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By Ken Abramowitz; Edited by Jon Sutz
Ken Abramowitz is the President and Founder of SaveTheWest. Jon Sutz is SaveTheWest’s consulting editor and videographer.
Also see the Additional Reading section for additional resources, cited in this article.
Many people think 9/11 was the beginning of the war that Islamists (Muslim supremacists) declared on America in particular, and Western civilization in general.
In reality, however, 9/11 was merely the latest large-scale attack in the war they declared on free people long ago. Ironically, in terms of sheer human carnage, it is fellow Muslims who have paid the largest price for this fanaticism: in just the last twenty years, Islamists have murdered more than one million Muslims in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout North Africa nations, whom they contend do not practice their faith correctly.
For those who are unfamiliar with the nature, motivations and long history of this war, here is an excellent documentary, “The Third Jihad,” hosted by leading American Muslim reformer Zuhdi Jasser, MD, and produced by the Clarion Project:
The four facets of Islamist supremacism threatening free nations and people
We in free nations, however, largely ignore the Islamists’ ongoing war against us, and are failing to formulate comprehensive defensive and offensive strategies.
To begin with, we need to properly characterize each facet of this enemy, and how they relate to the others. In particular, we face four Islamist enemies, each of which is distinct, and requires a separate strategy.
(1) Iran: The world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism declared war on America in 1979, and has been attacking us ever since, in the name of Shia Islam. In fact, Iran still owes U.S. citizens more than $50 billion in court judgments for the terrorism it and its proxies have perpetrated on us.
(2) ISIS & Al Qaeda: Two heads of the Sunni Islamist terrorist network.
Iran, ISIS and Al Qaeda pose existential threats to America, and all of Western civilization, and must be dealt with through our military and intelligence apparatuses.
Next, are nations that are best considered our “frienemies” — sometimes, they act as our friends, and other times, as our enemies:
(3) Turkey and Qatar: While claiming they are our friends, they finance the Muslim Brotherhood, which spawned every major Islamist terrorist organization. For those unfamiliar with the MB, here is an excellent introductory video by terrorism analyst Cynthia Farahat.
(4) Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: Similarly, although they act as our allies, each provides funding to the Wahhabi extremist movement, worldwide. Pakistan also finances the Taliban in Afghanistan.
All four of these national “frienemies” are primarily our cultural enemies, as they finance Islamist mosques and schools, as well as American universities, particularly Middle East departments. In short, they are waging a cultural war against us, and must be confronted with our cultural response.
The Islamists’ 1,400 year war to conquer the entire Earth
The Islamists’ war against non-Muslims has been ongoing for nearly 1,400 years, since the death of Muhammad in the year 632. They conquered the Middle East, southern Europe, North Africa and India, as well as some lands as far away as Indonesia. This video, by Khan Academy, takes the newcomer through this early history of Islamic conquest:
More recently, over the past 50 years, Islamists have infiltrated, and declared their intention to take over Europe, Africa, Australia, South America, and the United States. For those who are unfamiliar with this phenomenon, and the reasons behind it*, here are some useful starter links:
Road To The Caliphate: The Salafi Jihadi Movement’s Strengths | Critical Threats
Al-Aksa Libel: Raed Salah and the Vision of a Global Islamic Caliphate – JCPA
Ahmadinejad and the Mahdi – Middle East Quarterly
Khamenei Announces Goals of 2nd Phase Of Islamic Revolution – MEMRI
Ken’s Thought of the Week: Defending ourselves from Islamists is a marathon – Save The West
The Jihad Against America and How to End It – The Objective Standard
(*Thanks to the reluctance to discuss this issue, due to “political correctness,” it is now an all but forbidden subject in Western “news” rooms and “educational” institutions.)
What should we do?
So what should we do? And what can the U.S. do, in light of President Trump’s disdain for endless and seemingly unwinnable wars, which we have been fighting against enemies who don’t wear uniforms — who may be launching devastating attacks one second, then appear to be civilians, or “victims,” the next?
Here are some suggestions:
(1) Fight the culture war: We have to stand up for the values of freedom, the U.S. Constitution, free speech and our national sovereignty, in opposition to those who are at war with these values – both domestic and foreign. Unfortunately, we’ve not only failed in this task, we’ve allowed our schools to be largely taken over by curriculums and activists that advance anti-freedom, anti-American, anti-Western values, while priming our children to embrace the opposite. For those who doubt all the nature and severity of this problem, see this special research report by STW editor Jon Sutz: “America At The Precipice.” It is this breach that Islamists (and other subversives) exploit to their own advantage, particularly through their massive financial investments in our universities (more).
(2) Use economic and diplomatic pressure: Throughout the Cold War, we created a sharp divide between the free world, and the oppressed world. We must also ensure that any nation that acts as our “frienemy” knows that there is a price to pay for acting one day as our ally, the next, funding or otherwise helping our enemies, or domestic subversion. In terms of nations such as Iran, which has been attacking us since 1979, and still owes $53 billion to Americans for their terrorist acts, we must completely isolate them, and engage in every form of non-violent action to hopefully help trigger the collapse of its ruling regime, until such time as it poses no more threat to us.
(3) Military action: This must always be our last resort, to be implemented only if steps (1) and (2) fail. But whenever America’s national security is threatened, we must employ military force — and our enemies must know that we will do this. Iran, in particular, is hurtling towards the nuclear weapons for which it has lusted for decades, and the means by which to deliver them to their targets — according to their leaders, the first and second of which will be America, and Israel, while simultaneously destabilizing its Sunni Muslim enemy, Saudi Arabia. Recall that even during the nuclear deal negotiations with the Obama administration, Iran’s supreme leader led chants of “Death To America!” (video below).
If steps (1) and (2) are unsuccessful, then we must be ready, and ready our people, for the prospect that military action may be the only means by which to stop the Iranian threat, and that of any other regime that poses an existential threat to America. And whenever ISIS and Al Qaeda find a physical home, from which to plan, organize and direct terrorist attacks against us or our allies, we must also be prepared to use our military to stop it.
As I described in this earlier essay, “Did the EU Learn Anything from World War 2?,” the World War 2 generation failed to contain the rising Nazi war machine in the 1930s. As a result, we were then forced into kinetic war strategy in the 1940s, leading to the death of 60 million people. We certainly do not want to repeat that mistake.
We hope the Trump administration will rise to the challenge, particularly as it is driven by an “America First” agenda, to protect our exceptional country and precious citizens, against enemies both foreign and domestic, in both the short-term and long-term.
VIDEO: Contextualization of the development of Islam – Khan Academy
The Evolution of the Salafi-Jihadist Threat – Center for Strategic and International Studies
Iran has been the #1 largest state sponsor of global terrorism – SaveTheWest
“Convert, Marry Me, or Die”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, July 2019 – Raymond Ibrahim
Will France foil Muslim Brotherhood’s plan to take over? – Egypt Today
A sobering look at Islam and human-rights discourse – The many meanings of freedom – Economist
Persecution of Christians ‘coming close to genocide’ in Middle East – The Guardian
Ex-Radical Islamist Says Jihadists Are Sending Students to Top Colleges in America
Foreign Muslim Funding of Western Universities – Middle East Forum
Road To The Caliphate: The Salafi Jihadi Movement’s Strengths | Critical Threats
“Christian Girls are only Meant for One Thing, the Pleasure of Muslim Men” – Gatestone Institute
Al-Aksa Libel: Raed Salah and the Vision of a Global Islamic Caliphate – JCPA
Ahmadinejad and the Mahdi – Middle East Quarterly
Khamenei Announces Goals of 2nd Phase Of Islamic Revolution – MEMRI
Ken’s Thought of the Week: Defending ourselves from Islamists is a marathon – Save The West
The Jihad Against America and How to End It – The Objective Standard
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