While Islamic terrorist groups multiply and expand throughout the Middle East—beheading U.S. citizens, attacking Israelis, crucifying Christians, raping children, seizing commercial jetliners, and promising Americans, see you in New York—now is a good time to recount the essential nature of the problem with respect to America and to specify what the United States should do about it. Although Islamic terrorist groups such as al Qaeda and Hezbollah have murdered many Americans and seek to murder many more, and although Americans are legitimately outraged by the recent atrocities and beheadings committed by Islamic State (aka ISIL and ISIS), such groups are not the fundamental problem. They are, relatively speaking, swarms of worker bees. The fundamental problem is the beehives—the Islamic regimes that spawn, sponsor, and enable such terrorist groups—especially the regimes in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Of course, these regimes are not always happy about the terrorist groups they spawn. For instance, both Iran and Saudi Arabia are currently unhappy about the dramatic rise of Islamic State. The Shiite Iranians dislike the Sunni group because it is Sunni and because it threatens Iranian power in the Middle East; the Sunni Saudis dislike the Sunni group because it is too overtly brutal for Saudi taste and because it threatens Saudi control of Mecca and Medina. But none of this alters the fact that the Iranian and Saudi regimes are responsible for the rise of Islamic State and other such groups. Islamic State was formed precisely to engage in jihad (holy war) toward the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate (a worldwide theocracy under which everyone submits to Allah). That means and that end, as we will see, are precisely the means and end that the Iranian and Saudi regimes for decades have encouraged Muslims of all stripes to adopt. Evidence of Iranian and Saudi sponsorship of jihad—and specifically jihad against America—abounds. But because the evidence is dispersed—and because the mainstream media and every U.S. presidential administration since the 1970s have evaded the facts of the matter—the evidence is seldom reported or discussed, and almost never consolidated and essentialized into a coherent case against these regimes. The purpose of this article is to provide such a case along with a corresponding prescription for U.S. action. We’ll begin with the evidence against the regime in Iran. . . . Full article: theobjectivestandard/2014/09/jihad-america-end/
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:05:17 +0000
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