Long but worth it.
3 Jihads --- Food For Thought Whether a Democrat, Republican or a
non-thinker
THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE GREAT CALIPHATE
by Larry Abraham,
January 29, 2004
I urge all of my readers to make copies of this report and send them to
your friends and relatives. The information is too critical to be over
looked in the madness of this election year.
Watching and listening to the Democrat Party candidates is tantamount
to enduring the Chinese water torture. The blah, blah, blah goes on and
on and nothing of value comes out except the pain of listening to the
same nothingness over and over again. I won't take the time or space to
repeat what you have heard so many mind numbing times, but what you
have not heard is crucial.
President Bush and his administration spokesmen are not telling the
American people what they really need to know about this "war." If they
don't do that between now and November it may cost them the election.
The war against terror did not begin on September 11, 2001, nor will it
end with the peaceful transition to civilian authority in Iraq,
whenever that may be. In fact, Iraq is but a footnote in the bigger
context of this encounter, but an important one none the less.
This war is what the Jihadists themselves are calling the "Third Great
Jihad." They are operating within the framework of a time line which
reaches back to the very creation of Islam in the seventh century and
are presently attempting to recreate the dynamics which gave rise to
the religion in the first two hundred years of its existence.
No religion in history grew as fast, in its infancy, and the reasons
for the initial growth of Islam are not hard to explain when you
understand what the world was like at the time of Muhammad's death in
632 AD. Remember that the Western Roman Empire was in ruins and the
Eastern Empire, based in Constantinople, was trying desperately to keep
the power of its early grandeur while transitioning to Christianity as
a de facto state religion. The costs to the average person were large
as he was being required to meet the constantly rising taxes levied by
the state along with the tithes coerced by the Church.
What Islam offered was the "carrot or the sword." If you became a
convert, your taxes were immediately eliminated, as was your tithe. If
you didn't, you faced death. The choice was not hard for most to make,
unless you were a very devoted martyr in the making. At the beginning,
even the theology was not too hard for most to swallow, considering
that both Jewry and Christianity were given their due by the Prophet.
There is but one God-Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet, as was Jesus,
and the pre-Christian Jewish prophets of the Torah (Old Testament).
Both were called "children of the book"---the book being the Koran,
which replaced both the Old and New Testaments for former Christians
and Jews.
With this practical approach to spreading the "word" Islam grew like
wild-fire, reaching out from the Saudi Arabian Peninsula in all
directions. This early growth is what the Muslims call the "First"
great Jihad and it met with little resistance until Charles Martel of
France, the father of Charlemagne, stopped them in the battle of Tours
in France, after they had firmly established Islam on the Iberian
Peninsula. This first onslaught against the West continued in various
forms and at various times until Islam was finally driven out of Spain
in 1492 at the battle of Granada.
The "Second great jihad" came with the Ottoman Turks. This empire
succeeded in bringing about the downfall of Constantinople as a
Christian stronghold and an end to Roman hegemony in all of its forms.
The Ottoman Empire was Islam's most successful expansion of territory
even though the religion itself had fractured into warring sects and
bitter rivalries with each claiming the ultimate truths in "the ways of
the Prophet." By 1683 the Ottomans had suffered a series of defeats on
both land and sea and the final, unsuccessful attempt to capture Vienna
set the stage for the collapse of any further territorial ambitions and
Islam shrunk into various sheikhdoms, emir dominated principalities,
and roving tribes of nomads. However, by this time a growing
anti-western sentiment, blaming its internal failures on anyone but
themselves, was taking hold and setting the stage for a new revival
known as Wahhabism, a sect which came into full bloom under the House
of Saud on the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the onset of WWI.
It is this Wahhabi version of Islam which has infected the religion
itself, now finding adherents in almost all branches and sects,
especially the Shiites.
Wahhabiism calls for the complete and total rejection or destruction of
anything and everything which is not based in the original teachings of
The Prophet and finds its most glaring practice in the policies of the
Afghani Taliban or the Shiite practices of the late Ayatollah Khomeini
in Iran. Its Ali Pasha (Field Marshall) is now known as Osama bin
Laden, the leader of the "Third Jihad," who is Wahhabi as were his
9/11 attack teams, 18 of which were also Saudi.
The strategy for this "holy war" did not begin with the planning of the
destruction of the World Trade Center. It began with the toppling of
the Shah of Iran back in the late 1970's. With his plans and programs
to "westernize" his country, along with his close ties to the U.S. and
subdued acceptance of the State of Israel, the Shah was the soft
target. Remember "America Held Hostage?"
Thanks, in large part to the hypocritical and disastrous policies of
the Jimmy Carter State Department, the revolution was set into motion,
the Shah was deposed, his armed forces scattered or murdered and stage
one was complete. The Third Jihad now had a base of operations and the
oil wealth to support its grand design or what they call the "Great
Caliphate."
What this design calls for is the replacement of all secular leadership
in any country with Muslim majorities. This would include, Egypt,
Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, all the Emirates, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya,
Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Malaysia, Indonesia
and finally what they call the "occupied territory" Israel.
As a part of this strategy, forces of the jihad will infiltrate
governments and the military as a prelude to taking control, once the
secular leadership is ousted or assassinated. Such was the case in
Lebanon leading to the Syrian occupation and in Egypt with the murder
of Anwar Sadat, along with the multiple attempts on the lives of
Hussein in Jordan, Mubarak of Egypt and Musharraf in Pakistan. Pakistan
is a particular prize because of its nuclear weapons.
(Please note al Qaeda call for the Islamic-militant overthrow of
Musharraf in Pakistan on March 25, just yesterday.)
The long-range strategy of the Third Jihad counts on three strategic
goals. First, the U.S. withdrawing from the region just as it did in
Southeast Asia, following Vietnam. Second, taking control of the oil
wealth in the Muslim countries, which would be upwards to 75% of known
reserves; third, using nuclear weapons or other WMDs to annihilate
Israel. A further outcome of successfully achieving these objectives
would be to place the United Nations as the sole arbiter in East/West
negotiations and paralyze western resistance, leading to total
withdrawal from all Islamic dominated countries.
Evidence of the Bush Administration awareness of this plan is found in
the events immediately following the 9/11 attack. The administration's
first move was to shore up Pakistan and Egypt, believing that these two
would be the next targets for al Qaeda, while Americans focused on the
disaster in New York. The administration also knew that the most
important objective was to send a loud and clear message that the U.S.
was in the region to stay, not only to shore up our allies but to send
a message to the Jihadists.
The attack on Afghanistan was necessary to break-up a secure al Qaeda
base of operations and put their leadership on the run or in prison.
The war in Iraq also met a very strategic necessity in that no one knew
how much collaboration existed between Saddam Hussein and the master
planners of the Third Jihad or Hussein's willingness to hand off WMDs
to terrorist groups including the PLO in Israel. What was known were
serious indications of on-going collaboration as Saddam funneled money
to families of suicide bombers attacking the Israelis and others in
Kuwait.
What the U.S. needed to establish was a significant base of operations
smack dab in the middle of the Islamic world, in a location which
effectively cut it in half. Iraq was the ideal target for this and a
host of other strategic reasons.
Leadership of various anti-American groups both here and abroad
understood the vital nature of the Bush initiative and thus launched
their demonstrations, world-wide, to "Stop The War." Failing this, they
also laid plans to build a political campaign inside the country, with
the War in Iraq as a plebiscite, using a little known politician as the
thrust point--Howard Dean. This helps to explain how quickly the
Radical Left moved into the Dean campaign with both people and money,
creating what the clueless media called the "Dean Phenomenon."
By building on the left-wing base in the Democrat party and the "Hate
Bush" crowd, the campaign has already resulted in a consensus among the
aspirants, minus Joe Lieberman, to withdraw the U.S. from Iraq and turn
the operation over to the U.N. And, if past is prologue, i.e., Vietnam,
once the U.S. leaves it will not go back under any circumstances,
possibly even the destruction of Israel.
Should George W. Bush be defeated in November we could expect to see
the dominoes start to fall in the secular Islamic countries and The
Clash of Civilizations, predicted several years ago by Samuel
Huntington, would then become a life changing event in all of our
lives.
What surprised the Jihadists following the 9/11 attack was how American
sentiment mobilized around the president and a profound sense of
patriotism spread across the country. They were not expecting this
reaction, based on what had happened in the past, nor were they
expecting the determined resolve of the President himself. I also
believe this is one of the reasons we have not had any further attacks
within our borders. They are content to wait, just as one of their
tactical mentors; V.I. Lenin admonished..."two steps forward, one step
back."
A couple additional events serve as valuable footnotes to the current
circumstances we face: the destruction of the human assets factor of
the CIA during the Carter presidency, presided over by the late Senator
Frank Church. This fact has plagued our intelligence agencies right up
to this very day with consequences which are now obvious. And, Jimmy
Carter himself, the one man who must bear the bulk of the
responsibility for setting the stage of the Third Jihad. Americans
should find little comfort in how the Democrat contenders constantly
seek the "advice and counsel" of this despicable little hypocrite.
Lastly, we should not expect to see any meaningful cooperation from
Western Europe, especially the French. Since failing to protect their
own interests in Algeria (by turning the country over to the first of
the Arab terrorists, Ammad Ben Bella), the country itself is now
occupied by Islamic immigrants totaling twenty percent of the
population.
We are in the battle of our lives, a battle which will go on for many
years possibly even generations. If we fail to understand what we are
facing or falter in the challenge of "knowing our enemy" the results
will be catastrophic. Imagine a world where al Qaeda regimes control
75% of the world's oil, have at their disposal nuclear weapons, legions
of willing suicide soldiers, and our national survival is dependent on
the good graces of Kofi Annan and the United Nations.
There is one final footnote which may be the scariest of all.
Either none of the Democrats currently leading the drive to their
party's nomination are aware of the facts of the Great Caliphate and
Third Jihad or they do know and they don't care so long as their power
lust is satisfied. But, I can guarantee you one thing for sure: some of
their most ardent supporters are aware of this and will do anything
they can to bring it about.
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Note .... this was written before John Kerry had the nomination sewed
up ... but recent events clearly demonstrate that Kerry is going to
fulfill Abrahams prediction of the Democrats calling for the UN and the
French/Germans/Spain coalition to force the US out of Iraq. Also
understand that the current 9/11 hearings are a political show and
Clarke’s book were timed for these hearings and the campaign. And this
is why Condoleezza Rice is seeking a private meeting with this
commission to tell it like it is. The national security issues involved
around 9/11 cannot be an open book to the public, and I believe we have
to understand that.
This is scary stuff. President Bush and the Republicans are obviously
extremely cautious in bringing this issue to the campaign because the
left-leaning media and the Kerry Democratic left would call this racist
against Islam and a distraction for the alleged lies of WMD and our
reasons for going into Iraq. Bush correctly referred to the axis of
evil (Iran, Libya, Iraq and North Korea) as a pointed strategy to blunt
the WMD-terrorist movement and he has been very successful in thwarting
al Qaeda, despite what everyone on the left says. We are far better off
without the threat from Iraq and Libya all within the last 12 months.
We are threatened in Pakistan and if Musharraf is assassinated (it's
been tried several times in the past year), we can see how the
militants will gain control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, which have
already spread to Iran (by a militant Islamic scientist) and if
Musharraf is taken out we have both Iran and Pakistan as militant
Islamic power bases armed with nuclear weapons. And let's not overlook
Abrahams issue about the potential for militant Islamic states who
would control 75% of the world's oil.
This probably why ****** Cheney, Rice, Powell, and Wolfowitz are so
committed to the belief that we are in this struggle for the free world
as we have known it and focused on defeating the militant Islamic-al
Maida's global strategy. They skirt the core issues raised by Abraham
in this article because of the political-correctness implications, but
after reading this, you understand what is at stake here.
Kerry and the liberal Democrats want control of Washington at any
price. Abraham clearly spells out what price that is Victory for al
Qaeda and the Islamic militancy.
Abrahams article brought all of these issues together and why it is
important for us to gain this perspective and educate our friends and
associates.
This is a deeply impressive, cogent, and intelligent overview of the
militant Islamic movement.
Pass on Abrahams article to those who have a need to know, which is
just about everybody.
