Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, July 21, 2008 4:25:50 AM
"The failure to recognize the ideological nature of “cause celebre” for Islamic jihadists creates great confusion in minds of the American people and U.S. political and military establishment."
American Daydreamer
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Ideological Struggle with Terrorism
by Boris Tiraspolsky
Founding Member of
The U.S. Ideological Civil War - to fight or not to fight Terror - is the reality the Nation has to face and deal with. It is a struggle” between those who usurped “constitutional rights” and those who accept Constitutional Responsibilities at a time of War.
The largest part of the Nation's political elites takes advantage of the freedom of speech to voice their mostly ignorant, although, influential “opinions”, on “life or death” matters of total terrorist warfare waged against the Nation.
The part of the U.S. political elites opposing that view is in a minority. It slowly - two slowly - accepts emerging principles of new U.S. Ideology of Anti-Terrorism necessary to “secure the Blessings of Liberty”, and for survival of the Nation in battle with Terror.
One of the hottest debates in the homeland “ideological struggle“ today, is that the United States is “less secure” because of the war on Terror, or more precisely the military operation in Iraq.
People expressing this particular “opinion” usually quote the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report of April 2006: “the Iraq conflict has become the “cause celebre” for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in Muslim world and cultivating the global jihadists movement”.
The quote from the NIE presented above is an example of ideological numbness of those who wrote it, and a lack of knowledge of those who repeat it. The truth of the matter is that the sole genuine “cause celebre” for jihadists is and always was the Ideology of the Islamic Law formed more then thousand years before establishing the United States.
From the time of Muhammad (570-632 AC) the Islamic Law explicitly declares that all nations must surrender to Islamic rule, if not its faith. In other words, all non-Islamic Nations are a perpetual subject for jihad, or Holy War, and could be never absolutely “secure“.
Throughout centuries the Ideology of the Islamic Law underwent times of victories and times of defeats. However, all inspirations and motivations for jihadists come only from two main ideological authorities of Islam - Koran and Hadiths.
Koran is the Supreme body of the Islamic Law, that describes jihadists who die for their faith, as martyrs deserving a unique place in heaven. Hadiths is a record of the Prophet Muhammad’s precepts, actions, and his life, constituting his Sunna, or example of the “role model” for jihadits.
The failure to recognize the ideological nature of “cause celebre” for jihadists creates great confusion in minds of the American people and U.S. political and military establishment.
All of us need to learn a bitter, although, pragmatic lesson of the Global War on Terror: it is not “the Iraq conflict“...or “U.S. involvement in Muslim world... cultivating the global jihadists movement”, but the current vagueness and frailty of U.S. Ideology of Anti-Terrorism!