Know thy enemy

JWR ^ | 10/21/03 | Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

[kattracks]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | The biggest imponderable concerning the war on terror is whether the American people and their leaders are clear on a central question: Exactly who is the enemy in this war? We are, after all, not fighting some abstraction called "terror." The truth is we are engaged in a death struggle with people who use terror — usually involving the deliberate murder of innocent civilians — as an instrument to advance their agendas.

As to precisely who those people are, the past twenty-five months have brought to light a bewildering array of terrorist organizations pursuing a variety of stated objectives, usually with help from this or that rogue state-sponsor. But one thing should be clear post-9/11: The most determined, numerous and dangerous of these enemies are radical, violent Muslims known as "Islamists."

[IncPen]

This is, of course, absurd. Law-abiding and tolerant Muslims first and foremost understand that there are real differences between themselves and the Islamists — so much so that the radicals view their peaceable co-religionists with at least as much hostility as they do people of other faiths.

What continues to amaze me is that the so-called 'peaceful' Muslims have yet to come forward and castigate their wayward brothers. Equally troubling is that most of America fails to call them on it (or recognize the need to do so)

[Gritty]

If we don't genuinely identify our enemies, it is going to be impossible to fight them successfully!

[Stallone]

Peaceful Muslims are complicit in the crimes of their compatriots.

If this was the Swedish community, they would have outed the cretins among them and be done with it.

But these are the Islamists, who conspire to plot your demise as you watch TV and kiss your children.