Identifying the
enemy
”THE CLASH OF
CIVILIZATIONS AND THE GREAT CALIPHATE”
by Larry Abraham
January 29, 2004
THE REALITY: DANGER IS from JIHAD and NOT from ALL ARABS!
President Bush and his administration spokesmen are not telling the American people what they really need to know about this “war”.
The war against terror did not begin on September 11,
2001, nor will it end with the peaceful transition to civilian authority in
Iraq, whenever that may be. In fact, Iraq is but a footnote in the bigger
context of this encounter, but an important one none the less. This war is what
the Jihadists themselves are calling
the “Third
Great Jihad.”
JIHAD IS 1500 YEARS OLD! They are operating within the framework of a time
line which reaches back to the very creation of Islam in the seventh century
and are presently attempting to recreate the dynamics which gave rise to the
religion in the first two hundred years of its existence.
No religion in history grew as fast, in its infancy, and the reasons for the
initial growth of Islam are not hard to explain when you understand what the
world was like at the time of Muhammad’s death in
632 AD. Remember that the Western Roman Empire was in ruins and the
Eastern Empire, based in Constantinople, was trying desperately to keep the
power of its early grandeur while transitioning to Christianity as a de facto
state religion. ROME HIT THE LOCALS HARD, POUNDED THEM with an enormous
INCOME TAX BILL ---these were ARABS WHO LIVED WITHIN THE BORDERS OF ROME’s
eastern EMPIRE. THE LOCAL pasha or MULLAH was in CHARGE OF COLLECTING THOSE
TAXES. The costs to the average person were large as he was being required
to meet the constantly rising taxes levied by the state along with the tithes
coerced by the Church.
What Islam did was, it offered the
“carrot or the sword”. If you became a convert, your taxes were immediately
eliminated, as was your tithe. If you didn’t, you faced death. The choice
was not hard for most to make, unless you were a very devoted martyr in the
making. GO MUSLIM NO TAXES, NO DEATH? ALLAH SIGN
ME UP! Who wouldn’t have joined??
At the beginning, even the theology was not too hard for most to
swallow, considering that both Jewry and Christianity were given their due by
the Prophet. There is but one God-Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet, as was
Jesus, and the pre-Christian Jewish prophets of the Torah (Old Testament). Both
were called “children of the book”—the book being the Koran, which replaced
both the Old and New Testaments for former Christians and Jews.
With this practical approach to spreading the “word” Islam grew like wild-fire,
reaching out from the Saudi Arabian Peninsula in all directions. This early
growth is what the Muslims call the “First” great Jihad and it met with little resistance
until Charles Martel of France, the father of Charlemagne, stopped them in the
battle of Tours in France, after they had firmly established Islam on the
Iberian Peninsula. This first onslaught against the West continued in various
forms and at various times until Islam was finally driven out of Spain in 1492
at the battle of Granada. The “Second great jihad” came with the Ottoman Turks.
This empire succeeded in bringing about the downfall of Constantinople as a
Christian stronghold and an end to Roman hegemony in all of its forms. The
Ottoman Empire was Islam’s most successful expansion of territory even though
the religion itself had fractured into warring sects and bitter rivalries with
each claiming the ultimate truths in “the ways of the Prophet”. By 1683 the
Ottomans had suffered a series of defeats on both land and sea and the final,
unsuccessful attempt to capture Vienna set the stage for the collapse of any
further territorial ambitions and Islam shrunk into various sheikhdoms, emir
dominated principalities, and roving tribes of nomads.
However, by this time a growing anti-western sentiment, blaming its internal
failures on anyone but themselves, was taking hold and setting the stage for a
new revival known as Wahhabism, a sect which came into full bloom under the
House of Saud on the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the onset of WWI. It is
this Wahhabi version of Islam which has infected the religion itself, now
finding adherents in almost all branches and sects, especially the Shiites. Wahhabiism
calls for the complete and total rejection or destruction of anything and
everything which is not based in the original teachings of The Prophet and
finds its most glaring practice in the policies of the Afghani Taliban or the
Shiite practices of the late Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Its Ali Pasha (Field
Marshall) is now known as Osama bin Laden, the leader of the “Third Jihad”, who
is Wahhabi, as were his 9/11 attack teams, 18 of which were also Saudi.
The strategy for this “holy war” did not begin with the planning of the
destruction of the World Trade Center. It began with the toppling of the
Shah of Iran back in the late 1970’s. With his plans and programs to
”westernize” his country, along with his close ties to the U.S. and subdued
acceptance of the State of Israel, the Shah was the soft target. Remember
”America Held Hostage”? Thanks, in
large part to the hypocritical and disastrous policies of the Jimmy Carter
State Department, the revolution was set into motion, the SEMINAL EVENT THE
ENTIRE TURNING POINT was the DAY THE Shah was deposed, his armed forces
scattered or murdered and stage one was complete. The Third Jihad now had a
base of operations and the oil wealth to support its grand design or what they
call the “Great
Caliphate”.
JIHADISTS, meaning FANATICS
and only fanatics …..CAN RUN ARAB COUNTRIES. Any western sympathizer gets
elected, he gets offed. To wit, President Sadat of Egypt, Benazir Bhutto of
Pakistan. And thousands of minor officials. Have any truck with the west,
you’re toast.
What this design calls for is the replacement of all secular (*NON
RELIGIOUS FANATIC) leadership in any country with Muslim majorities.
This would include, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, all the Emirates,
Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan,
Malaysia, Indonesia and finally What they call the “occupied territory”
Israel. As a part of this strategy,
forces of the jihad will infiltrate governments and the military as a prelude
to taking control, once the secular leadership is ousted or assassinated. Such
was the case in Lebanon leading to the Syrian occupation and in Egypt with the
murder of Anwar Sadat, along with the multiple attempts on the lives of Hussein
in Jordan, Mubarak of Egypt and Musharraf in Pakistan. Pakistan is a particular
prize because of its nuclear weapons. Please note al Qaeda’s call for the
Islamic-militant overthrow of Musharraf in Pakistan on March 25th of
this year. (today he’s been replaced.)
The long-range strategy of the Third Jihad counts on three strategic goals.
First, the U.S. withdrawing from the region just as it did in Southeast Asia,
following Vietnam. Second, taking control of the oil wealth in the Muslim
countries, which would be upwards to 75% of known reserves; third, using nuclear
weapons or other WMDs to annihilate Israel. A further outcome of successfully
achieving these objectives would be to place the United Nations as the sole
arbiter in East/West negotiations and paralyze Western resistance, leading to
total withdrawal from all Islamic dominated countries. Evidence of the Bush
Administration awareness of this plan is found in the events immediately
following the 9/11 attack. AND QUITE FRANKLY, ALL the Prexies knew SOME HUGE
ATROCITY was coming. NONE would have
stopped it from HAPPENING as they needed a reason to begin the war. The
administration’s first move was to shore up Pakistan and Egypt, believing that
these two would be the next targets for al Qaeda, while Americans focused on
the disaster in New York. The administration also knew that the most important
objective was to send a loud and clear message that the U.S. was in the region
to stay, not only to shore up our allies but to send a message to the
Jihadists.
The attack on Afghanistan was necessary to break-up a secure al Qaeda base of
operations and put their leadership on the run or in prison. The war in Iraq
also met a very strategic necessity in that no one knew how much collaboration
existed between Saddam Hussein and the master planners of the Third Jihad or Hussein’s
willingness to hand off WMDs to terrorist groups including the PLO in Israel.
What was known were serious indications of on-going collaboration as Saddam
funneled money to families of suicide bombers attacking the Israelis and others
in Kuwait.
What the U.S. needed to establish was a significant base of operations smack
dab in the middle of the Islamic world, in a location which effectively cut it
in half. Iraq was the ideal target for this and a host of other strategic
reasons.
Leadership of various anti-American groups both here and abroad understood the
vital nature of the Bush initiative and thus launched their demonstrations,
world-wide, to “Stop The War”. Failing this, they also laid plans to build a
political campaign inside the country, with the War in Iraq as a plebiscite,
using a little known politician as the thrust point — Howard Dean. This helps
to explain how quickly the Radical Left moved into the Dean campaign with both
people and money, creating what the clueless media called the “Dean
Phenomenon”.
By building on the left-wing base in the Democrat party and the “Hate Bush”
crowd, the campaign has already resulted in a consensus among the aspirants,
minus Joe Lieberman, to withdraw the U.S. from Iraq and turn the operation over
to the U.N. And, if past is prologue, i.e., Vietnam, once the U.S. leaves it
will not go back under any circumstances, possibly even the
destruction of Israel.
Should George W. Bush be defeated in November we could expect to see the
dominoes start to fall in the secular Islamic countries and The Clash of
Civilizations, predicted several years ago by Samuel Huntington, would then
become a life changing event in all of our lives. What surprised the Jihadists
following the 9/11 attack was how American sentiment mobilized around the
president and a profound sense of patriotism spread across the country. They
were not expecting this reaction, based on what had happened in the past, nor
were they expecting the determined resolve of the President himself. I also believe
this is one of the reasons we have not had any further attacks within our
borders. They are content to wait, just as one of their tactical mentors; V.I.
Lenin admonished...”two steps forward, one step back”.
A couple of additional events serve as valuable footnotes to the current
circumstances we face: the destruction of the human assets factor of the CIA
during the Carter presidency, presided over by the late Senator Frank Church.
This fact has plagued our intelligence agencies right up to this very day with
consequences which are now obvious. And, Jimmy Carter himself, the one man who
must bear the bulk of the responsibility for setting the stage of the Third
Jihad. Americans should find little comfort in how the Democrat contenders
constantly seek his “advice and counsel”.
We should not expect to see any meaningful cooperation from Western Europe,
especially the French. Since failing to protect their own interests in Algeria
(by turning the country over to the first of the Arab terrorists, Ammad Ben Bella),
the country itself is now occupied by Islamic immigrants totaling twenty
percent of the population.
We are in the battle of our lives, a battle which will go on for many years;
possibly even generations. If we fail to understand what we are facing or
falter in the challenge of “knowing our enemy” the results will be
catastrophic. Imagine a world where al Qaeda regimes control 75% of the world’s
oil, have at their disposal nuclear weapons, legions of willing suicide
soldiers, and our national survival is dependent on the good graces of Kofi
Annan and the United Nations.
There is one final footnote which may be the scariest of all. Either none of
the Democrats currently leading the drive to their party’s nomination are aware
of the facts of the Great Caliphate and Third Jihad or they do know and they
don’t care so long as their power lust is satisfied. But, I can guarantee you
one thing for sure: some of their most ardent supporters are aware of this and
will do anything they can to bring it about.
[Note....this was written before John Kerry had the nomination sewed up...but
recent events clearly demonstrate that Kerry is going to fulfill Abraham’s
prediction of the Democrats calling for the UN and the French/Germans/Spain
coalition to force the US out of Iraq. Also understand that the current 9/11
hearings are a political show and Clarke’s book was timed for these hearings
and the campaign. And this is why Condoleezza Rice is seeking a private meeting
with this commission to tell it like it is. The national security issues
involved around 9/11 cannot be an open book to the public, and I believe we
have to understand that.]
This is scary stuff. President Bush and the Republicans are obviously extremely
cautious in bringing this issue to the campaign because the left-leaning media
and the Kerry Democratic left would call this racism against Islam, and a
distraction for the alleged lies of WMD and our reasons for going into Iraq.
Bush correctly referred to the axis of evil (Iran, Libya, Iraq and North Korea)
as a pointed strategy to blunt the WMD-terrorist movement and he has been very
successful in thwarting al Qaeda, despite what everyone on the left says. We
are far better off without the threat from Iraq and Libya, all within the last
12 months.
We are threatened in Pakistan and if Musharraf is assassinated (it’s been tried
several times in the past year), we can see how the militants will gain control
of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, which have already spread to Iran (by a militant
Islamic scientist) and if Musharraf is taken out we have both Iran and Pakistan
as militant Islamic power bases armed with nuclear weapons. And let’s not
overlook Abraham’s issue about the potential for militant Islamic states who
would control 75% of the world’s oil. This is probably why Dick Cheney, Rice,
Powell, and Wolfowitz are so committed to the belief that we are in this
struggle for the free world as we have known it and focused on defeating the
militant Islamic-al Maida’s global strategy. They skirt the core issues raised
by Abraham in this article because of the political-correctness implications,
but after reading this, you understand what is at stake here. Kerry and the
liberal Democrats want control of Washington at any price. Abraham clearly
spells out what price that is: Victory for al Qaeda and the Islamic militancy.
Abraham’s article brought all of these issues together and why it is important
for us to gain this perspective and educate our friends and associates.”
The chilling report above, forwarded by Bill O’Brennan,
pulls no punches. It clearly lays out all that is so desperately at stake in
the global war now being waged between militant Islam and the West, but is
not being mentioned in this election year, because of ‘Political Correctness’.
A friend of mine on the faculty at Stanford (who will go unnamed for obvious
reasons), told me years ago that “...’political correctness’ is the AIDS of the
brain, and will probably turn out to be just as deadly.” That was before 9/11,
but his words have turned out to be doubly prophetic.
Larry Abraham apparently writes a periodic letter called the “Insider Report”;
I don’t know if the piece below is or was a part of that letter; my forwarding
his work in no way is a solicitation for it. The piece below is being forwarded
because, of all the material I’ve read, this is one of the most on-target
assessments of the current situation I’ve seen.
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