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		<title>Turkey, Friend or Foe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even Joe Biden is talking about Erdogan's treacherous support for the Islamic State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/turkish-prime-minister-turkey.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247168" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/turkish-prime-minister-turkey-436x350.jpg" alt="turkish-prime-minister-turkey" width="369" height="296" /></a>As the battle for the Syrian border city of Kobani raged and prospects of an ISIS-led massacre of thousands of innocent civilians loomed this fall, the BBC interviewed the vice-chairman of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP Party in Ankara.</p>
<p>Why hadn’t Turkey responded to NATO’s request to launch joint military operations to halt the ISIS assault on Kobani? How could Turkey just sit back and watch so many innocent civilians die, BBC correspondent Jonathan Marcus asked.</p>
<p>The replies from Yasin Aktay are telling.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why is Kobani the most important problem?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;There is no tragedy in Kobani as cried out by the terrorist PKK. There is a war between two terrorist groups. You mean we should… favor one terrorist organization over another?&#8221;</p>
<p>The AKP deputy leader <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29555999"><span style="color: #0433ff;">went on to explain</span></a> the calculus of death as seen from Turkey’s point of view. &#8220;Less than 1000 people have been killed in Kobani, but more than 300,000 people have been killed in Syria. Which is more important?”</p>
<p>Aktay’s remarks reveal much more than just a callous disregard for the Kurds, who comprise roughly one-third of Turkey’s overall population, or for the popular Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which broke off peace talks with the Turkish government in October to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/world/middleeast/kurdish-rebels-assail-turkish-inaction-on-isis-as-peril-to-peace-talks.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">protest Turkey’s stranglehold</span></a> over the Kurds in Kobani.</p>
<p>According to Vice-president Joe Biden, <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/biden-says-erdogan-admitted-isil-mistake.aspx?PageID=238&amp;NID=72530&amp;NewsCatID=359"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Erdogan himself admitted</span></a> that Turkey had ordered border guards to turn a blind eye as new ISIS recruits flooded across Turkey’s borders to join the battle against Assad in Syria. (Okay, when Erdogan was informed of Biden’s comments, he hit the roof <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/turkey-erdogan-biden-apologize-apology-isis-2014-10"><span style="color: #0433ff;">and demanded that “loose-lips” Uncle Joe retract them</span></a>).</p>
<p>In response to a Harvard University student’s question whether the U.S. could have intervened earlier in Syria, Biden went even further:</p>
<p>“[O]ur allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria. The Turks were great friends – and I have the greatest relationship with Erdogan, which I just spent a lot of time with – the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. What were they doing? They were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad except that the people who were being supplied were Al Nusra and Al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.</p>
<p>“Now you think I’m exaggerating – take a look. Where did all of this go? So now what’s happening? All of a sudden everybody’s awakened because this outfit called ISIL which was Al Qaeda in Iraq, which when they were essentially thrown out of Iraq, found open space in territory in eastern Syria, work with Al Nusra who we declared a terrorist group early on and we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them. So what happened? Now all of a sudden – I don’t want to be too facetious – but they had seen the Lord. Now we have – the President’s been able to put together a coalition of our Sunni neighbors, because America can’t once again go into a Muslim nation and be seen as the aggressor – it has to be led by Sunnis to go and attack a Sunni organization.” [h/t to Mark Langfan for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npd4OSPjrt0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">excerpting this Q&amp;A</span></a> from Biden’s speech]</p>
<p>But Erdogan’s treachery goes much deeper.</p>
<p>Kurdish sources tell me that the initial Turkey-al Nusra front agreement was made more than two years ago, and included Turkey’s agreement to help smuggle arms to the Syrian rebels from Benghazi and other parts of Libya.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, Turkish and Qatari intelligence officials met with senior ISIS leaders in Jordan to plot the take-over of Mosul and the predominantly Christian Nineveh Plain.</p>
<p>Also at the meeting was a representative of Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) president Massoud Barzani, who has worked closely with the Turkish government and has spearheaded massive Turkish investment in northern Iraq. Barzani apparently believed ISIS would stop their advance after seizing Mosul and the Nineveh Plain, and ordered his peshmerga fighters to withdraw rather than fight the ISIS advance.</p>
<p>The most dramatic events occurred in Sinjar, when 13,000 peshmerga fighters mysteriously “melted away” in August rather than confront an ISIS assault force of around 1000 men. While much of the national media focused on the plight of the Yazidis, a Shiite sect considered heretical by most Sunnis, ISIS continued to march eastward through the Nineveh plain, massacring the Christians who failed to flee.</p>
<p>Not until they began threatening Erbil, the capital of the KRG, did Barzani apparently realize he had been duped and called on the United States to supply heavy weapons so the peshmerga could halt the ISIS advance. As <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/31/kurds-accuse-turkish-government-supporting-isis-278776.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Kobani was falling</span></a>, Barzani authorized Kurdish fighters from the PKK and <a href="http://kentimmerman.com/news/2007_1017-pkk-pjak.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">PJAK, who had bases in northern Iraq</span></a>, to transit through his territory to relieve the besieged city.</p>
<p>A former ISIS communications technician, using the pseudonum “Sherko Omer,” recently sat down with Newsweek reporter Barney Guiton and spilled the beans on Turkey’s deep relationship to the Islamic State.</p>
<p>ISIS fighters traveled regularly back and forth from their stronghold in Raqaa, Syria into Turkey to acquire supplies and new fighters. “ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks,” Omer said.</p>
<p>It was imperative for the Islamic State to establish a secure supply line through Turkey in order to bypass areas in northern Syria controlled by Kurdish fighters from the Democratic Union Party (YPG), which is allied to the PKK.</p>
<p>“ISIS saw the Turkish army as its ally especially when it came to attacking the Kurds in Syria,” Omer said. “The Kurds were the common enemy for both ISIS and Turkey.”</p>
<p>“I have connected ISIS field captains and commanders from Syria with people in Turkey on innumerable occasions,” Omer said.</p>
<p>In the same report, a YPG <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/isis-and-turkey-cooperate-destroy-kurds-former-isis-member-reveals-turkish-282920"><span style="color: #0433ff;">spokesman told Newsweek</span></a> that Turkey was providing ISIS with arms and ammunition, in addition to allowing Islamic State fighters to cross unimpeded back and forth between Turkey and Syria.</p>
<p>His accusations were repeated in Berlin Claudia Roth, a deputy speaker of the German parliament and a Green Party MP.</p>
<p>President Erdogan’s “dealings with the ISIS are unacceptable,” <a href="http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/12102014"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Roth said.</span></a> “I could not believe that Turkey harbors an ISIS militant camp in Istanbul. Turkey has also allowed weapons to be transported into Syria through its borders. Also that the ISIS has been able to sell its oil via Turkey is extraordinary.”</p>
<p>Turkish opposition politician Ali Ediboglu <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/business/2014/06/turkey-syria-isis-selling-smuggled-oil.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">claimed in June</span></a> that ISIS had already exported oil worth $800 million through Turkey through special pipelines and convoys of trucks, without any opposition from the Turkish authorities.</p>
<p>(For more on Turkey’s support for ISIS read <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/14486/turkey-isis"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Daniel Pipes’ summary</span></a> of what Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals have been writing, and this <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-bordering-on-terrorism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">excellent if lengthy report</span></a> from the FDD’s Jonathan Schanzer.)</p>
<p>President Obama once named Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan among his top five <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/obama-names-turkish-pmerdogan-among-trusted-friends.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nid=11897"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“best friends”</span></a> on the world stage, “an outstanding partner and an outstanding friend.”</p>
<p>No longer. According to Erdogan, the two no longer chat on the phone. The time of Obama <a href="http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/03/26/obama-hearts-turkish-leader-erdogan-as-he-oppresses-his-own-people-and-stabs-america-in-the-back/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“hearting”</span></a> Erdogan are over.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/no-longer-talk-obama-turkeys-erdogan-100909241.html">Erdogan says</a></span> their falling out began in September 2013, when Obama failed to order unilateral military operations against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad once he faced resistance in the U.S. Congress.</p>
<p>If that’s the case, why is Obama letting Erdogan off the hook for his support for ISIS?</p>
<p>It’s time to let Turkey choose: they can continue to be a NATO ally and join us in the fight against ISIS and other enemies of freedom. Or they can continue to support ISIS and suffer the consequences. Which is it?</p>
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		<title>Congressman’s Idea: Hey, Let’s Combat the Islamic State’s Ideology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad Sherman (D-CA) is sure that Muslim scholars can refute the caliph.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/120717_brad_sherman_ap_328.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246791" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/120717_brad_sherman_ap_328.jpg" alt="Black and White Gala for Barack Obama" width="320" height="259" /></a>Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/brad-sherman-state-dept-should-hire-islamic-scholars-to-combat-is-ideology/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">had a great idea</span></a> Tuesday: the U.S. needs to combat the Islamic State not just militarily, but ideologically. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQl819bFR9A"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Speaking at a congressional hearing</span></a>, he said: “We have the outreach–what we don’t have is the research. Keep in mind, the State Department has a thousand lawyers. I think they ought to hire one or two experts in Islamic jurisprudence, whether they be practicing Muslims or others who have the expertise.” He added: “It’s not enough to say, ‘look at what ISIS did, they beheaded somebody, it’s evil.’”</p>
<p>Instead, Sherman said, the jihadis had to be refuted on Islamic grounds. “One must be able to turn to the Quran, to turn to the Hadith and show how ISIS is making a mockery of a great world religion,” he explained. “You cannot appeal to Islamic jurists unless you can cite Hadith, unless you can cite Quran, unless you can do all the things you would do in working before any other jurists anywhere in the world. You need legal expertise to get the Islamic legal scholars to be on our side.”</p>
<p>Sherman has a point. For years now, I have been calling on self-proclaimed moderate Muslims in the West to produce an interpretation of the Qur’an and Sunnah that would refute Islamic jihadists’ exegesis and blunt their ability to make recruits among Muslims by convincing them that groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State were the authentic exponents of Islamic teaching. Muslim spokesmen have responded to this call with ridicule, scorn, and exegeses of the Qur’an that were riddled with half-truths and telling omissions, such that it was hard to escape the impression that they were produced in order to reassure credulous infidels, rather than to convince jihadis to lay down their arms.</p>
<p>One notorious example of these deceptive pieces came last September, when the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Fiqh Council of North America unveiled with great fanfare what they presented as a refutation of the religious ideology of the Islamic State, in the form of a lengthy “open letter” (not, interestingly enough, a fatwa) addressed to the Islamic State’s caliph Ibrahim, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.</p>
<p>If Sherman knows about this “open letter,” he probably believes that it does what he wants, and shows “how ISIS is making a mockery of a great world religion.” He would probably be pleased if the State Department hired some of its signatories to wage the ideological battle against the Islamic State. State could offer contracts to Professor Mustafa Abu Sway, the integral professorial chair for the Study of Imam Ghazali’s Work, Jerusalem — and a <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/01/hamas-in-the-florida-classroom"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hamas activist</span></a>; Dr. Jamal Badawi, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case; Mustafa Ceric, former grand mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who has <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/08/bosnias-muslim-spiritual-leader-calls-for-incorporation-of-sharia-into-bosnian-constitution"><span style="color: #0433ff;">called for Sharia in Bosnia</span></a>; Professor Caner Dagli, a venomously hateful Islamic apologist at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/01/why-cant-muslims-debate-again"><span style="color: #0433ff;">traffics in Nazi imagery about “unclean” unbelievers</span></a>; Ali Gomaa, former grand mufti of Egypt, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/07/egypts-top-cleric-denies-saying-that-muslims-could-leave-islam-without-punishment"><span style="color: #0433ff;">endorses wife-beating, Hizballah, and the punishment of apostates from Islam</span></a>; Hamza Yusuf Hanson, founder and director of Zaytuna College, USA, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/12/hamza-yusuf-muhammad-teddy-bear-madness-was-our-fault"><span style="color: #0433ff;">blamed the West for Muslim riots over a teddy bear named Muhammad</span></a>; Ed Husain, senior fellow in Middle Eastern Studies for the Council on Foreign Relations, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-moderate-muslim-ed-husain-seizing-jihadis-passports-would-only-increase-jihad-threat"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recently claimed</span></a> that seizing British jihadis’ passports so that they couldn’t return to the UK from the Islamic State would only create more jihadis; Muhammad Tahir Al-Qadri, founder of Minhaj-ul-Qur’an International, Pakistan, who drafted Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy law and <a href="http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/12/24/the-hypocrisy-of-the-fatwa-against-terrorism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">issued his own disingenuous and hypocritical Fatwa Against Terrorism</span></a>; and Muzammil Siddiqi, chairman of the Fiqh Council and former head of the Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).</p>
<p>The signers’ unwholesome associations and allegiances were just one indication that there was far <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/international-group-of-muslim-scholars-refutes-islamic-states-islamic-case-while-endorsing-jihad-sharia-caliphate"><span style="color: #0433ff;">less to this open letter</span></a> than the mainstream media’s rapturous reception suggested. In fact, the “moderates” who signed on to this open letter by doing so endorsed elements of Islam that most non-Muslim Westerners consider to be “extremist.”</p>
<p>“All Muslims see the great virtue in jihad,” says the open letter. It repeatedly stresses that jihad warfare is strictly defensive. “There is no such thing,” the scholars assert, “as offensive, aggressive jihad just because people have different religions or opinions. This is the position of Abu Hanifa, the Imams Malik and Ahmad and all other scholars including Ibn Taymiyyah, with the exception of some scholars of the Shafi’i school.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Shafi’i school is one of the four great schools of Sunni jurisprudence. If some Shafi’i scholars allow for “offensive, aggressive jihad just because people have different religions or opinions,” can it really be said to be un-Islamic? Are the scholars pronouncing takfir on the Shafi’i school? Or just deceiving gullible non-Muslims? The answer is clear.</p>
<p>What’s more, restricting jihad to defensive warfare looks even worse in light of the fact that in Sunni Islamic law, only the caliph has the authority to declare offensive jihad, but defensive jihad is obligatory upon all Muslims when a Muslim land is attacked, and need not be declared by anyone. So since the caliphate was abolished in 1924 to this day (except for those who accept the Islamic State’s caliphate claim), all jihad attacks, even 9/11, have been cast by their perpetrators as defensive – hence the jihadist tendency to retail long lists of grievances when justifying their actions.</p>
<p>So if 9/11 was defensive jihad, and these “moderate” scholars are endorsing defensive jihad, their “moderation” should send just a bit of a chill up the spine.</p>
<p>“Regarding Arab Christians,” the scholars remind the Islamic State’s caliph, “you gave them three choices: jizyah (poll tax), the sword, or conversion to Islam.” Jizya is the tax specified in the Qur’an (9:29) to be levied on “the People of the Book” as a sign of their dhimmitude, their subjugation and submission to Muslim hegemony. This, the scholars say, was wrong, because “these Christians are not combatants against Islam or transgressors against it, indeed they are friends, neighbours and co-citizens. From the legal perspective of Shari’ah they all fall under ancient agreements that are around 1400 years old, and the rulings of jihad do not apply to them.”</p>
<p>However, then the open letter asserts that “there are two types of jizyah in Shari’ah (Islamic Law)”: the first “applies to those who fought Islam,” but the second “is levied on those who do not wage war against Islam.”</p>
<p>The scholars tell the caliph that the Arab Christians are friends of the Muslims, they “did not wage war against you” and thus should not have been subjugated as dhimmis. But then in the next paragraph they say that “the second type of jizyah is levied on those who do not wage war against Islam.” Thus how is the Islamic State transgressing against Islam by levying the jizya on those who did not wage war against Islam?</p>
<p>In any case, the “moderate” scholars are apparently fine with a religion-based poll tax, a sign of the subjugation of the religious minority, in an Islamic state. In this the authors also contradict their earlier claim that jihad is only defensive; now “those who do not wage war against Islam” are to be made to pay the jizya, which results from Muslims fighting the People of the Book: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)</p>
<p>Despite all this and more, Brad Sherman would likely be thrilled with this open letter. With so many infidels so eager to be fooled, the work of groups like CAIR and the Fiqh Council of North America is easy. But the great work that Sherman called for – a refutation of the Islamic State on Islamic grounds – that has still not appeared in any genuine form, and that in itself is telling.</p>
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		<title>The Islamic State Widens its Bridgehead in North Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/isis.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246554" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/isis-450x300.jpg" alt="isis" width="365" height="243" /></a>As ISIS continues its brutal occupation of large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, effectively blurring the border between those two pseudo nations, a new, if not more menacing threat is emerging in North Africa where the Islamic State is looking to plant its cancerous roots.</p>
<p>In Egypt, the Sinai based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, an Islamist organization responsible for dozens of terror attacks throughout the country <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29993183"><span style="color: #0433ff;">announced</span></a> on its Twitter account that it had forged a union with ISIS and swore allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed Caliph. ABM has mimicked the Islamic State’s macabre methods and has made use of social media to publicly broadcast <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/08/28/Sinai-militants-claim-beheading-of-4-Egyptians.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">grisly beheadings</span></a> the group videotaped. ABM has also taken responsibility for the murder of America oil worker, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/american-oil-worker-said-killed-by-islamic-state-in-sinai/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">William Henderson</span></a> and was believed to be behind a <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/foreign-hands-behind-sinai-attack-say-egypts-leader/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">deadly bombing</span></a> attack in Sinai that killed over thirty Egyptian soldiers.</p>
<p>In Tunisia, the birthplace of the so-called Arab spring, ISIS has found a virtual recruiting ground for eager volunteers. Tunisia boasts the dubious distinction of being the nation that has contributed the most foreign fighters to Islamic State’s ranks, at least 3,000 according to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tunisia-after-igniting-arab-spring-sends-the-most-fighters-to-islamic-state-in-syria/2014/10/28/b5db4faa-5971-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">published reports</span></a> and many more have been prevented from joining by Tunisian authorities.</p>
<p>Algeria, a nation that experienced 10 years of brutal civil war between Islamists and government forces that claimed the lives of 150,000, is witnessing a resurgence of Islamic militancy. A group calling itself Jund al-Khilafah (&#8220;The Caliphate&#8217;s Soldiers&#8221;) has also recently sworn allegiance to al-Baghdadi. The newly formed group, which splintered from its al-Qaida affiliate, was responsible for <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/24/islamic-state-linked-group-beheads-french-national-in-algeria/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">beheading</span></a> a French national in September after ISIS issued a call for the killing of nationals belonging to countries contributing to US led coalition strikes against the Islamic State.</p>
<p>As evidenced by the Iraqi and Syrian experience, ISIS thrives in an environment where lawlessness and chaos prevail and Libya, which saw the overthrow of Kaddafi in 2011, has provided the Islamic State with fertile ground to carry out its objectives and spread its ideology. Libya’s central government is weak and has been unable to exercise any meaningful authority over the country, which has witnessed the rise of a plethora of militia groups with various Jihadist affiliations.</p>
<p>The Libyan town of <a href="http://www.distance.to/Crete/Darnah"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Darnah</span></a>, situated on the Mediterranean coastline just south of Crete and east of Benghazi is currently under the <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-expanding-into-north-africa-a-1003525.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">complete control</span></a> of a Jihadist militia that has sworn allegiance to the Islamic State. It is also first town known to be under ISIS rule in North Africa. The allure of ISIS in the Muslim world coupled with the lawlessness that characterizes the current state of affairs in Libya makes it a near certainty that other Libyan enclaves will sooner or later come under Islamic State influence.</p>
<p>President Obama has yet to publicly address the growing threat of ISIS in North Africa and given his past foreign policy fiascos, the prospects of this administration forming a coherent strategy to deal with this looming crisis just south of Europe’s vulnerable underbelly is in serious doubt.</p>
<p>It has widely been acknowledged that the emergence of ISIS as a growing and influential force in the Muslim world is largely due to Obama’s failed policies in the region.</p>
<p>Despite the urging of congressional leaders and other intelligence officials, Obama stubbornly refused to provide aid to moderate groups opposed to Assad until it was too late. His risible “red line” threat after Assad’s usage of chemical weapons against his own populace proved to be nothing short of a colossal foreign policy embarrassment. Faced with a loss of hope, Syrians opposed to Assad gravitated to extremes. In Iraq, Obama continued to provide assistance to Nouri al-Maliki’s government despite the fact that Maliki instituted discriminatory policies against Iraq’s Sunni population which exacerbated already heightened sectarian tensions.</p>
<p>A confluence of events in Syria and Iraq created the ISIS Frankenstein and Obama was instrumental in its creation. He then compounded his error by dismissing the threat posed by ISIS, pejoratively referring to the group as the “<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/20/obama-dismisses-al-qaeda-resurgence-theyre-jv/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">JV team</span></a>.” To make matters worse, the ISIS offensive prompted a panic-stricken Obama to <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Report-Romney-slams-Obama-for-legitimizing-Irans-Khamenei-with-letter-381176"><span style="color: #0433ff;">send a letter</span></a> to the Islamic Republic’s “Supreme Leader” Khamenei, suggesting that the two nations cooperate in their fight against a common foe. Khamenei incidentally, is the same man who authored a <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-supreme-leader-touts-9-point-plan-to-destroy-israel/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">step-by-step instruction guide</span></a> on how to destroy Israel and this is the man Obama wishes to do business with.</p>
<p>In 1942, American and British troops landed in French North Africa in an invasion that would ultimately culminate in a pincer action that would see the defeat and ejection of fascist forces from North Africa. Seventy-two years later, fascism is once again rearing its head in the region. Unfortunately, the leader who presides in the White House today is paralyzed with fear, indecision and incompetence and prefers to appease and accommodate evil rather than obliterate it.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Eulogy for “Abdul Rahman Kassig” &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exploiting the murder of an American in order to do public relations for Islam.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by<strong> Daniel Greenfield, </strong>a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He writes the blog, “<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/the-point/">The Point</a>,” on Frontpagemag.com.</p>
<p>Daniel came on the show to discuss <strong>Obama&#8217;s Sympathy for “Abdul Rahman Kassig,”</strong> analyzing how the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-insists-on-calling-peter-kassig-abdul-rahman-kassig/">president exploited the murder of an American</a> in order to do public relations for Islam.</p>
<p>The discussion occurred within the context of <span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption"><strong>Obama&#8217;s Fantasies about Un-Islamic Jihad</strong>, in which Daniel gauged the Radical-in-Chief&#8217;s responses to the Jerusalem synagogue massacre, the Islamic State&#8217;s beheading of Peter Kassig, and much, much more:</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Mr. Al-Rassooli joined the show to discuss<strong> “Is Allah the Same as the God of the Bible?”</strong></p>
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		<title>More Beheadings, More Denial</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many more will feel the blade at their necks before Obama and the rest embrace reality?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/67035_54_news_hub_60072_588x448.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245410" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/67035_54_news_hub_60072_588x448-450x342.jpg" alt="67035_54_news_hub_60072_588x448" width="338" height="257" /></a>All you have to do is change the name of the victim, and this could be a story from August, or September, or October: the Islamic State has beheaded yet another hostage, this time Peter Kassig, aka Abdul-Rahman Kassig, and Barack Obama has declared yet again that the beheading has nothing to do with Islam. Obama might as well have a form ready for the next jihad beheading or mass murder attack: all he will have to do is fill in the blank and then take to the airwaves to say that the latest bloodshed has nothing to do with Islam. If the victims are British, he can lend his form to David Cameron.</p>
<p>But all this repeating of the political elites’ “Islam is peace” meme will never make it so. And the constant repetition of this falsehood is doing nothing less than endangering Americans. It keeps people ignorant who might otherwise get a clear idea of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat. It fosters complacency. It makes all too many Americans assume that this kind of behavior is restricted to the “extremists” of the Islamic State, and could never happen here.</p>
<p>It could happen here. It could happen anywhere that people read the phrase “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4) as if it were a command of the Creator of the Universe. But to point out that simple and obvious fact nowadays only brings down upon one’s head charges of “hatred” and of “demonizing all Muslims,” when in a sane society it would bring honest explanations from Muslims of good will of what they were doing to ensure that no Muslim ever acted on that verse’s literal meaning.</p>
<p>In reality, they’re doing nothing. No Muslim organization, mosque or school in the United States has any program to teach young Muslims and converts to Islam why they should avoid and reject on Islamic grounds the vision of Islam – and of unbelievers – that the Islamic State and other jihad groups offer them. This is extremely strange, given the fact that all the Muslim organizations, mosques and schools in the United States ostensibly reject this understanding of Islam. And even stranger is that no American authorities seem to have noticed the absence of such initiatives, much less dared to call out Muslim groups about this.</p>
<p>On the contrary, instead of calling on Muslim groups to take some action to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/obama-islamic-states-actions-represent-no-faith-least-of-all-the-muslim-faith-which-abdul-rahman-adopted-as-his-own"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obama’s latest denial</span></a> was even more strenuous in its dissociation of the beheading from Islam: “ISIL’s actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul-Rahman adopted as his own.”</p>
<p>“Least of all”! As if it were possible that the Islamic State’s actions represented Buddhism, or Methodism, or Christian Science, or the Hardshell Baptists, or the Mandaeans, to greater or lesser degrees, but the most far-fetched association one could make, out of all the myriad faiths people hold throughout the world, would be to associate the Islamic State’s actions with…Islam. The Islamic State’s actions represent no faith, least of all Islam – as if it were more likely that the Islamic State were made up of Presbyterians or Lubavitcher Hasidim or Jains or Smartas than that it were made up of Muslims.</p>
<p>Why do not just some, but all of the political leaders in Western countries cling to this outlandish fiction? Because reality indicts them. Not only do they insist that Islam is a religion of peace despite an ever-growing mountain of evidence to the contrary; they have made that falsehood a cornerstone of numerous policies. They have encouraged mass immigration and refugee resettlement from Muslim countries, without even making an attempt to determine whether or not any of the people they were importing had any connections to or sympathies with jihad groups. Their governments have for years partnered with and collaborated with groups with proven ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. They have favored and aided the Brotherhood and groups like it to attain power in the Middle East and North Africa, deeming them “moderate” because they claimed to eschew violence, and blithely ignoring that their goals were the same as those of groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.</p>
<p>If Barack Obama or David Cameron admitted that Islam was not a religion of peace, all these disastrous policies and others would be called into question. Cameron’s government might, quite deservedly, fall, and Obama’s would be crippled.</p>
<p>However, the primary reason why Obama and his cohorts continue to stand athwart the pile of beheaded bodies shouting that Islam is a religion of peace is because if they didn’t, the mainstream media – following its own policies as delineated by the Society of Professional Journalists – would immediately denounce them as “racists,” “bigots,” and “Islamophobes,” and their career not just as politicians but as respectable people would be over. It’s not that bad, you say? Just look at how the sharks are circling Bill Maher and tell me that.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the Big Lie, however ascendant it may be today, is foredoomed. The fact that it is repeated, and must be repeated, so often is evidence of that. No one has to run around insisting that Christianity is a religion of peace, because Christian leaders are reacting to the escalating Muslim persecution of their brethren by opening up their churches to Muslim prayer and muting their criticism of that persecution out of deference to their Muslim “dialogue” partners. If anything says “religion of peace,” it’s Christians <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/woman-proclaiming-christ-ejected-from-muslim-prayers-at-national-cathedral"><span style="color: #0433ff;">forcibly ejecting</span></a> a Christian woman from a Christian cathedral for proclaiming Christ, so that Muslims could deny him there.</p>
<p>“Religion of abject surrender” might be more apt, but in any case, no one thinks contemporary Christianity is a religion of war. All too many Muslims worldwide, however, energetically go about illustrating every day that Islam is not a religion of peace, and so they keep Obama’s printer busy turning out denial forms, ready for him to fill in the blanks with the name of the next victim: “The murder of _________ has nothing whatsoever to do with the great religion of Islam…”</p>
<p>But this is a counsel of despair. The truth will get out; indeed, it is already abundantly out. We can only hope that not too many more will have to feel the blade at their necks before Obama and the rest can no longer avoid taking realistic and effective action.</p>
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		<title>Latest IS Beheading Video: New Levels of Ritual Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 05:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawn Perlmutter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A preview of what the Islamic State intends to do.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/article-kassig2-1116.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245352" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/article-kassig2-1116-413x350.jpg" alt="article-kassig2-1116" width="316" height="268" /></a>On November 16, 2014 the Islamic State released a <a href="http://reblop.com/breaking-video-isis-video-which-shows-beheadings-of-syrian-pilots-and-an-american-aid-worker/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">16-minute video</span></a> that displayed the severed head of 26-year-old former U.S. Army Ranger Peter Kassig. The video was characteristically different than the four previous Islamic State beheading videos of American and British hostages by the man known as Jihadi John. Although there have been many previous videos of mass beheadings by various al Qaeda-linked groups and Islamic State militants, this film is unique in content and quality. The Islamic State is the first terrorist group to film and stage a formalized ritual mass beheading. Shot in high definition, slickly produced and edited with Hollywood precision, 19 jihadists simultaneously behead 19 Syrian air force pilots and military officers in a ceremonial ritual execution.</p>
<p>Prior to the ritual mass murders the first half of the video is the usual propaganda that provides justification for the violence. The video opens with images of a map of the world graphically indicating the Islamic State’s goals of world domination. The title that appears in segments throughout reads &#8220;Although the disbelievers dislike it.&#8221; The first 4 ½ minutes is a history of the Islamic State with tributes to its fallen leaders beginning with Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the father of modern beheading. There are images of alleged victims of American airstrikes, including dead children to evoke hatred and clips of Islamic State battles to demonstrate that the jihadist militants are the heroic good guys. This is all a prelude to the featured segment.</p>
<p>At exactly 8 minutes, halfway through the video, the Islamic State ritual begins. Syrian military personnel each accompanied by a jihadist militant are marched through the desert, led by Jihadi John. The militants are dressed in camouflage uniforms with black head coverings but their faces are not concealed. The Syrian soldiers are dressed in dark blue. Jihadi John is dressed in his usual black uniform with his face covered. The ritual procession continues with each jihadist taking a black handled knife out of a wooden box that contains the ceremonial weapons. The footage is very dramatic and powerful, zooming in with slow motion visual effects and melodramatic sounds as each blade is taken from the box. The ritual procession continues until the jihadists file into a formal line with nine on each side of Jihad John and their victims on their knees in front of them.</p>
<p>The jihadists hold their knives in their right hand and their victims in their left. The ritual execution begins with a reading of offenses by Jihad John who also has a Syrian soldier in front of him. Jihad John begins the ritual execution by insulting and threatening President Obama:</p>
<blockquote><p>To Obama, the dog of Rome. Today we are slaughtering the soldiers of Bashar and tomorrow we will be slaughtering your soldiers. And with Allah&#8217;s permission we will break this final and last crusade. And the Islamic State will soon, like your puppet David Cameron said, begin to slaughter your people in your streets.</p></blockquote>
<p>He points the knife at the camera during the threats to America. Then there is silence as the camera pans over the faces of the men who know they are about to suffer a horrible death and the faces of the executioners who are about to pledge their allegiance in sacrificial blood. Dramatic images and sound effects portray the moment as a sacred solemn rite. The camera fades to black and appears with Jihad John signaling with one word for the ritual killing to commence.</p>
<p>The victims are immediately pushed to the ground, the camera keeps fading in and out of black in-between the cutting of throats, with the loud sound of hearts beating in the background. In one of the most inconceivable mass murders ever committed, 19 men are simultaneously beheaded at one time by 19 other men. The camera returns to focus on Jihadi John. Of the four previous videos this is the first time we ever see him actually kill anyone, and it is obvious that he has experience. As he is cutting through the carotid artery the sound of blood hitting the ground is exaggerated adding to the horror. Then the culmination of the ritual killing and the most disturbing act in the entire film occurs when Jihadi John pulls his knife out of the throat of his victim and looks directly at the camera while exposing the partially decapitated neck. The look in Jihadi Johns eyes is chilling; pure, unadulterated feral bloodlust. Then the camera in fast motion displays Jihad John pounce on his victim in a wild animal movement to finish the decapitation. The camera then pans over all of the soldiers completing their beheading and zooms in on a large stream of blood.</p>
<p>The ritual ends with each soldier holding his bloodstained knife standing above his sacrificial victim, whose heads are placed on the center of their backs. The camera then shows the faces of the jihadist executioners, all from different countries, a multicultural mass murder team. They are somber and serious, not laughing or desecrating the bodies, demonstrating how a warrior should behave during and after the kill. Then as the camera slowly pans over images of the beheaded men a voiceover from Islamic State&#8217;s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Arabic says, “Know that we have armies in Iraq and an army in Sham of hungry lions whose drink is blood and play is carnage.” After viewing the ritual murders that is an apt description.</p>
<p>The next segment, also titled &#8220;Although the believers dislike it,&#8221; demonstrates how many individuals and groups from around the world have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.  The final segment at the 14:30 mark opens with the disarticulated head of American Peter Kassig at the feet of Jihadi John. The camera pans up Jihad John’s body and he makes the following statement in English:</p>
<blockquote><p>This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen of your country. Peter, who fought against the Muslims in Iraq while serving as a soldier under the American army, doesn&#8217;t have much to say. His previous cell mates have already spoken on his behalf.&#8217; But we say to you Obama &#8230; you claim to have withdrawn from Iraq four years ago. We said to you then that you are liars, that you have not withdrawn and that if you had withdrawn that you would return, even if after some time.&#8217;You would return. Here you are. You have not withdrawn. Rather, you hid some of your forces behind your proxies and withdrawn the rest. Your forces will return, greater in number than they were before.&#8217;You will return and your proxies will not benefit you.&#8217;And we also remind you of the haunting words that our Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi told you. The spark has been lit here in Iraq and its heat will continue to intensify by Allah&#8217;s permission until it burns the crusader army in Dabiq. &#8216;And here we are, burying the first American crusader in Dabiq. Eagerly awaiting for the remainder of your armies to arrive.</p></blockquote>
<p>The video ends with the classic image of the jihadist carrying a large Islamic State flag across the land. Dabiq is a highly symbolic location which has historical and religious significance for Islam. The Islamic State has designated the place for the &#8220;Final Hour&#8221; where Armageddon will begin in an Islamic apocalyptic tradition that designates the West as modern-day Romans. That is why Jihadi John referred to president Obama as the dog of Rome.</p>
<p>This video goes way beyond just propaganda and psychological warfare &#8212; it is the documentation of an Islamist ceremonial ritual mass murder. For the jihadist executioners it was an initiation ritual, a somber rite of passage that grants them status and honor as Mujahideen warriors. As a recruitment tool it is a tour de force, a murder masterpiece that will resonate with young men around the world. This video will recruit more soldiers for the Islamic State, incite lone wolves and inspire more beheadings in Western countries than any of the others that preceded it. Unlike the unsophisticated beheading videos that involve laughter and body desecration that diminishes the sanctity of the act, it elevates beheading to a ceremonial rite of purity that distinguishes it from accusations of barbarism.</p>
<p>The video also functions as proof of death of Peter Kassig and proof of life of Jihadi John who reportedly had been injured in a U.S.-led air strike. Significantly there is no new victim displayed at the end of this video as in the prior four. That is because the Islamic State has successfully sent its message. They no longer need to do their own dirty work. They have inspired lone wolves all over the world to continue their beheading tradition. The threat in this video that &#8220;tomorrow they will be slaughtering American soldiers&#8221; should be taken very seriously. The Islamic State has made good on every threat to murder hostages. This video should be viewed as a preview of what they intend to do. For example, if the Islamic State breaches the American Embassy in Baghdad they are going to make the Fall of Saigon look like a garden party. Instead of Syrian pilots it will be American Marines ritually murdered and filmed.</p>
<p>President Obama’s response was that this incident was &#8220;pure evil by a terrorist group.&#8221; How large does the Parents of Beheaded Americans Club have to get before President Obama will use the words &#8220;Islamic terrorists&#8221;? There should be no doubt that these murders are done in the name of Islam and for the honor of the Prophet Muhammad, whom they are emulating. Beheadings are ritual expressions of authentic Islam and the Islamic State has turned them into Hollywood blockbusters.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 05:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has the self-appointed leader of the Islamic State been killed? Does it matter? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245306" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-398x350.jpg" alt="Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi" width="306" height="269" /></a>Is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-styled “caliph” of the Islamic State, injured or dead, as some in the <a href="http://www.meforum.org/4883/can-islamic-state-survive-without-baghdadi"><span style="color: #0433ff;">media are eagerly speculating</span></a>?</p>
<p>Better question: does it really matter?</p>
<p>For almost a decade now, every time an Islamic jihadi leader is killed, the Western mainstream media exult, portraying the death as a major blow to the jihad.  And, for almost a decade now, I have responded by posting an article that I first wrote in 2006 for Victor Davis Hanson’s website, <a href="http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=5559"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Private Papers</span></a>.</p>
<p>Although I changed the names of the jihadi leaders killed to suit the occasion—first <a href="http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=5559"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Abu Mus‘ab al-Zarqawi</span></a>, then <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/terrorists-die-but-ideology-lives/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Abu Laith al-Libi</span></a>, then <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/defeating-radical-islam-the-herculean-strategy/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Misri,</span></a> and finally <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/bin-laden-and-the-eternal-hydra-of-war/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Osama bin Laden</span></a>—my conclusion has remained the same:</p>
<blockquote><p>The West’s plight vis-à-vis radical Islam is therefore akin to Hercules’ epic encounter with the multi-headed Hydra-monster.  Every time the mythical strongman lopped off one of the monster’s heads, two new ones grew in its place.  To slay the beast once and for all, Hercules learned to cauterize the stumps with fire, thereby preventing any more heads from sprouting out.</p>
<p>Similarly while the West continues to lop off monster heads like figurehead Zarqawi [or bin Laden, al-Baghdadi, etc.] it is imperative to treat the malady — radical Islam—in order to ultimately prevail.  Victory can only come when the violent ideologies of radical Islam are cauterized with fire.</p>
<p>But alas, the Hydra-monster is myth, while radical Islam is stark reality.</p></blockquote>
<p>Eight years later, this “stark reality” has manifested itself into a head-chopping, infidel-crucifying, mass-murdering, female-enslaving Islamic State.</p>
<p>And yet, in the previous years, proclamations of “victory” were habitually made by media and politicians whenever a top jihadi was killed.</p>
<p>Recall all the exultation that took place in 2006 after al-Zarqawi—the forefather of the Islamic State, or “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/exposed-decade-old-plan-to-create-islamic-state-and-obama-helped/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Al-Qaeda Second Generation</span></a>”—was killed.   Then, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800114.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">almost every major politician</span></a>, including President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, and Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki, gave some sort of victory speech.  The <i>New York Times</i> called his death a “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/world/middleeast/08cnd-iraq.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">major watershed in the war</span></a>.”</p>
<p>Similarly, in 2008, after Abu Laith al-Libi was killed, Congressman <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/31/alqaeda.death/index.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Peter Hoekstra</span></a> issued a statement saying that his death “clearly will have an impact on the radical jihadist movement.”</p>
<p>More myopic triumphalism was in the air after Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Masri were killed in 2010 during a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation.  Then, U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden said the “deaths are potentially devastating blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq [the original name of the Islamic State],” adding “This operation is evidence in my view, that the future of Iraq will not be shaped by those who would seek to destroy that country”—an assertion that has now proven woefully wrong.</p>
<p>Similarly, U.S. commander Gen. Raymond Odierno <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/25/iraq.militant.leaders.killed/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">asserted</span></a> that “The death of these terrorists is potentially the most significant blow to al-Qaeda in Iraq since the beginning of the insurgency,” adding that it would be “very difficult” for the al Qaeda network to replace the two men.</p>
<p>And who could forget all the media triumphalism, if not hysteria, surrounding <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/osama-bin-laden-chicken-or-egg/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the 2011 death of Osama bin Laden</span></a>?  Then, <a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/04/bin-ladens-theology/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">CNN</span></a> security analyst <a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/02/bergen-time-to-move-on-from-war-on-terror/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Peter Bergen declared</span></a> that “Killing bin Laden is the end of the war on terror. We can just sort of announce that right now.” Insisting that the “iconic nature of bin Laden’s persona” cannot be replaced, Bergen further suggested that “It’s time to move on.”</p>
<p>Another CNN analyst, <a href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/02/al-qaeda-is-dead/?hpt=T2"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Fareed Zakaria</span></a>, assured us that “this is a huge, devastating blow to al-Qaeda, which had already been crippled by the Arab Spring. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is the end of al-Qaeda in any meaningful sense of the word.”</p>
<p>In retrospect, surely all these assertions and assurances have proven to be immensely puerile—even for mainstream media “analysts.”</p>
<p>To recap, for years, U.S. leadership and its media mouthpiece so misled Americans about the status of al-Qaeda (code name for the amorphous jihad)—thus directly contributing to the rise of the Islamic State: we were repeatedly told that al-Qaeda was suffering “devastating blows”; that the killing of individual jihadis were “major watersheds in the war”; that “the end of the war on terror” occurred in 2011, when bin Laden died (“it’s time to move on,” counseled Peter Bergen); and “that the future of Iraq will not be shaped by those who would seek to destroy that country,” according to Biden.</p>
<p>Yet, lo and behold: an Islamic State, a caliphate engaged in the worst atrocities of the 21<sup>st</sup> century, has been born—despite the deaths of Zarqawi, bin Laden, et. al.</p>
<p>When it comes to the significance of the killing of this or that jihadi leader, the best prediction I have ever read—a prediction that has proven too true—comes not from U.S. politicians, “experts,” or media.  It comes from al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Asked in a 2005 interview about the status of bin Laden and the Taliban’s Mullah Omar, he confidently replied:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Jihad in the path of Allah is greater than any individual or organization</i>. It is a struggle between Truth and Falsehood, until Allah Almighty inherits the earth and those who live in it. Mullah Muhammad Omar and Sheikh Osama bin Laden—may Allah protect them from all evil—are<i> merely two soldiers of Islam in the journey of jihad, while the struggle between Truth [Islam] and Falsehood [non-Islam] transcends time</i> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Qaeda-Reader-Essential-Terrorist-Organization/dp/076792262X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1415844801&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=al+qaeda+reader"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>The Al Qaeda Reader</i></span></a>, p.182, emphasis added).</p></blockquote>
<p>And there it is: jihad “transcends time” and is not personified by this or that leader—something our myopic leaders and experts, who apparently can’t see beyond their noses, will never comprehend (and how can they, when Barack Obama has <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/obama-administration-bans-knowledge-of-islam/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">banned knowledge of Islam</span></a> from U.S. intelligence?).</p>
<p>Jihadi leaders, ideologues, emirs, sultans, caliphs, even the prophet of Islam himself, have come and gone for nearly 1,400 years—but the jihad rages on.  It’s time Western leaders began to respond to the jihad and not just its individual practitioners.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The resurrection of the caliphate was planned—and exposed to the world—nearly ten years ago.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/20140613_ISIS8.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244703" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/20140613_ISIS8-388x350.jpg" alt="20140613_ISIS8" width="290" height="262" /></a>Although 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.</p>
<p>On August 12, 2005, Spiegel Online International published an article titled “<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-future-of-terrorism-what-al-qaida-really-wants-a-369448.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaeda Really Wants</span></a>.”  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).</p>
<p>As Hussein explained in the introduction of his book <i>Al Zarqawi: Al Qaeda’s Second Generation</i>: “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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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),<b><i> </i></b>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.</p>
<p><b>An Islamic Caliphate in Seven Easy Steps</b></p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>•The First Phase</i></b><i> 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 </i><b><i>“awakening” Muslims</i></b><i>. “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.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/obamas-proxy-war-on-mideast-christians/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">empowers</span></a> in a myriad of ways—including <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/obama-administration-bans-knowledge-of-islam/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">banning knowledge of Islam</span></a>—the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-calm-before-the-jihadi-storm/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">same ideology behind the strikes of 9/11</span></a>. 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.</p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>•The Second Phase</i></b><i> “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 </i><b><i>aware of the “Islamic community.”</i></b><i> Hussein believes this is a phase in which al-Qaeda wants </i><b><i>an organization to develop into a movement</i></b><i>. </i><b><i>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</i></b><i>.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>This too is accurate.   Among other things, the “Islamic community,” the <i>umma</i>, 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.</p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>•The Third Phase</i></b><i> This is described as “Arising and Standing Up” and should last from 2007 to 2010. </i><b><i>“There will be a focus on Syria,” prophesies Hussein</i></b><i>, based on what his sources told him. The fighting cadres are supposedly already prepared and </i><b><i>some are in Iraq</i></b><i>. 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.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>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.</p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>•The Fourth Phase</i></b><i> Between 2010 and 2013, Hussein writes that </i><b><i>al-Qaeda will aim to bring about the collapse of the hated Arabic governments</i></b><i>. 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.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islams-good-copbad-cop-routine/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">plays Dr. Jekyll to al-Qaeda’s Mr. Hyde</span></a>); 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 <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/world-leaders-lambast-obamas-failures-in-the-middle-east/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obama administration played a major role in empowering the jihadis, though in the name of “democracy.” </span></a></p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>•The Fifth Phase</i></b><i> This will be the point at which an </i><b><i>Islamic state, or caliphate, can be declared</i></b><i>. The plan is that by this time, </i><b><i>between 2013 and 2016</i></b><i>, 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.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>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, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/other-matters/how-obamas-arab-spring-created-the-islamic-state/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">it helped the creation of the Islamic State by withdrawing U.S. military forces that were keeping al-Qaeda at bay</span></a> 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, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/14/barack-obama-iraq-war-success"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obama declared the Iraq war a success</span></a> and pulled out American troops, leaving the way wide open for the jihadi master plan of resurrecting the caliphate to unfold.</p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>•The Sixth Phase</i></b><i> 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 “</i><b><i>fight between the believers and the non-believers</i></b><i>” which has so often been predicted by Osama bin Laden.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-islamic-caliphate-declares-jihad-on-muslims/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">made clear that it was in the phase of waging jihad on “apostates” and “hypocrites,”</span></a> 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, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-historical-reality-of-the-muslim-conquests/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the great historic conquests</span></a>, or jihads against neighboring “infidels,” took place.</p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>•The Seventh Phase</i></b><i> This final stage is described as “definitive victory.” Hussein writes that in the terrorists’ eyes, because </i><b><i>the rest of the world will be so beaten down by the “one-and-a-half billion Muslims</i></b><i>,” the caliphate will undoubtedly succeed. This phase should be completed by 2020, although the war shouldn&#8217;t last longer than two years.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/other-matters/ben-affleck-portrait-of-islams-clueless-apologetics/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reflected this sentiment recently</span></a> 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.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/iran_7.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243896" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/iran_7-450x347.jpg" alt="iran_7" width="327" height="252" /></a>Iranian leaders, particularly the senior cadres of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have successfully sensed, invested in, and exploited the White House&#8217;s weaknesses and hesitation in following up on its words.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">When it comes to Syria, President Obama has sent a strong signal to the Islamic Republic that Washington would not dare cross Iran’s influence in the country. On several occasions, when President Bashar Al Assad and his armed forces crossed President Obama’s multiple red lines, President Obama decided to sit at the margin, not taking action, which led to the questioning of US credibility.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">This projection of weakness has not only empowered the Islamic Republic, its military activities, and intervention in other countries in the Middle East, but has also emboldened extremists groups such as the Islamic State.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">The Islamic Republic no longer hides its military, financial, intelligence, and advisory assistance to Assad, and it does not shy away from its engagements in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, or other regional nations. Groups such as the powerful Iranian-backed Shia Badr brigade are being publicly utilized in Iraq. The fighters from Hezbollah (Lebanon&#8217;s pro-Iranian Shiite movement) and Quds forces (an elite branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps), have been publicly operating in several foreign territories. This issue has been significantly instrumental in tipping the balance of power in favor of the Syrian government, as well as keeping Assad in power after more than three years of the conflict in Syria.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">General Qassem Suleimani, the commander of Iran’s Quds force (an elite branch of the IRGC), who has always kept a low profile, is now boasting about his army&#8217;s presence in Iraq. Suleimani has been <a href="http://www.arabnews.com/news/640586"><span style="color: #0433ff;">taking</span></a> professional pictures for the sake of publicity for the Iranian government. Iranian state TV has also been showing the pictures of Suleimani in foreign territories and pointing to the Islamic Republic’s indispensable power and influence in the Middle East. In addition, Yadollah Javani, a senior adviser to Khamenei, recently <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/suleimani-high-profile-to-publicise-irans-key-anti-isis-role"><span style="color: #0433ff;">stated</span></a> that “Baghdad was prevented from falling because of the presence and assistance of the Islamic republic.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">These moves are unprecedented in the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy, and they highlight a crucial strategic shift in the Iranian leader’s tactics, mission, regional hegemonic ambitions, and search for regional supremacy in the Middle East. Iranian leaders are attempting to reassert their power and supremacy in the Middle East more publicly, as well as sending the signal to other states that Iran is in fact the sole regional power to rely on rather than the United States and Western allies.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">In addition, through their media and TV outlets, Iranian leaders have been trying to circulate an image of Iran to the Iranian people, that the Islamic Republic can defeat the Islamic State by itself and act as a regional power. For example, Amirali Hajizadeh, the airforce commander of Iran’s Revoluationary Guard Corps, confirmed the presence General Qassem Suleimani in Iraq on Iran’s national TV, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/suleimani-high-profile-to-publicise-irans-key-anti-isis-role"><span style="color: #0433ff;">adding</span></a> “If it wasn’t for Iran’s help, Iraq’s Kurdistan would have fallen into the hands of Daesh.”</p>
<p style="color: #141414;">Currently, the Islamic Republic’s strong position is that Iran is drawing red lines for the United States. More fundamentally, President Obama seems to have accepted and recognized Iran’s red lines with regards to Assad, and the White House appears to overlook or appease the Islamic Republic&#8217;s objectives in that regard. Since the White House has been indirectly cooperating and coordinating aerial and ground battles against the Islamic State, President Obama has come to the understanding that he will carry out an appeasement policy towards Iran’s role in the region, its military involvement in Syria, and Iran-Iraq ties.</p>
<p style="color: #141414;">For Washington, the battle against the Islamic State is at the top of its foreign policy agenda. The future Assad, his use of brute force, and Iran’s IRGC assistances have definitely become secondary and marginal objectives to tackle. In addition, Iran’s nuclear ambitions have also slid to the sidelines of the US and Western allies’ objectives, as the battle against the Islamic State goes on. The US, the major negotiator in the p5+1 group (<span style="color: #323333;">China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), has significantly softened its position towards Iran’s nuclear program by favoring policies such as nuclear containment rather than dismantlement of Tehran’s nuclear infrastructure. This follows that Iran might be allowed, like Japan, to be a nuclear threshold state.</span></p>
<p style="color: #141414;"><span style="color: #323333;">President Obama’s foreign policy of compartmentalization – which focuses on the Islamic Republic&#8217;s assistance in defeating the Islamic State while overlooking all other activities of the Islamic Republic &#8212; will lead to costly long-term and short-term outcomes. </span>The most effective approach is to simultaneously address the Islamic Republic’s multi-dimensional functions across the Middle East, including its military, financial intelligence, advisory assistance to President Bashar Al Assad, military involvements in Iraq and Yemen, the involvement of pro-Iranian and pro-Shiite proxies and militias in the region, as well as Iran’s nuclear ambitions. This comprehensive strategy will address some of the crucial underlying factors behind the crisis in the Middle East, including the rise of extremist groups such as the Islamic State. By not taking Iran’s nuanced role in the Middle East seriously, and by turning a blind eye to all Iranian military activities in Syria and other countries &#8211;due to the notion the Islamic Republic is assisting the United States and Western allies in their fighting campaign against the Islamic State &#8212; will solely ratchet up the conflict and eventually lead to significant blows to American national security, political and economic interests.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Kerry, Qatar and the Poisonous Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 04:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington's alarming alliance with jihad supporters -- and how it undermines the cause against the Islamic State. ]]></description>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">It would be interesting to know which Arab leaders are telling US Secretary of State John Kerry that the absence of peace between Israel and the Palestinians is “a cause of recruitment” to Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Is that something he is hearing from Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani? The Qatari leader, whose kingdom has been cited by the US Treasury Department as a major funder of Islamic State (IS), is certainly one of Kerry’s favorite regional leaders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If Thani did blame Israel for the rise of IS, then his statement would constitute yet another instance of the double game Qatar has been playing with the Americans. On the one hand, the regime is financing jihad, and other the other hand, it pretends to side with the West against the jihad that it is funding.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is certainly the case in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to an investigative report published Friday in Yisrael Hayom, Qatar is financing the violence in the capital. Veteran Jerusalem affairs reporter Nadav Shragai wrote that the Islamic rioters who daily attack Jewish visitors and police forces on the Temple Mount are paid by Qatar through the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Qatari government and other Islamic funds are transferring vast sums of money to the Islamic Movement’s radical northern branch headed by Sheikh Ra’ed Salah. The Islamic Movement in turn is paying thousands of shekels every month to hundreds of women and men, mainly Muslim Israeli citizens, who call themselves the Murbitat.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Murbitat presents itself as an Islamic prayer group, but according to Shragai, the group’s job is to harass Jews and police on the Temple Mount. They scream and curse at Jewish visitors and in recent months have escalated their violence against them, and their police escorts. These violent attacks include assaults with rocks, firebombs and firecrackers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To prevent the police from blocking their entry to the Mount, members of the Murbitat enter the mosques in times of relative calm and then remain there for weeks at a time. The women are used as well to smuggle firecrackers and other weaponry onto the Temple Mount by hiding them in their burkas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a report published Sunday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Palestinian affairs researcher Pinchas Inbari explained the goals of the violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The riots and assaults on the Temple Mount have two goals. First, they aim to incite the Islamic world against Israel and return attention to the Palestinians. And second, they seek to destabilize the regimes in Egypt and Jordan.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Regarding the goal of galvanizing support for jihad by attacking Israel, Inbari recalled how immediately after longtime Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood’s most influential cleric, Qatar-based Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, gave a speech at a mass rally in Cairo and called for the Muslims to march on Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The rally was organized by the Muslim Brotherhood and attended by two million people. It marked the first time that Qaradawi had returned to Egypt since he was forced to flee in the 1960s for his support for jihad.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From Doha, Qaradawi has become the most influential cleric on the regime-controlled Al Jazeera satellite network. As such, he has become the most important Islamic cleric in the Sunni Islamic world.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Inbari noted, following his speech in Cairo Qaradawi authored a book titled </span><em style="color: #000000;">Jerusalem: The Problem of Every Muslim</em><span style="color: #000000;">, in which he restated his call for an Islamic conquest of the city.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Saleh, who is extremely close to Qaradawi, stated that “Jerusalem is the capital of the imminently approaching Islamic Caliphate.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, the Palestinians and their Qatari financiers are seeking to galvanize the forces of global jihad, including IS, to view the Palestinian war against Israel and the Jews as the centerpiece of the jihad.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">These efforts are backed by both Fatah and Hamas, who are competing for Qatari money. Fatah chief and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas resonated the claims of the most radical jihadists when earlier this month he referred to Jews on the Temple Mount as “herds of cattle,” and called on Muslims to attack them for they “desecrate” the holy site simply by being there.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Doha-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal called on the Palestinians “to defend Jerusalem and al-Aksa, and on the Muslim nation to send a painful message of rage to the world.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As to the goal of using the violence on the Temple Mount to destabilize Egypt and Jordan, Inbari noted that efforts to intensify violence in Jerusalem have grown since the Egyptian military overthrew Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood regime in July 2013. “Presumably,” Inbari argues, “Qatar tried indirectly to help the Brotherhood in Egypt by inspiring support for them on the Jerusalem issue.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Jordanian regime even more acutely is threatened by the violence on the Temple Mount. Israel recognized Jordan as the custodian of the Temple Mount in its peace treaty with the Hashemite Kingdom. The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan has capitalized on the violence on the Temple Mount to condemn the regime for what it claims is its failure to protect al-Aksa from the Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In contending with the violence in Judaism’s holiest site, and throughout its capital city, the Israeli government is caught in a trap.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While telling their fellow Muslims that they must wage a jihad for Jerusalem, Fatah and Hamas as well as the Israeli Islamic Movement tell Western leaders that their violence against Jews in the city owes to actions that Israel has taken to safeguard the lives and civil rights of Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To appease these specific purported grievances, the Palestinians demand that Israel deny protection and civil rights to Jews by among other things, denying Jews the freedom to visit the Temple Mount and denying Jews property rights in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather than recognize that they are being played by double-speaking Palestinians and their jihadist supporters, Washington and Brussels are going along with their deceit. Both the Obama administration and the EU firmly side with the Palestinian demand that Jews be denied civil rights in Jerusalem. Both have condemned and threatened Israel for not preventing Jews from lawfully purchasing homes in Silwan and for allowing contractors to build homes for Jews in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This places the Israeli government in an impossible position. It is being attacked by jihadist forces who seek its destruction. It is told by Washington and Europe that if it doesn’t appease those who cannot be appeased by denying protection and civil rights to Jews, then it will lose whatever is left of its good relations with the US and Europe.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us back to Kerry’s claim that Arab leaders are blaming Israel for the rise of Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As IS forces draw closer to Baghdad and expand their control over Anbar Province in Iraq, it is becoming more and more apparent that the US-led campaign against the terrorist army is failing.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To a significant degree, Washington’s inability to forge a coherent and feasible strategy for containing and defeating IS owes to its refusal to understand the nature of the enemy and its goals.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What we see in Qatar’s financing of the violence on the Temple Mount is that the same forces that are financing IS are financing the violence against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of IS is the establishment of a global Islamic empire. The first targets on its target list are Sunni Mus &#8211; lim states that oppose the Muslim Brotherhood.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of the Islamic violence on the Temple Mount and throughout Jerusalem is to overthrow regional regimes that oppose the Muslim Brotherhood while igniting a pan-Islamic war against the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By insinuating that Israel is to blame for IS’s rise to power, Kerry was not simply blaming the victim. He was empowering the aggressor.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For the West to defeat IS, it first needs to recognize that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right when he said at the UN last month that IS and Hamas – and increasingly Qatari-financed Fatah – are “branches of the same poisonous tree.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With his announcement Monday that the government had approved the construction of 1,250 new housing units in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Netanyahu showed that Israel prefers freedom and security to good relations with Washington and Brussels.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Washington and Brussels need understand that by forcing Israel to make that choice, they are hurting themselves and the cause of their own freedom and security far more than they are harming Israel.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243614" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600-420x350.jpg" alt="0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600" width="312" height="260" /></a>Secretary of State John Kerry</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">chose </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/10/233058.htm" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/10/233058.htm" data-type="1"><span class="zw-portion link" style="color: #0563c1;">a White House ceremony</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #0563c1;"> on October 16th</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha to </span><span class="zw-portion">regurgitate a false</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">theory </span><span class="zw-portion">link</span><span class="zw-portion">ing</span><span class="zw-portion"> the </span><span class="zw-portion">Israeli/Palestinian conflict </span><span class="zw-portion">with </span><span class="zw-portion">the increase of </span><span class="zw-portion">jihadist violence and </span><span class="zw-portion">recruitment</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the Middle East region</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“As I went around and met with people in the course of our discussions about the ISIL [also referred to as ISIS or the Isla</span><span class="zw-portion">mic State]</span><span class="zw-portion"> coalition, the truth is we — t</span><span class="zw-portion">here wasn’t a leader I met with</span><span class="zw-portion">in the region who didn’t raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation that they felt</span><span class="zw-portion"> – and I see a lot of heads nodding – they had to respond to,” Kerry said. “And people need to understand the connection of that. And it has something to do with humiliation and denial and absence of dignity, and Eid celebrates the opposite of all of that.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">After Israeli Economic Minister Naftali Bennett sharply criticized Kerry’s statement, the State Department tried to walk it back, claiming, in the words of Deputy </span><span class="zw-portion">Spokesperson</span><span class="zw-portion"> Marie Harf</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> that Kerry “did not make a link between the growth of ISIL and Israel, period.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">At best, Harf is telling only a half-truth. </span><span class="zw-portion">While Kerry did not explicitly state that it was </span><span class="zw-portion">his own </span><span class="zw-portion">view there was a link betwe</span><span class="zw-portion">en the growth of ISIS and the failure of the peace talks</span><span class="zw-portion"> or Israel</span><span class="zw-portion">, </span><span class="zw-portion">Kerry </span><span class="zw-portion">transmitted the linkage theory he heard from leaders in the region to a receptive audience at the White House. And he </span><span class="zw-portion">did not refute it. </span><span class="zw-portion">In fact, he lent credence to the linkage theory by saying that “people need to understand the connection.” </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry once again proved the truth of Mark Twain’s famous quip: &#8220;A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.&#8221;</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Indeed, Kerry has helped launch a series of lies against Israel during his term as Secretary of State. Last April, for example, he said that Israel was at risk of becoming “an apartheid state,” if it does not come to terms with the Palestinians. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">A</span><span class="zw-portion"> competent and honest Secretary of State – neither of which describe</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> John Kerry – would not have </span><span class="zw-portion">repeated the falsehood of linking the failure of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks with the growth of ISIS and other jihadist movements</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the first place</span><span class="zw-portion">, </span><span class="zw-portion">unless he intended to set up this </span><span class="zw-portion">straw man</span><span class="zw-portion"> argument</span><span class="zw-portion"> in order</span><span class="zw-portion"> to </span><span class="zw-portion">immediately </span><span class="zw-portion">knock </span><span class="zw-portion">it </span><span class="zw-portion">down. </span><span class="zw-portion">What on earth does ISIS’s systematic massacre of Christians and Yazidis, rapes of women and children, and sexual slavery have to do with Kerry’s failed </span><span class="zw-portion">attempt to continue </span><span class="zw-portion">peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians? Absolutely nothing!</span><span class="zw-portion"> But Kerry </span><span class="zw-portion">shamelessly </span><span class="zw-portion">repeated the li</span><span class="zw-portion">e anyway.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">As one Israeli commentator observed</span><span class="zw-portion"> a few days after Kerry told the</span><span class="zw-portion"> Muslim</span><span class="zw-portion">s in his</span><span class="zw-portion"> audience what they wanted to hear, “Kerry didn’t mention that the astounding Saudi and Qatari assets invested in mosques around the world, including Europe, leads to radicalization. He didn’t come </span><span class="zw-portion">out against Qatar, which has become the primary funder of jihadi organizations. He doesn’t blame the institutionalized anti-Semitic incitement, which is growing in the Muslim world, including by Al-Jazeera.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Instead, Kerry pandered to his audience. He repeated President Obama’s claim that there is nothing Islamic about the Islamic State</span><span class="zw-portion">, even though ISIS’s atrocities find justification in the Koran and the Hadith (the sayings and deeds of the Islamic prophet Muhammad). Kerry</span><span class="zw-portion"> then assured the audience </span><span class="zw-portion">that </span><span class="zw-portion">the sectarian murders </span><span class="zw-portion">occurring regularly </span><span class="zw-portion">within the Muslim community </span><span class="zw-portion">today </span><span class="zw-portion">in the 21</span><span class="zw-portion">st</span><span class="zw-portion"> century can be compared with the Thirty Years’ War in 17</span><span class="zw-portion">th</span><span class="zw-portion"> century Europe that broke out initially between Protestant and Catholic states. The problem with such specious comparisons is that Muslims, unlike Catholics and Protestants, are still killing each other</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> as well as Christians, Jews, Hindus, Yazidis, Zoroastrians and other “infidels</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> in massive numbers all over the world.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Hamas is the jihadist branch dedicated, in the words of its charter, to the destruction of the state of Israel and the killing of Jews wherever they can be found. Yet Kerry rarely mentions Hamas in his statements regarding the failed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians</span><span class="zw-portion">. He </span><span class="zw-portion">has not insisted that </span><span class="zw-portion">effective measures be in place first to prevent the rearmament of Hamas as</span><span class="zw-portion"> a pre-condition for </span><span class="zw-portion">pouring millions of dollars of </span><span class="zw-portion">new aid the United States is pledging for reconstruction in Gaza</span><span class="zw-portion">, much less the disarmament of Hamas in Gaza</span><span class="zw-portion">.  </span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry’s willingness to turn a blind eye to the real culprit Hamas echoes the attitude of </span><span class="zw-portion">United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-m</span><span class="zw-portion">oon, who visited Gaza recently. </span><span class="zw-portion">During his visit, the Secretary General </span><span class="zw-portion">referred to Israel’s partial defensive blockade of Gaza as a “siege.” He said that lifting the “siege” and “easing movement restrictions” is “one of the most important issues… a basic human right for all the Palestinian people.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“Siege” is defined in the Oxford Dictionaries as “a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside.” Israel’s partial blockade of Gaza in response to relentless rocket attacks launched by Hamas and other jihadist groups from civilian centers in Gaza against civilian populations in Israel is anything but a siege. Israel withdrew from Gaza unilaterally in 2005 and turned over </span><span class="zw-portion">major </span><span class="zw-portion">security responsibilities at the border crossings to the Palestinian Autho</span><span class="zw-portion">ri</span><span class="zw-portion">ty</span><span class="zw-portion">. There was no blockade to speak of until Hamas seized power and turned Gaza into a launching pad for attacks against Israel. Even </span><span class="zw-portion">since </span><span class="zw-portion">then, Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">has </span><span class="zw-portion">permitted food and humanitarian aid to enter Gaza as well as construction materials for international projects</span><span class="zw-portion"> – the antithesis of a siege</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">I approached Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week to ask him whether he would reconsider the use of the term “siege” in describing Israel’s partial blockade</span><span class="zw-portion">. He said he would think about</span><span class="zw-portion"> it.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">In his remarks to the press the next day, Ban did not refer again to an Israeli “siege,” but he continued to castigate Israel for what transpired during the latest Gaza conflict with Hamas. Ban said that while he understood “the security threat from rockets above and tunnels below” that Israel was facing, Israel’s response and resulting “destruction in Gaza has left deep questions about proportionality.” </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Ban also castigated Israel for </span><span class="zw-portion">shelling UN schools in Gaza,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">while </span><span class="zw-portion">refusing to acknowledge</span><span class="zw-portion"> Israel’s allegation that</span><span class="zw-portion"> the UN </span><span class="zw-portion">returned</span><span class="zw-portion"> rockets found in UN school</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> to Hamas. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Where the ant</span><span class="zw-portion">i</span><span class="zw-portion">-Israel bias of the Obama administration and the United Nations may converge is a UN Security Council resolution sought by Palestinian President Abbas and sponsored by Jordan</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">which</span><span class="zw-portion"> would set a </span><span class="zw-portion">firm </span><span class="zw-portion">deadline </span><span class="zw-portion">for Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">to</span><span class="zw-portion"> withdraw from all Palestinian territories and end the “occupation.”</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">The precise wording</span><span class="zw-portion"> is currently being negotiated behind the scenes</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">C</span><span class="zw-portion">hief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat</span><span class="zw-portion"> has recommended that the Palestinian Authority end all security-related cooperation with Israel in the West Bank if the United States ends up vetoing the resolution. </span><span class="zw-portion">The Palestinians would also be likely to </span><span class="zw-portion">join more </span><span class="zw-portion">UN agencies and </span><span class="zw-portion">treaties</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">as well as </span><span class="zw-portion">the International Criminal Court</span><span class="zw-portion"> where they would try to obtain prosecutions against Israeli leaders for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">If France and the United Kingdom dec</span><span class="zw-portion">ide to support some form of the timetable</span><span class="zw-portion"> resolution</span><span class="zw-portion"> for Israeli withdrawal</span><span class="zw-portion"> the Palestinians are seeking</span><span class="zw-portion">, the Obama administration – given its anti-Israel bias – may well decide </span><span class="zw-portion">ultimately </span><span class="zw-portion">to abstain</span><span class="zw-portion"> rather than exercise its veto power</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">The UK parliament has already gone on record </span><span class="zw-portion">in a symbolic vote </span><span class="zw-portion">as supporting the recognition of a Palestinian state, following the Swedish government’s decision to </span><span class="zw-portion">actually </span><span class="zw-portion">do</span><span class="zw-portion"> just that</span><span class="zw-portion">. Other Eur</span><span class="zw-portion">opean Union countries may add themselves to the growing list of countries that are going along with this </span><span class="zw-portion">Palestinian state </span><span class="zw-portion">recognition </span><span class="zw-portion">trend</span><span class="zw-portion">, giving </span><span class="zw-portion">the Obama administration some political cover to abstain</span><span class="zw-portion"> on the timetable resolution</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">A </span><span class="zw-portion">vote </span><span class="zw-portion">on the resolution may be postponed </span><span class="zw-portion">until after the U.S. mid-term elections to give the Obama administration some</span><span class="zw-portion"> breathing room</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In the meantime, </span><span class="zw-portion">John Kerry is reported to be scrambling to head off a Security Council resolution altogether by trying to put pressure on Israel to return to the negotiating table </span><span class="zw-portion">for direct talks with the Palestinians. He is meeting resistance from both sides. “</span><span class="zw-portion">We’re are not going back to negotiations unless there is some change in the rules to discuss the borders first,” said Fatah Central Committee member Dr. Nabil Shaath. “To continue to negotiate while the Israelis are eating up land is like suicide,” he said. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry’s remarks </span><span class="zw-portion">at the White House </span><span class="zw-portion">Eid al-Adha </span><span class="zw-portion">ceremony, raising </span><span class="zw-portion">concerns among unnamed Middle East leaders regarding the purported linkage of the failure of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and the rise of ISIS</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> may be his Hail Mary pass</span><span class="zw-portion"> to</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">try and shame </span><span class="zw-portion">Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">publicly into returning t</span><span class="zw-portion">o the negotiating table and making</span><span class="zw-portion"> more concessions. That way, </span><span class="zw-portion">the Palestinians may decide to also resume direct negotiations and postpone seeking action on their </span><span class="zw-portion">proposed Security Council resolution</span><span class="zw-portion">, relieving</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">the Obama administration</span><span class="zw-portion"> of having to make a decision on which way to vote</span><span class="zw-portion">. If so, it is another counter-productive move by the Obama administration that will create even more distance with </span><span class="zw-portion">the one true democracy that has traditionally been our </span><span class="zw-portion">closest ally in the Middle East.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 04:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish points to the taboo truth of why we don't see "moderate" Muslim armies killing ISIS terrorists. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Nonie Darwish</strong>, the author of <em>The Devil We Don&#8217;t Know</em>.</p>
<p>Nonie came on the show to discuss <strong>Not Destroying the Islamic State</strong>, analyzing why Obama does not really want to defeat ISIS and why we don&#8217;t see any &#8220;moderate&#8221; Muslim armies killing ISIS terrorists <strong>(starts at 14 minute mark)</strong>.  The dialogue was preceded by Nonie focusing on <strong>Tricking and Dividing the Muslim World</strong>, shedding light on the best strategies to confront and outsmart our enemy in the terror war.</p>
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		<title>How the Muslim World Benefits from ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2014 04:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aa140625-iraq-isis-mosul-street-445a_82f23afee3a82a104ef51a50474e30c6.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243338" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aa140625-iraq-isis-mosul-street-445a_82f23afee3a82a104ef51a50474e30c6-450x334.jpg" alt="aa140625-iraq-isis-mosul-street-445a_82f23afee3a82a104ef51a50474e30c6" width="353" height="262" /></a>However the US campaign against ISIS goes, the beneficiaries will be its Sunni Muslim allies who are also doubling as our allies. While on the surface ISIS appears to have cut all ties, threatening even former allies like Turkey and Qatar, underneath the surface the pragmatic connections remain as strong as ever.</p>
<p>Terrorism is the fire of the Muslim world. Everyone plays with it and everyone gets burned. The trick is burning someone else with it first.</p>
<p>Americans still think of the relationship between terrorist groups and countries as servant and master. However it’s often more like feeding a rabid dog and then luring it into your neighbor’s yard. It’s less about direct control of a terrorist group and more about maneuvering it to reshape the political and military environment that your enemies and allies operate in.</p>
<p>That’s why Al Qaeda and Iran, religious enemies, could still occasionally cooperate.</p>
<p>The current campaign against ISIS is a typical example. By empowering ISIS, the Sunni Muslim oil states dragged the United States into an alliance with the bands of Islamic Jihadists commonly known as the Free Syrian Army. When the West balked at intervention even after reports of WMD use, the smart money went to ISIS. By turning Al Qaeda into a major regional threat, the United States would be dragged into the conflict and then forced to make common cause with the Free Syrian Army anyway.</p>
<p>When that still didn’t happen on schedule, mass murder and rape by ISIS did the trick. Now the Kurds have been forced out of their neutral position and into an alignment with the Sunni rebels. Western countries have gotten deeper into an alliance with the Free Syrian Army which will ultimately force them into a NATO intervention in Syria to protect the FSA. That was always the endgame. ISIS was the means.</p>
<p>The ISIS gamble was a dangerous one, especially under Obama, but now it’s beginning to pay off.</p>
<p>Islamic terrorism benefits Muslims directly and indirectly. The direct benefits are obvious. The indirect benefits are more subtle. Whether it’s ISIS and the FSA, Al Qaeda and Saudi Arabia, the “extremist” mosques that openly preach death and the “moderate” mosques that dress it up a little, Islamic violence benefits both sides in the game of “Good Caliph” and “Bad Caliph”.</p>
<p>Islamic “extremism” creates a market for “moderates”. The more bombs go off, the more the affected countries scramble to ally with cooler heads who claim to be able to defuse the anger of the radicals.</p>
<p>It’s a familiar game.</p>
<p>Jihadists set off bombs in Boston and the state partners with local mosques. The Taliban kill girls and the United States pumps more money into Pakistan. ISIS massacres non-Muslims and we ally with the FSA.</p>
<p>The Muslim world needs “extremists” to blow off dangerous steam and to achieve their goals indirectly. Each new extreme may hurt Muslims, but it also makes Westerners more dependent on them while turning yesterday’s unacceptable groups into the new moderates. When we look past the individual groups to the larger objectives of Islamization, we can see that each group in its own way helps put another piece of the puzzle into place. One group may do so through violence, while another promises to counter radical extremists, but all are working to secure the same ultimate totalitarian concessions.</p>
<p>Muslims object to the idea that each of them should be viewed as a ticking time bomb and yet they have benefited enormously from such a perception. PLO terrorism turned Western foreign policy into a tool for pursuing Muslim grievances against Israel. Al Qaeda turned Muslims from an obscure minority into a civil rights priority. ISIS combines both, forcing the West to accommodate Sunni territorial demands in Iraq and Syria through armed intervention while spreading paranoia about ISIS recruitment in the West.</p>
<p>When the current conflict with ISIS ends, it is likely that the Shiites will have been broken in Syria and weakened in Iraq, that Kurdish statehood will once again be a fantasy and that the position of Sunni Muslims in both countries will be stronger than ever after having profited from seizing the properties of Christians and Yazidi who were ethnically cleansed by ISIS. Even if ISIS loses, many of its goals will have been met because they’re also the goals of our Muslim allies in the coalition against ISIS.</p>
<p>We’re not even allying with Stalin to beat Hitler. We’re allying with one wing of the Nazi Party to beat another wing of the Nazi Party. And whichever wing wins, the Nazi agenda still wins.</p>
<p>That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t deal with ISIS. Like its Al Qaeda parent, it does represent a threat to us. But we also need to recognize that the best way to fight it is without the entangling alliances and strategic linkages that reward its backers. The surest way to perpetuate ISIS is to show its backers that they can can drag us into a war on their behalf by arming and funding Islamic terrorists for us to fight.</p>
<p>Too many politicians have bought into the myth that we can’t beat ISIS without allying with “moderates” in Syria despite the fact that even this administration, which can find moderates in Gitmo, couldn’t originally find any that it could safely arm. Our allies against ISIS are also the allies of ISIS.  We are not using them to beat ISIS. They are using us to seize Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>When we accept the linkage between beating ISIS and helping the FSA, we reward the backers of ISIS. In the future when the Sunni oil states want to drag the US into a war, all they have to do is arm and fund ISIS or another group very much like it. And if we don’t come running when the bell rings, then they’ll have to make it an even bigger threat until it becomes too big for even a Democrat to ignore.</p>
<p>That’s exactly what happened with ISIS.</p>
<p>The answer doesn’t lie in ignoring Al Qaeda or in becoming a puppet of its backers. Instead we have to be aware of the larger political agendas involved. And those political agendas cannot be talked about.</p>
<p>When Biden wandered around the edges of the truth, he was swiftly told to apologize to Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the UAE. The same administration that can blame Israel for ISIS recruitment can’t even admit the fact that its Sunni allies were the ones who provided the money, weapons and manpower for ISIS. And if it can’t admit that, then it certainly can’t admit that it wasn’t a mistake, but a calculated plan.</p>
<p>The weakest and wealthiest Muslim countries compensate for their weakness by turning their dependency on us into our dependency on them. They need Al Qaeda and ISIS to make Western countries dependent on them. Muslims in the West similarly compensate for their weakness and dependency by exploiting the fear of Islamic terrorism to increase their influence and political power.</p>
<p>Islamic terrorism won’t end with airstrikes. It will end when we break this cycle of dependency by recognizing that what really feeds terrorism isn’t oppression or injustice, but Muslim political cynicism.</p>
<p>The backers of ISIS are also our allies against ISIS. Sunni Arab Muslims have aided in the genocide of non-Muslims to force us to back their territorial claims which include the ethnic cleansing of the same people we are fighting to protect. To fight ISIS we have made a deal with the devil to carry out the ISIS agenda.</p>
<p>That is the same thing that has happened each time we allowed ourselves to be led into the trap of allying with the “moderates” to defeat the “extremists.” It’s a road that leads to trying to bring democracy through Islamism and allying with Jihadists to fight Jihadists.</p>
<p>We can’t defeat ISIS by becoming ISIS.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2014 04:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kobane_3071699b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243324" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kobane_3071699b-423x350.jpg" alt="Kobane_3071699b" width="346" height="286" /></a>The struggle for Kobani, the Syrian Kurdish town on the border with Turkey where the Kurdish forces alone are battling the barbaric hordes of the Islamic State, aka ISIS, is reminiscent of the Polish uprising in Warsaw against the Nazis in August, 1944. While the Polish Home Army fought courageously against the might of the superior armed Nazis, the Soviet Union’s Red Army stood by across the River Vistula, which divides Warsaw, watching the merciless slaughter of Polish civilians and the destruction of the city.</p>
<p>The Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan, like the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin before him, showed no consideration for the lives of innocent Kurdish civilians already butchered by the sadists of the Islamic State mercenaries. For those still alive in Kobani, unless rescued by outside intervention or supplied with heavy arms and ammunition, will also die a gruesome death. Turkish tanks, in the meantime, are ensconced on the crest overlooking Kobani. They can help save the remaining Kurds should Erdogan give them the order to fire on the ISIS fighters. But, just as Stalin wanted the Nazis to decimate the Polish nationalist Home Army, Erdogan is wishing for ISIS to destroy the Syrian Kurds.</p>
<p>What is puzzling in all this is the role the U.S. is playing. In his September 10, 2014 speech, President Obama said that, “military advisors are needed to support Iraqi and <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/10/statement-president-isil-1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Kurdish forces</span></a> with training, intelligence, and equipment.” Hitherto, there has been no supply of equipment or training of the Kurds. In fact, the Obama administrations blind support for a unitary Iraqi state led by Shiite ruled Baghdad government is in contradiction with the realities on the ground. The Shiite-led Iraqi army folded in the face of the jihadi ISIS guerrilla offensive, and in the process, abandoning U.S. supplied heavy weapons including tanks, armored cars, Humvees, etc. The Kurdish Peshmergas alone hold the line against ISIS, and they are not getting the promised arms because the U.S. has long insisted that all sales of U.S. weapons must go through Iraq&#8217;s central government, despite Kurdish complaints that Baghdad had deprived them of promised military equipment and financial support.</p>
<p>Washington has not overruled Baghdad on issuing direct shipments of arms to the Kurds.  The Iraqi government has demanded that all shipments to the Kurds arrive first in Baghdad. Iraqi officials have regularly blocked or delayed these shipments to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil. Moreover, U.S. State Department regulations bar the KRG from purchasing U.S. made weapons without “<a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/resetting-the-u.s.-kurdish-baghdad-relationship"><span style="color: #0433ff;">end-user certificates</span></a>” issued by Baghdad. According to the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, “Baghdad is bent on wielding this authority to prevent the <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/resetting-the-u.s.-kurdish-baghdad-relationship"><span style="color: #0433ff;">KRG</span></a> from developing antitank and antiaircraft arsenals.”</p>
<p>The Kurds in both Iraq and Syria are the only effective fighting force, boots on the ground, capable of stopping the ISIS hordes. In Iraq, the Peshmergas, the Kurdistan Regional Government defense forces are facing ISIS while armed with antiquated Russian Kalashnikovs (AK-47) and machine guns mounted on open Toyota pick-up trucks. Britain, France and Germany pledged to supply arms, but the KRG, while welcoming such support, has yet to receive them.</p>
<p>In Syria, the Kurdish defenders of Kobani are encircled on three sides with their backs pressed against the Turkish border, and the only supply line is through Turkey. Erdogan and his government however, have branded the defending Kurds as terrorists. Erdogan has argued that the Kurds of Kobani are no better than ISIS. The <i>New York Times</i> (October 12, 2014) quoted Erdogan as saying, “The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/world/middleeast/kurdish-rebels-assail-turkish-inaction-on-isis-as-peril-to-peace-talks.html?mabReward=RI%3A14&amp;module=WelcomeBackModal&amp;contentCollection=Middle%20East&amp;region=FixedCenter&amp;action=click&amp;src=recg&amp;pgtype=article"><span style="color: #0433ff;">P.K.K</span></a>. and ISIS are the same for Turkey…It is wrong to view them differently. We need to deal with them jointly.”</p>
<p>The P.K.K. is indeed considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the European Union, yet the P.K.K. has been in peace negotiations with Ankara, demanding not the destruction of Turkey (unlike Hamas’ aim of destroying Israel) but merely cultural rights. The P.K.K demands include use of the Kurdish language in educational institutions, reduction in the threshold for elections to parliament from 10% to 5%, greater decentralization, and the removal of all discriminatory provisions against Kurds from the constitution and other laws.</p>
<p>It is highly hypocritical for Erdogan to compare the P.K.K. to the fanatical Islamist group ISIS, when he has been one of the chief supporters of the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas. And, if there is to be a fair comparison, it would be between ISIS and Hamas, both seeking to create an Islamic Caliphate, and the expulsion of non-Muslims from the region.</p>
<p>Kobani is being defended by the People’s Protection Units, or Y.P.G., an affiliate of the P.K.K. Erdogan’s concern is that the Syrian Kurds might try to establish an autonomous region on the border, which Turkey wants to prevent. Again, Erdogan’s transparent hypocrisy is clear to see. He actively supports Hamas and Palestinian independence but seeks to deny the same to the Kurds, the end result being that he will allow the Kurds of Kobani to perish while at the same time looking the other way while the ISIS jihadists use Turkey as a corridor for their recruited fighters to enter Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p>Erdogan’s Turkey is a member of NATO, yet in 2003 he refused Turkish airspace to U.S. and allied forces on the way to Iraq. <i>The New York Times</i> reported (October 7, 2014) Turkish President Erdogan said “Turkey would not get more deeply <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/world/middleeast/isis-syria-coalition-strikes.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">involved</span></a> in the conflict with the Islamic State.” Erdogan conditioned Turkey’s possible involvement in fighting ISIS on the U.S. giving greater support to the rebels trying to oust Bashar Assad, the Syrian President. Turkey has, moreover, denied that it has signed an agreement authorizing the U.S. and the coalition forces to use its airbases for operations against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic told <i>Reuters</i>: “<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/13/us-mideast-crisis-turkey-idUSKCN0I210L20141013"><span style="color: #0433ff;">There is not an agreement</span></a>; no decision has been taken with regard to using Incirlik air base.” He refuted U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice’s claim on <i>NBC News ‘Meet The Press’</i> show on October 12 (2014) that Turkey had agreed to allow the use of the Incirlik airbase against IS.</p>
<p>The U.S. should react to the Turkish treachery by removing its airbase from Incirlik, Turkey to Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government. The U.S. should immediately provide the KRG with heavy weapons, including tanks, artillery, anti-armor rockets, and Humvees. The equipment should be sent directly to Erbil bypassing Baghdad. The State Department must change its regulations, and allow the KRG to become a certified “end-user,” instead of being at the mercy of Iranian controlled Baghdad.</p>
<p><i>The Wall Street Journal</i> headline on October 15, 2014 reading “Turks Bomb Kurds, Not Islamic State” is most telling. It is in essence siding with the enemies of the U.S. and its NATO allies. Considering Turkey’s behavior as a NATO member, it is time to consider its leader – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for what he really is – an anti-western pro-Jihadist dictator. If anything, in Kobani, Erdogan has shown the world his treacherous nature by betraying the Kurds with whom he has been negotiating peace.</p>
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		<title>Is the Islamic State the Islamic &#8216;Reformation&#8217;?</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-14-at-2.34.22-PM1.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243083" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-14-at-2.34.22-PM1-358x350.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-10-14 at 2.34.22 PM" width="310" height="303" /></a>The self-declared Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world with its brutality. The British Prime Minister David Cameron, along with other Western leaders, claims that the Islamic State has “<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/david-cameron-on-eid-al-adha-islamic-state-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-great-religion-of-islam-a-religion-of-peace"><span style="color: #0433ff;">nothing</span></a> to do with the great religion of Islam, a religion of peace.” The former British PM Tony Blair states that IS’ ideology is “<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/tony-blair-islamic-states-ideology-based-in-a-complete-perversion-of-the-proper-faith-of-islam"><span style="color: #0433ff;">based</span></a> in a complete perversion of the proper faith of Islam.”</p>
<p>Notice that both the current and a previous British Prime Minister say virtually the same thing as Tariq Ramadan. He is a Swiss writer of Egyptian origin and is a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University in Britain. Tariq Ramadan suggests that the Islamic State is ”<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2014/10/tariq-ramadan-isil-not-islamic-2014101015462542487.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">not Islamic</span></a>.”</p>
<p>Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Banna&#8217;s stated goal was the restoration of an Islamic Caliphate. We now have an Islamic State under the leadership of a Caliph. You could therefore argue that ISIS have fulfilled the original promise of Hassan al-Banna. What Tariq Ramadan is in effect saying is that: &#8220;The Islamic State have fulfilled the promise of my pious Muslim grandfather. Yet this has nothing to do with Islam.&#8221;</p>
<p>The slick Islamic infiltrator Tariq Ramadan has always reminded me of the deceiving manipulator Grima Wormtongue from Tolkien&#8217;s novel <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>. It is no wonder that Western ruling elites are clueless about the true nature of the Islamic threat when we allow people such as Ramadan to be treated as experts on Islam in prestigious Western universities and advise Western authorities on matters related to Islam.</p>
<p>Saying that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam or Islamic teachings is false. ISIS propagandists quote authentic Koranic verses or respected hadith literature in favor of their actions. Yes, texts can be interpreted in different ways, but some interpretations have a stronger foundation than others do. A rubber band can be stretched up to a certain point, but not forever. Likewise, texts can be read in several ways, but they are not infinitely elastic.</p>
<p>Maybe what the militant members of the Islamic State are doing is not the only way to interpret Islamic religious texts. Maybe. What should worry us, however, is that it is a perfectly <i>legitimate</i> way to interpret Islamic texts.</p>
<p>The Islamic State now has many supporters, also in Western countries. Their atrocities resonate with quite a few Muslims who recognize something similar from Islamic history. In the earliest days of Islam, Mohammed and his companions raided and pillaged their opponents, massacred and beheaded non-Muslims, enslaved their children, raped their women and forced them to be sex slaves. Suggesting that it has nothing to do with Islam, when militant Muslims today directly copy the behavior of their Prophet as described in Islamic sources, is not credible.</p>
<p>Western leaders and commentators are often shockingly ill-informed about Islam. Tony Blair, then still Britain’s Prime Minister, wrote about Islam for the influential magazine <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/62271/tony-blair/a-battle-for-global-values"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Foreign Affairs</i> </span></a>in its January 2007 issue. This quote sums up the breathtaking cluelessness of Western leaders:</p>
<p><b>&#8220;</b>To me, the most remarkable thing about the Koran is how progressive it is. I write with great humility as a member of another faith. As an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, much as reformers attempted to do with the Christian church centuries later. The Koran is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and far ahead of its time in attitudes toward marriage, women, and governance. Under its guidance, the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands were breathtaking. Over centuries, Islam founded an empire and led the world in discovery, art, and culture. The standard-bearers of tolerance in the early Middle Ages were far more likely to be found in Muslim lands than in Christian ones.”</p>
<p>Some observers suggest that Islam needs to be reformed. Yet it is arguable that we have already witnessed an Islamic Reformation, and that ISIS/the Islamic State represents a culmination of this process.</p>
<p>In 2007 I published an essay with the title <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/05/fjordman-do-we-want-an-islamic-reformation"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Do we want an Islamic Reformation? </span></a>The question of whether Islam can be reformed largely hinges upon one’s definition of “Reformation.” This is often implicitly taken to mean something along the lines of “peaceful, non-sharia-based with respect for individual choice, freedom of speech and the freedom to criticize and leave your religion.” In other words: “Reform” is vaguely taken to mean less Islam, or at least less traditional sharia laws, and no violent Jihad.</p>
<p>However, several observers argue that there are similarities between Martin Luther and the Christian or Protestant Reformation in sixteenth century Europe and the reform movement started by Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab in the Arabian Peninsula in the 18<sup>th</sup> century. Wahhab’s alliance with the family of Muhammad bin Saud led to the creation of Saudi Arabia. Using its massive oil wealth, paid for by non-Muslims, that country has for generations funded strict sharia-based Islamic movements worldwide. This Islamic revivalist movement is at the base of the present-day Salafist movement.</p>
<p>Although the Reformation was a turbulent period, it paved the way for more tolerance and religious freedom in Christian Europe over the long run. Christians could return to the example as contained in the Gospels of an early age where Jesus, the founder of their religion, and his disciples led a largely peaceful movement separate from the state. Muslims can find a similar example only in the Mecca period. however, as long as the writings from the very violent Medina period remain in force, when Islam was a state run on religious laws, a return to an “early, Golden Age” of Islam will mean a return to sharia and Jihad violence. As such, one has to ask whether an Islamic Reformation would be desirable from a non-Muslim point of view. The likely answer to that question is no.</p>
<p>There is arguably a direct line from the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 to the Islamic State. The Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb was one if the ideological inspirators for Osama bin Laden&#8217;s Jihadist terrorist network al-Qaida. The Islamic State (ISIS) is an offshoot of al-Qaida that has fulfilled the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s desire for a new Caliphate.</p>
<p>If a &#8220;Reformation&#8221; is meant to be a return to the earliest days of the religion, as Martin Luther and John Calvin wanted to achieve in Christian Europe, then what we are looking at now may well be the Islamic Reformation. Seen in this light, al-Qaida and the Islamic State are the culmination and logical conclusion of the Islamic Reformation. This Islamic revival and return to the earliest days of Islam has led to Jihadist terrorism, beheadings, large-scale massacres and mass enslavement because that was what early Islam was all about.</p>
<p>Right now, there are few signs that the unrest in much of the Islamic world will end any time soon. The brutal attacks on non-Muslims in the Middle East continue. The terror warnings about militant Muslims in the West are growing increasingly alarming. Since the Jihadist attacks of September 11 2001, the situation has deteriorated. We now face an extremely well funded terrorist organization in the form of the Islamic State. Through their control over substantial territory and several oil fields in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State has access to far more money and resources than al-Qaida ever did during their time in Afghanistan up until 2001.</p>
<p>The historian Dominic<i> </i>Sandbrook worries that the ongoing disintegration of the Middle East could get even worse and more violent in the years ahead. He warns that ”<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732268/The-coming-apocalypse-Last-week-historian-DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-wrote-damning-critique-West-s-failure-halt-Islamic-fanatics-Now-savage-murder-confirmed-worst-fears-looks-future.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">We have</span></a> lived through some of the bloodiest years in human history. But the really frightening thing is that the worst may be yet to come.”</p>
<p>The former Chief of the Australian Army, Professor <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2720431/The-100-years-war-Islam-Dire-warning-former-Australian-military-chief.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Peter Leahy</span></a>, has warned of a century-long war against Islamic militants. Several other commentators indicate that the unrest in many parts of the Islamic world and the Jihadist threat ensuing from it could continue for decades. Even in the very unlikely event that a peaceful version of Islam should emerge at some point in the future, this process would likely take generations.</p>
<p>Regardless of outcome, we are in all likelihood facing many years of continued instability in the Islamic world. This is intensified by the high birth rates in some Muslim countries. Some of this unrest is already spilling into other regions. Several European cities have experienced riots involving Muslim immigrants. Western intelligence agencies warn that the number of militant Muslims and potential Islamic terrorists is so large that it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of them all.</p>
<p>It is immensely irresponsible of Western leaders in this situation to continue Muslim immigration. Yes, part of the damage has already been done, but that is no excuse for doing nothing. A firefighter does not let the entire neighborhood burn down just because one house has caught fire. If damage limitation is the only thing we can do at this point, then let us at least do that. When militant Muslims are threatening to behead us, it is simply no longer acceptable to continue mass-importing people from unstable Muslim societies.</p>
<p>Muslim immigration in every form to all European and Western nations needs to be suspended, and any practice of sharia laws banned. Western governments who fail to do this are failing to protect the basic security of their citizens. They should be held accountable for that failure.</p>
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		<title>The Islamic State Is Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disturbing history of known terrorists exploiting the southern border. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/A82.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242745" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/A82-450x337.jpg" alt="A82" width="330" height="247" /></a>During the recent race riots in Ferguson, Missouri, CNN’s Jake Tapper was walking down a street and filming a segment when someone emerged out of the shadows behind him, holding a banner emblazoned, “ISIS is here.” At that point it was just a threat, or a boast, or both, but on Tuesday Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/gop-rep-at-least-ten-isis-fighters-have-been-caught-coming-across-the-mexican-border/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a> that the Islamic State was doing all it could to make it a reality: “At least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas.”</p>
<p>“There’s nobody talking about it,” Hunter added. “If you really want to protect Americans from ISIS, you secure the southern border. It’s that simple…They caught them at the border, therefore we know that ISIS is coming across the border. If they catch five or ten of them then you know there’s going to be dozens more that did not get caught by the border patrol.”</p>
<p>Indeed. And jihadist exploitation of our southern border is nothing new. In June 2014, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) foreshadowed Hunter’s announcement <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/06/18/iraqi-extremist-group-could-slip-through-texas-mexico-border/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">when he said</span></a>: “This jihadist group ISIS and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have promised direct confrontation with America. He is looking forward to that day and he has said that publicly, we should believe him when he says that. These folks hate everything about the United States.” What’s more, “Of course the way they would come to the United States would be through the porous border with Mexico. The drug cartels will bring people into the country no matter who they are — for money. Everyone in the world knows that the border between the United States and Mexico is completely porous.”</p>
<p>Jihad terrorists and their enablers and accomplices have been entering the U.S. illegally by means of the Mexican border for many years. According to <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/03/iran-aggressively-recruiting-invisible-army-of-latin-american-converts-to-infiltrate-u-s-through-southern-border/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">TheBlaze</span></a>, “Hezbollah members and supporters have entered the U.S. through the southern border as early as 2002, with the case of Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, a Mexican of Lebanese descent. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison by Mexican authorities on charges of organized crime and immigrant smuggling. Mucharrafille had owned a cafe in the border city of Tijuana, near San Diego. In 2002, he was arrested for smuggling 200 people into the U.S., including Hezbollah supporters, according to a 2009 Congressional report.”</p>
<p>And in May 2010, the Department of Homeland Security <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/28/homeland.alert.somali/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">warned local police</span></a> along the southern border about a Muslim named Mohamed Ali who was suspected of being a member of the jihad terror group al Shabaab. An official who spoke to CNN about the warning said that it wasn’t clear whether or not Mohamed Ali was trying to enter the country illegally, but it seems unlikely that such an alert would have been sent out to police along the border if that had not been the case. Ali was, in any case, apparently <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/26/terror-alert-mexican-border/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">involved in operating</span></a> a “large-scale smuggling enterprise” that had brought hundreds of Somali Muslims into the U.S. illegally.</p>
<p>Top officials in Washington have known about how jihad terrorists have attempted to exploit the vulnerabilities of the southern border for many years now. In 2006, the House Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee, under the leadership of Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), issued a report entitled <i>A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border</i>, <a href="http://www.azgovernor.gov/documents/BorderSecurity/LineintheSand_Report_2006.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">which stated</span></a>: “Members of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization, have already entered to the United States across our Southwest border.”</p>
<p>Nothing changed. Investigative journalist <a href="http://humanevents.com/2010/06/28/our-border-is-a-moving-sidewalk/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Deroy Murdock reported</span></a> in 2010 that “according to the federal Enforcement Integrated Database, 125 individuals were apprehended along the US/Mexican border from Fiscal Year 2009 through April 20, 2010. These deportable aliens included two Syrians, seven Sudanese, and 17 Iranians, all nationals from the three Islamic countries that the US government officially classifies as state sponsors of terrorism.” During the same period, border agents also apprehended “two Afghans, five Algerians, 13 Iraqis, 10 Lebanese, 22 Nigerians, 28 Pakistanis, two Saudis, 14 Somalis, and three Yemenis. During FY 2007 and FY 2008, federal officials seized 319 people from these same countries traversing America’s southwest border.”</p>
<p>Murdock grants that these illegals may simply have come to pursue the American Dream, as Leftist dogma would have it. But he notes disturbing signs to the contrary: “Besides Iranian currency and Islamic prayer rugs, Texas Border Patrol agents discovered an Arabic clothing patch that reads ‘martyr’ and ‘way to immortality.’ Another shows a jet flying into a skyscraper.” And for some, their malign intentions were unmistakable: “The Department of Homeland Security issued an April 14, 2010 ‘Intelligence Alert’ regarding a possible border-crossing attempt by a Somali named Mohamed Ali. He is a suspected member of Al-Shabaab, a Somali-based al-Qaeda ally tied to the deadly attack on American GIs in 1993’s notorious ‘Blackhawk Down’ incident in Mogadishu.”</p>
<p>Murdock offered an update in <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/346591/southern-border-our-welcome-mat-terrorists"><span style="color: #0433ff;">an April 2013 article</span></a>, in which he gave the numbers of people attempting to enter the U.S. illegally via Mexico from countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism.</p>
<blockquote><p>As indicated by the latest information in Table 34 of Customs and Border Protection’s <i>Immigration Yearbook 2011,</i> 198 Sudanese were nabbed while penetrating the USA. Between FY 2002 and 2011, there were 1,207 such arrests. (These figures cover all U.S. borders, although, as Table 35 confirms, 96.3 percent of the overall detainee population intruded from Mexico.) Like other immigrants, most Sudanese seek better lives here. But some may be vectors for the same militant Islam that literally tore Sudan in two.</p>
<p>In FY 2011, 108 Syrians were stopped at our borders; over ten years, the number is 1,353. Syria is a key supporter of Hezbollah, and Bashar Assad’s unstable regime reportedly has attacked its domestic opponents with chemical weapons.</p>
<p>As for Iranians, 276 were caught in FY 2011, while 2,310 were captured over the previous ten years. Iran also backs Hezbollah, hates “the Great Satan,” and craves atomic weapons.</p>
<p>The other ten “countries of interest” are Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, and:</p>
<p><b>Afghanistan</b>: The Taliban’s stronghold and current theater of America’s longest war. Afghans halted in FY 2011: 106. Prior ten fiscal years: 681.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>: The land of underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab suffers under sharia law in its northern provinces. Respective data: 591, 4,525.</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: Hideaway of the Pakistani Taliban and the late Osama bin Laden. 525, 10,682.</p>
<p><b>Saudi Arabia</b>: Generous benefactor of radical imams and militant mosques worldwide; birthplace of 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers. 123, 986.</p>
<p><b>Somalia</b>: Home of Indian Ocean pirates and al-Qaeda’s al-Shabaab franchise. In October 1993, Islamic terrorists there shot down two Black Hawk helicopters, killed 18 U.S. soldiers, and dragged several of their bodies through Mogadishu’s streets. 323, 1,524.</p></blockquote>
<p>Each passing year brings new stories of this kind, new investigations and new recommendations – but no real action to secure our southern border. And in July 2014, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/08/Muslim-Prayer-Rug-Found-on-Arizona-Border-By-Independendent-American-Security-Contractors"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Breitbart News published</span></a> what it described as “photos of what American security contractors on the ground believe is a Muslim prayer rug found near the border in Arizona last week.”</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/14/urdu-dictionary-found-on-texas-ranch-near-border-we-just-dont-know-whos-here-already/">That same month</a></span>, Texas rancher Mike Vickers found an Urdu-English Dictionary on his property, which runs along the border and is frequently trespassed upon by illegals. Urdu is, of course, the language of Pakistan, an Islamic Republic that has produced a healthy number of jihad terrorists. A Texas Border Patrol Agent noted: “We’ve found Korans, prayer rugs and many other unusual items at the border that certainly raise concern.”</p>
<p>All these warnings, all this information, and yet year after year, nothing is done. And as long as Barack Obama is President and the Democrats are the majority party, nothing will be done – except the repetition of the charge that concern about border security is “racist.” If the Islamic State manages to get jihadis into the country from Mexico and they succeed in mounting a large-scale attack, our leaders can console themselves amid the carnage that at least they were never “racist.”</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does the president insist that it will take years to defeat a “ragtag” team of terrorists? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/isis-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242633" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/isis-2-450x315.jpg" alt="isis-2" width="301" height="211" /></a>During U.S. President Obama’s televised speech on his strategies to defeat the Islamic State, the president <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-text-of-president-obamas-speech-outlining-strategy-to-defeat-islamic-state/2014/09/10/af69dec8-3943-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a>, “Now, it will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL” (a reference to the Islamic State, or “IS).</p>
<p>Now, why is that?</p>
<p>First, we know by “cancer” he is not referring to Islamic ideology—since he does not acknowledge that Islam has anything to do with violence and even <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/obama-administration-bans-knowledge-of-islam/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">banned knowledge of Islamic ideology</span></a> from being studied by law enforcement and national security communities.</p>
<p>Were he referring to Islamic ideology, the need for “time” would of course be legitimate, to say the least.</p>
<p>No, the cancer he is referring to is the very real, tangible, and temporal Islamic State, which exists in time and space.</p>
<p>But this prompts the following question: Why did it take the United States military three weeks to overthrow the very real and tangible regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003 whereas “it will take time”—years, according to most military analysts—for the U.S. to defeat the Islamic State?</p>
<p>This question becomes more urgent when one considers that the Iraq conquered by the U.S. in less than a month had an actual government and longstanding military and was better organized and consolidated—certainly in comparison to the Islamic State, often described as a “ragtag team of terrorists” that seems to have appeared out of nowhere.</p>
<p>The reason it will take years is because Obama refuses to strike the Islamic State decisively and effectively, specifically by sending in U.S. ground forces—the very forces that were responsible for keeping the Islamic jihadis at bay; the forces he withdrew leading to the rise of the Islamic State; and the forces that he refuses to utilize again, even though they are necessary to decisively crush the “caliphate.”</p>
<p>Obama’s “it will take time” assertion prompts the following prediction: U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State targets will continue to be just enough to pacify those calling for action against the caliphate (“we’re doing what we can”).  The official narrative will be that the Islamic State is gradually being weakened, that victory is a matter of time (remember, “It will take time”).</p>
<p>In the meantime, the Islamic State will slowly begin to fade away from the headlines.  After all and unreported in any Western media, soon after pictures and videos of the decapitations of Americans went viral prompting much media attention followed by international shock and outrage, the “caliph,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, called for an immediate stop to the videotaping and internet dissemination of such beheadings and other Sharia punishments.</p>
<p>He called on both official channels affiliated with the Islamic State as well as unofficial sympathizers and allies on social media to cease posting such pictures and/or video-clips, adding that IS “would follow any violation of this resolution seriously.”</p>
<p>It is these images of utter savagery that first catapulted the Islamic State into the spotlight, eventually causing Americans to call on U.S. leadership to respond, and it is these images that forced Obama to react to IS.</p>
<p>To be sure, had Islamic State members not posted those many images of cruelty which went viral, the world would know little about them—Western mainstream media would certainly not have been the ones to expose them—and Obama would not now be required to condemn and engage them.</p>
<p>But apparently that was the price the Islamic State had to pay to inspire and mobilize many more Islamic terrorists—to prompt them to raise their heads up high and to “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/beheading-infidels-how-allah-heals-the-hearts-of-believers/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">heal their hearts</span></a>.”  Time will tell if the majority will heed their new caliph’s resolution or not.</p>
<p>If the jihadis do comply, things will quiet down; the mainstream media will return to more familiar, more Kardashian headlines; we will hear about the occasional victory against IS—this or that leader killed or captured—even as the administration continues to exploit the conflict in a way to attack neighboring Syrian leader Bashar Assad (with the inevitable result that more jihadis will once again fill the vacuum created by his departure, as they did in post-Arab-Spring Libya).</p>
<p>Then, just as they “suddenly” appeared in Iraq, we will “suddenly” again hear—probably first from IS itself—that the Islamic State has made some major comeback, winning over some new piece of territory, as the caliphate continues to grow and get stronger.</p>
<p>In this context, Obama’s call for “time” appears to be less about a true need and more about getting Americans to forget about the Islamic State, at least until he is out of office.</p>
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		<title>Hold Obama and the Democrats Accountable for the Terrorist Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The urgency of indicting the Democratic Party for its dereliction of duty. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/140528-obama-west-point-mn-1155_a321bf5f75359e045403b1c5436f31aa.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242534" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/140528-obama-west-point-mn-1155_a321bf5f75359e045403b1c5436f31aa-438x350.jpg" alt="140528-obama-west-point-mn-1155_a321bf5f75359e045403b1c5436f31aa" width="327" height="261" /></a>Originally published at <a href="http://www.redstate.com/diary/DavidHorowitz/2014/10/06/hold-obama-democrats-accountable-terrorist-threat/">RedState.com</a>. </em></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Since 1945 Republicans have not won the popular vote unless national security was the primary issue. But security issues were virtually absent from the 2008 and 2012 elections. This gave victories to Barack Obama, the most anti-military president in American history. Fortunately, the prospects for 2016 are looking marginally better because Republicans are now actually focusing on the fact that an anti-military presidency has ominous consequences for the 300 million Americans whose safety is the primary responsibility of the commander-in-chief.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">That said, there is much to be desired in the Republican message, which is tepid, diffuse and easily missed. When Politico wrote a story about the recent change in Republican strategy it was all about the shift away from the tax-cutting emphasis of recent years, <a style="color: #b82026;" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/republicans-shift-away-from-tax-cutting-mania-111359.html?hp=f2">rather than towards the national security issue</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So let me describe the reality we are actually facing, which is a necessary preface to the way the Republican Party should be framing its strategy and should be emphasizing the dangers of having a Democratic president like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton – or for that matter a Democratic Congress – leading us in wartime.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I will leave out of this wartime equation the threats from Russia and China, which Obama and the Democrats have done so much to foster. I will focus only on the threat posed by Islamic jihadists, who at this moment can easily penetrate the borders that Obama and the Democrats have done so much to wreck. And carry with them chemical and biological weapons, and – if Iran builds the bombs which Obama the Democrats have made almost inevitable – nuclear weapons as well.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">This is easily the greatest terrorist threat in our history, far greater than what transpired before and after 9/11. ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and other Islamic terrorist armies now control territory (and attendant resources) from Afghanistan through Iraq Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Somalia and other regions of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Why has this happened? Because Obama and the Democrats have waged a ten-year war against the war on terror, against American military strength, against an American presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, and against the very idea that Islamic forces have declared war on us. For ten years Democrats have been determined to treat terrorists as individual criminals, arrest them and try them in American courts where they will have all the protections of the American legal system that they are seeking to destroy. So hostile has Obama been to the very notion of a “War on Terror” that he has purged the very term from the official government vocabulary and replaced it with “overseas contingency operations” which describes exactly nothing.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">To create the power vacuum which Islamic jihadists have filled, Obama had to defy the advice of his Secretary of Defense and his intelligence advisers. He did this in part by absenting himself from nearly half his daily intelligence briefings, and in part by saying no to absolutely crucial measures that his military staff proposed for countering the threat from ISIS and other terrorist groups. Obama saw to it that America would relinquish its military base in Iraq (a country that strategically borders on Afghanistan, Syria and Iran) or to keep the 20,000 American troops stationed there as his Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff urged him to do.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Obama hated the Iraq War so much that he was willing to betray all the American soldiers who gave their lives to keep Iraq out of the clutches of Iran and safe from the terrorist threat. If Obama had just listened to the advice of his military staff, there would be no ISIS today. Obama’s deliberate, calculated surrender of Iraq (and soon Afghanistan) and failure to stop Syria’s Assad when he crossed Obama’s red line is the greatest and gravest dereliction of duty in the history of the American presidency.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And make no mistake, Obama was not alone. For ten years the Democrats have been sabotaging the war on terror, beginning with their disgraceful scorched earth campaign against President Bush and the War in Iraq and continuing with their full-throated cry for the abandonment of Iraq after Bush had won the peace and contained the terrorist threat. Their support for Obama’s appeasement of Iran and Hamas, his support for the Muslim Brotherhood, and his diplomatic assault on Israel, America’s only true ally in the Middle East, is not only a national disgrace but the heart of the crisis that is looming on the international horizon.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">If Republicans fail to articulate the sources of this crisis, and specifically to indict Obama, Hillary and the Democrats for their betrayal of America’s interests and their failure to protect the American people then Republicans electoral prospects will be dim, and with them, their country’s future.</p>
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