America Stuck in September 10

WND 'Easily the most scandalous anecdote in the book is that of FBI agent [correction: junior translator - Atlas]  Sibel Edmonds walking into the Washington field office after 9-11, to find the Middle Eastern linguists making merry – passing around date-stuffed cookies to celebrate the occasion on which America got its just deserts. Were they fired? Stripped of their top-secret security clearances? Au contraire! More of their ilk were hired. Meanwhile, Arabic-speaking Sephardic Jews have been rejected for the job. There were "loyalty concerns," or so the bureau said.'

'In the final analysis, Sperry's book constitutes a withering indictment of an administration that has not only failed in its constitutional duty to uproot America's enemies on the home front, but has done its best to accommodate and appease them.' hat tip Robert D

Can you feel the gloom? I can. The President insists that "we are winning the war on terror," but as Americans are becoming more informed about Islam, and about the nature of the global jihad, and with that knowledge comes the realization that in the face of various aspects of this immense, life-and-death challenge, our leaders are responding either improperly or not at all.

Hence the formidable Derbyshire writes this about the Moussaoui sentence at National Review's The Corner:

Does anyone, DOES ANYONE, think we're going to defeat Islamofascism by squirting clouds of this multicultural mush at it? The terrorists sure as hell don't. Does anyone think the enemy gives a fig for our determination not to "focus on hatred, bigotry, and irrationality" (Judge Brinkema). I wonder if you can win a war without deploying hatred. Homer didn't think so.

The New York Post described Judge Brinkema's closing remarks as "a tongue lashing." I would say that's about right. They have suicide bombers — and, any day now, nukes which they will use. We have wet tongues.

"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, naturally they will favor the strong horse."—-Osama bin Laden. Yes, they will. We are doomed, doomed.

Likewise, at the Restoration Weekend in Phoenix not too long ago I was on a panel with Daniel Pipes, Phyllis Chesler and Steven Emerson. The topic we were given was, "Are we winning the war on terror?" All of us said no.

How can this be, when the enemy has nothing approaching our military might? Because far more important in the long run than the jihad of bombs and beheadings is the soft jihad of subversion of the West, which is succeeding magnificently while most citizens of Western countries are completely unaware that it is happening. Those who are unaware of just how bad things have gotten would do well to read David Selbourne's The Losing Battle with Islam. Selbourne, a historian and former Oxford professor, writes with an unusual and refreshing clarity and honesty about the ways in which the West, through short-sightedness, ignorance, and a deeply rooted unwillingness to make hard decisions or face hard facts, has enabled the jihad threat to grow to its present dimensions. And he explains why things are likely only to get worse.

Selbourne details how, "in contrast with Western confusion, indecision, anxieties to avoid offense, and an unstable media feverishness over individual events, a steadier truth is to be found in Islamist declarations that a 'confrontation' is in progress between 'Islam and world infidelity', and that a 'clear crystallization' is taking place between the 'two camps' of Islam and non-Islam." The mujahedin keep pushing that confrontation, while instead of standing up and defending our civilization, heritage, and values, our leaders are doing everything they can to ignore that confrontation and pretend to themselves that as soon as they hit upon the right mix of concessions and fuzzy-focused "anti-terror" and "democratization" initiatives, peace will return.

Selbourne explains why this will never work, and how "the tolerances, moral inertias and hidden sympathies of the corrupted liberal could themselves become liberticidal..." He exposes not only the murderous ideology of the mujahedin, but also the devices they use to further its advance. Enormously helpful are Selbourne's catalogues, such as his list and explanation of twelve common devices of deception -- to wit:

FIRST DEVICE: To appear, in your own interest, to be sympathetically disposed to the non-Islamic world, while continuing covertly to act against it, as by condeming hostilities against it in which you have had, and continue to have, a hand. This device has been best exemplified by the conduct of the Saudi royal household....

He also catalogues "Nine Arguments which have been commonly used to keep at bay 'unwelcome and inconvenient truths' about the Islamic revival and its advance." As one who has been on the receiving end of all nine of these, I highly recommend this catalogue as a useful too to help anti-jihadists spot such rhetorical tricks and defeat those who use them.

I also highly recommend Selbourne's assessments of why democracy, modernization, and hearts-and-minds initiatives are useless in this struggle, and doomed to failure. hat tip sherwood

 

Comments

[Underzog]

Until the American leadership starts pointing out what Islam really is, with its Jihad, dhimmi principles, and the meaning of Dar al Harb, we will always be at a disadvantage. One cannot call Islam a religion of peace and love as Condi Rice called it because the opposite is true. Also, until Israel kicks out the Arabs along the principles set by Rabbi Meir Kahane, Zt"l, that country will continue its slide toward destruction and mass psychosis.

[Underzog]

I forgot my closing line: "There's no need to fear; UnderZog is here!"

[Debbie]

You are absolutely correct in this post. First rule of war "Know your enemy" and Bush has yet to do that. I'm very disappointed in him.

Fouad Ajami was on Fox News Channel today talking about an article he had written and also about a conference he attended on Bernard Lewis re 'Islam and The West - A Clash of Civilizations'. Part of the problem is the West asks, "Why do they hate us, what did we DO to make them hate us?"

He says the answer is they "hate us for WHO we are, and there is nothing we can do about that, or to change that."

Until we accept that, we are doomed I tell you .... DOOMED. People need to wake up to the real threat.

[bobbyd]

I have come to the conclusion that we make a great mistake in viewing Islam as a religion at all when it is in fact a pathological ideology. Just look at the social dynamics and teachings. It is the only 'religion' I know of that doesn't have some version of 'The Golden Rule' in it's teachings.
What have Moslims produced except misery and distruction? Sure there were scientific discoveries made in Islamic societies long ago, but I'll bet the discoveries were NOT by Moslims! Moslim scholorship and social structure is not open to orrigional, creative thought. Moslims sure must live a dismal life. Support Christian missiionaries!!

[Das]

We have been without leadership since the 70s when not one western leader stood up to the oil sheiks. Seen in this trajectory we are in the end game of a 30 year squeeze on the west. In addition to Atlas' recommendation, I urge you to read JB Kelly's "Arabia the Gulf and the West." Over and over again he warned that the west had no right to buddy up to middle eastern dictators and that the repercussions would be tragic. He published the book in 1980. It reads like a very accurate almanac of world events since then.