Islamic Radicalism

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Islamic Radicalism

• COL Roman G. Golash
• 332nd Medical Brigade
• Nashville, TN
• (personal opinions)

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References

• Jihad by Robert Spencer
• While Europe Slept by Bruce Bawer
• Stealth Jihad by Robert Spencer
• Day of Islam by Paul L. Williams
• America Alone by Mark Steyn
• Terrorism and Counterterrorism by Howard and
  Sawyer
• Because They Hate by B. Gabriel

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Civilizations are not murdered, they commit
suicide
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• Democracies can exist for only 200 years

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Islam And Terrorism

• Most Muslims are not terrorists, but today almost
  all terrorists are Muslims.
• Since 9/11 about 9,000 terrorist attacks have
  been committed by Muslims.
• We need to understand what in Islam causes this
  phenomenon.

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JIHAD

• ..is a radical, expansionist, totalitarian
  ideology that seeks to establish a global Islamic
  state ruled by Islamic law, or Sharia..
• Robert Spencer

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Manhattan, Feb. 2006

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Syed Abul Ala Maududifounder of Pakistani
political party Jamaat-e-Islami

• Islam is a revolutionary ideology and program
  which seeks to alter the social order of the
  whole world and rebuild it in conformity with its
  own tenets and ideals

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• Islam wishes to destroy all States and
  Governments anywhere on the face of the earth
  which are opposed to the ideology and program of
  Islam regardless of the country or the Nation
  which rules it.

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London, Feb. 2006
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Sharia Law Is Coming To Europe

• Polygamy
• Stonings
• Persecution of Jews
• Rapes
• Banning of national flags
• No more piggy banks or bacon
• No more custard cones
• Cannot fly British flag in prisons

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London, Feb. 2006
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Norway

• 2006- Offensive statements about religion became
  punishable by fine and imprisonment
• The accused is guilty until proven innocent
• Oslo police afraid to crack down on Islamist
  gangs
• Finn Graff, cartoonist, depicts Jews as
  Nazis.afraid of Islamists

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England

• Codie Scott, 14 y.o. arrested for complaining
  that her fellow Pakistani students could not
  communicate
• 40 of Muslims want Sharia law
• 70 refuse to condemn suicide bombers
• Ruth Kelly, GB communities secretary, considers
  Sharia law in Muslim communities

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Manual of Islamic Law

• Defines Jihad as
• war against non-Muslims
• Cairo Al-Azhar University

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Al Qaeda has its own goal of world domination by
using WMDs
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America is the head of heresy in our modern
world , and as a result we have the right to kill
4 million Americans 2 million of them children
and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple
hundreds of thousandsSuleiman Abu GheithAl-
Qaeda spokesman
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American Hiroshima
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The use of WMDs

• Pre-positioned suitcase nukes on U.S. soil
• Chemicals
• Biologicals
• Dirty bombs
• Blackmail
• Simultaneous

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Osama bin Laden issues declarations telling us
what he plans to do Islamic states also predict
the future
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• DECLARATION OF JIHAD AGAINST THE JEWS AND
  CRUSADERS
• killing the Americans and their allies- both
  civilian and military personnel- is a commandment
  for every individual Muslim who can do this, in
  any country in which he can do this.
• OSAMA BIN LADEN
• 1998

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Pakistan, Feb. 2006
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• To those who doubt, to those who ask is it
  possible, or those who do not believe, I say
  accomplishment of a world without America and
  Israel is both possible and feasible
• Ahmadinejad
• Irans President

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Three choices for non-MuslimsFrom the Barbary
pirates to Osama-----

• Conversion to Islam
• Submission or slavery
• Death

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• The GOAL of JIHAD is not so much to force the
  unbelievers to convert to Islam, as to extend the
  hegemony of Islamic law and to make unbelievers
  submit as inferiors

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The Jihad ideology requires the oppression of
women
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Recent news reports

• Cairo- 10 y.o. --prostitution
• Mo- avoid stereotypes, kills wife
• Jordan- will not ban honor killing
• Razor blades- daughter raped by brother
• England and the suitcase- daughter escapes but
  returns

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Women are inferior to men and must be ruled by
them

• Men have authority over women because God has
  made the one superior to the other
• Koran 434

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Koran- manifesto for the oppression of women

• A womens testimony is worth half that of a man.
  Koran 2282
• A man may marry up to four wives, and have sex
  with slave girls as well. 43
• A sons inheritance should be twice the size of
  that of a daughter. 411
• A husband should beat a disobedient wife. 434

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The Pakistani Institute of Medical Sciences

• over 90 of Pakistani wives have been struck,
  beaten, or abused sexually for offenses such as
  cooking an unsatisfactory meal or failing to give
  birth to a male child

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Mecca- March 2002

• 15 girls trapped in a fire at their schoolthey
  shed outer garments to survive and escape..Saudi
  Arabian religious police muttawa would not allow
  the girls out of the building.the girls all died
• Newsweek, July 22, 2002

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Koran takes child marriage for granted

• The prophet Muhammad had a child bride..The
  prophet married Aisha when she was 6 years
  old.he consummated that marriage when she was 9
  years old.
• Bukhari, vol 5., book 63, 3896

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Honor killing- deeply rooted in Islamic culture

• Victim of rape is killedwomens fault for being
  raped.thus, cover
• Jordan, article 340 of the criminal code does not
  penalize murder of women

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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

• Cutting off the clitoris
• Sewing together what is left
• FGM from infancy to puberty
• Womens sexual feelings - sinful

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Islam has serious problems with Crusaders and
Jews

• How do you convince a jihadist there is a reward
  by dying ?

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Heavenly rewards ?
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Jihad calls for the extermination of the Jews

• Shiekh Zayad bin Sultan Aal Nahyan Mosque in
  Gaza.10/2000.
• have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they
  are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you
  are. Whatever you meet them, kill them. Wherever
  you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who
  are like them

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Hassan Nasrallah- Hizballah

• Anyone who reads the Koran cannot think of
  co-existence with them, of peace with them
• Nasrallah calls Jews the grandsons of apes and
  pigs Koran 262-65,559-60, and 7166.

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• What is the evolution of Islamic terrorist
  organizations?

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• The founding of the Muslim Brotherhood was not a
  response to Zionism, but to the abolition of the
  caliphate by the secular Turkish government in
  1924

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Americas support for Israel is the most common
explanation given today for jihad violence

• Muslim Brotherhood established in 1928, twenty
  years before the founding of the State of Israel

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Samuel Huntington in Clash of Civilizations

• Wherever one looks along the perimeter of Islam,
  Muslims have problems living peacefully with
  their neighbors

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Subversion of democratic institutions

• Because of the imperative to subjugate
  unbelievers and dominate the world in the name of
  Islam, jihadis work wherever there are Muslim
  settlements in the West to undermine democracy
  and constitutional law

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• Using the Wests respect for minority rights and
  culture, jihadis push for the adoption of Sharia
  law, first in their own communities and then in
  Europe generally

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• The Sharia (Islamic Law) does not have to adapt
  to the modern world because these are divine
  laws. People have to bend to the Sharia..
• Imam in Holland

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• Thanks to your democratic laws, we will invade
  you. Thanks to our religious laws, we will
  dominate you
• Roman Catholic Archbishop in Turkey Giuseppe
  Bernardini in discussion with Muslim leader

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Jihad claims to be fighting Crusaders

• Muhammad unified the Arabian peninsula under his
  rule and directed that ALL religions be forbidden
  there except Islam
• Islam attacked Christian nations Byzantine,
  Syria, Palestine and Egypt
• Muhammad said embrace Islam and you will be
  safe.destruction followed

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History of Conquest

• In 635 (3 years after prophets death) Damascus
  fell to Muslims.
• In 638, Jerusalem fell
• In 711, invaded Spain and held it for 700 years
• Finally defeated in France by Charles Martel The
  Hammer in 732 at battle of Tours

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1683, September 11th

• Battle of Vienna
• Islamists stopped from taking over Europe..today
  ?

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Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire

• observed that if the Muslim invasion into
  France had been successful, the Koran would now
  be taught at Oxford

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A little closer to home, in 1998 Omar Ahmad, the
chairman and cofounder of CAIR, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, self described as
America's largest Islamic civil liberties group,
said
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• Islam isnt in America to be equal to any other
  faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should
  be the highest authority in America, and Islam
  the only accepted religion on Earth.

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Those who would give up essential liberty, to
purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve
neither Liberty or SafetyBenjamin Franklin
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Can We Win ?

• Yes, we can.

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Strategies for victory

• Protect our borders
• Fight to win
• Maintain our freedom of speech
• Everyone must be engaged in the community
• Teach Army core values in schools
• Initiate ROTC in ALL High Schools
• Get involved in politics
• Get rid of political correctness

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SummaryPerpetualVigilance
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COL Roman G. GolashChief of Staff332nd Medical
BrigadeNashville, TN312-793-1571
ofroman.golash_at_us.army.mil