THE WEST\'S INTRUSION INTO THE LAND OF THE PATRIARCHS--NOTHING
BUT TOTAL VICTORY!
The West\'s fascination with the Holy Land--the \"Beautiful Land\"
or \"Glorious Land\" (Daniel 11:41)--be it for \"hidden/material\"
or \"prophetic/spiritual\" treasures, has climaxed at the apex of
the modern era in America\'s most recent intrusion into Iraq.
The last Caliphate, the Ottoman Turks, collapsed at the close of
World War I. On December 11, 1917, British Field Marshal, Edmund
Allenby, dismounted, and walked through Jerusalem\'s Jaffa Gate,
in honor of the three great religions as the Allies eventually
wrested control of the Levant from the decrepit
Ottomans--thusly, was this member of the Axis Powers dismembered.
\"By December, 1917, Allenby had moved upwards from Egypt and
captured Jerusalem. As the first Christian conqueror of the
Holy City since the Crusades, Allenby ordered his troops to
dismount as a mark of respect when they entered the city.\" (PBS,
Lawrence of Arabia).
\"Jerusalem - The Endless Crusade\" is a perennial struggle
between Jews and Gentile World Powers--as well as a spiritual
tussle amongst three of the world\'s great religions: Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam.
The ascendancy of the West in the modern era commenced in
earnest with the discovery of the New World. \"Guns, Germs, and
Steel\" (PBS Special, 2005) converged to give the West world
dominance, which it owns to this day--that now includes the
Middle East!
It can be further stated that \"The Coming of the West\" into the
Beautiful Land in the Modern Era began many centuries prior to
the British Empire\'s \"flying machines\" over the skies of
Jerusalem--causing the astonished Turks to drop their weapons
and flee--Allenby capturing the Holy City without frying a shot!
\"The process of European penetration was gradual and complex
(the Venetian traders in the early Thirteenth Century; Vasco da
Gama et al.); but there were, nevertheless, clearly identifiable
turning points. In the sixteenth century, for example, the
Ottoman Empire voluntarily granted a series of concessions
called the \'Capitulations\' to European powers - concessions
which gave the Europeans decided advantages in foreign trade in
the empire. Another turning point was the invasion of Egypt in
1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte. Hoping to cut Britain\'s lines to
India and cripple its maritime and economic power, Napoleon
crushed the Mamluks (who governed Egypt under Ottoman
suzerainty) and briefly occupied the country. By defeating
Egypt, then still part of the Ottoman Empire, Napoleon exposed
the inner weaknesses, both military and administrative, of the
sultans, shattered the myth of Ottoman power, and inaugurated
more than 150 years of direct political intervention by the West.
\"Europe\'s worldwide nineteenth-century search for raw materials,
markets, military bases, and colonies eventually touched most of
what had been the Arab empire. In 1820 Great Britain imposed a
pact on Arab tribes on the coast of the Arabian Gulf; in the
1830s France occupied Algeria; in 1839 Britain occupied Aden, at
the strategic entrance to the Red Sea; and in 1869 Ferdinand de
Lesseps, with the backing of the French emperor, completed what
would become, and still is, one of the key shipping arteries of
the world, the Suez Canal.\" (The Coming of the West, Islamic
City)
The British and French occupied a growing sphere of
influence--colonialism--of the region under the Sykes-Picot
Agreement of 1916 until the end of World War
Part II of the U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance designates the
leadership of the West shifting from its Eurocentric colonial
base in the Middle East, to its present aegis under what has
become the military and ideological arm of the West: The United
States of America. The projection of commercial,
socio-political, and military power throughout the region by the
USA--working in concert with allies in the area (viz., Israel)
since the Suez War of 1957--clearly places America as the
force de jure in the Glorious Land. This preeminent
posture is driven by America\'s insatiable quest for below-market
oil prices which enables the West under its American leadership
to sustain its extraordinary consumptive economy.
Securing the region\'s treasures enabled the West to win the Cold
War. Now, frustrating American dominance--politically and
geographically--is a resurgent Islam determined to expunge the
West from these Holy Lands through Fatwa and Jihad.
We will continue to elaborate upon the West\'s leadership
vis-à-vis America, in the context of her catalyst for the
present incursion into the Beautiful Land. Juxtaposed to the
European colonial model, the West\'s intrusion is led by the
ever-present and anticipated hand of her Executive: The
Presidency of the USA. Part II of this series demonstrated that
the \"personification\" of the West\'s leadership is domiciled in
its President.
Policy and ideology--especially as it pertains to the Middle
East--is specifically relegated to the office of the Chief
Executive. No other nation on the planet can claim such sweeping
political prejudice committed to such a singular position. In
particular, as Commander-in-Chief of her Armed Forces, and
their/his arsenals of destructive capacity, the President of the
United States of America leads this most powerful military
manifestation ever amassed upon the face of the earth; and,
projects that might faster and with more lethal force than any
other person upon the globe.
Furthermore, it is the Presidency of George Walker Bush, more
than any other Presidency, who has made the issue of MILITARY
VICTORY the definitive expression of his administration--HE WILL
SETTLE FOR NOTHING BUT COMPLETE VICTORY!
\"We will confront this mortal danger to all humanity . . . We
will not tire, or rest . . . we will see freedom\'s victory . . .
we must stop them . . . we will never back down, never give in,
and never accept anything less than complete victory . . . there
is no peace without victory . . . we will keep our nerve and we
will win that victory!
\"The militants believe that controlling one country will rally
the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate
governments in the region, and establish a radical Islamic
empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia . . . they are
fanatical and extreme . . . utterly committed . . . As Zarqawi
has vowed, \'We will either achieve victory over the human race
or we will pass to the eternal life\' . . . we must stop them
before their crimes can multiply!\" (Excerpts from Bush\'s
speech at the National Endowment for Democracy, Washington,
D.C.)
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051006-3.html
)
WHAT\'S DRIVING THIS MADNESS?
So, who says who is mad? Ultimately--cutting to the chase
here--\"Me thinks the whole world\'s gone mad, except thee and me,
and sometimes I think thee!\" (Famous Quaker quote).
Bush and Osama--and let me disabuse you of their ignorance--know
perfectly well what drives the West and Islam in this clash of
cultures. Each is a master of propaganda where half-truths
prejudice their audiences--yet, oddly enough, the \"truth is out
there.\"
Leaders in the U.S. are loathe to admit that America is at war
with Islam; however, many in Islam have no reservation in
defining the current struggle as a war upon Islam by the West,
and, in particular, the USA.
\"The war is fundamentally religious . . . under no circumstances
should we forget this enmity between us and the infidels. For,
the enmity is based on creed.\" (\"Statement by Usama Bin Ladin,\"
AJSCT, 3 November 2001).
I pondered how this struggle, this \"War on Terror,\" this war
against the crusader invaders, etcetera, could be framed with
clarity, and without bias--frankly speaking, it\'s impossible;
for there are simply too many interpretive variables in the
current alignment of protagonists. However, since numerous
historians and pundits lay claim to what\'s driving this
conflict--we must give appraisal to those whose interpretations
mirror reality, while eschewing those blandishments which
enhance the ever-present agendum designed to serve a selfish
purpose.
OSAMA THE MAD-BOMBER or THE SPIRITUAL BAROMETER OF ISLAM?
First of all, Osama bin Laden has, more than any other
antagonist facing the armies of the West, led by the USA,
encapsulated all that the Western leadership--especially
President Bush--loathes, abhors, and despises.
It is Osama who makes for Western jokes, while an
ever-intensifying propaganda for the soul of Islam is waged by
the jokesters who know full-well that we\'re not dealing with
Burt but the makings of Saladin who galvanized the disparate
Moslem tribes under one banner and defeated the original
Crusaders. Indeed, if the West can split Islam--making Osama
into the caricature of a mad-bomber; caring not for life and
limb--then, our discrediting will pay off in bigger dividends
for the same \"Merchants of the Earth\" who are growing rich from
this incessant struggle.
Osama has proclaimed that Jihad (a Holy \"defensive\" War against
the USA and the Jews) is the SIXTH PILLAR (de facto) of
Islam--and, consequently, any Moslem who does not take up arms
against the infidel (the decadent Western invaders) is
disobedient to Allah, a heretic, and is \"Moslem\" in name
only--in point of spiritual fact, WORSE THAN AN INFIDEL!
\"I must say that my duty is just to awaken the Muslims; to tell
them as to what is good for them and what is not. What does
Islam say and what do the enemies of Islam want. Al-Qa\'idah was
set up to wage a jihad against infidelity, particularly to
counter the onslaught of the infidel countries against the
Islamic states. Jihad is the sixth undeclared pillar of
Islam. [The first five being the basic holy words of Islam
(\"There is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of
God\"), prayers, fasting (in Ramadan), pilgrimage to Mecca and
giving alms (zakat).] Every anti-Islamic person is afraid of
jihad. Al-Qa\'idah wants to keep jihad alive and active and make
it a part of the daily life of the Muslims. It wants to give
it the status of worship.\" (Interview with Osama bin Laden
published in newspaper Ummat Karachi, 28th September,
2001)
Even so--there are six Osamanic pillars kept before all
Moslems for them to hear, see, experience and ever-hate the
policies of the USA:
* U.S. support for Israel that keeps Palestinians in the
Israelis\' thrall. * U.S. and other Western troops on the Arabian
Peninsula. * U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. * U.S.
support for Russia, India, and China against their Muslim
militants. * U.S. pressure on Arab energy producers to keep oil
prices low. * U.S. support for apostate, corrupt, and tyrannical
Muslim governments. (\"Imperial Hubris, Why the West is Losing
the War on Terror,\" Anonymous, Brassey\'s, Inc., Washington,
D.C., p. 241).
The above six axioms of Osama bin Laden makes him the chargés
des affaires of Islamic Fundamentalism. Osama overtly
defines Islam\'s present Jihad as the cause célèbre
against the Crusaders of the West--and, in particular, against
the King of the West: The President of the United States of
America, George Walker Bush. Osama has, due to the propaganda of
the West, become the focalpoint of frustration and the
Stalin-Hitler-Tojo-Mao-Mussolini archfiend of elite and redneck,
of preacher and politician, of media pundit and military
strategist--all united in their wrath upon the absolutist whose
weapons are terror and whose cause is evil.
Probing the depths of Osama\'s psyche--and reading a score of
writings* relative to his discovery--confirms one solitary fact:
Here is no simpleton, baffoon, nor madman plagued either by
schizophrenic demonic hosts or obsessed with an overweening
sense of his own propriety--no, no, no! If ever a more genuine,
committed, ardent follower of Islam--whose submission to Allah
is beyond reproach and whose steps follow those of the Prophet
Mohammed--could be found, it would most definitely find its
vessel of choice in this singular figure: Osama bin Laden!
Shocked? Don\'t be--OBL, in point of fact, is NOT on Islam\'s
fringe as many in the West would have you believe. OBL is smack
dab in the mainstream of Islamic tradition, thought, word, and
deed!
In his book, Imperial Hubris, the
author--Anonymous--encapsulates OBL\'s hatred toward the West,
the USA, in stark terms:
\"Leaving aside political-correctness concerns will allow us to
recognize and candidly discuss the genuine and growing
substantive, not just visceral, hatred for America among the
world\'s 1.3 billion Muslims. Because Muslim leaders--with bin
Laden in the van--repeatedly have told us that they hate
Americans for what we do and not for what we think, look like,
or talk about, there can be no valid charge of racism or
Islamophobia in such a discussion. \'We regret to tell you that
you are the worst civilization in the history of mankind,\' bin
Laden explained in his October 2002 letter to Americans. \'You
ransack our lands, stealing our treasures and oil . . . . Your
forces occupy our lands . . . You have starved the Muslims of
Iraq . . . . So what is left on the list of the most heinous,
evil and unjust acts that you have not done?\" (Ibid. Page 256)
DEFINING THE ENEMY--BY PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
Without equivocation, there is but one person in all the West
who has definitively defined our implacable foe and placed upon
him a most outrageous face. This one has described without
compromise--with, if you would, unmitigated gall--the dastardly
characteristics of a fiendish enemy who must be stopped!
To do this--he has embarked upon a calculated strategy and plan
for total VICTORY over \"The Bastard of Islam\"--for this is no
child of Mohammed, but the evil distortion of a peaceful
religion! No one--absolutely no voice in the West--has had such
a calculated impact in announcing the parameters of the battle .
. . the Commander-in-Chief leads the charge!
\"Yet while the killers choose their victims indiscriminately,
their attacks serve a clear and focused ideology, a set of
beliefs and goals that are evil, but not insane.\"
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