If We Can't Even Name the Enemy
by Beth
Goodtree
Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com
April 22, 2004
Israel, the
United States, the European Union, India and parts of Africa, as well as Jews,
Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Animists and many others, all have a common
problem. Actually, three common problems: they are all in a state of war with
an organized global entity numbering in the many millions; they refuse to
accept this reality; and they cannot even name the enemy.
This enemy uses new tactics and fights an unconventional
war. No more massing of uniformed troops on their victim's borders prior to
invasion. This enemy infiltrates its targets using the legal means set up by
its targets, hides among civilians, covers its face when out in the open, and
uses lies and propaganda, as well as blackmail, to establish a foothold. This
enemy has no shame, certainly no morals, nor a particle of honor. And yet, all
of the aforementioned nations cannot name this enemy, confusing the symptom
with the actual pernicious disease.
Unlike US President George Bush and his compatriots have
stated, the enemy is not terror. Terror is merely a symptom of a fatal
sickness; it is a warfare tactic employed by the adversary. Therefore, stopping
the terror is not feasible unless the enemy, and thus the disease itself, is vanquished.
So who is this enemy that everyone refuses to identify?
The enemy is radical Islam; what some call Islamism, Islamists, Islamo-fascists or Islamo-Nazis.
And what is even worse, radical Islam is becoming the norm instead of the
aberration. Politically incorrect as this may be, it is time for the truth to
come out. Besides, the evidence is rampant, if only people have the fortitude
to face it. As much as the purveyors of political correctness may delude
themselves into thinking that everyone will behave nicely and everything will
be equal and hunky-dory if only we speak in socio-religious-neutral tones,
reality doesn't work that way.
One has only to examine acts of terrorism for the past
three-and-a-half years to see that it is almost exclusively caused by
Islamists. America, Bali, Madrid, Kashmir, the Philippines, Pakistan, India,
Russia -- no place is safe from the cancer of Islamism. And their hideouts
include England, France, Germany, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Canada, South
America, the US.... Like cockroaches, they go wherever they can infiltrate a
society.
If one looks at all the wars currently being waged on the
planet, it is almost exclusively Islamists on one side of each conflict. In the
Sudan, they enslave the Christians and Animists. In parts of Indonesia, they
force conversion to Islam with the threat of having one's head chopped off.
Then they sexually mutilate, without anesthesia, the newly converted men and
women -- all in the name of Islam.(1)
Last month, I had the honor of meeting Sheik Abdul Hadi Palazzi, secretary general
of the Italian Muslim Association. In our all-too-brief conversation, he told
me -- in direct contradiction to President Bush's exhortations that most
Muslims in the US are peaceful -- Islam in America has become radicalized. And
unlike Mr. Bush and his apparently inadequate advisors, this man is an expert
on Islam and its adherents.
So I began looking for the evidence. Sadly it is all
around me. For example, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) is
unfortunately still a respected and influential lobbying group, even though it
has proven ties to Hamas and Al-Qaeda. It also has no
tolerance for anyone other than Muslims, as evidenced by the following
frightening statement(2) made by Omar Ahmad,
co-founder of CAIR: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other
faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should
be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on
Earth."
While CAIR may be just one group of Muslims in America,
the entire Muslim-American community has, at best, been silent whenever a Jew
is injured or murdered by Muslims for merely being a Jew. No condemnations, no
public examinations (as the Catholics are now doing in light of abuse by
priests). Those who keep publicly silent are, in fact, showing their support
for genocide (killing someone because of their religion) by refusing to condemn
it. (Furthermore, living two towns over from Paterson, New Jersey, I witnessed
the virtual glee and the celebrations in the street with which the mostly
Palestinian Arabs treated the news of the murderous attacks of 9-11.)
Nor are Jews the only victims of Islamism. I have yet to
hear any Muslim in America condemn the Islamist killings and desecrations of
Christian Arabs and their holy sites. Lebanese and other Arab Christians have
been systemically slaughtered for being Christian. They have had their lands
confiscated, their holy sites held hostage and their bibles used as toilet
paper(3) without any official Muslims in this country condemning the practices
or offering assistance to the victims.
Even countries that have been officially termed
'moderate' are anything but gentle and accepting. Malaysia has been deemed
moderate by the US and yet here is what Malaysia's former leader, Dr. Mahathir, had to say(4) at the
Organization of Islamic Countries in the Fall of 2003: "We need guns and
rockets, bombs and warplanes, tanks and warships..." And every last
delegate there -- from all 57 Islamic countries -- gave that speech a standing
ovation. Even the whole concept of an Organization of Islamic Countries is not
merely exclusionary, it pits Islam and an Islamist
agenda against the rest of the world.
Then there is Saudi Arabia; her royal family honored
guests for a Bush barbecue. They are the funders and
supporters of the founding movement of Islamism -- Wahabbism.
And they continue to fund it to this day. They also prosecute those who would
purge their schoolbooks of material offensive to Christians and Jews and
advocating armed jihad.(5) Meanwhile Egypt, another country designated
'moderate,' has official state textbooks exalting Islamic holy war.(6)
Until the civilized world gets the moral courage to tell Muslims
that certain forms of Islam are unacceptable and merely a cover for a Nazi-like
agenda, we will continue being victims, as will the truly peaceful, gentle
Muslims who are hiding out of fear. Sheikh Palazzi
has said this at risk to his life. It is time for our political leaders to stop
being so cowardly and politically incorrect as to put their voting public at
risk by refusing to acknowledge the real problem --Islamism -- and make a
stand.
Footnotes
1) http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-duin010202.shtml
2) http://www.anti-cair-net.org/
3) http://www.rense.com/general25/bibles.htm (Note: this is a
notoriously anti-Semitic, anti-Israel website.)
4) http://thestar.com.my/oic/ story.asp?file=/2003/10/16/oic/20031016123438
5) http://www.newsday.com/ news/nationworld/world/wire/ sns-ap-saudi-extremes,0,5489561,print.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
6) http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/index_me.html