Interesting read (political)

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Not trying to start a debate or anything, but I thought this was rather interesting.

>>This is long, but I suggest you read it. We had a converted Muslim, late
>>30's, parent of 6, speak in our home last week to a group of ladies. He
>>spoke for 2 hrs. and gave much of this information, plus much of his own
>>experience. It was like taking a drink from a "Fire Hose." We are in a
>>war, the President is right. It is just that it seems the US Media has
>>not come to grips with the truth. Barb
>>
>>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 Democratic 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 Jihads 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 Mohammed'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 Mohammed 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
>>wildfire, 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's
>>call for the Islamic-militant overthrow of Musharraf in Pakistan on March 25.)
>>
>>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 Democratic 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 of 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 Democratic 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.
>>
>>**************************End ofReport*******************************
>>Note....this was written before John Kerry had the nomination sewed
>>up...but recent events clearly demonstrate that Kerry is going to fulfill
>>Abraham's 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, 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 Abraham's issue about the
>>potential for militant Islamic states who would control 75% of the
>>world's oil.
>>
>>This is probably why Dick 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. Abraham's 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 Abraham's article to those who have a need to know, which is just
>>about everybody.
>>
 
Tammi, a very interesting read! Thanks for posting it!
 














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