Know Your Enemy/Understand Your Enemy Part 3: Conclusion (sponsored)

No one should have to fight blindly against the enemy — knowledge IS power, and the truth of any situation even more powerful. No one has ever had all the facts for a set of circumstances or a certain situation, only God has the entire picture, so human expertise has its limitations. However, gathering as many facts as possible, organizing them in a logical progression, studying them carefully, looking for strengths and weaknesses, can ultimately bring together a rather comprehensive picture for all to see. This is what Andrew McCarthy did in prosecuting the "Blind Sheik" for the death and destruction involved in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.

In Part 2 of Islamic doctrines, I wrote that " Sharia law rejects freedom of speech as much as freedom of religion. It rejects the idea of equal rights between men and women as much as between Muslim and non-Muslim. There is no separation between spiritual life and civil society. It is THE framework for all human life — dictating matters of government, economy, and combat, along with personal behavior such as contact between the sexes and personal hygiene. Sharia aims to rule both believer and non-believer, and it affirmatively sanctions jihad in order to do so." One would think that our government under any administration, Democratic or Republican, would NEED to know the philosophy/ doctrines of those who wish to obliterate us — after all, the number one responsibility of the President of the United States of America is to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States and its people when administered the oath of office to the highest position of power in this country.

Even if Sharia is not the only construction of Islam, it is absurd to claim — as President Obama did during a recent past visit to a mosque in Baltimore — that it(Sharia law) is not a mainstream interpretation, when in fact, it is THE mainstream interpretation in many parts of the world. Example 1. Last year Americans were horrified by the beheadings of three Western journalists by ISIS. American and European leaders could not get to the microphones fast enough to insist that these decapitations had nothing to do with Islam. Yet within that same time frame, the Saudi government, a U.S. backer, beheaded eight people for various violations of sharia — the law that governs Saudi Arabia. Example 2. Just before Christmas of last year, a jihadist couple — an American citizen, the son of Pakistani immigrants, and his Pakistani wife who had been welcomed into our country on a special to-be-married visa — carried out a jihadist attack in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people. Example 3. The Fort Hood massacre of 2009 where Major Nidal Hasan, a military psychiatrist who eventually killed 13 U.S. soldiers and wounded 31 others said he did so as a supporter if ISIS. Yet this shooting which produced more casualties than any other on an American military base was not allowed to be called an act of terror by the U.S. government or that it was motivated by militant religious convictions EVEN THOUGH the National Security Agency(NSA) was monitoring Nidal Hasan as a threat to national security because of the gradual radicalization of Hasan by Anwar al-Awlaki via emails between the two which NSA had seen. From death row Hasan requested citizenship into ISIS via a letter addressed to Abu Bakr Baghdadi, Islamic State leader. through the Los Angeles Times and verified by attorney John Galligan for the Los Angeles Times. What more is needed?

The reason is simple: stubbornly unwilling to deal with the reality of Islam, our leaders have constructed their own version of Islam which is leading us into willful blindness and political correctness. Whether this path destroys Western ideals and government waits to be seen. The absurdity of this thinking was recently illustrated by British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith when she described terrorism as "anti-Islamic activity." In other words, the savagery is not merely unrelated to Islam; it becomes, by dint of its being inconsistent with a "religion of peace," CONTRARY TO Islam. This explains our country's handwringing over "radicalization": we are supposed to wonder why young Muslims, and some young peoples worldwide, spontaneously become violent radicals--as if there is no belief system involved. This is political correctness on steroids. And it is dangerous.

The dangerous flip side to our government's insistence on making up its own version of Islam is that anyone associated with Islam must be deemed peaceful. This is how we fall into the trap of allowing the Muslim Brotherhood, the world's most influential Islamic supremacist organization, to infiltrate policy-making organs of the U.S. government, our schools, our prisons, and other U.S. institutions according to Andrew McCarthy, lead prosecutor in the World Trade Center bombing. McCarthy reminds us that our federal government a few years back, which also includes the Bush administration and the current Obama administration, branded the Brotherhood as an Islamic organization, "largely secular" — thereby giving it a clean bill of health. This despite the fact that Hamas is the Brotherhood's Palestinian branch, that the Brotherhood has a long history of terrorist violence, and that major Brotherhood figures have gone on to play leading roles in terrorist organizations like al Qaeda.

To quote Churchill again: "Facts are better than dreams." In the real world, we must deal with the facts of Islamic supremacism, because if jihadists have every intention of dealing with us, then we need to see them as they are and what they are and who they are. This is how Andrew McCarthy got the conviction that has put the Blind Sheik behind bars--by convincing a jury with facts, with reality. More Andrew McCarthys are needed in order to expose the truth and the enemy.

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Carol Alipour-Paz was born in the Midwest — Ohio. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, with Bachelor degrees in English, French, and Science. Carol holds a Masters in Education K-12 from New York State University, SUNY New Paltz, N.Y. Her teaching career covers 30+ years in the high school and elementary levels, plus cooperating professor for college students preparing for education in classrooms. Carol has taught both overseas and in the States. She and her family have lived in other cultures outside of the U.S., predominantly in the Middle East and with her Iranian/Persian family. Carol has been the hostess of "Women to Women" on Charter Media for 4 years, and now she writes a monthly article on her website WomentoWomennv.com concerning local, state, national, and international topics.

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