Who better to describe Islam than a Muslim, and as described by Omar Bakri Muhammad, a cleric who runs a London Muslim organization, Islam is a political belief, a complete system. We don't carry Islam as a religion. It is an ideology" (Dhondy, F. 2001; Kline, E. 2005). Faced with such an ideology, Western societies, in an ongoing effort to continue to provide for a continuance of individual and religious tolerance and freedoms, must ultimately decide just how far an allowance for Islamic alternatives will be allowed to proceed before they reach a point of subverting prevalent society and culture.

Islam: A global anti-man, anti-mind, theocracy based upon the Quran

What the West needs to understand about Islam is that it is based upon the Quran, and that there is no denying the centrality of violent jihad and the domination of non-Muslims in Koranic teaching . The Quran, as interpreted by it's advocates and promulgators, particularly by it's fundamentalists, is in fact a manifesto for the conquest and destruction of all Western civilization and the establishment of a global anti-man, anti-mind theocracy. The Islamists have publicly declared that the principles, policies, and intentions of their beliefs include the world domination of Islam over non-Muslims, and as such are in fact political in nature (Spencer, R 2005). That such declarations are valid interpretations of the Koran one need only look to Islam's prophet. Muhammad made it clear that the "best deed" one could do, besides the act of becoming a Muslim, is to participate in jihad (holy fighting) in Allah's cause, and even warned that Muslims who did not engage in Jihad would be punished (Ibid).

In Britain, an imam (prayer leader of Muslims) in Bradford Britain spells out what all non-Muslims must understand about Islam's global objectives when rejected "all Gods other than Allah and dismissed the Christian doctrine of the Trinity as 'an extreme and absurd example of the false divination of humans,'" and said : "As for Britain (and the West), it is a sick and divided nation, and only the imposition of Islam can heal it." Then added, " The implementation of islam as a complete code of life cannot be limited to the home and to personal relationships. It is to be sought and achieved in society as a whole." And concluded with, " The government must be brought into line with what is appropriate for an Islamic, not a secular, state. Every Muslim must extend the sphere of Islamic influence in the world" (Warraq, I. 2003).

It is the ominous words of the imam that "government must be brought into line with what is appropriate for an Islamic, not a secular, state," among many other such examples, that all non-Muslims need to heed as a harbinger of Islam's plan for the West.

It is from no better source than the imam's own that the West has received it's line in the sand, and it is for non-Muslims of the West to understand that the goals of Islam are in fact the establishment of an Islamic theocracy, that Islam's theocratic aspirations are indeed global, that violent jihad goes part and parcel with Islamic global aspirations and as such violate the chances of mankind's peace on this earth, and that Islamic precepts undermine both societal and individual freedoms. The West must focus on a strategy to address the fact that the fundamental tenets of Islam are based upon the Quran, and the Quran cannot be compromised, repudiated piecemeal, or "modified" so that it's followers will offer peace and tolerance to non-believers so as to pose no threat to the West and any religion other than Islam.

Islam's methodology for global conquest

The Islamic goals of global conquest and the destruction of Western civilization are pursued by employing two methods; the employment of immediate, violent actions such as indiscriminate bombings; and by an osmotic-like infiltration process of invading a Western country with a fifth column that works to alter Western laws to tolerate its presence, while at the same time preaching the abandonment of those laws in favor of law based upon an intolerant Koran.

Looking to the Quran for clarity on the methodology of Islam's global aspirations, one finds examples such as:

'Fight those who do not believe in Allah' (Surat At-Taubah 9:29); 'I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers'; 'Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger tips of them' (Quran 8:12); 'The unbelievers among the People of the Book and the pagans shall burn forever in the fire of Hell'; 'They are the vilest of all creatures' (Quran 98:1-8); 'Fight against those who believe not in Allah;' and 'Those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (Islam), until they are subdued' (Surat At-Taubah 9:29).

By early 2000, the United States and Canada had become the home for a wide spectrum of international Islamic terrorist groups as well as indigenous groups, which are the primary threat of international terrorism on Western nations (Warraq, I. 2003). Islamic groups have set up fundraising operations, political headquarters, military recruitment, and sometimes even command and control centers, such as in Red Hat, Virginia.

The entire spectrum of Islamic terrorist groups operated on American soil, including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, the Egyptian Al Gamat Al Islamiya, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Islamic Liberation Party, the Marxist Kurdish PKK and Al-Qaeda. All share the outlook frankly stated during the FBI interrogation by Siddiq Ibrahim Siddiq Ali, one of the suspects in the first World Trade Center bombing:

"Of course, don't forget God said in the Koran, in times like this, everything is lawful to the Moslem, their money, their women, their honors, everything". He added, Infidels must be killed, and the "Muslem when he dies it is the way to heaven. He becomes a martyr. A Moslem will never go to hell by killing an infidel."

That pattern was set over the preceding decade, and has its model in the tawheed - the Moslem conquest of Arabia - and the fatah, the early Moslem conquests. At that time one finds that the concept of "dodging the threat," al-taqiya, was developed. The concept of Al-taqiya encourages Moslems to use subterfuge to defeat the enemy, in other words - lie, and non-Muslims are the "enemy." In the fatah, Muslims were ordered to infiltrate the enemy's cities and plant the seeds of discord and sedition, which continues today in the nations of the West. Today, Taqiya is reflected in the attempts by Moslem activists in the West to present Islam favorably "replete with tolerance and peace, faith and charity, equality and brotherhood." The "misunderstood Moslems" tell us that jihad is really the "striving for Allah" and "inner struggle." They quote the abrogated Meccan verses and keep quiet about the later, Medinan ones. These are simply al-taqiya - lies and deceits.

The "take home" message for the West

Since that fateful day on September 11, 2001 when America was awakened to a new world, there has been more and more of a call for a "War of Ideas," which in effect has been an "intellectual campaign to win the 'hearts and minds' of the Arab world" so as to discourage, discredit and combat Islamic terrorism. However, the focal point of this campaign has so far been to appeal to Muslims with claims that Islam is perfectly "consistent with Western ideals, and inconsistent with terrorism." But this is simply not true.

To date, America has groveled before so-called "moderate" Muslim leaders hoping that they will strongly repudiate terrorism, but with very little success. So-called "moderate" Muslim leaders have answered our groveling by focusing very little energy on damning Islamic fanaticism, and a great deal of energy on the alleged sins of the American government. It should be apparent by now that such efforts will not work, since insofar as these "moderates" accept Islam, they can't convincingly oppose violence in the name of Islam. A true "War of Ideas" would be one in which we proclaim loudly and with moral certainty and clarity the secular values we stand for: reason, rights, freedom, material prosperity, and personal happiness on this earth, and it is upon these principles that the West must take a stand.

To fully understand the real relationship of Islam to terrorism, the West need only to reflect upon the fact that no three ongoing world conflicts can be named in which Muslims are not involved. And one need only look to recent the examples France, Chechnya, Bosnia, Indonesia, Spain, Morocco, India, Tunisia, Somalia, and of course the murder of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands who was murdered over images in a film (Bingham, R. 2005C). The Islamic world has for centuries been taught to regard themselves as far superior to the 'infidels' (non-Muslims) of the world, and the infidels are viewed as inferior subjects to be subjugated to the rule of Sharia, or Islamic law. Western societies must proceed to combat Islamic aspirations and the terrorism perpetuated by Islam, from the standpoint and under the realization that the Islamic world is at war with Western civilization. The West has the military might to thwart Islamofascism (political Islam's global objectives), but whether or not the West has the intelligence to recognize Islam's attack and the will to defend Western culture, society and freedoms from annihilation is the open question .

On the other hand, the intent of Islam is clear.

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Non-web Sources

Spencer, R (2005). The Politically Incorrect Guide To Islam . , Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington, D.C.. Pages 33-45

Warraq, I (2003). Why I Am Not A Muslim, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York pages 352 - 354 .