http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=15712
The Long and Bloody History of Islamic Terrorism
Written by Barbara J. Stock
Saturday, July 16, 2005
The Sunday morning pundits preach that the terrorist attacks
around the world continue because American troops remain in Iraq.
These so-called "experts" claim that Iraq is a training ground for
attacks in Europe and America. Have these armchair-terror-experts
forgotten the 50-year Islamic training ground called Israel?
These "experts" also seem to believe that this split between so-
called "moderate" Muslims and the Islamic terrorists is something
new. These "experts" have missed the mark by about 1300 hundred
years. The present Islamic terrorists are a result of the split
within Islam between Muslims who wish to live in the 21st century,
secular Muslims, and the followers of "True Islam" who want the
world to be ruled by Islamic Sharia law with the Quran as the new
world constitution.
The recent attack in London proves the line between
a "moderate" Muslim and a terrorist is very, very thin. It seems
with only a small dose of "True Islam" a peaceful Muslim can become
a mass murderer.
Islamic terrorism started long before there was an Israel.
Sunni and Shia Muslims have been killing each other since the death
of Mohammed.
Centuries ago, Islam ruled a large part of the world and
Muslims had spread out of the Middle East and moved across Europe,
conquering all in their path. At Islam's pinnacle, the Ottoman
Empire stretched from Egypt to the Black Sea and from the Persian
Gulf to Hungary.
So what happened to the glorious Islamic empire? Today, Islam
blames the Crusades, the Jews, Western culture, and Christians for
its fall from power. In truth, the most destructive enemy that
Islam has ever had was Islam itself.
As the world modernized around them, the Islamic leaders
refused to move forward with the rest of the world. Firmly
believing in Islamic superiority, the pompous ruling class of
religious leaders planted the seeds of hatred towards the West as
far back as the 1700s. The ruling Islamic religious leaders
believed western inventions were evil things created by evil and
inferior people.
Any attempt to modernize the empire was put down by the ruling
Islamic body called the ulema which wanted to hold onto its power
and maintain Islam in its pure state. This meant no non-Muslim
influence of any kind.
It should be no surprise that the western advancements in
warfare eventually overwhelmed the archaic ways of Islam. The
Islamic dream of ruling the world, was over.
At the end of World War I, France and England carved up what
was left of the once great Islamic Empire. All that remained was
Turkey. It was the Islamic Turks who slaughtered over 1.5 million
Armenian Christians. The Turks blamed the Armenian Christians for
assisting in Islam's fall from power. Islam has a long history of
blaming others for its failures.
The new leader of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal, wanted Turkey to join
the modern world and insisted on a separation of mosque and state,
something that infuriated the Islamic leaders. Kemal declared Islam
the national religion but did not allow the controlling and backward
ways of Islam to destroy the new country. The battle rages today
in Turkey between the Islamic leaders and the secular government.
Slowly, the Islamic leaders are winning.
By 1924, the glory days of Islam were over.
This inner battle for Islam stewed after the fall of the Ottoman
Empire and Middle East came under the influence of western culture.
Secular Arab governments, which accepted western modernization,
drove the followers of True Islam into a murderous rage.
Today's terrorist movement started in 1928 with the founding of
Ikhwan al-Muslimun, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, to oppose the
Arab secular governments that stripped the Islamic elite of its
power. This group, led by Hassan al-Banna, felt no Islamic country
should tolerate a secular government. Islam had always been the
judge, jury, and executioner over the people.
This militant group armed and trained itself and became such a
problem for the Egyptian government that the terrorist leader, al-
Banna, was executed but this only elevated him to martyrdom. The
movement grew in power and status.
In the 1950s, a new and extremely radical leader, Sayyid Qutb,
convinced his followers that the Quran justified the killing of
fellow Muslims. In his book, "Milestones," he encouraged a jihad to
remove secular Muslim leaders and claimed it was the duty of all
Muslims to return Islam to its former power and glory. Following
strict Islamic law could only do this. Secular Muslims were put in
a category with Christians and Jews—they were infidels.
Sayyid Qutb was also executed by the Egyptians in 1966, but the
Islamic terrorist movement grew and expanded and now has branches of
loyal followers in over 70 countries around the globe and these
Islamic terrorists are more than willing to kill for their cause.
The embarrassing defeat of Islamic/Arab countries by the
lowly "monkey-Jew" in the 1967 Six Day War gave fuel to the Islamic
terrorist movement. This humiliating loss to the tiny Jewish state
was proof for Islamic terrorists that secular Islamic states were
against all that was Islamic. Islamic countries were defeated by a
people that True Islam does not even consider human.
Mu'ammar Qaddaffi seized power in Libya in 1969 and he used
Libya's vast oil wealth to fund Islamic terror around the world. A
decade later, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the secular
government in Iran by taking the American embassy personnel hostage
and keeping them as prisoners for over a year.
The 1980s saw the Iranian-backed terror group, Hezbollah strike
American troops on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon and the
American embassy was bombed. The United States made the tragic
mistake of leaving Lebanon, and the Islamists saw this as a sign of
weakness, and a rash of attacks on Americans continued unpunished
around the world for the next two decades.
True Islam had its golden moment on 9/11 when it succeeded in
attacking the "great Satan" on its own soil. Their bragging and
celebration was brief. The American response to that attack took
the terrorists by surprise. Believing America was a weak paper-
tiger, I believe the invasion of Afghanistan surprised bin Laden.
The loss of Afghanistan enraged the Islamists. Afghanistan was True
Islam's model for the world. Even more insulting was that the
majority of Afghani people seemed to welcome the overthrow of the
Taliban.
True Islam couldn't care less about the overthrow of Saddam
Hussein. The fact Saddam is Muslim means nothing to them. He was a
secular infidel. Iraqi Muslims who wish to remain under a secular
government are slaughtered like sheep because they too are
considered un-Islamic infidels. Radical Islam knows this may well
be its only chance to subjugate the Iraqi people under strict
Islamic rule and take possession of an oil-rich terrorist training
base. If True Islam were to gain control in Iraq, it would
immediately join forces with Iran to wreck havoc on the world.
Once a great power, Islam has now been reduced to training the
gullible to strap bombs on themselves and blow up a bus or train
full of civilians. Radical Islamic leaders have only one goal: To
make Islam the only religion, and to put Islamic leaders in command
over the entire population of the world. To accomplish this,
western civilization, Christianity, Judaism, secular Muslims, and
all other non-Muslim forms of religious beliefs, must be
exterminated.
There has been one important adjustment in True Islam's plan.
It no longer shuns modern weapons and technology. Indeed, Islamics
believe that the detonation of nuclear weapons on American soil will
bring them a quick victory. This is a serious miscalculation on
True Islam's part. A very deadly miscalculation.
If one studies the history of Islam and its violent roots, it
is not difficult to understand it. Islamists have killed millions
of people over the centuries and killing millions more to accomplish
the goal of total Islamic rule does not disturb them.
The number of moderate-secular Muslims is declining as true
Islam spreads its rage and hatred to every corner of the world.
Time is short. Iran may be only months away from obtaining nuclear
weapons. There are reports that several nuclear weapons are already
here and in place in America. There can be no signs of weakness
from the western world. There can be no negotiations or deals made
with True Islam. There can be no quarter given.
History has taught us one thing: It is us, or them. There
is no middle ground with terrorists. True Islam has not changed in
1400 years. It is not going to change now.
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