Posted on 01/03/2010 6:16:19 PM PST by Hostage
This talk and essay remain as the most insightful and important view into radical Islam, and how to defeat it.
If only Obama would adopt its wisdom, but that will never happen.
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Nice editorial.
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Speaking of the eye of the storm, whatever happened to that Mansour fellow who used to be on FNC all the time. I haven’t seen him in ages. Anybody know anything about him?
Thanks but the guy I’m thinking of is probably about 50 years old. I think he might have been from Pakistan, but he was some kind of international businessman who supposedly was in the know on terrorism.
BTTT
I believe his last name was Ijaz. Not sure of the spelling.
Yeah. Mansour could have been his first name. Wonder what happened to him.
He’s a very successful business man who was/is a Democrat advising the Clinton Adm.
This is what I remember.
Thanks. I found him on Wikapedia. His name is Mansoor Ijaz.
ping for later
But the real fear comes from the undisputed fact that no defense and no preventive measures can succeed against a determined suicide murderer...
What is behind the suicide murders? Money, power and cold-blooded murderous incitement, nothing else. It has nothing to do with true fanatic religious beliefs. No Moslem preacher has ever blown himself up. No son of an Arab politician or religious leader has ever blown himself. No relative of anyone influential has done it. Wouldn’t you expect some of the religious leaders to do it themselves, or to talk their sons into doing it, if this is truly a supreme act of religious fervor? Aren’t they interested in the benefits of going to Heaven? Instead, they send outcast women, naive children, retarded people and young incited hotheads. They promise them the delights, mostly sexual, of the next world, and pay their families handsomely after the supreme act is performed and enough innocent people are dead...
A suicide murder is simply a horrible, vicious weapon of cruel, inhuman, cynical, well-funded terrorists, with no regard to human life, including the life of their fellow countrymen, but with very high regard to their own affluent well-being and their hunger for power.
The only way to fight this new “popular” weapon is identical to the only way in which you fight organized crime or pirates on the high seas: the offensive way. Like in the case of organized crime, it is crucial that the forces on the offensive be united and it is crucial to reach the top of the crime pyramid. You cannot eliminate organized crime by arresting the little drug dealer in the street corner. You must go after the head of the “Family”.
“...The problem is that the civilized world is still having illusions about the rule of law in a totally lawless environment. It is trying to play ice hockey by sending a ballerina ice-skater into the rink...”
(This article is from 2004 but in my opinion it is well worth a re-reading of the important points.).
Thanks for the reposting. I don’t believe I saw it back in 2004.
BTTT! Nite ...
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