The Islamic Terror Orchestra

njIt has been 13 years since 9/11 and the West is still reluctant to link the non-ending parade of jihad groups with Islam. The West is also in denial about the similarities all radical Islamic groups share. It is important for the West to realize that there is a natural division of labor between the different terror groups. Some groups specialize in terror against non-Muslims and Western governments while others specialize in terrorizing Arab governments that refused to follow Sharia. But the truly sophisticated groups are those who reside in the West, calling themselves ‘moderate’ while at the same time defending and controlling the direction of Islamist goals through advocacy, diplomacy, negotiation and PR.

All of the above types of Islamist groups work together in perfect harmony like an orchestra that sings to the tune of “Allahu Akbar.” And when Islamic terrorism and beheadings anger the world and turn public opinion against Islam, that orchestra starts playing a different tune to confuse and prevent the world from uncovering their coordinated handy work. While one group proudly takes credit for the terror, another publicly denounces it. But most groups, while enjoying the power and attention the terrorists have bestowed on them, stand by with a look of victimhood saying: “I am a victim too because you condemn me and my peaceful religion when I did not do anything. That is not Islam and you are an Islamophobe.”

Not only is there division of labor amongst Islamist groups, but these groups also often change roles, tactics and appearances — after birthing other more radical terror groups to do the dirty work of terror. Because the West and some Arab governments refuse to deal with terror organizations, these organizations play a game of presenting a face of rehabilitation and moderation, while delegating the terror and assassinations to newer groups. Old guard terror groups like the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Fatah were able to change color and they assumed a new, but only cosmetic, appearance of moderation, but not before birthing the more violent Al-Qaeda and Hamas.

The West was told the MB and Fatah were now the moderate and humanitarian face of Islam that could be counted on and that could run Islamic government. Islam will present itself as working with the rest of the world only for the sake of establishing the Kalifate. The West has been only too happy to welcome the new face of the old terror groups to the camp of moderation. But the new face of evil after the MB became Al-Qaeda.

When the MB won the Egyptian elections, Islamists believed the Kalifate could be achieved through elections, avoiding the usual violent jihad. But when Egyptians realized they had made a mistake by electing the MB and 35,000,000 Egyptians revolted against Islamist rule, the dreams of a Kalifate through peaceful elections were defeated. The only solution for Muslims to achieve their Kalifate is the old fashioned way of 7th century Islam: pure violence, savagery and terror; thus the rise of the newest Islamist terror group, ISIS, while the MB takes a back seat.

When Al-Qaeda’s reputation tanked after 9/11, even inside the Middle East, the terror jihadists were forced into working under a new name — same goals, but with a more ferocious appetite for terror and torture. After the defeat of the budding Islamist State through elections in Egypt in 2013, the restrained beast of public beheadings hidden in the Islamic genie bottle finally exploded for the world to see in the form of ISIS; an organization that declared itself as the true long-awaited Islamic State. Force became the only choice. Coincidentally, this follows the example of Mohammed who tried to peacefully Islamize Mecca for 13 years but failed and could only Islamize Arabia by force, terror and the sword when he became a warrior in Medina.

ISIS rushed to declare itself as the Islamic State even before finishing the job of conquering all of Iraq and Syria. It was flaunting its savagery to the world in the hope of giving the message to reluctant Arab countries that they will be next. The plan is very similar to what Mohammed and his followers did in the 7th century: conquer Arabia quickly by force so they could move to more important goals of taking over the outside world, now the West and Israel. By doing that they are confirming to Muslims around the world that terror works and that their prophet Mohammed was correct when he said: “I have been victorious through terror.”

Bottom line: What legitimate Islamic organizations must adhere to is obeying Islamic commandments to conquer the world for Islam, defeat and humiliate non-Muslim nations and establish the Kalifate — to be ruled by sharia. That is the plan. It is not the opinion of the writer of this article, but it is the basic objective of Islamic law books, scriptures and preaching, which explicitly define jihad as a war with non-Muslims to establish the religion of Islam. To facilitate this mission, Islamic law freed Muslims from any restrictions on their behavior; they can wage offensive wars, kill, terrorize, behead, lie, deceive, humiliate, slander, use corporal punishment on women and children, and sacrifice the well being of the family, all for the purpose of the empowerment of Islam.

But instead of properly facing the 21 Century Islamic challenge, the West has chosen denial. Obama is being criticized for resorting to golf in a time of trouble, but that is perhaps his only outlet when he feels paralyzed, because what he believed and advocated Islam to be and what it is turned out to be polar opposites.

Also, instead of facing the incompetence and many obvious weaknesses of Islamic terror groups, the West has chosen to appease an enemy that only respects power. Thus, the Obama administration decided to be more concerned with appearances and saying instead of doing the right thing. For example, Obama likes to correct Americans on the proper pronunciation of Arabic names and expressions such as Pakistan and ISIL instead of ISIS, etc. But when the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was declared the West was too embarrassed to call it what it called itself, the Islamic State, and found the English abbreviation ISIS more appropriate than the Arabic name that linked the new terrorist state to Islam.

I was recently asked by visitors from Egypt, “What is ISIS?” My answer was, it is the preferred name the US administration and media use to refer to the newly declared Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Their response was, “Why? In Arabic they call themselves ‘The Islamic State?’” I told them it is a long story, but the West does not want to offend Muslims who believe that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, tyranny and hatred.

Obama insists on presenting himself as more of an expert on Islam than the founders of ISIS when he stated, “ISIL speaks for no religion.” It is not appropriate for the US government or media to define what is or what is not Islam to Muslims who are reading from their books statements that command them to kill infidels. All we should do is take them for their word.

Both the US government and media have decided, long before Obama, that it would be the wise thing to do to keep US citizens uninformed about the true goals of Islam. The goal of this policy was partially to convince Islamic terror groups to leave the West alone and perhaps in the long run Islam will reform on its own one day. But unfortunately history was not on the side of this theory. Appeasement did not work for Coptic Christians in Egypt nor for Zoroastrians in Persia when in the 7th century the two ancient civilizations fell to the Arab Islamic invasion in the same year. Both Egypt and Persia tried to appease but failed to win hearts and minds of the Muslim invaders who used the most barbaric forms of terror and tyranny to Islamize and Arabize both civilizations. Both Egypt and Persia never saw their glory days again and today they are incapable of ruling themselves without the usual Sharia-enforced oppression and tyranny.

What everyone misses here is the right of the American people to know the full truth about their new enemy directly and honestly from their politicians and media. By caring about the feelings of Muslims more than American citizens’ right to the truth, and without naming Islam by name, the US government and media will usher America into a dark phase marking the beginning of tyranny and the end of liberty.

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  • wileyvet

    Brilliant and wonderfully stated Ms. Darwish. Now, is a former Muslim lady an Islamophobe? Hardly, as evidenced by her clear analysis, she is one who knows Islam intimately and can reveal the truth. I applaud your courage and your refreshing honesty.

  • Texas Patriot

    Bravo. Best summary of the situation I’ve seen to date.

    • Una Salus

      Texas Patriot Takbir!

    • MattBracken

      Which race is Muslim, anyway?

  • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

    ISIS’s establishment of the Islamic State is useful for us. It shows what Islam is in reality. Nonie just did an excellent job of comparing ISIS to Mohammad’s rise. This is a learning moment.

    When the USSR existed we had an example of communism. Yes, many Marxist tried to tell us that it wasn’t real communism. Conservatives were still able to exploit the USSR as an reductio absurdum example of what lies at the end of the road to serfdom. The existence of the USSR helped us refute the principles of communism. It was a concrete example. We’ve had a harder time opposing socialism now that the USSR is gone. The younger generation just doesn’t have the example of socialism’s failure writ large.

    The Islamic State will do the same for Islam. It will show the brutality of living under Islam. It will be an embarrassment to all the apologists of Islam. ISIS is Islam. The Islamic State will help us expose Islam. The apologist will look silly when they have nothing to counter the ideology and Koran-quoting of the new Caliph. Let’s exploit this. This is a learning moment.

    • Una Salus

      Islamic State just makes countries like Iran look more moderate
      i.e. adds some depth to the orchestra.
      The cold war analogy falls flat because more than one president has made it very clear Islam is a beautiful religion of peace.
      Did any American president ever pronounce communism a wonderful ideology of equality?

      • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

        The intellectuals and media praised communism (and FDR was positively disposed.) In the late 20s the esteem philosopher, John Dewey, returned from the USSR and called it a noble experiment. Intellectuals were on board with so few exceptions that you can count them on one hand. This is why Hayek dedicated his book, The Road to Serfdom, to all the socialists of the world. Socialists were the only intellectual audience at that time. Academics all favored some variant of the “planned economy.”

        The intellectuals continued in the 50s and 60s. After the “noble experiment” didn’t work they said the USSR wasn’t real communism, Mao was … oops, no, Castro. When defending communism wasn’t working they attacked the critics of communism for being witch hunters to divert attention.

        We can see a similar pattern with Islam. Al Qaeda isn’t real Islam. The Taliban isn’t real Islam. Iran and Saudi Arabia aren’t real Islam. Islam isn’t political. No wait, there is a moderate political Islam in Turkey and with Mosi in Egypt. No wait …

        • Una Salus

          FDR was president before the rise of the USSR as a real world super power.
          Communism was actively and consistently opposed as an ideology by administrations since before JFK’s.

          I agree you can point to parallels but the situation is different.

          • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

            There is an important tactic that the left uses because it is effective. It’s an indirect defense. When Communism became to embarrassing to defend, leftists embraced anti-anti-Communism. They attacked the critics of Communism as being unfair, hysterical, and their favorite: McCarthyite.

            The left is doing the same now. Islam is obviously hard to defend. So they attack the critics as Islamophobes. I coined the term anti-anti-Islam: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/anti-anti-islam.html

            As David Horowitz shows in his book “Unholy Alliance” both the left and Islamist are united by their hatred of America.

          • Una Salus

            Thanks, interesting article.
            This reminds me that Arthur Miller helped create this tactic. He dramatized the Salem witch hunt trials.

            Unfortunately he did his job a little too well because now we’re more afraid of a false alarm than fire in the building.

            http://youtu.be/ulT8phOxSWU

  • 1Indioviejo1

    Maybe ISIS will be an eye opener for the West, or not, but fighting piece meal this totalitarian ideology is a recipe for disaster. We should take a page from the Koran and fight them until Islam is no more.

  • MattBracken

    Radical Islam is an insane rape and murder cult, and has been for 1,400 years.
    “Moderate” Islam is its Trojan horse in the West. The jihad function of the “moderate” Muslims is not only to practice taqiya, but to create an anonymous forest of Muslims in the West to conceal the violent jihadists among them.

  • kafir4life

    Every muslim knows other muslims that are the wrong style of muslim or those that aren’t quite muslim enough. If every muslim were to “honor” one other muslim per day on those grounds, within a month the problem would resolve itself.
    The muslims love death as much as we love life. Anyone else see the “win-win” in that?

  • Raymond Hietapakka

    The only “moderate” muzzle’em is a dead muzzle’em.

  • http://islamsfatalflaw.blogspot.com/ BobSmith101

    Absolutely 100% analysis of the problem.

    For readers interested in how Islam recruits and inspires the jihadis – and how the jihadis control Islam, read my thesis “Islam is Fear” at:
    http://islamsfatalflaw.blogspot.com/

  • Texas Patriot

    You’re the one we should thank. The enemy we face today is more subtle, more complex, and more dangerous than any threat in the history of Western Civilization, and every little insight, every little bit of truth, is enormously helpful in seeing the true face of the monster.

  • knowshistory

    anyone who does not know all that is needed to know about islam after 9-11-01 would not know after our muslim in chief and our media spelled it out for them. national suicide is an ugly thing.

  • Softly Bob

    I’m tired of these soap-dodging, wife-beating, halfwits. Why is Islam still here? Why haven’t we nuke-fried these rats by now? Mecca should have been flattened and turned into a parking-lot. It’s long overdue.
    Just saying!

  • Johnnie the Jew

    Major Obummas comment about IS and “no just god would do this” (re Foleys beheading) is absolutely laughable in as much as it reveals an inherent contradiction in effect i.e that some god somewhere allowed this to happen and as the “true god” of Islam, being peace loving and tolerant, wouldn’t possibly have allowed this to happen (really ?!!), can only mean that the “true”, all good god of the death cult has now been usurped by some other rogue “god” of the death cult. Are we advocating that other old infidel chestnut belief concept (by monotheist standards) – ‘pantheism’ – here Major Obumma, or what? Can you really believe this mumbo jumbo for a minute?! And from the President of the free world (allegedly). Where’s Okams razor when we really need it.
    As for the ‘Shaticans’ take on this. They’ve spent far too much time in their naively idealistic, multi faith sewing circles, pondering appeasement and enfranchisement with the brutally barbaric contenders to the god throne when any reasonably educated mortal can see it for what it is i.e a totalitarian, nihilistic nightmare of medieval subjugation and abject submission. In all respects, an intellectually inferior, bankrupt, brainwashed, bog brained, bast***d, ideological, death cult. And hear I was thinking that Obumma would like his sauce hot and spicy due to his afro “american” roots.