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The Face of Radical Islam — Their Aim Destroy the United States The new Dutch video released last week caused international controversy for its shocking exposition of Radical Islam and the Quran. Sadly, as a result of threats to the filmmaker’s staff, the video was withdrawn from several websites over the weekend. However, TMLC and others, not to be intimidated by such threats, continued to show the video on their sites — we still have free speech here. Near the end of this video you will see adherents to Radical Islam specifically announce their aim to destroy the United States. Although the video is graphically violent, it is a testament to the true mission of Radical Islam. The video is available for you to watch here at the TMLC website. To view the video now, please click here. *WARNING: This video is very violent and graphic.* TMLC is currently involved in several cases opposing Radical Islam in the United States, particularly its effort to indoctrinate American children in the public schools, and influence many of our large universities and colleges with multimillion dollar donations from Saudi Arabian donors. Please forward and share this Alert with your family and friends. They must be informed of the danger of Radical Islam to America. To learn more about our work in this area, please visit our website at www.thomasmore.org. If you believe that Radical Islam poses a real threat to the United States, please consider contributing to help our attorneys' work in these cases. Also viewable here, here, and here. Related videos are here and here.
Muslim, Jewish and Christian Family Feud: The Oldest Family Squabble Peace-loving Muslims Wednesday, March 19, 2008 All of us should give some serious thought to some of the ideas contained in an article circulating the blogsphere titled "Why a Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant." So often our political leaders, "experts" and talking heads tell us that Islam is a peaceful religion and most Muslims are not out to destroy the West. We're told it's only that 1 percent, out of 1.2 billion Muslims, who are fanatical jihadists who believe America is the Great Satan, cause of all evil, and should be attacked and destroyed. In terms of national policy, it's irrelevant whether Islam is a peaceful religion and most Muslims are peaceful. Think back to the 1930s when the Japanese murdered an estimated 3 million to 10 million people in China, Indonesia, Korea, Philippines and Indochina; and on December 7, 1941 when they attacked Pearl Harbor, killing over 2,400 Americans. I'm betting that most of Japan's at-the-time 60 million population were peace-loving people and would have wanted nothing to do with the brutal slaughter in China and the attack on the U.S. In formulating our response to the attack, should President Roosevelt have taken into account the fact that most Japanese are peace-loving people ruled by fanatics? Should our military have only gone after the Japanese pilots and their naval armada? I'd also wager that most Germans were peace-loving people and not part of the Nazi sadists wanting to wage war on their neighbors and exterminate the Jews. Again, should Roosevelt and Churchill have taken that into account in their response to German militarism? My answer is no and thank God it was their answer as well. Whether most Germans, Italians or Japanese were peace-loving or not was entirely irrelevant in formulating the Allied response to their militarism. Horrible acts can be committed in countries where most of the people are peace-loving and simply want to be left alone to attend to their affairs. I imagine that described most of the people in the former Soviet Union; however, that did not stop the killing of an estimated 62 million people between 1917 and 1987. The same can be said of the Chinese people, but it didn't stop the killing of 35 million of their countrymen during Mao Zedong's reign. Whether most people of a country are peace-loving or not is not nearly as important as who's calling the shots. At this particular time, fanatical jihadists are calling the terrorism shots in many Muslim countries. Their success in committing terrorist acts is in no small part the result of the actions by the millions of peace-loving fellow Muslims. First, there is not enough condemnation of their terrorist acts by the Muslim community. More important is the direct or indirect assistance terrorists receive through the silence of their fellow Muslims. There is no way terrorists can carry on their operations, obtain explosive materials, run terrorist training camps, raise money without the knowledge of other Muslims, whether they're government officials, bankers, family members, friends or neighbors. Because those millions of peace-loving Muslims do not speak out and expose terrorists and don't more fully cooperate with domestic and international authorities trying to stop terrorists, they become enemies of the West just as the peace-loving people in Germany, Italy and Japan became enemies of the Allied powers during World War II. Like them, Muslims should be prepared to suffer the full might of the West in its efforts to fight terrorism. I'm hoping that the millions of peaceful Muslims take the proper action to avoid such an outcome. I'm not that optimistic. We're involved in a clash with a culture that has little regard for the Western values that hold the sanctity of human life and liberty dear. TheReligionofPeace - About the List of Islamic Terror Attacks Why the Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant I used to know a man whose family were German aristocracy prior to World War II. They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since. “Very few people were true Nazis,” he said, “but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.” We are told again and again by experts and talking heads that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unquantified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars world wide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or execute honor killings. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard, quantifiable fact is that the “peaceful majority” is the “silent majority,” and it is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a war-mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across Southeast Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians - most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were “peace loving”? History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt; yet, for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by the fanatics. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because, like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun. Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Bosnians, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians and many others, have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us, watching it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts: the fanatics who threaten our way of life. "Islam is Peace" Says President (Bush) -Remarks by the President at Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. This is a misconception of the meaning of the word Islam: the Arabic term Islam is defined as "submission", rather than "peace", and comes from the term aslama, which means "to surrender" or "resign oneself". (Note: the Muslim religion has never undergone a reformation, unlike other modern religions that used to advocate killing "infidels" or non-believers but no longer do. We have chosen to call the Muslims who strictly adhere to the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an/Koran, "terrorists" in order to be politically correct, but we fail to recognize that the Qur'an still, even today, advocates the killing of non-Muslims and confiscating the land that the infidels previously "desecrated" by merely existing, or of making them slaves and having them pay their muslim masters for the right to exist. A big difference between the Koran and the holy books of other religions is that the Bible and other books preach "Thou shalt not kill", while the Koran not only condones it, it says that it is necessary and will be rewarded even! Any so-called "religion" that advocates murder should be outlawed! Some Muslims are moderate, such as those in Turkey and other countries, but they are moderate despite the teachings of the Qur'an -- just as there are non-practicing Catholics. It's important that we understand this distinction.
Unfortunately, there is a “blame America first” crowd that dominates America’s universities, with the professors indoctrinating college student's minds with dogma, including telling them that we are to blame for the Muslims wanting to kill or enslave us. Tell me how this is possible when the Qur'an has been advocating killing non-Muslims for thousands of years -- long before the U.S. was even formed, much less had a "foreign policy" that supposedly is to blame for everything. It's no wonder that our liberal universities, such as Columbia, have given Iran's president an open forum to influence impressionable college students' minds recently, as they did previously invited Nazi Germany's ambassador to the United States, Hans Luther, to speak on campus, and also hosted a reception for him, and Yale invited an ambassador of the Taliban to speak on campus. Some universities have even had terrorists on their faculty (for example, there faculty ties to Islamic Jihad found at the U. of S. Florida).
Abraham's illegitimate son, Ishmael, was cast out of Abraham's house and rejected as Abraham's heir. His descendants and followers turned that into an Westerner- and Israeli-hating religion, most of whose followers today don't even know why they are supposed to hate and enslave or kill all Westerners and Jews except that Qur'an (which was written by Ishmael's followers) says to do so. Practicing Muslims believe that they have to follow every word, including murdering every descendant of Isaac (Abraham's other son, Ishmael's half-brother, whose descendants are the Israelis), and murdering or enslaving every other non-Muslim on the face of the Earth.
Other religious books have already undergone reformation and have been re-written so that they no longer advocate murdering all those who believe differently. The Qur'an is long overdue for reformation, and some moderate Muslim should rise to this task. The sticking point so far has been that most Muslims erroneously believe that God himself wrote every single word, and each word has been transcribed 100% accurately, with no possiblity of errors / additions, etc. Hopefully, some enlightened Muslims will understand that parts of the Qur'an need revision to bring it in line with the times -- we no longer live in times where we gallop on horses, cutting the heads off huge numbers of people who don't believe the same things as us. Most of the world's religions not only don't advocate murder, but say it is wrong to kill except in the most dire of circumstances when one's life is in imminent, mortal danger and there is no other recourse or help available.
Any so-called "religion" that calls for murder, and trains and sends its followers on missions to murder is not a religion, and should be outlawed. Think of how ludricrous it is to think that God told me to kill everybody else on the planet who doesn't quite believe everything that I do!
Some quotes from the movie "Obsession":
Our motto is 'Death to America'.
The purpose of Islamist propaganda is to make the Muslims angry and hateful at the West, and to encourage them to fight them. This kind of indoctrination produced the terrorists of today. These Muslims are the natural product of indoctrination.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish philosopher & statesman.
We've been infiltrated with this radical agenda and America has to wake up because we're strangling ourselves with our political correctness -- from an interview with the daughter of a shahid (Egyptian Islamic martyr). Note: the Muslims themselves are telling us this! Do you think we should start listening and doing something about it?
The deception is so successful that I'm afraid we're losing the battle. We are living with them; they are here. They're not outside our borders; they are here. They are using our democracy against us and they know exactly what they are doing -- Steve Emerson.
The movie showed some practicing ("radical") Muslim leader in New York City teaching his listeners how to exploit a loophole in western law and in the U.S. Constitution called "freedom of expression" which he explained to his followers (here in the U.S.!) allowed him and them to advocate murdering U.S. citizens, and led them in calling "Death to America" and other hate speech while simultaneously stomping and grinding his foot contempuously on the American flag that he had flung upon the sidewalk -- and no one, police or otherwise, did anything to stop it, while he was publicly recruiting Jihadists! It also showed frightening parallels between the current situation today and how the West was so late in recognizing the danger from Hitler that they delayed too long before they attempting to stem it so that it then cost hundreds of thousands of more lives to confront the danger than it would've earlier -- yet many of us continue to bury our heads in the sand and say that it's all Bush's war and once we get rid of him, the problem will go away. The movie also showed how Hitler had enlisted the "Mufti" -- legions of Israeli-hating Muslims -- who were only too happy to help him annihiliate the Jews. Although Hitler was eventually defeated, the practicing Muslims continue attempting to annihiliate all non-Muslims -- and some moderate Muslims, too!
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. -- George Santayana
A Pew Research Center poll found that 26 percent of Muslims in America age 18 to 29 believe suicide bombings could be justified in defense of Islam. Moreover, relatively few Muslim Americans believe the war on terror is a sincere effort to reduce terrorism, and 60 percent of Muslim Americans say the 9/11 attacks were not carried out by groups of Arabs! “The study sent some warning signals that we need to truly work the problems to ensure that the extremism is kept in small amounts in this country,” Allen says. “We must get stronger in that area of countering the al-Qaida extremist ideology.”
Recently, the media highlighted a finding in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that al-Qaida has established a safe haven in the tribal areas of Pakistan. But the estimate also said that terrorist groups “perceive the homeland as a harder target to strike than on 9/11.” While The New York Times ran that positive conclusion as part of the text of the NIE, the paper ignored the point in its story about the resurgence of al-Qaida in Pakistan. Only three other newspapers — The Virginian-Pilot, the Mobile Register, and The Cincinnati Post — referred to the finding.
While progress has been made, the war on terror is being undercut by leaks of operational secrets, Allen says. “Any time you give aid and comfort to the enemy, or talk about counter measures the United States may be taking or measures that are out there to disrupt or defeat al-Qaida, it’s devastating to the United States,” he says. Most of all, Americans must not lose their will in what will be a long battle. “We Americans have to be strong, we have to be resilient,” Allen says. “We’ve got to be very, very tough.”)
A Never Ending War (Book Summary) by Michael Cappi (http://www.amazon.com/Never-Ending-War-Michael-Cappi/dp/1425115675) There is a broadly accepted belief that a small but lethal number of fanatics have hijacked the religion of Islam and are using it in a distorted way to justify terrorism: this is not only untrue, it is proving to be lethal to the West. Compounding the false belief, and in fact providing credence to the belief, is the thought that the fundamentals of Islam, like all religions, are peaceful and benign. The reality is very different; it is different in philosophical terms and in application of religious dictates. Empowered by the West’s naiveté, Islam has achieved an unprecedented and successful forward movement into Western society and its institutions. The process of this evolving “incursion” is ominous and potentially far more deadly to Western culture than the activities of even the worst of the terrorists. It is the purpose of A Never Ending War to prove this assertion. Through tracing the history of Islam from the seventh century to modern times and juxtaposing the historical events with Muslim society’s positioning of Islam as a religion of peace, tolerance and benevolence it becomes quite clear that Islam contains many characteristics, but its self proclaimed attributes are not among them. The justification and “authority” underlying the belligerent nature of many Islamic positions and actions towards the West are clearly put forth in the Qur’an. The dictates of the Islamic Holy book are quoted and analyzed and demonstrate how they effect Islamic policies and culture now and have throughout history. The advancement of Islamic interests in the Western world is in a sense a “conspiracy”, but not a conspiracy in any classical sense of the use of that word: it is “conspiratorial” in the context of how Islam universally applies specific programs and activities to further its empowerment throughout Western countries. Islam utilizes immigration, energy control, cultural accommodations within the West, the manipulation of the Israeli, Palestinian and Lebanese issues, and most critically the use of Islam’s emerging political presence in Western countries and its influence on politics and policies, all aimed at wearing down the Western will to resist while furthering the Islamic goal of power and dominance -- and they “play” us beautifully. The acquisition of power by Islam cannot be achieved without the support of the West, be it unintentional or worse. The lack of unity and a cohesive pro-Western diplomacy toward Islam, divisive politics, “politically correct” but inaccurate media reporting, and often benign positioning of issues that pertain to Islam all contribute to Islam’s empowerment. A careful analysis of these categories and the linking of them to actual Islamic advancement are demonstrated. To counterbalance the aggressive encroachment on Western culture by Islam a set of realizable solutions and counter measures are proposed. They include philosophical, political, energy and military policy proposals. In a single book, A Never Ending War presents some of the most vexing problems facing the West today and posits a set of solutions to these problems. The Defining Issue of the 21st Century A Never Ending War offers a new, unique and integrated view of both Islam the religion and Islam the political entity. Detailed are the West’s ideologically fragmented and contradictory policies juxtaposed against an aggressively expanding Islam. The nature of the expansion and the ways in which the West unintentionally aid Islam’s expansion are included along with ways in which it can be stopped. Excerpts From “A Never Ending War” From Chapter 16: A Different War-- Terrorism Without the influence of fear terrorism can be seen for what it is: a morally bankrupt reprehensible act of murder executed by people who have been dehumanized by an equally bankrupt culture. As true as this may be, the tragedy is that at the current time the West seems not to be able to state this fact with any degree of moral certainty, i.e., the bankruptcy of current Islamic culture. Compounding this moral failing is the fact that the West is stuck in a purely defensive battle against an implacable enemy and narrowly focused tactics cannot defeat terrorism. Incidents can be prevented and terrorist rings can be destroyed but all of this will have little effect on the long-term cessation of terrorism. It will take a strategic thrust (based on unequivocal moral certainty) at the underlying support mechanisms of terrorism to destroy it. From Chapter 17: A Different War -- Subversion Islam cannot win the battle for supremacy by military means. Technologically and militarily the West, particularly From Section VI How The West Supports Islamic Expansion Chapter 27: Multiculturalism (“Diversity”) and Political Correctness The expansion of Islam in the West cannot be achieved without the help of the West, albeit indirectly and mostly as a secondary consequence of policies thought to be otherwise positive. The help is quite broadly based and emanates from politicians, diplomats, universities and the media. Of course, while these sources very rarely have as their objective the support of Islamic expansion, nonetheless that is exactly the result. All of the beliefs and activities of these groups are governed by their near religious acceptance of multiculturalism/“diversity” and its watchdog political correctness. These two constructs bear the greatest responsibility for the on going sacrifice of the best interests of From Chapter 34: A Matter of Policy One observation that demonstrates the intellectual bankruptcy of Western diplomacy: after forty years of an endless Peace Process in the Middle East, the West has even more slaughter and less peace than it did in the beginning -- yet the thought that the process will never work, at least as configured, seems not to enter the heads of Western leaders, not at least as reflected in their policies or utterances. However, during this same period, look at the progress that Islam has made: it has spread (actually exploded) throughout the EU, it has had major strides in the U.S., the acquisition of incredible wealth through oil, the wearing down of Israel, acquisition of deadlier weapons in general and now Iran on the verge of a nuclear device -- and we still think we can hold more talks to change the situation! At this rate the solution will be achieved but unfortunately it will be by Islam. We’ll come back to this issue in the section of the book - Solutions. (See Obsession online here. Related videos here, here, here, and here. )
By Larry Elder Thursday, April 12, 2007
"Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America," is written by Brigitte Gabriel. This is an edited version of our interview. Larry Elder: You are of Christian Lebanese descent. When you heard what Rosie O'Donnell said, that Christian extremism is as bad as Islamic extremism, how did you react? Brigitte Gabriel: Well, I do not know what land she is living in, but I do not recall when the last time I saw a Christian behead anybody on television, or behead somebody and advertise it on the Internet. I do not recall hearing a Christian preach that Muslims are apes and pigs because they are cursed by Jesus, the way that Muslims are teaching that we are apes and pigs. I do not recall the last time a Christian went into an elementary school, hijacked children and started shooting them in the back like the Muslims did in Beslan in Russia when they went into a schoolyard and took over the children and started butchering them and killing them. [Rosie] better be thankful that she is living in America because if she were living in Iran and spoke against her country -- or any Arabic country -- she would be beheaded or actually buried halfway in the ground, to be stoned to death. Elder: Did you study Islam? Gabriel: No, I did not study Islam; I lived Islam. I lived in the Middle East. I read the Koran in the Arabic language -- I do not need translation. There is something about living in a place and being an eyewitness and coming from a culture and blowing the whistle on that culture, and that is very different from someone majoring in Islam and living in the Middle East for two months so they can write their thesis. Elder: You were raised in Lebanon, you were 10 years old and living in southern Lebanon when militant Muslims . . . poured into your country and declared jihad against Lebanese Christians such as yourself. Gabriel: Yes, my 9/11 happened to me in 1975 when I was a 10-year-old child, living and minding my own business, [in] a small town in south Lebanon. I was an only child to a businessman and his wife. I was blessed with a wonderful childhood . . . they showered me with love and everything life had blessed them with. However, our lives were turned upside down because in 1975, the Muslims declared Holy War on the Christians of Lebanon. My home exploded around me, buried in the rubble, wounded as the perpetrators shouted "Allahu Akbar" [God is great]. My only crime was that I was a Christian living in a Christian town. I learned at 10 years old the meaning of the word "infidel." I had a crash course in survival not in the Girl Scouts, but in the bomb shelter that I lived for seven years of my life in freezing cold, pitch darkness, drinking stale water and eating grass to live. I remember at the age of 13, I dressed in my burial clothes going to bed at night, waiting to be slaughtered. By the age of 20, I had buried most of my friends who were slaughtered by Muslims. Elder: You call your book a wake-up call. Tell us what the West does not understand about what I call Islamofascism. And, do you think "Islamofascism" is an appropriate term? Gabriel: Yes, it is an appropriate term. We are fighting Islamofascism, we are fighting a war that is much worse than Nazism, anything we have fought before because even the Nazis did not encourage their children to strap bombs onto their bodies and then rejoice at their deaths, as well as the deaths of their victims. Islamists are encouraging their children to die. Elder: There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. I want you to analyze them by ideology. Gabriel: Not all of them are radicals. We estimate that the radicals are between 15 and 25 percent; that translates to between 180 and 300 million people like Mohammad Atta who are willing to strap bombs to their bodies and commit martyrdom operations. Now, that is still a minority, 15 to 25 percent, but 300 million Mohammad Attas ready to unleash their blood upon the West. . . . Now, the rest of them . . . despise the West, they hate our westernization, they think we are morally corrupt, that we are corrupting the world, and they think we are such a bad influence on the world that we need to be stopped at any cost. They may not be willing to commit martyrdom operations themselves, but they will sit there and cheer on and rally those who are willing to kill us. Elder: Are we winning? Gabriel: No, we are losing. Part two: seven steps necessary to fight Islamofascism. Because They Hate, Part II Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian who lived through jihad as a child, wrote "Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America." This is an edited version of our interview. Larry Elder: What caused Lebanon's 1975 jihad invasion? Brigitte Gabriel: . . . In the early '70s, Lebanon was a majority Christian country . . . a republic very much like America. We prospered. We focused on growing our economy. We were multicultural, fair and tolerant, and had an open border policy. We welcomed everybody into our country, because we wanted to share the westernizations we had created in the Middle East. . . . Sadly, many people who came didn't want to assimilate and adopt westernizations, but wanted to drag us down to their tribal Islamic culture. . . . By 1974, Christians stopped traveling. We became prisoners in our homes and cities because Muslims would set up fly-by-night checkpoints. . . . Our religion is written on our national ID. . . . So, Muslims would stop cars, look at their IDs and if a Christian family was traveling, they would shoot them in cold blood. The whole family. . . . Extremist Muslims started coming from all around the Arabic world to fight alongside the Muslims in Lebanon. Elder: Tell us about Islamofascism in the West. Gabriel: The Center for Religious Freedom went undercover last year and collected 200 publications from some of the most prominent mosques in the United States. Those books, provided by the government of Saudi Arabia to American mosques, teach Muslims living in an infidel land how to deal with infidels. These Saudi publications repeatedly exalt Muslims to, and I quote, hate them for their religion -- meaning Christians, Jews, atheists and everybody in between. . . . They say that democracy, justice, freedom, brotherhood and equality cause all of the world's problems. This is being taught in the mosques. And it gets worse. They say it is the religious duty of every Muslim to impose functionally Islamic government on every country in the world. This religious duty is binding . . . and a sacred obligation of jihad. . . . Many people do not realize that under the banner of Islam the Muslims killed children in Israel, massacred children in Lebanon, killed cops in Egypt, murdered Armenians in Turkey, killed Hindus in India, and expelled over 900,000 Jews from Arab land. All that happened before they turned their eyes to the West and before September 11, 2001. . . . This is the religion of Islam. . . . Elder: Are there moderate Muslims who condemn the radicals, who don't feel threatened by democracy? Gabriel: Yes. . . . I call it a practicing Muslim and a non-practicing Muslim. I think it is a better description than "moderate" and "radical." A practicing Muslim goes to mosque, prays five times a day, doesn't drink, believes God gave him women to be his property -- to beat, to stone to death. . . . He believes Christians and Jews are apes and pigs because they are cursed by Allah. He believes it is his duty to declare war on the infidels because they are Allah's enemies. That is a practicing Muslim. A non-practicing Muslim no longer goes to mosque or prays five times a day, has an occasional glass of wine and believes that a woman is equal to a man. . . . He believes he cannot murder his wife just because he wants to. He does not believe in taking four wives just for sexual pleasure. . . . He no longer believes that, as a Muslim, it is his duty to kill the apes and pigs that have been cursed by Allah. A non-practicing Muslim is educated, an intellectual who believes the Koran -- written in the 7th century -- doesn't apply to today's standards, and Islam needs to be reformed. Those Muslims do exist and live in the West. However, they are such a minority -- we estimate about 2 percent -- they are irrelevant because it is the majority that is causing the problem now. Elder: What should be done? Brigitte Gabriel: Shut our borders. We have terrorists coming through our borders. Al Qaeda is working with the MS-13 gang [El Salvadorian gang Mara Salvatrucha], smuggling al Qaeda terrorists into the country. Hezbollah is doing the same. . . . We estimate thousands have already been smuggled into America. . . . Hamas is here. . . . They have cells in over 40 states. . . . We also need to reform our immigration and visa programs. We need to monitor who is coming into our country and why. . . . We need to increase human intelligence. . . .To get that human element that gets you the information, it takes years to establish trust with the enemy in order to get the secrets out of them. . . . As for profiling, I want everyone who fits the terrorist profile to be profiled. We have men between the ages of 16 and 40 who have committed terrorist acts around the world in the name of Islam. They are not little old ladies from Ohio with blue hair. They are not children going to Disney World on their Easter vacation. Elder: What happens if a Democrat wins the 2008 election? Gabriel: We are doomed. Our enemies want the Democrats to win. This last election, jihadist websites were playing victory songs and declaring the Democrats are our allies in the war against America. . . . Whoever comes next is going to have to deal with the same things Bush is dealing with. Obsession (DVD) ”Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” is an award-winning, eye-opening documentary that allows us to enter the minds of radical Islamists - to hear and see what they think about us in the West. Using actual footage from Arabic TV rarely seen in the West, and interviews with former terrorists, “Obsession” documents the call for world domination and global jihad that are made by Islamic leaders daily. You do not have to read between the lines here – their message is loud and clear. The undercover footage shows suicide bomber initiations, the indoctrination of young children into hate and violence, secret jihad meetings and public celebrations of 9/11. Due to its vivid exposition of the terrorist’s ideology and methodology, “Obsession” has been used by numerous military and security personnel for educational purposes as well. Many newspapers covered the recent controversy when administrators from “Obsession” should serve as a wake-up call to the free world to confront the threat now, before it is too late..." Joel Surnow, Executive Producer of “24”. “Obsession” is without exaggeration one of the most important films of our time… Please, you must see it.” Glenn Beck of CNN Headline News. ”Obsession” is touted as “The movie The feature-length edition is now being released despite protests from political groups opposed to the film. ”Obsession” features interviews with Sir Martin Gilbert, Alan Dershowitz, Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, a former Federal Prosecutor, a former Hitler Youth Commander, as well as anti-Islamist Muslims including the daughter of a terrorist, a former Palestinian terrorist, a Palestinian journalist, and the director of the Palestinian Media Watch. The film demonstrates parallels between Chamberlain’s doomed strategy of appeasing Hitler and the West’s current attitude of appeasing Awarded Best Feature Film at the Liberty Film Festival and a Special Jury Award at the WorldFest Houston, this is a film you cannot afford to miss! Farewell http://www.farewellisrael.com/home.html The confrontation between Islam and the Jews began in the Prophet Muhammad's time, and continues to this day.
Farewell In this groundbreaking film, the total rejection of Next, President George Bush's tragic misunderstanding of 9/11 as a "War Against Freedom," in which the Today, at the direction of
Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and The Revolt of Islam reaches the unavoidable conclusion that Western and Israeli misunderstanding of Islam is leading to a coming war - which will have devastating consequences for the West, and worst of all for Israel - Farewell Israel! Conversation with Director Joel Gilbert What are the main concepts you wish to convey in your film?
First, an understanding of the Islamic world view, from the point of view of Muslims. In the West, there is a huge gap in understanding Islam on every level, from the man on the street, to Jewish and Christian religious leaders, to our elected officials. Only by gaining an understanding and appreciation of Islam's world view, through its historic trials and its theology, can the West begin to deal with the real issues and challenges. Second, misunderstanding leads to war. What do you mean by "The Revolt of Islam"?
The terms "Radical Islam" and "Islamo-fascism" are simplistic and inaccurate Western misperceptions. Islamism is not a war against the West; it is an internal struggle for the revival of Islamic society - a "revolt" against their failed secular governments. The attacks of 9/11 are completely misunderstood by the West. In fact, 9/11 was only a provocation by a small group of Islamists, hoping to use the West's response to inspire the masses in Islam's internal struggle. The 9/11 attacks were successful only because George Bush played into the hands of the Al-Qaeda by adopting Al-Qaeda's agenda for government reform across the Middle East - helping to pave the way for Islamist parties to come to power. Why are Unfortunately, it is a natural tendency to dismiss ideas and values that are not understood or shared - thus one judges other societies through one's own world view. Because the West considers its own historic development of concepts of "nationalism," "freedom," and "secularism" as the natural advancement of humanity, it has a hard time accepting that its values don't apply to others. This is why Western media doesn't even know what questions to ask. For instance, "Why can't Islam accept Jewish statehood? Why don't Western concepts of secularism and nationalism fit into Islamic society? Why do Muslims consider What is
Doesn't Sadat, Carter and Begin No, those agreements were simply part of what I call "The Diplomatic Strategy Against Israel," with the same goal as a military Jihad, the transformation of How are President Bush and Iranian President Ahmadinejad featured in the film? Actually, each of them represents the world view of their society - Bush expresses common Western misconceptions of Islamist values, such as "they are against freedom," "they want women to be prisoners in their homes," and so on. Ahmadinejad's statements, though considered "radical" in the West, are actually honest opinions that reflect long held Islamic views regarding The title of your film is disturbing - how can you imply that There is a coming war in the Are there any new historic revelations in this film?
Yes, there are many. First of all, Islam's historic trials with Jews will be a revelation to most. Islam solved its Jewish problem at its inception, and has a natural social order whereby Jews are given a protected status under Islamic leadership. There are also fascinating new perspectives on the Holocaust, Haj Amin Al-Husseini, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Shimon Peres, Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, George Bush and Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Its amazing how well one can understand current events once you understand the Islamic world view. You have Bob Dylan band members playing on the film soundtrack? Yes, I'm honored to have Dylan's musicians on my film's original music score - all of them have recorded and performed with my Bob Dylan tribute show, Highway 61 Revisited, in the past. Violinist Scarlet Rivera and Bassist Rob Stoner were featured on Dylan's Desire album, Rolling Thunder Review Tour and Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara. Bruce Langhorne, "Mr. Tambourine Man," was second guitarist on early Bob Dylan albums like Freewheelin' and Bringin' It All Back Home - that's Bruce playing tambourine on "Like A Rolling Stone." I play harmonica on the soundtrack. You can download 10 soundtrack songs as MP3s from the DVD. All together it sounds like a Bob Dylan Middle Eastern album, if you can imagine that! Who is the film's narrator?
Lance Lewman is a renowned voiceover artist who has narrated documentaries for PBS's NOVA series, National Geographic's highly rated Taboo Series, and the Discovery Channel. He was the announcer for the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors, and has done political commercials for Clinton/Gore and Kerry/Edwards. It's unique to see CGI in a documentary, why did you choose to use CGI? The CGI environment is used to replicate the look of the Ishfahan complex in How long did it take to make this film? I actually wrote a book of the same name based on my studies and many years of ongoing research, and continued to update it. Then, I converted the book into the narration for this documentary. It took 6 months to find the footage, and another six months of editing, narration, and music to complete the film. --- Neville Chamberlain Donald Anderson By a wide margin, this is the best documentary about political Islam. It contains the most historically accurate depiction of the legal and political side of Islam that I have seen. It carefully shows Islamic thinking with respect to Jews, Christians and other infidels. It shows the special tradeoffs of Dihimmi status and the peace that is available under Dar al-Islam. Gilbert does a remarkable job of selecting pieces of Islam's historical record to give the viewer an excellent appreciation for the thinking of Muslims about their relationship to God and their earthly duties and opportunities. He generally presents accurate information and lets the viewer form his own opinion and recommended course of action. I was blown away by the quality and quantity of information about political Islam contained in this 2.5 hour video. Joel Gilbert has produced by far the best video documentary on the topic of Jihad and Islam I have ever seen. It is probably about too serious and sensitive a topic to receive a well deserved award for the best documentary of 2007. I would not trade it for a half dozen of the books on fundamentalist Islam that I have read. Every American and everyone else in Dar al Harb needs to see this film to appreciate the seriousness and duration of the battles we are now fighting. Pete Howard, Former Editor Rolling Stone Magazine Farewell Plenty of archival newsreel footage (including sundry world leaders), splashy graphics, original, engaging soundtrack music and scholarly reporting combine to make this a compelling view for anyone interested in this most curious and important part of the world, and the history leading up the tensions found there today. Anyone with even a shred of interest in political science, or with a desire to educate themselves about a region of the world that's key to the future of
Lex Zaleta FAREWELL Those who have been paying little or no attention to what's been happening “over there” will be jolted into awareness by this crash course in past, current, and coming events. No matter where you stand on the Arab-Israeli issue, your comfort zone will be invaded and occupied by FAREWELL Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) Phil Knowles Trinity Home Entertainment With Farewell Set to music by Bob Dylan's finest bandmates, and with sound effects and stunning CGI graphics - it all makes for a world-class presentation in both content and film making. This film is for everyone - those who know little about the J. Bones Just finished watching a new DVD by Joel Gilbert, titled "Farewell Gilbert has compressed 13 centuries into the DVD with excellent maps and backgrounding. He makes the Islamic definition of 'Peace with Justice" abundantly clear. The Israeli government should require every politician to watch it at least 5 times. Andrew Ian Dodge Bloggernews.net This is a rather depressing and extensive documentary (145 minutes) on how badly the West and even the Jews do not get Islam at all. They routinely don’t even attempt to see the world as Islam sees and thus make loads of mistakes in dealing with Islam. We assume the best and get burnt every single damn time due to ignorance about the religion and its ultimate goals. This DVD, with a soundtrack from Bob Dylan’s backing band, tells the tale of the rise, fall and possible rise again of Islam. It tells the tale of Islam from its roots to its present behaviour. I think Robert Spencer’s books are written for those who can’t be asked to read at times meaty and esoteric tomes.
What is very interesting is the method in which they explain the gist of this documentary. It’s done as if one is in a Mosque looking at various pieces of art on the wall; which each major point being a different picture. Chapters are set in different areas with the final prediction of all out war set in its own room. Extras include Islamic art and the complete soundtrack in it entirety including the haunting track ‘By the Rivers of Babylon.” And no, not the Boney M song. This is a very pessimistic piece which I fear is spot on about Islam’s intentions for all of us. However, that said, this is not a subject to be taken lightly. This DVD should probably be required viewing for everyone both young and old in the West. Its blunt but equally damning of the idiotic actions of the West and I highly recommend this DVD to you -- that is if you give a damn about what we are all up against. Karen Phelps Thanks so much for making this DVD. I loved it. I’ve shared it will all my family and friends, and urged them to buy copies to share will all their family and friends. Again, my sincere thanks for making this educational tool available. Mark Lansing I just finished watching Farewell Finally! Finally, I feel informed on the facts and history of this epic struggle. Thank you for your hard work and contribution. Robert Avrech Seraphic Press Farewell Farewell Rael Jean Issac Yasser Arafat Joel Gilbert has pulled off a remarkable tour de force: in “Farewell Arsenio Orteza World Magazine Despite the dozens of bestsellers and non-stop talk-radio and television-news coverage devoted to the topic during the last six years, the "war on terror" - a.k.a. the war against radical Islam - still generates more heat than light. Joel Gilbert's fascinating new documentary, enticingly titled Farewell Part historical documentary and part multi-media survey course, Farewell Moshe Dayan The fact remains, however, that, for whatever reason, most Westerners, from the man on the street to the movers and shakers, are as oblivious to the history and ideology of Islam as they are passionate about either combating or appeasing it. Gilbert has not only skillfully condensed this information into a swiftly moving script (euphoniously delivered via voiceover by the veteran narrator Lance Lewman) but also made it visually arresting, supplying the film's latter half with ample footage of the relevant 20th and 21st century people, places, and events while illustrating the first half with a clever, and at times ingenious, combination of Islamic art, stock Crusader-movie footage, and computer graphics. As for the original Middle Eastern-sounding soundtrack, performed by Gilbert and a trio of musicians best known for their past association with Bob Dylan, its effectiveness is such that it calls attention less to itself than to the historical parade at the heart of the story. The result is an artful mixture of quick-edit form and thought-provoking content that will hold the attention of MTV-generation channel-surfers and reflective intellectuals alike. Farewell Israel is so absorbing, in fact, that one will not only want to watch it repeatedly but also to weigh its fundamental premise: that neither the stereotypical conservative nor liberal reactions to 9/11, based as they are on Westernized misperceptions of Islam's nature, bodes well for the future of Israel or the West. Si Woolridge DVD Reviewer Magazine One of the most important questions of our time, especially in the post 9/11 world, is how we view the world of Islam. The other important question, possibly of greater value, is how the world of Islam views us. What do we know? What if the knowledge that we take for granted is flawed? What if we’re looking at this through Western eyes with Western ideals? Joel Gilbert, better known for producing documentaries on Bob Dylan, brings us his latest film in an attempt to show the history of Islam and how they view the wider world. Farewell Israel is a history of Islam, from it’s earliest roots to the present times, marking each significant point in history that Gilbert believes shows an understanding of what Islam is trying to achieve, arguing that the West has failed to understand the motivations of Muslims and continues to view the religion from our own perspective and our own values rather than attempting to walk a mile in their shoes. As well as a detailed history lesson, Gilbert also tries to educate us with dictionary type definitions of key words and phrases used by Muslims. A lot of the phraseology he uses is straight out of the Koran, but it’s broken down to it’s component parts in an easy to understand format so that even the most ignorant about Islam can walk away understanding just how Islam views the world and what it is trying to achieve. It’s a brave line that Gilbert takes and a vital one if we are to learn the lessons of the last few hundred years, let alone the last decade. This is an extremely well presented documentary, broken down into bite sized portions with detailed but short explanations. For someone who knows nothing or very little of Islam and the Superb! Phyllis Jones When I saw this piece I was amazed at the depth and breadth of information in it. It was almost too much to take in at one time. It illuminated the history of the Muslims, how they developed and why they are doing what they are doing today. Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri This vast accumulation of knowledge, paired with the visually stunning graphics, reflects Director Joel Gilbert's professional dedication and hard work, resulting in a real eye opener. Every American should see this film. It cleared up many questions, as well as misconceptions that I had. I'm sure others suffer from the same lack of education as I did. Paul Rekstad KUDOS for a fine job of simplifying a complicated story. After two hours of viewing I was so angry at what is happening to I hope your video gains wide distribution and jars our nation of sleep-walkers back to reality. Having lived in Nancy Stern Moving, powerful, disturbing, the end made me speechless! All the images from the movie are very stuck in my head. I find myself singing By the Rivers of Babylon and feeling the way I did as the film ended. It made a huge impression on me! Subba-cultcha.com Farewell I will confess to not knowing much about Islam so this documentary comes as a bit of a crash course in the history of Islam, that religion that divides the world. Now I also need to confess that I cringed when I was told to review this -- after all who wants to watch boring documentaries about religion? I have much more important things to do. I was wrong. This is a scholarly in-depth look at a religion that is hundreds of years old. It helps to put into perspective what is happening in the world right now, and does it in a manner that is not flippant, but not so ponderously boring that it would be hell to watch. It’s interesting stuff. The sheer volume of information to take can be quite heavy but the documentary has an interesting way of breaking up the sequence of events for people like me who need hundreds of years explained in simple terms. The history presented in this documentary threads up whole countries and other cultures and it helps explain the massive tangle the world is currently in. So what can you expect to see? Archive material, dazzling graphics and a compelling soundtrack. Farewell Paul Hamill Excellent DVD! Before viewing, I considered myself knowledgeable on Islam and Islamists. However, I learned a great deal from the DVD. It has become mandatory viewing for my family and highly recommended to my close friends. Money well spent. Thanks again! Howard Greene I watched the "Farewell Esther Levens I was so impressed with this film - I am absolutely in awe! It’s the entire history of Islam and the Jews. I couldn't stop watching it because it is inclusive of every element that we in the West need to understand about Islam. It tells of the relationship to Jews and Christians throughout history in an absolutely riveting depiction. I can't wait to watch it again. The Coming War with Islam Five years ago, I had a conversation with a young Palestinian student who in short precise terms explained how Islam will defeat the West. The conversation opened my eyes to a much larger picture in which Israel plays only a minor role in the Islamic game of conquest. Since then I tried to speak to some Arabs who come to pray at the Mosque, but they were not as outspoken as the student. Last week, I had another conversation with an Israeli Arab construction boss by the unlikely name of Francis who was in charge of building a villa near our house in Herzelia. He told me that his family was Christian, and his name was given to him in honor of the Franciscan monks. Our conversation was as interesting as the first conversation I had with the Arab student five years ago and I would like to share it with you. Francis frequently parked his car near our house and we would exchange polite greetings. About a week ago, the water was shut off for repairs in the house he was building, and Francis asked me if I could give him some hot water for his coffee. He was a tall man of about forty, with reddish hair and blue eyes. He spoke a perfect Hebrew, and I naturally became curious about him. I felt that he may the right person to exchange some views with. By his looks, I assumed that he was either a Druze or from the Syrian region. He looked more like a teacher than a construction worker and, as I later found out, he was actually a teacher by profession. Since my conversation with the student five years ago, I was always curious to hear their side of the story; therefore, I decided to invite him for a cup of coffee to our house. I saw him hesitate for a moment; then he smiled and thanked me for my hospitality. While we drank our coffee, he told me that he was from a small village in the Galilee called Jish, near the present Kibbutz Sassa. I remembered the village very well as I was one of the soldiers who captured the village while serving in the 7th Armored brigade during the War of Independence in 1948. I decided not to tell him about it because at the time we encountered some stiff resistance at that village and quite a few of the inhabitants were killed. He went on to tell me a little about himself. “For a while I was a teacher and I loved teaching, but I couldn’t make a living at it and I decided to join my father in law who is in the construction business.” Judging by the large Honda he was driving, I figured that he didn’t do too badly changing his profession. Our conversation soon turned to the present situation in the Middle East, about Hamas winning the elections, the situation of the Israeli Arabs, and the last Lebanese war against Hezbollah. “As Christians we are in a difficult situation here in Israel. Unfortunately, the Moslems and especially the extreme Islamist section, are giving the tone here. My family who lived in Bethlehem probably since the Crusaders, had to flee for their life. The Moslems have been forcing us out, by threats and even murder. Bethlehem that was once predominantly Christian is now predominantly Moslem. Very little is written about it even in the Israeli press.” He sipped his coffee and gave me a long look. He seemed like someone who wasn’t quite sure whether to say what he was about to say. I gave him an encouraging nod. “I have to tell you something which very few of you seem to comprehend.” He continued, “Your bungling war against a few thousand Hezbollah fighters which you should have crushed no matter what, considering the importance of the outcome, has created a completely new situation, not only for this area, but globally. Your inept leadership totally misunderstood the importance of winning this war." “As a matter of fact, the whole Moslem world, not only the Arabs, simply couldn’t believe that the mighty Israeli Army that defeated the combined Arab forces in six days in 1967, and almost captured Cairo and Damascus in 1973, couldn’t defeat a small army of Hezbollah men. As usual the Moslems see things the way they want to see things. Most think that the present generation of Israelis have gone soft and can be defeated." “The American bungling of the war in Iraq only added to their conviction that victory not only over Israel but also over the West is not only possible, but certain. The ramifications of these two bungling wars may bring an Islamic bloody Tsunami all over the West, not only in Israel. The sharks smell blood and these two wars gave them the green light to attack sooner than they had in mind. Your problem is that you are on the defensive and they have the option to choose the time and the places when and where to attack and there is nothing much you can do about it. When will you Westerners realize that half measures don’t work with people who are willing to die by the thousands for Allah to achieve their goal? In their eyes the Western World is simply an abomination on earth that has to be wiped out.” He spoke quietly and I could just picture him in the school giving his students a lecture. I poured him another cup of coffee and encouraged him to continue. “The Americans, the Europeans, and even you Israelis really don’t know what it is all about, do you? During the last generation hundreds of thousands of children have been taught all over the Moslem world in Madrass schools to become martyrs for Allah in order to kill the infidels. These youngsters not only are ready to do it, but are actually in the process of doing it. Bombs are going off all over the world killing and maiming thousands of people, not only on 9/11 in the US, in London Madrid and Bali, but in Africa, India, Bengladesh, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and many other places. The first signs of the Islamic Tsunami is already here, but the West doesn’t understand, or doesn’t want to understand what is coming." “The Americans, instead of realizing that this is as bad as World War Two, or even worse, are going to pull out of Iraq, handing it over to Iran on a silver platter. Next may come the Saudis and the rest of the Gulf states. When dirty bombs go off all over Western towns, who is going to stop the Iranians?" “Now is the time to stop them, not only because they are developing nuclear bombs, but because Iran has become the base for all Islamic terrorist. They supply, money, men, and weapons to Islamic terrorist around the world, quite often through their diplomatic mail. Billions of petro-dollars that are pouring into Iran are being funneled into terrorist organizations world-wide. They believe, and perhaps rightly so, that the West will do nothing to stop them in achieving their goals. Is history repeating itself? Are the Iranians making the same mistake that Hitler made when he attacked Poland? Is the situation similar?" “As a history teacher who studied the subject thoroughly I can tell you that Western victory in World War Two was not all certain. Hitler could have won the war if he would have gone ahead with the atomic bomb development before the Americans. The Germans began working on it in the thirties, and it was Hitler’s decision to prefer building more conventional arms, as he considered atomic weapons sheer fantasy. Hitler made the wrong decision, but had he made the right decision the world would have been a different type of world today, wouldn’t it? The West won the war against Hitler by sheer chance. Very few people seem to realize that.” I must say that his last words shook me up quite a bit. Had Hitler made a different decision, I would have died in Dachau, there wouldn’t have been a Jewish state called Israel, and most likely there wouldn’t have been any Jews left in the world. The idea that the Western democracies in general and the fate of the Jewish people in particular could have hinged on Hitler’s one decision, is a scenario of the worst nightmare. He notices that his last words had an effect on me, and he smiled. “I see that my words are not wasted on you,” he said dryly. I nodded, and he continued with his lecture. “Coming back to our time, the Iranians rely on the West doing nothing about their development of nuclear bombs. They also rely on their secret weapon: an inexhaustible supply of Islamic suicide bombers, some of them who are already planted all over the Western World. Besides the Islamic countries that supply these suicide bombers, a second front has been opened, and that is the Internet with more than five thousand Islamic web sites, brain washing and urging young Moslems to become martyrs for Allah. They especially target young Moslems who live in Europe and the West in general. The Western intelligence authorities consider these web sites a bigger threat than the Iranian atomic bomb. Al-Qaeda recently issued a television broadcast that promised a devastating attack against its enemies this spring. As we all know, Al-Qaeda doesn’t make empty threats." “Actually, I don’t understand why the Iranians bother to develop atomic bombs and bring the whole world down on them. Every suicide bomber is a potential atomic bomb, or a biological, chemical or dirty bomb that can be no less devastating than an atom bomb. The Americans and Europeans have no defense against this type of war." “What can we do against this type warfare?” I asked him. “Well, you Israelis, should better prepare yourself for another round against Hezbollah. It will not be long in coming. It depends on the Iranians to give the word. This time you will have to destroy Hezbollah no matter what the cost may be." “Of course, your next round against Hezbollah may involve the Syrians and the Iranians against you. The Iranians declared that they will not allow Hezbollah to be defeated no matter what and may launch their missiles against you. So will the Syrians. What will Israel do? It is unlikely that Israel will accept its destruction and may use their nuclear arsenal if the West will not come to their help. Perhaps our book of Revelation is not so wrong in describing that the end of the world would start at Armageddon, which we know as Har-Megiddo in Israel. The book of Revelations describe the last battle would be fought at Armageddon between the “Forces of good and the forces of evil.” “And who would you call the forces of good ‘Israel or Islam?’ I asked looking him straight in the eyes. He gave me a startled look. “If I were a Moslem, I would have no problem to name the forces of good and it wouldn’t be Israel. As a Christian, I would probably name Israel, but as a Christian Arab I would prefer not to answer.” We looked at each other. His answer made it clear where the Israeli Arabs stood, whether they were Moslems or Christians. And why should I be surprised? After all the Israeli Arabs call the establishment of the State of Israel their nakbah (disaster). Is there a way to avoid the “Armageddon”? “I think there are two ways to avoid it. One can be a major war which the West can win. As in World War Two, had the West attacked the Germans in 1936 the war would have lasted not more than a month with very few casualties. Their procrastination resulted in World War II with all its consequences. Eventually, the West will have to tackle the Iranians, it is better that they do it now to avert a world catastrophe later. With Iran defeated the Islamic onslaught will lose its base, and it may be the turning point in history to defeat the menace of extreme Islam. The majority of the Moslems don’t want this confrontation anyway.” “You are painting a rather dark picture. When do you think we will have the next round against Hezbollah?” I asked. “I think they will attack again as soon as they are fully re-equipped and I think it will be during the summer, while Israel is still in a military and political turmoil.” For a while, we sat in silence. He finished his second cup of coffee and got up. “I know what I am going to do. I am going to Canada to join my brother. This country is becoming much too dangerous for Christians as well,” he said. He thanked me for the coffee and we shook hands. “You said there are two ways to avoid Armageddon?” I remembered to ask him. “Sure, all the West has to do is follow Putin’s ways. He assassinates his enemies without blinking an eye. Assassinate the four or five Mullahs who run the show, Ahmadinejad, and a few more Iranian fanatics, and the War can be avoided. It may be difficult to do, but not impossible. With today’s hi- tech technology I am sure that new weapons against individuals are being prepared right now. I think it would be a better way of handling the matter than an all out war against Islam.” The conversation with Francis was not more encouraging than the one I had with the Palestinian student five years ago. It was becoming clear that Israel may be on the forefront for the coming war of the West against Islam, unless we follow Francis’ suggestion to assassinate the heads of the snake, rather than going to war with Islam. What Thomas Jefferson Learned From The Muslim Book Of Jihad Democrat Keith Ellison is now officially the first Muslim United States congressman. True to his p |
