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October 16, 2006

A Reference Book to All Islamic Terror Terrorist Groups, Operations & Persecutions

Steve Emerson has just published a reference book which he describes as "history of radical Islam in the US" and a reference book for "all Islamic terrorist groups, operations and prosecutions connected to the US." Frontpage has this interview with Emerson, about the book:

Emerson: There are essentially two types of jihadists. The hard-core military jihadists who are prepared to carry out terrorist attacks in the United States. They have already been indoctrinated. All they await is a charismatic leader or the external order that gives them a green light. Secondly, there is the far greater number of what I call "cultural jihadists." The cultural jihadists are not willing to carry out attacks themselves, but rather, they provide the moral support for the military jihadists.

They are the ones that believe that Israel or the US carried out 9-11. In the trial of the would-be NYC Herald Square bomber, an undercover informant for the NYPD recounted an astonishing observation. He said that as he made his rounds among two different mosques, he encountered a virulent hatred for the United States. This does not mean that all mosque members hate the United States-I know of mosques and Islamic leaders who genuinely foreswear violence--but it does tell us that there is a problem that has been brewing here for a long time. For example, I can show you a tape of a Hamas rally held in New Jersey where thousands of people in attendance-women, children and men-are all chanting slogans such as "We buy paradise with the blood of the Jews." Do I think that all of them are terrorists? Of course not. But they are cultural jihadists.

The cultural jihadists provide the environment for the military jihadists.

Beyond the physical threat posed by jihadists, there is the issue of free speech being increasingly curtailed by virtue of radical Islamic groups--masquerading as "civil rights" groups--labeling anyone who criticizes militant Islam as racist or as defaming the Prophet Mohammed. The threat of violence during the Danish cartoon episode was the real reason why 99% of US newspapers refused to republish the cartoons. The flip side of this problem lies in the refusal of mainstream media--with some exceptions--to investigate the backgrounds or report the ulterior agenda of these Islamic "civil rights" groups. That's a dereliction of journalism 101. Why do they do it? Sometimes they are deceived, other times they are sympathetic to the cause of the group.

What makes it difficult to deal with radical Islam in the U.S.? We're doing a great job of arresting the actual killers - so far, very few in number - such as the man who shot women in Seattle, and said he was doing so as a Muslim. But the thing is, these guys keep popping up, and you never know where the next one is going to come from. This happens because the "cultural jihadists" Emerson describes are constantly providing such fertile ground for them that new ones keep appearing.

What are we supposed to do? Expel radical Islamists who preach murder and hatred of America?

Yes. That's what Oriana Fallaci recommended, and that's the answer.

Will some innocent people be accidentally expelled? Yes. But our compassion for them must be balanced against our compassion for the rest of us, because the cultural jihadists are trying to commit murders targeting the rest of us, and trying to destroy our way of life. As events such as the Seattle shootings show, they aren't just trying - in some cases they are actually carrying out murders. And as MSM reluctance to print the cartoons (and the fatwa on French writer Redeker) shows, they aren't just trying to destroy our free speech - in some cases they are actually making inroads on it.

Just expel these guys. It'll be easier for everybody. Let them go live among people who believe as they do. They'll have better lives there, and we'll have better lives not having to deal with their attempts to wipe us out.

How about this: identify the mosques that are preaching hatred of America, and shut them down; raze them to the ground; and expel their leadership. That would send a message to the rest of the cultural jihadists that they have to abandon their jihad and assimilate into America, or risk expulsion.