THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XII, Issue # 65, May 8, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
WHY ARE WE STILL ASKING WHY JIHADISTS
ARE KILLING AMERICANS?
By Alan Caruba
THE JIHADIST THREAT TO THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES: HIGH TIME TO RECOGNIZE ISLAM AS THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF
AMERICA'S CURRENT FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMS -- THE NEED FOR AMERICA & THE WEST TO
ABANDON "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS," FACE REALITY, RECOGNIZE JIHADISTS AS DEADLY ENEMIES OF ALL NON-MUSLIM
PEOPLES & CULTURES, & FORM A UNITED FRONT AGAINST THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST TERROR MOVEMENT -- THE NEED FOR
UNITED ACTION TO ENSURE THE SURVIVAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION & THE TOTAL DEFEAT & DESTRUCTION OF THE
JIHADIST ENEMY
FULL STORY:
We are now nearly nine years past the Islamist terror attacks of September 11, 2001 -- the attacks that killed some 3,000
Americans in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon -- and seventeen years since the first Islamist terror attack -- a car
bomb -- failed to bring down the Twin Towers.
Jihadists have been killing Americans for a long time, doing so from the 1983 attack on the Beirut Marine barracks to the
attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, the attack on the USS Cole, the recent Fort Hood attack, and now the abortive car
bomb attack in Times Square.
Why are we still asking why?
Why is the mainstream press publishing headlines such as the Associated Press gem, “NY car bomb suspect
cooperates, but motive mystery,” or USA Today’s “Motive of NYC car bomb suspect remains a mystery.”
Why does the press continue to speculate or to publish the now standard “explanations” that the terrorist, whether it be
Major Nidal Malik Hasan who killed 13 Fort Hood soldiers while yelling “Allahu Akbar” or the latest manifestation,
Faisal Shahzad, who tried to kill countless Americans in Times Square on Saturday evening is motivated by anything
other than Islam?
Every reason, other than than Islam and jihadist intent, is offered, and this opinion-shaping process is getting old. Since
2002, the U.S.A. has tried dozens of Muslims involved in various plots.
It’s not some odd mental derangement. It is Islam.
It is not all Muslims, many of whom have ample reason to fear the jihadists in their midst, but there have been enough
jihadists and more than enough terrorist events worldwide to recommend a united front against them.
It can be argued that more Muslims have died at the hands of the jihadists than “infidels.” A website,
www.thereligionofpeace.com, has recorded 15,247 Muslim terrorist incidents since 9/11 and yet all manner of U.S.
officialdom keeps saying there must be some other reason than Islam.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s first response was that the car bomb might have been put in Times Square by
“somebody with a political agenda who doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.” How
detached from reality is the Mayor? Having asked, it’s worth noting that he also once proposed putting windmills on top
of all the city’s buildings to generate electricity.
No one is more skilled at denying reality than Muslims themselves. Dawn, a leading Pakistani newspaper,
followed the breaking Times Square bomber story. “We are shocked, why did he do this?” asked one man in the street in
Peshawar.
Did it have anything to do, as Dawn reported, with the fact that “In the 1980s, when Shahzad was a child,
Peshawar was a staging post for the mujahideen who fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a place frequented by
Osama bin Laden and swollen by a morass of two million Afghan refugees”?
Dawn interviewed Advocate Kifayatullah Khan, a former member of the provincial bar council.
“He said the family believed that Shahzad had been
framed. ‘The entire family is highly educated and
enlightened. The villagers don’t believe that
Shahzad could act in such a manner.’”
As any observer will tell you, an advanced education is often a component of the jihadist’s decision to use terror
against America. Major Hasan and even 9/11 pilot, Mohammed Atta, were college graduates. Shahzad was a 2000
graduate of the University of Bridgeport (Connecticut) with a degree in computer science. He is a naturalized
American citizen.
Islam is in confrontation with every other religion worldwide and has been since the Seventh Century. It lacks any
theological impetus toward tolerance. Its holy book, the Koran, heaps calumnies on Jews, Christians, and
“those without a book,” Buddhists and Hindus. Any criticism is justification for threats and worse. It sanctions the
killing of infidels and apostates,
It is the state religion and the highest legal authority of Middle Eastern nations that have proven resistant to any true
modernization beyond the adoption of Western technology. All, with the possible exception of Turkey, are
dictatorships or absolute monarchies, though Iraq, liberated by U.S. intervention, is moving slowly toward
constitutional democracy.
Despite a long history of terrorist acts in New York, Bali, Madrid, London, Mumbai, and in the nations of Israel,
Lebanon, Kenya, Tanzania, Russia, Iraq, Thailand, Indonesia and Sudan, some people and elements of the nation’s
media keep asking why!
For now and into the immediate future, it would be a good idea if the U.S. State Department stopped giving out visas
like lollypops to Middle Easterners and others from predominantly Muslim nations.
It would be a good idea if the Department of Homeland Security would begin paying more attention to Arab visitors,
as well as native-born Arabs and naturalized Arab-Americans residing in the U.S.A., instead of members of the Tea
Party.
It would be a good idea if the U.S. military would take off the politically correct blinders and stop blathering about
“diversity.”
It would be a good idea if we stopped listening to the eyewash of the Council on Arab-Islamic Relations and other
apologists for Islamic terrorism.
At some point, Americans have to stop asking why we are targeted.
We know why the car bomb was set to kill Americans in Times Square. We know why the Christmas Day bomber
came close to killing those on the airliner. And we know that militant Muslims will try again.
For seven of the last nine years, the Bush administration kept Americans safe from further attacks through vigilance
and the preemptive use of power. Since the advent of the Obama administration in 2009, terrorist incidents have
increased.
Worried about terrorism? We now have a president who, in his book, Audacity of Hope, wrote: “The stories
of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their [Arab-Americans'] sense of
security and belonging.... I will stand with them, should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
© Alan Caruba, 2010
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
Page Three
Page Two
Page One
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
Page Two
Page One
Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba blogs daily at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author and a business and science writer, he is the
Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and policy.
Return to Top of Page
Go to the WEBSITE INDEX
Return to Beginning of
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA,
Public Issues & Political Controversies
Return to Beginning of
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Most Recent Articles
Return to Beginning of
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA,
Volume XII, 2010
Return to Beginning of
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA,
Subject Matter Highlights
Return to POLITICAL EDUCATION Homepage
CONTACT & ACCESS INFORMATION
This is not a commercial website. The sole purpose of the website is to share with interested persons information regarding civics,
civic and social education, political science, government, politics, law, constitutional law and history, public policy, and political
philosophy and history, as well as current and recent political developments, public issues, and political controversies.
POLITICAL EDUCATION, CONSERVATIVE ANALYSIS
POLITICS, SOCIETY, & THE SOVEREIGN STATE
Website of Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr.
Government, Politics, Public Policy, Legal Issues, Constitutional Law, Government & the Economy, Cultural Values, Foreign Affairs,
International Relations, Military Defense & National Security, Geopolitics, Terrorism & Homeland Security, American National Interests,
Political Systems & Processes, Political Institutions, Political Ideologies, & Political Philosophy
INDEX FOR THE ENTIRE WEBSITE
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Conservative & Free-Market Analysis of Government, Politics & Public Policy, Covering Political, Legal, Constitutional, Economic,
Cultural, Military, International, Strategic, & Geopolitical Issues
Conservative Government Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity