Castro Won in the Final Inning

North Africa and the Middle East are undergoing upheavals that will forever alter the face of global politics. Europe is wrestling for its life with a swelling population of young radicals seeking the Islamization of the West. And America’s culture war is on the brink of becoming civil war as the far left brazenly presses its advantage under the presidency of one of its own. These are tumultuous, unsettling times, and a recent book lays the groundwork for coming to grips with them.

In 2009, Jamie Glazov, managing editor of David Horowitz’s FrontPage website, released his book “United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror,” an incisive, devastating examination of the psychosis behind the left’s deification of totalitarian ideologies.

Glazov’s timely followup effort is “Showdown with Evil: Our Struggle Against Tyranny and Terror,” from Mantua Books. Mantua is a Canadian press that describes itself as publishing works “relating to the struggle of the West to preserve its freedoms in the face of Islamofascism,” books that “go beyond the headlines to explore the underlying values and ideologies that explain current politics and culture wars.”

“Showdown with Evil” is the perfect embodiment of that mission statement. It is a relentlessly enlightening, entertaining and engaging collection of 29 interviews conducted over the course of the last several years by Glazov for FrontPage. As former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle states in his foreword, this is “an illuminating and important commentary on the largest issues facing America and the West,” particularly the “Islamist agenda that has replaced communism as the principal threat to Western values and civilization.”

Islamic Supremacist Mosques: Primer for Protest

Islamic Supremacist Mosques: A Primer for Protest

Islamic supremacist mosques: a primer for protest

Emboldened by their man in the White House, the Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood front the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is ratcheting up their offensive on patriotic Americans who dare to challenge Islamic supremacism and the creeping Sharia (Islamic law) into secular American life.

On Thursday, CAIR published an Action Alert entitled “Action: Report Harassment by Anti-Mosque Protesters.” In it, CAIR (which the Justice Department named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation jihad terror funding case in 2007) calls on Muslims in the United States to “report any harassment of worshipers attending Jummah prayers tomorrow and throughout the month of Ramadan.”

CAIR is using the Goebbels (Hitler’s propaganda minister) method to construct false narratives and bogeymen. There is no harassment.

This is all part of CAIR’s attempt to create from a whole cloth yet again a narrative of victimhood regarding Muslims in the U.S., when it is their Islamic machine that relentlessly smears, demonizes, attacks, and attempts to destroy those who are fighting for basic human rights for all.

The Alert claims that there has been “general Islamophobic hysteria generated in recent months by anti-mosque and anti-Islam extremists” and notes that “on September 11, extremist groups plan to hold a rally in New York in opposition to a planned Muslim community center in that city. The keynote speaker at the rally will be anti-Islam extremist Dutch politician Geert Wilders.” (Actually Wilders will be among a number of prominent speakers, including former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, journalist Andrew Breitbart, 9/11 family members, and others.) CAIR also refers to protests against mosques taking place in Texas, California, and elsewhere.

The vicious CAIR operatives warn Muslims about harassment at anti-mosque protests. The Hamas-linked group tells its minions to be alert and contact police and CAIR “if protesters go beyond the constitutionally-protected right to free speech in a public area -- for example, if protesters trespass on mosque property or physically harass worshippers.”

This is a lie. This does not happen. The only protesters who are ever harassed, victimized or physically assaulted are supporters of Israel, who have been brutalized many times at pro-Israel rallies. There is plenty of evidence and documentation of that.

We have witnessed a number of “recent attacks on mosques” that turned out to have been perpetrated by Muslims.

So be on guard.

That said, this smear campaign is a call to action. CAIR directs Muslims to “take video and still photographs of the protest and send to CAIR.” Why? Because they want to catch someone doing or saying something, or holding a sign, that they can use to defame the entire protest as “racist,” “bigoted,” “extremist” and the like.

Remember: we are at war. We are fighting for our nation, for our values, for the Constitutional principles of freedom that made America great. We are at war for the freedom of speech, the equality of rights of women, and the freedom of conscience – all of which are denied by Islamic law. We are at war, and CAIR is on the other side. The war of ideas is full on.

We are in a war in the information battlespace. Each and every one of us is a general in this war. Think like one. If you are protesting against the building of a mosque in your area, do not play into the hands of the enemy. Do not give the enemy ammunition. Do not carry inflammatory signs. Do not bring dogs, or pigs, or pork chops, or other things that Muslims find offensive to the mosque site. Stick to the facts. Be righteous. Ask yourself, how will the media and the Islamic supremacists frame this?

This is not kowtowing to Islamic sensibilities. This is fighting to win. Focus on the ties to terror groups and Islamic supremacist groups that mosque organizers almost certainly have. Focus on the links to the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization dedicated to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within” – most mosques in the U.S. have some Brotherhood links.

Focus on their refusal to condemn jihad terror groups, as they almost certainly will. Focus on their funding, which will almost certainly be questionable. Focus, in short, on the facts, not on emotional or angry appeals or attacks that CAIR will use to shift the focus away from Islamic supremacism and jihad and onto Muslims as the supposed victims of “bigotry.” Remove infiltrators and plants from your protests whose aim is to make you look bad. FDI and SIOA will have a lot of security at the 911 rally to immediately remove infiltrators, agitators and plants.

In other words, fight strategically. Fight smart. Fight so as to win. We are fighting to defend a civilization dedicated to human dignity and human rights. Let us be worthy in the defense of that great civilization.

Now sing the National Anthem one more time…

Previous related: Also see our SIOA primer on how to fight the Islamic suprem

Israel is the Heart of Our Civilization

Israel is the heart of our civilization, not the appendix

Paris
Nidra Poller

The airwaves are thick with the sound of raucous voices and clashing swords. O Jerusalem--well, ok, East Jerusalem-- and the thundering hooves will brook no opposition! Get Israel!

At the slightest twinge of international pain they cry out, “Cut it off! Get rid of it, and the worldwide body politic will finally live in peace.” Ahmadinejad has promised hundreds of times to wipe Israel off the map without provoking much of a reaction. His proxies stock arms, poke and prod, without raising international eyebrows. Then Israel approves housing construction in Jerusalem and the sleeping warriors awake. Grrrrrr! The Obama administration bares its fangs and the troops go into action. General Petraeus warns—then denies he warned-- that the unresolved Israel-Palestine conflict is disturbing Muslim nations, stimulating extremism, and putting our boys in danger. Walt & Mearsheimer point the finger at homegrown Zionists who are twisting the arm of this vast nation, bringing it to its knees, and forcing filthy Israel down our throats. Israel is a pain. Dr. Quack has the solution. Cut out that festering appendix and the ummah will welcome us with open arms.

The “two-state solution that everyone knows will resolve the conflict” is brandished like a scimitar: Israeli withdrawal to the ’67 (’49 armistice) lines, dismantlement of settlements, a mini territorial tradeoff, a “solution” to the refugee problem, and the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital… The “solution” is a lethal narrative, a knife to the heart of Jerusalem that cripples Jewish sovereignty in the homeland.

What makes Jerusalem so precious? The Jews. Mecca was sanctified by Islam, even though the black stone pre-existed the founding gesture, and Jerusalem was sanctified by Judaism. Subsequent religious claims to the city are accretions to the original consecration. Jerusalem is the Christian holy land because Jesus was a Jew. And Islam’s claim is based on a scriptural injunction to supersede Judaism and Christianity. If Muslim claims to Jerusalem are not religious they are inexplicable. Ramallah would be a more suitable capital of a Palestinian state that truly intended to live peacefully side by side with Israel. Why should the world be dragged into a fierce tug of war when there is enough for everyone… if, in fact, it is a question of legitimate aspirations. The Muslim claim to Jerusalem is staked on the Al Aqsa mosque and the gilded Dome of the Rock that dominate the Temple Mount (the French call it “l’esplanade des mosquées”). And if it is granted, the heart of our civilization will be broken. The precedent established in Jerusalem will be extended to Paris, New York, London, the Hague, Detroit, Washington D.C… wherever a mosque is built, Islam will extend its political sovereignty. It will be the end of separation of church and state, the end of religious and political freedom. Al Aqsa is built on the ruins of the Jewish Temple. Europeans—so eager to impose the division of Jerusalem-- finally nixed plans for mega- mosques in Rome and London. But their long-delayed awakening is trumped by the anti-Zionism of the American president.

Two weeks ago mosque-goers threw rocks down from the Temple Mount at Jews worshipping at the kotel (Western Wall). Local Islamists regularly stir up the masses with false claims that Israel is violating the sanctity of al Aqsa. Then President Obama worked up a fury against the Israeli government with false claims that housing construction in “East” Jerusalem (as if it were another state, like South Dakota!) jeopardizes the peace process. Ramat Shlomo is in north Jerusalem but ideology doesn’t have a compass. The restoration of the Har Hova synagogue, “right next to Islam’s holiest sites,” was a further affront to Islam dutifully relayed by the world’s pundits, bereft of the slightest notions of logic and chronology. Barack Hussein Obama dragged Benyamin Netanyahu into the coal shed and bound him hand and foot with ultimatums. Add it all up: in the space of two short weeks the free world has bowed to the will of Temple Mount Islamists!

The faulty religious justification for the division of Israel’s capital is shored up with a secular narrative that starts from a falsified baseline where all of Israel was Palestinian land stolen by Jewish colonizers who created an illegal state which was subsequently extended by military conquests to include “East Jerusalem.” Out of the goodness of their hearts the Palestinians will reluctantly accept the fait accompli for a rump state within the 1949 armistice line. But that’s all! Everything else is illegal and all means of reconquest are justified.

Jerusalem was divided by the sword. The neighborhoods claimed today as exclusively reserved for Arab-Muslims were emptied of their rightful Jewish residents by atrocious massacres. The survivors fled for their lives. When Europe--followed now by the United States--validates that sort of zoning regulation, the rules will apply to their own cities. No need for tanks rumbling down the Champs Elysées or bombs raining down on Coventry. Just increase the pressure on the pesky State of Israel, cut off its blood supply, and discover--too late--that you’ve given yourself a massive heart attack. Hillary Clinton’s “tough love” AIPAC speech concluded with a Passover homily. Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, preached the Secretary of State, and at every step of liberation and up to the threshold of the Promised Land, there were always hangers-back who said it was “too dangerous, too hard, too risky.” Today, she would have us believe, the Promised Land is a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. Israelis, like their hero Moses, should just do the right thing! Was there a rabbi in the house?

The lesson of pesach (Passover) is that the children of Israel were liberated from slavery in Egypt by the alliance between their own determination and the “outstretched hand.” The Jewish people have remained faithful to this Alliance, which is inseparable from the integrity of Jerusalem. The pesach seder is not the commemoration of a dead past, it is expressly the here and now of liberation. “I was a slave in Egypt…” We do not bow our heads to pharaohs, to presidents, or to international opinion.

The emissaries sent to Canaan to get the lay of the land came back and warned that it would be too hard to redeem the divine promise. “It’s no Paradise. And besides there’s all kinds of tough guys there,” they said, shivering in their boots. Deemed unworthy of the promised homeland, the liberated slaves spent forty years in the wilderness,

learning to be free. They gave birth to a new generation that had the courage to build a sovereign Jewish nation with Jerusalem as its capital. The values they forged are at the heart of our civilization.

Atlas Shrugs reprint

Winston Churchill and the Jews

Winston Churchill said about Jews and Judaism. "On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization."

His biographer Martin Gilbert referred to Palestine. He truly believed the Zionists would make something special of Palestine.

Previously, western nations such as Germany and Italy have lapsed into barbarity and preemptive war. Is there one serious scholar who blames the Jews for these atrocities?

Similarly, the USA has embarked on her disastrous Crusade for Empire in Asia. How can any serious person believe she acts as our friend in this activity?

Many people could profit by reading Martin Gilbert's latest book Churchill and the Jews.