8/22/05 — Michael Graham was fired.
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“Islam is a terror organization.”
The Roots of Islamic Terrorism:
The nature of the terrorist threat is unambiguously Islamic and is not so much a deviation from Muslim tradition as an appeal to it. Al Qaeda’s ideology draws on two traditions to legitimize itself: one classical, the other modern.Regarding classical Islam, the oft-quoted remark that Islam is a religion of peace is false. It is historically illiterate to claim that war is foreign to Islam and it is theologically uninformed to argue that jihad is merely a personal inner struggle with no external military correlate.
The Crisis of Islam book review:
A Middle East expert, Lewis proffers that Americans are puzzled by this venomous sentiment because their general level of historical knowledge is “abysmally low.†Muslims, however, are defined by their history: who they are, where they came from, and what they perceive as God’s purpose for their lives. “For [Osama] bin Laden, his declaration of war against the United States marks the resumption of the struggle for religious dominance of the world that began in the seventh century,†Lewis writes.For example, to the Middle East, President Bush is just a successor in a long line of rulers — from the Byzantine emperors of Constantinople, the Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna, Queen Victoria, and other European imperialists — who are serious impediments to the divinely ordained expansion of Islam, merely delaying its inevitable conquest. Without understanding how important history is to followers of Islam and how important it should be to Americans, the confusion will continue.
Update: Brits turned down our request to arrest one of the London bombing suspects a month ago. See ThoughtsOnline.
