Islamists' Threats in the U.S.
by Amil Imani
Throwing acid in the face
of women who fail to don the hijab, flogging people
for sporting non-Islamic haircuts, and stoning to death violators of sexual
norms are only a few examples of a raft of daily barbaric acts of Islamists in
places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and many Islamic lands. Other forms of Islamic
brutalities such as Honor
Killing have already found their way to
Germany and other European countries with the ever-burgeoning
Muslim populations.
Wherever Islam goes, so
goes its ethos.
Reading about these religiously-mandated horrific acts and
even seeing them on television or the Internet may momentarily repulse, but
does not terribly concern many Americans. After
all, those things are happening on the other side of the world, and
those people deserve each other; we are safe in fortress
America, so goes the thinking.
But “fortress
America” is a delusion that even the events of 9/11 seem to
have failed to dispel. Many prefer to believe that the assault of 9/11 was an
aberration, since nothing like it has happened again, and it is unlikely that
anything of the sort will ever happen again, so goes the wishful
thinking.
The reality portrays a
vastly different picture. America is
far from a fortress
given its vast wide-open borders. It is a
nation of laws where all forms of freedom are enshrined in its constitution;
is where Americans live by humane ethos diametrically different from those of
Islamist savagery. Sadly, these differences confer great advantage to the
Islamists and place America in imminent danger.
The breach of “Fortress
America” from the air on 9/11 is only the first installment
of much more forthcoming heinous assaults, unless we abandon our complacency;
stop relying on the invincibility of the law-enforcement people; and willingly
make the sacrifices that would protect our way of
life.
Knowing Islam intimately
and having experienced its systemic savagery has
compelled me to warn repeatedly of the deadly imminent threat it poses
to all non-Muslims Why Confront Islamism attempting to present a comprehensive treatment of the
evil precepts and practices of Islamism, I am listing a few facts that should
be enough to alarm anyone who cherishes liberty and freedom; awaken anyone who
is comforted by the belief that all the Islamic mayhem is limited to an
illiterate gang of primitive Middle Easterners and has no implications for
America. Sorry, bad news is here already.
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Some 26 percent of American Muslims, ages18-29, support suicide bombings "in defense of
Islam," according to findings of a recent Pew poll
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According to Pew, there are 2.35 million Muslims in
America, 30 percent of whom are in the 18-29 age range. Some
claim that the number of Muslims is in fact much larger. Even using the
conservative Pew numbers, over 180,000 Muslims in
America is bomb-approving. This is an alarmingly large
number, given that Muslims, as an article of faith, practice dissimulation in
dealing with infidels and under-report their true intentions. How many human
bombs and bomb-approving people does it take to wreak havoc on our
country?
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The 180,000 Muslims living among us don’t define what
“defense of Islam” is. It could be anything that they feel constitute an
attack on Islam and Islamic values, such as the reported flushing of the Quran
down the toilet, the Danish Cartoon,
Rush die’s book, a newspaper article, an Internet posting, or even
women not donning the
hijab
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When religious fanatics unreservedly advocate wanton
acts of mass murder, they are not likely to shy from coercion and intimidation
measures to impose their will on the larger society. In tandem with the cold
murder of Van Gough in
Holland, for instance, Islamists had been striving to
supplant civil laws with the Islamic Sharia in the country. In other
lands such as France, England and Canada, Muslims have also been waging serious campaigns for
adoption of the Sharia or
some of its provisions, just for starters.
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Ever since 9/11, and possibly before,
America has been concerned about terrorists coming from
Islamic lands. For this reason, some people advocated profiling as a safeguard
against the 9/11 type mass murderers. But how
do you profile hundreds of thousands of Muslim Americans who are already here
and look and act like other Americans? How can an open free society such as
ours safeguard the individual freedom we so greatly value and protect the
safety of its citizens?
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The immensely difficult task of safeguarding our
freedom while ensuring our safety is seriously and repeatedly undermined by
Islamist apologists, pontificating academes, vote-hungry politicians, and the
mainstream media, each for their own reasons. Here are some of the comfort
pills dispensed by the mainstream media’s polls: “Most Muslims seek to adopt
American lifestyle" (USA
Today); "Muslims assimilate better in
U.S. than Europe, poll finds" (New York Times); "Poll: US Muslims Feel
Post-9/11 Backlash Despite Moderate Outlook" (Voice of America).
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It is said that there are lies, damn lies, and
statistics. The mainstream media’s manipulation of statistics goes beyond
selective reporting and qualifies as outright disinformation. Is the U.S.
Muslims’ outlook moderate? All U. S. Muslims? What about the self-reported outlook of
hundreds of thousands who support mass murder in the “defense of Islam?”
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Even if most Muslims seek to adopt an American lifestyle, a great many Muslims are
dead set on using violence to make America conform to their barbaric way of life. Islamism is
cancer. Cancer cells
are always few at the beginning. Left
unchecked, they keep on expanding and eventually devour the non-cancerous.
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There is an important lesson to be learned from the
drama presently unfolding in Turkey. Modern Turkey, the only democracy in the Islamic Middle East, was
established by Mustafsa Kemal Ataturk . He abolished the caliphate
in 1924, replaced Islamic rules with modern secular laws and barred the
mosques from politics. Ever since, the mosque has been fighting and gradually
succeeding in dragging Turkey back under its rule. Presently, what the Western
Mainstream media calls a “mildly Islamist” party rules
Turkey under the rightfully suspicious eyes of the staunchly
secularist heirs of Ataturk, the Turkish military. All kinds of Western
leftists loudly proclaim that there is nothing to worry about, that the
forthcoming Turkey election that is going to install mildly Islamists as
president as well as the Prime Minister is no cause for the millions of
Turkey secularists to pour into the streets against such an
outcome millions
of Turkey secularists pour into the streets. Why all the fuss, by the
military and the millions of Turks? After all, the mildly Islamists are not
all that bad and they are coming to power through free elections, the leftists
keep preaching. In reality, even coining the term, “mildly Islamist” is a
clear instance of the leftists’ treachery. Being mildly Islamist is as
plausible as being mildly pregnant. There is no such a thing as mild Islam. It
only starts mildly, just the way Muhammad himself started it in
Mecca. Then, it builds momentum and settles for nothing
less than the total imposition of its dogma and will. Being mildly Islamist is
only the head of the camel poking into the room. Wherever the head of the
animal goes, if it is not chopped off the
body eventually follows. And the body of Islam is a disease-bearing body that
will infect the healthy secular societies.
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Escalation of demands, intolerance of differences, and
contempt for the non-Muslims are hallmarks of Islam. The deluded leftists as
well as the publishers of the leftist are destined to be among the very first
victims of the mild Islamism as it gathers power.
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The Turkish people demonstrating against creeping
Islamism in their government are still a minority. A minority that has
first-hand experience with both secularism and Islamism. They also see the
horrors of Islamism next door in Iran and are rightfully alarmed by the ever-encroaching
Islamism in their government. They know full well that they must resist the
backward march of their country and must do all they can to protect their
precious freedom. Do we, in America and the West, have the same sense and the will to
forestall mild Islamism from evolving into a real Islamism?
Just a sobering note:
Mild Islamism is already here in our country. The Muslim cab driver of the
Minneapolis
Airport refusal to ferry passengers with
alcohol or even those with seeing-eye-dogs; Muslim inmates demand to be served
only hala
Food ;
Muslim students badger universities for special facilities for their meetings;
and, the first ever Muslim Congressman assumption of office by swearing on the
Quran and not the Bible.
Mild Islam is not all
that obtrusive, since it is similar to the early stages of pregnancy. Yet,
pregnancy it is. And before long the full-term beast will make its appearance.
If we don’t want to deal with the beast, we need to prevent the pregnancy in
the first place.
Amil Imani is an Iranian-born American citizen and
pro-democracy activist residing in the United States
of America.
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