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We hear a lot about the subject of terrorism today. This has been the case for mainstream America – and the world – since the horrific attacks of September 11th, 2001. Each night on the news, as if by the networks’ design, there are the obligatory stories about a car bombing or a suicide attack, perhaps a fifteen second shot of the aftermath, a condescending, concerned look from the anchor and then a commercial. “We’ll be right back with another story about Britney Spears’ crotch, right after this!” That the single biggest threat to our nation has become B-Roll news program filler should disgust each and every one of us. Then, each and every one of us is to blame that it has come to this. Try to think back to the last time you saw the images of September 11th on television or in the mainstream media newspapers and magazines? Chances are it was either directly after the attacks or during a memorial segment commemorating the anniversary of those attacks. The truth is that the mainstream media removed the images of September 11th from our sight – the images of death and destruction, the murder of thousands of innocents, the people who chose to leap to their deaths rather than burn alive – because they deemed the images “too disturbing” for us to see. Try to remember the last time you heard an ingenuous, learned, intelligent discussion about the root causes of Islamist terrorism on a news program or a news issues television show. Most likely it was directly after 9/11. The overwhelming majority of inspection done on the issue today centers on the treatment – or perceived mistreatment – of radical Islamofascists caught on the field of battle or those who were apprehended for being implicated in plots to slaughter innocents both here in the United States and abroad. Then, of course, we have the pseudo-intellectual network talking heads and anti-war zealots who insist that it is the radical Islamist, caught with AK-47 in hand, who is the victim of the oppression that America has to offer. It couldn’t possibly be that the person pulling the trigger or detonating the suicide vest is to blame. America’s foreign policy “made them do it.” The fact of the matter is this: The politically correct mainstream media; agenda-driven, sensationalistic, emotionally opportunistic, one-sided and uneducated, has assumed, nay commandeered, the role of arbiter of what is right and what is wrong. They have crowned themselves “deciders” of what is appropriate for our consumption and what is not. They have come to dictate, in totalitarian fashion, the parameters of any public conversation with regard to the most important issue of the day, the survival of our nation. Proof of this can be found in the absence of any pictures or footage of the 9/11 attacks on news broadcasts. It can be found in their grotesque and politically correct reluctance to even speak the words “Islam” and “terrorism” in the same sentence. It can be found in their refusal to acknowledge that almost 100% of the legitimately defined terrorist acts are perpetrated at the hands of Wahhabist terrorists – Islamist radicals, Islamist fundamentalists – dedicated to the demise of Western Civilization and the establishment of a global Caliphate. It can be found in the fact that an overwhelming majority of Americans and Westerners can’t even explain the difference between the Sunni and Shi’ite sects of Islam. In his 2003 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, The Institute of World Politics’ Dr. Michael Waller stated: “The testimony of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) before this subcommittee on 26 June of this year is a case in point, where the witness failed even to discuss the subject on which he was requested to testify, which was on growing Wahhabi influence in the United States. The FBI Director himself has a splendid staff of speechwriters who painstakingly avoid using the words ‘Islam’ and ‘terrorist’ in the same sentence. Such dissembling does a disservice to the American public and arguably has harmed efforts to protect the country from terrorism. “Part of the trepidation against honestly discussing the issue is the atmosphere of fear and intimidation surrounding part of the discourse. Oftentimes as soon as a non-Muslim notes that nearly 100 percent rate of terrorist attacks were perpetrated in recent years by those who call themselves Muslim, certain self-proclaimed Muslim ‘leaders’ in the United States take to the airwaves, the press and the Internet to denounce the critic as being ‘racist’ or ‘bigoted.’ Some of their non-Muslim friends have done the same, creating a chilling effect on open discussion, leading to poor public understanding of the conflict at hand.” We see in this instance that suspicious and most likely nefarious forces from within the Islamofascist community work in parallel with the American Fourth Estate to quell honest and open dialogue and debate on the root causes of Islamofascist aggression. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted coconspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing federal court case, has been cited by most every terrorism and counterterrorism expert and analyst as having links to Hamas. Several of their high-ranking officials have been found to have had ties to terrorist organizations. Yet, incredibly, in the face of this knowledge, the FBI and other governmental agencies continue to engage CAIR as a credible civil rights group, going as far as to enlist their “help” in the training of government personnel on the issue of tolerance toward the Islamic community. The mainstream media and organizations like CAIR are just two obstructionist entities regarding the open and honest discussion of the causes of radical Islamist terrorism, Islamofascist aggression. Their motives are ideologically driven. The mainstream media has an embedded progressive-liberal agenda – an anti-American bias, as it were – that has been documented in research done by the Pew Public Policy Research Center. Organizations like CAIR have a vested interest in seeing the radical and unyielding tenets of Islam prevail over American doctrine as mandated by the US Constitution. But, even though these two forces are formidable, even though they, both singularly and collectively, pose a serious and substantial threat to our nation’s very existence, the greatest threat to the longevity of our country, to our survival as a nation, is our own apathy. The average American spends more time watching reality television than they do exploring the real threat facing our nation in Islamofascist aggression. Most haven’t any idea that mosques promoting Wahhabism ideology, ideology that preaches hate for the West and the downfall of the United States, funded by Saudi Arabia, exist in our own neighborhoods, our own towns and cities. One document of Wahhabist origin brought to light by the Holy Land Foundation trial, the Ikhwan in America, states: “The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process.’ The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ’sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” As we apathetically, narcissistically, place our own lives, our own self-importance, our own wants and desires above our responsibility to gather knowledge on a foe whose mission is the demise of our very way of life, that foe exists, recruits, trains and plots in our own neighborhoods, our own religious communities and our own government agencies. We, We the People, are too lazy, too comfortable, too apathetic to engage in our constitutionally mandated civic responsibility to be aware, to provide proper government oversight. Instead we allow the mainstream media to dictate the political agenda and the faux-civil rights organizations to set the ideological parameters. We are our own worst enemy. Think about that, think about the abdication of our civic responsibilities, the next time you are watching your child sleep, the next time you are worried about their future. Then do something about it. |
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| Frank Salvato is the Executive Director and Director of Terrorism Research for Basics Project a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(C)(3) research and education initiative. His writing has been recognized by the US House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention. His organization, Basics Project, partnered in producing the first ever national symposium series addressing the root causes of radical Islamist terrorism. He also serves as the managing editor for The New Media Journal. Mr. Salvato has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor on FOX News Channel and is the host of the NMJ Radio show broadcast global on NetTalkWorld global talk radio and broadcast live on BlogTalk Radio. He is a regular guest on The Right Balance with Greg Allen on the Accent Radio Network, syndicated on over 25 stations nationally and on The Captain’s America Radio Show catering to the US Armed Forces around the world, as well as an occasional guests on radio programs across the country. His opinion-editorials are syndicated nationally and he is occasionally quoted in The Federalist. |
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Artfldgr said,
you never answer that question.. you first have to let us know what those roots are… your too busy bloviating…
in case you havent notices, socialism/communism is the order of the day, and so anything that is tied to the tenets of that change, is what doesnt get reported correctly…
so what does that have to do with your question?
well, your bloviating never gets to any history… that the modern roots of the current situation got its seed planting from wwii socialists, and post war communists..
one only has to search to read about hitler and the mullahs and the enemy of our enemy (jews/west) is our freinds..
then one only has to read the defector pacepa from romania, caucescus autobiography and such, and would find out that the modern versions were by kgb and such…
with the left in love with communism.. nothing that would connect to that, and have us not want totalitarian control of our lives, is never on the radar…
how many movies have you seen about the gulag? the murders and stuff of the cold war? the intrigue..
every other thing under the sun has been covered by hollyweird, but nothing having to do with the communists… one big hole…
why no real movie as to stalin and the purges? how about a real movie as to the lubyanka? maybe a movie showing how the cattle cars of hitler, were used to ship out the latvians to slow death… how about a movie covering the 10 million starving in hungary?
nope… what we get is THEIR propaganda films being shown on cable..
so? where is it all? anything that does exist is comic… or avoids any questions… or changes the facts.
you will NEVER have the press reporting the roots and history, since they are the same for the gulags they dont report… the mccarthy stuff that they misreport (Even now after venona), and so on and so forth.
better read aldous huxley… and understand the differene between soft and hard totalitarianism… one is a selling point, the other is what you get.
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As Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime director of the Romanian espionage service (DIE), later explained, the PLO was conceived at a time when the KGB was creating “liberation front” organizations throughout the Third world. Others included the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created in 1964 with help from Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and the National Liberation Army of Colombia, created in 1965 with help from Fidel Castro. But the PLO was the KGB’s most enduring achievement.
In 1964, the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Soviet blueprint for a Palestinian National Charter—a document drafted in Moscow—and made Ahmad Shukairy, the KGB’s agent of influence, the first PLO chairman. The Romanian intelligence service was given responsibility for providing the PLO with logistical support. Except for the arms, which were supplied by the KGB and the East German Stasi, everything, according to Ion Pacepa, “came from Bucharest. Even the PLO uniforms and the PLO stationery were manufactured in Romania free of charge, as a ‘comradely help.’ During those years, two Romanian cargo planes filled with goodies for the PLO landed in Beirut every week.”
The PLO came on the scene at a critical moment in Middle East history. At the Khartoum conference held shortly after the Six-Day war, the defeated and humiliated Arab states confronted the “new reality” of an Israel that seemed unbeatable in conventional warfare. The participants of the conference decided, among other things, to continue the war against Israel as what today would be called a “low intensity conflict.” The PLO’s Fatah forces were perfect to carry out this mission.
The Soviets not only armed and trained Palestinian terrorists but also used them to arm and train other professional terrorists by the thousands. The International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (CPSU), the Soviet Security Police (KGB), and Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) all played major roles in this effort. From the late 1960s onwards, moreover, the PLO maintained contact with other terror groups—some of them neo-Nazi and extreme right-wing groups—offering them support and supplies, training and funding.
The Soviets also built Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba People’s Friendship University to serve as a base of indoctrination and training of potential “freedom fighters” from the Third world. More specialized training in terrorism was provided at locations in Baku, Odessa, Simferopol, and
Tashkent. Mahmoud Abbas, later to succeed Yassir Arafat as head of the PLO, was a graduate of Patrice Lumumba U, where he received his Ph.D. in 1982 after completing a thesis partly based on Holocaust denial.
Cuba was also used as a base for terrorist training and Marxist indoctrination, part of a symbiotic relationship between its revolutionary cadre and the PLO. The Cuban intelligence service (DGI) was under the direct command of the KGB after 1968. Palestinian terrorists were identified in Havana as early as 1966; and in the 1970s DGI representatives were dispatched to PLO camps in Lebanon to assist terrorists being nurtured by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In late April 1979, an agreement was reached for the PFLP to have several hundred of its terrorists trained in Cuba, following a meeting between its chief George Habash and Cuban officials.
December 14, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Artfldgr said,
take a look at a map…
iran is the only land shipment route left open to supply arms to the middle east and to africa… no iran… and you HAVE to ship them or fly them.
cant fly by secret… and ships are open to inspection…
[which is why they bombed spain... what canal is there? and what access does it block and what would be searched if they didnt have control there and lost iran?]
this is why russia is letting chavez make weapons… its a short hop to africa from south america… and if caught, venezuela gets the blame, not russa… even though its their weapons, their designs and their deals.
right now, as of the past few days, its been pointed uot that russia is the largest arms dealer inthe world… follwed by france.
plug up iran… and its hard to move 20 billion in arms under a cloak.
why else would they care about the sea and those poor little coutnries there? right next to the same countries there are otehr countries that are for thet aking… but they are no good.. they dont serve the purpose of misdirection, and land bridge.
russia does not have a production economy… they have raw materials…
africa is a threat to them… if africa stabalized then the natural resources would come available at more reasonable prices.
the middle east and such has oil… they are not a threat unless they end up like turkey… take a look at a map, and you can see that industrialization is why turkey sides with the US… the more industrializaiotn yuo have, the more you benifit from stability.
if the middle east was stable, then it would build up like turkey… then it would have a greater need for stability rather than instability to prop up oil above normal market rates.
see the pattern?
this is why the US was so hopeful… because and still are about china… china now has a tough decision to make that becomes much tougher once you build up over a certain level…
do they cash out for ideology… take control… or do they let it all ride, and gain the good stuff for their own people like other countries… china seems to care a bit more about its people… (at least compared to russia), though in a different way than we are used to.
china now realizes that if they play their nuclear card, their people will suffer greatly… and that if they dont, and hang tough… their people will continue to see greater wealth and happiness and prosperity…
putin and others never intended to build up the system.. turn to golytsin and you will find that the fall was a plan… and many consider it still is… which is why things are going back.. they got their money, they got theri tech, and america is morally weak and hated by everyone and in an economically and productive bad place.
with the US about to close the door on the arms money… which in turn would end up stabalizing the region due to lack of weapons for the liberation armies and fronts and such… (too many to count here)… and so would their abilities.
with that stabilization would return… and oil price would have to go down… and they would have to develop technologies and such to augment that… that would in turn make them favor stabiluity more than instability… it would also allow the poor to move to the middle class and the countries to be even more wealthy than they are now… as raw materials is a dead end eventually…
our leftists and socialists, and communists here want one world governemnt… they want instability because it hides merit, and lets them operate without it. if stability came, we wouldnt be so distracted… we would look to our politicians and start saying that they either do better or go.
in a crisis you dont switch horses in mid stream… so they keep crisis coming.. which for incompetents is easy. and we waste our lives trying to fix the problems that they keep creatiing… and lilke zissyphus we are stuck.
December 14, 2007 at 2:12 pm
jackal1994 said,
Us intelligence agents and military advisors went into Afghanistan to fight the spread of communism. Then when the Russians were beaten back, we packed up and left. “Our job is done communism was defeated!” Our politician’s shouted. There was no nation building, no mine removal (our mines or theirs), or anything else to help this war-torn nation. In one of his fanatical speeches Osama called it “the great American betrayal”.
Also, maybe if the US wasn’t so rabidly pro-Isreal (pooh-poohing Isreal’s flaunting disobedience of many UN rulings to leave the illegal settlements past the green-line). The U.S. wants to “play” at peace-broker the way a five-year old wants to “play” at driving a car–from his bigwheel on the curb.
Maybe if we actually threatened to delay or stop the $94billion/year we give Israel (or stop/delay all the free fighters or patriot missiles sent to Israel) then we would have credibility as real peace-brokers.
I agree that their is an extreme shameless liberal bent in media. (I remember reading an article in USAToday hinting that yes Kobe’s accuser was lying, but it was Kobe’s fault for not protecting himself properly like the rap stars do, and his parents fault for not letting him engage in casual sex more often).
But on the topic of illuminating why terrorists hate the US–it’s actually a political thing, not a liberal thing.
December 14, 2007 at 4:58 pm
amfortas said,
My Chief Instructor was Maj. Gen., Dr., Professor Dick Clutterbuck who went on to establish the counter-terrorism studies unit at St Andrews in Scotland.
The terroristic destruction developments in Islamic lands and peoples, well outlined by Artfldgr (excellent work there Dodger), have gone hand in hand with theoretical devices developed in British, Australian, American and French Universities. Bombs are not all of the explosive type. There are mind-bombs too.
In our Universities the take-over by cultural marxists has so undermined western thought, particularly through the anti-western, anti-male civilisation criticisms driven predominantly by feminism’s advocates, and created arguements against western masculine paradigms, and severly weakening our value-structure. This has opened the door to Islamic Caliphat ideals to replace western democratic models which had previously been underpinned by a strong western masculine confidence.
The West is weakened. Our previously strong civilising drive, Men, has been decried and villified, criticised and marginalised. Deliberately. Women are more easily terrified. The masculine drive of Islamic cultures has grown and developed after lying dormant and moribund for 700 years. It is an evil manifestation of maleness just as Communism was an evil manifestation of community and cooperation.
Clutterbuck was warning about all of this back in the 70’s.
December 15, 2007 at 2:30 am
Artfldgr said,
Thank you! From someone that has attended things, I will take that as a big compliment since I am not a part of any of that. maybe i missed a calling as an analyst?
anyway, is this the same clutterbuck that wrote International Crisis and Conflict? (as well as other books on terrorism and so forth?)
January 10, 2008 at 9:31 am
Artfldgr said,
January 10, 2008 at 9:43 am