THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XIII, Issue # 108, May 2, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
JIHAD IS FOREVER
By Alan Caruba
ISLAM, ISLAMISM, & JIHADISM: THE ISLAMIC CENTRAL CONCEPT OF JIHAD -- THE QUR'AN AS A BATTLE
PLAN FOR THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD BY ISLAM -- JIHAD AS A SACRED DUTY FOR ALL MUSLIMS -- ISLAM AS ONE BIG
HATE CRIME DIRECTED AT ALL OTHER RELIGIOUS FAITHS -- WHY "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" REGARDING HOW WE DEAL
WITH MUSLIM DEMANDS IN THE U.S.A. IS A SERIOUS DANGER TO THE AMERICAN NATION & THE REMAINDER OF THE
NON-MUSLIM WORLD -- THE GREATEST ALLIES OF OUR ENEMIES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: THOSE WHO
RECOMMEND THAT WE PURSUE A FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY CHARACTERIZED BY ISOLATIONISM &
PASSIVITY, APPEASEMENT & ACCOMODATION, SURRENDER & SUBMISSION, & NEGLECT OF OUR DEFENSE FORCES &
MILITARY PREPAREDNESS
FULL STORY:
Americans greeted news of Osama bin Laden's death with a celebration of the payback it represents for the deaths of
nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001.
As former Vice President Dick Cheney said on hearing the news, “Today, the message our forces have sent is clear —
if you attack the United States, we will find you and bring you to justice.”
This is part of the American psyche. A great power cannot allow itself to be attacked and harmed without rendering
retribution. Every day bin Laden drew breath after 9/11 was a rebuke to America.
The 9/11 attack, however, grew out of a larger context, the Islamic central concept of jihad. Far from being “a religion of
peace”, the Qur'an is a battle plan for the conquest of the world by Islam, and jihad is regarded as a sacred duty
for all Muslims.
This is why political correctness regarding how we deal with Muslim demands in the United States is a danger to the
nation. Islam is one big hate crime directed at all other religious faiths. Failure to understand that is to sign the nation’s
and the world’s death warrant.
The irony of al-Qa'ida’s legacy has been the vast numbers of Muslims that have died as a result of its efforts to
overthrow the governments of nations whose wrath it invoked. In the bizarre illogic of the Arab world, even as many
Saudis allegedly contributed to al-Qa'ida, one of its aims was to overthrow the Saudi royal family, who bin Laden had
condemned for allowing American troops to encamp on its “sacred sands” in the first war against Iraq’s Saddam
Hussein.
Al-Qa'ida was and remains a threat to the existing governments throughout the Middle East and, of course, anywhere in
the world it wants to target. The U.S.A. has cut off the snake’s head, but must now remain even more vigilant against
retaliation. That said, there is no doubt the organization has been significantly weakened with the loss of its symbolic
leader.
Osama bin Laden has become to many Arabs what the Cuban butcher, Che Guevera, became to Communists and their
dupes.
My suspicion is that al-Qa'ida will break into more isolated, individual units in nations throughout the Middle East and
become even more vulnerable to being dismembered and destroyed. It is, however, northern African and Middle Eastern
nations that are being restructured from within by millions of Muslims who have grown tired of the century’s old
oppression that has been Islam’s hallmark.
Americans should not expect constitutional democracy to break out in the Maghreb or the Middle East at large, but we
can expect governments there to become more responsive to the expectations and demands of their people. Even those
in the Middle East know they are far behind peoples in the West, in terms of any true freedom and justice. They have
seen it and they want it.
We are told bin Laden’s body is in American hands. My suggestion — a fanciful one — is that it be embalmed and put
on display in the Smithsonian as a reminder of the threat the American nation will continue to face for decades to come.
Lastly, at a time when there are discussions of cutting the U.S. defense budget, we need to take heed of the courage
and skill of the U.S. military personnel who attacked the bin Laden compound in Pakistan and rendered the ultimate
justice.
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf” is a
quote attributed to George Orwell, the author of 1984, a novel warning against all forms of totalitarian
government.
Americans, despite our present economic distress, have to keep in mind that our nation has real enemies in the world,
and they aren’t exclusively Muslim. As well as the Islamist movement, America's enemies include the reincarnated
version of the former Soviet Union, the Chinese Communists, the Communist regime in North Korea, and other regimes
and organizations that wish us ill.
The greatest allies of our enemies will be those who preach to us and our allies the wisdom of isolationism and passivity,
appeasement and accomodation, surrender and submission, neglect of our defense forces and military preparedness.
Thus, the role of our military, the wars we choose to fight, and where we choose to fight them are matters that have
never been more critical than they are today. Jihad is forever.
For that, we must put our financial house in order, and do it soon -- or we shall witness our enemies celebrating, just as
we celebrate today.
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
North Africa -- The Arab States of Islamic North Africa
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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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 writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven "scare campaigns" designed
to influence public opinion and public policy.
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