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A Primer on Jihad
American Journalism Center ^ | June 8, 2010 | Spencer Irvine

Posted on 06/08/2010 7:43:02 AM PDT by bs9021

A Primer on Jihad

Spencer Irvine, June 8, 2010

In the May 27 book event at the Heritage Foundation, author Andrew McCarthy explained the purpose in writing his book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. As a former federal prosecutor after the failed 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Andrew McCarthy’s experience in dealing with (what he terms) “Islamist” terrorists shaped the viewpoint he presented in his book.

McCarthy maintained that the Islamist thinking of jihad is “a perfect reflection of a ground-up civilizational movement,” where the Islamist society is built from the person, then the community, until it ultimately becomes a Muslim nation. He believed that the “World Trade Center bombing [in 1993]…was…a declaration of war [of Islamists] against the United States.”

In the course of investigating the defendants who attempted to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993, he found that “every day [there] would be a new, fantastical, crazy plot” in their minds to destroy American interests. To illustrate the determination and thinking of the Islamist defendants, he said, “the reason they wanted to blow up the United Nations was because, as we all know, it was a tool of American influence in the world.”

Also, McCarthy alleged that “this government [under Obama] is hell-bent on not allowing us to look at the ideology that’s behind these attacks” because when one analyzes the Islamic ideology, “you will realize that Islamic doctrine cannot be reasonably divorced from Islamic terror.” America needs to “come to grips with what they [Islamists] believe, and what they plan, and what they think,” McCarthy claims....

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Military/Veterans; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: andrewmccarthy; bookreview; grandjihad; islam; jihad; thegrandjihad

1 posted on 06/08/2010 7:43:03 AM PDT by bs9021
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To: bs9021
We have ONE man, running for Congress, who knows our enemy -
We need to be sure he gets into the pipeline.

Here, he answers a Marine’s question, after the other buffoons joke and fluff and make as*es of themselves. Lt. Col. Allen West doesn't think it's a laughing matter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGQmCZjJ0k

REVOLUTION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2p91dvm6M

COL. West's feeling about obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmn0mFV7xFs&feature=player_embedded

2 posted on 06/08/2010 8:00:26 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: maine-iac7

WOW!


3 posted on 06/08/2010 8:07:22 AM PDT by Pecos
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To: bs9021

jihad bump


4 posted on 06/10/2010 9:25:42 PM PDT by Dajjal (Justice Robert Jackson was wrong -- the Constitution IS a suicide pact.)
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