Author: Vijay Kumar
Publication: Politicalislam.com
Date: September 11, 2009
URL: http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/universal-jihad/
On September 11, 2001, a war was brought to
our shores by a band of men, bound by a militant ideology, in an act of mass
murder. The response by the United States was a so-called "War on Terror,"
a reflex that has proved to be as ineffective as it has been costly.
We have spent more than a trillion dollars
on invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. More than 5,000 American soldiers have
died in the last eight years, and tens of thousands of American soldiers have
been wounded.
What has this flood of blood and money bought
us?
There has been no sustainable victory for
the United States. There is no strategic victory; there is no political victory;
there is no moral victory. And there is no peace. Islamic terrorism continues
around the globe unabated.
The Obama administration lately wants to avoid
any taint by the phrase "War on Terror," papering it over with even
more ambiguity, calling it now an "Overseas Contingency Operation."
It's still the same losing war, just as costly, just as ineffective.
The Bush and Obama administrations' "War
on Terror"-by any name-has failed for a simple reason. It is because
there is no such a thing as war on terror. Terrorism is a technique, a method,
a weapon, a means to an end. Terrorism is not an enemy that can be named or
identified, much less fought effectively. A "War on Terror" is a
war on shadows, a war on nothing and on no one. It is a fool's errand.
Yet there is a war raging. It is a war that
already had raged for 1,400 years before it was brought to our shores, a war
that has laid waste to entire nations, cultures, and civilizations. The war
is Universal Jihad: the eternal worldwide war on all infidel nations.
Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt were Christian
nations before Christianity was supplanted by Political Islam. Afghanistan
was Buddhist, Iran was Zoroastrian, and Pakistan was Hindu before Radical
Islam consumed their civilizations and cultures.
The long-running Israeli and Palestinian conflict
is not some unique standalone dispute over real estate or factionalism or
any of the other wrong reasons given for it. It is simply another front in
Universal Jihad's imperialistic war for the minds and souls of man. There
has never been a lasting peace there because Political Islam has no interest
in making peace with infidels-and every man, woman, or child anywhere in the
world who is not Muslim is branded as infidel.
The crisis in the Middle East never ends because
Political Islam never yields to another ideology. It does not believe in or
permit of peaceful co-existence. The problem is not Jews or Israel. The only
thing keeping the conflict in endless, irresolvable foment is a universal
supremacist ideology that demands the conquest of Jews, Christians, Hindus,
Buddhists, Chinese, the West and sub-Saharan Africa.
The purpose of Universal Jihad, its mandate,
its raison d'etre is conquest of the infidels and their nations-all of them-whether
by conversion, domination, or death. In Political Islam, there is no fourth
choice. It does not countenance any form of permanent peace with infidels.
Where Muslims are weak demographically and
politically, they will propose truce. But we must understand the difference
between truce and peace. Truce is a temporary ploy to buy time until one is
stronger. Peace is lasting mutual respect. Muslims care not for peace, ever,
with infidels, who are seen as inferiors. Where Muslims are strong they wage
Universal Jihad, a worldwide war against the infidel. Jihad is the scriptural
imperative of Political Islam, and the infidel is fair game.
For Universal Jihadists, therefore, any tactic,
any means, any weapon is fully justified, so terrorism and mass murder are
considered to be perfectly valid methods in attaining their theological and
political goals.
The Lockerbie mass murderer was given a hero's
welcome recently in Libya because in Islam's Universal Jihad he is a war hero.
The September 11, 2001 mass murder in the
United States was a holy act, not only sanctioned but also celebrated.
The doctrine of Universal Jihad has a clear
global goal: the supremacy of Islam everywhere in the world. It demands theological,
political, and cultural supremacy-Islamic Imperialism-over the entire world.
There is no room for political pluralism.
In Political Islam, there is no valid law
other than the Islamic law, Sharia. The constitutions of liberal democracies
are nothing more than the folly of fallible men and not worth the paper and
ink wasted on them. Universal Jihad is a war on the cornerstones of democratic
principles: individual rights and freedoms. It is a declared war on the very
existence of democracy and the freedom of mind in the world.
Islamic Imperialism is the greatest imperialist
force the world has ever seen. Until recently, the Western Hemisphere has
been largely isolated and protected from Universal Jihad by geographical and
technological barriers. Today, all of that has changed.
The United States merely is among the latest
nations to be targeted for attack and invasion by Universal Jihad. It is infantile
to believe that the Universal Jihadists have brought their 1,400 hundred years
war to the West because of America's support of Israel. Universal Jihad predates
the birth of the United States and of Israel by a thousand years, and already
has conquered much the Middle East and parts of Europe.
America is falling prey to the same overt
and covert strategies and tactics. Terrorism has been only one of those tactics.
Demographic conquest is the most permanent
form of conquest. The infiltration of both legal and illegal Universal Jihadists
to Western Europe and North America is fundamentally altering the very fabric
of Western civilization. Political Islam is a State within a State no matter
what nation it enters.
Political Islam views the world as being divided
into two eternally opposing camps: Darul al-Harb (Land of Hostility, governed
by the infidels) and Darul al-Islam (Land of Peace, ruled by Muslims). Any
land that is not Islamic and not ruled by Muslims is considered Land of Hostility.
Universal Jihadists have a theological obligation to conquer non-Muslim nations
by any means and supplant the governments of men with Islamic theocracy. Hence,
there is no such a thing as assimilation of Islam into a host society.
What the Western mind has failed to grasp
is that in Islam, separation of church and state is categorically, scripturally,
emphatically, and dogmatically impossible.
That is why the inherent imperialism of Universal
Jihad is a greater threat to liberal democracies than Nazism and Communism
combined. Unlike Islamists, Nazis and Communists lacked a transcendental metaphysics
and global demographic strength. Nazism was defeated within ten years of its
rise to power in Germany, and Communism has collapsed because of its own internal
contradictions; post-Communist Russia and post-Nazi Germany became liberal
democracies.
Not so the nations and civilizations conquered
by Universal Jihadists.
A thousand years ago, the Indian Hindus were
in the same predicament as is the Western world today. Their epistemologies
were too rational, their metaphysical views too abstract and embracive. Their
concept of non-violence even against those who wanted to annihilate them and
their way of life was their greatest flaw. It was a fatal flaw. The Western
world's present approach is reminiscent of the ancient Hindus.
The current crisis between the West and the
doctrine of Universal Jihad is epistemological; it is a war of rationalism
and intellectual freedom against virulent theological dogma. But it is a war.
It was declared 1,400 years ago. Now it has been brought to America's shores.
Universal Jihadists have been winning through
eternal patience and persistence engendered and empowered by their transcendental
metaphysics, and their central belief that the entire world was meant to be
governed by Islamic theocracy. What they lack in technology, they make up
in demographic strength, geographic diversity, ideological clarity, and a
fanaticism that is only "business as usual."
Compounding the threat is widespread ignorance
among the rank and file. Of the purported 1.5 billion Muslims in the world,
90% do not speak Arabic, yet Islam's most lionized theologians claim that
the Quran cannot be translated into any other language. By their measure,
90% of Muslims cling to the ragged edges of a dogma that they cannot hope
to fully understand.
At stake are our intellectual and spiritual
freedoms, and the most cherished principles of democracy. To preserve them,
we must win this war not of our making. The alternative is unconditional surrender.
Universal Jihadists are the product of militant ideologies and not vice-versa.
Unless and until we confront that ideology for what it is, logically and persistently,
all of our efforts are, and will continue to be, futile.
American politicians of both parties have
failed or refused to define the true nature of the enemy and its intentions.
The enemy is not Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas, Islamic Brotherhood, or any
of the hundreds of Islamic fundamentalist groups from Algeria to the Middle
East to South Asia to Indonesia. Each of those is merely a tentacle of the
same voracious beast called Universal Jihad. The very fact of the multitude
of factions is nothing more than another strategy of Universal Jihadists to
disperse and confuse and weaken the infidel by making him fight too many enemies
on too many fronts. And it is working.
The only real enemy is Universal Jihad in
all its manifestations. It is an existential crisis that threatens equally
every non-Muslim nation, no matter what their culture, heritage, philosophy,
or form of government.
The current military campaign by the United
States and an ever-shrinking handful of its allies in the failed "War
on Terror" (by any name) are beyond ineffective; it is suicidal. For
eight long years it has squandered billions of dollars and thousands of innocent
lives attacking the wrong enemies, while leaving the real seats of power of
Universal Jihad unscathed, and even embracing them as "allies" and
trading partners.
The war in Afghanistan is escalating, with
the last two months alone having been the two deadliest months in the eight
long years of U.S. involvement there. Yet Afghanistan is only a client state,
a proxy, for Pakistan, one of the nations in the triumvirate that is the Empire
of Universal Jihad. It is Pakistan's clandestine agency, Inter Services Intelligence
(ISI), that rules Pakistan. Using Saudi money, the ISI created Taliban and
Al-Qaeda. It is Pakistan's ISI that fosters Afghanistan's chief exports of
heroin and terrorism, and that supplies refuge for Universal Jihadists. Yet
we embrace Pakistan as an "ally."
The Seats of the Empire of Universal Jihad
are Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan. These are Command Central. These are
the declared enemies of democracy and of fundamental human rights and freedoms
across the globe. Unless and until they are recognized, named, and treated
as such, Universal Jihad will continue to ravage every non-Islamic nation
and culture everywhere around the world into perpetuity.
The war being waged against humanity and democracy
by Universal Jihadists can be won decisively. We can find a lasting and comprehensive
solution to the greatest imperialistic threat Western civilization has ever
seen. We have billions of willing allies in every place on the globe. But
our success, our victory is predicated upon knowing and naming the real enemy,
knowing the scope and reality of the threat, and taking decisive and directed
action.
I maintain:
War against Universal Jihadists can be won globally in less than five years.
It can be won for less than one billion dollars.
It can be won without any more loss of American or Western Life.
In order to win this war that has been declared
against us through no fault of our own, the first requisite is to acknowledge
that it is an ideological war. It is the totalitarian Islamic theocracy against
fundamental human rights and freedoms and against every democracy in the world.
It's also necessary to recognize that causes
of poverty, illiteracy, and misery prevalent in Islamic nations are over-population,
suppression of intellectual freedom, hostility to critical thinking, and a
dictatorial theocracy as the form of government. Colonialism or Zionist or
Anglo-American conspiracies are not the cause.
The conflict between Universal Jihadists and
the West is philosophical. Strength is necessary to bring and maintain order,
but force alone can never prevail. Reason, empiricism, and the scientific
method are our greatest weapons against the religious fanaticism of Political
Islam's militant theocracy.
Non-Islamic nations must correctly classify
the doctrine of Universal Jihad as a subversive paramilitary political movement
whose core ideology, of record, demands the overthrow of the existing forms
of governments. Civilized nations recognize that such subversion, in times
of war, constitutes treason.
And Universal Jihad is a declared war. It
is a war of Islamic theological exclusivism against pluralistic democratic
traditions. They are mutually exclusive. Islam's Sharia is the antithesis
of individual intellectual and spiritual freedom. It stands in direct opposition
to the very existence of any constitutional democracy, and to the very right
to existence of any other religion or belief.
Therefore, in order to prevail in this war
against the rest of mankind, we must do the following.
Build a global united alliance of nations against Universal Jihad. Jew and
Gentile, Anglo-Saxon and Slav, Hindu and Buddhist, Norwegian and Nigerian-all
have been victimized by Jihad. Never has any barbaric imperialism so universally
threatened mankind without regard to national or ethnic or philosophical or
geopolitical boundaries. Whatever our differences, in this war we are allies
unified by a common ruthless enemy that will not rest until we and our cultures
and nations have been conquered through conversion, domination, or death.
United, we cannot be overcome.
Systematically remove all advocates of Political
Islam's Universal Jihad from every nation of the Western world-which, by their
own definition, is Darul al-Harb (Land of Hostility, governed by the infidels).
The claims and requirements of Literal Islam's mandated theocracy call for
overthrow of the American and Western forms of government in a declared war,
and the supporters of Universal Jihad have committed and condoned acts of
war on our soil against our people and our nations. That is treason.
As a united alliance of nations against Universal
Jihad, cut off all trade and diplomatic ties to the Empire of Universal Jihad:
Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Enforce these sanctions until their governments
publicly, formally renounce and disavow Universal Jihad by official proclamation.
As a united alliance of nations against Universal
Jihad, use the combined resources of all affected nations to demilitarize,
secularize, and democratize the Empire of Universal Jihad.
As a united alliance of nations against Universal
Jihad, demand and exact compensation from the Empire of Universal Jihad for
having supported global terrorism for at least the past half-century.
If any of these steps to victory seem draconian
or undemocratic, pause to reflect that they are far more humane and civilized
then the strategies and tactics of Political Islam and its 1,400 years war
that has decimated entire civilizations and murdered countless millions. These
steps are far more humane and civilized than dropping atomic bombs on civilian
populations. These are not some "Modest Proposals" in the tradition
of Swift. These are sober, attainable and necessary steps that must be taken
if the rationality and freedoms gained by mankind over thousands of years
of social evolution stand any chance of surviving the Universal Jihadist's
onslaught of barbarism and mass murder to the end of totalitarian rule of
the world.
To survive at all and preserve our cherished
rights and freedoms, our cultures, our religions, our civilizations, we must
declare an ideological war against Universal Jihadists. We must do so now.
They long ago declared war on us.
