The following article is written by someone who is as far right as you can get without falling off the earth. Although I agree with some of it, most of it is full of conspiracy theories and sounds a little whacko. It is an interesting article if his timeline and historical facts are accurate though----
THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE GREAT CALIPHATE
by Larry Abraham
January 29, 2004
I won't take the time or space to repeat what you have heard so many
mind numbing times but what you have not heard is crucial. President
Bush and his administration spokesmen are not telling the American
people what they really need to know about this war. If they don't do
that between now and November it may cost them the election.
The war against terror did not begin on September 11, 2001, nor will it
end with the peaceful transition to civilian authority in Iraq,
whenever that may be. In fact, Iraq is but a footnote in the bigger context of
this encounter, but an important one none the less. This war is what
the Jihadists themselves are calling the Third Great Jihad. They are
operating within the framework of a time line which reaches back to the
very creation of Islam in the seventh century and are presently
attempting to recreate the dynamics which gave rise to the religion in
the first two hundred years of its existence.
No religion in history grew as fast, in its infancy, and the reasons
for the initial growth of Islam are not hard to explain when you understand
what the world was like at the time of Muhammad's death in 632 AD.
Remember that the Western Roman Empire was in ruins and the Eastern
Empire, based in Constantinople, was trying desperately to keep the
power of its early grandeur while transitioning to Christianity as a de
facto state religion.
The costs to the average person were large as he was being required to
meet the constantly rising taxes levied by the state along with the
tithes coerced by the Church.
What Islam offered was the carrot or the sword. If you became a
convert, your taxes were immediately eliminated, as was your tithe. If you
didn't, you faced death. The choice was not hard for most to make,
unless you were a very devoted martyr in the making. At the beginning,
even the theology was not too hard for most to swallow, considering
that both Jewry and Christianity were given their due by the Prophet. There
is but one God-Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet, as was Jesus, and
the pre-Christian Jewish prophets of the Torah (Old Testament). Both were
called children of the book -- the book being the Koran, which replaced
both the Old and New Testaments for former Christians and Jews. With
this practical approach to spreading the word Islam grew like
wild-fire, reaching out from the Saudi Arabian Peninsula in all directions.
This early growth is what the Muslims call the First great Jihad and it
met with little resistance until Charles Martel of France, the father
of Charlemagne, stopped them in the battle of Tours in France after they
had firmly established Islam on the Iberian Peninsula. This first
onslaught against the West continued in various forms and at various
times until Islam was finally driven out of Spain in 1492 at the battle
of Granada.
The Second great jihad came with the Ottoman Turks. This empire
succeeded in bringing about the downfall of Constantinople as a
Christian stronghold and an end to Roman hegemony in all of its forms.
The Ottoman Empire was Islam's most successful expansion of territory
even though the religion itself had fractured into warring sects and
bitter rivalries with each claiming the ultimate truths in the ways of
the Prophet. By 1683 the Ottomans had suffered a series of defeats on
both land and sea and the final, unsuccessful attempt to capture Vienna
set the stage for the collapse of any further territorial ambitions and
Islam shrunk into various sheikhdoms, emir dominated principalities,
and roving tribes of nomads.
However, by this time a growing anti-western sentiment, blaming its
internal failures on anyone but themselves, was taking hold and setting
the stage for a new revival known as Wahhabism, a sect which came into
full bloom under the House of Saud on the Arabian Peninsula shortly
before the onset of WWI.
It is this Wahhabi version of Islam which has infected the religion
itself, now finding adherents in almost all branches and sects,
especially the Shiites. Wahhabiism calls for the complete and total
rejection or destruction of anything and everything which is not based
in the original teachings of The Prophet and finds its most glaring
practice in the policies of the Afghani Taliban or the Shiite practices
of the late Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Its Ali Pasha (Field Marshall)
is now known as Osama bin Laden, the leader of the Third Jihad who is
Wahhabi as were his 9/11 attack teams, 18 of which were also Saudi.
The strategy for this holy war did not begin with the planning of the
destruction of the World Trade Center. It began with the toppling of
the Shah of Iran back in the late 1970's. With his plans and programs to
westernize his country, along with his close ties to the US and subdued
acceptance of the State of Israel, the Shah was the soft target.
Remember America Held Hostage. Thanks, in large part to the
hypocritical and disastrous policies of the Jimmy Carter State Department, the
revolution was set into motion, the Shah was deposed, his armed forces
scattered or murdered and stage one was complete. The Third Jihad now
had a base of operations and the oil wealth to support its grand design
or what they call the Great Caliphate.
What this design calls for is the replacement of all secular leadership
in any country with Muslim majorities. This would include, Egypt,
Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, all the Emirates, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya,
Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Malaysia, Indonesia
and finally what they call the occupied territory, Israel. As a part of
this strategy, forces of the jihad will infiltrate governments and the
military as a prelude to taking control, once the secular leadership is
ousted or assassinated. Such was the case in Lebanon leading to the
Syrian occupation and in Egypt with the murder of Anwar Sadat, along
with the multiple attempts on the lives of Hussein in Jordan, Mubarak
of Egypt and Musharraf in Pakistan. Pakistan is a particular prize because
of its nuclear weapons. (Please note al Qaeda call for the
Islamic-militant overthrow of Musharraf in Pakistan on March 25.)
The long-range strategy of the Third Jihad counts on three strategic
goals. First, the US withdrawing from the region just as it did in
Southeast Asia, following Vietnam. Second, taking control of the oil
wealth in the Muslim countries, which would be upwards to 75% of known
reserves. Third, using nuclear weapons or other WMDs to annihilate
Israel. A further outcome of successfully achieving these objectives
would be to place the United Nations as the sole arbiter in East/West
negotiations and paralyze western resistance, leading to total
withdrawal from all Islamic dominated countries.
Evidence of the Bush Administration awareness of this plan is found in
the events immediately following the 9/11 attack. The administration's
first move was to shore up Pakistan and Egypt, believing that these two
would be the next targets for al Qaeda, while Americans focused on the
disaster in New York. The administration also knew that the most
important objective was to send a loud and clear message that the US
was in the region to stay, not only to shore up our allies but to send a
message to the Jihadists. The attack on Afghanistan was necessary to
break-up a secure al Qaeda base of operations and put their leadership
on the run or in prison. The war in Iraq also met a very strategic
necessity in that no one knew how much collaboration existed between
Saddam Hussein and the master planners of the Third Jihad or Hussein's
willingness to hand off WMDs to terrorist groups including the PLO in
Israel.
What was known were serious indications of on-going collaboration as
Saddam funneled money to families of suicide bombers attacking the
Israelis and others in Kuwait. What the US needed to establish was a
significant base of operations smack dab in the middle of the Islamic
world, in a location which effectively cut it in half Iraq was the
ideal target for this and a host of other strategic reasons.
Leadership of various anti-American groups both here and abroad
understood the vital nature of the Bush initiative and thus launched
their demonstrations, world-wide, to Stop The War. Failing this, they
also laid plans to build a political campaign inside the country, with
the War in Iraq as a plebiscite, using a little known politician as the
thrust point ---
Howard Dean. This helps to explain how quickly the
Radical Left moved into the Dean campaign with both people and money,
creating what the clueless media called the Dean Phenomenon. By
building on the left-wing base in the Democrat party and the Hate Bush crowd,
the campaign has already resulted in a consensus among the aspirants, minus
Joe Lieberman, to withdraw the US from Iraq and turn the operation over
to the UN. And, if past is prologue, i.e., Vietnam, once the US leaves,
it will not go back under any circumstances, possibly even the
destruction of Israel.
Should George W. Bush be defeated in November, we could expect to see
the dominoes start to fall in the secular Islamic countries and The
Clash of Civilizations, predicted several years ago by Samuel
Huntington, would then become a life changing event in all of our
lives.
What surprised the Jihadists following the 9/11 attack was how American
sentiment mobilized around the president and a profound sense of
patriotism spread across the country. They were not expecting this
reaction, based on what had happened in the past, nor were they
expecting the determined resolve of the President himself. I also
believe this is one of the reasons we have not had any further attacks
within our borders. They are content to wait, just as one of their
tactical mentors, V.I. Lenin admonished --- two steps forward, one step
back.
A couple additional events serve as valuable footnotes to the current
circumstances we face: the destruction of the human assets factor of
the CIA during the Carter presidency, presided over by the late Senator
Frank Church. This fact has plagued our intelligence agencies right up
to this very day with consequences which are now obvious. And, Jimmy
Carter himself, the one man who must bear the bulk of the
responsibility for setting the stage of the Third Jihad. Americans should find little
comfort in how the Democrat contenders constantly seek the advice and
counsel of this despicable little hypocrite. Lastly, we should not
expect to see any meaningful cooperation from Western Europe,
especially the French. Since failing to protect their own interests in Algeria (by
turning the country over to the first of the Arab terrorists, Ammad Ben
Bella), the country itself is now occupied by Islamic immigrants
totaling twenty percent of the population.
We are in the battle of our lives, a battle which will go on for many
years, possibly even generations. If we fail to understand what we are
facing or falter in the challenge of knowing our enemy, the results
will be catastrophic. Imagine a world where al Qaeda regimes control 75% of
the world's oil, have at their disposal nuclear weapons, legions of
willing suicide soldiers, and our national survival is dependent on the
good graces of Kofi Annan and the United Nations. There is one final
footnote which may be the scariest of all. Either none of the Democrats
currently leading the drive to their party's nomination are aware of
the facts of the Great Caliphate and Third Jihad or they do know and don't
care so long as their power lust is satisfied. But, I can guarantee you
one thing for sure: some of their most ardent supporters are aware of
this and will do anything they can to bring it about.
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