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		<title>Fighting Jihad with Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Shmuel Katz]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/12p_terror600.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246484" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/12p_terror600-450x336.jpg" alt="12p_terror600" width="340" height="254" /></a>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.aish.com/jw/me/Fighting-Jihad-with-Education.html">Aish.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In this time of great danger – with Iran <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/15339/iran_s_top_leader_spells_out_plan_for_the_elimination_of_israel_" target="_blank">threatening</a> Israel with nuclear annihilation, and jihadists on borders north and south – Israel&#8217;s efforts to tell its story to the world are simply not taking hold. The classic approach of explanatory &#8220;hasbara&#8221; has repeatedly failed to break through the clutter of disinformation.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It is time for a new approach – one in which the world understands that they also have “skin in the game.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The Middle East conflict is not simply &#8220;Arab versus Jew.&#8221; Rather this is a &#8220;holy war&#8221; being waged by jihadists against all people of good will – Jews, Christians and moderate Muslims.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The key, I believe, is education. Once good people are informed about the facts, we have a much better chance of standing up to evil and achieving our mission of keeping the world free.</p>
<p><strong>Threat of Jihad to the West</strong></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It is crucial that we clearly understand the goals and ideals of the budding <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/12/the-caliphate" target="_blank">Muslim Caliphate</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Jihad is not merely some force &#8220;across the ocean.&#8221; Muslim leaders have declared their aim of <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmGRshS0PAw" target="_blank">world domination</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Part of the jihadist strategy is to plant cells in every country. Even the United States, with its huge territory and strong military, is part of the <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XUub1no1qw" target="_blank">jihadist plan</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">At particular risk is America&#8217;s long-standing ally, Israel, whose <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFroots.html" target="_blank">historical roots</a> in Israel date 2,000 years before the advent of Islam. The 20th century <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.mythsandfacts.org/conflict/mandate_for_palestine/mandate_for_palestine.htm" target="_blank">Mandate</a>conferred modern legitimacy on the <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/mftoc.html" target="_blank">Jewish state</a>, and Israel&#8217;s <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/dont-confuse-me-with-the-facts-israel-and-international-law/2014/01/05/" target="_blank">legal rights</a> to the land are unassailable.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Yet due to intimidation and threats, many Western leaders support corrupt Arab regimes, thinking that by sacrificing the <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.standwithus.com/booklets/IL101/" target="_blank">State of Israel</a> they will somehow pacify the jihadists and avoid becoming victims themselves.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In fact the opposite is true. The more we placate and cajole these bullies, the more we embolden them. As we saw with <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement" target="_blank">Hitler and Czechoslovakia</a>, giving in to the wicked led to the invasion of Europe. The U.S. woke up quite late, and defeating the Nazis was no simple matter.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In many respects – e.g. nuclear weapons – today&#8217;s threat is much greater.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">If we don&#8217;t deal with the jihadist threat now, we will have to deal with it later when they will likely have more land, more resources, and far more devastating weapons.</p>
<p><strong>Extreme Violence</strong></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Wherever radical Islam takes hold – whether via ISIS, Hezbollah, Iran, Hamas or Boko Haram – horrific abuse is directed against Infidels (e.g. <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beheading_in_Islamism" target="_blank">beheadings</a>) and even their own people.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: inherit;">Hamas recently executed</a> 21 suspected informers in an extra-judicial action, while al-Qaeda perpetrated a gruesome <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2009/10/al-qaedas-schoolyard-massacre.html" target="_blank">schoolyard massacre</a> (graphic warning).</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Should the wicked prevail, no Christian, Buddhist or even Moderate Muslim will be spared – neither in the Middle East nor elsewhere in the world. Today, thousands of <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msYGb5k6dkQ" target="_blank">Christians are fleeing</a> under death threats from tyrannical jihadists, and <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/07/antisemitism-rise-europe-worst-since-nazis" target="_blank">anti-Semitism across Europe</a> is at its worse since the Nazi era.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">By supporting the villains who willfully distort facts, they ultimately undermine their own future and that of their children.</p>
<p><strong>Corruption of Jihadist Regimes</strong></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Corrupt leaders across the Muslim world are exploiting their populations, in favor of solidifying their own power and personal financial wealth, leaving their constituency to wallow in despair.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Palestinians have particularly suffered, with their <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-z-chesnoff/gaza-and-palestinian-leadership_b_5589766.html" target="_blank">leadership</a> continuing to <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4022/palestinian-corruption" target="_blank">divert civilian aid</a> to more nefarious ends.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Palestinian refugees have long remained <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/refugees.html" target="_blank">political pawns</a> of Arab regimes. In today&#8217;s terror war, they are even used as <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://christianchat.com/christian-news-forum/97240-hamas-fighters-manual-found-clear-instructions-use-human-shields.html" target="_blank">human shields</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">How can we justify our own indifference to these <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.aish.com/ci/s/Human-Rights-Human-Shields-Human-Indifference.html">human rights violations</a>?</p>
<p><strong>Armed with Information</strong></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Today, the media is the primary disseminator of information. To regulate this power, monitoring organizations are documenting the facts:</p>
<ul style="color: #000000;">
<li><a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.camera.org/" target="_blank">Camera</a> – monitoring the Western media</li>
<li><a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.honestreporting.com/" target="_blank">HonestReporting</a> – fast-action global media watch</li>
<li><a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.palwatch.org/" target="_blank">Palestinian Media Watch</a> – translations and monitoring of Palestinian sources</li>
<li><a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.memri.org/middle-east-media-research-institute.html" target="_blank">Memri</a> – exposing the messages that jihadists share with their own people</li>
</ul>
<p style="color: #000000;">What can you do?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In disseminating information, each of us plays an important role. We never know when we&#8217;ll be called upon to use our knowledge, and we must have the ability to speak with confidence.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The more &#8220;truth ambassadors,&#8221; the better the chance of us all living in a peaceful world.</p>
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