Exposed: Obama Helped Decade-Old Plan to Create IS

20140613_ISIS8Although the birth of the Islamic State and the herald of the caliphate are often regarded as some of 2014’s “big shockers,” they were foretold in striking detail and with an accurate timeline by an al-Qaeda insider nearly one decade ago.

On August 12, 2005, Spiegel Online International published an article titled “The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaeda Really Wants.”  Written by Yassin Musharbash, the article was essentially a review of a book written by Fouad Hussein, a Jordanian journalist with close access to al-Qaeda and its affiliates, including the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who pioneered the videotaping of beheadings “to strike terror into the hearts” of infidels (Koran 3:151).

As Hussein explained in the introduction of his book Al Zarqawi: Al Qaeda’s Second Generation: “I interviewed a whole range of al-Qaeda members with different ideologies to get an idea of how the war between the terrorists and Washington would develop in the future.”

And in fact the book details the master plan of al-Qaeda—in its “second generation” manifestation known as the “Islamic State” which follows much of Zarqawi’s modus operandi—to resurrect a caliphate.  This plan is sufficiently outlandish that Yassin Musharbash, the author of the Spiegel article reviewing Hussein’s book, repeatedly casts doubt on its feasibility.  Thus al-Qaeda’s plan is “proof both of the terrorists’ blindness as well as their brutal single-mindedness”; there is “no way” al-Qaeda can follow the plan “step by step”; “the idea that al-Qaeda could set up a caliphate in the entire Islamic world is absurd”; and the following “scenario should be judged skeptically.”

Yet it is all the more remarkable that much of this plan—especially those phases dismissed as infeasible by Musharbash (four and five)—have come to pass.

In what follows, I reproduce the seven phases of al-Qaeda’s master plan as presented in Musharbash’s nearly ten-year-old article (in bullet points and italics, bold for emphasis), with my commentary interspersed for context.  Phases four and five are of particular importance as they describe the goals for recent times, much of which have come to fruition according to plan.

An Islamic Caliphate in Seven Easy Steps

•The First Phase Known as “the awakening”—this has already been carried out and was supposed to have lasted from 2000 to 2003, or more precisely from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington to the fall of Baghdad in 2003. The aim of the attacks of 9/11 was to provoke the US into declaring war on the Islamic world and thereby “awakening” Muslims. “The first phase was judged by the strategists and masterminds behind al-Qaeda as very successful,” writes Hussein. “The battle field was opened up and the Americans and their allies became a closer and easier target.” The terrorist network is also reported as being satisfied that its message can now be heard “everywhere.”

Much of this is accurate and makes sense.  Sadly, if any eyes were opened after the 9/11 attacks on American soil, they weren’t Western eyes—certainly not the eyes of Western leadership, mainstream media, and academia.  But to many Muslims, the strikes of 9/11 were inspiring and motivating, giving credence to Osama bin Laden’s characterization of America as a “paper tiger.” A few years after the Islamic strikes of 9/11, Americans responded by electing a man with a Muslim name and heritage for president, even as he continuously empowers in a myriad of ways—including banning knowledge of Islam—the same ideology behind the strikes of 9/11. Meanwhile, the average Muslim relearned the truths of their religion, namely that the “infidel” is an existential enemy and jihad against him is a duty, as al-Qaeda and others had successfully shown.

•The Second Phase “Opening Eyes” is, according to Hussein’s definition, the period we are now in [writing in 2005] and should last until 2006. Hussein says the terrorists hope to make the western conspiracy aware of the “Islamic community.” Hussein believes this is a phase in which al-Qaeda wants an organization to develop into a movement. The network is banking on recruiting young men during this period. Iraq should become the center for all global operations, with an “army” set up there and bases established in other Arabic states.

This too is accurate.   Among other things, the “Islamic community,” the umma, began to be more visible and vocal during this time frame, including through a rash of attacks and riots following any perceived “insult” to Islam, growing demands for appeasement, and accusations of “Islamophobia” against all and sundry.  If there weren’t any spectacular terror attacks on the level of 9/11, young Muslim men were quietly enlisting and training in the jihad—or in western parlance, “radicalizing.”  Al-Qaeda went from being an “organization” to a “movement”—international “radicalization.”  Most importantly, Iraq, as the world now knows, certainly did become the “center for all global operations” with an “army” of jihadis set up there.

•The Third Phase This is described as “Arising and Standing Up” and should last from 2007 to 2010. “There will be a focus on Syria,” prophesies Hussein, based on what his sources told him. The fighting cadres are supposedly already prepared and some are in Iraq. Attacks on Turkey and—even more explosive— in Israel are predicted. Al-Qaeda’s masterminds hope that attacks on Israel will help the terrorist group become a recognized organization. The author also believes that countries neighboring Iraq, such as Jordan, are also in danger.

Much of this third phase as described and transpired seems to have been an extension of phase two.  In retrospect, there certainly appears to have been a focus on Syria, even if the jihad started there one year behind schedule (2011).  And many of the jihadis were “already prepared” and “some are in Iraq.”   None of this was a surprise, of course, as U.S. intelligence always indicated that if American forces withdrew from Iraq, the jihadis would take over.

•The Fourth Phase Between 2010 and 2013, Hussein writes that al-Qaeda will aim to bring about the collapse of the hated Arabic governments. The estimate is that “the creeping loss of the regimes’ power will lead to a steady growth in strength within al-Qaeda.” At the same time attacks will be carried out against oil suppliers and the US economy will be targeted using cyber terrorism.

This is immensely prophetic.  Recall that the timeline given (2010-2013) coincides remarkably well with the so-called “Arab Spring,” which culminated with Islamic terrorists and their allies taking over the leadership of several Arab countries formerly ruled by secularized autocrats: Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood (which plays Dr. Jekyll to al-Qaeda’s Mr. Hyde); Libya, al-Qaeda/Islamic jihadis; ongoing Syria, al-Qaeda/Islamic jihadis (or their latest manifestation, the Islamic State, al-Qaeda’s “second generation”), etc.  It should be remembered that in each of these nations—Egypt, Libya, Syria—the Obama administration played a major role in empowering the jihadis, though in the name of “democracy.” 

•The Fifth Phase This will be the point at which an Islamic state, or caliphate, can be declared. The plan is that by this time, between 2013 and 2016, Western influence in the Islamic world will be so reduced and Israel weakened so much, that resistance will not be feared. Al-Qaeda hopes that by then the Islamic state will be able to bring about a new world order.

Again, right on time: the “Islamic State” declared itself the “caliphate” in 2014, with many Muslim organizations and persons around the world pledging their allegiance, if not imitating their slaughter, with inspired “lone wolves” already beheading “infidels” in Western nations.   And if the administration helped empower jihadis during the “Arab Spring” and in the name of “democracy” in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, it helped the creation of the Islamic State by withdrawing U.S. military forces that were keeping al-Qaeda at bay in Iraq.  Recall that in 2007 George W. Bush said that “To begin withdrawing [military forces] before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region and for the United States.  It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to Al Qaeda.  It would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale.  It would mean we allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan.  It would mean we’d be increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.” All of these predictions have proven remarkably prescient—not because Bush was a prophet but because U.S intelligence clearly understood the situation in Iraq, and briefed Obama on it just as it did Bush. Yet, in 2011, Obama declared the Iraq war a success and pulled out American troops, leaving the way wide open for the jihadi master plan of resurrecting the caliphate to unfold.

•The Sixth Phase Hussein believes that from 2016 onwards there will a period of “total confrontation.” As soon as the caliphate has been declared the “Islamic army” it will instigate the “fight between the believers and the non-believers” which has so often been predicted by Osama bin Laden.

This needs clarification.  While many assume that the “fight between the believers and the non-believers” is between Muslims and non-Muslims, this is not always the case.  Soon after the announcement of the caliphate, the Islamic State made clear that it was in the phase of waging jihad on “apostates” and “hypocrites,” meaning all the “apostate” or “infidel” Arab leaders like Bashar al-Assad, as well as Muslim populations that are insufficiently “Islamic.”  It is for this reason that the new caliph took on the name of “Abu Bakr”—the name of the first historic caliph (632-634) whose caliphate was characterized by fighting and bringing back into the fold of Islam all those Arabs who broke away after Muhammad died.   Afterwards, when all the Arab tribes were unified under the banner of Islam, the great historic conquests, or jihads against neighboring “infidels,” took place.

•The Seventh Phase This final stage is described as “definitive victory.” Hussein writes that in the terrorists’ eyes, because the rest of the world will be so beaten down by the “one-and-a-half billion Muslims,” the caliphate will undoubtedly succeed. This phase should be completed by 2020, although the war shouldn’t last longer than two years.

Phase seven remains to be seen, as it is has another five years to go.  As for the world being “so beaten down by the one-and-a-half billion Muslims,” actor Ben Affleck reflected this sentiment recently when he kept apologizing for Islam by saying Muslims “are a billion and a half.”   At any rate, considering that the preceding phases have all largely come to pass—with a passive West doing nothing to prevent them, that is, when not actively aiding them—there is certainly no good reason to think Western leadership will stop the final phase from occurring: a unified, aggressive, expansionist, and eventually possibly even nuclear armed caliphate preparing to terrorize its neighbors on a grand scale—just like its historic predecessor did for centuries.

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  • JB Ziggy Zoggy

    It’s always seemed to me that Obama has been deliberately helping to make a caliphate a reality. Either that or he’s being manipulated by his muslim brotherhood advisors.

    • Libslayer

      Obama isn’t being manipulated by the MB.
      He embraces them wholeheartedly.

      • JB Ziggy Zoggy

        I agree but he seems to think he can handle whatever happens, and that ISIS, a nuclear Iran and America can coexist. I think he wants the islamic world to be equal to the West and end American supremacy but he’s too stupid to understand how insane that goal is. He has obviously been aiding the brotherhood for a long time and always favors the jihadis over the more secular rulers. Mubarak and Kaddafi are gone, Maliki and Karzai were betrayed and Assad is besieged. Al Qaeda in Libya, ISIS, HAMAS Hezb’allah and the ayatollah get his help everytime they’re in trouble.

        I don’t think he wants to destroy America but he’s too stupid to realize that fundamentally changing it will do just that. He loves his $luttish luxury and only speaks English, so I cant believe he would even imagine living anyplace but America. And remember, he’s much to incompetent to make his own plans and policies. He just listens to the snakes he’s surrounded himself with and picks the advice he likes best, when he makes a descision at all?

    • JayWye

      Comrade Obama IS the muslim Manchurian Candidate.

      There’s a reason why,post-college,Comrade Hussein traveled to Pakistan,of all places. it’s not because he was a Christian. There’s a reason why Comrade Hussein was aided in getting into college by Saudi money and influence.

      It’s all part of his efforts to weaken the US economically,politically,and militarily.
      “once is accidental,twice is coincidence,three times is enemy action.”

      “The Obama Doctrine can be described in just nine words: Embolden our enemies, undermine our friends, diminish our country.” Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

      • JB Ziggy Zoggy

        I agree that Obama favors islam over all other religions because his absentee drunkard father was a muslim and he has daddy issues, but he also has narcissistic personality disorder, which means he has no loyalty or strong convictions about anything but self aggrandizement and hatred for the people he’s been indoctrinated to hate: Whites, Christians, conservatives, etc. I don’t believe for a second that he ever prays unless it’s for show. I also don’t believe he wants to destroy America utterly. He thinks he can strengthen islam while he weakens America and still have a country to live in. That pu$$y has never suffered one second of hardship in his entire life and couldn’t hack it in another country. He’s a leftwing moron that thinks he’s going to build an Animal Farm and live high on the hog while all the other animals live off the government after it seizes all business, or some other sophomoric fantasy.

      • ratonis

        B.O. is the strangest character ever to appear in American politics. He writes his autobiography before there is any reason for anybody to even know who he is; he can point to not a single achievement that would qualify him for leadership of ANY kind, much less national leadership; he covers up his educational background so nobody can study or assess it. There’s literally nothing there with this guy and yet there he is, president of the U.S. How that happens is enough to at least arouse curiosity about conspiracy theories!

    • Sister_In_Christ

      He’s not being manipulated. He’s a Marxist Muslim who hates America and loves being at the center of it’s destruction.

  • http://www.praxis-bihlmaier.de/ Barbarossa Rotbart

    Personally, after observing his actions, his rhetoric, even his body language, my impression is that he has a singular holy mission: the worldwide caliphate (all religion is Allah’s).

    Everything else doesn’t matter, it’s just going through the motions ..

    • James Brown

      Destroying America and establishing a world-wide socialist caliphate was one of the dreams from his father. It’s not a mystery, he and many in his administration have been helping the caliphate get started. Obama is one of them, he is on their side in this war, considering his foreign policy, there can be no doubt for whom he is working.

      • kcsummer

        The whole while he has opened our borders, wide to any and all, with arrogant disregard and narcissistic contempt, it has puzzled me how we got from 9/11/2001 when we were promised and determined to tighten security only to, as the author points out, elect a muslim in pretty obvious to me sheep’s clothing who, aided by stupid liberals who perversely and wrongly believe they “know-it-all”, by a fawning doltish media, by the PC crowd who has successfully cowed many into silence lest they be called racist or some kind of “phobe”. It does not bother me at all to be called racist because its their weapon of choice to pull out when their toes get stepped on by someone to close to the truth. I recall sittting in my history class in grade school in the late 50′s and early 60′s listening to the teacher drone on about the collapse of civilizations and wondering to myself why they let it all slip away from them. Only to find that, hear today, with all our weapons and resources and “knowledge” we are being done in by bullies and cowards that even the “best and brightest” are too cowardly to confront. A book written with this plot would never fly, it lacks credibility which is ironic because as we are seeing it is VERY REAL. It’s already too late, in my humble opinion, they is no way to reverse time and undo the damage he’s done, to re-empower our military whom he has disgraced, disrespected, demoralized and defunded. There is no way to unmix the cream from the coffee, no way to take out all the illegals of whatever nationality, that have blended into the background of America. How can it be that some of us are (I know it is true for me) battling daily to keep from giving in to the rising sense of panic that I can never quite even put to sleep for even a few minutes. I am not trying to be pessimistic, I love this country or the way it used to be, its just with so many of us totally deluded, it makes it all the more imperative to tell the truth and nothing but.

        • Aubryn

          My heart goes out to you. Besides the sense of panic and loss, I also battled with feelings of enraged hatred for all the mindless lazy stupid unthinking idiots that keep chanting the obamatard slogans. Visions of pushing them all off the edge of their flat earth come to mind. What I have learned at least for me, is that in order to cope, I do what I can to prepare for what is coming. There are some things that we can do to limit or delay the damage to us personally. Some of the ideas could be taking money out of the banks, buying hard assets needed in the event of a complete collapse, learning or brushing up on skills that could be necessary like canning, gardening, drying/preserving food, emergency first aid, etc. There is much more to be said on this subject but I can see you are a very intelligent person and likely need no advice. Know you are far from alone. I believe you are correct-telling the truth and nothing but is imperative. Teach, teach and then teach some more before those of us who remember America are all gone.

    • tedh754

      All religion is Allah’s..meaning Satan. Why else would Islam try to portray Jesus as “just another prophet?” Satan had to do something after the Lord’s victory on the cross. So why not appear as “Gabriel” and give a “revelation” to an in-bred camel humper?

  • Catahoula

    The next presidential election is I not only important for the US but for the caliphate also. Americans need to pick wisely.

    • Harry_the_Horrible

      Look for large numbers of small contributions to the Democrat candidate from overseas, via untraceable credit cards. The Democrats will leave their on-line contributions anonymous.
      Sorta like what Obama in 2008.

    • cree

      The next president may be of GWB variety. The warrior element of Islam is making its move on Obama’s watch because he stupidly or purposely is giving Islam the prime opportunity for their objectives. There are many elements or coincidences from Obama’s moves that are of benefit to warrior Islam. If this grows, expect worst case scenario that all muslims are obligated to join in the fight. We already know the passive, so far non-warriors of Islam hates Israel and the West; they throw rocks, kidnap kids, drive vehicles into Israeli soldiers, behead or execute and are starting “lone wolf” attacks in western countries.

      This whole movement essentially started in 1979. They have not and will not give up. Expect total defeat by them or us. Choose bravely.

      • ModeratelyDisorganized

        Purposely!

    • liz

      It will probably be too late by then. This conspiracy is going exactly according to plan, Obama is a central player in it, and is holding the door open for Iran to get nukes.
      We’re way past the point of impeachment. This is treason. And apparently our spineless jellyfish are going to remain oblivious and let it happen.

      • truebearing

        Obama is a classic scourge. He is allowing evil to progress through his strategic passivity and secret dealings. By the time we get him out of power, he will have paved the path for WWIII.

        I’m a cheery guy, eh?

    • Tony

      Barry Seotoro aka obam Hates America… I Call doe Valkryie !!!!!!! Now let the people know We will not go down without a fight get rid of him then we can Fix America then we can help the world… and Deport Communism, Marxism, Socialism, Fascism , DemoCraps All the same thing in my book… For I am an American patriot … But if things get worse i will defect to Ireland…or Australia….

  • info warrior

    Obama’s war on Muslims is doomed to fail. Cant’ win a war against 1/5th of the world… sorry conservatives. What we see in Iraq now, or in Libya, Afghanistan etc, is a result of US (UN/NATO) policy not religion.

    • JB Ziggy Zoggy

      What we’re seeing in those countries is happening in EVERY country with islamopithecines in them, from South East Asia, to Europe, Africa, South America, North America, EVERYWHERE. It absolutely is islam driving their savagery and it has been for 1400 years. They don’t even comprise 1/7 of the Earth’s population and they are quite easy to kill.

      Nothing you wrote can be taken seriously. “Obama’s war on muslims.” What a loon.

      • bigjulie

        I believe that “war” should be in quotes in IW’s post…at least that is how I am reading it. I think he meant to say that Obama’s fakery in conducting a few air strikes is a joke as it is. He has no intention of hurting any pre-Caliphate forces because he hopes to become part of the Caliphate “Administration”. Meanwhile, I am so happy that the NRA exists and I hope the some 400M guns currently in private hands are oiled and clean and have plenty of ammo to go with them. I feel strongly that we will need every one of them before this is all over!

        • JB Ziggy Zoggy

          So why did he brag that America cant beat the mighty islamopithecines, whom he over counts by way over a billion?

    • truebearing

      Stick your finger back in your nose, inbred warrior. Your ideological constipation has left you incapable of understanding the dynamics at play.

    • bigjulie

      It is not at all “doomed” to fail. a much more accurate description would be that it is “designed” to fail, and It is failing beautifully while the Fraud in Chief continues to weaken our military capability so that the rising Caliphate finally finds itself equal to the task of defeating American might!
      Meanwhile, back at the ranch, an ever-growing Muslim population will be quietly readying itself to complete the 6th and 7th phase. So-called “peaceful” Muslim communities, such as the ones rising in Michigan will suddenly become “un-peaceful” and claim that infidel “resistance” will become the raison dete for their “un-peacefulness” because they really only want to be “peaceful” but the infidels won’t let them and the Fraud-in-Chief will be angling for his “Vice-Caliph of Islamic America” position.
      Geert Wilders in The Netherlands is one of the few modern day politicians who sees the threat clearly. He is trying to reduce and hopefully eradicate Muslim influence in his home Country. We need a lot of “Geert Wilders” here in America, RIGHT NOW, because we are already very much unprepared for the advent of the Caliphate as it is
      and it will be foolish to believe that the Fraud-In-Chief is going to do anything to save America as long as he is in office, except “go through the motions” while he tries on different turbans trying to decide which one looks most like a crown.

      • kcsummer

        Indeed, that’s the key, he’s not a bungler, he knows damn well the damage he’s doing. People need to get over this idea that his heart is in the right place but unfortunately inept. That is one of his deceptions that has served him so well. NOTHING he has done has been accidental damage.

        • bigjulie

          I don’t know of ANYONE who thinks his bungling is a result of the ineptness of a “heart in the right place”. I am certain that everything he does is designed to completely ruin a country that he hates…his own! It is “bungling” because he is completely dismissive of the philosophy and thought that went into the formation of America. He bungles because his egomania allows him to think that the “remaking” of America is necessary because he has what he thinks is a “better idea” about how it should have been done, (with him and his ilk permanently in charge). That “better idea” is to take actions to control and limit the input of citizens into the operation of their own country because the prime principle he operates on is that most of us are just too stupid to successfully operate our own lives. We need “masterminds” like him with marijuana and coke-befuddled heads to do everything for us.

    • bill reitzes

      If you are correct, how do you explain the flag of ISIS?
      The flag clearly states the Shahada. “No god but allah etc.”
      You can’t get more religious than that, can you?
      It’s all in the flag mate, all in the flag.

      • info warrior

        There’s fanatics and extremists in all major religions, even Buddhism.

        And in all faiths the majority who are peaceful folks disavow the fanatics.

        I am an atheist, I take no part in all of that nonsense. I certainly won’t judge an entire religion based on the actions of a fanatical fringe.
        I’ve known lots of Muslims here and Northern Africa and never had a problem with any one. Perhaps your view of Muslims has been shaped only by the TV news.

        • bill reitzes

          You said that, “what’s happening is because of US, NATO etc,. and not religion.
          ISIS clearly fights under a flag that is the Shahada, making everything that they do is for their allah god.
          This is totally clear, or do you not understand the concept of fighting for a cause, under a flag?
          What does my “view of Muslims” have to do with this fact, that for ISIS is in it for their allah god, and are doing a lot of allah uahkbaring to make him happy.
          Everyone knows a good Muslim.
          “He was such a nice boy, I wouldn’t believe that he was capable of such deeds” say the majority of neighbours, when interviewed after yet another pious head hacker makes allah happy, and promising himself a seat next to allah.

        • JB Ziggy Zoggy

          No religion but islam has a doctrine of jihad and is at war with the rest of the world. And oh, yeah. You atheists are the worst mass murderers of all time: Hitler, Stalin,Mao and Pol Pot killed more people than in all of recorded history. When you claim to have lived in Northern Africa and never had a problem with any islamopithecine, you expose yourself as a wretched liar. Claiming any country is free of interpersonal problems is ridiculous, and claiming an atheist amongst the rock apes was problem free is insane.

          You are very smug in your stupidity.

          • info warrior

            You just exposed yourself as an islamophobe, and that’s no lie :)

          • Pteromandias

            Are you a Mein Kampfophobe?

          • Pteromandias

            Islam is a collection of texts. Are you saying it is impossible for one to read them, measure them for their worth, and decide whether to accept or reject their teachings?

          • Softly Bob

            Islam is dangerous. It preaches war against non-Muslims. This is found in Muslim scriptures ans was endorsed by the Prophet Mohammed himself. That’s not Islamaphobia – it’s a fact.

          • info warrior

            All religion can be dangerous. Take the Christians in the White House for example.. a devoutly religious president who is slaughtering innocent men, women and children. Should I condemn my Christian friends for belong to a religion that allows war, torture and execution?

          • Softly Bob

            There are no Christians in the White House. Obama is a Muslim. You’re an idiot, through and through…. an utter idiot!

          • info warrior

            Lol!Now that is rich. A whackadoo who believes the US President is a Muslim calling me an idiot. FYI, many ‘Christian’ leaders are pro war, pro-execution and pro-torture.

          • info warrior

            He is not a Muslim, he professes to be a Christian.. but so did GW Bush, Bill Clinton and Harry Truman who were all despicable, un-godly men IMO.

          • billobillo54

            You continually expose yourself as ahistorical or historically illiterate, and insensitive to the extreme brutality against the kafirs perpetrated by sincere and real followers of Islam. You also are ignorant of the role of ideology in the lives of populations, especially the role of Islamic political ideology behind the grand jihad. Be sure you don’t allow your disdain for Christianity and Judaism to influence your perception of the intolerant, violent, misogynist, authoritarian, and supremacist nature of Islam.

          • info warrior

            I’ve studied religions, and was raised Christian. I also lived in an area under Sharia law for several years. I’ve sen men without hands and heard stories of people’s tongues being cut out for blaspheme. There’s a difference between condemning the authoritarian aspects of religion and simply being an Islamophobe.. the difference being one’s understanding of the problem.

          • billobillo54

            You wrote: “There’s a difference between condemning the authoritarian aspects of religion and simply being an Islamophobe.” It is obvious that Nazism, communism, Jacobins to name a few ideologies are fundamentally and inherently authoritarian and supremacist with no basis whatsoever for the promotion or maintenance of tolerance, liberty, political and social freedom and democracy. Islam is identical in ideology at its core foundational level. I have no use for your analysis and see it as fundamentally flawed and extremely dangerous. I distrust your perception for many reasons, especially due to you being an atheist, an ideology that proves over and over again in history and practice to be extremely authoritarian, supremacist, intolerant, violent, antidemocratic and given to suppression of freedom.

          • info warrior

            My perception comes from my experience of living and working in Muslim parts of the world and working in a Muslim enclave in my city. Thankfully they aren’t taking their Koran literally and going around taxing me or cutting my head off. Yes, many Islamic nations oppress their people., Muslims as well as non-Muslims, and that needs to change. Separation of Mosque and state should be the rule everywhere.

          • billobillo54

            Your personal experience, in relation to the broad issue of Islam is irrelevant to the reality of Islamic Sharia: economics, culture, politics, society and practice on a broad scale and as a major minority phenomenon or as a majority. The majority of Muslims who obviously are not terrorists are irrelevant to the reality of the expanding Islamic Caliphate, the Islamic suppression of freedom, the Islamic abuse of women, Islamic violent jihad, Islamic extreme anti-Jew and Christian violence, Islamic supremacism and all of the other evils that always accompany Islamic politics and society. Where in the world does an Islamic nation exist that coincides with classic liberal western values of freedom, tolerance and civility? There is none and there never will be one. Many westerners lived in Germany prior to W.W. II among the Germans during the rise of Hitler and Nazism in the 1930s. The German citizens were not all ravenous wolves, not all Brown Shirts, not all Nazis, not all Jew haters, etc. And they were irrelevant to the movement of Nazism other than being material supporters in a political and cultural sense. This is the exact case with Muslims.

        • Pteromandias

          The “entire religion” is nothing more than a collection of texts, histories, sayings, and judicial rulings. You certainly can “judge” an entire religion because it isn’t infinite. The texts are there to read and judge.

    • kcsummer

      While you argue semantics Rome is getting ready to burn. What difference does it make (please don’t think for a moment that I am trying to emulate or quote Hillary – while her words about Benghazi were offensive, here they are accurate and perfectly illustrate where we are in history) at this point WHY? It IS what it is.

  • PhillipGaley

    Well, against all of this, having some true-blue Americans elected to office would help, . . . Mia Love is a start, . . . and yes, there are some few others, . . . but with so very much of USA wealth invested with China, the tendency has been to allow open access to China’s buying up of US real-estate, . . .

    • JB Ziggy Zoggy

      Congress needs to make it illegal for foreigners and especially foreign governments to buy real estate, businesses and anything else that cant be shipped overseas. Very few countries allow this. It’s idiotic. Try to buy real estate in Mexico or China and see what happens.

      • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

        Someone has to buy the real estate—and if it’s not foreigners, then the property will end up in default and on the hands of banks who can’t sell the properties.

  • http://www.praxis-bihlmaier.de/ Barbarossa Rotbart

    Raymond Ibrahim is tackling the central problem which will by force be occupying all civilization in the years to come:

    Total confrontation, believers against unbelievers

    The dreadful seventh and final phase is what Benjamin Netanyahu has been rightfully worrying about for a long time: Nuclear destruction/blackmail

    Suggested reading:
    The Islamic Antichrist by Joel Richardson
    The End of America by John Price

  • marlene

    The Syrian rebels fighing against ISIS complained they were attacked by US Airstrikes! We’ve got more than enough proof against obama and his gang. What do we do about it?

    • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

      They’re complaining that they were attacked by American airstrikes? Nothing wrong with that—those rebels are receiving weapons from Moscow.and are enemies of the West.

  • truebearing

    Excellent article. Very revealing.

    Along with the many ways Obama has overtly helped Al Qaeda, there is also a long period of passive enabling, or should I say disabling, by Obama. His lying about the potency or threat from Al Qaeda was a smoke screen to buy Al Qaeda time. Combine his degrading of our military with his masking of Al Qaeda’s rise. It is tailored to enable a sworn enemy to strengthen. This is yet more evidence that we have a president who clearly intends to facilitate the Muslim’s manifest evil destiny, and make us vulnerable to it.

    • kcsummer

      There are not words to accurately describe the contempt and loathing I feel for those who have enabled him all the while chuckling, thinking they know some great wisdom that we conservatives don’t. I could care less if they wish to gamble away their own safety and the lives of their families but I do very much resent the disastrous effects their sheer stupidity is having and will have on mine. I have young grandchildren that I worry for – how can I not when you see that even innocent babies do not move these barbarian savages to moments of mercy. For the sake of argument, assuming there is a God and that he put us here to see how well we would thrive or not, how he must be truly repulsed by our mass ignorance. I’m afraid he will scratch us off his list as another failed experiment. Are there other civilizations on other planets who weren’t as stupid as we have been? For every validictorian there are many more dolts – we must be one of those.

      • JB Ziggy Zoggy

        You know how subversive lefties are, and how low info your average Dem voters are. They think America is too big to fail. 1/3 of the population is statistically stupid, you know. The country is also getting stupider overall because of the hordes of sub intellectual people emigrating here.

  • Space Cowboy

    young Muslim men were quietly enlisting and training in the jihad—or in western parlance, “radicalizing.” Al-Qaeda went from being an “organization” to a “movement”—international “radicalization.” Most importantly, Iraq, as the world now knows, certainly did become the “center for all global operations” with an “army” of jihadis set up there.

    That’s nonsense. All Muslims in the world, according to the dictates of Islam, are already jihadists in one form or another. Either of the violent variety (a tiny minority) or of the non-violent variety (the vast overwhelming majority). Thus, the notion that so-called moderate Muslims that are in actuality stealth jihad already are somehow radicalized via some sort of mysterious radicalization process is utterly ludicrous.

    As a matter of fact, the sole fundamental purpose of mainstream orthodox Islam, which happens to be the only kind, is to convert all infidels to Islam or otherwise kill or subjugate them through jihad, which is a so-called holy war waged universally by all Muslims, and the eventual imposition of Sharia, which is draconian Islamic totalitarian law, to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme.

    In addition, Islam is not just a so-called religion where all adherents have the freedom of conscience to choose to have faith or to choose not to have faith or to choose to adhere to the tenets of Islam or to choose to commit blasphemy, as all non-conformers in Islamic totalitarian society are summarily executed for the capital offenses of apostasy, blasphemy, or both according to the dictates of Islam.

    Indeed, if all Muslims, per the dictates of Islam, which more than anything else is a very rabid and draconian form of totalitarianism that seeks to make itself and its followers supreme, rather than being just a so-called religion, are all jihadists in one form or another, then the notion that a tiny minority of Muslims are radicals and extremists, while the majority are moderates, is an utterly absurd political correct myth.

    PC multiculturalists might be mentally incompetent enough to believe that in ludicrous nonsense, but excuse me if I’m not one of them.

    It should be remembered that in each of these nations—Egypt, Libya, Syria—the Obama administration played a major role in empowering the jihadis, though in the name of “democracy.”

    The Obama administration’s role was the continuance of the abject stupidity of the GWB administration’s gross mentally incompetent role with respect to their own ridiculous democratization project and their two fantasy based nation-building missions to lift up Muslims, who are the eternal mortal enemies of all infidels in the world, out of poverty because like the PC multicultural loons they all are they actually believe that “poverty and despair” are the “root causes” of terrorism, and never mind the fact that Muslims are not terrorists to begin with, but jihadists instead, as jihad, in stark contrast to terrorism, involves the entirety of Islamic totalitarian society.

    if not imitating their slaughter, with inspired “lone wolves” already beheading “infidels” in Western nations.

    All the lone wolves so far have all been recent converts to Islam. Meanwhile, the millions of cradle to grave Muslims living over here in America and throughout the infidel world are waging stealth jihad deliberately non-violently by design and on purpose for the strategic purposes of mass Muslim infiltration of our governments, Islamization of our societies, and for eventual demographic conquest. As waging jihad in the infidel world violently isn’t feasible since it would quickly be defeated.

    And if the administration helped empower jihadis during the “Arab Spring” and in the name of “democracy” in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, it helped the creation of the Islamic State by withdrawing U.S. military forces that were keeping al-Qaeda at bay in Iraq.

    Which is also utterly absurd. Since when is permanent occupation of an Islamic totalitarian hellhole an acceptable and feasible outcome? Maybe that’s acceptable for you, but it’s not for me and the America people.

    What would there mission be? To protect a so-called Iraqi democracy that never was a democracy to begin with. Since its constitution was infused with Sharia, which is draconian Islamic totalitarian law, thanks to Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, who like all Muslims was also a stealth jihadist. Thus, Iraq’s government is not a democracy and it is also obviously more loyal to Iran than to America.

    When are we going to ever learn our lessons from our tragic strategic mistakes? The first step in the process is to accept our stupid mistakes and then try to learn from them.

    Not to mention that the previous propaganda alleged that AQ in Iraq had already been destroyed via the so-called Iraqi Surge. However, in hindsight that never was true, as they had just melted away into the woodwork like cockroaches until the heat died down.

    The truth is we should have never occupied Afghanistan or Iraq for the fantasy based reasons we did to begin with. I can understand targeting AQ and even Saddam for eradication, but at the same time I can’t understand fantasy based nation-building missions to lift up Muslims, who are all our eternal mortal enemies, out of poverty because our political elites are mentally incompetent enough to actually believe that “poverty and despair” are somehow the “root causes” of terrorism, even though Muslims aren’t terrorists, but jihadists instead waging a so-called holy war to make Islam and its followers supreme. Or that democratization of the Islamic totalitarian world is somehow even remotely possible as opposed to being completely fantasy based.

    Recall that in 2007 George W. Bush said that “To begin withdrawing [military forces] before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region and for the United States.

    Actually, the truth is thanks to GWB’s two nation building missions in Iraq and Afghanistan that were both preordained to fail even before the first shots were ever fired because they were both exceedingly fantasy based, we were stuck in a no-win quagmire over there no matter what we did.

    Come on lets tell the truth here because the truth and only the truth shall set us free, Iraq wasn’t a victory until Obama came along and snatched defeat out from the jaws of victory. Instead, it was a no-win quagmire from the very beginning because it was incredibly fantasy based.

    Look, I hate Obama just as much as the next guy and I’m glad that propaganda harmed Obama’s credibility, but nevertheless its propaganda and very unhinged propaganda at that.

    It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to Al Qaeda.

    Isn’t that something we should have contemplated before we ever invaded Iraq? Oh okay…we were going to democratize the Islamic totalitarian world. I forgot. Yeah right…it was contemplated all right, in an incredibly fantasy based sort of way. Yet, somehow Iraq was a victory until Obama came along and snatched defeat out from the jaws of victory or so according to how the current propaganda goes.

    The truth is the future of Iraq was sealed the instant we ousted Saddam, because we were going to undertake a fantasy based plan to democratize the Islamic totalitarian world, which is utterly impossible. Especially when you consider the reality that Islam is not a so-called “religion of peace”, as GWB had assured us all shortly after America had become the victim of the greatest violent jihad attack ever in Islamic history.

    It would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale.

    Again, that’s something that should have been rationally contemplated before we ever acted to oust Saddam. Unfortunately, the GWB administration was blinded by PC multiculturalism. Now it’s too late.

    It would mean we allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan.

    The notion that Iraq today is a terrorist safe haven like Afghanistan was somehow a terrorist safe haven where more terrorists are born and bred to somehow launch terrorist attacks from afar upon America is ludicrous because it is propaganda. Especially when you understand the reality that ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD, including all Muslims in America today, are all jihadists in one form or another, per the dictates of Islam, all waging jihad in the cause of Allah against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme. As opposed to being terrorists that customarily only constitute a tiny minority of radicals and extremists. I mean this propaganda is getting deep. I’m going to have go put on my hip booths.

    It would mean we’d be increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.”

    American troops are going to have to return at some point one day, but if it is to stop ISIS then that will inevitably be another strategic blunder similar to Iraq and Afghanistan. American troops need to return, however, not to attack ISIS but to eradicate Islam instead. As the manifestation of ISIS is the symptom, but not the problem. The problem the collective infidel world all faces together is Islam. It’s either we eradicate Islam or Islam will eventually eradicate us.

    All of these predictions have proven remarkably prescient—not because Bush was a prophet but because U.S intelligence clearly understood the situation in Iraq, and briefed Obama on it just as it did Bush.

    Yeah right…the most able bodied people in our military and our intelligence services have all been selectively weeded out thanks to institutional PC multiculturalism, and all that remains are unhinged moonbats. The truth is both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were unwinnable quagmires created by us because of the stupidity of our political elites and their cleansed out intelligence and military staffs.

    Yet, in 2011, Obama declared the Iraq war a success and pulled out American troops, leaving the way wide open for the jihadi master plan of resurrecting the caliphate to unfold.

    He is just as delusional as the Republicans. So what? Nonetheless, the truth is Iraq and Afghanistan are both unwinnable quagmires because again they were both incredibly fantasy based from the very get go. Indeed, as soon as we attempted to establish democracy, the fate of Iraq’s future was sealed. The fate of Afghanistan’s future is also already sealed as we will soon enough find out.

    Interesting article even though it was filled with propaganda. Nevertheless, there is a solution to all of our collective Islamic problems, but first the infidel world will have to wake up.

    Anyway, the first step in the process is to ban and reverse mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage ASAP. As it is really stealth jihad waged deliberately non-violently by design and on purpose for the strategic purposes of mass Muslim infiltration of our governments, Islamization of our societies, and for eventual demographic conquest. The second step is to eradicate Iran’s nuclear weapons program and either eradicate or otherwise force Pakistan to hand over its massive nuclear weapons arsenal. The third step is to render the Islamic totalitarian world into total abject poverty to make waging jihad virtually impossible or at least unsustainable by confiscating all oil assets throughout the Middle East. Which is justifiable because the Islamic totalitarian world uses the profits derived from it to wage jihad perpetually against the infidel world. The final step is to totally abandon and isolate the Islamic totalitarian world until such time as the ideology of Islam becomes discredited in due time.

    • bigjulie

      Space Cowboy, I may have to apologize for grossly misjudging you. I agree with most of this post but will still quibble over your “distinction without a difference” explanation of Jihad vs Terrorism. The part of your post I like most is the total elimination of Islam, which I also agree is the only solution to the “Muslim Problem”! It should start with the vaporization of Mecca and then proceed with the vaporization of other Muslim strongholds until an “enlightenment” about some of the tenets of their cult is publically declared by the highest leaders still alive. The single, most desirable enlightenment will be a Declaration by Allah that Islam must exist peacefully with other religions or face complete eradication. Vaporization should continue until such a Declaration is forthcoming or there are no more Muslims left the vaporize, whichever occurs first!
      I believe that the latter will occur before the former, because how can one trust a huge, brutally primitive group of people who believe that it is righteous and good to lie to infidels, in the pursuit of Allah’s goals (total world domination)? Even if the above stated Declaration were ever to come forth, it could just as easily be a lie!

      • JB Ziggy Zoggy

        If only.

    • bigjulie

      Much of the outright stupid mistakes made by the Bush Administrations were based on the arrogant and completely unfounded belief that they were dealing with rational people who could reason intelligently, once all the facts were on the table. No one in either administration had the foggiest notion of what Islam entailed or that it consisted of not only a “religion” but a complete social structure of their society, with law (Sharia) and models of behavior by no less than Mohammed himself (Hadiths) to be followed. The West is finally waking up to the abject horror we are all facing if Islam is left unchecked and we do not convert.
      I agree that any nation that allows Muslims to dwell therein is asking for death. All Muslim immigration needs to be halted immediately and those that currently exist need to be deported to the Muslim country of their choice or disavow Islam and convert to another religion if they want to stay.
      No more “Mr. Nice Guy”. Tolerance of Islam is asking for death because if we don’t take them over and control and/or eliminate them, then they will take over and control US!

  • badenguru

    We are guilty of being the nice guy and thanks to the ACLU we fall over backwards to placate the squeaky wheel. Time to stop turning the other cheek and start our own crusade to rid the vermin from our soil, end being a hyphenated American and send them all back to the stone age.

    • kcsummer

      That won’t happen until the “elite”, the powerbrokers experience first hand the very real and frightening terror of which there are only just now in this country “tastes” of what is to come. They aren’t moved to act as long is it just we serfs and peasants. Things will have to get much worse before they are moved ot act. That goes for the media, the ACLU, the sycophantic politically correct suck-ups. It has become obvious to me, over the intervening years since the devil’s ascendance to his throne on Pennsylvania Avenue that, contrary to popular wisdom, there is nothing bumbling about Obama. The disasters that have occurred did not happen because of bad luck or misjudgment on his part, they occurred because he engineered them. Can you imagine the wickedness to perpetrate this destruction, being fawned over for years and still ongoing, being protected by the very people who will learn, too late, of their ignorance. The liberals laugh and guffaw, still, having one mass grand chuckle – it is not altogether comforting that it comes to mind the old saying “he who laughs last”. How can it be so obvious to so many commoners what is happening while our brilliant, shining stars, our statesmen, and our very best and well-educated haven’t got a clue?

    • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

      ACLU – always the scapegoat!

      • ratonis

        They get that designation the old fashioned way — they earn it.

  • Brent Garner

    Glowing green glass! That should solve the problem!

    • Larry Larkin

      I don’t see a problem with creating a lot of glow in the dark glass parking lots in some parts of the world.
      And then exporting all the muslims back to park in them.

  • bigjulie

    I think you are missing IW’s point, which is that colossal bungling on the part of the Fraud-In-Chief has brought us the easy path that ISIL finds itself on today. What they are doing on this path is the result of Islam but Obama’s (likely purposeful) bungling is what got them to a position allowing them to do what they are doing in the first place!

    • kcsummer

      You need to, please, get it out of your mind that he is bungling. You remember how Detective Columbo was such a bungler? But it wasn’t because he wasn’t sharp as a tack, it was part of his method to deceive and thus trip-up the bad guy Only in this case its the bad guy whose bungling is being used to trip us – while some of us are laughing at what a doofus he is, the doofus has been using his time to tighten the nooses round our collective neck. Which leads me to ask, which is worse, being hung or beheaded? Because those barbarians are fond of doing both. Whether the poor unfortunate is an innocent baby, a man, a woman, old or young, attractive or ugly makes no difference to them. That’s why I no longer look at death as the enemy I used to when I was younger. The dead may very well be the lucky ones. Muslim barbarians are not expeditious executioners. Speed is not the objective, no – when they kill the torture takes center stage – the “Grand Finale”.

      • bigjulie

        Sorry kc, but Obama has been in way over his head since 2008! His methodology is predictable and highly indicative of a warped personality from the abuse he suffered as a child. No real father, a home full of Communist sympathizers, little, if any, direct love from his mother. His entire presidency has been like a plane on a maladjusted autopilot…appointing screw-up white people to important positions so he could be seen by his base as “the smartest man in the room” (which he almost never was!) His entire persona has been crafted for him. He is at best, of mean intelligence. There has never been any expose’ of any of his school work or anything else that would indicate even a glimmer of brilliance, but he has been told that so often that he actually believes it! If he had any objective proof of his intellect, it would have been advertised regularly. It never was because there was no “there” there (as Gertrude Stein once said about Oakland, CA) His American Terrorist Buddy has pretty much admitted that he wrote his first book, Dreams From My Father.
        David Axelrod took this nice-looking mellifluously-voiced screw-up and molded him into a being that never was! His whole persona was invented from the get-go! His pride was groomed to the point that he believes he is a lot smarter than he is but his actions grossly prove otherwise. He is most assuredly a bungler and that is why so many of us give sighs of relief when he is on one of his numerous vacations. He doesn’t even understand his own healthcare bill, named for him! Jimmy Carter is now so relieved because he is no longer the worst President this country ever had. Obama has beaten him for that “honor”. He is the Bungler-In-Chief!

  • JB Ziggy Zoggy

    Don’t hold your breath.

  • Yoelarry

    Remember Jonestown? When a megalomaniac cult leader sees the world closing in and the adoration fading from the eyes of mesmerized followers he must punish them for their faithlessness. Folks, we’re about to taste some grape Koolaid. This ain’t going to end well.

  • wTallaksen

    Mullah ZerO has been in bed with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood through out his entirely disastrous Arab Spring and are both responsible for the spawning by design of the IS! Why else did ZerO dither doing nothing as ISIL stormed through Iraq in bumper to bumper caravans in white Toyota trucks with no fear at all!

  • USARetired

    Obama must be removed from office prior to completing his term ! He is a ‘Low Life Illegal Alien’, in this Country illegally, and is carrying out an agenda of destruction to our very way of life! Proof he is illegal, He has used a srolen SSN (042-68-4425) all his life, and still uses it!

  • TienBing

    “Obama helped decade old plan to create IS”
    That is what the “Arab Spring” was all about.

    • Aubryn

      Glenn Beck kept saying so, over and over and over. He was ridiculed, threatened, ignored and even run off Fox.

  • Dan Knight

    Thank you Raymond … I didn’t know of this source or the plan, but it’s not like it’s a surprise. Quite a few respectable sources were giving off these warnings even before the Iraq war started: Albeit, ten years ago the people I followed were not making these predictions based on Islam, but rather they were experts in the Left – aka commie pinkos – and they figured the Left would jury-rig a victory for Islam come h e double hockey sticks or high water. It has worked out that way, albeit with more cooperation and aide from our traitors than expected, and with far more enthusiasm and ingenuity by Islamists than I would have expected. But while the details are different; it’s no surprise.

    Thanks again – hopefully, we’ll know even more Before the next phase starts!

  • billobillo54

    Raymond Ibrahim again demonstrates he is light years ahead of most in understanding the jihad. Thank you sir.

  • info warrior

    War in Iraq and throughout the Eastern continents led to ISIS today. If you’re going to blame anyone, blame those who regime changed in Iraq. Saddam would have never tolerated ISIS.

  • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

    The other choice is a Russian caliphate…which would be infinitely worse. This is a case of “pick your poison”…and Russia is a greater threat, as they can choke off economic routes between Europe and Asia.

  • James_IIa

    I have no doubt that Ibrahim is explaining the plan correctly. Fortunately, proceeding from a plan to its execution requires competent management and good luck. USA Today is now running an article indicating that the Islamic State is beginning to get bogged down in its operations. Here is the link–

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/11/07/airstrikes-isis-syria-iraq/18663109/

    Despite the incompetence shown to date by the West, Islam does not have the capacity to mount a winning military threat. There remains a lot of danger from jihadis scattered about civilized countries and taking it upon themselves to initiate acts of terror, however.

  • tedh754

    Once it hits the fan, I feel sorry for any “moderate” muslim because by then no one will care. If they are muslim, they are doomed.

  • USARetired

    Islam must be contained by a world wide effort, restricting these vile heathens to their own Nation only! They will never be welcome anywhere else in this World, and cannot co-exist alongside a democracy !