Thursday, September 8, 2011


The Stand Up America Blog
Published on 09/07/11



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By Clare Lopez and Paul E. Vallely
Released by Stand Up America US
September 7 , 2011
This weekend we will be remembering the attack on America on 9/11. Ten years after this horrific attack, some of the pundits have it partially right. For example, senior Brookings Institute Saban Center fellow Bruce Riedel writes for Newsweek’s commemorative 12 September 2011 issue about “How We Enabled Al Qaeda.” Yes, we may have, in a myriad of ways. But it is not just that we have made some “tactical, strategic, even geographical mistakes.” It’s much, much worse than that. We are losing this Jihad and the forces of shariah Islam are winning going away.
At the strategic level, the United States and its progressive liberal democratic allies not only have failed utterly to even identify, much less effectively confront, the enemy head on, but we Americans have allowed the top ranks of our national security to be infiltrated and influenced by that radical enemy. Not just “ruthless and agile,” as Riedel terms him, but sophisticated apparently beyond our ability to cope, that enemy has gotten us to deny he is who he says he is, thereby neutralizing our ability to implement an effective defense, much less consider an offense or victory. “Violent extremism” is not the enemy nor is it even a marginally useful term for fighting the jihadist enemy. Rather, it is the term our enemy wants us to use, because as long as we fixate on an anodyne euphemism, we cannot focus on him.
To be clear: one hundred percent of all Jihadis fighting to destroy Western civilization and impose Shariah say they are doing it for Allah in obedience to Islamic doctrine and scriptures. After 1400 years of their doing and saying the exact same thing, it would seem reasonable to believe them. In this sense, they do have what might be called a “track record.” Not one single jihadi or Islamic authority has ever told us he is fighting the West because Muslims “yearn for…democracy.” Which is not to say that millions of Muslims are not, in fact, yearning for genuine democratic change—it’s just that those millions are not the jihadi enemy?

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