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Title: OSAMA'S ERROR
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nypost.com
URL Source: http://www./postopinion/opedcolumni ... opedcolumnists_amir_taheri.htm
Published: Sep 11, 2006
Author: Amir Taheri
Post Date: 2006-09-11 17:35:49 by It Is A Republic
Keywords: None
Views: 191
Comments: 20
September 11, 2006 -- IT was to be "The Mother of All Raids" (ghazvat al-gha zavat) that would bring down "The House of the Spider" as promised by the sheik in his mountain hideout. The "raid" would terrify the "infidel" and hasten his demise just as the armies of Islam had destroyed the Persian and Byzantine empires with a series of ghazavat 14 centuries ago. This time, the empire that would crumble under the weight of Islam's attack was the American "Great Satan," which had been running away from its enemies for decades. It had run away from Saigon, Tehran, Beirut, Mogadishu, Kohbar and Aden. Even when attacked in the heart of New York, its real capital city, it had done little more than nurse its chagrin with petulance. History, however, is never written in advance. And this time the "cowardly infidel," far from running away, decided to return and hit back. And hit back hard. A war that was to see several sobriquets, the latest being "the war against Islamofascism," had begun. Within weeks, the sheik's hideout in Afghanistan had been invaded and its rulers sent scurrying in all directions. ALL that was five years ago, when the people of the United States were jolted out of a decades-long slumber to realize there were individuals and organizations out there who regarded killing Americans as their sacred religious duty and a passport to paradise. So, where are we now in this war? If this were a classical-style war, the United States would have no difficulty showing that it had scored a spectacular victory. It has succeeded in overthrowing two hostile regimes, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and forced several other states in the region to stop sheltering and financing the gahzis ("holy raiders"). Territory the size of Western Europe has been freed from two of the most vicious regimes in recent history. At the same time, thousands of "holy raiders" have been killed or captured, and many more forced to hide in caves. Al Qaeda, the principal organization of the raiders, has been dismantled and six of its top 10 leaders killed or captured. It is not only their safe havens that the Islamofascist terrorists have lost; the network of financial, propaganda and logistical support they had created has also been partly dismantled. Even more important is the gradual loss of support that the terrorists have experienced among Muslims in many parts of the world. Leading clerics from more than two dozen Muslim countries have come out with edicts declaring al Qaeda and its acolytes as heretics or worse. That position has been echoed in a number of Islamist political movements that had once provided al Qaeda and similar groups with ideological shelter whenever needed. The process of disowning al Qaeda - known as bara'a ("exoneration") - is used by many radical Islamist movements as a means of rejecting those who produced the 9/11 raids. The process started with traditional Islamic personalities and circles that had hitherto looked upon al Qaeda and smaller movements with a mixture of awe and condescension. Once the ulema in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia had disowned al Qaeda, it was the turn of more openly political Islamist groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Gamaa Islamiyah (Islamic Society) to issue statements condemning terrorism in the name of faith. Much of all that baraa'a stuff may well be little more than posturing designed to allay the fears of Muslim peoples while confusing the "infidel." Nevertheless, the fact that large chunks of Islam are trying to dissociate themselves from violence and terror is something that would have been unimaginable before 9/11. ANY balance sheet for the past five years would show a positive bottom line for the United States in this war. But this does not mean that the war has been won. As the Islamofascists came under pressure in the heartland of Islam, they have tried to secure fresh spaces of activity in non-Muslim countries, especially in Western Europe and North America. And, in Afghanistan, the Taliban are making a comeback in four southern provinces. Thanks to drug money and arms ferried to them from Pakistan and Iran, the groups around the fugitive Mullah Muhammad Omar have even set up a mini-emirate in some isolated villages. In Iraq, the alliance of Islamofascists and Baathists is still on a killing spree in parts of Baghdad and four western provinces. Al Qaeda's ideological siblings are also fighting Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan. Everywhere, however, the tide has turned against them. Hundreds of terrorists have been killed or captured in those three countries in the past five years and many more put through re-education schemes to shed their fanatical view of faith and life in general. And, despite numerous attempts, the Islamofascists have failed to produce another spectacular coup. Though tragic, the attacks on the transport networks in Madrid and London resembled poor remakes of 9/11, underlining al Qaeda's desperation rather than its ability to pursue its dream of global conquest. The fact that the Islamofascists have not succeeded in organizing a new raid against the United States in the past five years is a testimony both to American vigilance and the historic decline of al Qaeda-style terrorism. FIVE years after 9/11, the United States looks less like the "House of the Spider" and more like a citadel of steel. And that is a result of the most important victory that free peoples have won against Islamofascism so far: the realization at the grassroots level of the danger that the modern world faces. Despite efforts by postmodernists, multiculturalists and apologists of terror to explain (and explain away) Islamofascism, the overwhelming majority of free peoples, especially in the United States, realize that they are engaged in an existential struggle against an enemy that can and must be defeated both on the battleground and in the field of ideas. The world is witnessing a new type of war in which none of the traditional causes of conflict such as territory, borders, natural resources and markets are the prize. The prize in this war is human freedom. And this is why, no matter how long this conflict takes, the enemies of freedom cannot win. Amir Taheri is a member of Benador Associates
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#1. To: It Is A Republic (#0)
Happy Fun Ball? Izzat you?
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
aaron? are you going to fool us into dying for israel?
Since our foreign policy is totally screwed up anyway, and our image totally trashed, why don't we just nuke these people and get it over with? I mean, really, that's about the only thing left to do to totally discredit and wipe out our already flagging credibility in the wake of 9-11. By doing so, would put the final exclamation mark on the paragraph that is the war on terror.
#2. To: It Is A Republic (#0)
#3. To: It Is A Republic (#0)
 | What's that Mr. Nipples? You want me to ask the nice lady about her rack?. |
#4. To: It Is A Republic (#0)
If you are going to post silly propaganda from questionable sources you should just make the shit up yourself. Then credit your spew to something like "America First Blog" or some crap. The morons you need to fool never check into it and the people smart enough to see through it would never buy into your shit anyway. Take it from an expert. I have years of experience in this field. You have to be efficient. Don't waste your time on people smart enough to see the truth - and always remember that it doesn't take much to fool the Limbaugh/LP audience.
(AKA Fun and Happy Balls.)
#5. To: bluedogtxn (#1)
This is the same guy who passed around the lie that Iran passed a law to make Jews wear badges. He has been accussed of making up sources in his writings whole sale before that incident which finally exposed him for the liar he is. He is a pet Iranian of the Neowhores and is employed by a public relations firm that exists to spew neowhore lies. And as one can easily see in this puerile garbage- as seperated from reality as they are.
#6. To: It Is A Republic (#0)
Al Qaeda, we hardly knew ya.
the historic decline of al Qaeda-style terrorism
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Aus einer Wurzel zart.
Wie uns die Alten sungen,
Von Jesse kam die Art
Und hat ein Blümlein bracht,
Mitten im kalten Winter,
Wohl zu der halben Nacht.
#7. To: It Is A Republic (#0)
And the French held both Saigon and Hanoi at one time; for all the good that it did them. The prize in this war is human freedom. Speaking of freedom, I just sent off a bunch of money to some terrorist group calling itself the I.R.S (Islamofacists R Us?) demanding that I send them tribute or face a show trial and either imprisionment or death if I did not comply. Could the US military perhaps look into "defending my freedoms" and protect me from these vile fanatics?
It has succeeded in overthrowing two hostile regimes, in Afghanistan and Iraq...
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
#8. To: balls alert (#4)
balls alert; you seem to have no balls is that your father in that picture you keep? LOL you are uncovered: a criptic counterfit-zio-talmudic-evil-tribe- wannabe false-3abid-yahudi maniouk
Benador Associates is a public relations firm based in New York and Washington, specialized in the areas of media applied to politics
#9. To: All (#8)
sorry balls alert the above post is directed to : "It Is A Republic" typo mistake i was angry again sorry, the post above is directed to "It Is A Republic?
#10. To: It Is A Republic (#0)
I have yet to see any documentation which would place a single one of the alleged 'terrorists' on any of the 9-11 flights. So, what did Osama have to do with it; besides turn green with envy?
#11. To: SKYDRIFTER (#10)
http:/ /www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/07/terror/main1982773.shtml
I have yet to see any documentation which would place a single one of the alleged 'terrorists' on any of the 9-11 flights
#12. To: It Is A Republic (#0)
Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen: the Muslim Brotherhood WITHOUT CLOSELY examining Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen (the Muslim Brotherhood) founded in Egypt in 1928, it is impossible to try to understand modern Islamic radicalism. Al-Ikhwan was the first of its kind to politicize Islam within the context of the colonial age and the first to put into practice the theories of Salafist thinkers such as Jamal-al-Din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh. These two Muslim revivalists, who wrote and preached during the beginning of the 20th-century, espoused that Islam and modernity are compatible and that Muslims lack control over their destinies because they have fallen into fatalism, abandoning the quest for understanding. According to Al-Afghani and Abduh, falling away from their true faith has made Muslim lands vulnerable to Western colonialism. From the Muslim Brotherhood ranks came Sayed Qutb, who wrote the jihadist pamphlet Ma'alim (Guideposts), and many members of the more militant Gammaa al-Islamiya (The Islamic Group) and Al-Jihad as well as Al-Takfir wal-Hijra (Excommunication and Migration). Most leaders of these militant organizations and their members were once members of the Brotherhood. The history of the Brotherhood is intertwined with the events surrounding Egypt's 1952 founding as a Republic....
Muslim Brotherhood? Are you a nark?
The faster the Aryan Nation mob at Freedom4um are caged and chained, the better off we'll be. I’ll cheering when they are forced to behave. - Aaron
#13. To: It Is A Republic (#11)
Tell me IIAR, who flew the plane into the Pentagon, and how do you know?
You appear to be a major trouble maker...and I'm getting really pissed. - GoldiLox, 7/27/2006
#14. To: Dakmar (#12)
All that smarty-pants & sciencey stuff ain't gonna be tolerated after the next pretend election. Better tone it down, Bubba.
cage goes into salsa, shark's in the salsa. Our shark! - Dakmar Quint
#15. To: Esso (#14)
The faster the Aryan Nation mob at Freedom4um are caged and chained, the better off we'll be. I’ll cheering when they are forced to behave. - Aaron
#16. To: Dakmar (#15)
Much less bad.
cage goes into salsa, shark's in the salsa. Our shark! - Dakmar Quint
#17. To: Dakmar (#15)
Is that one of Aaron's limited-edition lithographs?
cage goes into salsa, shark's in the salsa. Our shark! - Dakmar Quint
#18. To: Esso (#16)
halfminusgood!
The faster the Aryan Nation mob at Freedom4um are caged and chained, the better off we'll be. I’ll cheering when they are forced to behave. - Aaron
#19. To: Esso (#17)
Wouldn't surprise me, but no, just random psychosis that took 10 seconds to find.
The faster the Aryan Nation mob at Freedom4um are caged and chained, the better off we'll be. I’ll cheering when they are forced to behave. - Aaron
#20. To: Dakmar (#19)
ADL website, huh?
just random psychosis that took 10 seconds to find.
cage goes into salsa, shark's in the salsa. Our shark! - Dakmar Quint
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