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Islamic Jihadists: Successors to the Communists’ Anti-Western Role?
North Star Writers Group ^ | June 30, 2008 | Alan Hurwitz

Posted on 06/30/2008 5:32:39 AM PDT by Dukes Travels

Has anyone noticed some familiar dynamics appearing on the international political scene over the last several years? The world again seems to be dividing roughly into two camps. Call it pro-Western and anti-Western for now. Perhaps someone will be creative enough to come up with a sexier name, something with the ring of “Communist” and “Free”.

The most explicit global conflict in town is the jihad of some elements of fundamentalist Islam against the United States and other Western countries. But the plot is rapidly thickening.

For example, China tends to support anti-Western causes in international circles, and often gets a pass from Islamic countries and their friends on many of its own embarrassments – including the treatment of Muslims in China. Russia also seems to revel in poking jabs at the U.S., and sometimes Western Europe, but its relationship with Muslims is complicated by the little province or country of Chechnya.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: communism; jihad

1 posted on 06/30/2008 5:32:40 AM PDT by Dukes Travels
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To: Dukes Travels

Successors? Think again my friend...

Communist Goals (1963)
Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:

[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.


2 posted on 06/30/2008 5:41:43 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: Dukes Travels
Who do you think trained the middle east anti-west groups? In large part the Soviet Union for years had their leftist expansionist hands all over the situation. I'm not so sure they still don't or at least have created play book. That coupled with Europe's fall to leftist statist governments which was in large part from Soviet subversion its not so hard to see the origins of modern Jihad and anti west politics.
3 posted on 06/30/2008 5:42:54 AM PDT by Archon of the East (Universal Executive Power of the Law of Nature)
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To: Dukes Travels

Totally relevant and some in the “Western-world” belong to the anti-western side!
They are muslims,leftists... and obAMA is their champion


4 posted on 06/30/2008 5:44:44 AM PDT by Ulysse
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To: Dukes Travels

How about “regressionist” as in “The Regressive Manifesto: the Koran.”

Even ‘progressives’ should like that one.

Or “Medievilist” or ‘backward’


5 posted on 06/30/2008 5:52:35 AM PDT by wildbill ( FR---changing history by erasing it from memory.)
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To: Earthdweller

Coincidentally, those are the same goals as the “American” left and the dhimmirat party that they support.


6 posted on 06/30/2008 5:55:34 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Dukes Travels

The Islamists are the ones that have divided the world. In their minds only 2 groups exist. Muslims and those that most be killed and destroyed because they are not Muslims.
If the writer has an issues with that he should take it up with the Islamofacists.
In fact I encourage the writer to do so.


7 posted on 06/30/2008 6:08:13 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA
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To: MrB
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

Check

8 posted on 06/30/2008 6:19:10 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: Earthdweller

That is so worth repeating.


9 posted on 06/30/2008 6:23:19 AM PDT by spanalot
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To: Earthdweller

“40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.”


10 posted on 06/30/2008 6:24:51 AM PDT by spanalot
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To: Dukes Travels
Islamic Jihadists: Successors to the Communists’ Anti-Western Role?

Communism is entirely a product of Western civ, and it is not "anti-western" (by definition).

Islam is not western, not by any stretch of the imagination, and trying to make it "like" communism or fascism is a distraction.

11 posted on 06/30/2008 6:27:22 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Cut the birth certificate crap! It's the communism, stupid!)
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To: Jim Noble
Actually Islamic extremists have a fascist, totalitarian nature but also want their own brand of Freedom of Religion (for themselves only of course).

The world workers party is always teaming up in countries world wide to defeat Freedom and then the Islamics always kick the commies butts when the are finished with them(see Iran in the 70's).

12 posted on 06/30/2008 7:00:41 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: Titan Magroyne

*Ping to post #2


13 posted on 06/30/2008 2:06:42 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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