A Powerful Delusion

Revolutionary Islam in the Americas Connecting the Dots Part II 2

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:13:38 +0200

Revolutionary Islam in the Americas --
An Open Source Threat Assessment:
Part of the “Connecting the Dots” Series

by Sandra Warmoth
Builders of Zion International Relations Director

updated December 2010
original assessment October 2009

Most Americans have devoted little attention to the Islamic revolution entrenching upon the homeland and advancing toward our southern and northern borders. As Islamists within work to undermine our interior, jihadists without are reconnoitering our borders with an eye on attacking our homeland. This threat environment did not develop in a vacuum. Whitewashing at the highest levels, widespread apathy and a disproportionately tolerant public mindset has created excellent conditions for the exploitation of America’s generous freedoms --freedoms that we will lose if we lack the collective resolve to take corrective action. A concise threat assessment follows to help Americans understand the nature and extent of the threat our country is facing. If we hold dear our liberty and Judeo-Christian values, our citizenry and its leadership can no longer meet the threat with inaction and irresolution.

The Threat from Within:
Islamist infiltrators, a fifth column within America’s midst, have introduced our homeland to a progressive set of revolutionary objectives. In typical revolutionary fashion, they are methodically building up a sizeable, vocal and politically active minority group; exploiting our fundamental domestic systems to consolidate their base of power; asserting human rights to gauge the durability of our existing laws, and manipulating public sympathies that will eventually be used to support a popular uprising or intifada. If our leadership continues to treat this proliferating homegrown threat with hesitancy, it will eventually lead to a full fledge insurrection or holy war in order to accomplish a subversive ascension to power, which will result in the ejection of our country’s established political, economic, social, educational and religious systems that do not accommodate the new actuality. Jihad, by principle, is offensive, and lionized in all facets of Islamic life, across all socioeconomic strata. Our progressive, multicultural nation continues to be the perfect breeding ground for shielding Islamists who are working to overthrow our country. The Ummah within America is predominately engaged in subtly altering our domestic landscape. This cultural jihad is the diplomatic process used to spread the Islamic ideology domestically, which brings with it a da’wah, invitation, and an expectation that Americans will submit to Islam. There are numerous da’wah projects and centers operating in America today that work to mitigate our suspicions, appraise our mind set, attract new converts, and put an American face on Islam. If Americans reject the da’wah, a holy war will follow. Stealth Islamist activities include revisionist teaching within our schools; propagandizing in our workplaces; indoctrinating the disaffected on our streets and within our prisons; masquerading as moderates before our media; exploiting our laws in our courts; creating front organizations in our communities, and infiltrating highly sensitive posts within our government and intelligence community. More overt and aggressive Islamization within America includes the hotly contested Cordoba Initiative Islamic community center and mosque at 45-51 Park Place in New York, which “moderate” founder Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has warned must be implemented, repeatedly citing national security concerns, which, taken within historical context, amounts to a not-so-veiled threat. Recognized as a rabat or connector in the Muslim world, the planned project carries with it deep symbolic meaning for Islam and an ominous message for America. A rabat harkens back to the bloody conquests of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who created the structure to facilitate his raids. It served as a point of contact at the heart of the infidel territories he raided, which enabled him to ready his ghazis or raiders for upcoming ghazvas or raids by providing them with a locally centralized place of refuge for rest, nourishment, prayer, and guerrilla training. Rauf, imam of the Masjid al-Farah Mosque in Lower Manhattan, is also implementing a strategic plan with key dates and tasks to measure the “Islamicity” of countries through both their governance and society using an Islamic legal benchmark for Shari’ah compliance. He spearheads a team of Islamic legal scholars with controversial ties for this ambitious undertaking, called the Shari’ah Index Project. Meanwhile, other charismatic imams are peddling subversive Wahhabist teachings in America’s mostly Saudi-funded mosques. Jamaat ul-Fuqra cadres are training for Islamic military warfare in the rural hamlets dotting our country and Muslim youth are scaling the walls at the CAIR-owned-andoperated Buffalo-based Islamic paramilitary compound a stone’s throw away from Canada. Islamist organizations that make up the terrorist infrastructure within the United States include the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, Hizb’allah, HAMAS, and “palestine” Islamic Jihad, most of which are actively planning attacks against our homeland and enjoy state support and cleric-level sanctification to employ nuclear, biological, chemical, and other weapons of mass destruction in their anticipated holy war against the West. There is an exponential post-9-11 upsurge of individuals appearing on the U.S. terrorism watch list, and a growing trend of American-bred Islamists traveling abroad for jihadist training and returning to recruit for operations and to assist major Islamist groups here with identifying potential targets and planning attacks against our homeland. All of these multistage revolutionary activities are a continuous, collaborative Islamist effort to transmute our federal republic into a Shari’ah state. Qur’anic injunctions and the consequential global Islamic revolutionary reality fly in the face of the mantra that Islam is a religion of peace and coexistence, which simply suffers from a few radicals hijacking the religion. There are no shortages of imams and scholars lauding jihad, no deficiencies in funding for martyrdom operations, no scarcity of recruits for jihadist training, no lack of missions to carry out, and no few states struggling with Islamic hegemony. What the worldwide Ummah understands, and Westerns do not, is that Muslims steering jetliners into buildings; blowing up holy sites, embassies, dance halls, pizza parlors, buses, trains, subways, hotels and schools; training children in the politics of oppression and victimization; in the arts of beheading, maiming, hostage-taking, assassination, hijacking, looting, insurrection and war gaming are neither radical nor extreme. They are anti-Western Islamic activists faithfully acting out the tenets of their religion; the dictates set forth in their Qur’an and Ahadith, all sanctified by Allah; all confirmed by Muhammad’s living example on waging offensive jihad. Muhammad’s later revelations calling for offensive jihad during the height of his spiritual adventurism and bloody campaigns abrogate his earlier seemingly conciliatory utterances that he delivered when he was just an oddity building up a following. All of this runaway bloodletting justified today in the name of freedom fighting, human rights and self-determination will morph tomorrow into Islamic triumph over every religion, system, and nation if our global village continues to collectively lack the resolve to stop it. That jihad is considered a “divine” institution whose purpose is to extend Islam into non-Islamic territories and being fully engaged in it is a sacred duty incumbent upon the entire worldwide Muslim community, reveals much about the muted Muslim response to the resurgent holy war/conquest over non-Muslim nations, and explains why there is little call for reform. Those few Muslims who do raise their voices in earnest against revolutionary Islam are bucking the very tenets of their religion and will eventually be compelled to make a choice: join the jihad or face execution by the Islamic sword. Rather than “radical” Islam, America is grappling with Islam revealed, and sanitizing it is whitewashing a lethal problem and granting it time to mutate until it is strong enough to dictate the terms of our very existence. In every respect, Islam is a clear and present danger to our country.

The Threat from Our Southern Border:
The Islamist reach into Central and South America, regions plagued with weak governance, political instability, corruption and poverty, and lacking supervision of their waterways and airfields, must be seen, inter alia, within the context of Iranian posturing in South America as a means of advancing its aggressive anti-U.S. foreign policy objectives. Iran established several offices throughout the region and is nurturing bilateral relations with oil-rich Venezuela, and Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Nicaragua and Mexico. The strengthening Iran-Venezuela alliance is of particular concern. Reports are surfacing regarding plans of a joint deployment of intermediate range ballistic missiles in Venezuela capable of reaching U.S. cities. Host to state sponsors of terrorism, haven for Islamist non-state actors and champion of autocracies, Venezuela continues to ride a wave of anti-American sentiment by spearheading a caudillo-mullah alliance in the region. With Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s rise in prominence, Iran’s regional reach has a potential to expand to Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Peru, Columbia and Chile. Hizb’allah runs a base in Venezuela and a training camp off its coast in nearby Isla Margarita, its logistical hub. Venezuela has accommodated Russian military exercises within its territorial waters; has been arming itself with Russian fighter jets, helicopters and Kalashnikov rifles, and has cemented an agreement with Russia for licensed production of Kalishnikov rifles on its soil. Currently, a deal is in the making for Venezuela to purchase a weapons package from Russia that includes Russia’s S-300PMU air defense systems originally destined for Iran – a move that would facilitate Iranian attempts to bypass new United Nations sanctions. Venezuela and Nicaragua are engaged in Iranian-sponsored dredging operations to deepen the channel along the San Juan River that borders Nicaragua and Costa Rica, with the goal of creating a “Nicaragua Canal” to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and thus create a substitute for the strategically and economically important Panama Canal. Venezuela also routinely falsifies identification documents from its consulate in Columbia for Middle Eastern Islamists traveling to unknown destinations, and nearby Ecuador issues diplomatic passports to Islamists. The fundamentalist Sufi al-Murabitun is engaged in prolific missionary activities in the region, playing the colonial “oppression” card to the marginalized populace and advocating collective “reversion” to Islam to empower and ready them for a revolt against “imperialistic” America. The region’s Muslims from the Levant, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean Basin have been successful in intermarriages with the indigenous peoples. Jamaat al-Muslimeen remains a resilient Islamist force in Trinidad and Tobago, while the lawless Tri-border Area (TBA) of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil with its geographical extremes that camouflage illicit activities, hosts jihadist groups, a sizeable Arab immigrant populace, and European-passport-carrying Middle Easterners with little knowledge of European languages. Iran has deployed intelligence assets and Revolutionary Guards operatives along the TBA and its proxy, Hizb’allah, runs a regional logistical/operational base; conducts paramilitary training, and is engaged in extensive operations involving drug smuggling, counterfeiting U.S. currency, money laundering and fundraising. Another Hizb’allah fundraising hot spot is in Iquique, at Chile’s northern end; at its southern end, Punta Arenas sports the flag and colors of “palestine.” Hawala, which facilitates anonymous movement of TBA funds to the Middle East, is established in the region, where Islamists help launch “legitimate” Arab-owned businesses by providing interest-free Shrai’ah financing and accepting paybacks with principal-based “donations.” HAMAS, the Egyptian Gammat al-Islamiyya and al-Qaeda all have a presence in the TBA area. Al-Qaeda, which networks with Hizb’allah and Islamic Jihad in Latin America, is engaged in counterfeiting digital technology, money laundering, human, drug and uranium smuggling operations, and manufacturing non-conventional weapon systems in Latin America, and it is casing our border with Mexico, a country with a growing Muslim population. Elements of the network are active in the common border area of Columbia, Peru and Ecuador, and operate in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Uruguay. With the continual involvement of Hizb’allah, HAMAS, al-Qaeda, and Lebanese Shi’ite expatriates in narcotics production and/or smuggling in Latin America, Mexican drug traffickers will readily assist the Islamists in heavily infiltrating our southern border. Latin America’s propagandized Muslim converts will enthusiastically facilitate the resulting incursions into our southern border states.

The Threat from Our Northern Border:
Islamists are casing our largely unmanned 4,000-mile long northern border with Canada, where under-screened and uncontrolled immigration is creating a threat environment for the overworked security apparatus, especially to the west. Puget Sound, Washington, an area rich in natural cover, and the porous border area of Port Angeles are draws for U.S.-bound illegal aliens dodging sparse U.S. and Canadian border security forces. Legal and illegal Aliens of Special Interest Countries flying into Canada under relaxed visa regulations present another security challenge for Canadian law enforcers, whose efforts to track these groups are frustrated by a three-day requirement to purge international flight entry records. The influx of Muslim immigrants exploiting the loose immigration policy makes Canada a magnet for Islamists seeking to use its vast territory as a staging ground for attacks against America. Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) reports that, with the exception of the U.S., Canada has more active international terrorist groups than any country in the world. Hizb’allah and other Shiite Islamist organizations; HAMAS, al-Qaeda, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, Ansar al-Islam, and other Sunni groups all have a presence in Canada. Canadian Islamists reinforcing insularity among their immigrant Muslim minority groups provide fertile ground for saturation in conservative Muhammadan dictums aimed to steer their large reservoir of impressionable youth toward these jihadist groups. Muhammad defined “oppression” as opposition to Islam’s advance and artfully used this watchword as his rallying cry to wage offensive jihad to rid Muslims of impediments. Islamists use the watchword today to arouse Muslim anger and channel it into martyrdom operations, purportedly to free oppressed Muslim brethren and defend Islam’s honor. The dangerous combination of self-isolation and religious dogma have spawned second-and third-generation Canadian born Muslims, and converts, who are actively engaged in promoting violence, recruiting operatives and physically training for jihad in Canada and abroad, and participating in the resulting operations. High-profile jihadist attacks against the West to which Canadian Muslims are linked include 9-11 and the London transit system bombings. Other Islamist activities include maneuvering to establish tribunals and to institute Shari’ah law as a parallel legal framework to the existing body of civil laws until Islam is strong enough to usurp Canada’s legal system. Should the predicted demographic shift favoring Muslims in the religious landscape continue, the Islamists’ goal of making Canada’s legal system obsolete will be realized – a scenario envisioned by Muslims seeking a Shari’ah state enveloping the Americas.

The Threat on the High Seas:
Maritime terrorism is increasingly playing a role in the Islamic global jihad. Sea-based piracy follows a longstanding Arabian practice of bounty raids or ghazu, conducted in the tradition of Muhammad’s land raids, and the practice will prove to be a potent weapon in the hands of Islamist revolutionaries who have America in their trajectory. The current lack of governance in at risk states, the lure of heftily paid ransom, and the success of the pirates despite deployed multi-national naval and air forces is creating a proliferation of piracy on the high seas that is luring Islamist revolutionaries into its fold. Islamic terror on the high seas commands the attention of an international audience, and the brazen acts send a message that the Islamic revolutionary movement is commanding, while the nations are powerless to stop its advance. The bounty from these raids funds Islamist movements such as al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab, and Jemaah Islamiyah, which, in turn bolsters Islam’s spheres of influence. There are pirate hot spots in Central and South America, including near Columbia, Venezuela and Brazil. Meanwhile, piracy runs rife near Nigeria, continues unabated off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden nearby Yemen --two unstable states where al-Qaeda has been regrouping --dips down into the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts, and piracy activities near the Indian Sub-continent extend down to Indonesia and to other areas of Southeast Asia.

The Threat from Ground Zero:
During any multiple-track peace negotiations, America will continue to pressure Israel to relinquish the Golan Heights to Syria, which will result in renewed hostilities culminating in an eastern offensive by heavily armored forces from the Arab-Muslim bloc. A formidable natural tank barrier with critical territorial features, especially the mountain ridge of the eastern Golan overlooking Damascus, the topographical edge this range provides is vital to Israel’s security, and is not replaceable in a tradeoff with technology and early warning systems. Israel will also be pressured into a “two-state solution” that will require her to relinquish 95% of Judea and Samaria to accommodate another belligerent de facto Arab state. As these important mountain ridges become judenrein, or emptied of their Jewish presence, to accommodate the new reality, so will the only genuine democratic check in this strategic area of the Fertile Crescent region vanish. A nuclear-armed Iranian Axis and proxies Hizb’allah and HAMAS to Israel’s north and south will then rendezvous upon the surrendered hilltops along with Asbat al-Ansar, Jaljalat operatives, and an assortment of nationalistic Islamist factions from Gaza, Judea and Samaria. The axis, proxies and splintered Islamist groups will coalesce into a localized united front, which will mutate into a formidable military-fortified militia that will result in a congealed global Islamist revolutionary force with advance capabilities. The apocalyptic Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will order the positioning of rockets and advanced anti-aircraft missiles throughout this newly gained high ground, which will pose an existential threat to the dramatically downsized State of Israel forced to fend for herself in the coastal plains. Ahmadinejad will also compel an amalgamation of states and emirates in the region, resulting in the dissolution of territorial borders to make way for a caliphate enveloping the Greater Middle East. This development will significantly elevate Islam’s sphere of influence and radically alter the existing global balance of power. Conventional and non-conventional Islamist military campaigns will then press deep into Asia and Africa, where at-risk states will fall. This will result in expanding the reach of the caliphate. Concurrently, an unprecedented supreme multifaceted jihad will erupt from the Fertile Crescent region, which will embroil the remaining free world in conventional open warfare between nuclear-armed countries. Convinced that his time has come to usher in the arrival of the Islamic messiah, al-Mahdi, Ahmadinejad will wrest control of the highly symbolic Jerusalem. From this influential platform, he will seek to exalt Islam to the status of official supreme religious world order. Emboldened by the sweeping Islamist advances, imams from all persuasions will unite to incite the Ummah – worldwide Muslim community – to foment revolutionary activity within the respective host countries. The ensuing widespread insurrections will bring about subversive ascensions to power. Muslims refusing to join the onslaught will face the Islamic sword in accordance with Shari’ah law. Such developments will propel Islam toward its revolutionary goal of dominating all peoples, systems, religions and countries.

Connecting the Dots Part I

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or decades, the mainstream intelligentsia has been sanitizing and promoting Islam as a religion of peace and coexistence, which suffers from a few radicals exporting international terrorism. That Islam is a peaceful religion desirous of coexistence is a fallacious notion that mollifies the public so no real demands are made for well-grounded resolutions to a proliferating problem. In light of an over-abundance of Qur'anic dictates and the resulting Islamic revolutionary reality, leaders, academics and gatekeepers of information who peddle this delusion disregard the clear and present danger that Islam poses to our world community.

The Qur’an teaches that Islam must dominate all societies, religions, systems, and peoples, and its adherents must participate in every facet of the jihad effort toward this goal.

The ongoing appeasement policies and disinformation generated by the most powerful and influential members of our society -- typically at Israel’s expense -- have resulted in the expansion of Islam’s revolutionary reach to the farthest corners of our globe. Whole societies plagued by yet another jihadist resurgence are falling under Islamic hegemony at an alarming rate because our intellectuals continue to defer making an honest evaluation of the root cause of this conflict. Such an evaluation has been long overdue and its lack thereof has prevented the exploration of a viable plan to stem a phenomenon that threatens, quite literally, to bring civilized society to its knees.

As the window of opportunity is rapidly closing on our ability to effectively deal with this increasingly ungovernable situation, the worldwide Muslim community – the Ummah -- is preemptively pushing for an international law that would stifle criticism of its fatalistic religion because it understands that well-earned public outcry against it is forthcoming.

Within the pages of this incisive evaluation are several dangerous presuppositions pertaining to Islam, in general, and to Israel, in particular, that our enlightened leadership has historically embraced, and spoon-fed to the public, which has resulted in an erosion of our security, a drain on our economy, and a deepening of the conflict. Fact-based refutations follow, backed by plentiful illuminating quotes from Qur'anic material -- the goal being to shed abundant light on whatever remaining reservations there could possibly be regarding the corrupt nature and aims of Islam.

An honest reading of this article should yield a healthy understanding of the impetus behind the current relentless jihadist renaissance. A clear picture should emerge regarding how the Arab-Muslim bloc has instigated the Arab-Israeli conflict and how it is keeping it aflame in order to perpetually enlist a heavily indoctrinated Ummah in advancing the Islamic global revolution until the goal of world domination is completely realized.
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The Islamic Revolution

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The Dawah

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“…Truth will set you free.”
John: 8:32

Muhammad, in order to legitimize his own authority, endorsed the Holy Bible. We encourage all Muslims who are truly interested in truth and peace to read it carefully and prayerfully.

There is a beautiful story inside its pages:

God has a Memorial Name for all time – the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is Sovereign and if you cry out to know Him and seek Him with all of your heart, strength and soul, He will make Himself Known to you for He is altogether Merciful.

He does not require young Muslim girls to have their genitals mutilated in order to preserve their virginity. Rather, He Instructs us all to govern our actions and walk uprightly before Him.

He never decreed that men are supreme and are thus free to torture their wives and force them to submit to their every whim. No, Sound Counsel is His – that men shall love and protect their wives, and tenderly care for them.

His Eyes are too Pure to look upon human sacrifice, for such evil plans are an abomination to Him. What He does Ask of us is that we take care of our bodies, for we are Wonderfully Made; He even Knows how many hairs are on our heads.

He Wishes that we would love Him and love one another, for this the whole sum of Torah. Be warned though: God will not be mocked. A man who sows for his destructive nature, eternal destruction he shall reap.

He is not impressed with the boastings of proud men, or with those who are wise in their own eyes. Yet, the Holy One Delights in faith and humility of heart.

He does not hear prayers recited by mere rote. Instead, the One Who Formed the ear Promises that the prayers of the righteous avail much.

He is displeased when children are conditioned to hate. For theirs is the Kingdom of God, and we are to therefore train our children in the upright way that they should walk.

He hates a lying tongue, every form of idolatry, adultery, unjust gain, and the moving of a neighbor’s ancient boundary stone. Yet, He Loves truthfulness, reverence for Him alone, being faithful to one’s spouse, an honest day’s work, and that we remain content with our circumstances.

He highly Values our free will because He does not want robots worshiping Him. It is our hearts that He Desires.

In this light, we come to understand that God has a special Covenant relationship with the Jewish People. What is more, they walk under a Divine Directive to illuminate Torah to the nations so that we may understand how to walk uprightly before The Lord.

God is Holy and He and sin cannot Commune. Yet, our Loving God Longs to Commune with every one of us, and we block this Communion when we do not walk in His Ways – His Ways are not like Man’s ways. For our wholehearted efforts and devotion, our reward is eternal life, and while we are making pilgrimage here on earth, He will come and Fellowship with us if it is our heart’s desire. Sweet is this Communion. I tell you the truth: Nothing on earth can compare.

Although the Jewish People have not been perfect in their walk, we should never think of ourselves more highly than we ought for we all, indeed, have fallen short of the Glory of God.

Regardless of the shortcomings of the Jewish People, God’s Gifts and His Call are Irrevocable. His Word is His Bond and No efforts of Man can abrogate that which He Establishes. Neither Christians nor Muslims shall ever replace the Apple of God’s Eye, but we are assured that we can all be Grafted into the commonwealth of Israel and thus partake in the bountiful Blessings of The Kingdom of God.

Let us all search our hearts to see what unclean things be in them. Let us take out the boards from our eyes so that we could see clearly to remove the specks of dust from the eyes of our brethren. Let us rid ourselves of malice and hate, and encourage our Spiritual Guides to take an honest look at our doctrinal teachings, and then let us be bold enough to discard all that corrupts while holding dear that which nurtures life.

We owe at least this to the Author of Life.

“And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to serve Him; to love the Name of the Lord, and to worship Him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to My Covenant – these I will Bring to My Holy Mountain and Give them Joy in My House of Prayer. Their burnt offerings will be accepted on My Altar; for My House will be Called a House of Prayer for all nations. The Sovereign Lord Declares – ‘He Who Gathers the Exiles of Israel: I will Gather still others to them besides those already Gathered.’ ”
Yesha’Yahu/Isaiah 56:6-8

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Papal Pilgrimage Promotes pLO

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Wielding the clout of an office that commands the obedience of more than 1,000,000,000 Catholic adherents, and the respect of perhaps 40 percent of the more than 8,000,000 non-Catholic Christians worldwide, Pope John Paul II has made his mark in history as the first Supreme Pontiff to formalize a covenant with a terrorist organization, and then promote its cause in full view of more than 10,000,000 television viewers during his religious-turned-political journey to the Promised Land.

With the ink hardly dried on the February 15 official pact between the "holy see," which is the Sovereign Authority of the Catholic Church, and the politically and internationally sanitized Islamic terrorist group, the “palestine” Liberation Organization (pLO), the pope wasted no time publicly consummating the alliance through his recognition of the
de facto “palestinian” state that is entrenching itself upon the Jewish Biblical Inheritance of Eretz Yisra'el.

As is his tradition to kiss the soil of the states that he visits, the pope was initially greeted on March 21, Purim, at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport by three children -- a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew -- from Nazareth who held out a bowl of soil for him to kiss. Not to be outdone, the next day, during his speech at the Beit Lechem (Bethlehem) Heliport in the so-called “palestinian” autonomous territories, where he was greeted with a “palestinian” military parade, the “palestinian” anthem and other trappings of statehood, the pope was presented with yet another bowl of soil, touted as “palestinian soil,” and he, indeed, kissed this earth.

During his visit, the pontiff echoed the highlights of the pLO-Vatican Accord, which include among other things the reaffirmation of the “inalienable national legitimate rights and aspirations of the palestinian people” to be established through international law, and relevant United Nations and Security Council resolutions. “The holy see has always recognized that the palestinian people have the natural right to a homeland, and the right to be able to live in peace and tranquility with the other peoples of this area ... Only with a just and lasting peace -- not imposed, but secured through negotiation -- will legitimate palestinian aspirations be fulfilled,” the frail 79-year-old pope declared as he stood next to his visibly decrepit host, pLO leader, Yasser Arafat.

Since the Oslo “peace” process got its start in 1993, Arafat has visited the pope nine times in Rome in his efforts to develop a relationship of what “his holiness” refers to as “solidarity” between the “holy see”

“Since the Oslo “peace” process got its start in 1993, Arafat has visited the pope nine times in Rome in his efforts to develop a relationship of what “his holiness” refers to as “solidarity” between the “holy see” and the “palestinian” people -- this, even as the complaints of Muslim encroachment on Christian and Jewish holy sites, and persecution and harassment of the Christian minority living in the pLO-occupied territories continues to mount, as does Christian migration from these areas.”

and the “palestinian” people -- this, even as the complaints of Muslim encroachment on Christian and Jewish holy sites, and persecution and harassment of the Christian minority living in the pLO-occupied territories continues to mount, as does Christian migration from these areas.

The pLO-Vatican agreement served to rub salt into open wounds that exist between the Catholic church and the Jewish People. The Israeli Government expressed “great displeasure” over the agreement, which it said “constitutes a regretful intervention in the talks between Israel and the palestinians.” Israeli World Jewish Communities Minister Rabbi Michael Melchior reportedly expressed his “deep regret that the Vatican is continuing its two thousand-year-old monologue with Judaism at a time when we are striving to begin a new era of dialogue, attentiveness and mutual respect with it.”

The pontiff went on to express his hope that his visit to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) Dahaisha "refugee" camp that same day would “serve to remind the international community that decisive action is needed to improve the situation of the palestinian people.” Vatican officials played down the visit to the highly symbolic camp and said it was meant to counterbalance the pope's March 23 visit to Israel's Holocaust memorial and museum, Yad Vashem. However, the parallelism that was drawn, equating the plight of the supposed 4,000,000 “palestinian” Arab “refugees” with the 6,000,000 Jews who were systematically exterminated during World War II, provided powerful papal sanctification to Arab-Muslim posturing on the “right of return” issue, which looms over the final status talks that are just now beginning to get underway between Israel and the pLO. To underscore the disturbing symmetry, the pLO Authority erected a three-story monument outside of the camp, which took on the shape of a complete map of “palestine.” The monument was dubbed the “palestinian Yad Vashem.”

The pLO Authority used the pope's high-profile visit to the UNRWA “refugee” camp to launch its latest public relations maneuver concerning the “right of return.”

The pope's presence further legitimized UN Resolution #194, which preserves the “palestinian inalienable right of return” by confining the “palestinian” Arabs to “temporary shelters,” which have been in existence since 1948, when the Arab-Muslim bloc lost a war of aggression against Israel. The Catholic Relief Agency constructed more than 1300 homes near pLO-occupied Nablus to re-settle some of these “refugees” in the mid-1980s, but a 1985 UN Resolution blocked the move on grounds that the “inalienable right of return” of the "refugees" would be violated. To ensure that its orders were obeyed, UNRWA set guards in place by the site to prevent UNRWA “refugee” camp residents from occupying the homes.

Some had hoped that the Oslo "peace" process would influence Arafat to absorb the “palestinian refugees” in his “palestinian” state-in-the-making, but their hopes were dashed in 1984 when the pLO Authority's first act of legislation stipulated that the UNRWA “refugee” camp residents had to be absorbed within the pre-1967 boundaries of Israel and that no relief aid would be provided to them. The pLO Army has set up bases in the camps to prepare the embittered “refugees” to “take their homes” by force if the “peace” process doesn't proceed according to Arafat's desires.

Terror Victims Association Director Meir Indor said of the pope's visit to the Dahaisha camp: “The pope promised that his visit to Israel would be only a religious visit, but it has turned

“The pope promised that his visit to Israel would be only a religious visit, but it has turned out to be a political and propaganda victory for the palestinians. The pope should not have lent his support to the Arabs' presentation accusing Israel of atrocities and comparing Israel's actions to the Holocaust ... He expressed sadness over Christian actions during the Holocaust, but in another sixty years, a pope will have to ask for forgiveness for this pope's closeness to Arafat and other terrorists.”

out to be a political and propaganda victory for the palestinians. The pope should not have lent his support to the Arabs' presentation accusing Israel of atrocities and comparing Israel's actions to the Holocaust ... He expressed sadness over Christian actions during the Holocaust, but in another sixty years, a pope will have to ask for forgiveness for this pope's closeness to Arafat and other terrorists.”

Another highlight of the pope's six-day trip to the Promised Land was his visit to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. After paying unprecedented visits to Israel President Ezer Weizman, and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yisra'el Meir Lau and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (Pope Paul VI, during his 1964 trip to Israel, refused to meet with Rishon Letzion Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim in Jerusalem, snubbed Israeli leaders, and could not even bring himself to utter the name of the reborn Jewish State.), the pope was escorted by Rav Lau through the 40-minute tour of Yad Vashem.

The pope knew Rav Lau's grandfather in Krakow, Poland during the Holocaust, and this relationship paved the way over the past several years for the rabbi to develop a personal rapport with the pontiff.

Paying tribute to our 6,000,000 Jewish brethren who perished at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust, the pope declared: “As bishop of Rome and successor of the Apostle Peter, I assure the Jewish People that the Catholic church, motivated by the Gospel law of truth and love and by no political considerations, is deeply saddened by the hatred, acts of persecution, and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews by Christians at any time and in anyplace.” The brief speech failed to break any new ground,and, in fact, it deflated the hopes of many Israeli Jews who wanted the pontiff to use the solemn occasion to go a step beyond past apologies that faulted the “sons and daughters of the church.” They were anticipating hearing the pope forthrightly address the Catholic church's official role and doctrines that cultivated anti-Semitism,which helped create the climate for the Holocaust, and they hoped he would express regret for Pope Pius XII's silence during the Naziera.

Rav Lau pointed out prior to the papal visit that Pope Pius XIIhad turned down several requests by Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog to meet with him prior to and during the Holocaust for the purpose of discussing how the Roman Catholic church could become involved in saving Jewish lives. Even after the war ended, Pope Pius XII refused Rav Herzog's request for assistance in locating Jewish orphans who were cared for by Catholic families.

The Vatican holds that the church was a victim of Nazi persecution also and its sentiment is that its recent apologies are more than sufficient. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, whose grandparents from Warsaw perished in Treblinka, accepted the pope's plea and hailed his efforts in Christian-Jewish relations, but he made a veiled reference to the silence of the Vatican during the Holocaust, noting that when the Jewish People “were led from all over Christian Europe to the crematoria and the gas chambers, it seemed that no longer could one place any hope in G-d or Man ... and the silence was not only from the heavens.”

Deep and open wounds still remain as a result of the Catholic church's callous treatment during such a great time need, and its far reaching anti-Semitic doctrines have done much

“Deep and open wounds still remain as a result of the Catholic church's callous treatment during such a great time need, and its far reaching anti-Semitic doctrines have done much to impede the efforts of the Church Body,which has been Called to be a physical and Spiritual blessing, as well as a servant to our Jewish brethren.”

to impede the efforts of the Church Body,which has been Called to be a physical and Spiritual blessing, as well as a servant to our Jewish brethren.

Pope John Paul II, a Polish priest who witnessed the Holocaust first-hand, has made unprecedented efforts during his 21-year tenure on behalf of the Catholic church to try to mend the rift, declaring anti-Semitism a sin against G-d; commemorating the Holocaust inside the Vatican;recognizing the right of the Jewish People to return to their Homeland; confirming the irrevocable Covenant G-d made with his Jews, and visiting a synagogue in Rome. Under his direction, the Vatican brought itself, after 45 years, to finally recognizing the State of Israel, although not Jerusalem, the Jewish Capital. Although many leading Jews involved in interfaith dialogue have praised the pope for his friendship, still many other Jews feel the Vatican's full apology for the sins of the Catholic church during the Holocaust, and recognition of the Jewish Capital is needed before a warming of relations could take place.

The pope also visited the Western Wall, the most visible remains of the Herodian Temple, in Jerusalem, where, as is tradition, he placed in a crevice between the stones a prayer which read: “G-d of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your Name to the nations. We are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer, and asking Your forgiveness, we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the People of the Covenant.” The note has been put on display at Yad Vashem.

Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert noted that he was not invited to escort the pope throughout the Old City, including the Temple Mount. The United Association of Movements for the Holy Temple spokesman, Rabbi Chaim Richman called the pope's visit to the Temple Mount “a derogatory and humiliating step.” Meanwhile,Cabinet Minister Michael Melchior greeted the pope at the Wall and said the visit “has theological significance, the recognition of the end of the period of humiliation of the Jewish People.”

Yet the humiliation continues, as the Waqf authority, which occupies Mount Moriah, forbids Jews and Christians to pray on Judaism's holiest site. The pope was greeted at the site by

“Yet the humiliation continues, as the Waqf authority, which occupies Mount Moriah, forbids Jews and Christians to pray on Judaism's holiest site. The pope was greeted at the site by Arab “palestinian” schoolchildren, who were waving flags of “palestine” and chanting,“Jerusalem is our capital ... long live palestine!””

Arab “palestinian” schoolchildren, who were waving flags of “palestine” and chanting,“Jerusalem is our capital ... long live palestine!” He met with Grand Mufti Ikrema Sabri, who used the occasion to call on the Catholic church to help end “Israel's occupation of Jerusalem.” Faisal Husseni, who holds the pLO Jerusalem “portfolio,” also was at the site and reportedly urged the pontiff to use his international religious ties to follow though on Sabri's suggestion.

The Muslim establishment and the pLO Authority view the pope's visit to the site as religious and political recognition by Christians of the status the pLO Authority has gained on the Mount and in Jerusalem. The day prior to the meeting, Sabri couldn't hold back his disdain toward the Jewish People, declaring: “Israel has exaggerated the story of the

“Israel has exaggerated the story of the Holocaust. Six million? It was a lot less ... It's not my fault that Hitler hated Jews. The Jews are hated all over the world.”

Holocaust. Six million? It was a lot less ... It's not my fault that Hitler hated Jews. The Jews are hated all over the world.”

The Islamic spiritual leader refused the pope's invitation to participate in an inter-religious meeting to foster religious harmony and sent a lower-ranking “palestinian” Muslim leader in his place, who delivered a stinging message condemning Israel's supposed “genocide” against the “palestinians.” That meeting was attended by the chief rabbis.

This article was first published in April, 2000 and has been updated for publication in November 2007.

Whose Right of Return

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 03:48:27 +0200

A Backgrounder on the Reality of Return to the Promised Land

Introduction:

The "question" of the "palestinian right of return" is artfully advancing to the forefront of the news, now that the so-called "final status talks" between Israel and the “palestine” Liberation Organization (pLO), aka the “palestinian" Authority,” are being revived.

It is thus important to have a background regarding the "right of return" issue and its origin, lest we get caught up in this powerful delusion, which is part of the ongoing Arab-Islamic propaganda war that is being waged against the Jewish People in an effort to steal their Biblical Inheritance, Eretz Yisra'el, and to clear the way for an ultimate Islamic revolution. The web of deceit is so vast that it is beyond the scope of this article to address in any weighty detail. The purpose of this article, then, is to make the reader aware of the myth, why it was hatched, its ramifications, and how it affects Israel today.

Great strides have been made in generating enough doubt worldwide regarding the right of the Jews to their Homeland. The media is the tool of choice to fertilize the uncertainty, and the Arabian petrol-dollar, which purchases a healthy 75 percent of the advertisements that make the news possible, has concurrently bought off journalistic objectivity and stifled honest investigation so that truth has been discarded and replaced with whitewashed officialdom, historical revisionism, conventional presuppositions and political correctness. Hence, a situation is created whereby the victims are perceived as the culprits. World sympathies are pouring out on behalf of the "oppressed" Arab and Muslim "underdogs," while international wrath is progressively unleashed against the so-called Jewish Zionist "aggressors."

This phenomenon, which is fueled by deeply rooted, widespread, and at the very least, residual feelings of anti-Semitism, is furthering the Arab-Muslim agenda of creating a judenrein Middle East, a region totally void of a Jewish presence. That the Jewish State stands at the crossroads of Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa makes its removal a necessary pre-requisite for the establishment of a vast Islamic empire spanning the entire Asian and African continents. In keeping with Quar'anic codes, and taking into account the pattern of current Islamic power struggles springing up throughout the world, as well as the double-edged political-economic sword fashioned by a 24-year supply of Middle Eastern oil reserves, such an empire, once established, will become an unstoppable power base from which to launch a comprehensive global Islamic "holy" war that will camouflage under the guise of "peace" and "human rights" its advances toward the creation of a supreme religious "new world order."

If this sounds a bit too Orwellian, consider the modern-day revolutionary reality.
One of the hallmarks of Islamization is infiltration: A targeted country is introduced to a progressive set of objectives -- the building up of a sizeable, vocal and politically active minority group, the consolidation of a power base through the exploitation of fundamental domestic systems, the assertion of Islamic human rights as a means of stirring up widespread sympathy, and the manipulation of these sympathies for the purpose of supporting a popular uprising. The uprising eventually leads to a full fledge insurrection, backed by terrorism where necessary, to accomplish a subversive ascension to power. This results in the ejection of any of the victimized country's established political, economic, social, educational and religious systems that do not accommodate the new actuality.

In modern days, Islamic power struggles of varying degrees of forcefulness and strains have asserted themselves in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, the fantasy kingdom of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Mauritania, Bahrain, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Cypress, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tunisia, Eritrea, Russia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Bosnia, Philippines, Indonesia, China, and Argentina, and by no means is this an all inclusive list. Currently, the United States and several European countries such as France, Germany and Italy are experiencing Islamic infiltration, in which the power struggles are -- for the moment -- muffled.

The “Right of Return” Myth:

The "right of return" myth that is being propagated is both cunning and compelling because its authors have created and then capitalized upon a made-for-television real life human drama, which continues; with magnificent success, to bewitchingly play upon the world's humanistic heartstrings. To be sure, humanism has become a powerful force to be reckoned with these days; especially because all too often it manifests itself without being tempered with G-dly discernment.

The myth goes like this: Prior to 1948, the re-establishment of the Jewish State, Arabs and Jews lived together in peace and harmony on Arab land in "palestine." This peace was shattered, however, when the vaulting European Zionist Jews came to "palestine" after their 2000-year Exile. These Zionist intruders usurped and terrorized the poor but happy "indigenous palestinian" Arab multitudes from their serene existence on property which they possessed and cultivated since antiquity, and this invasion forged what has since become the Jewish State. This encroachment induced a mass exodus of "refugees," who, to this very day, remain suffering in squalid makeshift camps, awaiting "repatriation" back to their "homeland" in "palestine." This Israeli dispossession of these "four million refugees" is the root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and thus, peace, not only in the Middle East, but because of Arab-Muslim "sensitivities" and unity, peace throughout the world will not be a possibility until this matter is fully dealt with and the "palestinian natural, inalienable right of return to palestine" is upheld.

For all of those humanists, "peacemakers" and other establishmentarians within our oil-obsessed global village, this myth has provided a simplistic, convenient, and expedient "moral" excuse to duck out of dealing straightforwardly with an explosive problem that threatens to upset more than just a comfortable standard of living. Since the "moral majority" amongst our global intelligentsia cannot deny that the persecuted Jewish People needed a permanent refuge after the horrors of the Holocaust, this reality must somehow be reconciled with the "moral issue" of the supposedly "displaced" fabled "palestinians," whose Arab and Muslim public relations advocates command the world's oil supply and possess the key to global chaos. Because the Promised Land was given to only one People in an Irrevocable Covenant, turnspeak (a cynical distortion of reported facts intended to manipulate public opinion), historical revisionism and conventional wisdom have become the weapons of choice in the war to win over the public’s hearts and minds. These tools are used to effectively "dumb-down" the masses to enable the Establishment to smugly argue against the right, as well as the logic, of the Remnant Returning to and building up her natural Homeland in Eretz Yisra'el, which is supposedly at the expense of these downtrodden "palestinian refugees."

For a moment of madness, let us assume the Arabs, Muslims, humanists and "peacemakers" were to get their way, and these feigned 4,000,000 so-called "palestinian refugees" were "returned to their homeland" -- not even to dwell inside the bogus "palestinian" state-in-the-making, but rather, in accordance with the Arab-Muslim Brotherhood's demands, to occupy what remains of that ever shrinking slice of territory, "Israel proper." This one overwhelming act of mass amalgamation of a deceived, embittered, and therefore incessantly hostile people into an area one-sixteenth the size of California to dwell with their sworn Zionist enemy, without Divine Intervention, would put an end to the Jewish State.

Jewish Land by Divine Right:

Resolutely pressing ahead then to phase the Jewish State out of existence, the Arabs continue to brazenly lay claim to a "palestinian homeland," which encompasses the Jewish Biblical Inheritance that, according to the unimpeachable Holy Tenach/Bible, was Promised to Abraham 4000 years ago for his offspring, the Jewish People -- G-d's Covenant People -- as set forth in Bereshit/Genesis 13:14-15.

Since G-d's Judgment was poured out 3500 years ago upon the inhabitants of ancient Canaan, who polluted the land with their abominable idol worship, the Chosen People inherited the country, and it has accordingly never been an official home to any other group of peoples.

Jewish Land by Historical Reality –
Undoing Revisionist History:

“Palestina,” Philistines; “palestinian”: Bogus Claims of Ancient Connections --
Although in ancient times the land was called Canaan, it was renamed Syria-Palestina or Palestina by the conquering Romans in 135 C.E. The name Palestina was created by the Romans as a tribute to one of the fiercest ancient enemies of the Covenant People: the Pelishtim or Philistines. By renaming Israel to Palestina, the Romans hoped to eradicate Jewish roots from the Jewish Biblical Inheritance.

The so-called Arab -- and therefore Semitic -- "palestinians" claim their ancestry goes back to the ancient Philistines, who were, in fact, migrant, non-Semitic, Aegean people who were driven out of Greece and the Aegean islands only to later occupy the coastal plain of southern Canaan around 1200 B.C.E. This people ceased to exist by 600 B.C.E., according to historical accounts and Biblical Prophecies.

A Continual Jewish Presence in the Promised Land --

From the period of Roman domination until the British occupation in the early 1900s, the Promised Land was reduced to a territory of transmutable provincial subdivisions, lacking frontiers, and having only administrative boundaries. In spite of the Romans and other ruthless conquerors, the Jewish People managed to maintain a continual presence, however small, in the Promised Land from the time of their last major expulsion in 70 C.E. until current.

Notably, the Palestine Commission Report in 1937 from London reportedly documented a little known strain of Oriental Jews who remained constantly in the Land for millennia. In spite of the violence perpetrated against the Jewish People in the Promised Land, more than 40 indigenous Jewish communities in supposedly "purely Arab" areas, such as Gaza,Ramle, Ascalon, Lydda and Ceasarea managed to survive and are traceable back to the 6th Century.

Rise of Islam: Attacks on Jews Deliver Prosperity & Power --

In the 7th Century, the primitive tribal religion of Islam sprung to life after pillaging the indigenous, prosperous agriculturalist Jews of Yathreb, who dwelled in the Hejaz district by Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. This highly successful raid sealed the Islamic "prophet" Muhammad's financial security and was the start of a lengthy and deadly hate campaign against the Jews, who refused to convert to his newfound religion and whose settlements were at the heart of the gold and silver trade.

As Muhammad's followers were led on murderous raids against Arabia's Jewish Khaibar community, the Jewish People in the area fled for their lives to the Promised Land and settled with the indigenous Jewish population in Transjordan, which would eventually become part of the League of Nations Mandated Jewish National Home in "palestine." Still more Jews were forced to flee to the Land after their property was seized and they were expelled from the surrounding Khaibar region, as Muhammad's idea of forbidding two religions to co-exist within the Arabian Peninsula began to firmly take root in the thinking of his followers, who prospered greatly from the raids.

It was not long before Islam swept throughout Arabia, the Fertile Crescent (an area of land extending from Israel to the Persian Gulf), Egypt, Turkey, Babylon, North Africa and Spain. During the 7th Century Islamic conquest of Jerusalem, Arabs and Muslims encountered an already well-established Jewish presence in the Promised Land. The Islamic domination was short lived, however, as internal rivalries within the religion, as well as the Byzantine Conquest of the Arabs, caused the religion to stagnate, and it eventually fell into backwardness until the discovery of petroleum in the Middle East from the 1920s - 1930s. The jihad mentality flourished, however, as Muhammad was careful to ingrain this thinking into the minds of his followers, who are the descendants of Yishma'el/Ishmael, the Arab peoples. This was Prophesied and recorded in Bereshit/Genesis 16:12: "And he (Yishma'el) will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ... "

Making Aliyah to the Promised Land --

In the 19th Century, the Promised Land was sparsely populated. In 1845 there were 12,000 Jews residing in their Homeland, according to Israeli government statistics. Those Jews who were living in the Exile; specifically from Eastern Europe, fled from the Russian pogroms in two waves of aliyah, or ascension to the Promised Land, to return to their Biblical Inheritance, which was under Turkish occupation (1516 – 1917). These Russian olim, Jewish immigrants specifically from Russia, and Rumanian Jews arrived in the Promised Land as early as 1882. In spite of extremely harsh living conditions and immigration restrictions by the ruling-class Muslims, the Jewish Remnant, which, since 1856, was permitted to purchase land at exorbitant prices in order to cultivate the area, determinedly established rural settlements, national farms, neighborhoods, agricultural organizations, and even revived the Hebrew language. That a Jew, a mere dhimmi – a second-class citizen subjugated under Islamic law -- could purchase land and live as an equal with the Muslim was unconscionable to the regional Arab effendis, considered “nobility,” who were brought up on a tradition of Muslim superiority and who wished to keep a stranglehold on the land.

In 1918, the Promised Land comprised 141,000 Arabs and Muslims, many of whom were transient and landless migrants and peasants originating from other lands, while the rest were imported wholesale by the Turkish government in an effort to guard its administration. Many of these immigrants, which included Turks, Egyptians, Druses, Algerians, Circassians, Kurds and Bosnians, as well as others, were systematically robbed by the Arab effendi landlords and exploited by corrupt Turkish government officials. These maltreated peoples, in turn, preyed upon the dhimmi Jewish residents. It consequently became commonplace for these nomadic; sporadically violent Arabs and Muslims to migrate to the Jewish areas of development, squatting in the places that the Jews were clearing for other Jews who were fleeing to their Homeland from persecution.

Three more waves of aliyah would follow due to the October Russian Revolution, pogroms in Poland and Hungary, economic instability, stiff United States immigration quotas, and the British conquest of "palestine," with the League of Nations adopting the Balfour Declaration to assist the Jewish People via the "palestine" Mandate in "reconstituting their national home in that country."

Reconstituting the Jewish National Home --

The territory of "palestine" that was mandated for the expressed purpose of a Jewish Homeland was then unilaterally carved up by the British between 1921-1922, thus violating the terms of the international mandate. Three-quarters of this land, "Eastern palestine," amounting to 38,000 square miles, was presented as a gift to sooth one of the royal sons of the Hejaz district, Emir Abdullah, who was instrumental in helping England defeat the Turks. Abdullah was rewarded after having narrowly missed kingship over Iraq to his brother and then having his hopes dashed for his designs on Syria. The stolen land was turned into an Arab emirate called the Kingdom of Transjordan, which paved the way for the creation of the Arab "palestinian" state of Jordan in 1946 that incorporated within the Hashemite Kingdom.

Under the urging of the Arab effendi families and other outside Muslim influences, Arab and Muslim violence continued to increase sporadically from 1929 - 1939 within the tiny 8,000-square-mile plot of land of "Western palestine" that was left for the Jewish Homeland. Because of the harsh Turkish-Muslim rule and the crippling dhimmi oppression, the Jewish People were permitted to settle on only a portion of this plot of land, and those who tried to inhabit other areas within this territory were murdered or forced to flee for their lives. In spite of the persecution and hostilities, the Jewish community of "Western palestine" persevered and developed what portion of their Homeland they did possess.

During this period, the Jews fleeing from Europe to escape the Nazis joined their brethren in the Promised Land, and together they drained marshes, built roads, developed towns, established small businesses, founded industrial enterprises and constructed a port. As the barren territory was literally transformed into an oasis by the Jewish People, more nomadic Arab and Muslim peoples left behind their oppressive and impoverished homelands and headed for the Promised Land to reap the resulting benefits. Various population accounts around this period suggest that "Eastern and Western palestine" accommodated between 300,000 to 400,000 Muslims and Arabs, approximately half of them newcomers, but the growth reportedly increased dramatically in "Western palestine" because of the various improvements introduced to those areas where Jews were confined to settling.

It was not uncommon for a handful of Jewish families to purchase outrageously priced plots of desolate land, bring the area to life, and consequently attract hundreds of migrant Arabs and Muslims, who would occupy the adjacent territories. According to a 1931 Census of Palestine, at least 51 different languages were in use by the Muslim and Arab occupants of the Land at that time, and 24 different countries were listed as the birthplaces of the non-Jews dwelling there. The term "non-Jew," as will be discussed in more detail later in this report, was an erroneous reference to Arabs. By 1940, the population in the Jewish homesteads numbered 450,000.

After World War II ended in 1945 and until the establishment of Israel in 1948, Jews were forced to "illegally" immigrate to their Homeland,as the British Mandatory regime had set a mere quota of 18,000 Jewish immigrants per year in order to appease the Arab effendi community. While the British Government fastidiously reported "illegal" Jewish immigration, which was insignificant until Hitler rose to power in the 1930s, not only was an official blind eye to the ongoing illegal Arab immigration commonplace, but the newly arrived Arab illicit immigrants were counted as deeply rooted "palestinians."

By the time statehood was proclaimed in what was only a portion of "Western palestine," the Jewish population had grown to 650,000. Many of those areas of "Western palestine" where Jews were not permitted to purchase land after 1939 were excluded from the newly established modem-day Jewish State. These were the areas where most of the Arabs migrated to from 1893 onward in order that they would dwell in close enough proximity to the prosperous Jewish-settled communities, where they could benefit from the fruit of Jewish toil.

Reaction of the Arab-Muslim Bloc --

With the re-establishment of Israel in 1948, the leaders of the neighboring Arab and Muslim states urged their brethren dwelling in what they considered Jewish-occupied "Arab palestine" to leave their homes temporarily, just until the region's Arabs and Muslims had a chance to obliterate the “Zionist cancer” from within their midst. “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre...,” Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League reportedly boasted at a Cairo press conference on May 15, 1948. Five well-armed Arab armies embarked upon what they thought would be a quick mop-up campaign against the Jewish State.

A research report by the Arab-sponsored Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut dispels the Arab tale that the majority of the Arab "refugees" in 1948 fled for their lives in fear of the supposedly ruthless Israelis. The report states that 68 percent of the Arabs left on their own accord, without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.

After 1948, the Arabs would not allow official censuses to be conducted among the "palestinian refugees." They grossly exaggerated the "refugee" population figures to draw world attention to the situation and to induce the United Nations to pressure Israel to "repatriate" the "indigenous palestinians," and disputing their bogus claims was a cumbersome process due in part to the piles of relative but inaccurate “official” population records in existence prior to this time.

Debunking the “palestinian refugee” Myth --

Investigative reporter and historian, Joan Peters, who scrutinized libraries of well-hidden records pertaining to this issue, gleaned and cross-checked important data that, indeed, sheds light on what happened from the time of the 1893 Turkish census -- shortly after organized Jewish colonization began, followed by a correlative increase in the affected areas' Arab and Muslim populations -- until the establishment of the modern-day State of Israel in 1948.

Peters points out in her meticulously documented book, "From Time Immemorial," that evidence from comparable Turkish and British census data and reports between 1893 to 1947 -- this latter year being the period when Arab migrants deserted their dwellings in "Western palestine" -- indicate that among the originally estimated 430,000 to 650,000 so-called "indigenous existing native" Arabs and Muslims purported to be "genuine refugees" in 1948, 170,300 were, in reality, Arab in-migrants. These in-migrants moved freely within "Western palestine" seeking work and were, in truth, not at all among the so-called refugees. Rather, the in-migrants were returning to the Arab-settled areas of "Western palestine," which included the so-called "West Bank" and Gaza Strip, and were coming from the nearby Jewish-settled areas of "Western palestine," where they and their Turkish-Muslim immigrant implants squatted in search of better economic opportunities.

Moreover, as alluded to earlier, not all of those reported to be Arabs in the Turkish and British demographic statistics were actually ethnic Arabs, for included in the mix were all non-Jewish Arabic-speaking peoples in “palestine.”

As a further matter, there was the unduly highest rate of assumed “natural population increase,” which the Turks officially credited to the so-called "indigenous" Arabs in the Arab-settled areas of "Western palestine" during a period before Jewish improvements had the time to positively affect Arab health and quality of life. That official exaggeration amalgamated with the failure to properly account for the numerous newcomers, which the Turkish Government elected to simply include as part of this "natural indigenous" growth.

Such misleading methods of official reporting greatly artificially inflated the number of "native Arabs" in the area during this period, which, in turn, opened the door for the latent camouflaging of an influx of illegal Arab immigrants, and lent credence to outright bogus, and now malicious, Arab-Muslim "refugee" claims.

Unnatural Explosive Arab & Muslim Population Increases --

The unadulterated number of Muslim Arabs in 1893 residing within the main areas of "Western palestine" where organized Jewish settlement, which began a full decade earlier, was concentrated, actually amounted to 59,000 of the 92,300 reported non-Jews living within that same vicinity, Peters cited.

By 1947, the number of non-Jews, which also included Arab nomads, Arab "illegal" and "legal" immigrants, and Arab in-migrants, living within this same area grew by more than 400 percent from 92,300 to 462,900.

Within the so-called "purely Arab" areas of "Western palestine," considered the main areas of Arab settlement, such as Gaza, and the so-called "West Bank” -- Biblical Judea and Samaria -- which were in close proximity to the main Jewish-settled areas, there were 233,500 non-Jews in 1893. This population increased by more than 120 percent to 517,000 by 1947.

Hence, from the 1893 Turkish census, when only a hand full -- 59,000 -- of Muslim Arabs made their homes nearby Jewish development, which had been underway for a decade, up until 1947, just prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, there was a strikingly sudden; yet officially ignored trend of new arrivals, predominantly Arabs and Muslims, to "Western Palestine." These new arrivals, along with other non-Jews, were officially buried within an explosive "natural population increase," when two centuries prior to this time the Arab and Muslim population in the area had remained relatively static.

Such irresponsible official reporting served the Arab-Muslim interests of outrageously inflating the number of "indigenous refugees," who fled their homes in anticipation of the Arab-Muslim war against Israel in 1948.

The Real Numbers --

The population composition in 1947 throughout specifically those areas of "Western palestine" that would be embodied in the newly established State of Israel provide an accurate picture of the maximum number of "refugees" that could possibly be claimed. It should be noted that many of these "refugees" did not actually flee their homes, but rather abandoned them upon the urging of the region's Arab and Muslim leaders, who were preparing to obliterate the Jews from within their midst.

During the period of 1947 - 1948, there were 746,900 reported "Arabs" in the areas that would be included in Israel. The main areas of Arab encroachment within the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria earmarked for the Jewish Homeland by the international mandate were excluded from the Jewish State in 1948. Of those 746,900 “Arabs,” 56,800 were nomads, 36,800 were "illegal" and "legal" immigrants who were actually reported by the British administration, and 170,300 were in-migrants who moved from area to area within "Western palestine" in search of work. This would leave an actual maximum number of 483,000 Arab "settled" population in Israel in 1948.

From this maximum number of 483,000 Arab "settled" population in Israel in 1948, only 140,200 Arabs elected to stay in the newly established Jewish State. Those Arabs who stayed became "Israeli Arabs," who, to this day, enjoy the full privileges of citizenship without being burdened with Israel Defense Forces military service requirements. This leaves a balance of 342,800 Arabs who could possibly be considered for actual refugee status.

Peters notes the 342,800 figure is less than half of the number of refugees claimed by the Arabs immediately after abandoning their homes; before the numbers were even further artificially swelled in the "refugee" camps.

United Nations Fabrications --

During this period, the United Nations broadened the definition of refugee: Beforehand, refugees were considered those people who were forced to leave "permanent" or "habitual" homes. Now the definition would include those Arabs who had been in "palestine" for only two years prior to Israel's statehood. This decision greatly enlarged the number of "palestinian refugees."

A practice was then introduced that resulted in further significantly inflating the number of "refugees." Statistical information on the "palestinian refugee" figures were determined according to how many United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) ration books were issued -- only these books were given freely to the multitudes of poverty stricken Arabs and Muslims in the region who never even lived in "palestine," but yet were counted as "refugees."

In May of 1950, UNRWA Director Howard Kennedy reportedly cited hundreds of thousands of "hungry Arabs" who were not "refugees," but who received the ration books because they claimed a need.

Five years later, Cairo's Arab News Agency reported that there were "refugees" who possessed as many as 500 ration cards apiece.

An investigation in 1960 by United States Senators Gale McGee and Albert Gore reportedly concluded that ration cards had become "chattel for sale, for rent or bargain."

By 1970, another UNRWA Director would admit that the "refugee" figures were "erroneous and grossly inflated." Yet these UNRWA "refugee" figures are used in collaboration with a purported "natural growth rate" among an unrealistically phenomenal and unsubstantiated fertile Arab-Muslim populace within "palestine," from which masses supposedly fled, and continued to reproduce at an exaggerated rate, to come up with the 4,000,000 refugees" who have an "inalienable right to return to their “palestinian homeland.”

Arab “refugees” as Political Tools --

After the Arabs and Muslims lost the war in 1948, they shut the door of citizenship on the unanticipated "refugees" and imprisoned them in perpetual camps.

Some at first called for their "repatriation;" yet, these voices eventually gave way to the wishes of the Secretary of the Arab Higher Command, Emile Ghoury.

On August 6, 1948, Ghoury called for the prevention of the return of the "refugees" to their dwellings in Israel: "It is inconceivable that the refugees should be sent back to their homes while they are occupied by Jews ... It would serve as a first step toward Arab recognition of the State of Israel and partition," he reportedly told the Beirut Telegraph.

This sentiment held out the hope of furthering the Arab and Muslim aspirations to -- at an opportune time: always at an opportune time according to Islam -- obtain even that tiny parcel of truncated land of "Western palestine" that the Jewish People were left with from the mandate period on which to build their state.

This is why today, Israel's Arab and Muslim neighbors refuse across-the-board to repatriate their brethren back into their true homelands.

Between 1948-1973, the region's Arab and Muslim leaders and notables were determined that the Jews would not out-populate them in an area they plan to include in their Arab-Islamic empire. Using their oil as a tool to silence any opposition to their plans, they embarked upon a massive, clandestine, and officially ignored program of illegal immigration to the Promised Land.

Arabs from Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria and other areas flooded the Land in a collective calculated move to displace the Jewish inhabitants.

Another war of aggression against Israel ensued, this one in 1967. Again, the Arabs and Muslims were defeated. The Arab-Muslim bloc lost to the Jewish People the Syrian-occupied Golan Heights, Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip, and the "palestinian" Arab-occupied Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, which included the Jordanian-occupied eastern section of Jerusalem.

With the "refugees" still stuck on their borders, and no way to militarily overcome the Jewish State, the two-decade-old idea of Arab activist Musa Alami suddenly looked promising: the indoctrination of a myth of nationality into the downtrodden "palestinian refugees" in order to create identity and stir up self-respect -- and anger. After all, Alami reportedly reasoned in “The Lesson of Palestine,” published in the Middle East Journal in October 1949: “How can people struggle for their own nation when most of them do not know the meaning of the word?”

Thus, the myth of a "palestinian homeland" was born and the "refugees" became a powerful political tool with international ramifications.

The Arab-Muslim bloc has since embarked upon a public relations/diplomatic/economic campaign to internationally isolate the Jewish State.

In 1971, prominent Egyptian spokesman and editor of the influential Al Ahara newspaper, Mohamed Heikal, publicly appealed to Arabs and Muslims to change their rhetoric calling for Israel's destruction and in its place he recommended adopting politically correct, humanitarian terminology that would advocate the "demands" of the "palestinian refugees" to return to their "homeland."

The Arab-Muslim bloc came to realize that the image of millions of hostile Arabs and Muslims attacking a tiny Jewish State would not work in their favor in the international theater, so they adopted Heikal's idea and began advocating the "right of return" of the "palestinian refugees" in order to put a human face on their designs.

This public relations maneuver, in turn, facilitated the current political strategy of "total withdrawal" to reduce Israel to indefensible borders.

After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, a prominent Arab "palestinian" strategist, Al-Haytham Al-Ayubi, reportedly made a crafty recommendation in an October 1974 article entitled, "Future Strategy in Light of the Fourth War," published in Shuun Filastiniyya in Beirut. He suggested that the Arab-Muslim bloc hold sham "peace talks," while maintaining "a state of no peace" and "moral pressure together with carefully balanced military tension."

Conclusion of the Matter --

By seducing nations with its vast oil reserves, subduing policymakers with threats of extinguishing world peace via its international Islamic terrorist cells, and confining the “refugees” to dismal camps along its borders adjacent to Israel so the media has ample heart-wrenching photo opts and sensational human-interest stories, the Arab-Muslim bloc has advanced its strategy and won a major public relations victory. In effect, the bloc has kept the “right of return” agenda before our global community, and has garnered the political leveraging and worldwide grassroots support it needs to establish “palestinian” statehood in the Jewish Heartland.

The goal is not to enable the "palestinian refugees" to live independently beside what would remain of the Jewish State,but rather to completely phase Israel out of existence.

Sources that Sandra Warmoth used for this backgrounder include:
"From Time Immemorial," by Joan Peters, "Philistine," by Ramon Bennett, "Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat?"by Victor Mordechai, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs report, "Centenary of Zionism," and U.S. Department of State Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism reports on "Patterns of Global Terrorism"

Islamic Terrorism A Clear and Present Danger of Global Proportions

Sat, 13 Jul 1996 01:38:49 +0300

A warning to the reader: Some material contained herein is blasphemous. It is recorded solely for the purpose of exposing a hideous lie with the Truth. It is my prayer that The Most Holy One of Israel – He who is Sovereign; He who shall be known forever unto all generations as The G-d of Abraham, The G-d of Isaac; The G-d of Jacob – will guide my pen. I have lowercased, uppercased and italicized where necessary within direct quotations from Qur'anic material, so as to bring matters in alignment with Biblical Reality.

Peace:
The buzz word for this century. Yet, like an echo, it evades us.
The nations cry out, “Safety!... More summit meetings!” But turmoil envelops our global village – like a dense fog.   And like the fog, it cannot be grasped. Not through mediation ... normalization ... concession.

Purpose:
What we hope to accomplish. We search, within ourselves, and forget
G-d. Then we cry out, “Rights!.. Everyone is oppressed!” And bitterness permeates our very beings – like a dense fog. And like the fog, it cannot be grasped. Not through ideology... equality... prosperity.

Hate:
A force to be reckoned with. Tending its task, subtly, as the cankerworm. Then it cries out, “Vindicate!... Vanquish the enemy!” Such destruction settles upon G-d's handiwork – like a dense fog. And like the fog, it cannot be grasped. Not through globalism ... humanism ... dogmatism ...

How, then, do we attain that perfect peace that transcends all barriers? Where can we find purpose along the rocky path of life? Can we dissolve the hate that is so deeply ingrained within our civilization? Man is not equipped to address such issues unless he possesses Truth. This is within our grasp.   The G-d of Reality gives freely to all those who seek Him wholeheartedly and without reservation.

In a world where it has become increasingly difficult to recognize “the lover from the thief” – both can look and sound the same – let us be examiners of fruit.

“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.” Matthew 7:15-20

This is a wake up call. He who has ears, let him hear.

Five times a day, atop the minarets dotted throughout The Promised Land and the Islamic world, the wail of very loud speakers boast in one accord: “Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. I bear witness that there is no god (also: deity) but Allah. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Come to prayer. Come to success. Come to success (A Manual of Hadith on Adhan and Iqamah by Muhammad Ali).”

How it must pain the Holy One. How it must be a stench in His nostrils.

This, perhaps, may seem like a mindless call to prayer, but when dislodged from within the shadow of the Qur'an – the Muslim “holy” book – and Ahadith – the “semi-divine” Islamic Oral Tradition – the connotations are much more telling: This aqeedah and adhan – compulsory Islamic creed and call to prayer – is a cryptic beckoning to the Muslim to elevate himself/herself in the pillars of Islam; especially concerning Jihad (succinctly defined: “holy” war), in preparation for the “final hour” of Islamic world domination – which draws nigh.

A chilling message left by a Mujahid – Muslim soldier or “holy warrior” – who elevated himself in the pillars of Islam and then faithfully executed his religious obligations, “journeyed to paradise” fighting Jihad-Fi-Sabilillah – “holy” war in the path of Allah – in this case, for a judenrein Middle East, reads: “Holy War is our path. My death will be martyrdom.” Now quoting partially from Ahadith: “I will knock on heaven's gates with the skulls of Zion's sons. I walk in the way of Islam to the house of Islam like a holy Shahid (witness). The Jihad is our way and without it we will not be able to continue and fight to liberate palestine. Life on earth is good, but death for Allah is better. I bless the Az Adin al Kasem and depart from you as a Shahid (The Struggle for Jerusalem, Barry & Batya Segal).”

In Islamic teaching, the “martyr” who dies while engaging in Jihad in order that the deen – Allah’s name and the Islamic way of life – be exalted, commits not suicide, but rather the ultimate act of ibadat: worship. His Quar’an promises him, and his imams – spiritual leaders – advocate that his physical departure from this earth is simply a passage onto eternal bliss, where he will enter into a “paradise” of unparalleled fleshly pleasure.

In his book, The Traditions of Islam, the well-respected; pro-Islamic scholar, Alfred Guillaume, points out: “The martyr’s merit exceeds that of all others.” He cites Ahadith by Al Tirmidhi and Ibn Maja: “The martyr has six privileges with god: his sins are pardoned when the first drop of blood falls; he is shown his seat in paradise; he is safe from the punishment of the grave and secure from the great terror (a reference to hell), a crown of dignity isplaced on his head, one jewel of which is worth more than the world and all that is therein; and he is married to seventy dark-eyed virgins; and he makes successful intercession for seventy of his relatives. ‘He who equips a warrior in the way of god has fought himself; and he who is left behind to take care of a warrior’s family has fought himself.’ ” Indeed, families of these “warriors” can expect to receive comfortable stipends from their government or, in the case of a fledgling Islamic entity, from an established sponsoring regime, or from Islamic charitable community outreach organizations: oftentimes terrorist organizations in their own right.

Engaging in Jihad is fard – a compulsory duty on all Muslims. A main pillar of Islam, Jihad is given honorary treatment in the Qur’an, and the Mujahid, the “holy warrior,” is held in the highest regard. Indeed, such a great emphasis has been placed on this subject that many scholars and commentators have remarked that the topic of the Qur’an is Jihad. Jihad and related terminology, e.g. Qitaal: fighting in the path of Allah, are addressed 105 times in the Qur’an, Islamic scholar, author and activist, Syrian Sheikh Omar bin Bakri bin Muhammad explained on OBM Network: The sheik said: “The truth is that a Muslim who reads the Qur’an with devotion is determined to reach the battlefield in order to attain the reality of Jihad. It is solely for this reason that the Kuffar (‘disbelievers’) conspire to keep the Muslims far away from understanding the Qur’an – knowing that Muslims who understand the Qur’an will not distance themselves from Jihad.”

This is because the Islamic “prophet,” Muhammad, said to have received “divine revelation” to bring Allah’s deen to mankind via the Qu’ran, is regarded by Muslims to be a Jihad role model. Indeed, the spoils from Muhammad’s raids served as a springboard for Islamizing Arabia.

In a June 19, 2001 interview on Qatar’s Al-Jazeera Television, during its weekly religious program, Sheik Yussef Al-Qaradhawi, head of the Islamic law faculty at Qatar University and leading authority in the Muslim world today, explaining the unique characteristics Muhammad possessed, said: “Allah has also made the prophet Muhammad into an epitome for religious warriors (Mujahideen) since he ordered Muhammad to fight for religion...” Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi discussed how a Mujahid prepares for his mission: “There are various ways to prepare for Jihad: there is mental preparation, there is physical preparation, and there is material preparation, meaning the preparation of the weapons. The messenger (Muhammad) prepared all his friends first mentally, since equipment and weapons cannot fight themselves, but rather need hands to operate them. And those hands must have a purpose. (as reported by The Middle East Media Research Institute, a non-profit organization that translates and analyzes the media of the Middle East.)”

Surah 4:89-92: “How is it that you are divided into two parties regarding the hypocrites? Allah has overthrown them because of what they did. Would you guide him whom Allah has caused to perish? For him whom Allah causes to perish thou shalt not find a way. They wish that you would disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you may become all alike.   Make not, therefore, friends with any of them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah. If they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them... (from “The Koran – Arabic text with translation,” by Muhammad Zafrulla Khan)."

In addition to the Qur’an, there are countless books on Ahadith, and Fiqh – jurisprudence – that cover this subject, and in painstaking length. Whole scholarly dissertations and books have been written regarding the rulings and “virtues” of Jihad in an attempt to condense the vast amount of information available for disciples of Islam.

It is noteworthy to mention that the entire Islamic educational system, from primary to the scholarly levels, is based upon promoting the pillars of Islam: and without reservation when concerning Jihad and “martyrdom.” Moreover, all subjects in the Islamic curriculum are geared toward forming the Islamic personality in thought and behavior; therefore, no allowance is given to objectively study foreign cultures and ethics.

The writing is on the wall:

The headline in the November 30, 2000 issue of Al Hayat al Jadida, the official “palestinian” Authority daily newspaper, reads: The Boy Martyr Karam al-Kard (age 12) announced of his own death on the walls of his home.” The ensuing article, as reported by “palestine” Media Watch, reads: “Prior to his being injured... Karam announced his own death on the walls of his home and attributed to himself Martyrdom and its honor, in his handwriting on the walls. The notice read: ‘The Al-Kard family announces the death of its courageous Martyr Karam Fat’he Al-Kard...” Notice that the reporter took pains to remind the Muslim community that the boy was injured – that is to say, he experienced a temporary inconvenience during his rite of passage en route to “paradise.” Also, “Fat’he,” which the boy incorporated into his name, is a reference to victory.

This child’s story is not an isolated case. Grooming children, indeed, orienting an entire people toward engaging in Jihad and “elevating” themselves to “martyrdom” on behalf of Allah’s deen will be the subject for the next edition of The Zealot.

For the Muslim, there are two worlds: Dar al-Islam, the domain of Islam , and Dar al-Kufr, the domain of disbelief: the former domain being a “House of Peace,” while the latter is the “House of War.” A war that will not end until the entire world falls under Muslim rule.

The foreboding conditions of this anticipated “final hour,” which correlates with a “day of judgment” and the establishment of the “Islamic divine order” is detailed in Ahadith. Tradition tells of the Islamic “prophet” Muhammad stating that the “hour” will come after the Muslims battle the Jews and annihilate them. During this war, the Jews will try to escape from the clutches of their Muslim pursuers by hiding

“During this war, the Jews will try to escape from the clutches of their Muslim pursuers by hiding behind rocks and trees. But, on that day Allah will give mouths to the rocks and trees, which will call out, “O Muslim, there is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him”

behind rocks and trees. But, on that day Allah will give mouths to the rocks and trees, which will call out, “O Muslim, there is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him (Ahadith excerpt provided by Moshe Sharon, former Israeli Adviser on Arab and Islamic Affairs, as cited by Victor Mordechai, in his book, “Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat? Mordechai is a well-connected activist and speaker, who resides in Israel. For obvious reasons, he goes by his pen name. Mordechai noted that the above venomous quote appears frequently on handbills distributed throughout the Muslim populace in the Arab-occupied territories of the Jewish State, by the terrorist organization Hamas (In Arabic: Harakat Muqawama Islamiyya: Islamic Resistance Movement. The acronym, Hamas means “zeal” or “violence.”). The handbills are used as a rallying cry to kill the Jews.

According to this deadly Oral Tradition, “"the great imam (Islamic spiritual leader) Jesus” is going to help the Muslims with this bloody mop up campaign: “Tradition tells us that, at the end of days, Jesus will appear, spear in hand, on the mountains to the east of the Sea of Galilee. At that time, the false messiah, ad-dajjal, will be ruling the earth and Jesus will meet him at the gates of the city of Lydda (a town two miles north of the road connecting Joppa toJerusalem) and kill him. Having killed the ad-dajjal, Jesus will proceed to Jerusalem at the time of the morning prayer and will pray among the rest of the Moslems according to the Islamic law. Thereafter, he will break all the crosses and lay the synagogues and churches in ruins," Mordechai explained. “According to one tradition, by that time, all the Jews and Christians will believe in him and become part of the great Islamic community.”

Mordechai compares Muhammad's Qur'an to Hitler's "Mein Kampf." Indeed, this analogy becomes evident in Surah 5:60-61 [Khan]: "Say to them: 'People of the Book, you persecute us for the only fault that we believe in Allah and in that which has been sent down to us and in that which was sent down before it, and you do that because most of you are disobedient to Allah.' Say to them: 'Shall I apprise you of those whose recompense from Allah is worse than that of those whom you despise?' They are those whom Allah has cast aside and on whom his wrath has fallen and of whom he has made some as apes and swine who worship the evil one. These are in the worst plight and farthest astray from the right path."

This entire twisted religion is based upon the premise that G-d has broken His Covenant Promises; has utterly cast aside the Jews and Christians, and has since dictated a new book...a supreme book... which has been entrusted to the Muslims. Below are just a few representative surahs that convey such fabrications:

Surah 2:119: "When Abraham was tried by his Lord with words and fulfilled them; He said: 'See, I am going to make thee an example (i.e., imam) to the people.' He replied: 'And of my posterity also?' He said: 'My Covenant will not extend to the wrong-doers (from "The Qur'an – translated with a critical re-arrangement of the surahs," by Richard Bell).'"

Surah 2:120-122 [Khan]: "Most surely have we sent thee with the truth, a bearer of glad tidings and a warner; nor art thou answerable for the inmates of the Fire. TheJews will by no means be pleased with thee, nor the Christians, unless thou conform to their creed. Proclaim, therefore: 'Surely Allah's guidance is the only true guidance.' If thou follow their evil desires after the knowledge that has come to thee, thou shalt have neither friend nor helper from Allah. Those whom we have given this book follow it as it should be followed; it is these who have firm faith therein. Whoso believes not therein, these are they who are the losers."

Surah 4:48 [Khan]: "O ye who have been given the book, believe in that which we have now sent down, fulfilling that which is with you, before we destroy your leaders and turn them on their backs or cast them aside as we cast aside the People of the Sabbath. The decree of Allah is bound to be carried out."

Surah 10:15 [Khan]: "We destroyed generation after generation before when they did wrong. Their messengers came to them with clear signs, but they would not believe. Thus do we requite the guilty people. Then, after them we made you their successors in the earth, that we might see how you would behave."

The above surahs call G-d a liar. But the G-d of Truth says:
"...He who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar -- the L-rd Almighty is His Name: 'Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,' declares the L-rd, 'will the descendants (zerah in Hebrew = seed) of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me (Jeremiah 31:35-36. Also see, & Ezekiel 16:62 ).'"

Muhammad has a very well used "revelation" for such instances, however. It can be found in Surah 2:107 [Khan]: "Whatever previous commandment we abrogate or cause to be forgotten, we reveal in this Qur'an one better or the like thereof: Knowest thou not that Allah has power to do all he wills?"

But the Holy One proclaims: "G-d is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change His mind...(Numbers 23:19)."

Conventional wisdom insists that Islamic religious dogma is adhered to by only a "fringe" group of "extremist" fundamentalists, but it would be unwise to simply rest in the fact that Islam's second largest

“Conventional wisdom insists that Islamic religious dogma is adhered to by only a "fringe" group of "extremist" fundamentalists, but it would be unwise to simply rest in the fact that Islam's second largest sect, the Shi'ites, the most radical Muslim element today, comprise just 14% of the Islamic population. One must also take into consideration that the Shi’ites are concentrated in Iran and Iraq, and these two countries, along with Saudi Arabia, are sitting on 67% of the world's crude oil”

sect, the Shi'ites, the most radical Muslim element today, comprise just 14% of the Islamic population. One must also take into consideration that the Shi’ites are concentrated in Iran and Iraq, and these two countries, along with Saudi Arabia, are sitting on 67% of the world's crude oil (World Book Encyclopedia; also Lewis M. Hopfe, "Religions of the World"). The Orthodox Muslims, comprising both Shi'ites and Sunnis who together make up 85% of the Islamic population, firmly believe their pseudo-god Allah has given them this oil so that they could amass wealth to fight for his global aim of world domination. According to Encyclopedia Americana, currently there is approximately a 33-year supply of oil reserves, which total 670 billion barrels. This is the window these Muslims feel they have to work in to accomplish the goals of Allah's fast and furious Jihad. What is especially noteworthy: the entire Islamic community is duty-bound to aid in every possible way in "Allah's struggle," and this religious imperative is vigorously enforced, forcibly if necessary, by Muslim activists, who justify themselves by the following Qur'anic and Hadith material: Surah 9:38-39 [Khan] reads: "O ye who believe, what ails you that, when it is said to you, 'Go forth, all together, to fight in the cause of Allah; ' you are held down by your worldly interests? Is it that you prefer the hither life to the hereafter? If so, you must remember that all this life has to offer is of little value in comparison with the hereafter. If you go not forth, he will chastise you with a painful chastisement and will replace you with another people, and you shall do him no harm at all."

An exceedingly large number of Oral Traditions deal with the subject of jihad and martyrdom. In his book, "The Traditions of Islam," by the well-respected; pro-Islamic scholar, Alfred Guillaume, he points out, "The martyr's merit exceeds thatof all others." Guillaume cites Hadith by Al Tirmidhi and Ibn Maja: "The martyr has six privileges with god: his sins are pardoned when the first drop of blood falls; he is shown his seat in paradise; he is safe from the punishment of the grave (i.e. suicide for Allah is viewed as a temporary inconvenience in order to enter into paradise) and secure from the great terror (i.e. hell), a crown of dignity is placed on his head one jewel of which is worth more than the world and all that is therein; and he is married to seventy dark-eyed virgins; and he makes successful intercession for seventy of his relatives. 'He who equips a warrior in the way of god has fought himself; and he who is left behind to take care of a warrior's family has fought himself.'

Coming to the understanding, then, that it is an obligatory "sacred" duty on the part of the entire Islamic community to participate in this "holy" Jihad to obliterate the infidels (lit. unbelievers, but referring to non-Muslims), we are better equipped to perceive the foreboding picture behind why the Muslim-Arab bloc brandishes its oil reserves over the heads of the industrialized nations. Given the global lust for oil, this war club (G-d has His own War club -- Israel. See Jeremiah 51:20) has proven to be quite an effective weapon of choice to silence opposition to this imperialistic scheme, as is evident by the reckless appeasement policies of the world’s political leaders and by the blatant pro-Muslim bias of the international media. Regarding the latter, petro-dollars are being used to buy up the world’s major news organs, and those that are not owned by Muslims find their objectivity severely compromised because this money is also being used to purchase the majority of media advertisements, a mainstay for any news outfit.

We can be certain that advancing on our horizon is a powerful, angry bloc of Arab Islamic states out to conquer and cleanse the world for Allah.   Mordechai cautions: "Today, with the power of oil and the petrodollar, radical fanatic Islam has been able, after nearly a thousand years of submission to the more powerful world of Christendom, to again raise its head and toentertain dreams of conquering or converting the entire world to the Islamic religion. It is Ayatollah Janati, a leading Moslem cleric in the Iranian government, who has said again and again: 'The twenty-first century will be the century of Islam.'"

That boast may be modern, but its underlying hostility is as ancient as the division between Ishmael and Isaac and the feud between Jacob and Esau: In Genesis 15, G-d established His Covenant with Abram (later, Abraham). G-d promised that Abram would have a son, but he and his barren wife Sarai (later, Sarah) took it upon themselves to start a family through her Egyptian maidservant, Hagar. Genesis 16 tells us that Abram slept with Hagar and she became pregnant with Ishmael. G-d informed Hagar that Ishmael "will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's

“G-d informed Hagar that Ishmael "will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him and he will live in hostility toward (or live to the east -- Saudi Arabia -- of) all his brothers." This hostile seed has since been passed down to his descendants (the Arabs of Saudi Arabia, where Islam got its start), as recorded in Genesis 25:18.”

hand against him and he will live in hostility toward (or live to the east -- Saudi Arabia -- of) all his brothers." This hostile seed has since been passed down to his descendants (the Arabs of Saudi Arabia, where Islam got its start), as recorded in Genesis 25:18. In Genesis 17, G-d re-affirmed His Covenant Promises to Abraham, and Abraham pleaded that Ishmael would live under G-d's blessing also. G-d replied, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my Covenant with him as an everlasting Covenant and for his descendants after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. But my Covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year."   Later, in Genesis 22, as a test of faith, G-d told Abraham, "Take your son, your only son (note: Although Ishmael was the elder son, G-d only recognized Isaac, the son that He promised to Sarah, as the true seed of Abraham.), Isaac, whom you love and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about." Abraham obeyed the L-rd, but G-d stopped him before he could sacrifice Isaac. G-d was

Exodus 3:15
Here, The Holy One reveals Himself as the
G-d of Abraham, the G-d of Isaac and the G-d of Jacob.

pleased with Abraham because of his obedience and at this time He reiterated The Covenant Promise. The Qur'an falsifies this account by alleging that Ishmael was the son to be sacrificed; thus, insinuating that the Covenant Promises were actually handed down to his descendants. But G-d has an exclusive relationship, which He affirms in Exodus 3:15. Here, The Holy One reveals Himself as the G-d of Abraham, the G-d of Isaac and the G-d of Jacob. No amount of Qur'anic revisionism can alter this special relationship or the fact that the Covenant Promise would be handed down through Isaac's seed.

Isaac would later marry Rebekah, and she would bore him twins, Jacob and Esau. In Genesis 25 we learn that these two brothers strived with each other even from within her womb. Esau we are told, “despised his birthright,” which carried with it a double portion blessing of G-d's abundance because he was the firstborn son. He made a deal with his younger brother in which he sold his birthright to him for a bowl of lentil stew. Jacob apparently had Spiritually discerned that the birthright was something of great and long-standing importance to be sought after, while Esau’s focus was fixed on things of a temporal nature. That Jacob eagerly grasped for Esau's birthright was a confirmation of the Prophecy of the Divine Election whereby this older son would serve his younger brother, as G-d declared in Verse 23.   This Election went directly against ancient custom by which the younger son would serve the eldest son. As the years passed, we learn in Genesis 27 that while Isaac was getting his house in order before he died, he called for Esau, whom he loved, and requested a meal of wild game prior to pronouncing the double portion blessing upon him. Rebekah, who loved Jacob, overheard this conversation, and while Esau was hunting for the game, she had her younger son bring in goats from their flock and she prepared a similar meal. She instructed Jacob to disguise himself to look like his older brother and then she gave him the meal so that he could fool his poor-sighted father into giving him the double portion blessing instead. The trick worked, so in addition to having earlier obtained Esau’s birthright, Jacob had acquired the double portion blessing ofthe clan authority. "May G-d give you of heaven's dew and of earth's richness -- an abundance of grain and new wine," Isaac said, and continued, "May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed."   Hence, in spite of ancient custom and Isaac’s love for Esau, G-d's Election stood and the birthright and double portion blessing fell upon Jacob.

When Esau returned and discovered that his blessing had been grasped by his brother, he cried out and pleaded with his father to bless him, too, but Isaac replied, "Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above. You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck."

As time passed, G-d confirmed the Covenant He had made with Isaac to Jacob. Esau, however, held a grudge, and he mustered up a band of 400 men to pursue Jacob.   In fear, Jacob humbled himself before the L-rd and sought His protection and favor.   G-d answered his prayer by changing Esau’s heart toward his brother (Genesis 33:4). Esau then redirected his anger by rebelling against his father after learning that Isaac commanded Jacob not to marry a Canaanite woman. We are told in Genesis 28:8, “Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac, so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.” The Canaanites were descendants of Noah’s son, Ham, whom Noah had cursed for looking upon his nakedness, as recorded in Genesis 9:25-27. The descendants of Ham comprise Caucasoid peoples native to North and East Africa, including the Egyptians, the Berbers, the Tuaregs, and the Galla.

Throughout the millennia, Satan has managed to keep these ancient hostilities alive by continually stirring up bitter envy within the hearts of many of Ishmael’s and Esau’s descendants, and this jealousy

“Throughout the millennia, Satan has managed to keep these ancient hostilities alive by continually stirring up bitter envy within the hearts of many of Ishmael’s and Esau’s descendants, and this jealousy vents itself in the form of fury against the Chosen People.”

vents itself in the form of fury against the Chosen People. This reality is evident today as we repeatedly witness modern day Jihads or "holy" wars being waged against the Jews. But that is only part of the story. What is not so obvious is the driving force behind this struggle: the dark principality that has declared war under Allah’s banner against the one true G-d: the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in an effort to thwart His Redemptive Purposes.

Strangely enough, as this rancorous war rages on, Islam, which is widely adhered to by both Ishmael’s and Esau’s descendants, has become the world's fastest growing religion. At the initial writing of this article, the World Almanac and Book of Facts 1995, citing mid-1993 statistics from the 1994 Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year, reported that Islam's 1,014,372,000 worldwide adherents placed it second only to Christianity (editorial note: more accurately – Christendom), which reportedly had 1,869,751,000 devotees; 1,042,501,000 of this latter group being Roman Catholics. By comparison, the World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000, citing mid-1998 statistics from the 1999 Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year, is reporting that on global scale there are 1,164,622,00 Muslims adherents, and 1,943,038,000 reported Christians; 1,026,501,000 of which are listed as Roman Catholics. Hence, we can see that during the period of mid-1993 through mid-1998, between the two dominating religions, Islam and Christianity, the former has enjoyed a 150,250,000 increase, while the latter has experienced less than half of that gain, reporting only a 73,287,000 rise in its numbers.

How is it that a religion filled with so much unabated ancient hatred can enjoy such popularity in a global village so obsessed with manufacturing world peace?

It is a time-tested truism that wealth brings with it many friends. When the Middle Eastern Arab and Muslim nations discovered their vast quantity of oil, Hopfe points out that it raised their wealth and political power overnight, which also sparked a resurgence of interest in Islam. Islam has very skillfully used this vast oil wealth as a powerful political weapon to advance its cause internationally.

“Winked at by our international leaders, Islam’s expansionist goals are becoming quite a force to be reckoned with.”

Winked at by our international leaders, Islam’s expansionist goals are becoming quite a force to be reckoned with. Mordechai illustrates Islam’s global aims with what he calls the "domino theory": "First, Iran overthrew Shah Reza Pahlevi and replaced him with Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. Then a second Islamic republic was established in the 1980s with the defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan. Next, the democratically elected Sudanese president Sadek Mahdi was toppled in 1989 and replaced by the Bashir-Tourabi clique. Stage four will probably be Algeria, already on the brink of an Islamic takeover. Other countries that are likely to fall to the fanatic Islamic empire are Egypt, Saudi, Jordan and Syria." Still other nations and states that have experienced and are experiencing Islamic power struggles at varying degrees include Lebanon, Israel, Yemen, Mauritania, Bahrain, India, Turkey, Cypress, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tunisia, Eritrea, Russia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Bosnia, the Philippines, Indonesia, China, and Argentina. Currently the United States and several European countries such as France, Germany and Italy are experiencing Islamic infiltration, in which the power struggles are, for the moment, muffled.

Islam’s country-by-country stratagem to foster its global revolution can be summed up as infiltration followed by insurrection.

Insurrectionalists employ a variety of methods to weaken the internal structure of their targeted countries. When a climate of instability is accomplished, the countries under siege become vulnerable to such takeovers as described above. Because a host of the seemingly scattered "skirmishes" around the world are tied to Islamic roots, it becomes important to examine the revolutionary tools Islam is employing so that we can discern the ripening of the greater; indeed, more sinister picture:

The thread that is prominently woven throughout most revolutions is violence.

Thomas H. Greene asserts in his book, "Comparative Revolutionary Movements” that the level of violence is raised when foreign intervention supports the revolutionaries. Taking this into account, recall how the United States in September 1986 began sending shipments of antiaircraft Stinger missiles to Muslim "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan who were battling the then Soviet Union. This short-sighted

“Taking this into account, recall how the United States in September 1986 began sending shipments of antiaircraft Stinger missiles to Muslim "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan who were battling the then Soviet Union. This short-sighted foreign policy blunder not only cost the Western superpower the "mysterious disappearance" of 300 of its Stinger missiles to loyalists of the Saudi-born Islamic terrorist kingpin, Usama bin Ladin, who now oversees an umbrella group called the International Islamic Front for Fighting Jews and Crusaders (a reference to Christians), but it also heightened Islamic fervor for Jihad.”

foreign policy blunder not only cost the Western superpower the "mysterious disappearance" of 300 of its Stinger missiles to loyalists of the Saudi-born Islamic terrorist kingpin, Usama bin Ladin, who now oversees an umbrella group called the International Islamic Front for Fighting Jews and Crusaders (a reference to Christians), but it also heightened Islamic fervor for Jihad. More recently, “palestine” Liberation Organization (pLO) leader Yassir Arafat, in November 2000, yet again repeated his call for another international observer force to insert itself in the Israeli-“palestinian” conflict – this time to scrutinize the low-intensity war by proxy that he orchestrated throughout Biblical Judea and Samaria on behalf of not only the “palestinian” Arabs, but in the interest of all of Islam. Arafat understands that a predominately pro-Muslim, anti-Israel international body like the United Nations and the right combinations of multi-national units would virtually guarantee that he could continue, with impunity, to direct his violent insurrection to new heights. Internationally politicizing the domestic conflict to his favor opens the door for Arafat to dodge the Oslo requirement for direct “palestinian”-Israeli “negotiations,” and it paves the way for a regional conflagration. Once high-intensity warfare against Israel is introduced by Arab and Muslim enemy states, it will bring Islam one step closer to its goal of obliterating “the Zionist cancer (i.e. the Jews)” from the Middle East. A Judenrein Middle East is a necessary prerequisite for the establishment of a vast Islamic empire spanning the entire Asian and African continents, an empire that will serve as a springboard from which a comprehensive global Jihad will be launched.

Taking Greene’s point a step further, even “neutral” diplomatic foreign intervention by a nation considered friendly to the victimized country has the potential of bringing about more harm than good if done imprudently: For instance, the United State’s policy of so-called evenhandedness between the “palestinian” entity and the Jewish State actually serves the interests of Arafat by elevating his international standing while undermining that of Israel’s. For an American president and his foreign diplomacy team to justify the political wisdom behind internationally legitimizing the pLO chief, treating him with unmerited honor and recognition, and receiving him with the same pomp and circumstance that is commonly reserved for legitimate statesmen such as an Israeli prime minister, the superpower leader and his spin-masters had to work diligently and, indeed, consistently, at whitewashing his public image by virtually erasing from public memory his lengthy and still unremitting record as a terrorist ringleader. Arafat has been using this unprecedented credibility to hoodwink our global community into believing that somehow, in spite of overwhelming evidencing proving otherwise, his intents are peaceful and his cause is just. Since he has successfully painted himself as the underdog, and Israel as the “aggressor” and the “occupier,” the undiscerning public sympathizes with his supposed “human rights struggle for self-determination” against his Jewish “oppressors.” Having failed at obtaining statehood in Lebanon and in the fantasy kingdom of Jordan, Arafat is very keen on the need for an indisputable public relations victory in the “palestinian”-Israeli conflict if he is to a enjoy a smooth transition from his position as leader of a disaffected entity to president of a full-fledged state vested with war-making powers. It should be further noted that a cult of victimization has firmly rooted itself amid our global society today and its numerous and diverse followers lend credence to the various Muslim-induced “human rights struggles for self-determination” dotted throughout the globe. We can therefore expect this trend of self-determination to continue flourishing until all of these so-called “skirmishes” and “human rights struggles” emerge as one Islamic supreme religious “new world order.”

Violence as a revolutionary tactic is procreated through the use of such techniques as terror, guerrilla warfare, and coup d'etat:

Terror convinces people that the revolutionary movement is commanding and the state's power is weak. This creates an internal climate of isolation and helplessness, which increases the probability that the state will cave in to the demands of the revolutionaries. Terror can also provoke random violence against the population by the state's police and military. Not knowing when the terrorists will strike can immobilize troops, which are locked into a defensive posture of guarding officials, offices, utilities, communications installations, etc. Soldiers and police become increasingly frustrated because of their inability to directly confront their unseen enemy, and, perceiving themselves as the next potential target creates an atmosphere of confusion. This type of pressure can spur irrational and even brutal behavior by the soldiers and police toward the very citizens they are supposed to protect. Such a picture can be seen in Israel today. Arafat, who not only controls his militant al-Fatah organization, but who also has ongoing working relationships with other terrorist groups such as the Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Hizb’Allah, aspires to his geopolitical objectives by strategically turning on and off the tap of terror while resourcefully playing brinkmanship-style, high-stake politics. This successful strategy is then sanctified by Arab and Muslim regimes, which collectively reinforce world-wide support for the “palestinian” cause by wielding their oil club, recurrently activating their oversees terrorist operatives, and keeping their propaganda machine well greased – for to secure “palestinian” rights is to ultimately advance the Islamic cause. As the international community buys into or is bullied into this multifaceted ploy, Israel’s terrorized Jewish citizens feel increasingly isolated from our global village, and, fearful and weary of repeated wars, manyof them press their government leaders to make suicidal land “concessions” to their enemies in hopes of abating at least some of the hostility. The Israeli government, fully aware of its bad image internationally, and under the gun to refrain from fully rooting out the terror in its midst, lest worldwide Muslim “sensibilities” are aroused and the oversees terrorist operatives are given the “green light” to wreak havoc in the form of strategic chemical and biological attacks on those countries where they are planted, has so politicized its security forces that the effect has been a demoralization within the ranks. The level of frustration within the Israeli Defense Forces, the Border Patrol, the Israel Security Agency and other Israeli law enforcement bodies have resulted in a documented number of incidents of Jewish citizens having been harassed and imprisoned by the authorities for speaking out against the “appeasement policies” and having even been beaten for insisting upon exercising their rights to pray at their besieged Holy Sites.

Terror techniques that revolutionists employ may include assassination, kidnapping, and bombing. Citing periodicals from the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense, The Jerusalem Post and other news sources, Mordechai pinpoints the various terrorist cells that have infiltrated France and Germany in order to prepare the ground for wide-scale military operations. These cells – the Fatah Revolutionary Council, the Popular Front for the Liberation of “palestine,” the Japanese Red Army, the Secret Irish Army (possibly the I.R.A.), the Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, and the Lebanese Hizb'Allah – some of which were at one time rival groups, are now coordinating their efforts in order to have greater impact on furthering their causes. High-ranking members of these terrorist organizations hold discussions on conducting operations against the United States and Western interests, and assassinating various politicians and diplomats. This terrorist underground network is controlled and financed primarily by Iran, which, Mordechai explained, has opened terrorist training camps for commando units of theHizb'Allah, the Hamas and the “palestinian” Islamic Jihad for instructing new arrivals in the use of explosives and in guerilla warfare. Although the United States Department of State report, “Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1999,” asserted that Iran is the most active state sponsor of terrorism, other states that were listed as assisting terrorist organizations on their soil include Syria, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Cuba and North Korea. These states, in varying degrees, provide sanctuary, arms, training, logistical support, financial backing and/or diplomatic facilities to the terrorists. The report stated: “Although most terrorists continue to favor proven and conventional tactics, such as bombing, shooting, and kidnapping, some terrorist groups were attempting to obtain CBRN (i.e. chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) capabilities. For example, Usama Bin Ladin spoke publicly about acquiring such a capability and likened his pursuit of those weapons to a religious duty.”

Guerrilla warfare, when introduced, makes use of ambushes as a large part of the revolutionary military strategy. Guerrilla warfare is successful when it is backed by local popular support. For this reason, the guerrillas have a working relationship with these empathizers of their cause. The residents protect their "liberators" identities and also supply them with information and shelter. Because guerrilla warfare involves a prolonged struggle, it is aimed at defeating the enemy by attrition and demoralization.   Once a guerrilla base is established, it can further the revolution's military and political campaigns. Hizb’Allah, an umbrella organization of various militant Shi’ite groups that adhere to a Khomeinistic ideology, has been able to gain widespread public support for its guerrilla operations in South Lebanon largely because in 1985 it began donating money, medical supplies, equipment, and other necessities to the local populace. Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement known for its social welfare programs implemented in the “territories” throughout Judea and Samaria, commands a strong following among the youth and poor “palestinian” Arabs, who support its Iz el-Deen armed militantwing’s operations against primarily Jewish “settlers.”   The pLO for its part even offers a stipend to each “palestinian” family that produces a “martyr” who falls in the “holy” war against the Jewish State.

Coup d'etat is a sudden; unconstitutional seizure of power by an individual or group already in a position of internal political authority. The durability of the new regime depends upon popular support both before and after the coup. The architects of a coup will attempt to build new structures of political organization outside the framework of the existing government and party system. Most coups have occurred in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. The coup becomes an established way of political life, as it has been for centuries in particularly the volatile Middle East, and its frequency gives an air of quasi-constitutional legitimacy. A critical factor that determines the frequency of the coups is the degree to which the gaining of political independence was accompanied by a mass-based organization bent on socio-economic change.

Some scholars mistakenly believe the above-mentioned techniques are of declining utility in the initiation of revolutionary change. But their one correct observation is addressed by Greene, who said that contemporary revolutionaries are placing more emphasis on the external support that foreign states can provide for revolutionary movements abroad.

There is also a less forceful but equally pushy way of "Islamizing" a particular sphere of influence. This

“There is also a less forceful but equally pushy way of "Islamizing" a particular sphere of influence.
This method is known as infiltration...”

method is known as infiltration, which is occurring in the United States and Europe. In this technique, the perpetrators use a particular country's system to gain the upper hand.   A free market place of ideas where tolerance is taught is the perfect breeding ground for hidden Islamic agendums. Mordechai explains that an "insidious demographic invasion" takes place through alien encroachment.   Once the Muslim foreigners build a sizeable minority with a great voting constituency, Islamic rights become the issue. "Before you know it, theaggressive, mutant form of Islamic activity takes hold and stifles criticism of the Qur'an," Mordechai asserts, and adds, "Later, as Muslims reach ten percent, twenty percent and thirty percent of the population, it will utilize American democracy just as Hitler utilized Weimar German democracy to ascend to power and eject democracy."

Another reason why Islam is so popular today is that it is an extremely simplistic religion, which, of course, appeals to the flesh. Everything is cut and dry. Ali points out that a person is considered a Muslim merely if he repeats the Islamic salutation (the shahada). There is a precise definition for everything -- faith, religion, Muslims, hypocrites, Islam, Ihsan ("goodness"), etc., and they all boil down to the exaltation of Allah. Muhammad even provides his Muslims with the proper way to respond to particular circumstances in the event their religion is confronted. It is a religion of repetition and rehashed material. Robert Morey points out in his book, "Confronting the World's Fastest Growing Religion," that archaeological and linguistic work have unearthed overwhelming evidence that Muhammad constructed his religion and the Qur'an from pre-existing material. Qur'anic readings can be traced back to the Talmud, the Midrash, apocryphal and heretical works, Arabian and Greek fables, and Hindu, Sabean and Zoroastrian sources. Morey listed a seemingly endless inventory of examples of secular historical and scientific distortions that were incorporated into the Qur'an. The most disturbing deception, however, was the fraudulent Biblical accounts of such stories as the Flood, the giving of the Covenant on Mt. Sinai; narratives on Abraham, Moses, and Joseph, and the name changes of Saul, Enoch, Ezekiel, John the Baptist and other righteous characters. Muhammad added fictional sermons that included such words as "Muslim" and "Islam" -- words, which, Morey points out, did not even exist during the time the Biblical figures allegedly used them. Because the Qur'an is filled with such half-truths, many people are being ensnared by its "forms of godliness (2 Timothy 3:5)."   This is purely the product of ignorance on the part those persons who profess to know G-d; yet, do not understand their own Bible (Keep in mind, Satan came to Yeshua [Jesus' Hebrew name] as an "angel of light;" quoting Scripture. Yeshua, who had an intimate relationship with the Father and a deep understanding of the Bible, used Scripture to rebuke Satan. Matthew 4). Morey said Muslim propagandists prey upon this ignorance and use it as an opportunity to convert Westerners.

Finally, when advantageous, Islam is quite able to tailor itself to its surroundings. It can be likened to a chameleon. In his book, "Islam," Guillaume said, "The history of Islam has shown that it has extraordinary powers of adaptation: it has succeeded in absorbing apparently incompatible philosophies, and mutually contradictory religious conceptions, and it has silently abandoned others which it has tried and found wanting."

While we are on the subject of chameleons, this is an opportune time to examine the life and teachings of Muhammad. But first we will familiarize ourselves with some more terms (A few of these definitions are not directly related to this article. Rather, they complement this report in that they will enhance your awareness of the religion and its requirements.). Both the terms and the historical account of Muhammad have been gleaned from the following sources -- "The Pillars of Islam -- An introduction to the Islamic Faith," by Frances Gumley and Brian Redhead, and the following authors already mentioned -- Guillaume, Morey, Ali and Hopfe:

8 Allah = An ancient pre-Islamic Arabian moon deity made into the "only true god" by Muhammad.   Today a crescent moon can be seen displayed on the flags of Islamic nations, as well as on top of their mosques and minarets as a tribute to this idol. The Meccans worshiped him and his three daughters, whose names were Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat -- the Sun, Venus, and Fortune, respectively. They were at the top pantheon of the 360 Arabian deities. The name Allah is a derivative of the compound Arabic word, Al-Ilah. Al is the definite article the, and Ilah is a purely Arabic word for god. Allah is not a Hebrew or Greek word for G-d, asfound in the Holy Bible. In fact, the Arabic Bible has been tainted because in the 9th century, when Islam dominated Arab lands, the translators of the Bible bowed to the threatening demands of Muslims, who insisted that Allah be used as the name for G-d.

8 Caliph = Muhammad's successor, who becomes the temporal and spiritual head of Islam. He is charged with maintaining religion and governing the Islamic world. The religious power of the Caliph is exercised through Muslim offices which are subordinate to him. The offices are connected with public prayer, religious decisions, civil justice, the Jihad, and the police.

8 Hajj = Pilgrimage to Mecca in the month of Dhuil-Hijja. An ancient pagan rite and one of the pillars of Islam.

8 Imam = The leader of prayer in the mosque; the spiritual head of the Muslims. He carries the Islamic law, defends the religion, and fights the enemy.

8 Islam = An Arabic word that originally referred to an attribute of manliness and described one who was heroic and brave in battle. It referred to that strength characteristic of a desert warrior, who, even when up against impossible odds, would fight to the death for his tribe.

8 Kabah = In Arabic, cube. It refers to the black square stone (an asteroid) temple where at least 360 Arabian deities were worshiped (more could be added if a stranger came to town). It was thought to possess magical powers. A worshiper was said to acquire "holiness" when kissing the stone (This belief is a form of animism.).   The ancient heathen rite is still observed today by the Muslims.

8 Muslim = Submit.

8 Mutawwa = Religious police whose duties include patrolling streets and shopping districts       to ensure women keep their faces veiled and men pray at the prescribed times.

8 Qur'an = Literally, a recitation. This is the Islamic "holy" book of "heavenly" origins, believed by Muslims to be "divinely" dictated by Allah to Muhammad. Muhammad claimed he was instructed to recite precisely all that was said. Scholars and historians have concluded that the Arabic of the Qur'an is in the dialect and vocabulary of someonewho was a member of the Quraysh tribe of Mecca. Ignoring these facts, Muslims continue to insist that it is the superior and final revelation dictated in their "god's" own words.   Used as a textbook for the study of Arabic, the Qur'an is memorized in its entirety by many Muslim schoolboys.

8 Salat = Prayer of the "faithful" (Sura 1: A prayer of edification and allegiance to Allah). One of the pillars of Islam.

8 Sawm = Fasting during the month of Ramadzan -- considered an act of penance. One of the   pillars of Islam.

8 Shahada = Profession of faith ("There is no god but Allah; Muhammad is the messenger of   Allah."). This, unfortunately, is the first words a newborn baby hears, and the last prayer recited by a dying Muslim.   It is a creed that Muslims repeat as often as possible each day. One of the pillars of Islam.

8 Sunna = The practice of Muhammad or a tradition recording the same.

8 Zakat = Almsgiving. One of the pillars of Islam. (Before his raids, Muhammad was quite poor.)

Muhammad was born into the Quraysh tribe in Mecca around A.D. 570. During that time, the city was the dominant religious center for all the pagan religions in Arabia. These heathens bowed and prayed toward Mecca during prescribed times of day. They made pilgrimage there to worship their particular gods at the Kabah at least once in their lifetime.   When worshipers arrived at this temple, they would run around it seven times, kiss it, and then run a mile to Wadi Mina to throw stones at the devil.

The Quraysh tribe served as custodian of the Kabah, making sure that there was an idol set up for every religion there. The tribe made money off the caravans and trade routes that traveled through the city to worship their particular gods. This tribe was very loyal to Allah, and had a particular fondness of his three goddess daughters. The daughters were thought to be the intercessors between Allah and man.

Muhammad's family was so fond of these gods, that some of his relatives were named after them (Muhammad himself sacrificed a white sheep to Al-Uzza.). His mother,who died when Muhammad was only six year old, practiced the occult and claimed she had visions and was visited by jinns (genies). Muhammad's father died before the "prophet" was born. Although Muhammad's family was distantly related Arabian royalty, he was born into poverty.

Muhammad began suffering from delusions while very young; even before his mother died. One day he appeared very pale before his mother and reported that two men in white robes knocked him down, split open his belly, and stirred up his insides. Sura 94:1 [Bell] refers to this incident: "Have we not expanded for thee thy breast, and removed from thee thy burden which broke thy back, and have raised for thee thy reputation?" Although the childhood incident was reported by early Muslim writers and by his own family, embarrassed Muslim apologists moved the occurrence to a period after his "call to be a prophet." Guillaume said the revisionists placed the incident immediately before Muhammad's "ascension to heaven."

Muhammad grew up as an illiterate orphan among various relatives. The world he came to know was one of warring Arabian tribes and harsh penal codes, where sheiks wielded absolute authority over their particular tribes.   Dismemberment, slavery and rape abounded.

As a young man the only occupation open to him was that of a caravan worker. It is believed that he traveled throughout the Middle East, and during his journey he became acquainted with Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism.   Much of what he learned, however, was garbled through storytellers.

The 25-year-old Muhammad married a 40-year-old wealthy widow named Khadija. She bore him two sons, who died in infancy, and four daughters. One of the daughters later married Uthman the Caliph, who standardized the Qur'anic text.

At the age of 40, Muhammad claimed he had a visitation from Allah. He said the moon god called him to become a prophet and apostle. Morey notes that there was no precedent for prophethood or

“Muhammad used the terms "prophet" and "apostle" to gain acceptance
from the Jews and Christians”

apostleship in the Arabian religion at that time. He said Muhammad used the terms "prophet" and "apostle" to gain acceptance from the Jews and Christians, respectively.

The Qur'an gives conflicting accounts of Muhammad's "calling." Surahs 53:2-19 and 81:19-24 [Khan] report that Allah actually visited Muhammad in person to deliver the news. This account was later abandoned, Morey said, in favor of the "spirit of holiness" beckoning him to prophethood in Surahs 16:103 and 26:192-194 [Khan]. This story was also scrapped, and Sura 15:8 [Bell] reports that angels commissioned Muhammad. Still later, Sura 2:91 [Bell] claims that the angel Gabriel appointed Muhammad to the office of prophet. Morey points out that scholars believe Muhammad assumed it would be in keeping for the next great prophet -- himself -- to be called to prophethood by Gabriel. Gabriel is the Angel who interpreted Daniel's visions, and announced the births of John the Baptist and Yeshua. The Muslims believe Gabriel appeared to Muhammad on the 25th of the month of Ramadzan.

Muhammad at first received two "visitations", and then a host of them. He was "instructed" to hear the "revelations" and then to recite them. Both early Muslim Tradition and Islamic scholars report that whenever the "prophet" was about to receive a "revelation" from Allah, he would often fall down to the ground, his body would jerk uncontrollably and his eyes would roll backward. At this time, he would heavily perspire and fall into a trancelike state.

Muhammad was sure he was demon possessed; so he tried to kill himself. His wife stopped him and became one of his first converts. Then he began secretly preaching to his family.

Whenever he would slip into one of these sporadic trances, he would "receive" a message and whoever was with him at the time would grab whatever material was available -- bones, leaves, rocks, animals,or sometimes just memory -- and record the incident and message. His recitations would later be canonized into the Qur'an.   Other actions and teachings of Muhammad, along with folklore and fables, would later be compiled into the vast Hadith.

Muhammad soon came out of the closet, and needless to say, created quite an uproar within the community. He was ridiculed, even by some family members. In an attempt to quell the hostilities, Muhammad came up with a rather convenient "revelation," which has been forever bronzed in the hall of historical blunders. Surah 53:19 [Bell] reads: "These are the swans exalted; whose intercession is to be hoped for; Have ye considered Al-Lat and Al-Uzza, and the third, Manat, the other (goddess)?"

This surah is extremely important because Muhammad here negates the validity of his whole book. It captures the "prophet" contradicting himself regarding the entire theme he espouses in the Qur'an -- that there is no god but Allah.

“This surah is extremely important because Muhammad here negates the validity of his whole book.
It captures the "prophet" contradicting himself regarding the entire theme he espouses
in the Qur'an -- that there is no god but Allah.”

The incident was reported by notable, pious Muslims who recorded Muhammad "in a moment of weakness" when his family and members of his tribe were angered at him preaching that only Allah should be worshiped, and not his daughters. Guillaume notes the earliest authority of the life of Muhammad asserts that these words were uttered while the "prophet" was under Satan's inspiration. Special significance, he said, was given to the words of this surah because they were those of the chant of the Quraysh tribe as they processed around the Ka'ba. You will not find the two italicized verses in many Qur'ans because after Muhammad's death, the notorious "satanic verses" were conveniently omitted. They fell victim to abrogation.   Salman Rushdie, author of the "The Satanic Verses" is on the Muslim hit list for addressing this very issue. Not only here, but in other surahs as well, unscrupulous Muslim translators have made it a point to scrap certain verses, change meanings of words where in the English would be recognized as highly objectionable, and amend according to their likings and to public controversy. Guillaume notes Muhammad's biographer excused the satanic verses away by pointing out Surah 22:51 [Bell], which states, "We have not sent before thee any messenger or prophet but when he formed his desire Satan threw (something) into his formulation; so Allah abrogatheth what Satan throws in, then Allah adjusteth his signs." Muhammad was rightfully rebuked by his disciples for his hypocritical fall into polytheism. After Muhammad's claim that Gabriel rebuked him for the incident, he was so severely ridiculed that he fled Mecca and went to Ta-if.

Although Muhammad did not acquire any new human converts at Ta-if, on the way back he did convert some genies, who, in turn, preached Islam to their own kind! The male and female spirits who inhabited the various objects of nature were now submitted to Muhammad. His claim to control the spirits of the earth can be found in Surahs 46:28 - 31 & 72:1-28 [Bell].

He faced even more opposition upon returning to Mecca; especially from the merchants who stood to loose their livelihood from the dismantling of the other 359 gods in the event Muhammad's message caught on.   During this time, in A.D. 619, Muhammad's wife died.

Muhammad escaped Mecca and moved to Medina in Sept. 24, 622, where his message became quite popular. This journey became known as the Hijra. His movement grew in numbers and strength.

In A.D. 623, Muhammad married again... to a child bride of just eight years old. From then, he married 21 women and girls (Blatantly going against his own "revelation" recorded in Surah 4:4 [Khan] that a man can marry up to four women.) One of them was his adopted son's wife Zaynab.   Zaynab and her husband Zayd refused to divorce so that Muhammad could take her for his own. Consequently, Muhammad had another convenient "revelation." Allah, he said, knew that Zayd was preparing to dump Zaynab. Hence! Allah decreed that the lovely lass would be handed over to Muhammad -- a fine prize for such a dutiful "prophet!" Surah 33:36-38 [Bell].   Needless to say, many Muslims have dropped out of the Islamic religion because of this act of the flesh. (Guillaume notes that apostasy from Islam is punishable by death.) That stake-it-and-take-it strategy may have worked where marriage was involved, but Muhammad began to realize that no amount of coaxing was going to woo his Meccan polytheist relatives into giving up their other gods. This is when he began to test his strength through raids.

On his first raid, Muhammad sent six of his followers to attack a caravan. They killed a man, enslaved others and looted everything in sight. This was the infamous Nakhla Raid, which took place during the Arabian month of truce and peace.   He was sharply criticized for his "anything goes" disposition.   With bloodlust now running through the veins of his disciples, he personally led the second raid -- the Battle of Badr. Many more people joined his movement, eager to get in on the looting action.

During this time, Muhammed made a special effort to convert the Jews of Yathreb. He sought to win their favor by adhering to their dietary laws and observing the Biblical Sabbath -- Saturday. He also faced Jerusalem to pray. Yet, the Jews still would not bend. This angered Muhammad, who had masked his loathsomeness toward them. He was jealous of their prosperity. After these Diaspora Jews had settled in the Hijaz – the district in which Mecca and Medina are situated -- they dominated economic life in the area because of their superior abilities in agriculture and irrigation. But these peace-loving Jews were easy targets.   Muhammed plundered their village and seized their property. This move sealed Muhammad and his Muslims' financial security and was the springboard for Islamizing Arabia.

It was also the start of a long and deadly hate mongering campaign against the Jews, whose

“It was also the start of a long and deadly hate mongering
campaign against the Jews, whose settlements
were at the heart of the gold and silver trade.”

settlements were at the heart of the gold and silver trade. Muhammad stopped observing most of the dietary laws, and he had "revelations" from Allah to drop the Saturday Sabbath and turn away from Jerusalem (Surahs 62:10 & 2:146 [Khan]) to face Mecca.

Not all of Muhammad's followers were willing to carry out his dirty deeds, however. This is where we really begin to see the Jihad mentality establish its destructive roots. Like the "satanic verses," this warrants scrutiny. The Muslims today are very sensitive to this issue, and they are extra careful to gloss it over with smooth-sounding words:

Surah 2:186-189 reads: Verse 186, "Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, but do not provoke hostility, verily Allah loveth not those who provoke hostility." Verse 187, "Slay them wherever ye come upon them from whence they have expelled you; persecution (or "dissention") is worse than slaughter; do not fight them, however, in the precincts of the sacred mosque, until they fight you therein, but if they fight you slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers." Verse 188, "But if they refrain then Allah is forgiving, compassionate." Verse 189, "Fight them until there is no persecution (or "dissention") and religion becomes Allah's; then if they refrain, let there be no enmity, except the wrong-doers."

To an undiscerning reader, Muhammad appears to be instructing his followers to fight off the yolk of oppression and aggression so that they could be free to worship Allah in an unhindered manner. He also seems to be teaching Muslims to be at peace with their enemies once the hostilities subside, unless those enemies renew hostilities. Furthermore, he appears to say that Allah is gracious enough to forgive the aggressors if they cease from their wicked ways.

Verse 186 was given to Muhammad's followers before their expedition to Hudaibiya. The skeptics in his group failed to participate in this campaign, and when Muhammad attacked Hudaibiya, he didn't have enough fighting power to overcome the polytheists. While his fighting men were still brooding over the incident, Muhammad had a "revelation" that conquest was just around the corner and many spoils awaited only those faithful ones who would continue to strive in Allah's struggle (He had in mind another Jewish settlement.). Guilluame noted that at about this time Muhammad began preaching that fighting this "holy" war -- Jihad -- was a sacred duty of all "believers". He had hoped to induce his followers to eventually attack the Meccans, where many of them had blood relatives they would have to kill. Notice the change of tone in verse 187, which was "revealed" just before Muhammad's ultimate conquest of Mecca in A.D. 630. Also, within verse 187, the word "dissention" appeared at Bell's footnote to indicate another way Muhammad's remark could have been gleaned from the Arabic. Muhammad was clearly the persecutor. "Dissention" is definitely the more appropriate term here. Verse 188 and 189 are not arranged in chronological order. Thus, they must be reversed if we are to place them in the order in which the "divine revelations" were given.   Furthermore, Bell's method of arrangement indicates that verse 188 was meant to be a substitute for verse 189. Such a substitution would soften the radical, imperialistic connotation of the message -- at least in the English translation.   Keeping these immediate facts as well as Muhammad's prior actions in mind, go back and read the above surah portion again. See if the underlying message you glean is the same message I gleaned (I italicized what I thought he was really saying.).

A comment as to what constitutes provocation is now in order here. That is because the definition dramatically changed after Muhammad attacked Mecca. This is addressed by the Oral Tradition. Ali quotes from Ibn Maja in Mishkat 4:7:   Muhammad reportedly said, "Whoever comes to this mosque of mine, and he does not come but for some good which he would learn or teach, he is like one who is engaged in Jihad in the way of Allah." Couple this teaching with the Islamic mentality that the entire world is a mosque and provocation can then be seen as anyone who openly challenges the self-proclaimed prophet and his pseudo god. That " Muslim" means "submit" brings on an entirely new dimension which spans far beyond one's personal internal jihad, or struggle, to perfect his own piety and relationship with Allah, as many Muslims claim (See Orlando Sentinel Feb. 12, 1995 series of pro-Islamic articles.).   It speaks of an external struggle of fatalistically global proportions.

Bell notes the following surah portion given as a divine rebuke against the "hypocrites" who refused to assist Muhammad in the Hudaibiya campaign and in other expeditions.

Surah 9:49-51 [Khan] " There are some among them who say to thee: Permit us to stay back and do not put us to the trial of going forth to battle. Hearken, they have already fallen into trial, and surely, hell shall encompass such disbelievers. Thy good fortune grieves them, and if misfortune befalls thee, they say: 'We had taken our measures in advance;' and they turn away rejoicing. Tell them: 'Nothing shall befall us save that which Allah has ordained for us. He is our protector, and in Allah should the believers put their trust. You await for us one of two pieces of good fortune, martyrdom in the cause of Allah or victory; while concerning you we await that Allah will afflict you with chastisement direct or at our hands.'"

The "prophet" who could not foresee his own death died under sudden, mysterious circumstances in A.D. 632. He had no time to specify who would be his next successor; nor to prescribe a procedure for the gathering his hodgepodge of surahs so that a final manuscript could be compiled. There was much quarreling when he died over the method of appointing a caliph. It was finally decided that Muhammad's friend abu-Bakr would take up the caliphate. There were three other "orthodox" caliphs, chosen from Muhammad's own circle of friends.

Jerusalem fell into Muslim hands in A.D. 638. That is when an abomination that causes desolation -- the Islamic Dome of the Rock -- was erected over the Most Holy Place (i.e., The Temple Mount). From this spot, which must be cleansed, the dwelling of The True G-d will be among men (Ezekiel 43 & Revelation 21) and the curse will be removed from the earth.

The last of the four orthodox caliphs, Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, was murdered in A.D. 661. The secular Umayyd dynasty (headquartered in Damascus) wrestled the caliphate from Ali's hands and established the first Islamic dynasty. Islam then split into the Sunnis and Shi'ites.

Islam swept through the Arabian desert sands and the Fertile Crescent. Many Arab Christians who suffered persecution under the ruthless Byzantine Christian rulers converted to Islam.
By A.D. 722, the Arabs conquered Jews living in Egypt, Israel (Not "Palestine." G-d calls it Israel. Genesis 15:17-21 & Jeremiah 33:23-26), Turkey, Babylon, North Africa and Spain.

In the centuries that followed, Islam conquered the rest of the Middle East and advanced into India, China and the Pacific Islands. Mordechai explains that around this time Islam took a rapid plunge. He cites the religion's own internal factions, as well as Christianity's emergence from the Renaissance. Islam remained dormant until the discovery of petroleum in the Middle East from the 1920s-1930s, which gave the movement money and power; and the Shi'ite overthrow of Iran in the 1970s, which added to it a vicious religious fervor.

Today, in America, we see mosques popping up on many street corners. Muslims flood our universities, and seem to have a fondness for our engineering departments. Not so apparent are the terrorist cell groups networking their operations on our soil (A "politically incorrect" but quite revealing PBS documentary entitled "Jihad in America" deals with this "sensitive" subject. You can obtain the video by calling 1-800-424-7963.). Nor do we see the virtually free movement of terrorists between our always lax U.S.-Mexico border.

What is, however, "in our face," is the "Nation of Islam" -- the black Muslim movement: This movement is ironic because of Surah 3:102-103 [Bell]: "On the day when faces will become white and faces will become black, as for those whose faces have become black: 'Did ye disbelieve after having believed? Then taste the punishment for the unbelief ye have been showing.' As for those whose faces have become white -- in the mercy of Allah therein to abide." The surah smacks of racism; even in the English translation.

Orthodox Muslims reject the black Muslim movement. Muslims have a long history of enslaving black

“Orthodox Muslims reject the black Muslim movement.
Muslims have a long history of enslaving black people,
and, in some areas of the world, they still have slaves.”

people, and, in some areas of the world, they still have slaves.   Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that in black Muslim teaching, their god is a white man they refer to as Master Wallace D. Fard Muhammad. Fard peddled "African" clothing and claimed to be a "brother from the East." He held out to his followers an African identity and pride, and urged them to renounce their birth names and adopt Muslim names. He also told them to dress like Arab Muslims, and, of course, he sold them the robes they needed to wear. Fard lured black people from Christianity by carving up Christian teachings, using Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Jehovah's Witnesses) literature.   He mocked Christianity as "the white man's religion," and referred to the white race as the race of Satan. Fard said the black race was "divine." He used black racism to bait and hook the blacks into accepting Islam.

When Fard mysteriously disappeared in 1934, his student Elijah Poole Muhammad took over the reins, and eventually became the most well-known leader of the Nation of Islam. Poole was the rebellious son of a Baptist preacher who reared his 13 children in Christianity.   The movement grew in wealth and power because of Poole's incredible organizational skills. He taught that Allah was Fard incarnate and black people were gods.   White people were created by an evil black scientist. When Fard died, however, Allah was said to have manifested himself in Poole, who was revealed to be the messiah.   Poole wrote two books called "The Supreme Wisdom" and "The Message to the Black Man in America." He predicted that Allah would personally intervene in the 1970s to destroy the white race and put the black race in power.

Another man that deeply influenced this movement was Louis Farrakhan -- who is now thought to be Allah in the flesh. Believing that he is Allah, his will is absolute. Farrakhan has ties and financial backing from Libyan dictator Khadafy. In his off-the-wall but very famous sermon of 1991 Savior's Day, Farrakhan was introduced as the fulfillment of Isaiah 9:6-8 (the Prophecy of the Great King, the Messiah). He claimed to have an encounter with a UFO that looked like the wheel described in Ezekiel 1:15-21. This wheel is supposed to be hovering 40 miles above the earth and Farrakhan said he was taken on board the craft. He learned that the wheel ship would soon destroy the white man and usher in the day of black power -- known as Armageddon. Farrakhan, during his sermon, said he was tired to hearing that people were willing to die for Islam. He wanted to know if they were willing to kill for Islam.

An embarrassment to the black Muslims today was the murder of Malcom Little, known as Malcom X. After he devoted 12 years to the Nation of Islam, he saw Poole's rotten fruit -- the greed, jealously, 13 illegitimate children and strife-ridden life. When Malcom made pilgrimage to Mecca, he concluded that the black Muslim movement in America was a sham. He publicly renounced Fard's and Poole's teachings and the racist and heretical nature of the Nation of Islam. A black Muslim death squad assassinated him in a public dance hall on Feb. 22, 1965.

The stated goal of this black crusade is to establish on American soil a separate Nation of Islam complete with its own military and justice system.

This, indeed, is a wake up call. It is not a day for sleeping. In Revelation 12:12 John warns: "...But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that time is short."

In Surah 60:6 [Khan] Muhammad vows: "Enmity and hatred have become manifest between you and us forever -- until you believe in Allah."

Know your enemy.

Know the season.

Know your G-d.