VIETNAM VETERANS FOR ACADEMIC REFORM
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Leonard Magruder - Founder/President
Former professor of psychology - Suffolk College, N.Y.
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The following are excerpts, in chronological order, from previous articles by V.V.A.R., or from radio interviews, on the subject of a plan to protect America from Islamist attack.
Invasion Plan
July 31, 2003
Between the programs of Homeland Security, the Proliferation Security Initiative, and the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, a great deal is being done to protect America from its enemies. In this article we argue that an important new element needs to be added. The only alternative to the collapse of the United States, which, with a number of nuclear devices is possible, is to find a way to include organizations like al Qaeda, terrorists without a country, into the framework of Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD, the arrangement by which we kept the peace with Communist Russia for forty years.
If we cannot attack the terrorists because they have no country, leaving us helpless, and them immune, then to stop them we must attack the nations who harbor them and often aid them. The Bush doctrine comes into play here: “Whoever aids terrorists is a terrorist nation.”
In his annual national security assessment to the Senate Armed Services Committee, George Tenet said, “Attacks have been prevented that otherwise would have taken place. The main enemy remains the U.S. We have time and again uncovered plots that are chilling.”
He does not elaborate. But we can assume from what he says that the danger is very close, and very deadly - and we may not be able to prevent the next attack.
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The Horror at the Heart of Islam
August 17, 2003
The militants believe that the Koran compels them to wage war on infidels in a double-think in which they call their aggression “defensive jihad.” 9/11 was “defensive jihad” because they claim we are attacking Islam. Since that is not true, therein lies the potential for civilizational war. The world against Islam. Moderate Islam, Islamics, do not generally pursue this goal, the Islamists, or militants do. But this is not a crucial distinction. 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.
While terrorists will sacrifice their lives to enter Paradise and get their hands on those 72 virgins, (the sexual pathology at the heart of Islam), it must be for a cause, in this case the furtherance of Islam. If they know such a sacrifice means massive destruction in Muslim lands, this will make their sacrifice meaningless.
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The Bind the World Is In
September 8, 2003
Their religious 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. So when things go wrong, the world of Islam cries, “Back to the Sharia,” that legalistic horror based on the Koran, seen most clearly in the practices of the Taliban and in Saudi Arabia, arms and legs cut off, people stoned, beaten, and executed for minor offenses. And back to the call in the Koran to spread Islam and the Sharia, by the sword if necessary, to the whole world.
For the Muslim world to become successful, they must 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. So their goal is our destruction because they cannot think of themselves as successful as long as we infidels exist and continue to outperform them. But of course the civilized 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.
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WRUF Radio Interview
October 22, 2003
Selling the nation out to political correctness and multiculturalism, American academics have tried to hide from us what Jihad really means. Let the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, the father of the Islamic Revolution and godfather of terrorism, explain it to you:
“Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males to prepare themselves for the conquest of other countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world. Those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquor the whole world. Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those who say this are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers. Islam says kill the non-Muslims, put them to the sword and scatter their armies.There are hundreds of other Koranic psalms and hadiths, sayings of the Prophet, urging Muslims to value war and to fight. So does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit on those foolish souls who make such a claim.”
-Taheri, Amir. Holy Terror, pgs. 226-227.
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Call for National Debate
January 13, 2004
Benjamin Netanyahu, who as prime minister of Israel became intimately familiar with terrorism, explains the interrelationship between countries and terrorists in his book, “Fighting Terrorism”:
“The first and most crucial thing to understand is that there is no international terrorism without the support of sovereign states, regimes that aid and abet it. We must declare terrorism a crime against humanity, consider the terrorists enemies of mankind, to be given no quarter and no consideration for their purported grievances. The Allies did not look for the ‘root cause’ of Nazism because they knew that some acts are evil in and of themselves, and do not deserve any consideration or ‘understanding.’ Nothing justified Nazism. Nothing justifies terrorism. These regimes, like all other terrorists states, must be given a forthright demand: Stop terrorism or face destruction. This is the great mission that now stands before the free world.”
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The Enemy We Face
May 21, 2004
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. The whole world needs to call on Islam to re-examine its doctrines. It cannot live with them.
Nor is there any way out. 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 circumstances, no plan to stop them can be considered “too radical.” Is the free world under any obligation to stand by and let this happen? Do we have to live in dread every day that one of our cities will disappear overnight? That fear is casting a pall over all our days. We cannot live with it. We need to add a new defense strategy built around the concept of mututally assured destruction. The current strategy lacks a stated doctrine of retaliation.
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Call for Revival of MAD
December 11, 2004
“Kill the unbelievers.” This, in many variations, along with the “Sharia,” is the horror at the heart of Islam.
The civilized world has learned it cannot count on decent behavior from the Muslim world. It is horrified, repulsed, by the Islamic preoccupation with decapitation and the filming of it, with the mutilation of corpses, with the enticement of children into suicide bombings, with “honor killings” of their own daughters, with beheading children, as happened to school children in Russia. Islam poses an enormous threat to the future of mankind and all the armies and all the nuclear arsenals of the civilized world must now be arrayed in throwing up a shield to protect itself from this failed religion.
In some religions horrors appear for a while, for example, in Christianity, the Inquisition, but are not foundational to the religion. In other religions the horrors are built in. Take, for example, the Aztec religion. A basic tenent of Aztec religion was that the continuation of life was not assured unless the people actively promoted its survival through human sacrifice. Thus, untold numbers of human beings, on some occasions as many as 20,000 in one week, had their hearts torn out while conscious on top of the twin temples of Tenochtitlan, until the Spanish conquerors under Hernando Cortez in 1519 razed these temples to the ground in their conqest of Mexico.
Long before bin Laden, in 1878, the great Middle East scholar, Sir William Muir, warned the world about Islam in his 4-volume work, The Life of Mahomet, “The sword of Mahomet and the Koran are the most stubborn enemies of Civilization, Liberty, and Truth which the world has ever known. Radical evils flow from this faith in all ages and in every country, and must continue to flow as long as the Koran is the standard of belief.”
The world cannot live with religions from which flow radical evils. Islam is the Aztec religion of our times. A religion this much in love with violence and death must be contained, may even have no place on this planet.
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They’re Going to Kill the White House
December 20, 2004
When U.S. and other Western leaders and intellectuals fail to discuss the religious dimension, they mislead their publics. “This war is fundamentally religious,” said bin Laden in November of 2001. “Under no circumstances should we forget this enmity between us and the infidels. The enmity is based on creed.”
In 2003, the Defense Department produced a report saying that the extremists of al Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups had adopted a religious doctrine to support almost any kind of killing in what they perceive as the defense of Islam. According to the Pentagon report, “The ideological fervor justifies suicide bombings and war all in the name of jihad, or holy war.” The suicide bomber believes, as the Defense Department report put it, that he will secure, “salvation and the pleasures of paradise,” and will “find favor with God as a result of his actions.” The Pentagon has it right, while the media and the university are still fumbling around looking for “root causes.”
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Discussed in Washington
January 20, 2005
“America is the reason for all oppression, injustice, licentiousness, or suppression that is the Muslim’s lot. It stands behind all the disasters that were caused and are still being caused to the Muslims, it is immersed in the blood of Muslims and cannot hide this. We have the right to kill four million Americans - two million of them children.”- Osama bin Laden
America rejects these charges as the monstrous lies of another murderous psychopathic victim of the Koran.
A right to murder two million of our children? A more depraved statement is not imaginable. We agree with Ibn Warraq, a former Muslim, who put his life on the line to tell the truth about Islam in “Why I Am not A Muslim”: “Islam is a totalitarian ideology that aims to control the religious, social and political life of mankind in all its aspects. And I mean Islam. I do not accept some spurious distinction between Islam and Islamic ‘fundamentalism’, or ‘Islamic terrorists.’ Their actions reflect the teachings of Islam, whether found in the Koran, in the acts and teachings of the Prophet Mohammed, or in the Islamic law (Sharia) based on them.”
We must end the delusion in the West that the terrorists are a breed apart from the rest of the Muslim world. They are the direct product of Islamic theology , and the whole Muslim world in now predisposed in their direction. Bin Laden has simply revived in our time the violence and militarism that has been at the heart of Islam for 1400 years.
It is a telling fact that protest against the violence of the terrorists has been almost totally absent in Muslim countries. Even friendly Muslim countries have been strikingly reticent when it comes to condemning 9/11.
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Impotent at Harvard
February 12, 2005
Recently a group of celebrities took out an ad in The New York Times calling on the people of the U.S. to “Resist the war and repression loosed on the world by the Bush administration.” This included such Hollywood celebrities as Oliver Stone, Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, Ed Asner, and Susan Saradon. The ad suggests that we face no danger from terrorists, that the real danger stems from our own “imperialism.” What incredible stupidity!
Why don’t these people do what they do best? Use their creativity and imagination - not to spout senseless rhetoric - but to do something to help in this crisis. For example, produce and flood the world with short TV messages, using hundreds of children to shame the terrorists, saying:
1) “Osama, why do you want to kill all the little American children?”
2) “We believe in God too, but He never asked us to kill anyone.”
3) “We don’t think killing us will get you to heaven.”
4) “We don’t want your religion, we have our own.”
5) “Why do you want to kill our mommies and daddies?
The great British historian Arnold Toynbee in The Study of History showed that nations only survive challenges through a creative response. The leaders of this nation in academia and the arts are utterly failing the nation, busy recycling a few leftist slogans from the 60’s in an attack on the war on terrorism. Slogans that betrayed Southeast Asia to tyranny and genocide. Their response to the current challenge is even more pitiful.
Did we think it only rhetoric when Yeats asked: “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?” In people like this we face the outcome of decades of intellectual frivolity, impotence before a nuclear device hidden in Harvard Square, even as Noam Chomsky up at MIT rambles on incoherently about American “imperialism.”
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Additional excerpts:
The incessant and exclusive teaching of nothing but the Koran in Muslim countries has bred over the centuries a totally conspiratorial view of reality, one hopelessly incapable of seeing one’s own faults, and completely misunderstanding of the intentions and nature of the West. All of the past horror, and all of the coming horror, is based upon a total inability to think logically, to see things accurately, on the part of the Muslim world. The excuses of bin Laden for his attack on America, have no foundation whatsoever. They are a tissue of lies. He claims, for example, that 9/11 was a “defensive” jihad to oppose our “aggression.” That is gibberish, reality turned upside down.
As Ralph Peters, retired Army officer and author of Beyond Terror says, “In the Arab world myth, comforting lies, and cynical rumors trump facts . The people of the Koran never acquired the mental skills necessary to separate appealing delusions from concrete reality. They think we plan to convert them to Christianity or Judaism, or scheme to corrupt their women, or violate their holy shrines or steal their oil.”
A 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in Baghdad writes, “These beliefs turn educated, highly intelligent Muslim family men into hijackers that slam passenger planes into buildings and suicide bombers that murder Jews on Israeli buses. We are at war against an ideology, a dangerous mental disease that slowly but deliberately is plunging the world into World War III.”
Wrote one student of the Muslim world recently, “Burrowed deep within the Muslim-Arab worldview lurks a sense of grandiosity that holds the rest of the world in contempt.”
If only they knew how the rest of the world views them, with their beheadings, their suicide bombers, their “honor” killings, their treachery. Tribalism, hatred for women, and religious obscurantism have created a historic cul-de-sac for millions of people who now love death more than life. Betrayed as human beings by their own religion.
This is the most fateful convergence in the history of mankind, an unparalled murderous religious crusade with weapons capable of unimaginable mass extinction of life.
With the nuclear bomb we have entered the Age of the Irrational. It is totally irrational that one individual with such a weapon can destroy a whole city and all its inhabitants. Unless mankind can eliminate this threat it has no future, as there are tens of thousands of terrorists ready to give their lives to accomplish just such a catastrophe. A world where one man can destroy a city is totally irrational, has no meaning whatsoever. There is no one in charge, no one watching over the sparrows. It will be the end of all theology and religion. Man alone, and insane, will be the message following a nuclear holcaust. If in the name of Islam, there are people willing to destroy whole cities, killing millions of innocent people, they need to understand now that they will lose everything in return.
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