILLION enablers of murderous agents. That’s why speaking out against Islam itself is labeled “Islamophobia”. Above all else, Islam’s tenets must not be exposed as murderously totalitarian. It’s like if we had refused to identify Nazism itself as the real enemy and limited ourselves to claiming that Hitler and the SS were our sole enemy.
Walter Sieruk says
Number four and five on the above list mentions Dr. Sedastian Gorka , the wisdom of this man is further shown that he well ,well, understands that the root cause of the ideology of Islamic terrorism is Islam. For in his book which is entitled DEFEATING JIHAD explained about the jihadist –Muslims on page 132 which reads “The enemy’s center of gravity is ideology of holy war against the infidel…”
This is, of course, the ideology of Islam jihad [Islamic terrorism] in which the jihadists are in this war against us for the victory of Islam over us.
Walter Sieruk says
All the nine steps on the above list are a very strong reminder that there is much talk about rooting out the ideology of Islamic terrorism. What is not mentioned is that the foundation of this type of terrorism is the theology of Islam’s “holy book” the Quran. For the Quran instructs in the uses of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in, for example, 2:191. 5:33. 9:5, 111.123. 47:4. Therefore Islam is a false ,dangerous and deadly religion.
Abu Jahl says
I have a much simpler guide. It’s just one step:
1. Force the left out of power
There you go, solved the jihad terror problem in our countries once and for all.
Indiana Tom says
Since most Muslims are not employed and on the dole, quit giving them free shet and quit accomodating them.
gravenimage says
9 Steps to Successfully Counter Jihad
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Good list from Jamie Glazov.
I would suggest that the first thing we need to do, though, is to stanch the flood of Muslims into the West. As long as this continues, the threat of Jihad will continue to grow.
Lydia Church says
10. Never acquiesce to islam in any way. Don’t join in with ‘interfaith’ events, etc.
Promote something better (like Christianity) and expose the evils of islam.
Think: offensive and defensive strategies.
Guy Forester says
When encountering an existential threat (as in Nazi Germany in WW2), various methods of combating that threat are necessary. The Glazov list is one part of the response.
Basically, when someone is shooting at you, shoot back. We have failed to do so.
We need more concrete action:
1. NAME the state sponsors of terrorism
2. SECURE the border
3. Strictly limit the intake of refugees to those most likely to be victims (as in the Yazidis and Christians in Syria and Iraq). Even these need careful vetting and limits to prevent mass migration
4. Declare war on those that declared war on us
5. Stay out of the never ending internecine wars over in the middle east
6. Stop all foreign aid to these perpetual battle zone countries
7. Build alliances with countries that are willing to name the enemy and fight back
8. Fight back with knowledge: that is, KNOW who the enemy is, ID the enemy, Target the enemy where weakest.
We are well past the point of talk. Our dufus leaders sent our troops into the wrong places, with the wrong goals, and hamstrung.
As for writing lists of what to do, including my own, here is a quote attributed to Gen. Douglas MacArthur (even if he didn’t say it, he should have):
“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons”
Christine says
After World War Two, the Russians invaded Austria and gangraped every woman they found in front of her husband, son, brother, grandfather, uncle, etc. Sound familiar?
Since Hitler had already disarmed them, the Austrians were helpless. Yet less than 10 years after the invasion, they drove the Communists out of Austria without firing a shot.
A courageous monk encouraged the Austrians to pray the rosary that God would deliver Austria from Communism. Austrians prayed the rosary by themselves and in processions.
Brazil in the 1960s and the Phillipines in the 1980s had similar successes with praying the rosary during Communist takeovers.
To pray the rosary, follow the directions here: http://www.cmri.org/how-to-pray-the-rosary.shtml
Chand says
Praying the rosary defeated Communism? I thought Reagan’s Star Wars and the CIA’s Stinger missiles to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan did. Kim Jong Un watch out!! Here comes the ICRBs: Inter Continental Rosary Beads!!
David says
What do you buy a Jihadi for Christmas? A blowup doll. What is a Muslim’s favourite record? Baby Love By the (Muslim) Supremes
terry says
I love the burkha fashion show idea,
Muslim male dresses should be included.