RELIGION or POLITICS ??? Never Just The Economy, Stupid - Cont'd.

Happy Wednesday to you, friends. I am convinced this to be a very important article for everyone to read, bar none. It is written by Brian T. Kennedy, President of the Claremont Institute, and who has also written for such as the National Review, Wall Street Journal, and Investor's Business Daily. This article was published in the Newsletter, IMPRIMIS. by Hillsdale College. Let's get to it.  You've read the Koran Suras to set up your base for understanding one of America's BIGGEST PROBLEM ahead.


NOT JUST THE ECONOMY, STUPID.....

      It is often said that to point out these verses is to cherry pick unfairly the most violent parts of the Koran.   In response, I(author) assert that we must try to understand Muslims as they understand themselves.    And I hasten to add that the average American Muslim does not understand the Koran with any level of detail.   So I am not painting a picture here of the average Muslim.  I am trying to understand those Muslims, both here in the U.S. and abroad, who actively seek the destruction of America.

      Here at home, the threat is posed by the Muslim Brotherhood and its organizational arms, such as the Council on American  on Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the various Muslim student associations.   These groups seek to persuade Americans that Islam is a religion of peace.   But let me quote to you from a document obtained during the 2007 Holy Land Trial investigating terrorist funding.   It is a Muslim Brotherhood Strategic Memorandum on North American Affairs that was approved by the Shura Council and the Organizational Conference in l987.  It speaks of "Enablement of Islam in North America, meaning: establishing an effective and a stable Islamic Movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood which adopts Muslims' causes domestically and globally, and which works to expand the observant Muslim base, aims at unifying and directing Muslims' efforts, present Islam as a civilization alternative, and supports the global Islamic State wherever it is".

Elsewhere this document says:

      The process of settlement is a "Civilization-JIHADIST Process" with all the means.   The IKHWAN {the Muslim Brotherhood} must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand JIHAD in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah's religion is made victorious over all other religions.   Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for JIHAD yet.   It is a Muslim's destiny to perform JIHAD and work wherever he is and wherever lands until the final hour comes......

       Now during the Bush administration the number of Muslims in the U.S. was typically estimated to be around three million.   The Pew Research Center in 2007 estimated it to be 2.35 million.   In 2000, the Council on American Islamic Relation put the number at five million.  And President Obama in his Cairo speech two years ago put it at seven million. 

       In that light, consider a 2007 survey of American Muslim opinion conducted by the Pew Research Center.   Eight percent of American Muslims who took part in this survey said they believed that suicide bombing can sometimes be justified in the defense of Islam.   Even accepting a low estimate of three million Muslims in the U.S., this would mean that 240,000 among us held that suicide bombing in the name of Islam can be justified.

        Among American Muslims 18-29 years old, 15 percent agreed with that  and 60 percent said they thought of themselves as Muslim first and American second.   Among all particpants in the survey, five percent -- and five percent of the low estimate of three million Muslims in America is 150,000 -- said they had a favorable view of al Qaeda.

       Given these numbers, it is not unreasonable to suggest that the political aims and ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood represent a domestic threat to national security.   It is one thing to have hundreds of terrorist sympathizers within our borders, but quite another if that number is in the hundreds of thousands.   Consider the massacre at Fort Hood:  Major Nidal Malik Hasan believed that he was acting as a devout Muslim -- indeed, he believed he was obeying a religious mandate to wage war against his fellow soldiers.  Yet even to raise the question of whether Islam presents a domestic threat today is to invite charges of bigotry or worse.

OK,  I am cutting here and will continue on Friday. My blog friday starts out thusly -- AND AS DANGEROUS AS IT POTENTIALLY IS, THIS DOMESTIC THREAT PALES IN COMPARISON TO THE FOREIGN THREAT FROM THE ILSAMIC THREAT FROM THE iSLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN AND ITS ALLIES --- Are you all getting the picture??
If not come visit again then, and you will be convinced.     Cheers      CJ