Monday, May 22, 2006

Muslim Strengths vs The West's Weakness

In Front Page Mag:

A former top Homeland Security official warns that the terrorists aren't confined to the battle fronts abroad, but are already here in America living among us.
"While we certainly should continue to take the fight to the enemy wherever he is, we need to face the awful reality that the enemy may already be in our very own backyard," says former Homeland Security Department Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin. "The frightening truth is that there are already terrorists among us."
And Ervin points out that the bureau (FBI)... knows of at least 1,000 al-Qaeda sympathizers in the U.S. today -- a number that he calls "low." It's possible there are thousands of sympathizers supporting and facilitating hundreds of terrorist operatives inside the U.S., he fears, and the FBI has yet to make the connections.

Also in Front Page Mag, Abigail Esman talks about how second -- and third-generation -Muslims, who were born and raised in Holland and Belgium, are radicalized:

You have a combination of adolescent rebellion and adolescent rage, you have children and teenagers who are growing up in violent homes, in a culture where what they learn is that the way to solve problems or exert your will or express your needs is through violence, not words. Add to that radical imams in local mosques that are often funded by the Saudis, radical Islamicist propaganda that circulates in various Islamic "Sunday schools," satellite dishes feeding propaganda from the Arab world into their homes -- and these shows are turned on all day most days, especially in homes where the parents have not yet learned to speak or understand Dutch.
And then you have the Internet, and web fora, and misinformation, and the kinds of elements that can contribute to any sort of immersion in a trend, a cult, a way of life. But unlike dressing Punk or Gothic, becoming a radicalized Muslim overtakes your entire way of life: you are reading the Koran and listening to your radical peers and hearing the words of your heroes, you are mentored. And every step into that world leads to another, further and further in.
Why do the societies allow it? In some ways, I think for the same reasons that it happened to begin with: they just close their eyes. They don't want to see. They don't want to talk about things that are politically incorrect, or that indicate a form of intolerance.

1)http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22533
2)http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22561

Is America's future promising... and for whom? Our radical Islamic enemies watch the slow, dissolution of Europe into Eurabia. They watch as our so-called leaders fail to secure our borders and argue the very existence of the War on Terror. They watch the spoiled, lazy American people rapidly become disenchanted with the war and those that lead in its fight.

Fifty years ago present trends would have resulted in a sustained near-global war and the deportation of every Muslim that in any way suggested he was sympathetic to radical Islam and hostile to the U.S. or even its allies. But we are no longer a hard-nosed people. As we slide down the slippery slope of complacency, and the Left leads us by the nose towards destruction, who can we blame but ourselves?

1 comment:

janice said...

So true Chris, we have returned to a September 10th mindset. The America of today could not have conqured Hitler or Japan. I'm afraid we've become soft. Great post!