Open Letter To Rick Santorum Dear Mr. Santorum,
Your answer to a question about national security issues involving Afghanistan exposes a vital element of truth on the surface, while an unpleasant stream of hypocrisy flows beneath the surface. Thanks and a tip of the hat to Paul Hoffman, whose Facebook post brought to my attention Robert Spencer's post, where I found this video clip.
how long ?
The question of the duration of our occupation of Afghanistan can not be answered with a clock, calendar or time table.
strategic objectives
national security
If the strategic objective is to permanently end Afghanistan's membership in the set of state sponsors of terrorism and prevent Afghanistan from being used as a training ground and staging area for terrorists, then the eradication of Islam from Afghanistan is the criteria for ending the occupation. We bring the troops home when the population of Afghanistan and their government are totally free from the influence of the damnable doctrines of Islam which inculcate hatred and enjoin genocidal conquest which is won by casting terror.
In that case, you remove our troops from Afghanistan when its population is either apostatized or converted and its government is able and willing to secure its borders against infiltration from neighboring countries infested with Muslims.free, democratic & secure
If the strategic objective is, as Shrub stated, a free, democratic, secure & prosperous Afghanistan with a stable government which respects human equality, dignity & rights, then cleansing Afghanistan from the infestation of Islam is insufficient. In this case, Afghanistan must be cleansed from its long tradition of tribalism and its honor/shame culture as well. Good luck with that; measure the occupation in millenia, not centuries.
how virulent
how infectious
Islam spread from Mecca & Medina to infect all of Arabia, North Africa, the Levant, nearly half of Asia and South East Europe in a few centuries. Infected persons now infest Western Europe and America and are spreading the infection through our prisons and inner cities.
how malignant
It is impossible to count with accuracy, the many innocent victims of Islam, but the best estimate runs to 270 million.
radical Islam
radical Englishmen
Were the founders fighting 'radical' Englishmen in the Revolution against King George or were they fighting his army?
radical Nazis
Was the greatest generation in combat against 'radical' Nazis ? Were those 'radicals' a tiny minority of Nazis? Was there a peaceful majority of Nazis who did not want to participate in world conquest?
radical Communism
Did millions die of starvation at the hands of Stalin, Mao & Pot because of an extraordinary, 'radical' variant of International Communism? Was the Cold War fought against 'radcal' Communism or the real thing?
radical Muslims
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to relive it. I quote from Wikipedia's entry on the First Barbary War: "On October 11, 1784, Moroccan pirates seized the brigantine Betsey.[2] " ... "Algeria began piracy against the U.S. on July 25, 1785 with the capture of the schooner Maria and the Dauphin a week later.[5]"
Where the Barbary Pirates 'radicals', 'perverting', 'distorting' and 'twisting' normative Islamic doctrine into a perverted form, or were they acting in obedience to Allah; emulating their Prophet? Thomas Jefferson and John Adams put the question to Tripoli's Ambassador in 1785. His reply is a clue for you.Koran
Is that true? Is it really written in their Koran that they have a right and duty to plunder and enslave?
right & duty
Ordained means it is Allah's law. "fight ... until" makes the statements imperative. The Koran commands Muslims to wage perpetual war against disbelievers.
plunder
Isn't that special: the Koran has rules for distribution of spoils, in anticipation of offensive warfare. Moe got the top 205, first pick of the spoils. And as a Prophet, Moe was not allowed to ransom prisoners until he had made great slaughter. We learned that Moe's motivation was mercenary and Allah's is blood lust.
Paradise
If Muslims do not join the jihad, they will go to Hell; if the fight, they will go to There is a long and esoteric hadith about Umar's sending the army to fight the great nations, in which a Muslim General is quoted as explaining things to a Persian General in similar terms. Sahih Bukhari 4.53.386
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"Its Islam, stupid!"
What Allah commanded and Moe exemplified is Islam, the real thing, not a distortion, twisting or perversion of Islam. There is no such thing as radical Islam. Islam is what Moe preached & practiced, not the anodyne, passive & benevolent religion you wish it would be.
not just militarily
Islam can not be defeated militarily short of wholesale extermination. If you are unable or unwilling to kill every Muslim on the face of the earth, then you must break their faith, you must induce mass apostasy.
expose Allah
Effectively combating Islam requires inducing mass apostasy by introducing the Ummah to the reality of Allah and his Messenger, their true character and works. You must effectively discredit Moe, and thereby descredit Allah. You must expose the fallacy of Allah's promises.
war of ideas
If you would win this war, list the ideas of Islam and the ideas of Western Civilization and prove our ideas to be superior to theirs, in intrinsic merit as well as empirical results.
honest about the threat
When you add adjectives or modifiers to the name of the enemy, you are not being honest. The enemy is Islam, not 'radical Islam'. In the long run, the threat is existential; Islam is Hellbent on global conquest. In the short run, the threat is continued and escalating attacks, large and small, against civilian targets. Once Iran obtains a nuke and couples it with a delivery system, our cities will be in grave danger.
politically correct
President Bush called Islam a "great religion of peace" because he knew that, if the public knew the truth, there would be a massive popular demand for the eradication of the enemy. President Obama repeats the same lie and declares that we are not at war against Islam because he is a traitor, one of them, not one of us.
sanitized
President Obama has removed all reference to the false meme which has been substituted for the name of the enemy because he is politically correct, not factually correct.
In order to win, we need to identify and truthfully describe the enemy, its intentions and capacity. The traitor in the White House has no desire to defeat the enemy because he is one of them, at the head of the enemy's fifth column. Removing all acknowledgment of the nexus between Islamic doctrine and terrorism is in compliance with the demands of Islam and the United Nations.the enemy
Islam, as revealed & exemplified by Moe.
virulence
Islam demands that only Allah be worshiped, "alltogether and everywhere". Allah demands "great slaughter". The gates of Paradise will not swing open to Muslims until they exterminate the Jews.
why they hate us
Because we are not Muslims. Disbelief is a status offense, called Kufr: rebellion against Allah, the punishment for which is described in 5:33 and the definition of which is found in Tafsir Ibn Kathir.
what we must do
Either cause Muslims to quit believing in Allah, his threat & promise, breaking his yoke of slavery or cause them to quit living. That should be an easy choice.
I want you to:
Take your own advice, be honest about the identity of the enemy, its character, ability & intentions and what we must do to win this war and restore peace 7 security. First and foremost: quit adding adjectives to the name of the enemy.
