Bassam Tawil
Commentators in Europe voicing opinions on the
terrorist attacks atCharlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket in
Paris, reverentially discussed the motivation of the terrorists, but showed
distressingly little understanding of the meaning of jihad.
Europe, hedonist and dishonest, is apparently
willing to cut a deal with any violent dictator, including the most potentially
violent: a nuclear-threshold Iran.
To understand the fate awaiting Europe, it is
necessary to listen seriously to what the upper echelons of Islam say to each
other about their intentions -- in Arabic. These messages are
quite different from those on Western television. What they say to each other
is that the mission of Islam is to lead the whole world and eradicate all other
religions, as they have been made irrelevant by the Qur'an.
Charlie Hebdo's cover after the attacks illustrates the
very weakness exploited by the Islamists. The cover shown Muhammad, with a
tear, aligning himself with humanism. To every Muslim on the planet, it shouted
France's weakness, its increasing surrender to the Islamist threat, and the
growing strength of Islam.
The real threat to Europe does not come from
local Muslims who went to fight in the ranks of ISIS. The real threat comes
from Muslims already in the enclaves in Europe. Their doctrine appears openly
and without reservation, in books and on websites. It is spread in local
languages in mosques by the imams in their communities. These communities
command immigration; then the forming of enclaves in the host country, then the
eventual violent takeover of the host.
The late Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar
Gaddafi, predicted that Islam would conquer Europe without even firing a shot.
To understand and explain the fate awaiting Europe, it is necessary to listen
seriously to what the upper echelons of Islam say to each about their own
intentions --in Arabic. These messages are quite different from those on
Western television. What they say to one another is that the mission of Islam
is to lead the whole world and eradicate all other religions, as they have been
made irrelevant by the Qur'an.
Their doctrine appears openly and without
reservation in books and on websites. It is spread in local languages in
mosques by the imams in their communities throughout Europe. These communities
operate according to an ancient Islamic code: They command immigration; then
the forming of enclaves in the host country, then the eventual violent takeover
of the host.
Once this process is complete, all the Islamic
communities will unite to form the Islamic Caliphate. It will have no borders
and no other identity. Then there will be Peace. This, they say, was the state
of affairs under Muhammad and this will be the state of affairs in the future.
It is markedly apparent to us, however, that
the world refuses to listen to what the Islamists are saying. Anyone who dares
to issue a warning is called, among other names, an alarmist or a racist.
On the rare occasion when an expert does warn
of the coming danger, the global media turn him into an object of scorn and
derision. There seems to be less than no wish even to look at Islamist
ideology. Al Jazeera, run by the Emir of Qatar to promote radical Islam, has
instructed its American division not to use the words "terrorist,"
"militant," "extremist," "jihad" and
"Islamist." Does anyone seriously think they are doing that to
promote transparency?
Throughout history, society has disregarded --
and often even persecuted -- any messenger who says things it does not like,
such as Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake in 1600 for wounding the world's
narcissism by proposing that stars were other suns that could have other
planets. Recently, global terrorism expert Steven Emerson, who made the 1994
documentary "Terrorists Amongst Us: Jihad in America," about the
dangers the U.S. would face from radical Islam, has been vilified and ridiculed
for an exaggerated comment about Birmingham. His apology may have reflected an
error about the facts, but his central message was right. It did not negate his
warning about the future danger these Muslim enclaves will present to Europe.
Paris is not the only city with areas off-limits to police. Every tourist who
goes to Marseilles, Köln, Berlin and Frankfurt is warned by local inhabitants
about places to be bypassed.
The same is true of Stephen Coughlin, who was a
Major in a Military Intelligence unit of the U.S. Army. Asked, as a lawyer, to
prepare a report on Islamic sharia law, he delivered, in July 2007, the most
meticulous, painstaking, thoroughly-documented report: "To Our Great Detriment":Ignoring What Extremists Say about Jihad." He was promptly fired. He
had apparently come up with the "wrong" answer. The U.S. Army, it
seems, had expected to hear that sharia law was not much different from the
Magna Carta.
Commentators in Europe all had opinions about
the terrorist attacks at the Charlie Hebdo office and the
kosher supermarket in Paris. They reverentially discussed the motivation of the
terrorists, the anti-Muslim atmosphere in Europe and concern over additional
global jihad attacks, but showed distressingly little understanding of the
meaning of jihad. If jihad is an inner struggle,
and the people who practice it are mujahideen, there are a dizzying
number of bloodthirsty, cut-throat, knife-wielding men out there waging inner
struggle.
Charlie Hebdo's cover after the attack illustrates the
very weakness of Europe that is exploited by the Islamists. The cover shows
Muhammad, with a tear, aligning himself with European humanism. To every Muslim
on the planet, it shouted France's weakness, its increasing surrender to the
Islamist threat, and the growing strength of Islam.
The real threat to Europe does not come from
local Muslims who went to fight in the ranks of ISIS and have already been
returning. The real threat comes from the Muslims already in their enclaves in
Europe, who are about to attack their host countries. They have seen that their
riots, arson, vandalism and robberies result in frightening away the
Westerners, the fire department and the police. Last New Year's Eve alone in
France, "only" 940 cars were torched– down, the French Interior Ministry
proudly announced, from 1,067 the year before.
This tendency -- either to kill the messenger
or scorn him -- also often results in blaming the victim. The Jews must have
"done something," the notion goes, for the Nazis to want to
exterminate all of them; they "should have fought back," and "it
must have been their own fault."
Radical Islamists assure the world that the
attacks in Paris on Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket
were just a Zionist plot. They claim that the motive for the attack on the
kosher supermarket was to convince Jews to immigrate to Israel, to help
Benjamin Netanyahu win the upcoming Israeli election. Iran's accomplice,
Argentina's President Cristina Fernández Kirchner, tried the same tactic,
hinting that the Jews were behind the recent murder of Alberto Nisman, the
federal prosecutor who was about to testify how Argentina's leaders covered-up
Iran's responsibility for the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center
(AMIA) in Buenos Aires.
There has also been collaboration between
European governments and terrorist organizations in cynical deals, supposedly
to prevent attacks on European soil. This collusion is most likely the reason
France has refused to designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization for so long.
It is also most likely the reason Hassan Nasrallah was so ridiculously quick to
condemn the terrorist attacks in Paris, despite his relentless support for
killing "infidels" and those who "disrespect" Islam. This
list includes such international "criminals" as Salman Rushdie for
his book, Satanic Verses; Anwar Sadat, who made peace with
Israel, and Yasser Arafat for signing the Oslo Accords.
Another suspicious example of "cozy"
international relations is the "temporary" EU removal of Hamas from
its list of designated terrorist groups, despite it being crystal-clear that
Hamas is devastating its own people as well as the Palestinian Authority and
Israel, and that it never misses a chance to sabotage any attempt to reach a
peace agreement.
What is not clear so far is what France and the
rest of Europe will receive in return for their stupidity, apart -- as we keep
seeing -- from the perpetually broken promise of "no further
attacks."
Europe, hedonist and dishonest, is apparently
willing to cut a deal with any violent dictator, including the most potentially
violent: a nuclear-threshold Iran.
Today's apologists for terrorist organizations
are tomorrow's victims.
Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute, February 19, 2015
Bassam Tawil is a scholar based in the Middle
East.
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