ChronWatch, CA
July 16 2005
The Long and Bloody History of Islamic Terrorism
Written by Barbara J. Stock
Saturday, July 16, 2005
The Sunday morning pundits preach that the terrorist attacks around the
world continue because American troops remain in Iraq. These so-called
“experts” claim that Iraq is a training ground for attacks in Europe
and America. Have these armchair-terror-experts forgotten the 50-year
Islamic training ground called Israel?
These “experts” also seem to believe that this split between so-called
“moderate” Muslims and the Islamic terrorists is something new.
These “experts” have missed the mark by about 1300 hundred years.
The present Islamic terrorists are a result of the split within Islam
between Muslims who wish to live in the 21st century, secular Muslims,
and the followers of “True Islam” who want the world to be ruled by
Islamic Sharia law with the Quran as the new world constitution.
The recent attack in London proves the line between a “moderate”
Muslim and a terrorist is very, very thin. It seems with only a small
dose of “True Islam” a peaceful Muslim can become a mass murderer.
Islamic terrorism started long before there was an Israel.
Sunni and Shia Muslims have been killing each other since the death
of Mohammed.
Centuries ago, Islam ruled a large part of the world and Muslims had
spread out of the Middle East and moved across Europe, conquering all
in their path. At Islam’s pinnacle, the Ottoman Empire stretched from
Egypt to the Black Sea and from the Persian Gulf to Hungary.
So what happened to the glorious Islamic empire? Today, Islam blames
the Crusades, the Jews, Western culture, and Christians for its fall
from power. In truth, the most destructive enemy that Islam has ever
had was Islam itself.
As the world modernized around them, the Islamic leaders refused
to move forward with the rest of the world. Firmly believing in
Islamic superiority, the pompous ruling class of religious leaders
planted the seeds of hatred towards the West as far back as the 1700s.
The ruling Islamic religious leaders believed western inventions were
evil things created by evil and inferior people.
Any attempt to modernize the empire was put down by the ruling
Islamic body called the ulema which wanted to hold onto its power and
maintain Islam in its pure state. This meant no non-Muslim influence
of any kind.
It should be no surprise that the western advancements in warfare
eventually overwhelmed the archaic ways of Islam. The Islamic dream
of ruling the world, was over.
At the end of World War I, France and England carved up what was
left of the once great Islamic Empire. All that remained was Turkey.
It was the Islamic Turks who slaughtered over 1.5 million Armenian
Christians. The Turks blamed the Armenian Christians for assisting in
Islam’s fall from power. Islam has a long history of blaming others
for its failures.
The new leader of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal, wanted Turkey to join
the modern world and insisted on a separation of mosque and state,
something that infuriated the Islamic leaders. Kemal declared Islam
the national religion but did not allow the controlling and backward
ways of Islam to destroy the new country. The battle rages today in
Turkey between the Islamic leaders and the secular government.
Slowly, the Islamic leaders are winning.
By 1924, the glory days of Islam were over.
This inner battle for Islam stewed after the fall of the Ottoman
Empire and Middle East came under the influence of western culture.
Secular Arab governments, which accepted western modernization,
drove the followers of True Islam into a murderous rage.
Today’s terrorist movement started in 1928 with the founding of Ikhwan
al-Muslimun, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, to oppose the Arab
secular governments that stripped the Islamic elite of its power.
This group, led by Hassan al-Banna, felt no Islamic country should
tolerate a secular government. Islam had always been the judge, jury,
and executioner over the people.
This militant group armed and trained itself and became such a problem
for the Egyptian government that the terrorist leader, al-Banna,
was executed but this only elevated him to martyrdom. The movement
grew in power and status.
In the 1950s, a new and extremely radical leader, Sayyid Qutb,
convinced his followers that the Quran justified the killing of fellow
Muslims. In his book, “Milestones,” he encouraged a jihad to remove
secular Muslim leaders and claimed it was the duty of all Muslims to
return Islam to its former power and glory. Following strict Islamic
law could only do this. Secular Muslims were put in a category with
Christians and Jews–they were infidels.
Sayyid Qutb was also executed by the Egyptians in 1966, but the
Islamic terrorist movement grew and expanded and now has branches
of loyal followers in over 70 countries around the globe and these
Islamic terrorists are more than willing to kill for their cause.
The embarrassing defeat of Islamic/Arab countries by the lowly
“monkey-Jew” in the 1967 Six Day War gave fuel to the Islamic terrorist
movement. This humiliating loss to the tiny Jewish state was proof
for Islamic terrorists that secular Islamic states were against all
that was Islamic. Islamic countries were defeated by a people that
True Islam does not even consider human.
Mu’ammar Qaddaffi seized power in Libya in 1969 and he used Libya’s
vast oil wealth to fund Islamic terror around the world. A decade
later, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the secular government
in Iran by taking the American embassy personnel hostage and keeping
them as prisoners for over a year.
The 1980s saw the Iranian-backed terror group, Hezbollah strike
American troops on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon and the American
embassy was bombed. The United States made the tragic mistake of
leaving Lebanon, and the Islamists saw this as a sign of weakness,
and a rash of attacks on Americans continued unpunished around the
world for the next two decades.
True Islam had its golden moment on 9/11 when it succeeded in attacking
the “great Satan” on its own soil. Their bragging and celebration
was brief. The American response to that attack took the terrorists
by surprise. Believing America was a weak paper-tiger, I believe the
invasion of Afghanistan surprised bin Laden. The loss of Afghanistan
enraged the Islamists. Afghanistan was True Islam’s model for the
world. Even more insulting was that the majority of Afghani people
seemed to welcome the overthrow of the Taliban.
True Islam couldn’t care less about the overthrow of Saddam
Hussein. The fact Saddam is Muslim means nothing to them. He was a
secular infidel. Iraqi Muslims who wish to remain under a secular
government are slaughtered like sheep because they too are considered
un-Islamic infidels. Radical Islam knows this may well be its only
chance to subjugate the Iraqi people under strict Islamic rule and
take possession of an oil-rich terrorist training base. If True Islam
were to gain control in Iraq, it would immediately join forces with
Iran to wreck havoc on the world.
Once a great power, Islam has now been reduced to training the
gullible to strap bombs on themselves and blow up a bus or train
full of civilians. Radical Islamic leaders have only one goal: To
make Islam the only religion, and to put Islamic leaders in command
over the entire population of the world. To accomplish this, western
civilization, Christianity, Judaism, secular Muslims, and all other
non-Muslim forms of religious beliefs, must be exterminated.
There has been one important adjustment in True Islam’s plan.
It no longer shuns modern weapons and technology. Indeed, Islamics
believe that the detonation of nuclear weapons on American soil will
bring them a quick victory. This is a serious miscalculation on True
Islam’s part. A very deadly miscalculation.
If one studies the history of Islam and its violent roots, it is not
difficult to understand it. Islamists have killed millions of people
over the centuries and killing millions more to accomplish the goal
of total Islamic rule does not disturb them.
The number of moderate-secular Muslims is declining as true Islam
spreads its rage and hatred to every corner of the world. Time is
short. Iran may be only months away from obtaining nuclear weapons.
There are reports that several nuclear weapons are already here and in
place in America. There can be no signs of weakness from the western
world. There can be no negotiations or deals made with True Islam.
There can be no quarter given.
History has taught us one thing: It is us, or them. There is no middle
ground with terrorists. True Islam has not changed in 1400 years. It
is not going to change now.
About the Writer: Barbara J. Stock is a registered nurse who enjoys
writing about politics and current events. She has a website at
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