"Only jihad can bring peace to the world"

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Jihad is an essential element of Islam. Islam does not care whether we here in the US or in any other part of the West are capitalist or socialist. Political distinctions are to Islam a secondary concern, and even then, are only important in how a particular ideology will accommodate Islam.

Islam and Jihad are inseparable.

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"Allah on 480 occasions in the Holy Koran extols Muslims to wage jihad. We only fulfil God's orders. Only jihad can bring peace to the world," he says.

The militant leader on several occasions in the past had openly admitted crossing over into Afghanistan to fight foreign troops.

"We will continue our struggle until foreign troops are thrown out. Then we will attack them in the US and Britain until they either accept Islam or agree to pay jazia (a tax in Islam for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state)."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6292061.stm

Hat tip to Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch

An Asymmetric World War

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Asymmetric warfare is a very real threat to the West.

Think about the economic damaged the US suffered when several planes where used to attack buildings in New York and Washington D.C. The 9/11 attacks nearly sent the US into a depression.

Time has made people forget, even though it nearly collapsed our economy.

Another danger that asymmetric warfare presents is that the more advanced civilization may not be aware of its danger at the hands of a lesser enemy civilization until after a catastrophic attack, and even then, it is easily lulled into complacency because it has contempt for its less civilized enemies.

Another attack on the scale of 9/11 would knock us for another economic downturn, and anything after that, could well push us into the abyss.

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‘We are in the midst of a third World War,’ former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy told weekly newspaper Expresso.

‘The world does not understand. A person walks through the streets of Tel Aviv, Barcelona or Buenos Aires and doesn’t get the sense that there is a war going on,’ said Halevy who headed Mossad between 1998 and 2003.

‘During World War I and II the entire world felt there was a war. Today no one is conscious of it. From time to time there is a terrorist attack in Madrid, London and New York and then everything stays the same.’

Violence by Islamic militants has already disrupted international travel and trade just as in the previous two world conflicts, he said.

Halevy, who was raised in war-time London, predicted it would take at least 25 years before the battle against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism is won and during this time a nuclear strike by Islamic militants was likely.

‘It doesn’t have to be something very sophisticated, It doesn’t have to be the latest nuclear technology, it can be something simple like a dirty bomb which instead of killing millions only kills tens of thousands,’ he said.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3357552%2C00.html

Why Iraq is a failure

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Iraq is a failure because it is a war that we are unwilling to fight.

War necessarily involves killing people and breaking their stuff. War requires brutality. When war does not involve killing people or breaking their stuff and it is done with a mind to avoiding brutality, then it is lost.

The enemy must be persuaded that fighting us is his least attractive option. He must be made afraid of us.


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US soldiers authorized to kill Iranians in Iraq: report

Jan 26 1:34 AM US/Eastern

US soldiers have been authorized to kill or capture Iranian operatives found in Iraq, the Washington Post has reported, citing US government and counterterrorism officials.

The authorization covers Iranian Revolutionary Guard and intelligence officers found in Iraq, but not Iranian civilians or diplomats, the Post reported.

The newspaper describes the policy as "part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program."

For more than a year US forces have been secretly holding dozens of suspected Iranian agents for up to four days in a "catch and release" policy designed to intimidate them while avoiding escalation.

Before being released US forces collected DNA samples from some of the Iranians, took retina scans of others, and fingerprinted and photographed all of them.

In mid-2006 top US government officials concluded they needed to be more confrontational.

"There were no costs for the Iranians," an unnamed senior administration official told the Post. "They are hurting our mission in Iraq, and we were bending over backwards not to fight back."

President George W. Bush authorized the new "kill or capture" program in the fourth quarter of 2006, the Post reported.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/070126063326.pyjj88lx.html

Past and Present

This looks like a good film. I plan to see this in March. So should you.

Victor Davis Hanson has a review of it.
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson101106.html

Charles Johnson of LGF has an mp3 clip of Frank Miller, the writer of “300,” being interviewed on NPR.http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24146_Batman_Artist_No_Moonbat&only

Russia will become a Muslim majority state

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Demographics tell the tale.


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Imagine Russia in 2050! According to Paul Goble, a specialist on ethnic minorities in the Russian Federation has predicted that within the next several decades, Russia will become a Muslim majority state. There is another bad news with fast decline in country’s population. This has already become a headache for Russian politicians and policy makers. President Vladimir Putin has called already for Russian women to have more children, because demographers predict that Russia’s population will fall from 143 million to 100 million by 2050. This situation has alarmed Russians as well Western leaders, more so because analysts estimate that Muslims will comprise the majority group in Russia’s population in few decades.

The Muslim population growth rate since 1989 is between 40 and 50 percent, depending on ethnic groups. Today Russia has about 8,000 mosques while 15 years there were only 300 mosques. According to statistics, by the end of 2015, number of mosques in Russia will cross 25,000. These statistics are frightening for many ethnic Russians who associate Islam with the Kremlin’s war against insurgents in Chechnya. Russia is shrinking. Alarmed by the situation, Putin has offered incentives to women who will have more children.

He said that the government would offer 1,500 roubles for the first child, and 3,000 roubles for the second child. He further said that the government will offer financial incentives to those couples who will adopt Russian orphans. But, response to Vladimir Putin’s call is almost zero. Main reason behind fast decline in non-Muslim population in Russia is, particularly larger section of young females in the country is not in favor of having even any child. If someone has, that is also limited within one only. On the other hand, almost all the Muslim couples have at least three children. The number generally ranges between 3-5.

Talking to Blitz, a leader of Moscow’s most populated area said, if the growth of Muslim population continues in the present trend, with the serious decline in population of other religious communities, Russian might ultimately end up as a Muslim state in next two decades. He suggested massive propaganda in favor of having more children in country’s mass media as well increase in the amount of incentives. He also pointed to the fact that, in most cases, such incentives might again go to the Muslim mothers, who generally have more than one child. This is not the question of incentives; it is a matter of realization for the entire non-Muslim Russian population. They should understand that by limited number of children, they are gradually pushing the fate of the country towards an Islamic federation.
http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/211