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Islam, Bloody Islam

In August 1994, a Muslim extremist, a member of the Islamic Liberation party, expressed the essence of Islam, saying "There are 123 verses in the Koran about killing and fighting. Ours is not a passive religion."

The Islamic jihad that began with Mohammed and spread rapidly within a century after his death in 632 AD exists to impose Islamic rule on the entire world. While dormant until it awoke anew in 1979 with the Iranian revolution, few in the West were even aware of it.

Now, from New York City to Bali, from Jerusalem to Mobasa, from Kabul to Nairobi, the world has awakened slowly and reluctantly to the cruel history and reality of Islam, bloody, Islam.

In the course of Islam’s most sacred month, Ramadan, in which Muslims fast during the day from November 6 to December 5, the world witnessed the message of Islam’s prophet, Mohammed. It is a call to endless jihad.

While Christians greet each other this month with the message of "peace on Earth, good will to all men" Muslims are globally expanding their unholy war.

The toll of 2002’s holy month of Ramadan which ends on December 6 rose with every passing day, a warning to civilized peoples around the world they must fight for their very lives during Ramadan this year:

Israelis were attacked repeatedly by the Palestinians in their ancient homeland and by other Islamic jihadists even as they vacationed in far-off Kenya.

In India, Hindus were attacked and killed in conflicts with Muslims.

In Iran, a Muslim scholar was sentenced to death for "insulting Mohammed."

In Jordan, an American aide worker was murdered.

In Beirut, Lebanon, bombs blasted through three fast-food restaurants associated with the US. In Sidon, Lebanon, a Christian missionary working in a medical clinic was murdered in cold blood.

A plot to fill London’s subways with cyanide gas was thwarted.

The French arrested seven people alleged to have aided Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber."

In Malaysia, three men were arrested in a plot to blow up the US, Australian and British embassies.

In Nigeria, contestants in the Miss World Contest fled for their lives as a Muslim riot killed more than a hundred people and attacked Christian churches.

In Kenya, missiles were fired at an Israeli commercial jet and an Israeli-owned hotel was bombed. In 1998, a bomb blast at the Kenya’s US embassy killed 219 people and wounded 5,000. In neighboring Tanzania, that day another blast killed twelve people and wounded more than eighty.

Let the voices against America’s resolve to remove Iraq’s Saddam Hussein from power be stilled.

Let the excuses for the Palestinian’s leaders end. They have oppressed, stolen from, imprisoned, and killed their own people.

Let us support the Iranians who seek to remove the iron grip of the ayatollahs from their nation’s throat. They have earned democracy with their suffering.

Let us support the Lebanese in their quest to remove the Syrian invaders who, since 1979, have controlled their nation.

Let us condemn those Saudis who support al Qaeda with billions of petrodollars.

Let us ally with Muslims and Islamic nations who truly seek peace.

The Great War of the 2lst century has begun in earnest and the enemy, for peace-loving Muslims and all others is Islam, captured by its most violent core, silencing the voice of its intelligencia and moderates, and spreading death and destruction to "infidels" with every passing day.

The intense anger and the feeling of betrayal felt by those for whom Allah has not provided the answer to their daily prayers is the driving force behind the bombings and murders. It is evil incarnate.

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Democracy is coming to Iran

"Our ultimate goal is pure democracy, without a prefix or a suffix," says Akbar Atrim, a 28-year-old student leader in Iran. "Meaning no more religious or Islamic democracy, because the two are incompatible."

It has taken only a single generation for Iran’s students to change from those who helped depose the 2,000-year-old monarchy in 1979 to those who are leading the fight to depose the oligarchy of ayatollahs who hold power in a nation in which change is just a matter of time, maybe only months.

It is likely that, following the forced regime change in Iraq the US will enforce, an internal revolution in Iran will bring about a similar result. It will involve civil disobedience, not unlike the methods employed during the US Civil Rights movement. Experience has demonstrated that the ayatollah’s goons, known as the Basij, plainclothes militia, will kill their most outspoken opponents. They did so in July 1999 after students from Tehran University protested. Five died.

The students are called the "third force" in a growing movement that unites Iranian politicians seeking reform, the business community, and others who identify Iran’s problems with the Islamic fundamentalists running the nation.

One thing is clear. The regime has been losing its legitimacy for years. Only 20% of the voters in the last election supported them.

The current dictator, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, need only open the windows of his office Tehran to see and hear the protests in the streets.

"Reform" is on the lips of those who are calling for the separation of religion and the state, a notion that runs contrary to the way many Muslim nations in the Middle East are run. Turkey is a notable and successful exception and, in theory, Egypt. Ironically, both Iraq and Syria are run by political organizations only loosely identified with Islam. For fundamentalist Muslims, however, Islam requires that the Koran be the law of the land. For educated Muslims, the failure of that mandate can be seen all around them.

A survey of Tehran residents on Iran-US relations that was published in September 2002 produced astonishing results. A vast majority, 75% of those questioned, expressed support for talks with the US; 65% supported renewing Iran-US relations, ended following the taking of US diplomats in 1979. The Majlis, fundamentalist ayatollahs, who run Iran arrested those involved with the survey, further angering Iranians.

The toppling of Saddam Hussein will see US stock rise in Iran even higher. The simplest reason is that the US is seen as a free society seeking to live in peace with the rest of the world, but under attack by fundamentalist Muslims. Iranians have had their fill of fundamentalism and they have seen how US force toppled its grip on Afghanistan.

On a more pragmatic level, Iranians understand the need to pull that nation’s economy into the 2lst century. Right now, between 800,000 and 1.2 million new jobs are needed for its rapidly growing population, but the current regime can only create an estimated 4,000 jobs. Unemployment and the army of aimless young men it produces will topple the current regime. Currently, Iran is suffering a "brain drain" as an estimated 150,000 to 180,000 of its best educated citizens have already left to offer their talents to the West.

When change comes, the vast oil reserves of Iran will be free to flow, not just to Europe, but to the US as well. This will result in less dependency on Saudi Arabia. It will also end Iran’s vast funding of al Qaeda, Hizbullah, and other Islamist organizations that threaten American interests in the Middle East. Iran’s ayatollahs are the leader in bankrolling that region’s terrorist organizations.

All this points to a better future for Iranians and one that is rapidly approaching. It holds the promise of a renewed diplomatic and economic relationship between the US and Iran that will further influence the future of the entire Middle East.

What this further suggests is the danger of lumping entire national populations as opposed to the United States when, given the opportunity to live under secular governments, protected by the rule of law not based on the Koran, these peoples will prove to be our future allies. The great legacy of America, a nation born in a Revolution, will be the spread of democracy and freedom throughout the world.

Lebanon: The Invisible Victim

How curious it is. The headlines are filled with news from the Middle East, whether it be Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Israel, or Saudi Arabia, but there is nary a word about Lebanon. This nation was once governed by a coalition of Christians and Muslims who lived in peace with one another. Lebanon was a jewel among nations of the Middle East, a center for banking and a vacation destination.

Then, when the Palestinians turned against the former King Hussein of Jordan, trying to take over that nation, he drove them out. Many fled to Lebanon and brought an end to peace in that idyllic nation. America paid a price there, too. Its embassy was bombed and Marines sent by President Reagan were victims of a car bomber.

At one point, Israel invaded southern Lebanon in order to end the ceaseless attacks on its citizens launched from there. One of its biggest mistakes was to suddenly withdraw. Lebanon has become the homeland of Hizbullah, one of the most vicious terrorist organizations among the many spawned by the Islamic jihad against Israel.

Invaded by Syria in 1976, Lebanon today is completely subjugated. It is an obscenity that Syria is a current member of the United Nations Security Council. As of this writing, Syria has been in violation of the 1982 United Nations Security Council Resolution 520, calling on it to leave. Lebanon is yet another example of the toothless and ruthless UN. Lebanon exists as a name on a map, but the power that runs that once proud nation is yet another of the dictatorships in the Middle East.

Lebanon, for lack of adequate media attention and its virtual abandonment by the nations of the West and elsewhere, is the invisible victim of the Palestinians, Syria, and the Islamic jihad.

One cannot say it too strongly. Any voice of Lebanese dissent will bring torture and death. So terrible was the rule of Hafez al-Assad, the late Syrian dictator, replaced by his son, Bashar, that it defies the imagination to comprehend the barbarity visited on the Lebanese. Syrians, too, suffer.

The Assad dynasty flooded what was left of Lebanon after the Palestinians arrived with more than a million Syrians to alter the nation’s demographics. Political oppression drove an estimated 85,000 Lebanese to leave over a dozen years during the 1980s and 1990s. While the West focused on Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Assad continued the crushing of all the remaining outposts of Christian Lebanese resistance.

Today, Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps and its Bekaa Valley remain terror training centers. Syria continues to provide arms and other support to both Iraq and the Palestinians who wage their "intifada" against Israel.

For a quarter century, Lebanon has been the invisible victim that the West has ignored while it and the rest of the Middle East became al Qaeda’s staging ground for his attack on the United States and other nations.

When the US gets through with "regime change" in Iraq, it needs to turn its considerable military and diplomatic power on Syria, forcing it to withdraw from Lebanon and allowing that nation to rebuild itself into a powerful Middle Eastern democracy. Right now it is no less a threat to our security and to peace in that region than Afghanistan before US intervention.

The United States needs to stay in the Middle East for a long time to come. The map of the entire region needs to be redrawn and tiny Lebanon needs to regain its independence as a gift from freedom-loving Americans who have, too long, failed to aid its friend.

For more information, visit www.freelebanon.org .

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