Are we at war with Islam?

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, June 25, 2002 | Joseph Farah

[JohnHuang2]

Within hours of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center on Sept. 11, President Bush and other U.S. and western leaders were explaining that though we found ourselves in a state of war, that war was not with Islam.

Nine months later, we're still confused about who our enemy is.

If you have any chance of winning a war, you must be able to identify the enemy.

Are we at war with Islam? Most definitely not.

But, Islam is at war with us.

In fact, Islam has been at war with the West, with Christianity, with Judaism – indeed, with the entire non-Muslim world – ever since the days of Muhammad. This struggle, more than any other, has defined history for the last 1,200 years.

Americans don't understand this because they don't know their history. In Muhammad's era, Islam swept through the Arabian peninsula to conquer the Middle East. Its armies then marched on Europe, Asia and Africa. In the late 15th century, Columbus was exploring new trade routes because Islam's armies controlled the land routes to the East. He accidentally discovered America. In the late 17th century, Islam's armies were at the gates of Vienna.

For the next 300 years, Islam's imperialist ambitions faded. But it is quite clearly on the rebound today.

Enriched by oil wealth, Islam is expanding in every direction – through Africa, through Asia, through Europe – and even in the United States where it is said to be the fastest-growing religion.

Can Islam defeat the West?

Certainly not in any conventional military confrontation. But that is not the goal. This is asymmetrical warfare. The beauty of this conflict from Islam's point of view is that the West can't even identify targets, can't even clearly identify the enemy.

America has troops in well over 100 nations. They are stationed all over the world to provide peace and security. Yet, in truth, America can't adequately provide security "1,000 yards from the U.S. Capitol after nightfall," as Paul Weyrich and William S. Lind of the Free Congress Foundation write in a new paper, "Why Islam Is a Threat to America and the West."

We are vulnerable to continued terror attacks. But these attacks are not designed to defeat us militarily. They are designed to break our will. They are designed to sow seeds of confusion in a culture that has already lost its own religious underpinnings and moral framework. They are designed, in Marxist theory, to "heighten the contradictions of capitalism" – or, as another generation of communists explained it, to "bring the war home." That was how we lost a war to little Vietnam.

The West has little chance of prevailing in this contest without understanding who the real enemy is.

Am I saying all Muslims are the enemy? Of course not. Were the people living in communist countries during the Cold War our enemies? Not really. The evil regimes that victimized their own people as well as their neighbors were the enemies. The same is true in Islam today.

We must understand in the West today – whether we live in the U.S., Israel, the United Kingdom or elsewhere – that Islam reflects a vastly different worldview from the one that established western civilization. If we try to understand Islam as some sort of extension of monotheistic Judeo-Christian philosophy, we will fail to see the truth.

The truth is that western civilization faces perhaps its greatest test at the hands of Islam today. We don't understand these people – and, not understanding them, we try to give them what we think they want, what we might want in a similar situation. This is how Israel has been led down the primrose path in its negotiations with the Arabs.

It's a war. And, for Islam, the negotiating table is just another theater in that war.

Every day, around the world, if we look for them, we see disparate, seemingly unconnected reports of attacks by Muslims on non-Muslims. We see them in Israel. We see them in India. We see them in Indonesia. We see them in the Philippines. We see them in Sudan. We see them even in the U.S. and Europe.

People are dying – lots of them. In fact, more Christians are being persecuted today than ever before in the history of the world – even under the Romans. Most of those attacks come from Islam.

What we need to understand is that these attacks are connected. They are coordinated. Islam is on the march, again. The only question is whether we see it, acknowledge the reality of it and figure out an adequate response before it's too late.

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, June 25, 2002

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[ppaul]

Blood of the Moon

The Great Conflict Between Islam and Christianity Through the Ages

The events of September 11, 2001, have redefined our nation's life. When all is said and done, more will have been written about the now -- infamous attack on America than perhaps on any other event in our history. But will there be a clear message from the Church? At present, there is not. Most Christians know little about Islam, are unaware of the 4,000 -- year history behind the most recent attacks, and are unaware of the biblical issues that must be resolved before we chart a course as a nation in response to Islamic terrorism. This is why Blood of the Moon may be the most important book you read this year. During the Gulf War a decade ago, this was the book looked to by leaders, both in the Middle East and in Washington, D.C. Now, this newly -- revised and updated editon is available to once again offer policy -- makers, strategists, and thinkers the answers to the innumerable questions we face as a people.

Why does the conflict in the Middle East always seem to spill over into the rest of the world?

What is the true nature of Islam?

Is terror an integral part of the conflict?

Is it possible to eradicate the world of such evil?

Who are the major players in this global confrontation, and what do they really want?

How long has this been going on and what started it all?

Blood of the Moon is a straightforward examination of the roots of the protracted war between Islamic fundamentalists and the rest of the world. Stretching back as far as the days of Abraham and as far forward as the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, historian and theologian Dr. George Grant provides readers with insights simply not available through the national news media. This is must -- reading for everyone who is looking for answers to the present crisis, and serves as a great tool to teach the next generation that there is a price associated with true liberty.

Paperback. By George Grant, Introduction by Doug Phillips

Link: HERE

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[mykdsmom]

Are we at war with Islam?

[Texas Gal]

BUMP

[Michael2001]

This is quite possibly one of the best articles I have read regarding our present situation. I have forwarded to my Church e-mail list, this should be read by anyone trying to understand our newest enemy. The last 6 paragraphs sum up nicely

[Michael2001]

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[Savage Beast]

"There is no substitute for moral and strategic clarity."

--Benjamin Netanyahu

[BARGE]

The Civilized World must destroy these animals.

[Savage Beast]

It seems to me that if someone is a Muslim, he is by definition at war with Western Civilization and committed to its destruction. Am I mistaken?

If that be the case, then Islam is a movement committed to the overthrow of the United States, and, whether or not it also be a religion is beside the point; the outlawing of such a subversive organization would be legally and historically justified. Am I mistaken?

[lavaroise]

Just as there are pipelines for oil, there is Islam for terrorism.

[lavaroise]

bump. Any comparative religion is not a religion, but an ideology seeking the tyranny of its concepts, models and ideas.

[TheLooseThread]

No. Islam is at war with us.

[lavaroise]

. But these attacks are not designed to defeat us militarily. They are designed to break our will. They are designed to sow seeds of confusion in a culture that has already lost its own religious underpinnings and moral framework. They are designed, in Marxist theory, to "heighten the contradictions of capitalism" – or, as another generation of communists explained it, to "bring the war home." That was how we lost a war to little Vietnam.

And liberal Marxism is this other pipeline for terrorism or for other pipelines like Islam. We have to remember that the heightened contradictions of capitalism are what Marx lamented regarding the narrow appetite of capitalists for money. Marx, who cynicaly believed capitalists were solely driven by appetite for money, sought to develop this appetite in other spheres. Marx developed other appetites and set up this progressist view that man fed also on ideology, ideals of equality of appetite and on competitiveness to satiate these and other appetites they were trying to invent.

However, what happened was that the unbridled appetite for ideology, work and intellectuality would eventualy lead to a fierce political competition between idea hungry ravenous consciousness eaters. If one fed on an idea and its fulfillment, one had to tyranicaly demand to be fed such fullfilment.

This is the law of the jungle, the law of the appetite that needs to be satiated, and we all know that an obese person that cannot stop eating cannot solve his/her problems by seeking to satiate the appetite, nor cruely restraining it, but to seek instead to cherish a G_d given jurisdiction and stewardship on Earth that requires some discipline and health.

And bringing the war home is just that, to heightened the appetite for quick solutions, for ideals, for politics and to make other eulogize the appetite of their killers, because they too have appetites of their own.

America used to be relatively deaf to politics, and that was good because it did not make politics very militant. People voted only to keep the relatively pleasant status quo that no other nations could enjoy. Bin Laden did seek to change that. We should be here to make sure he fails! That America may be home to an unusual obese population, but it is only so by indulgence and it can fight back and definitely thwart those worships. Bin Laden, like Marx, is also a mean by which America can find back G_d by contradicting their messages and their cynicism, and by finding that indeed, man does not feed on bread nor on ideology, Marx, Bin Laden or appetite alone!

[lavaroise]

Those worshiping peace of sinful men or war of sinful men are fools, for nor life nor death can shut evil, but hell for the wicked and heaven for do gooders.

Hence those who divest from worship; seeking due processed redress; whether to reward do gooders with peace and prosperity; or to punish evil in revenge; bringing hell to shut it for ever; have earned the necessary wisdom seeking an out from their own sins.

[waxhaw]

Excellent article and thanks. Mr. Farah puts it neatly; while we are not at war with Islam, Islam is at war with us. While I don't like Bush's policy of placating those Moslems who are U.S. citizens nor his policy of playing soft with the oil-producing Moslem nations, I can understand the current necessity for this; after 8 years of Clinton's radical push on the two great lies of "multicultural diversity" and "political correctness" (aided and abetted by mainstream media and Hollywood) the American public must learn the truth, I believe, in small doses. Mr. Farah is providing a small dose of the truth; I pray we don't receive another large dose a la 9/11.

[John H K]

If that be the case, then Islam is a movement committed to the overthrow of the United States, and, whether or not it also be a religion is beside the point; the outlawing of such a subversive organization would be legally and historically justified. Am I mistaken?

Yeah, pretty much. There have been millions of Muslims in the US for many years, and the total number who have made terrorist attacks, or attempted terrorist attacks, against the US is under 100. Either they're not committed to the overthrow of the United States, or they're remarkably lazy.

[Petronski]

No.

[John H K]

Islam is the scourge of the earth. It is a blight that must be eradicated. Islam stands for intolerance, ignorance, racism, hatred, terrorism, homosexuality, misogyny and sodomy. Muslims are like mad, rabid dogs and cannot be reasoned with. And like mad rabid dogs, the only thing one can do is exterminate them.

Time to break out the Zyklon B, eh? I take it you'll volunteer to be a guard in the death camps?

[Quix]

Are we at war with Islam?

Not sure whom to include in the "we."

But Islam is certainly at war with:

Christianity,
The west and American specifically,
Anyone not under their control, influence and belief system.

That much seems elementary. Slippy slidy politicians and globalist mongering "diplomats" can play all the word games and manipulation games they wish. But the fact is, this belief system is being used of satan to assault the rest of the world, the rest of civilization and particularly Israel and Christianity.

Sounds like war to me.

Shoot--it IS war!