The enemy within--more from The Grand Jihad

In a new, disturbing book called The Grand Jihad, Andrew McCarthy talks about threats from radical Islam and the West's weak, politically correct way of fighting it. In this blog I'd like to give examples of his points that we in the West often don't really understand what we're fighting, we allow Islamists to bully us into accepting their way of life, our very different worldviews, and the ways in which these people successfully maneuver in our world through setting up various organizations.

Part of his book discusses what is going on in Europe regarding Muslims. Gradually they are capitalizing on their unity and growing strength to pressure European nations into adopting sharia, bit by bit. Already there are "no-go" zones: Muslim neighborhoods are policed no longer patrol, sovereignty having been effectively surrendered to the local imams, Muslim councils, and Muslim gangs. In France, for example, police estimate some 8 million people live in these sensitive urban areas. In England, police officers are enforcing sharia judgments on domestic violence complaints, meaning there have been instances of investigations dropped after the Islamic authority sided with accused husbands, in deference to the Koranic endorsement of spousal abuse. Get this -- hate speech laws in Britain have been used to ban what is called "racism" such as the raising of the Union Jack. This has been repeated in other countries--the Netherlands, Sweden, France. At a popular sports club in London there have been "Moslem men only" sessions for swimming, and Christian clerics have been attacked in the same city. Even a country such as Sweden is not immune. In Malmo, the country's third largest city, police concede they are no longer in control; Moslem immigrant gangs rule the streets.

In a later section, McCarthy talks about the idea of charity when it comes to Muslims to show how they see the world differently than we do. In January of this year, Haiti had a devastating earthquake. The Western world, led by the United States, came through with large contributions of money and time. What about the Islamic world? It contributed one tenth of one percent of the total donations committed by governments. Not much. But doesn't Islam stress charity? Well, they have a different understanding of the term. Charity is defined as Moslems supporting Moslems. Like other Islamic beliefs, charity serves the overarching cause of promoting Islam to the exclusion and at the expense of nonbelievers.

McCarthy has a short section which captures the heart of the problem for us. He says the official position of the United States government is this: "our only concern is terrorism; there is no nexus between terrorism committed by Muslims and Islamic doctrine; Islam must in fact be twisted and perverted to justify terrorism; and, therefore, the propagation of Islam has utterly nothing to do with the promotion of terrorism." Our government overlooks Islamic schools, conventions, and institutions which produce arabidly anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-western ideology that rejects core American precepts. So we are allowing this cancer to grow within us. He gives example after example of different Muslim organizations that have started in the United States and have effectively seized control of most of the mosques now operating here. He devotes an entire chapter (seven) explaining how these organizations got started, their funding, and their philosophy.

The author later exposes the world of the terrorist group Hamas. The title for this group is an acronym meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement." Notice the use of the word "Resistance." Saudi Arabia and other Islamists often condemn terrorism, but only as they define it. Their definition does not include the defensive use of force whenever "Islam is under siege." That brand of savagery is called "resistance." Of course, Islamists reserve the right to decide for themselves what constitutes "defense" and when "Islam is under siege." So, the way this game works, any act of terrorism, no matter how offensive and brutal can be rationalized as resistance." Here's the chilling charter of Hamas: "The purpose of Hamas is to create an Islamic Palestinian state throughout Israel by eliminating the state of Israel through violent jihad." That seems pretty simple to understand, doesn't it? Remember that the self-professed moderate imam who wants to build the proposed Ground Zero mosque has refused to describe Hamas as a terrorist group even though the State Department does. Seems like their charter says it all. And how does Hamas carry out its mission? Indoctrination starts at the cradle. Palestinian children are reared in Islamic supremacism and a dehumanizing hatred of Jews. They are schooled in the glories of martyrdom and go to summer camps that imitate paramilitary camps for older people. Is this schooling paying off? Recent polling found that up to 93% of young Palestinian adults deny Israel's right to exist.

Because Hamas became well known for its hatred of Jews, radical Muslims decided they needed a new group in America. They wanted a group posing as a civil rights organization while soft-pedaling its jihadist sympathies to snow the American political leaders. What did they come up with? It was called the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Numerous figures associated with this group have been convicted of federal felonies, including terrorism offenses. Too many government officials and mass media people have treated it as a "civil rights" group; instead, it is an Islamist spearhead says McCarthy. It has consistently defended indicted terrorists, including Osama bin Laden. In addition, it vigorously opposes efforts to improve and maintain the capacity of law-enforcement and intelligence agencies to prevent and prosecute Islamist terrorism. It was a leading opponent of the Patriot Act. By the way, there was such an uproar over the Patriot Act when, for the most part, it merely extended to national security agents the same powers prosecutors and police have been using for years in run-of-the-mill criminal investigations.

I feel this book is important enough to continue summarizing it in another few blogs. I hope you share my concerns.