Posted on 06/08/2010 7:43:02 AM PDT by bs9021
A Primer on Jihad
Spencer Irvine, June 8, 2010
In the May 27 book event at the Heritage Foundation, author Andrew McCarthy explained the purpose in writing his book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. As a former federal prosecutor after the failed 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Andrew McCarthys experience in dealing with (what he terms) Islamist terrorists shaped the viewpoint he presented in his book.
McCarthy maintained that the Islamist thinking of jihad is a perfect reflection of a ground-up civilizational movement, where the Islamist society is built from the person, then the community, until it ultimately becomes a Muslim nation. He believed that the World Trade Center bombing [in 1993] was a declaration of war [of Islamists] against the United States.
In the course of investigating the defendants who attempted to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993, he found that every day [there] would be a new, fantastical, crazy plot in their minds to destroy American interests. To illustrate the determination and thinking of the Islamist defendants, he said, the reason they wanted to blow up the United Nations was because, as we all know, it was a tool of American influence in the world.
Also, McCarthy alleged that this government [under Obama] is hell-bent on not allowing us to look at the ideology thats behind these attacks because when one analyzes the Islamic ideology, you will realize that Islamic doctrine cannot be reasonably divorced from Islamic terror. America needs to come to grips with what they [Islamists] believe, and what they plan, and what they think, McCarthy claims....
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
Here, he answers a Marine’s question, after the other buffoons joke and fluff and make as*es of themselves. Lt. Col. Allen West doesn't think it's a laughing matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGQmCZjJ0k
REVOLUTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2p91dvm6M
COL. West's feeling about obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmn0mFV7xFs&feature=player_embedded
WOW!
jihad bump
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