VIETNAM VETERANS FOR ACADEMIC REFORM
The University of Kansas Student Auxiliary
V.V.A.R.: Leading the student revolt on campus against speech codes, political correctness, multiculturalism, gender feminism, dormitory re-education, lying about Vietnam, and other instruments of academic oppression.
Leonard Magruder - Founder/President
Former professor of psychology - Suffolk College, N.Y.
Member: National Association of Scholars
CONTACT: Magruder44@aol.com - Phone: 785-312-9303
THE HORROR OF ISLAM AND THE NEED FOR DETERRENCE - NOW!
By Leonard Magruder
September 5, 2003
“Speaking in the London-based Arabic-language publication al Majallah, al Qaeda spokesman Abu Mohammed al Ablaj said, “We have already penetrated U.S. institutions. What is coming is worse than 9/11.” (Wall Street Journal, Aug. 29, 2003)
The following article appeared in the Aug. 26, 2003, edition of The Lawrence-Journal-World:
U.S. FEARS MORE ATTACKS
“Most Americans think terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden are in this country and have the resources to launch a major attack, says a poll released two weeks before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The CNN-USA Today Gallup poll found that four in five think terrorists are prepared to a launch a major attack anytime.”
Why did the article not go on to say, for example, “500,000 American and allied troops in Iraq are on full red alert ready to invade Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia if such an attack occurs”? In other words where is our plan for deterrence? The terrorists think they are safe because they have no country. But we know that they do come from countries, ones that often support them. And we know they care about the expansion of Muslim territory and would not like to see that territory diminished, much less in the hands of Americans. Whether Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or Indonesia, if we lose a major American city then there must be retaliation, if only to deter them from striking again. Because of the desperate situation our country finds itself in we are reproducing below an earlier article we wrote to try to get people talking about the need for a plan of deterrence. Please pass this on. The danger is very real. If anyone out there has an idea on this we would like to hear from you. National attention to this issue is of the highest priority to V.V.A.R..
THE BIND THE WORLD IS IN
by Leonard Magruder
Muslim thinking is very similar to that of the Old Testament in that if you follow God’s Law, in their case the Sharia, God will bless you. If you disobey, God will fail you. While the West tempers this formula with the experience of Job, who pointed out that bad things happen to good people, it is a very rigid formula for Muslims. So when things go wrong the world of Islam cries “Back to the Sharia.” that legalistic horror based on, or derived from, the Koran, seen most clearly in the practices of the Taliban, and in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and the Sudan, arms and legs cut off, people stoned, beaten, and executed for minor offenses.
Wherever Muslims live under Sharia law, adulterers are publicly flogged or stoned to death, sometimes before thousands of spectators in public stadiums. There are no rights for women or children, with women genitally mutilated, and beaten in the streets for the slightest infraction. They care nothing for other beliefs, about being fair, have no juries, no free speech. Television and radio are forbidden, music and dance prohibited. It is their way or execution, the death penalty, with no appeal, no delay. You are simply shot in the head where you stand, and your children shot before you. In “honor killings” women suspected of adultery are either killed or mutilated. Here is one description in today’s news out of Pakistan: “He cut off the lower lobes of her ears, then sliced her nose at the base. He then used a metal rod to poke out her eyes. He then put his finger inside each socket to make sure nothing was left.” With some variations these practices are found throughout the Muslim world.
Although violently criticized for it by multiculturalists, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told the truth when he said to the world, “We should be conscious of the superiority of our cvililization, which... guarantees respect for human rights and religion,” adding that human rights were “very sorely absent in Islamic countries.” Wherever Muslims are in a majority, minority religions often suffer ghastly violence. Buddhists have been blinded, had fingers cut off and hands amputated, iron rods nailed through their abdomens, women and children have been gang-raped and hundreds of temples desecrated and thousands of houses looted and burned. Hindus also are subject to rape, torture, killing, and the destruction of cultural and religious identity at the hands of Muslims. In Nigeria, only 50% Muslim, vigilantes try to impose Sharia law by stoning, flogging and chopping off hands, as Nigeria undergoes a process of “Talibanization.” So much for the fatuous nonsense of multiculturalists, who cringe before the simplist moral discrimination that any child could make.
The dream of Muslims that this stupifying horror will triumph over the world is utterly unbelievable.We doubt that any religion in history has ever held to such a barbaric code of morality. “Moderates” may mean well. But they know their position is not considered true Islam, and that their influence disappears when the masses retreat to the literal interpretation of the Koran.
If Muslin nations wish to correct what has gone wrong in their societies, the answer is not “Back to the Sharia.” What they must do is break the hold of Islamic teaching, discard the Sharia, liberate their women, start to teach science and engineering, forget theocracy and turn to democracy. Unfortunately, this is unthinkable to the vast majority--it is literally sinful. It is heresy because the Sharia derives from the Koran, and the Koran is the Word of God, the road to salvation for them. It would be easier to change the modern world around them. But of course the modern world would never accept the monstrous brutalities of the Sharia. So that means war. And that is the nature of the bind the world is in.”
Robert Spencer has written what is probably the most useful book for the layman that we have on the subject of Islam, Islam Unveiled. He recently said this in an article with regard to the Sharia:
“The Indonesian terrorist group, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), demonstrated last week that the war on terror is not just an effort to prevent recurrences of September 11; it is a struggle for human rights. As JI celebrates its murder of fifteen people and the wounding of 150 more in a suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta last Tuesday, as well as the death sentence given Thursday to JI member Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, the ‘miling bomber’ who murdered 202 people in Bali last October, it is instructive to remember that JI is doing all this killing for the Sharia. The Sharia is the classic code of Islamic law that mandates stoning for adulterers and amputation for thieves, disallows a rape victim’s testimony in her own case, and hamstrings freedom of conscience by prescribing death for apostates from Islam and those who have blasphemed the Prophet. JI, al-Qaeda’s southeast Asian affiliate, dreams of the day when the Sharia holds sway over the entire world.
Draconian blasphemy laws, appallingly loose divorce laws (for men only), a totalitarian resistance to self-criticism, institutionalized brutality and oppression of women - these are the features of the Sharia law that forms the centerpiece of JI’s dream state. Their path to this utopia is stained with the blood of the nightclubbers, businessmen and bystanders that JI is rejoicing over having slaughtered in Indonesia. The events recounted above illustrate why everyone who values freedom and basic human rights should oppose the Sharia, not just in Iraq or Indonesia, but everywhere that it hinders the liberty of human beings - including Saudi Arabia. After all, moderate Muslims still have not answered the nagging question of why, if Islam forbids terrorism and the Koran teaches nonviolence, have so many devout Muslims around the world misinterpreted it so thoroughly and repeatedly. Where are the moderate Muslims who can teach, not Western non-Muslims, but their fellow Muslims that Islam is peaceful? If the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslim advocacy groups really want to demonstrate that “Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy and forgiveness that should not be associated with acts of violence against the innocent,” let them definitively renounce the Sharia for which JI kills, and which brings anything but peace and mercy to those who must suffer under it. Let them work to create in the United States a truly moderate Islam that accepts the principles of Western secular society and coexistence with non-Muslims. If they do not do this, it is clear: history will judge them as being on the wrong side of the great struggle for the rights of mankind.”
Islam is absolutely on the wrong side of the struggle for human rights. The Koran does not forbid terrorism nor does it teach non-violence. Furthermore, according to its most basic principles, it cannot accept the principles of modern secular society or co-existance with non-Muslims. The mission of Islam is to either convert the whole world, or kill the unbelievers.
Wherever Muslims are in a minority, the Sharia remains hidden. But wherever Muslims are in the majority, there will always be forces straining to impose “pure Islam,” or the Sahria, on that society. And any civilized society will fight that horror to the death. Certainly Americans will, who are raised on “Give me liberty or give me death” (or were, until feminists started teaching history).
We don’t know it yet but we are at war with Islam, not just the terrorists. (And American universities, especially Middle East scholars, (MESA) should stop teaching students sugary nonsense about Islam and start telling them the truth. )
Around the world Muslims admire bin Laden. They suspect that he and the terrorists represent “pure “ Islam. But have we forgotten 9/11, and what bin Laden said before it happened?
“We, with God’s help, call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God’s order to kill the Americans and plunder their money...divide their nation, tear them to shreds, destroy their economy, burn their companies, ruin their welfare, sink their ships, and kill them on land, sea, and air...May Allah torture them by your hands.”
What does Al Qaeda want to do? They want to kill you. They want to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States. All three hundred million. God told them to. What a monstrous, insane, blasphemy! The world recoils in horror at what these people are up to and every parliment, every government, every nation should be issuing proclamations saying so loud and clear, and marshalling every resource to make it clear that this means total war against Islam if necessary.
We know what the terrorists have already done. But look at what they have attempted that failed or was foiled, attempts on religious leaders, heads of state and some of the world’s greatest landmarks. It is certain that whole cities are next:
1) The “Bojinka” plot.” A plan to destroy 11 American planes simultaneously over the Pacific.
2) An attempt on the White House or Capitol Building on 9/11
3) Plan to assassinate Pope John Paul ll (who survived an attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood earlier)
4) An attempt to assassinate the President of Egypt, Mubarak.
5) Aborted or failed plans to bomb the Statue of Liberty, the Houses of Parliament, London, and the Eiffel Tower, Paris.
6) The attempt to blow up the USS ship,”The Sullivan.”
7) Plan to assassinate Clinton in Manila, earlier in Bangladesh.
8) A plan to simultaneously bomb U.S. and Israeli embassies in Manila and other Asian capitals.
9) Ahmed Resam is arrested in Port Angeles,Washington, with bombs to blow up Los Angeles International Airport.
This jihad is against all unbelievers. If they do not submit to the will of Allah they must be put to death without mercy. They believe that the Koran compels them to wage war on apostates and infidels. Herein lies the potential for civilizational war. The world against Islam. Moderate Islam, Islamics, do not pursue this goal, the Islamists, or extremists do. This is not a crucial distinction, however. Because there is an intolerant and militant element built into the Koran, moderates all too often admire the militants and can easily become equally inflamed. Note that the Muslim world, especially Mulim clerics, lacked the moral clarity to speak out after the events of 9/11. The killing of infidels is an Islamic agenda.
“Such things will happen in America, it is the will of Allah,”said one Al Qaeda leader, “We will offer no chance for America to come to an agreement with the righteous warriors, no possibility for compromise, no hope for a treaty, no attempt at solution.The war will be waged until the United States remains a memory.” Under these conditions there is no choice but to eliminate not only Al Qaeda, but everything even remotely connected with terrorism.
When you consider the bind involved in the current Islamic expansionism, that they either succeed in conquest and then impose the Sharia, or fail, in which case the command is to kill all unbelievers, the free world should be working day and night on a plan to deter this insanity. Our current “terrorist-by-terrorist” approach cannot possibly work. One hand-held missile aimed at a plane could paralyze our society, as could the loss of one major city, say Washington. And we know for a certainty that they intend to do that. Therefore, a plan must be implemented immediately that will insure that the cost to the Muslim world of such an attack would be the loss of up to the entire Muslim bloc of nations. Nothing less than a policy of mutually assured destruction (MAD) will deter them.While terrorists will sacrific themselves to enter Paradise, it must be for a cause, in this case the furtherance of Islam. If they know such a sacrifice will hurt that cause, it might deter them.”Might,” because these are very irrational people, religiously crazed, but it must be tried as the only solution that might work. Our proposal, already published once, is that the free world add its armies to those of America in Iraq to invade at minimum Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, all nations that support terrorists, at the slightest hint of an attack on us. And we may have to eradicate all vestige of the Islamic religion, beginning with the closing of Mecca and the destruction of all mosques. Our president is right. Bring it on. A religion this much in love with ghastly mayhem and death has no place on this planet. On the other hand, imagine the anguish of the American people if, after the loss of millions in a city, our mighty military forces don’t know where to strike in retaliation, as is the case at present. Don’t know where to strike to even deter it from happening again. The situation is a strategic nightmare. Our leaders must start working on some such plan immediately or forfeit the nation.
As Benjamin Netanyahu, former prime minister of Israel, said in a recent article, “Most Americans understand that had Al Qaeda possessed an atomic device on 9/11, the city of New York would not exist today. They realize that on the last 9/11 memorial day we could have grieved not for thousands of dead, but for millions. It appears that people will have to once again see the unimaginable materialize in front of their eyes before they are willing to do what must be done “
We are just sitting here, taking polls on when the destruction will come, with no plan to deter the enemy. We must act NOW, before it is too late.
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