Charles Krauthammer skirts close to the reasons for this war against Israel but he never directly names it. This war is less about Jews and Anti Semitism than it is simply about the inability of Islam to allow different religions to regain territory lost to them by Islamic conquest. Zawahiri still bemoans the loss of Andalusia and let there be no doubt intends on correcting that blot on Islamic pride.
Less than a month after 9/11, Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenant, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, had appeared on Al Jazeera. “We will not accept that the tragedy of Al Andalus will be repeated in Palestine,” Zawahiri said, drawing an analogy between the expulsion of the Moors from Iberia and the present-day plight of the Palestinians.
Even if Israel were a nation of Christians or agnostics the aims of the muslims surrounding them would differ not one bit. The drive would be to remove whoever was not muslim from ruling the lands. The more lenient muslims might grant Dhimmi status to those left behind but none would agree to being ruled by anything but Islamic laws.
Why They Fight: “But, again, who needs history? As the Palestinian excuses for continuing their war disappear one by one, the rhetoric is becoming more bold and honest. Just Tuesday, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, writing in The Post, referred to Israel as ‘a supposedly ‘legitimate’ state’ ['Aggression Under False Pretenses,' op-ed, July 11].
He made clear what he wants done with this bastard entity. ‘Contrary to popular depictions of the crisis in the American media,’ he writes, ‘the dispute is not only about Gaza and the West Bank.’ It is about ‘a wider national conflict’ that requires the vindication of ‘Palestinian national rights.’That, of course, means the right to all of Palestine, with no Jewish state. In the end, the fighting is about ‘the core 1948 issues, rather than the secondary ones from 1967.’”
No what we are seeing here is the resumption of Islams drive to convert the world by sword. A drive that its central figure Mohammed began with his sword and which was continued by the millions of Islamic swords after his death. To argue that a religion founded on violence and whose expansion was largely the result of violence initiated by its own leader, to argue that it is peaceful is to strain credulity. Many try to compare the Crusades to the violent expansion of Islam, Thomas F. Madden does a terrific job of dismantling that bit of Islamic propaganda.
What is so tragic about this war is our leaders absolute refusal to name our enemy. We are in a “War Against Terror” whatever the heck that means. If this were WW2 I suppose that President Bush would have declared us to be in a war against the Blitz or a war against the Aircraft Carriers of Japan.
We are in a war against Islam. This ugly fact cannot be avoided. In war against your homeland one does not get to choose who your enemies are, they define themselves by their actions. But it is certainly possible to deceive yourself as to the nature of your enemy with all the terrible results that denying reality brings.
But it does not follow that we will find ourselves opposed by all muslims. Just as so many Christians would not follow the Church if it were to call for dramatic actions at any time in the past so to will large numbers of muslims turn a deaf ear to calls for the wholesale murder of anyone not muslim. But these muslims live in societies where to openly deny Islams right to dominate the earth would be tantamount to treason. So they sit quietly hoping that we can win the battle against those who wish us dead. But we cannot win this war until we recognize who the enemy is. It is the same enemy Charles Martel vanquished in Tours in 732, the same enemy Ferdinand and Isabella vanquished in the Reconquest, the same enemy who was defeated at the gates of Vienna this enemy is not a tactic though terror is its primary means of victory, this enemy is a religious philosophy. Fairly soon we need to recognize this ugly fact.
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