By Chet Bowen | March 27, 2007 - 12:19 am - Posted in Islam, Religion, Survival, The world

3crosses.gifThe Implications of a Nuclear Iran

Jerusalem Issue Brief

Ephraim Sneh

Iranian President Ahmadinejad belongs to a school of thought which believes that the return of the Shiite messiah – the Mahdi – is supposed to happen very soon. Ahmadinejad believes he has a divine role in making this arrival concrete in our lifetime, maybe even within a few years.

· Iran’s aspiration is to build a Shiite- or Iran-dominated belt from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean. Iran is meddling in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon. In addition, Iran has its eye on the oil wealth of the Persian Gulf, and the Gulf states are scared.

· Tehran pays 100 percent of the Islamic Jihad budget and gives a bonus for every Israeli murdered. In addition, through Hizbullah Iran pays the Al Aqsa Brigade, which belongs to Fatah in name only.

· Iran imports 40 percent of its consumption of refined oil products. An embargo on gasoline could create a very serious problem for the regime. In addition, Iran is dependent on the flow of money and credit from Europe, which could be severed.

· While Israel may be the first victim on Iran’s list, it won’t be the last. The ideology of the Iranian regime despises the entire culture which Europe and Israel share.

· The Iranian people would prefer a different regime, but they do not see a glimmer of support from outside. The international community is evasive and aversive to confrontation with the regime. The people see that the Western democracies prefer to court the regime rather than confront it.

Ahmadinejad’s Messianic Challenge

Iranian President Ahmadinejad belongs to a school of thought which believes that the return of the Shiite messiah, the Vanished Imam or the Mahdi, is supposed to happen very soon. More than that, Ahmadinejad believes he has a divine role in making this arrival concrete in our lifetime, maybe even within a few years. His faith and convictions say that the messiah, the Mahdi, will come back only if there is a sort of Armageddon, a doomsday or a major global calamity, as a result of which the Shiites will govern the entire globe.

When he was mayor of Tehran, Ahmadinejad paved a broad boulevard in the city for the Mahdi to drive on. He is making concrete preparations because he is serious. His actions and declarations are a result of his messianic beliefs, and the elimination of the Jewish state is an indispensable part of the doomsday which must precede the arrival of the Mahdi. More than that, Ahmadinejad says the Mahdi actually advised him to run for president and made his election possible.

Iran considers itself to be a rising global power – not just a regional power. Ahmadinejad has said: “We are the rising sun and the United States is the setting sun.”

Iran’s concrete aspiration is to build a Shiite- or Iran-dominated belt from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean. Iran is already meddling in Afghanistan, and succeeded in taking advantage of the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq in order to build a Shiite state in the south, which very clearly is under direct Iranian influence. Iran has infiltrated and captured several key positions in the central government of Baghdad, and thus has a growing influence there. Iran is also involved in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq to discourage a Kurdish national movement there and in Iran. It has succeeded in building a strategic alliance with Syria. The last step to enable Iran to reach the Mediterranean is Lebanon. A third of the Lebanese are Shiites, and Iran is trying to take over the Lebanese government by using the political power of the Shiites in Lebanon.

Another direction of expanding Iranian influence is in the Persian Gulf. Iran is very active in Bahrain, which is 70 percent Shiite, seeking to actively undermine the government there. Most of Iran’s naval exercises simulate the takeover of the Strait of Hormuz where most of the world’s oil flows. Iran has its eye on the oil wealth of the Persian Gulf, and the Gulf states are scared. Iran wants to overthrow all the reasonable, moderate Arab regimes. If it succeeds, it will have the power to stifle the flow of oil to the world.

Iran ’s Palestinian Connection

The Palestinian organization most active now is Islamic Jihad, which every day violates the ceasefire by launching rockets at Israel, and which plans suicide bombings inside Israel. Tehran pays 100 percent of the Islamic Jihad budget and gives a bonus for every Israeli murdered. Iran is the only member of the United Nations that pays a bonus for killing civilians.

In second place for Iranian-subsidized terrorist activity is the military wing of Fatah – the Al Aqsa Brigade – which belongs to Fatah in name only because it has been bought by Hizbullah, which is an arm of Iran. Hizbullah pays the Al Aqsa Brigade, but the orders and money come from Tehran – the tireless spoiler of Israeli-Palestinian rapprochement.

Finally there is Hamas, now heading a democratically-elected Muslim Brotherhood government. Iran has promised Hamas $250 million to buy arms and pay those who use them. The weapons come from Sudan and enter Gaza through Sinai.

The Long Arm of Iranian Terrorism

The long arm of Iranian terrorism has not only reached Israel, but was also responsible for the bombing of the Israeli embassy and of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. To illustrate the reach of Iran, in the early 1990s, a United States destroyer launched a ship-to-air missile that accidentally shot down a civilian Iranian airliner with 120 innocent casualties. Years later, the wife of the commander of the ship was assassinated in a shopping mall in Los Angeles by a bomb put under her car. Iran found her on the West Coast of the United States.

Iran has a gruesome record on human rights. In addition to suppression of the press, no opposition candidate can run for election, and terrible punishments are meted out in their religious courts, such as amputations and death by stoning.

Now imagine that this regime, this powerhouse of terrorism – with the ambition of expansion and domination over the entire region, if not beyond – would achieve the power of nuclear blackmail. How would life in this region look, not only to Israel but to other countries as well? That is why we believe everything should be done to prevent this.

What Can Be Done?

More can be done with regard to sanctions against Iran. Iran imports 40 percent of its consumption of refined oil products, especially gasoline for cars. An embargo on gasoline could create a very serious problem for the regime. In addition, Iran is dependent on the flow of money and credit from Europe, which could be severed. These are two ideas which could make a difference. Is there a shipping company in the world that would consider it worthwhile to bring gasoline to Iranian ports and then not be able to enter any U.S. seaport?

While Israel may be the first victim on Iran’s list, it won’t be the last. The ideology of the Iranian regime despises the entire culture which Europe and Israel share.

The Iranian people are dissatisfied and would prefer a different regime, but they do not see a glimmer of support from outside. The international community is evasive and aversive to confrontation with the regime. The people see that the Western democracies prefer to court the regime rather than confront it.

The Iranian people have not been seriously encouraged to take their fate in their own hands, as was the case in Ukraine. The previous ruler of Ukraine was far less dangerous to the world than Ahmadinejad. He did not produce nuclear weapons or send terrorists to other countries, but there was a very clear message from the Western democracies to the Ukrainian people that if they removed him they would have Western backing. The Iranian people do not hear such a message. The Iranian people will decide when and how to change the regime, and this cannot be imposed from outside.

After the War in Lebanon

The war in Lebanon was not a smashing victory for the IDF, but we succeeded in changing the reality in southern Lebanon. For the first time in thirty years the Lebanese army is on every inch of Lebanese territory, re-enforced by an effective international force, the new UNIFIL, which is different from the old UNIFIL.

The Lebanese people now understand what happens when other countries turn its territory into a springboard against Israel. There is not a single Arab leader who wants his capital to look like south Beirut after its treatment by the Israeli air force. This is a deterrent.

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Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Ephraim Sneh was first appointed Deputy Minister of Defense in 1999 and was reappointed in 2006. This Jerusalem Issue Brief is based on his presentation at the Institute for Contemporary Affairs in Jerusalem on January 15, 2007.

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By Chet Bowen | March 26, 2007 - 7:27 am - Posted in Islam, Religion, The world

Islamic terrorists out to destroy usIslamic terrorists out to destroy us
By MICHAEL R. HUDSON

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Michael R. Hudson is a Vietnam veteran and a retired federal government employee.

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It is a foregone conclusion there will be another big terrorist attack in the United States. Between now and then we should aggressively pursue our enemies, yet unbelievably some of our politicians are trying to disengage from the fight, hoping the problem goes away.

What foolish appeasing behavior. Do you know what happens when you decide to stick your head in the sand? It makes your rear end an attractive target for anyone passing by. Seemingly this is the official position of the Democratic Party.

What is going to be the excuse when the next attack inevitably comes – another “we were lied to?” Or something like, “We believed the administration so implicitly that we did not think it prudent to do any investigation or research on our own despite our hefty budgets and large staffs.” Or, “We drank the Kool-Aid but it’s all someone else’s fault.”

The Congress has been hijacked by the Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight, even with all the facts. There are real issues that could be dealt with at this time, but they are off on a wild goose chase of retribution and a rehash of Ray Charles’ “Crying Time.”

These politicians are asleep at the wheel of tolerance and diversity. Blinded by their hatred of Bush and still lamenting Al Gore’s election loss, they incessantly speak of tolerance and reason while pursuing meaningless non-binding resolutions, and launch oversight hearings into everything imaginable.

They are obsessed with finding fault with the Bush administration and cannot be bothered with other pressing business.

Fiddling while Rome burns, they burnish their public speaking skills by verbally abusing anything Bush while ignoring real danger.

They are such fools they cannot adapt to a war without a front line. It is these politicians who insist we scrupulously respect the civil rights of people who do not even have the decency to recognize you or your children have a right to live at all.

Heaven forbid we would actually listen in on a phone conversation that plots the loss of innocent life on a major scale. They are fair to a fault. They are so open-minded their brains have fallen out.

War has been declared on the United States and every other infidel in the world by the Islamofascists. It is the intent of these people to drag the entire world down into a war of ideologies based on religious hatred and bigotry.

Who is an infidel? Anyone who is not an Islamist. It is not by accident that these are trying times in the whole world as Islamofascist killers attempt to impose their brand of religion on whomever they can and wherever they can in the name of Allah.

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) masquerades as a civil rights organization but in fact is working to Islamize the United States. Omar Ahmad is a co-founder of CAIR and he had this to say on the subject in 1998 in a speech made in Fremont, Calif.: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”

What is problematical about this statement is what is not said. That is, you accept Islam or die. No half measures here. As a whole, Americans do not appreciate the ruthlessness and viciousness of their enemy but are even more ignorant of their friends.

The Saudi Arabian government, our so-called ally, is a major purveyor of violence and terrorism in the world today. Their support of Madrassas and funding for religious causes and groups which perpetuate hatred, violence and intolerance are a major problem. They export to others and teach blind hatred and victimhood to their citizens on a daily basis.

Hatred, intolerance and bigotry are staples of the education system in Saudi Arabia and all of the terrorist states, including Syria and Iran. Extremism has become the mainstream. School has turned into a hate fest that is validated in the mosques as the clerics call for Death to the Great Satan and other various infidels.

They issue fatwahs calling for the death of any and all people who do not support the cause. Children are taught that it is okay to lie in order to advance Islam. Anything is allowed that will advance Islam, including the death of anyone in the way.

If you are looking for liberal progressives or an opposing point of view in these countries you will have to look in cemeteries. There is no freedom of the press there. State television telecasts hatred, violence and intolerance every day of the year. There is no such thing as fair and balanced here. It’s all one-sided hatred of the West. The worst of them hate you, your lifestyle, your choices and your religion. In fact, they want to kill you for all that.

Did you know that according to intelligence gleanings, Hamas, a known terrorist organization, has cells in over 30 American cities, including Denver?

Do you think they are sponsoring cake bakes and social outings in the name of tolerance and dialogue? They watch what we do as a society and pinpoint weak links and figure out ways to disrupt our daily affairs when the time comes.

When will Congress get the message and crack down? Hopefully, they can squeeze it in between holding oversight hearings on the Justice Department and trying to pass legislation for a date to pull troops out of Iraq.

If you want to find out more, you can read a book, “Because They Hate,” written by Brigitte Gabriel, a terrorism expert, journalist and news producer who started her career as an anchor for World News, an evening Arabic news broadcast throughout the Middle East.

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By Chet Bowen | March 25, 2007 - 3:02 am - Posted in Islam, The world

islam1.jpegThey are images of the Moslem prophet Mohammed in his teens and as an adult.

A blasphemous act? Well these pictures were bought in a bazaar in Teheran in Iran, the very heart of the Islamic state.

A state that has a religious police that controls most everything. How can this be? After all the riots and protests that erupted around a few poor satiric drawings in Denmark? (Denmark is, at least when I last checked, a basically Christian country)

Well the answer may be that Iran is to 95% Shiaa, where the prohibition against depictions of Mohammed are not taken all that serious and where debate and opinion policies are more readily accepted than in the Sunni sect.

But that is still no reason for western Cartoonists, debaters’ or politicians to lay down before the threat of violence from agitators anytime that we should want to publish pictures of Mohammed.

Freely adapted from a text in the Swedish Newspaper “Dagens Nyheter” http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=577&a=630791

(In conclusion: I’ll post whatever I cotton pickin well please…….Chet)

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By Chet Bowen | - 12:25 am - Posted in Islam, The world

In Israel, as in the rest of the free world, we are witnessing the death by a thousand cuts of free thought.

Last month, two students at Cambridge University’s Clare College became victims of this state of affairs. The students dedicated an edition of their satire magazine to the one-year anniversary of the global Muslim riots which followed the publication of caricatures of Muhammad in the Danish Jyllands Posten newspaper. As the students recalled, those riots led to the deaths of more than a hundred people.

Although the British media refused to republish the caricatures, British Muslims held terrifying protests throughout the country where they called for the destruction of Britain, the US, Denmark and Israel and for the murder of all who refuse to accept the global domination of Islam.
In their magazine, the students published some of the caricatures and mocked the Muslims for their hypocrisy in accusing British society of racial prejudice while calling for its violent destruction.

The Muslim reaction was apparently swift. Fearing for their lives, the students were forced into hiding.

But the Muslims were not alone in their anger. Clare College set up a special disciplinary court to consider action against the students. And the Cambridgeshire police opened a criminal investigation against them in late February.

The persecution of these students provides a case study of the two-pronged offensive being carried out today against Western culture. First there are the jihadists, who call for our destruction. Then there are the leftist intellectuals and public figures who defend radical Islamists and work to silence those who criticize them by criminalizing speech and condemning free thinkers as racists.

The direct consequence of this two-pronged offensive is the repression of free thought.

FOUR YEARS ago, US President George W. Bush called the invasion of Iraq “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”

The intention was clear. The purpose of the war was not merely to bring down Saddam Hussein’s murderous, terror-supporting regime. It was to bring about the defeat of the vile world view that supported the regime and to replace that view with the values of freedom, tolerance and democracy.

Four years on, US forces continue their heroic fight to bring order and security to that violent land. But the purpose of their efforts is no longer clear. The US no longer pushes the Iraqis or the greater Arab world to abandon jihad in favor of freedom.

Earlier this month, columnist Joel Mowbray gave evidence of the Bush administration’s abandonment of the war of ideas in a Wall Street Journal expose on the US taxpayer-financed Arabic-language television network Al-Hurra. The US launched Al- Hurra in February 2004 to compete with jihadist television networks like Al Jazeera. Its stated aim was to present a liberal, pro-democracy and pro-human rights voice to the Arab world. Yet, as Mowbray reported, since former CNN producer Larry Register was appointed to lead the network last November, that aim fell by the wayside.

In December the network began allowing itself to be used as a platform by arch terrorists like Hizbullah commander Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Last month, when the Israeli Islamic movement began attacking Israel for conducting an archeological dig by the Aksa mosque, Al-Hurra’s coverage of the story was more extreme than Al Jazeera’s. Palestinian Authority mufti Ikremah Sabri was brought on live and accused Israel of shooting and throwing bombs into the mosque and of denying medical care to those it had supposedly wounded. Al-Hurra has also hosted an al-Qaida terrorist who rejoiced in the September 11 attacks on America.

As is the case in Britain, the Bush administration’s decision to largely abandon the ideological battlefield is the result of an uncompromising and unrelenting ideological and political assault against the voices that justify the war against the global jihad generally, and against the hawks in the Bush administration specifically.

Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith and John Bolton – and arguably Scooter Libby – were all forced from their positions in the Pentagon, the State Department and the White House after coming under unrelenting attack by the Left which all but accused these men of treason for their vigilant support of the war against Islamic totalitarianism. A central component of the onslaught against them was the repeated claim that their support for Israel is what brought these men to delude America into believing that the global jihad is a threat to US national security.

One of the central players in this concerted attack has been the billionaire George Soros. Soros is an anti-Zionist Jew with a troubling past. Specifically, by his own admission in interviews with 60 Minutes in 1998 and PBS in 1993, Soros collaborated with the Nazis in seizing Jewish property in Budapest in 1944.

Author Serge Trifkovic, who is currently researching a biography of Soros, tells of a Holocaust survivor in Hungary who claims that the reason Soros was allowed to remain free was “the boy’s special knowledge of the Jewish community and its attempts to protect its property from confiscation.”

Since 2003, Soros has donated more than $100 million to radical left-wing groups and to the political campaigns of far-left anti-war Democratic candidates in the US. His money has made him one of the most influential forces in the Democratic Party.

After Hamas won the Palestinian election last January, Soros turned his guns against Israel. Last October he announced his intention to work with left-wing American Jewish groups such as Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, American Friends of Peace Now and the Israel Policy Forum to form an effectively anti-Israel lobbying group that will compete with the pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Soros accuses AIPAC of making common cause with the war hawks and so harming US and Israeli national security.

This week Soros laid out his anti-Israel views in the New York Review of Books. In a longwinded screed entitled, “On Israel, America and AIPAC,” Soros presents an incoherent hodgepodge of sloppy logic and contradictory statements. On the one hand, he acknowledges that Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza radicalized the Palestinians and brought Hamas to power. On the other hand, he insists that further Israeli withdrawals will cause the Palestinians to moderate. While he acknowledges that Hamas is a terror group, he insists that the US must recognize it and force Israel to recognize it and that AIPAC is responsible for neither recognizing Hamas as a legitimate political force in the region.

Soros claims to want peace for Israel. Yet he demands that the US and Israel embrace the Saudi plan which calls for Israel’s effective destruction through a forced Israeli withdrawal from Judea, Jerusalem, Samaria and the Golan Heights and the demographic destruction of the Jewish state through unimpeded immigration of 4-5 million foreign-born Arabs.

In effect, Soros’s arguments make clear that protestations aside, the advancement of human rights and peace cannot possibly be his true goals. Rather, what seems to interest him most is the erosion of the US-Israel alliance. A US abandonment of Israel is seen as a necessary component of an overall strategy for causing the US to cease its fight against the global jihad.

In her visit here next week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to pressure the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government to continue diplomatic contacts with the Hamas-Fatah terror government through PA Chairman and Fatah commander Mahmoud Abbas. In light of the administration’s weakening stand on Hamas, it is clear that Soros’s views have taken hold in ever-widening policy circles in Washington.

In advancing their anti-Israel views, Soros and his allies (most recently, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof), invoke the work of radical leftist Israeli organizations like the Geneva Initiative, B’tselem and Peace Now. Like Soros, these organizations claim to act for the advancement of peace and human rights. And like Soros, these organizations effectively cooperate with pro-jihadist groups in eroding Israel’s ability to defend its rights as a Jewish democracy.

The public storm that ensued this week after Jews in Hebron took control of a building they recently purchased in the city was a clear example of this leftist-jihadist collusion.

In demanding that the IDF move immediately to eject the Jews from the building they had bought, Peace Now and B’tselem ignored human rights and openly advocated the abrogation of the human rights ofIsraeli Jews to purchase and hold property. In so doing, they lent their support to the racist jihadist view that Jews must be barred from stepping foot in so-called Arab areas.

B’tselem spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that whether the Jews purchased the building or not was immaterial. In her words, “Our opposition in principle is that these settlements should be evacuated anyway and that there shouldn’t be these pockets in Hebron.”

She added that “other than watching and making sure that [the sale] was done in a legal way, the IDF has the obligation to make sure that settlers don’t take over more areas.”

In so arguing, Michaeli gave effective Jewish Israeli support to even more outrageous statements by Israeli Arab parliamentarians. As she claimed that the IDF’s job is to fight Jews, Arab MKs Ibrahim Sarsour and Muhammad Barakei participated in the PA’s “Jerusalem First” conference in Ramallah. Sarsour called for “Muslims and Arabs” to “liberate Jerusalem.”

Sarsour declared, “Just as the Muslims once liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders, so must we today believe that we can liberate Jerusalem. It is not an impossible dream.”

Barakei accused Israel of trying to “empty Jerusalem of its Palestinian inhabitants.” Calling Jerusalem a “national issue, not just a religious issue,” he called on Palestinians to act immediately to “reclaim the city.”

As for Hebron, on Tuesday MK Taleb a-Sanaa called for an international boycott of Israel in response to the Jewish purchase and takeover of the building.

The Arab MKs spoke against the backdrop of Israel’s first Arab cabinet minister Ghaleb Majadle’s refusal to sing the national anthem and the publication of a University of Haifa poll showing that 76 percent of Israeli Arabs believe that Zionism is a form of racism and that 28% of Israeli Arabs deny the Holocaust.

Needless to say, no criminal investigations into possible treason charges have been opened against the Arab politicians.

A CLEAR line connects the Cambridge students, the Americans in Iraq, and the situation in Israel. The leftist-Islamist front is eroding the free world’s sense of justice. Rather than assert our liberal, democratic values and defend our freedoms, fearing leftist condemnation, politicians and opinion shapers have permitted themselves to become shackled to ideologies that negate everything for which the free world stands.
Israel, which stands on the front lines of freedom, is duty-bound to stem the tide. But our ignoble leaders have preferred to stop thinking and silently surrender.

This is how a civilization collapses.

Everyday, American Congress for Truth (ACT) is a 501c3 non profit organization on the front lines fighting for you in meeting with politicians, decision makers, speaking on college campuses and planning events to educate and inform the public about the threat of radical Muslim fundamentalists to world peace. We are committed to combating the global upsurge of hate and intolerance.

To continue and bolster our efforts, we need your continued solidarity, activism and financial support. We are only as strong as our supporters. We thank you for helping us carry on this important work.

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By Chet Bowen | March 24, 2007 - 7:32 pm - Posted in Islam, Religion, Survival, The world

You are so right, Stefan and I’ll add some other facts about that heathen religion. The people are simply insane.

Stefan is a dear and great friend of mine whom I love and respet very much. He’s Swedish and with the military there and a source of good information on terrorism, not to mention a very good Christinan.” His last name an e-mail has been deleted for security reasons.

The links below are his and mine from the same web site that posts The Frozen Mine and The Watcher. Please bookmark both for good reading and updates on terrorism.

Original e-mail from Stefan:
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From: Stefan
To: ‘Chet Bowen’
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 2:09 AM
Subject: General

This is something I’ve wondered about for some time now: How & why do the Muslims hate us & everyone else so much? Doesn’t their God teach them to love?

Can a good Muslim be a good American?

Theologically – no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, the moon god of Arabia .

Religiously – no. Because no other religion is accepted by his Allah except Islam (Quran, 2:256)

Scripturally – no. Because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam and the Quran (Koran) .

Geographically – no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca , to which he turns in prayer five times a day.

Socially – no. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.

Politically – no. Because he must submit to the mullah (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and Destruction of America , the great Satan.

Domestically – no. Because he is instructed to marry four women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34).

Intellectually – no. Because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.

Philosophically – no. Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic

Spiritually – no. Because when we declare “one nation under God,” the Christian’s God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in The Quran’s 99 excellent names.

Therefore after much study and deliberation….perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both “good” Muslims and good Americans.

Call it what you wish….it’s still the truth.

If you find yourself intellectually in agreement with the above statements, perhaps you will share this with your friends. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future.

Pass it on, Fellow Americans.

The war is bigger than we know or understand. The true God (Jesus) will prevail but it sad that so many will die at such ignorance such as islam or any other flase religion.

His.. http://www.pieksma.com:80/

Mine – http://chetbowen.pieksma.com/

My comment to Stefan and my readers:

I have been witnessing the American interpretation of Islam/Muslims/Islamic society/Muslim way of living. Let me be very blunt. I think Americans are extremely naive. They don’t understand the dangers of Islamic civilization. Everybody including people/media/government is in self denial. If they don’t wake up in time, they will see themselves a replica of India, a wounded civilization.

1) Islam is a warrior religion. As per that religion, the ideal world will be ruled by Sharia & everybody will recognise ONLY ALLAH. Muslims are programmed to work towards that end. Islam allows them to adopt any means to achieve this goal. Because of this, certain things will be sins for a non-Muslim. But they are considered heroic & respectable by Muslim society. In short, Muslim moral system is completely different from that of any non-Muslim religion.

2) Muslims can live with ONLY Islamic social structure. By this structure, only MUSLIMS are entitled to the riches of the world. Only Muslims can enjoy the political power. In this ideal world, Muslims have extremely strict morality rules. They can not do any wrong to fellow Muslim, but if he does the same thing to fellow non-Muslims, it is perfectly moral. So, Islam is a political religion.

When Muslims have to live in the imperfect world of today (where they are minority), the situation becomes very confusing for a religious Muslim. In this situation, Muslims tend to live among themselves. They won’t try to mix up with the majority society. They will very cleverly use the democratic rules of the land (alongwith human rights etc etc) & bend them for their own benefit.

There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim. Becacause of their strict social structure, only secular Muslims can be called a moderate. I personally know many Muslims, who are moderates. But the truth is, they are Muslims only by name. They NEVER go to mosque, they don’t read Kuran. They don’t dare to come out open in public with their true opinion, because Islam doesn’t recognise reforms.

How can US get rid of itself of this problem? Well, I think as it is it is too late. But you can start by
1) inventing alternate source of energy. If done, it will be like cutting the life support of the muslim society.

2) Openly declaring Islamism for what it is.
3) Asking American Muslims to acccept US policy on Israel & asking them to leave if they don’t believe in it.

4) Population control of Muslims. If you see, muslim population is growing the fastest in the world. Because they recognise the safest way to takeover the world is by increasing the population.

5) Allowing entry to ONLY secular muslims in the country. Or preferably not allowing muslim immiration at all.

6) Not pampering muslim sentiments. The ONLY language muslims understand is language of force. When they will understand America has recognised their true motive, you will see tremendous difference in the attitude.

7) Making sure not a single cent goes out of America in muslim charities. Apart from petrolleum dollars, American-muslim dollars is the single most important source of income for muslim terrorists in Israel/Kashmir/Chechnya etc.

8) Publicly announce all muslim gatherings whether in mosques/anywhere will be monitored. There is no need to pampering muslims sentiments. In no other religion, religious place is used for propaganda.

9) Close ALL muslim schools/organisations.

10) Stop airing CAIR intellectuals.

11) Stop hiring muslims for ALL sensitive positions in CIA/FBI/army/police etc etc.
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I don’t think there is much diplomatic way of doing these things. If not done in time, it will destroy all non-muslim civilization.
In Hindu mythology, we call this period as ‘Kali-Yug’ (It started 2000 years ago). It means period of demons. I am sure they meant muslim as demons.

Chet

By Chet Bowen | March 23, 2007 - 5:32 pm - Posted in Islam, Religion, Survival, The world

Islam: Setting the United States up for the fall
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/Taylor031907

“Islamic organizations are carefully orchestrating lawsuits, marches, large propaganda campaigns all across the nation. Islamic schools and mosques are being built in record numbers across the nation with Saudi oil money being funneled into the US legally. Islam is on the march. The submission of the great country of the United States to Islam has begun just as planned. Just as we were warned by Osama bin Laden, Islam is using Americas own laws and freedoms to destroy us.” –Randy Taylor

By Randy Taylor, Independent Analyst

19 March 2007:

1990-1998: The population of the United States is largely unaware of Islam, Islamic terrorism or what is being planned against this great nation. We vaguely recall some Islamic persons trying to blow up the World Trade Centers but it is only a distant memory, a fluke, a failed attempt. We aren’t even aware of the structure of terrorist masterminds behind the event. There was a bombing in Oklahoma City by some disgruntled ex-soldier but we were told he acted alone, so we accepted it at face value. We didn’t look any deeper. We accepted what we were told. Most of us did anyway. We sought to ignore the ones trying to tell us otherwise.

Wise men like Steve Emerson are largely unheard by us, by choice. Steve is the equivalent of a modern day Paul Revere placing himself at great risk to warn us of the enemy coming. We choose not to listen. Ignore it and it will go away. As long as it doesn’t affect the stock market, it doesn’t count as a threat.

Most of us don’t really know the name Osama bin Laden and we may have heard about an Islamic grass roots style group named al Qaeda at one time or another. But that is what the CIA and the FBI are for, to protect us from bad guys. So we don’t give it much thought. The ground was set in our minds for underestimating this enemy.

2001-2003: On September 11, 2001 airplanes flown by Islamic terrorists crash into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon resulting in huge death tolls of our fellow Americans. Another airliner crashes into a field in Pennsylvania killing everyone on board. In the following days our televisions are filled with images of nineteen men, Islamic men who did this terrible deed. We want revenge and we demand it. The focus shifts to the Taliban, the group named al Qaeda that we had ignored for years and the leader Osama bin Laden. Now we want to know about this guy, these animals that follow him. Our President speaks to us and makes it clear that we are going after these people and going after anyone who supports terrorism. He makes it clear that this isn’t a quick fix and this could take twenty years or more. We as a national majority, still angry, agree. The War On Terror begins. We start in Afghanistan and later we move into Iraq and remove the terrorist dictator, the killer of many people, Saddam Hussein.

Islam starts the counter-campaign within the United States. Islam is determined to force their ways and means upon the American society. Islam starts lobbying the people, the government as a largely “misunderstood” religious minority. The Islamic organizations get to work along with many similar Islamic organizations branching out to spread the poison where ever they can to whoever will listen.

2006-2007: We as a country have forgotten or softened on everything above. We have grown weak in our resolve and prove this by having elected weak people into the government positions within our government. A large cross-section of the American people want us to leave Iraq immediately. Cindy Sheehan is the new Jane Fonda and develops a following of other like-minded weak pacifists. Islam is growing in strength within the government itself. The people in Minnesota actually elected a Muslim into Congress. He has done nothing positive for the United States as a whole and when you look at his hometown, his election seat, there are Muslim related problems across the board. The cabbies at the airport are trying to force their religious issues on the passengers and the flight where the six imams were removed for creating a security threat all originate in his hometown. Coincidence some could claim? I doubt it.

Islamic organizations are carefully orchestrating lawsuits, marches, large propaganda campaigns all across the nation. Islamic schools and mosques are being built in record numbers across the nation with Saudi oil money being funneled into the US legally. Islam is on the march. The submission of the great country of the United States to Islam has begun just as planned. Just as we were warned by Osama bin Laden, Islam is using Americas own laws and freedoms to destroy us.

Islam is working both ends against the middle if you look closely. They are heavily recruiting in the ghettos and the prisons as well as recruiting at the top, the Senators and the Congress. They are working on the middle now. They have infiltrated the military. At every infiltration point there is a common factor. The rules have been changed to accommodate Islam specifically.

We were established as country based around God where a person had a right to worship God, their God as they choose to do so. That line has been crossed however and the Constitution violated in favor of Islam. Anytime one religion takes precedence or is granted privilege specifically as a religion then there has been a discrimination against all other religions. Such is the case here. This is dangerous ground. This in itself is endangering the Constitution and everything the Constitution stands for. This is endangering the rights of all other peoples in this country.

True Islam, in its purest form is a danger, a threat to all other religions, cultures and peoples. It is a threat to civilization itself. Islam is uncivilized in its doctrine. It is uncivilized in its justice system. It affords no rights and freedoms. It condemns all activities outside its teachings. It makes no allowances for other religious beliefs. It calls for the extermination of peoples that worship any other religions. Its brings death to where there is life.

And we are welcoming Islam? Let’s look at that closely.

The primary reason that we are making this mistake is because we are uninformed about the true teachings of Islam. There is a fabricated gentle version floating around that is unlike the true teachings of Islam. It is a softened version, the liar’s version. We choose it because it is the easy way out. It presents itself as sheep when in fact true Islam is nothing but wolves. It presents itself as a religion of peace, love and tolerance. If you look around the world at every trouble spot there is, where Islam is involved, there is not a trace of peace, not a trace of love of others and there is no tolerance whatsoever. Islam is about submission, nothing else. Submit to Islam or they will kill you. They killed over 3,000 of us on September 11, 2001 and we still don’t get it.

There are those that claim that Islam was hijacked by some radicals. Here’s a Newsflash to these ignorant people who claim this. It is way past that and since these peaceful people that you weak minded people keep referring to have no control over what is going on in their own religion and since the terrorists are obviously in charge of Islam, then Islam as whole is a danger to the western world and the people in it. Islam isn’t being run by pacifists and peaceniks. It really never was and any chance that these “peaceful” Muslims could reel in their religion is long gone. They refuse to do so and this is mostly in part because Islam never was a peaceful religion. Sounded good, seemed like good water cooler talk but it is and always was a line of BS. Another example of “Political Correctness” run amuck.

But we go on with this fraudulent diatribe because we don’t want to alienate our so called “allies”. You know the ones that are funding the mosques, schools and Islamic organizations inside this great country. The allies that pay families of suicide bombers when family members blow themselves and others up in a suicide attack. These same allies sent money to the 9/11 hijackers to fund the operation against the United States. This is nothing short of these Islamic governments smiling in our faces and stabbing us in our backs.

The primary piece of irony that strikes me as asinine is our push in this country to arrest, prosecute and even forever blacklist pedophiles yet we are welcoming a religion established by a pedophile.

Mohammed, the Islamic prophet took a girl as a bride at age six so he could have sex with her at age nine. That will get you 10 years to life in the United States and we are welcoming a belief system established by this pedophile? We are not only welcoming it, we are making provisions within our society and government to accommodate it. What are we thinking?

Is it going to take another 9/11 attack or bigger to open our eyes? Do we not realize that what is going on is a struggle, a fight to the death between the forces of good and evil? Do we not realize that we, the United States and countries like ours are the only thing that stands between the good people of the world and Islam destroying mankind? Do we not understand that if we pull out of Iraq or Afghanistan that the terrorists will become emboldened and will not hesitate to strike us here in America?

People, shut the door on Islam while there is time. Write letters to your Congress and your Senators. Support the ones that are trying to protect us. Abandon and condemn the ones that are opening us up to the enemy. Get on the blogs and speak your mind. Email anyone that will listen. Speak out against this evil called Islam. Don’t let the few of us that do be the lone voices in the wilderness. We are speaking for you. Help us be heard.

Thank you.

Stay safe. Be vigilant.

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By Chet Bowen | March 22, 2007 - 8:54 pm - Posted in The world

Cutting the cancer out

By Marylou Barry

World Net Daily.com

Ever since today’s free world first crossed swords with regenerated Islamic imperialism, the word cancer has been a predictable metaphor in the lexicons of many pundits. We can’t ignore it and we can’t argue with it, they say; we’ve got to cut the cancer out.

Comparisons began in earnest on the heels of the 9-11 attacks. On Sept. 26, 2001, New York Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski wrote:

“Terrorism is like a cancer, and you never make peace with cancer. Certain battles you don’t have the luxury to grow tired of. Terrorism is a malignant tumor, and you don’t make peace with a tumor. If you play nice with cancer, it will kill you. Show mercy to a tumor and it will metastasize and mercilessly kill you and kill itself in the process. The only merciful thing to do is to eradicate, destroy and pulverize the tumor into oblivion.”

Yet five and a half years after the bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, our government still maintains open borders, funds terror-supporting entities with our tax dollars, misinterprets clear acts of domestic terror as isolated incidents, welcomes continued immigration from the culture that brought us so much death and suffering, and sends U.S. border guards to prison for having the impudence to do their jobs.

As we hung on every word of our president’s emotional address following those attacks, did any of us imagine that such inertia would ever again prevail? What has changed in these past five years to enable so many once-enraged Americans to blithely hit the snooze button and fall back asleep?

In 2006, I underwent surgery for cancer – the literal kind, not the metaphoric. I was blessed with uncommonly talented doctors and technologies that a few generations ago could only have been dreamed of. The cancer in question was a slow-growing, garden variety with a high cure rate, and it was caught – thank God – very early. I am healthier than you are now, so don’t send me any get-well cards.

However, heading into the O.R. that day I had some very specific expectations. My wonderful doctors agreed with them completely and did not let me down.

I wanted a medical team that knew what it was doing. I wanted a surgeon who was smart, had received the best training, and had been performing this type of surgery for a substantial length of time. My life was important to me, and I wouldn’t have entrusted it to foreign oil princes, hack politicians looking for votes, liberals infected with political correctness or, worst of all, the United Nations. None of them lived in my body, and had I died because of malpractice it wouldn’t have been any skin off their respective noses.
I wanted my surgeons to remove the entire area, both the malignancy itself and any tissue close enough to be contaminated. History has shown what cancer does if left unchecked, and I wasn’t going to wait until its spread was imminent just to be fair. I didn’t want them to appease it, negotiate with it or try to make its removal more acceptable to the European Union. My life was at stake. Had any doctor suggested I was intolerant or my response disproportionate, I would have climbed right over those steel railings and hurled him down the hall.
I wanted competent aftercare, not just glib reassurance that the job had been done and I could go home. I wanted the enemy defeated, not just injured or temporarily contained so someone else could deal with it another time. And I wanted ongoing vigilance, so that any reinforcements that found their way back in could be destroyed before they could mount another offensive.
If I needed radiation therapy, I wanted it given to me, not, as one writer satirically suggested, to 10 random people just to ensure that no profiling would occur. I still cringe when I think of what I had been carrying around and my utter helplessness to do anything about it. I wanted that sucker profiled, all right, so hard that it would never, EVER think of invading this body again.
If the surgery proved futile because the cancer had already spread, I at least wanted my family to know I had taken every possible measure to spare them that outcome. So I reported the symptoms promptly, sought the most competent care throughout and followed the advice of those who truly wanted me to live. And I prayed.
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant,” Council on American-Islamic Relations co-founder Omar Ahmad said in 1998. “The Quran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”

What part of his statement are we still not grasping, and why?

Islamic imperialism, like cancer, takes no prisoners. It is programmed to conquer by force all those who do not surrender, regardless of their worldview, religious philosophy or party affiliation. It cannot revise its murderous goal because that goal is foundational to its nature; that is what it does.

Cancer patients who have chosen to peacefully co-exist with their symptoms for any length of time all have one thing in common. They are all dead. Oncologists understand this. That’s why they don’t minimize a malignancy’s threat or wait for it to change its mind and go away. They just cut it out and get rid of it so a human life can be saved.

Doesn’t our country – and the world – deserve the same?

By Chet Bowen | March 21, 2007 - 6:39 pm - Posted in Islam, Religion, The world

Watch Brigitte Gabriel today on Fox News Channel at 4:00PM EST.

On November 21, 2006, six imams boarded US Airways Flight 300 at Minneapolis after attending a conference of the North American Imam Federation. Witnesses say that they prayed loudly invoking Allah, switched from their assigned seats to a September 11 attack pattern, spoke in Arabic and English, criticized the war in Iraq and President Bush, talked about al Qaeda and bin Laden, and asked for seat-belt extenders. They were arrested and then released.

None of their actions is illegal, nor would any one action cause the pilot to ask for security intervention. When taken together, however, they raised suspicions to a very high level. “That’s like shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theater. You just can’t do that anymore,” said Robert MacLean, a former air marshal. “They should have been denied boarding and been investigated. It looks like they are trying to create public sympathy or maybe setting someone up for a lawsuit.”

That is precisely what has happened. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed a suit against US Airways for racial discrimination and religious intolerance.

It is likely that this whole episode was designed and executed for public attention to be a cause for crying discrimination. But this conspiracy may have even darker motives. Janet Levy of FrontPageMagazine writes (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25694):

“.there may be other purposes at work here as well, namely, a campaign to undermine our focus on viable and possibly dangerous groups and populations by dismissing it as nothing more than prejudice, small-mindedness and stereotyping. In this way, our very vigilance as a nation is under attack from a form of ‘cultural jihad,’ that seeks to use our own values against us.”

Such attempts to intimidate us and weaken not only our resistance but our view of ourselves, are commonplace in Europe where both violent and cultural jihad have been successfully waged for many years. We must reject the influence of political correctness and treat this as an affront to our culture.

Ms. Levy also wrote about Omar Shahin, one of the six imams, in FrontPageMagazine:

“In examining the Nov. 21 incident more closely, we find that among those removed, Shahin, heads a particularly intriguing organization. Founded in 1971, the ICT’s [Islamic Center of Tucson] $1.5 million mosque was funded largely by the Saudi government through the North American Islamist Trust, a Saudi-backed Wahhabist group that controls a majority of the most radical mosques in North America.

“According to Washington-based terrorist expert Rita Katz, the Islamic Center of Tucson included what was “basically the first cell of Al Qaeda in the United States.” The connections between Al Qaeda and the ICT include Wael Hamza Jalaidan, a former ICT president, believed to be an Al Qaeda founder, and Hani Hanjour, who attended the mosque while a student at the University of Arizona and who later flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on 9/11. Wadih El-Hage, a personal assistant to terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, was active with the ICT in the late 1980’s where he is alleged to have established an Al Qaeda support network, according to the FBI. In 2001, El Hage was convicted by a federal judge in New York of planning the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.”

This is part of the Qur’anic struggle to turn Dar al-harb (the world of war, including Europe and America) into Dar al-Islam (the world of Islam). If we allow American Muslims to prey on our tradition of religious tolerance and to make disbelievers feel guilty about not accepting their Medieval cult, then they will be in a stronger position to make demands on our legal system which favor Islam.

It is important that US Airways treats this suit very seriously and does not just settle with CAIR in order to minimize their costs. This is a matter of serious principle. Failure to understand that this is a battle in our war on Islamic Jihad would be very costly to America in the future. These are not just childish religious zealots that we can dismiss. This is war.

Write US Airways and urge them to stand their ground and do not settle. Below is a letter you can send them. Please fax it or email it to:

Liz Landau

Corporate Communications | US Airways

email: elizabeth.landau@usairways.com

Fax for their Executive Offices in Phoenix

480-693-2300

Letter to US Airways

We thank US Airways for taking strong action for our mutual security in the confrontation with the six imams on November 21, 2006. We thank you for protecting us, your customers, the American people while flying on your airline. The simple fact that you were so vigilant and took action when you felt danger, earned you a special loyalty in the American people’s hearts. We remind US Airways that the resulting law suit against them is no ordinary suit that may be settled simply to minimize their costs. The outcome of this case will be a defining moment in the way, we as Americans respond to terror tactics as a society and as individuals.

We are prepared to support US Airways in the court of pub lic opinion and with our loyal patronage if US Airways takes a strong stand in this encounter with Islamic jihad. We are also prepared to denounce US Airways publicly and to boycott the airline if US Airways caves in to this intimidation, and settles in any way with these Islamic Imams and the terrorist supporting organization CAIR.

It is likely that this whole episode was designed and executed for public attention to be a cause for crying discrimination. But this conspiracy may have even darker motives. Janet Levy of FrontPageMagazine writes (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25694):

“.there may be other purposes at work here as well, namely, a campaign to undermine our focus on viable and possibly dangerous groups and populations by dismissing it as nothing more than prejudice, small-mindedness and stereotyping. In this way, our very vigilance as a nation is under attack from a form of ‘cultural jihad,’ that seeks to use our own values against us.”

Such attempts to intimidate us and weaken not onl y our resistance but our view of ourselves, are commonplace in Europe where both violent and cultural jihad have been successfully waged for many years. We must reject the influence of political correctness and treat this as an affront to our culture.

Ms. Levy also wrote about Omar Shahin, one of the six imams, in FrontPageMagazine:

“In examining the Nov. 21 incident more closely, we find that among those removed, Shahin, heads a particularly intriguing organization. Founded in 1971, the ICT’s [Islamic Center of Tucson] $1.5 million mosque was funded largely by the Saudi government through the North American Islamist Trust, a Saudi-backed Wahhabist group that controls a majority of the most radical mosques in North America.

“According to Washington-based terrorist expert Rita Katz, the Islamic Center of Tucson included what was “basically the first cell of Al Qaeda in the United States.” The connections between Al Qaeda and the ICT include Wael H amza Jalaidan, a former ICT president, believed to be an Al Qaeda founder, and Hani Hanjour, who attended the mosque while a student at the University of Arizona and who later flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on 9/11. Wadih El-Hage, a personal assistant to terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, was active with the ICT in the late 1980’s where he is alleged to have established an Al Qaeda support network, according to the FBI. In 2001, El Hage was convicted by a federal judge in New York of planning the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.”

It is important that US Airways treats this suit very seriously and does not just settle with CAIR in order to minimize their costs. This is a matter of serious principle. Failure to understand that this is a battle in our war on Islamic Jihad would be very costly to America in the future. These are not just childish religious zealots that we can dismiss. This is war.

Thank you

(Your name)

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By Chet Bowen | March 17, 2007 - 6:09 pm - Posted in Islam, Religion, The world

The Truth About Iran

While Daily articles in the past few weeks have addressed Israeli and Palestinian issues, and in particular, what we as U.S. citizens can do to help resolve the conflict, none have dealt with the primary obstacle to Palestinian statehood. Columns about the tragedies of the conflict have ignored Iran’s efforts to perpetuate it. We should stop demonizing Israel for its counter-terrorism measures, and start drawing attention to the Iranian regime that funds the very terrorists whose actions make peace impossible. The Iranian threat has now reached a point where, if it remains unchecked, the foundations of fanaticism will be permanently secured, and peace will cease to be a possibility.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has been funding terrorist organizations since the early 1990’s in order to undermine the authority of western nations and assert itself as a superpower. President Ahmadinejad has brought this fanaticism to new heights. He has publicly denied the Holocaust, called for the destruction of Israel, and supported terrorist organizations. In 2006 alone, Ahmadinejad’s government funneled $120 million to fund Hamas. American intelligence recently suggested that Iran is funding insurgents in Iraq and contributing to civil war in the region.

Iran has also been fomenting conflict on the Lebanese border. Hezbollah, which receives up to $100 million a year from Iran, uprooted Southern Lebanon, constructed training and firing grounds, accumulated Iranian-made rockets and munitions, and was even trained by Iranian militia. The world witnessed the consequences of these actions when Hezbollah provoked a war this summer that claimed the lives of many Lebanese and Israeli civilians.

Iran continues to radicalize Southern Lebanon, as the Lebanese government has reported to the U.N. in despair, by providing Hezbollah with rockets and other weapons despite a U.N. Security-Council approved arms embargo against Hezbollah. Iran has rendered the democratic government of Lebanon toothless, its leaders too fearful of an Iranian backlash against Lebanese cooperation with Israel or the West, and too impotent to confront a growing army in Hezbollah.

Why doesn’t Ahmadinejad respond to the appeals against terrorism like those of Mahmoud Abbas, who has complained to foreign nations about Iran’s intervention in internal Palestinian affairs, and who has sent aides to press Hezbollah to stop providing funds to Palestinian terrorist groups? Why doesn’t he invest this money, instead, in building a successful Palestinian society, or restoring the lives of the Southern Lebanese? But then again let us not forget the fact that Abbas is a terrorist himself. I believe his own complaints stem from his own agenda. He certainly hasn’t done anything to stop the kassam rockets that are fired on Israel every single day.

The angry jihadist who straps himself with an Iranian bomb or holds Lebanese civilians hostage in the same room as Iranian Katyusha rockets is led to believe that Iran is the great benefactor of the Arab world, providing the stateless with arms and the families of martyrs with food. Yet what the terrorist doesn’t know is that Ahmadinejad does not want Palestinian statehood, and is funding terrorism to render a Palestinian state in the region impossible.

Ahmadinejad believes in a particular sect of Shi’ism that preaches the dawn of Muslim world domination after the apocalypse. By funding terrorists, he strengthens the hand of fundamentalists who undermine the reconciliation of the Arab-Israeli conflict and he catalyzes his vision of a standoff between the East and the West. Although suicide bombers may not know it, they are sacrificing their own people’s livelihood to fuel the dream of a lunatic.

Ahmadinejad does not consider Palestinian statelessness a cost of apocalypse, but rather an end in itself, because he is a racial elitist. Not only is he deeply anti-Semitic and anti-Western, but he is also anti-Arab in that he believes Iranians are ethnically superior to all Arab nations. Iran seeks to restore itself as the regional hegemon, and understands that a radical Islamic nation can only dominate in a region whose nations are radicalized and lack stability.

Along these lines, Iran has put pressure on Lebanon and Egypt, two moderate Arab governments that have, after a half-century of painstaking wars and compromises, recognized Israel’s sovereignty as a nation, to renounce their claims. In October 2005, Ahmadinejad said , “Any state that recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury.”

Arab governments have fortunately understood that Iran is a threat to their national autonomy, as well as to regional and international stability. Iran’s development of a nuclear bomb would, however, completely reshape the political environment and require, not simply coerce, Arab governments to radicalize.

Even if Iran were not to use a nuclear weapon, Arab fundamentalists would be empowered to use unprecedented measures. What would terrorists be willing to do knowing they have the support of a nuclearized nation? What would prevent these weapons from slipping into their hands, just as missiles are slipping past a U.N. arms embargo with ease? What would an apocalyptic government be willing to do? Would Ahmadinejad refrain from using a bomb for fear of retaliation? What other nations would seek a nuclear weapon?

Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons has already sparked Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates to make statements signaling they are exploring nuclear programs of their own. Iran is the player responsible for igniting Arab radicalization and proliferation on a growing scale.

It is imperative that those of us who seek for peace in the Middle East understand that fundamentalism is the biggest threat to dreams of peace. It is imperative for those who doubt Israel to see that Israel is a democracy built on fairness, pushed to radical measures by its fanatic neighbors. It is imperative that Arab nations work with Israel to put out the fire growing in Iran and in the hearts of the irrational, for the sake of peace and our safe and secure lifestyle here in America.

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By Chet Bowen | March 15, 2007 - 11:40 pm - Posted in The world

MEMRI.ORG
Hizbullah Representative in Iran Abdallah Safialdeen: Hizbullah Will Not Need a Large-Scale War, It Will Be Able to Walk into Palestine Once the Americans Leave Iraq

The following are excerpts from an address by Abdallah Safialdeen, Hizbullah’s representative in Iran, which aired on Iranian Channel 4 on March 4, 2007.

Abdallah Safialdeen: The day that Hizbullah won the war shaped the future of the region. It led to what we are witnessing today: America’s actions, the domestic problems of the Zionist regime, the confusion of Europe. The Europeans are very confused now, and don’t know what to do. The horse that they put their money on – Israel – can no longer fulfill the role it played in the past. America has not had any success anywhere in the region. In our opinion, the harbinger of this lack of success was the victory of Hizbullah, the bitter defeat of the Zionist regime, and its incompetence in the region. You should know that. Do you know what an American withdrawal from Iraq will mean? It will mean that Israel will lose its support. It will mean that the Lebanese Hizbullah will not need a large-scale war in order to enter Palestine. Hizbullah will be able to simply walk into Palestine. Rest assured that the day the American forces leave Iraq, the Israelis will leave the region along with them. What was one of the reasons for Olmert’s recent visit to America? He went there in order to say to the Democrats: “Don’t say that the American army will leave Iraq, because this would mean the annihilation of the Zionist regime.” This is because the annihilation of the Zionist regime has begun. Like some of our friends say, Palestine is no longer a problem for us, because the Americans will be forced to leave Iraq. With or without a war against Iran, they will be forced to do so. The moment they leave Iraq, you, the Muslims of the world, can walk into Palestine, because Israel will no longer exist. It will be over and done with. Even with America’s [ help], Israel could not do a thing. The Americans will be kicked out of the region, without accomplishing anything. The American forces will be kicked out of the region, in disgrace, humiliation, and defeat. Therefore, this victory was very important. It was a landmark in the history of the Islamic world and the entire region.

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