Dancing with Islam’s Assassins

Excerpt from Chapter 11:  Lying For Islam

Unfortunately, we need to remember that America—along with every country that isn’t under Muslim control—is part of what Muslims refer to as Dar-al-Harb, the domain or abode of war.  We may or not be at war with the Muslims, but—because we aren’t Muslims—the Muslims are at war with us.  However, because of Al-Takeyya, Muslims don’t have to admit their enmity and can instead pretend to be our friends.

It is important to realize that Al-Takeyya, lying for the sake of Allah, pertains to religion just as much as it does to politics.  In other words, what Muslim activists say in order to spread Islam may not, in fact, be true.

In the Quran, Mohammed seems to have gone from relatively tolerant to downright violent.  It is important to keep in mind that Islamic activists always quote the peaceful, tolerant verses from Mohammed’s early ministry even though they are fully aware that most of these passages were superseded by later passages written after he migrated to Medina.  The later verses endorse prejudice, intolerance, and terrorism where unbelievers are concerned.

I have heard stories of Muslims who were converted to Islam by people who quoted the peaceful, tolerant parts of the Quran and discussed the more violent verses only after the convert had become a Muslim.  By then, the converts were stuck.  In Muslim countries, renouncing Islam carries the death penalty.

Excerpt from Chapter 12, “Russia Will Rise Again”

The Soviet Union may have fallen, but even when things looked their worst for the Russian nation, Biblical scholars have historically believed that Russia was destined to play a major role—a superpower role—in the Middle East.  And Russia is, in fact, re-establishing itself as a superpower, relying not (for the moment) on its power as a nuclear nation, but on its vast reserves of energy and .

According to BBC News, “Energy will bring Russia considerable political power. The world is waiting to see how that power is going to be used.”[2]

Russia has more than a fifth of the world’s known natural gas reserves and about seven percent of the world’s oil. As this writing, Western Europe already gets a quarter of its gas from Russia.[3]

A control freak among nations, Russia has already used its energy clout to put political pressure on its former satellites.  “Rather than a reliable partner, they’ve found Moscow deeply vindictive toward any neighbor that crosses its interests.”[4]

Ever since the pro-Western Rose Revolution of November 2003, Georgian leaders say, Moscow's been trying to ruin the country's economy—first by raising gas prices, and in recent months by blocking imports of fruits, vegetables, wine and mineral water. Ditto for Ukraine, hit with a doubling of gas prices, a gas stoppage and a blockade of meat and produce in the wake of its own Orange Revolution. Even poor Moldova, which hasn't had a revolution of any color yet, was hit with a gas hike and a ban on wine exports to Russia after it struck a deal with the European Union sealing the borders of the tiny, Russian-speaking enclave of Transdniestr, which Moscow regards as a protectorate. "Russia treats us like it treated Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany in the '50s and '60s," Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili tells NEWSWEEK. "We are being punished for our attempts to be free."[5]

Western news media are beginning to become aware that Russia could use energy to gain the upper hand over Western nations if we allow it.  According to this Washington Post editorial:

Western countries should absorb an important lesson. Without a prosperous or technologically advanced economy and with greatly reduced military strength, Mr. Putin hopes to restore Russia's world-power status through its control of gas. That inevitably means manipulating supplies to other countries for political ends. Western countries that do not wish to receive Mr. Putin's ultimatums -- from Germany, France and Britain to the United States, which is being pressed by Russia to line up as a major customer for new Arctic gas fields -- should realize that dependence on Russian gas is not consistent with "energy security." … Russia cannot be allowed to hold its neighbors, or the world, hostage during a future cold winter.[6]

As reported by the Los Angeles Times, Vice President Cheney “accused the government of Vladimir V. Putin of rolling back human rights and using the country’s oil and gas reserves as ‘tools of intimidation or blackmail.’”[7]

Excerpt from Chapter 4—An American Hiroshima

The next American “9/11” could be a nuclear bomb.

In his article, “Pakistan & Dangers of Nuclear Jihad,” B. Raman of the South Asia Analysis Group points out that “Pakistan is the original birth place of the concept of the nuclear jihad, which highlighted the need for an Islamic atomic bomb and advocated the right and the religious obligation of the Muslims to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and use them, if necessary, to protect and advance their religion.  The jihadi terrorists and their ideologues in Pakistan perceived the nuclear weapon as the ultimate weapon of retribution against States which they viewed as enemies of Islam, particularly the USA and Israel.”[8]

Raman explains that “What is new about jihadi terrorism is the gravitation of a number of students of science or working scientists to the jihadi organizations to help the terrorists in their jihad. While the students of science came to the jihadi organizations from many Islamic countries of the world, working scientists came mainly from Pakistan.”[9]  He goes on to say that “Pakistan has been the epicentre of State-sponsored nuclear proliferation since the late 1980s.  Having benefited from funds contributed by Libya, Iran and Saudi Arabia for its clandestine military nuclear project, the Pakistan State had to agree to requests from these countries for helping them in acquiring a similar capability.”[10]

Whatever their motives, we now know that Pakistan has also cooperated with North Korea’s missile program.  We also know that Pakistan has been complicit in the transfer of nuclear technologies to Iran and Libya.  Raman points out that “Even if one were to accept [Pakistani President] Musharraf’s unconvincing arguments that this was a rogue operation by greedy scientists without the knowledge of the military, these concerns would only be aggravated and not lessened because if greedy scientists were prepared to help other States in return for money, they would be equally capable of selling material and expertise to jihadi terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda, which can pay as well as these Islamic States.”[11]

While Americans certainly have cause to be concerned about nuclear proliferation from one Islamic state to another, we have even more reason to worry about terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda, which answer to nobody but themselves and which do not concern themselves with traditional international diplomacy.

Writing in the August 11, 2004 edition of the New York Times, Nicholas D. Kristoff said that reports had regularly surfaced in the intelligence community that Al Qaeda had obtained a nuclear weapon from the Former Soviet Union.  At that time, those reports had not yet been confirmed, but Kristoff said, “We do know several troubling things: Al Qaeda negotiated for the $1.5 million purchase of uranium (apparently of South African origin) from a retired Sudanese cabinet minister; its envoys traveled repeatedly to Central Asia to buy weapons-grade nuclear materials; and Osama bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, boasted, ‘We sent our people to Moscow, to Tashkent, to other Central Asian states, and they negotiated, and we purchased some suitcase [nuclear] bombs.’”[12]

According to the July 12, 2005 G2Bulletin, “At least two fully assembled and operational nuclear weapons are believed to be hidden in the United States already, according to G2B intelligence sources and an upcoming book, ‘The al-Qaida Connection:  International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse,’ by former FBI consultant Paul L. Williams.  The cities chosen as optimal targets are New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Boston and Washington, D.C.”  These are the nine U.S. cities with the highest Jewish populations.”[13]