It is chilling that the Baker-Hamilton report came on the eve of Pearl
Harbor's anniversary. In 1941, clashes every day in the Atlantic Ocean made
us more focused on the imminence of war with Germany than with Japan. Today
all eyes are on Iraq. It's called the center of the war on terrorism, but it
must not monopolize our attention. We need a third eye because we are now
less likely to be attacked by international terrorists than by homegrown
American citizens, self-radicalized individuals who are members of groups
inspired by al Qaeda propaganda.
This is a profoundly demoralizing thought, given the long tradition of
success our nation has enjoyed in infusing newcomers with the American
ideal. Britain, taking a different course, was proud to have created a
multicultural society. But apparently well-adapted young Muslims who were
born in Britain exploded the subway bombs of July 2005. Now the head of
Britain's domestic intelligence agency, Eliza Manningham-Buller, has come
out with a grave warning. Not so long ago it was an offense for anyone even
to mention the name of the head of MI-5. (The box office hit, Casino Royale,
has it right: 007's boss, Judi Dench, is a distinctly anonymous figure). So
the fact that the MI-5 director has stepped out of the shadows is
significant in itself. And what she says is that there are many more British
Muslims who back the terrorists. MI-5 has stopped five plots to date. We
know of the one to blow up 10 planes over the Atlantic, but MI-5 is
monitoring 1,600 other suspects, mostly homegrown Islamic terrorists who get
their training in murder and mayhem on the Internet. In Germany, too, only
an alert train conductor prevented the detonation of propane and gasoline
bombs that would have horribly burned and killed hundreds of commuters.
A new training ground. Interviews with the heads of counterterrorism and
local police officials in the United States yield similar assessments. The
threat is from second- and third-generation children of immigrants, fluent
in English and accustomed to American society but using the legal rights of
U.S. citizenship to rebel from within. They have learned the Koran on the
Internet; they lead small clusters of 20 to 25 mostly young men who share
feelings of alienation, a longing for self-importance, a need to be a part
of some larger group or cause. They have developed what is called
"adversarial assimilation."
Marc Sageman, who collected the life histories of 400 would-be jihadists,
found that most were well-to-do, with two thirds having some college
education and only 27 percent characterized as lower class. Some 70 percent
joined the ranks of the global jihadists while away from home. Separated
from the traditional bonds of family and culture, they drifted to the
mosques more for companionship than for religion, but there they found
extremists who appeared to offer a compelling, all-encompassing explanation
for their feelings of anomie and lack of self-worth.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/mor...man121206.php3
The Lord gave Israel several promises which are certainly applicable
to our nation: "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his
commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set
thee on high above all nations of the earth . . . . But it shall come to
pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to
observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee
this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee . .
. . The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt
go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be
removed into all the kingdoms of the earth" (Deuteronomy 28:1,15,25).]
Harbor's anniversary. In 1941, clashes every day in the Atlantic Ocean made
us more focused on the imminence of war with Germany than with Japan. Today
all eyes are on Iraq. It's called the center of the war on terrorism, but it
must not monopolize our attention. We need a third eye because we are now
less likely to be attacked by international terrorists than by homegrown
American citizens, self-radicalized individuals who are members of groups
inspired by al Qaeda propaganda.
This is a profoundly demoralizing thought, given the long tradition of
success our nation has enjoyed in infusing newcomers with the American
ideal. Britain, taking a different course, was proud to have created a
multicultural society. But apparently well-adapted young Muslims who were
born in Britain exploded the subway bombs of July 2005. Now the head of
Britain's domestic intelligence agency, Eliza Manningham-Buller, has come
out with a grave warning. Not so long ago it was an offense for anyone even
to mention the name of the head of MI-5. (The box office hit, Casino Royale,
has it right: 007's boss, Judi Dench, is a distinctly anonymous figure). So
the fact that the MI-5 director has stepped out of the shadows is
significant in itself. And what she says is that there are many more British
Muslims who back the terrorists. MI-5 has stopped five plots to date. We
know of the one to blow up 10 planes over the Atlantic, but MI-5 is
monitoring 1,600 other suspects, mostly homegrown Islamic terrorists who get
their training in murder and mayhem on the Internet. In Germany, too, only
an alert train conductor prevented the detonation of propane and gasoline
bombs that would have horribly burned and killed hundreds of commuters.
A new training ground. Interviews with the heads of counterterrorism and
local police officials in the United States yield similar assessments. The
threat is from second- and third-generation children of immigrants, fluent
in English and accustomed to American society but using the legal rights of
U.S. citizenship to rebel from within. They have learned the Koran on the
Internet; they lead small clusters of 20 to 25 mostly young men who share
feelings of alienation, a longing for self-importance, a need to be a part
of some larger group or cause. They have developed what is called
"adversarial assimilation."
Marc Sageman, who collected the life histories of 400 would-be jihadists,
found that most were well-to-do, with two thirds having some college
education and only 27 percent characterized as lower class. Some 70 percent
joined the ranks of the global jihadists while away from home. Separated
from the traditional bonds of family and culture, they drifted to the
mosques more for companionship than for religion, but there they found
extremists who appeared to offer a compelling, all-encompassing explanation
for their feelings of anomie and lack of self-worth.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/mor...man121206.php3
The Lord gave Israel several promises which are certainly applicable
to our nation: "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his
commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set
thee on high above all nations of the earth . . . . But it shall come to
pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to
observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee
this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee . .
. . The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt
go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be
removed into all the kingdoms of the earth" (Deuteronomy 28:1,15,25).]
They also said that they were against democracy and didn't support equality for women saying that it was ok to hit a woman. The shock of it was that these people where, on the surface, saying one thing and by their actions doing another they were liars of the worst kind.
