TYSK - Terrorism

Islamic Terrorism = al Qaeda? Hardly
BasicProjects.org provides a brief synopsis of 62 Islamic Terror Groups world-wide.

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
—Thomas Paine (The American Crisis, No. 1, 19 December 1776)

JIHAD is the Islamic doctrine of aggressive war waged with the purpose of subjugating all non-Islamic peoples to the political and legal authority of Islam. It covers virtually all manner of crime with the shield of piety by blessing massacre, plunder, enslavement and treachery if these are judged necessary in the cause of Allah. There is nothing like it in Christian civilization. Its roots lie in the very antiquity of Islamic civilization, and though it is surely true that not all Muslims have committed themselves to JIHAD, it is also true that the doctrine is at least latent in all Islamic societies. As such, it stands as an inevitable threat.

Here is the University of Southern California Muslim Students Association's
description of Islam:
"Islam is the name of a way of life which the Creator wants us to follow. We avoid the word religion because in many non-Islamic societies, there is a separation of "religion and state." This separation is not recognized at all in Islam: the Creator is very much concerned with all that we do, including the political, social, economic, and other aspects of our society. Hence, Islam is a complete way of life."

26apr10	New Book Wrongly Blames Nazis for Muslim Hatred of Israel Pamela Geller The Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, was the Muslim Hitler. He continually coaxed, urged, and demanded Jewish annihilation. And it was not that he got with the Nazi program: he preceded it. He mentored it.
11apr10	The Most Dysfunctional Place on Earth Alan Caruba We now live in a nation that will not name its enemy. Homeland Security wants to eliminate terms like Islamic jihad or terrorism from its vocabulary lest we offend some of the people trying to kill us.
10feb10	The Crusades: When Christendom Pushed Back Selwyn Duke Christians in the eleventh century were not paranoid fanatics. Muslims really were gunning for them. While Muslims can be peaceful, Islam was born in war and grew the same way. From the time of Mohammed, the means of Muslim expansion was always the sword.
5apr09	The Quran: The Ultimate Waepon Against Islam Islam is a religious, political and judicial system initiated in the VIIth century by Muhammad, who claims to be the last prophet, and therefore THE prophet to whom Allah transmitted his precepts through the angel Gabriel. These precepts are compiled in the Quran.
15feb09	The full Muslim Roger Kimball What is it about Muslims and this penchant for separating people from their heads (and other parts of their anatomy)? I mentioned Hassan’s surgical method of connecting, or rather “disconnecting,” people through understanding to my friend in England when we were talking about Wilders. “The full Muslim,” he called it.
11oct08	Pay Attention Silent Majority History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points.
11sep08	G.W. Bush Has Kept Us Safe Foiled Terror Plots Against America The following is a list of known terror plots thwarted by the U.S. government since Sept. 11, 2001.
11aug08	Why Confront Islamism? Amil Imani Islamism, Islamofascism, radical Islam and political Islam, are different terms for essentially the same thing: a virulent, hateful, and violent system of beliefs and practices. Yet, one and all are progeny of Islam itself.
12july08	An Anatomy of Surrender Bruce Bawer Islam divides the world into two parts. The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the Dar al-Islam, or House of Submission. Everything else is the Dar al-Harb, or House of War, so called because it will take war – holy war, jihad – to bring it into the House of Submission.
25may08	Islam is Not a Religion Nor is it a Cult. It is a Complete System. GS Don Morris, Ph.D. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components. Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called ‘religious rights.’
4may08	Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror Joseph C. Myers Our enemy says he is fighting jihad warfare to extend the Islamic faith; the basis of that claim rests on his exegesis of Quranic and Islamic Law injunctions. Irrespective of whether we or other Muslims accept or deny the legitimacy of his claim, if that is his stated doctrine, then that is the doctrine we must study and comprehend.
4may08	An Anatomy of Surrender Westerners are Acquiescing to Creeping Sharia Bruce Bawer Islam divides the world into two parts. The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the Dar al-Islam, or House of Submission. Everything else is the Dar al-Harb, or House of War, so called because it will take war—holy war, jihad—to bring it into the House of Submission.
2sep07	In Their Own Words Newly translated writings of the al Qaeda leadership. The Al Qaeda Reader, simply by letting our enemies speak in their own voices, explodes the popular delusion that Western crimes and policies are responsible for the “distortion” of Islam that al Qaeda represents.
5aug07	Can Islam ever be Compatible with International Law? Jay Tolson Does Islam say that believers who abandon the faith should be punished, even executed? ... The answer, if one is ever forthcoming, will go a long way in determining whether Islam is compatible with the regime of universal human rights set forth in important international charters and agreements.
1jul07	Islam: The Power of “No” Alan Caruba What the Arabs of the Middle East offer is what Islam offers, only the peace of the grave if nations and men do not bow down to their threats and violence. It is the power of “no.”
11may07	Al Qaedism, Again Victor Davis Hanson For purposes of harming America, lone-wolf jihadists need only to feel the same rage and perceived grievances as their pin-up heroes like bin Laden or Zawahiri.
29apr07	Islamic Indoctrination in American Classrooms Adrian Morgan "Now that I am Muslim, can I keep my non-Muslim friends that I have known all my life?" The answer was given: "You should try to remain away from mixing with non-Muslims because mixing with them removes your religious zealousness and pride from your heart and may lead you to having love and compassion in your heart for them. ...it is obligatory upon a Muslim to be free of the people of infidelity and to hate them for the sake of Allah."
29apr07	A Lesson In Hate How an Egyptian student came to study 1950s America and left determined to wage holy war David Von Drehle If you know who Qutb was, and his powerful influence on militant Islamic supremacism, you’re already better informed on the jihad threat than most US citizens; but David Von Drehle’s article contains many details about Qutb’s twisted thinking and insane hatred of Western civilization that will be new.
5nov06	It's Not Just Osama Carol Gould What has happened in Britain in this turbulent year did not surprise me. Those of us who live there, in the ‘coming Caliphate,’ know that the threat is huge, is massively supported and may never be extinguished.
5nov06	A rare look at the secretive Muslim Brotherhood in America Their ultimate goal: create Islamic states around the world including in America. Chicago Tribune "Allah is our goal; the Messenger is our model; the Koran is our constitution; jihad is our means; and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our aspiration." —the Brotherhood slogan.
5nov06	War Crimes Investigator Says Al Qaeda Spawned From Nazi Third Reich “Al Qaeda is the direct lineal descendant of the Arab Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood"
2apr06	CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha "the most accomplished fifth column" in the United States
5mar06	Thinking Like an Arab Alan Caruba If it hasn’t occurred to most Americans by now, Arabs don’t think like us. They see the world in very different terms. Rationality, logic, and common sense do not rate high among their priorities.	Please see the link at the article end!
27nov05	The Truth about Islamic Crusades and Imperialism Historical facts say that Islam has been imperialistic – and would still like to be, if only for religious reasons. Many Muslim clerics, scholars, and activists, for example, would like to impose Islamic law around the world. Historical facts say that Islam, including Muhammad, launched their own Crusades against Christianity long before the European Crusades.
11jul05	The Mother of All Connections A special report on the new evidence of collaboration between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda. The Weekly Standard – Stephen F. Hayes & Thomas Joscelyn All of this is new information obtained since the fall of the Hussein regime. And yet critics of the Iraq war and many in the media refuse to see it. Just two weeks ago, President Bush gave a prime-time speech on Iraq. Among his key points: Iraq is a central front in the global war on terror that began on September 11.
10jul05	Validity of Islam George Mason Islam depends on the validity of only two fundamental concepts. One is the existence of their super-deity they call “Allah.” The other leg on which Islam stands depends on the legitimacy of Muhammad himself, his character and his proclamations.
2jul05	The Left Revealed It isn’t often that the Left is forced to reveal itself, but in this transcript of a "Michael Medved Show" segment with David Horowitz and Nation writer Daniel Lazare that is exactly what happens in regard to the Left’s de facto alliance with our terrorist enemies in Iraq and elsewhere.
30jan05	Lying about Iraq The Federalist Patriot The principal objective of President Bush's doctrine of pre-emption – Operation Enduring Freedom (or "Operation Let's Roll," as it's known around our shop) – is to keep the front lines of our war with Jihadistan on their turf, rather than our own.
11oct04	The Death Of Liberalism Raymond S. Kraft We have created a focal point for the battle now at the time and place of our choosing, in Iraq. Not in New York, not in London, or Paris, or Berlin, but in Iraq, where we did and are doing two very important things.
11sep04	Jihadistan: A Clear and Present Danger The Federalist Patriot Eleven years ago, our homeland became the front line in our war with Jihadistan, that borderless nation of Islamofascists with global reach, inhabited by al-Qa'ida and other Islamist Jihadis targeting the U.S.
20jul04	An Alliance of Evil: Saddam and bin Laden David M. Huntwork The degree of the cooperation between Saddam and bin Laden, or more specifically the supposed lack thereof, is one of the two main pillars of the 'Bush lied' bumper sticker slogan crowd.
16jun04	A Question Of Survival Kim Weissman Our country faces a unique and very dangerous time, in which sizeable numbers of Americans, including many in positions of power, are actively undermining our nation during war time.
12may04	The American Will Kim Weissman Throughout our nation’s history, whenever we have faced an external threat to our existence, we have put aside our ideological differences and united in common cause until the danger was past. Everyone understood that our policy differences were meaningless if our nation itself ceased to exist as a free and constitutional republic.
16jan04	The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave Heather Mac Donald Fifty years ago, immigration policy might have driven immigration numbers, but today the numbers drive policy. "Sanctuary policies" generally prohibit city employees, including the cops, from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities.
14jan04	Not Amnesty Kim Weissman When you have large numbers of people ready to commit suicide, and ready to do it by making themselves into human bombs, using the most normal instruments of daily life – an airplane, a car, a garage door opener, a cell phone, fertilizer, a tennis shoe – you create a weapon that is undeterrable, undetectable and inexhaustible.
13jan04	What Makes a Terrorist? James Q. Wilson Terrorism, however motivated, baffles people, because they cannot imagine doing these things themselves. This bafflement often leads us to assume that terrorists are either mentally deranged or products of a hostile environment.
28dec03	What Are the Arabs Saying About Us Today? Alan Caruba Americans keep thinking that, if we can only demonstrate we are trying to help them, Arabs will love us. No, they won’t. For the Arabs, America and the Jews are the sole reason for all their problems.
21dec03	Why Prayer to Allah is OK in Public School Jen Shroder Abdurahman Alamoudi, arrested and accused of helping Osama bin Laden and Hamas, helped develop 'Religious Expression in Public School' introduced and incorporated by President Clinton in 1995.
12nov03	Anti-Semitic Attack on Western Civilization Alan Caruba Americans and Europeans assume our values regarding human dignity, justice, education, et cetera, come from the ancient societies of Greece and Rome. They do not. They come from Judaism.
5aug03	Venona: What My Father Didn't Know Alan Caruba So why don't more Americans know about the Venona project? Ask that question of the liberal mainstream press that, to this day, still slanders the reputation of those brave men who dared to suggest that the Communist Party USA was a threat to this nation and that 'McCarthyism' is still the real threat.
6jun03	The Decline and Fall of Islam Alan Caruba None of us will live to see it, but before this millennium is over, Islam is likely to have joined the myths of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome as a religion that was tested and failed.
20may03	McCarthyism – The Right's Badge of Honor William A. Mayer Studying past Soviet infiltration may help us understand how our current enemy, radical Islamic terror, may use similar methods in establishing underground networks in furtherance of their aims and how the now in vogue promotion of cultural diversity by the left is so potentially damaging to our security.
26jan03	Has Bush Bitten Off Too Much? Yes, but So Did Truman Jonathan Rauch The pacifist Left is wrong to accuse President Bush of reckless belligerence, but it is right to see him as making a historic choice, one that may ultimately rank with President Truman's.
31aug02	Militant Islam – In a Class with Communism, Fascism Daniel Pipes America and rest of the Western world are facing their greatest challenge since fascism and communism: militant Islam. Its goal is to take power and impose its strictures on society.
28jul02	Defend Civilization Itself Mark Helprin They say we have no history. Did we spring from a leaf? How do they think we have come through our five thousand years? Honor.
4jun02	Twenty Facts about Israel and the Middle East Bill Bennett, Jack Kemp, and Jeane Kirkpatrick The world's attention has been focused on the Middle East. Can we understand the violence? Yes, but only if we come to the situation with a solid grounding in the facts of the matter—facts that too often are forgotten, if ever they were learned.
5may02	The Massacre That Wasn't Kim Weissman Why do we find it necessary to appease the Saudis and mollify the rest of the Arab world so as not to offend the Saudis, and why do we turn a blind eye to sponsors of terrorism, in the face of this sort of hatred of America?
22mar02	Dying to Kill the "Occupiers" Alan Caruba "I confess I can no longer hear the word "Palestinian" without seeing it drip with the blood of their own insanely suicidal killers of ordinary citizens of Israel, infants, men and women, old and young alike."
12mar02	Remembering September 11, 2001 Amid the smoking ruins of the twin towers, you could see the silhouette of the Statue of Liberty holding that torch of liberty very proudly and very high. It's that flame of liberty that these people want to extinguish.
4mar02	The Terrorists You Don't Hear About Tom DeWeese This group was responsible for an attack that resulted in a $5.3 million loss in 2001... the third most destructive only to the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks and only one of 137 acts for which it claimed credit.
13feb02	Think like a Muslim Daniel Pipes Students, especially in public schools, should approach Islam in a critical fashion - learning the bad as well as the good, the archaic as well as the modern. They should approach it from the outside, not as believers, precisely as they do with every other religion.
13feb02	God and Mammon: Does Poverty Cause Militant Islam? Daniel Pipes Militant Islam (or Islamism) is not a response to poverty or impoverishment; not only are Bangladesh and Iraq not hotbeds of militant Islam, but militant Islam has often surged in countries experiencing rapid economic growth.
3feb02	Geneva Convention Kim Weissman If the people making that argument (those from the "my mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts" school of non-thought) would take the simple step of actually reading the document that they want to invoke, the Geneva Convention, they might have some second thoughts.
16jan02	Islam's Insanity Alan Caruba The answer has to be that a state of total insanity exists among the Muslim scholars and the whole of Islam that permits them to ignore reality, ignore history, and continue to call for a holy war.
15dec01	The Arab Legacy of Hate Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld When in 1948 the United Nations voted in favor of a partition plan to divide Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, Arab leaders rejected it. And so, when the British finally departed from Palestine, leaders of the Jewish community declared the restoration of Israel as a sovereign state.
3dec01	Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism Kim Weissman The unfortunate reality is that, in our justice system, justice often takes a back seat to left-wing victimology, racial demagoguery, and courtroom theatrics.
30nov01	Islam Vs. the World Alan Caruba The enmity the drives Muslims is best captured in the counsel of the Koran that says, "Oh believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Whoso of you makes them his friends is one of them. God guides not the people of the evildoers."
26nov01	Learning to Trust Again Alan Caruba Our domestic enemies are not massing troops somewhere. They are living among us as our neighbors. How many are loyal Americans? We simply do not know!
19nov01	National Focus Kim Weissman At least five different attacks on six different American targets by the same terrorist group within less than a decade, even before September 11. But the Clinton administration during those years was more interested in dismantling Microsoft than in dismantling al Qaeda.
18nov01	Unchanging Leftists Kim Weissman Seems that the ACLU and the New York Times are more solicitous of the alleged "civil rights" of foreign terrorists than the Constitutional rights of American citizens.
5nov01	A Half-Hearted Kind of War Vin Suprynowicz A war of half-measures only allow the enemy to take heart, progressively adopt to our tactics, and increase his recruiting by bragging that if he has survived an encounter with the world's "sole remaining superpower," imagine what he could do with a few thousand more volunteers.
4nov01	The Long Road Ahead Kim Weissman We are in the opening stages of a war, a Holy War to radical Muslims, soon to be using all the modern weapons of war, fighting for the very survival of western civilization.
31oct01	"Jihad" In Their Own Words Eugene Narrett, Ph.D It is timely to consider the meaning and goals of this phenomenon of "Jihad" we've heard so much about. What does Islam's ideology of Jihad mean in fact? Of the 30 active wars in the world today, 28 are in Islamic nations.
31oct01	America, Home of the Scared? Alan Caruba Time for this nation to get over being the home of the scared and get back to being the home of the brave. We are at war!
28oct01	The Empire of Oil Alan Caruba There are forces at work in our war on terrorism that have as much to do with insuring that America and the West has the oil it needs, as they do with protecting this nation against the more obvious threat of Islamic militancy.
18oct01	Barbarians at the Gate Steve H. Hanke Don't make the mistake of interpreting the events of Sept. 11 purely in terms of terrorism and murder. There is a bigger context here. There is more to this story — much more.
17oct01	History Is the Root Cause of Everything Diane Alden It is a fact that the rise and fall and rise of great religions goes through phases. The fact is that Islamist religionists brought religious warfare to the United States.
15oct01	Progressive America-Haters Take Off Their Masks Peyton Knight They emerge from the basements of their secret societies, shed the camouflage of the "progressive" label, and crawl out from under the rock of the safe harbor the Democratic Party provides.	More on "progressives"
14oct01	Islamic Silence Vin Suprynowicz It is not America which has prevented any Palestinians from settling in Jordan or anywhere else in the Arab world, nor which prevents the Palestinian majority in Jordan -- formerly Palestine -- from living in security.
13oct01	United We Stand...? The Federalist Jihad is a call to ALL Muslims – not just bin Laden's terrorist cadre – and no wide, bright line separates peace-loving Muslims from Islamic extremists.
6oct01	Courage Under Fire The 21st century's first war heroes Peggy Noonan Brave men do brave things. After Sept. 11 a friend of mine said something that startled me with its simple truth. He said, 'Everyone died as the person they were.'
4oct01	The U.S. in Wonderland: A Place Where Enemies Become Allies Alan Caruba Just how strange is it that the three most obvious allies of the United States have been pushed to the sidelines of the Bush administration's grand coalition to fight terrorism, while those who have funded and supported terrorism are being embraced as the ones to fight it?
1oct01	Where Seldom Is Heard Diane Alden Christians are getting killed by Muslims all over the world, but America is not supposed to see that. Frankly, I don't care if they don't like our foreign policy.
29sep01	God Is Back Peggy Noonan I was thinking the other day: In 1964, Time Magazine famously headlined "God Is Dead." I hope now, at the very highest reaches of that great magazine, they do a cover that says "God Is Back."
27sep01	Islam: The Endless Jihad Alan Caruba [Historian] Fregosi characterized Jihad as 'essentially a permanent state of hostility that Islam maintains against the rest of the world.' Many other historians have seen Islam in this light as well.
26sep01	Homeland Defense Is You and Me Diane Alden The fact is that sometimes 911 is us. The government might help prepare each and every citizen loyal to this country for what may come. They can empower us to defend ourselves and then allow us to do so.
23sep01	This Will Be A Knife Fight Dr. Tony Kern, Lt Col, USAF (Ret) This war will be won or lost by the American citizens, not diplomats, politicians or soldiers. This war will escalate, with a good portion of it happening right here in the good ol' U.S. of A.
16sep01	100 Question and Answers about Arab Americans: A Jounalist's Guide (Detroit Free Press) Like all people, Arab Americans are too often described in simplistic terms. Although the Arab culture is one of the oldest on Earth, it is, in many parts of the United States, misunderstood.
15sep01	Dead or Alive Increasing airport security will do nothing to prevent a well-planned aerosol dispensing of anthrax spores at a Super Bowl game – or any of the other nuclear, biological or chemical threats. We must strike the nations that harbor these terrorists and strike them hard.
13sep01	The Partisans of Yesterday have Patriot Blood on Their Hands Today This momentous event, the worst terrorist attack in world history, caps the tragedy of years of appeasement of rogue nations and terrorists, appeasement that reached a zenith during the eight years of Bill Clinton's administration.
30aug01	The True Believer 2001 The Rise of Islam and Communism Alan Caruba "The true believer is everywhere on the march, shaping the world in his own image. Whether we line up with him or against him, it is well we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities."