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Judging from the progress that anti-Israel “Lawfare” and pro-Shari’a movements have made in advancing the “Palestinian Cause” and Shari’a compliant programs in a distressingly vast array of our society’s institutions over the past decade, one must conclude that the Muslim jihadist forces working to infiltrate our society are winning.
The most obvious peril arises from terrorist infiltration. Terrorists identified as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and Iranian agents continue to enter our country via Mexico as illegal immigrants. Yet, almost a decade ago the present writer and others published analyses of the danger[1] posed to our country’s security by such infiltration. If these agents were not bent on doing us harm, they could easily enter our country via normal ports of entry. The fact that they disguise themselves as Mexicans and try to sneak past our border guards is a very good indication that they are here on jihadist missions and know that if they were to try to enter the USA via normal channels, they would be identified as wanted terrorists. Once in the USA, they easily disappear into the American Muslim community, undocumented, untraceable, invisible and unstoppable.
The problem on our southern border has grown only worse since then, with continued jihadist entry via Mexico and the new alliance between Iran and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.[2] The Iran-Venezuela connection and Iran’s quest for deployable WMDs create the threat of a nuclear armed Venezuela under Iranian influence holding the USA hostage with nuclear-armed missiles having in their cross-hairs all of the southern USA from San Diego to Sarasota.
Expert witnesses reporting to congress have indicated that Iran has active agents, both Hezbollah and Iranian government operatives, in the USA:[3] sleeper cells awaiting orders while conducting surveillance[4] in preparation for future attacks. While some pundits are convinced[5] that Iran does not plan to attack the USA on its home front, the operative word that they ignore[6] is “yet.” Iran has successfully laid the groundwork for future terrorism inside the USA with Hezbollah and other Iranian terrorist agents[7] primed, ready and invisible.
Less obvious, but no less perilous, is the quiet, gradual and peaceful infiltration of Muslim operatives and their supporters into our social, legal, educational and political systems under the guise of legitimate democratic activism in the form of the Divestment movement, the BDS movement, the “One-State Solution” proponents, lawyers implementing “Lawfare,” those who seek to legitimize Sharia law, and a host of socio-political organizations including “Jewish Voice for Peace” and other “Peace and Justice for Palestine” groups.
The Divestment movement,[8] which sought to pressure institutions (mostly churches and universities) to divest their retirement funds from companies doing business with or in Israel, began more than twenty years ago and soon became a nation-wide phenomenon gaining support and followers in churches,[9] on campuses, and in a variety of other institutions[10] holding substantial retirement funds. While few assets were actually divested, the real purpose of the movement was achieved:[11] create a new podium from which to demonize Israel and by means of which to grab public attention and mainstream media coverage. Over time interest in divestment waned, and presenters found themselves preaching to the choir. So the movement morphed into” BDS,” boycotts, divestment, sanctions. By including calls for boycott and sanctions, the proponents of this movement created a wider panoply of audiences, since boycotts and sanctions do not need investment funds that can be divested. And as was the case with the divestment movement, the BDS movement cut a swath through college campuses enjoying large audiences on accommodating campuses with little opposition. Later, as audience interest diminished and presenters found themselves again preaching to the choir, the forces waging the campus war against Israel re-organized to create the newest front,[12] the “One-State Solution” movement. Starting at the top, “One-State Solution” conferences were recently held at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard University, schools of international repute whose status lent credence and legitimacy to this new venue for Israel-bashing. None of this could have happened were there not already on campuses a cadre of willing enablers, student and faculty activists and complicit or complacent administrative leadership, who energetically support these anti-Israel and anti-Jewish efforts.
The advance of Shari’a law displays a similar trajectory. From modest beginnings in the USA and Canada as local Muslims petitioned to have family disputes adjudicated by a Muslim religious court, Shari’a law and Shari’a finance have now become institutionalized.[13] Thanks to Justice Elena Kagan[14] and Professor Noah Feldman at Harvard,[15] and other promoters of Shari’a as an alternative form of jurisprudence compatible with American secular law,[16] we are witness to a gradually growing number of states accommodating the institutionalization of Shari’a courts into American legal venues; and we see the struggle of Shari’a supporters to prevent or overturn state-sponsored regulations that would exclude Shari’a from American law. Facilitating this struggle to give Shari’a credence, legitimacy, and legal valence are a host of lay folk, cheer leaders for Shari’a, including some rabbis, encouraging our legislators to grant Shari’a legal status in America. The dire and existential peril that Shari’a poses to women and Jews, to all Americans, to America, and to Western Civilizations has been adumbrated elsewhere.[17] Suffice it to say here that much of Shari’a legislation is diametrically opposed to our society’s cornerstone freedoms and to our fundamental concept of all citizens’ equality before the law.
The “Lawfare” movement presents another new front[18] in the infiltration of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish and anti-American forces into our legal system. The present writer attended the conference in San Francisco in 2010[19] where academics and lawyers enumerated the ways and means whereby American courts could be turned into staging grounds for anti-Israel lawsuits[20] which could later be used as precedents for future legal battles against Israel, Israelis, and any legal or natural persons supporting Israel. Then it is only one step from legal decisions to legislation.
The proliferation of the organizations such as the “Jewish Voice for Peace” and numerous other groups claiming to be “for peace and justice in Palestine” on campuses, churches, world-wide Christian organizations, and on the grass-roots level of local communities, is another form of infiltration. Almost without exception, these groups promote the Arab side of the Israel-Arab conflict, ignore the reality of Israel’s need for defense against vicious genocidal terrorism, and act as mouthpieces for Arab anti-Israel propaganda. Rank and file membership may be dominated by benighted do-gooders whom Lenin would have classified as “useful idiot,” but leaders and funders know that the real purpose of these groups is to create an almost limitless supply of new venues for Israel-bashing and for the dissemination of Arab lies about Israel and the “Palestinians.”
All of the above are aggressively agitating in the here-and-now to convince us that Israel is evil and the “poor Palestinians” are victims of that evil. But there is also the long-range battle for American hearts and minds. From Harvard to high schools our education system has become the target of Arab revisionism. Decades of Arab oil money pouring into our universities and colleges is now well documented. That oil money’s influence goes well beyond the university classroom. Saudi and other Arab largesse has targeted universities with Title VI federal funding, funding which supports university outreach programs that teach our children about the beauties and blessings of Islam.
A Saudi-owned publishing house in New Mexico churns out curriculum supplements which are aggressively marketed to public and private school teachers from kindergarten to college. Using a well-honed strategy of deceit and tactic of serial lying, this mendacious material not only demonizes Israel but also whitewashes Muslim history by purging it of its jihadist imperialism, and exonerates Islam by ignoring the religious and gender apartheid inherent in its doctrine of Muslim and male supremacy.
Once the invasions and conquests and murders and massacres and genocides of 1,400 years of Muslim jihad are magically retold[21] as nothing more than a gentle religious revivalism; and 1,400 years of religious repression and discrimination are recast with literary sleight of hand as a Golden Age of religious tolerance;[22] then our younger generations can be convinced that the current Muslim war against Israel and Western Civilization is really justified self-defense against evil Zionist land theft and brutal western imperialism.
This year’s sophomore is next year’s Senator.
If we do not stop this tsunami of infiltration, we will lose this war.
Footnotes
[1] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11889
[2] http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/02/2012/01/24/the-venezuelan-missile-crisis/
[3] http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/html/pdf/LevittTestimony20120321.pdf
[4] http://news.yahoo.com/nypd-says-iran-conducted-surveillance-nyc-172721155.html
[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/opinion/sunday/kristof-the-false-debate-about-attacking-iran.html?ref=columnists&pagewanted=print
[6] http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/how-about-not-bombing-iran/?pagemode=print
[7] http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/21/peter-king-thousands-hezbollah-donors-agents-in-us/
[8] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7964
[9] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9303
[10] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9246
[11] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=5571
[12] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9246
[13] http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/02/jihadist-infiltration-they-are-winning/2012/03/21/subverting-america%e2%80%99s-legal-system/
[14] http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/02/jihadist-infiltration-they-are-winning/author/david-meir-levi/http:/frontpagemag.com/2012/03/20/what-happened-to-harvards-veritas/
[15] http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/02/jihadist-infiltration-they-are-winning/2011/08/30/shilling-for-shariah/
[16] http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/02/jihadist-infiltration-they-are-winning/2012/03/23/harvardstan/
[17] http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/02/jihadist-infiltration-they-are-winning/2012/03/20/what-happened-to-harvards-veritas/
[18] http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/02/jihadist-infiltration-they-are-winning/2012/03/21/subverting-america%e2%80%99s-legal-system/
[19] http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/02/jihadist-infiltration-they-are-winning/2011/06/28/islamist-lawfare-on-steroids/
[20] http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/02/jihadist-infiltration-they-are-winning/2011/11/04/islamist-lawfare-on-steroids-%E2%80%93-part-2/
[21] http://www.actforamericaeducation.com/textbook-research
[22] http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/911-gets-pc-rewrite-in-u-s-textbooks/
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"The most obvious peril arises from terrorist infiltration. Terrorists identified as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and Iranian agents continue to enter our country via Mexico as illegal immigrants. Yet, almost a decade ago the present writer and others published analyses of the danger posed to our country’s security by such infiltration. If these agents were not bent on doing us harm, they could easily enter our country via normal ports of entry."
Actually, it's not terrorist infiltration. It's jihadists infiltration, as jihad, in stark contrast to terrorism, is holy fighting in the cause of Allah against non-Muslim unbelievers to make Islam supreme and constitutes total warfare that utilizes both violent and non-violent means of jihad.
In fact, it is covert and deceptive non-violent means of jihad that enters this country through normal ports of entry instead of our southern Mexican border and which is employed by the Islamic world against the West astronomically far more prevalently that constitutes an exponentially far greater threat to the peace and security of the West today relative to violent jihad. Indeed, this writer habitually conflates what is really jihad as being terrorism, which is always only violent, and at the same time this flaw in his perception causes him to ignore the much more harmful and prevalently employed varieties of covert and deceptive non-violent jihad for the purpose of mass infiltration and stealth demographic conquest to make Islam supreme.
For instance, our colleges and universities, major institutions, and federal government agencies have all been so infiltrated by Muslim covert and deceptive non-violent jihadists that our news media, political elites on both sides of the political spectrum, and federal government today have all been rendered completely incompetent when it comes to Islam, and if our elites are incompetent and blind when it comes to Islam, then it means that unless something very drastic happens, this country too will inevitably face stealth demographic conquest the same way the delusional Euroloons are facing it today.
By the way, all this happened via jihad, which the writer conflates as being terrorism, as jihad in stark contrast to terrorism, can be both violent and non-violent, while terrorism, on the other hand, can only be violent. Not to mention that jihad is only in the cause of Allah, while terrorism, on the other hand, can be for any number of political cause other than in the cause of Allah.
Indeed, because of massive covert and deceptive non-violent jihad infiltration into this country, our elites, including obviously this writer as well, assume that Islam is a so-called Religion of Peace™ being hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists and that the vast overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world are peaceful and moderate people. Thus, mass Muslim immigration to the West, which is really covert and deceptive non-violent jihad for the purpose of mass infiltration and stealth demographic conquest, is premised on this very false PC multicultural myth and welcomed in America today with open arms instead of with resistance and opposition.
Of course, conflating what is really jihad with terrorism, per the dictates of PC multiculturalism, also contributes tremendously to this prevailing situation because it causes America to become totally transfixed only on preventing the violent varieties of jihad which is misconstrued as being terrorism, while at the same time causing America to completely ignore the astronomically far more prevalently employed covert and deceptive non-violent varieties of jihad.
Not to mention as well, but it was that same above very false PC multicultural myth about the nature of Islam and Muslims that also caused our two fantasy based nation-building missions in Iraq and Afghanistan to inevitably turn into the two biggest strategic blunders ever in American history. Indeed, if the real nature of Islam and Muslims had been correctly understood by our elites, there never would have been two incredibly fantasy based and counterproductive nation-building missions in Iraq and Afghanistan to begin with. Meanwhile, don't forget that the sole reason our elites believe in that false PC multicultural myth to begin with, is because of mass infiltration of covert and deceptive non-violent jihadists into our country that have successfully infiltrated our colleges and universities, major institutions, and our federal government.
Hence, sealing off our borders is just one of the common sense measures we need to undertake ASAP. The other measures would be outlawing Islam on the grounds that it really isn't a religion, but instead a supremacist theo-political totalitarian ideology that masquerades as being a religion to dupe the gullible societies it intends to subjugate into a very draconian form of Islamic totalitarianism via the imposition of Sharia, and banning and reversing mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage ASAP on the grounds that it is really covert and deceptive non-violent jihad for the purpose of mass infiltration and stealth demographic conquest.
Indeed, zero covert jihadists living in America as a fifth column would virtually eliminate the possibility of violent jihad attacks on the homeland and at the same time completely alleviate the much greater threats stemming from mass infiltration and stealth demographic conquest. Not to mention that it would also enable us to free up hundreds of billions of dollars currently being spent annually on preventing terrorist attacks, i.e., violent jihad attacks, to use for something else.
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"Expert witnesses reporting to congress have indicated that Iran has active agents, both Hezbollah and Iranian government operatives, in the USA: sleeper cells awaiting orders while conducting surveillance in preparation for future attacks."
By the way, I would wager that the the vast overwhelming majority if not all of those Iranian and Hezbollah covert jihadists living in America as a fifth column today entered the country through normal ports of entry as opposed to our southern Mexican border. However, I agree with the writer that sealing our borders and getting immigration under control should be one of America's highest priorities.
"Iran has successfully laid the groundwork for future terrorism inside the USA with Hezbollah and other Iranian terrorist agents primed, ready and invisible."
Unlike the writer I fear covert and deceptive non-violent jihad far more than I do terrorism, which is really violent jihad that per the dictates of PC multiculturalism the writer conflates as being terrorism. Indeed, if not for covert and deceptive non-violent jihad all of the other things the writer raves about, i.e., “infiltration of Muslim operatives and their supporters into our social, legal, educational and political systems under the guise of legitimate democratic activism in the form of the Divestment movement, the BDS movement, the “One-State Solution” proponents, lawyers implementing “Lawfare,” those who seek to legitimize Sharia law, and a host of socio-political organizations including “Jewish Voice for Peace” and other “Peace and Justice for Palestine” groups,” wouldn't be happening today.
"Almost without exception, these groups promote the Arab side of the Israel-Arab conflict, ignore the reality of Israel’s need for defense against vicious genocidal terrorism, and act as mouthpieces for Arab anti-Israel propaganda."
When writers in the interest of political correctness or whatever unwittingly mischaracterize the nature of the permanent Islamic jihad of conquest being waged perpetually by the Islamic world against the Jewish unbelievers in Israel primarily via their proxy the so-called Palestinians as merely an Israel-Arab conflict, they are doing a grave injustice to Israel and its cause for freedom, liberty, human rights, and peace
For instance, the biggest threat to Israel today emanates from Iran, and Iran isn't even an Arab majority country. Does anyone believe that Pakistani and Afghan Muslims would cut the Jewish unbelievers in Israel, or any other non-Muslim unbelievers for that matter, any slack?
Indeed, if the majority of the world understood that what is happening in Israel was really a permanent jihad of conquest being waged perpetually against the Jewish unbelievers in Israel by the Islamic world, primarily via their proxy the so-called Palestinians that were created out of whole cloth in Moscow in 1964 by the Soviet KGB as a disinformation campaign to dupe gullible useful idiots by camouflaging the Islamic world's jihad of conquest under a cloak of nationalism, I bet most people in the world would support Israel as opposed to the so-called Palestinians. Especially if they understood as well that the jihad of conquest being waged perpetually against the Jewish unbelievers in Israel is just one tiny part of the much greater global jihad at large being waged perpetually not only against the Jewish unbelievers in Israel but also against all non-Muslim unbelievers throughout the world.
Finally, let me make it clear that on the whole I agree with and actually admire the writer of the above article. However, I do have a few problems stemming from his few PC multicultural idiosyncrasies that are probably bad habits more than anything else.
Editor's Addendum:
In "What Happened to Harvard’s ‘Veritas’?"
(frontpagemag.com/2012/03/20/what-happened-to-harvards-veritas/),
David Meir-Levi
spells out what is considered justice in Sharia law.
"Requirements of Shariah law that are most antithetical to Western society include:
He concludes: "So Shariah is based upon a religious ideology that embraces the suppression of women, gender apartheid, religious apartheid, cruel and unusual punishment, the denial of basic Western freedoms of speech, thought, conscience, religion, and choice of life partner, and the maintenance of an eternal supremacist religious war against non-Muslims until Islam is the only, or at least the supreme, religion in the world."
David Meir-Levi writes and lectures on Middle East topics, until recently in the History Department of San Jose State University.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/02/jihadist-infiltration-they-are-winning/
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