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    CIVILIZATION AND MOSQUES
    By Mordechai Nisan

    American Thinker
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/civilizati on_and_mosques.html
    April 14 2009

    It is late in the global game of confrontation with Islamic Jihad. The
    lines of conflict have been drawn and the ground-rules for Muslim
    victory are in place. Yet many among the targeted governments and
    peoples have yet been incapable or unwilling to identify the enemy,
    at the gates and within the walls.

    Now the entire globe is Islam's religious ambition and field of
    conquest. Bombings and attacks in New York and London, Madrid and
    Moscow, Bali and Mumbai, Jerusalem and Balsan, are not isolated
    or discrete instances of local theatre low-intensive assaults, but
    components of a pattern of coordinated and executed warfare of a very
    singular kind.

    Mentioning Bali and Istanbul, and adding Casablanca and Aden, Sinai
    and Tizi Ouzou, contributes confusion and paralysis to the policy
    equation in the West. Why would Muslim terrorists carry out violent
    attacks in Muslim countries and against fellow-Muslims?

    For Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin-Laden and his second-in-command Ayman
    al-Zawahiri, not only infidel countries like Hindu India, Jewish
    Israel, and the Christian Philippines, constitute legitimate prey and
    victims, but Muslim-ruled countries as well. Theologian Ibn Taimiyya
    (d. 1328) defined Muslim-governed societies not conforming to Islamic
    law and tradition as ignominiously reflecting the pre-Islamic jahaliyya
    period of history - thus the legitimate target of Islamic subversion
    and overthrow.

    Islam's Will to Power

    In confronting Islamic terrorism, governments around the
    world and specifically under the leadership of the United
    States have concentrated on the improvement of relevant security
    apparatuses. Although intelligence surveillance has enhanced domestic
    security with preventive arrests and early-warnings of imminent attack,
    such measures cannot eliminate a threat whose origin and rationale are
    not especially those of weaponry, battalions, and conventional warfare.

    The manual of Islamic jihad is canonized in the sacred Koran. The
    believers, and only Muslims are dignified by the term mumin'in
    (believers), are enlisted to go 'in the way of Allah' and
    fight and kill the enemies of Islam. The Koran opens with the
    exordium declaration that God is compassionate and merciful,
    but He is eminently cruel against those who reject Him and His
    messenger-prophet Muhammad. With piercing insight Frithjof Schuon
    elucidated three essential and successive principles of Islam:
    Truth-Victory-Generosity. The genius of Islam and that of the Arab
    race converge, he wrote, as the collective embodiment of the soul
    of Mohammad.[i]

    Islam is not a private spiritual experience but a public campaign
    of conquest, colonization, and conversion. In the Muslim East,
    governments and mobs persecute, outlaw, and hound the Christian
    faith and faithful. Christians flee in fear from Iraq and Egypt, and
    churches are closed down in Algeria. Christianity is prohibited in
    Riyadh - Saudi convert Hamoud Bin Saleh was reported arrested in early
    2009. Christianity is dwindling in the East: consider holy Bethlehem,
    Aleppo in Syria and Tripoli in Lebanon - while Islam flourishes in
    the West.

    The Mosque

    The mosque is the locus of religious faith and jihadic
    indoctrination. It is a place of prayer that serves as the barracks
    for gathering the soldiers. In the early days of Islam the mosque was
    a center for forging military preparedness, awaiting the spiritual
    command to go out and fight the enemy. The Muslims would line up in
    prayer "as in a battle formation."[ii] Mosques serve, as defined
    by Samuel Huntington in his book Who Are We?, 'as a base and a
    cover'.[iii]

    Tawfiq Hamid, an Egyptian doctor, related his nightmarish experience
    as a former believing Muslim fanatic. He recalled how the local imam
    positioned the believers tightly together in their prayer positions,
    assuring close contact, while teaching that 'God loves those who
    fight for Him as a solid wall'.[iv]

    In the mosque a niche (mihrab) in one wall indicates the direction of
    prayer toward the holy city of Mecca. Appropriately, Saudi Arabia as
    the sacred keeper of Islam's most sacred site is today one of the great
    promoters of jihad and Islam around the world. It is to Arabia that
    Muslims world-wide face five-prayer times daily, looking for religious
    inspiration and financial sustenance to continue their global struggle.

    The history of Muslim warfare was traditionally crowned with
    mosque-construction in lands conquered and occupied in the name
    of Islam. Atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem the new rulers adorned
    aggression with a cultural symbol and built the Aqsa Mosque in 705. In
    late September 2000, the Palestinians launched their Al Aqsa Intifada
    against Israel, ending their rabble-rousing Friday public prayer in
    the Aqsa mosque by raining rocks on Jews praying below the Mount at
    the Western Wall.

    A yet more arrogant practice was to either destroy churches, in
    Nazareth in 661, or to transform existing churches into mosques,
    in Damascus in 637 and the Greek Orthodox Church of Hagio Sophia in
    Constantinople (renamed Istanbul) in 1453. When the Muslims seized
    Hebron in 637, they desecrated while redesigning the Cave of the
    Patriarchs into the Ibrahim Mosque. A notorious Muslim practice in
    the theatre of warfare was to massacre Christians in their churches:
    Armenians in Nakhjavan in 705, Greeks in Thessaloniki in 904, and
    Lebanese in Ayshiyyah in 1976.[v]

    Muslims build hundreds of mosques, madrasa schools, and cultural
    centers throughout Western countries. Some have come to recognize
    the insidious danger, sensing that the Muslim goal is power and
    not freedom, conquest and not integration. Congressman Peter King
    (R-NY), former Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee,
    publicly stated that 'Unfortunately, we have too many mosques in this
    country'. Meanwhile, it was reported in January 2009 that the FBI
    was using planted agents to conduct surveillance in mosques in America.

    The case of the Islamic Society of Boston, in constructing the
    largest mosque in New England, was revelatory of the infiltration
    strategy. The mosque project had proven links with the Texas-based Holy
    Land Foundation, known to fund Islamic terrorism, specifically the
    Palestinian Hamas movement. Moreover, the Boston mosque is connected
    through the Muslim American Society with the powerful Egyptian-based
    Muslim Brotherhood whose definitive goal in America is, as defined in
    a document from late 2008, "Grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying
    Western Civilization from within."[vi]

    A revelatory connection between mosque and jihad characterized Hamas
    practices in the Gaza Strip. When Israel initiated its military
    operation in late December 2008, its air force bombed the Gazan
    neighborhood Tel el-Hawwa mosque, and other mosques in Jabaliyya, which
    served as secret storehouses and launching pads for Qassam rockets and
    Grad missiles fired by Palestinians against Israeli civilian targets.

    Jihad And America

    Jihad is a stimulating and turbulent myth, while the mosque offers
    a space for mental transcendence, a headquarters for mobilization,
    a vision of conquest.

    The muezzin call to prayer in Detroit and Manhattan, where mosques
    are disingenuously named 'Islamic Centers', is a manifest violation of
    public space and private comfort for many. Muslims are determined to
    set the social rules by segregating classrooms, gyms, and swimming
    pools; promoting Muslim prayer in public schools; probing social
    resistance with women's head-covering scarves and non-alcoholic
    taxis; and enticing conversion through out-reach programs in prisons,
    religious discussions in mosques, and extensive internet missionary
    propaganda. For the Koran categorically states (3:18): "The only true
    faith in God's sight is Islam."

    In America, the Muslim goal is not to earn acceptance but to acquire
    ascendancy in the mosaic of society. Omar M. Ahmed, former chairman
    of the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told a crowd
    of California Muslims in July 1998 (though he later denied this)
    that 'Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to
    become dominant'.

    For Italian philosopher-novelist Umberto Eco, writing a month after
    the 9/11 trauma, the freedom of religion was a sacrosanct principle. He
    wrote about the West with these words: "We are a pluralist civilization
    because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not
    going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into
    prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban."[vii]
    And he hoped that, if we allow mosques in our countries, then one
    day there will be Christian churches in their countries - or at least
    Buddhas won't be blown up.

    America Disarmed

    Islam, engaging in archaic religious warfare, is committed to change
    the political order by a sweeping and fundamental transformation
    of society, culture, and morality. Rules and restrictions as in
    Saudi Arabia would strangle America; personal and public morality
    - concerning men and women - would be chiseled into form by the
    likes of Iranian ayatollahs and Egyptian muftis, though they speak
    American home-grown English. The individual happiness principle -
    just holding hands at the amusement park - would be smothered; and
    the intoxicating fragrance of individuality and creativity would be
    crushed in Islamic America.

    The Muslim replacement strategy for America is on track. It took a
    few centuries following the death of Muhammad until Zoroastrian Iran
    and Byzantine Egypt overwhelmingly Islamicized. Even if it takes
    one or two hundred years, the final triumph is considered by the
    believers in Tehran and Cairo, but also in Houston and Minneapolis,
    a historical certainty. Veiling their intentions and women, the Muslim
    conquest advances.

    Indeed, the method of indefatigable religious propaganda, rather
    than terrorism, is what can assure Islam's ultimate success. CAIR
    spokesman Ibrahim Hooper admitted in a 1993 interview that he wants
    to see America become a Muslim country; not by violence, he admitted,
    but 'through education'.[viii]

    In the end, who will be blamed for the cataclysm? Politicians who
    failed their constituents, the media who misconstrued the victim,
    clerics who preached dialogue rather than disclosure, intellectuals
    who betrayed national values; and those who stood by watching the
    exploitation of democracy rather than guarding its inner poise,
    its light and sweetness, for the free and brave people of America.

    Dr. Mordechai Nisan resides in Jerusalem and lectures on Middle East
    history and politics. Email contact

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    [i] Frithjof Schuon, Dimensions of Islam, London: George Allen &
    Unwin, 1970, p. 15.

    [ii] Khalid Yayha Blankinship, The End of the Jihad State: The Reign
    of Hisham Ibn 'Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads, Albany:
    State University of New York Press, 1994, p. 15.

    [iii] Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's
    National Identity, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004, p. 363.

    [iv] James G. Zumwalt, "Dead Man Talking," The Washington Times,
    August 4, 2007.

    [v] See Andrew G. Bostom, ed., The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War
    and the Fate of Non-Muslims, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometeus Books, 2005.

    [vi] Immediate Release, "Citizens for Peace and Tolerance," Boston,
    December 3, 2008.

    [vii] Umberto Eco, "The Roots of Conflict," Guardian Unlimited,
    October 13, 2001.

    [viii] Art Moore, "Did CAIR founder say Islam to Rule
    America?" WorldNetDaily.com, December 11, 2006.
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