Assessing Jihad's Threat

Before you make a decide how you feel about the construction of Saudi-funded Wahhabi mosques across America, perhaps you should do some research. My knowledge of the threat has been greatly expanded by listening to Brian Michael Jenkins of the RAND Corporation, Steven Emerson, and Robert Spencer, the director of the excellent Jihad Watch. To learn about the deadly nature of Shariah, explore the work of Nonie Darwish, who saw firsthand the evolution of terrorism as her father fell in service as one of Gamal Abdel Nasser's terror master henchmen, and Brigitte Gabriel whose family suffered as jihad invaded her native Lebanon and shariah began to take hold of the once Christian country. While some of the aforementioned scholarship emerges from the Right, from the Left, the warning is heard just as clearly. Former Muslim and former parliamentarian for Holland, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has chronicled and been threatened by the danger of Shariah confronting the West. The peril posed to author Salman Rushdie for his book, The Satanic Verses further evinces this. The Leftist Christopher Hitchens, an overt atheist, has copiously spoke and written of the dire threat posed by political Islam. Geert Wilders, considered by some a populist, has organized his career of service to the Netherlands around containing the rise of Shariah in Europe. Austrian housewife Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff has risked being jailed or even murdered to warn her neighbors of the wretched excesses she saw spending time in an Arab nation suffering under the yoke of Shariah. There are other sources of knowledge of the threat posed by Islamic law, expansionist Islam, and the violence they spawn and I do not mean to give short shrift to other excellent sources here. One other means of exploring what the incursion of Islamism means to the West is the study of an aggressive history that took Islamic conquest through much of Spain, into France, and to the gates of Vienna. If you read Arabic, delve into the Koran and the hadiths of the religion itself or if not, seek a trustworthy translation. If you have a strong stomach, you can use a search engine to find examples of Shariah in action, where you will find video of people being lashed, having their hands and/or feet chopped off, being shot to death, being stoned to death, being murdered for "apostasy" or for insulting "the Prophet", and being beheaded in fields or public squares. You can see Christian schoolgirls with their heads severed in Indonesia, fatal torture including rape of Catholic schoolgirls in the former Indonesian "protectorate" of East Timor, and you can read the story from the font of the Wahhab menace itself of how other schoolgirls, who were themselves devoted to Sunni Islam, being forced back into a burning schoolhouse to their deaths by fire as the religious police would not let them leave without their all-covering veils even though the building was burning. Moderate Islam is a largely Western construct and Jihad as presented to make palatable in the West as a "personal struggle"does not exist in any Muslim majority country and is designed to hide a mortal danger from those who are the target.