“Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills
you will think that he offers God a service” (John 16:2).
Are we living in the fulfilment of that prophecy or what?
Are we living in the fulfilment of that prophecy or what?
What Is The Lure
For Homegrown Jihadi Recruits?
By de Andréa,Opinion Editorialist for
‘THE BOTTOM LINE’
Four
times as many people are being converted to Islam in America than in Great
Britain. I will say it another way 40,000
a year to the Brit’s 10,000 per year. And that number is dwarfed by the amount
of Islamic Jihadists that are entering the country and be born here. In less
than 50 years by demographics alone there will be an Islamic majority in the
U.S. They
must be stopped!
“We, the human race, living on this earth, are
under the perception that we belong here and this is our residence and home. We
don’t know – or we don’t want to know – the fact that we are on a train, and
the train is going through stations to another final destination, and that this
world is only one of these stops, in one of the stations. But we do not belong
here. We have a ticket that has three slips: We live in the womb for nine
months, and then, when we come out, one slip is torn out from the ticket. And
then we live in [this temporal world] for a while in this station, and when we
are dying, the second slip from the ticket is torn out. And then we have one
slip left that will be torn out either in hellfire or in [paradise]. And that
is the final destination.” – Anwar al-Awlaki, top terror recruiter for
al-Qaida before he was sent to Hell by a U.S. drone in 2011
As the popular Christian saying goes,
human beings are born with a “God-shaped hole” in their hearts – an emptiness
that can be filled only by God.
The America of previous generations was strongly Judeo-Christian,
and since its culture was basically in sync with the ultimate duty of human
beings to reverence their Creator, obey His laws, live a moral and upright
life, repent of their sins, be charitable and forgiving, practice the “Golden
Rule” and so on, America was the greatest nation in history. Indeed, this
unique nation, however imperfect, was filled to overflowing with a spirit of
liberty, reverence for the Almighty, adventure, limitless - opportunity and…above
all – ‘hope’.
But, today, thanks to several generations of infiltration,
subversion and corruption of every single American institution by what we
cryptically call “the progressive left” – code for a quasi-religious
substitution called “government will provide everything you could possibly need,”
a worldview rooted in rebellion against God and His laws, so as to become one’s
own god and lawgiver commonly referred to as social communism driven by the
useful idiot slaves of Fabianism–the American culture has become a spiritual
vacuum. And rushing into that vacuum has been every
type of ideology, religion and delusion imaginable, all but eliminating the
former Christian character of this nation’s culture.
Consequently it is, that one of the most controversial
forces being drawn into America’s post-Christian spiritual emptiness is the
satanic ideology of Islam, offering to fill the “God-shaped hole” in people’s
hearts. In fact, the Muslim demographic explosion
in the West, including in Europe and Britain, the United States and
Australia, is due not only to wildly uncontrolled immigration and proliferation,
but also to the fact that many native Westerners are converting to Islam. For example, in the U.K., approximately 10,000 Brits convert to
Islam per year, about 28 per day, while in America, the most oft-quoted number
of annual Muslim conversions is is twice that at 40,000 per year, or 110 per
day.
Of course, in a nation like ours historically steeped in
powerful, near-sacred First Amendment freedoms – including religion, speech and
assembly – most deceived Americans care not what religion (or lack thereof)
their neighbor embraces, so long as he or she respects our rights and obeys our
nation’s laws.
Unfortunately, most Muslims in America, while not
necessarily personally involved in violent terrorism, nevertheless support it
and are in agreement with the end result desired by Islamic terrorists. And that is, the
ultimate supremacy of Islam over the entire world called the Ummah, and the institution
of Shariah law everywhere. Indeed, a year ago more than 51 percent of Muslims
living in America say they would rather live under Shariah law than the U.S.
Constitution, according
to a 2015 study by the Center for Security
Policy, but today it is more than 67 percent and growing as Muslims progressively
evolve.
For this reason, Muslim immigration constitutes a genuine threat
for the American Republic because of the professed loyalty to a foreign law
over the U.S. Constitution. As Donald
Trump said during
his recent immigration speech regarding Hillary Clinton’s plan to bring in
another 620,000 new refugees from Syria, “What the hell are
we doing?” Why
are we recklessly importing unassimilable people into our country by the tens
of thousands, most of whom admit they’re profoundly at odds with our nation’s
core values, principles and laws? Islam is
quintessentially incompatible with any western values and culture. Moreover, they do not assimilate, so who will
change their culture? We will!
Nonetheless, our most immediate and urgent threat is violent
terrorism. And that is being fueled, thanks largely to the Internet and social
media, by the increasing spread of the apocalyptic jihadist belief that
wantonly murdering as many innocent men, women and children as possible – and
taking your own life in the process – is somehow a righteous and holy act,
making you the beloved of the creator, the apple of his eye, fit for paradise
in the hereafter and rewarded with eternal sex with 72 virgins.
‘He’s selling jihad’
“Brothers and sisters, this
religion is not a religion of talk, it’s not religion of showing off how much
knowledge you have, this religion is about your willingness to sacrifice for
Allah.”
– Anwar al-Awlaki
A charismatic, American-born imam who later joined al-Qaida
in the Arabian Peninsula, Anwar al-Awlaki helped radicalize a “who’s who” of
jihadists in the West through his popular lectures and demonic propaganda.
Awlaki is known to have counseled or influenced three of the 9/11 hijackers,
the London Tube and bus bombers in 2005, Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan in
2009, and “Underwear Bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (whose 2009 Christmas
Day attempted take-down of a U.S. airliner Awlaki helped plan). As well as,
Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, convicted of the 2010 car-bombing attempt
in Midtown Manhattan, was a fan of Awlaki’s sermons, as were the Tsarnaev
brothers, who in 2013 carried out the Boston Marathon bombings. Mohammod
Youssuf Abdulazeez, who in July 2015 opened fire at two Chattanooga, Tennessee,
military installations and killed four Marines and a sailor, had been watching
Awlaki videos shortly before the shootings, according to the FBI. Even San
Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook and Orlando mass-shooter Omar Mateen were
known devotees of Awlaki’s satanic propaganda.
Awlaki is also credited with creating al-Qaida’s Inspire
magazine, which has focused on promoting so-called “open source jihad” –
basically, independent murderous attacks “where you are” using a wide variety
of weapons. Inspire’s summer 2010 issue included an article, headlined “How
to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom,” teaching wannabe jihadists how
to assemble a pressure-cooker bomb like that used in the Boston Marathon
bombings. Another issue advised jihadists to use their automobile to “mow down”
as many people as possible (“The
ultimate mowing machine”), no doubt inspiring the
abominable massacre in Nice, France, on July 14 that claimed 85 lives. Yet
another issue of Inspire focused on blowing up buildings, while a 2012 issue
headlined “Unleash
Hell” described in detail how to start forest fires
across the U.S., including instructions on how to make “ember bombs.”
Awlaki spoke perfect English and was a hypnotically
compelling orator. “He’s intelligent, sophisticated, Internet-savvy and very
charismatic,” one counterterrorism expert told the Wall Street
Journal. “He
can sell anything to anyone, and right now he’s still selling jihad.”
When Awlaki eventually learned that the FBI had a huge file
on him documenting his grossly irresponsible, immoral and hypocritical secret
life – cheating on his wife, squandering their savings on prostitutes,
violating every Islamic moral precept he publicly championed and exhorted
others to follow – he panicked. The only avenue of escape from certain
disgrace, he concluded, was to run. So he fled America for Yemen, where he
metamorphosed – perhaps to redeem his sinful behavior by embracing jihad – into
al-Qaida’s top recruiter. The whole sordid
tale is laid out by New York Times national
security reporter Scott Shane in his book, “Objective
Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone.” ‘I will be rebirthed’
But al- Awlaki is dead so why are we even concerned about
him. Well…just as computers, you can
delete your documents but are they really ever deleted? His videos live on my friend. Awlaki’s online demonic
excrement continues to recruit, reinforce and encourage terrorism against the
West to this day.
The question now is: What is the
appeal of such a demonic death-cult and the monstrous actions it demands of the “faithful”? How are we
to understand – and thereby discover how to neutralize – its persuasive power?
Understanding, the seduction of young people into utopian
systems is not unique to Islam. Indeed, it is rampant in today’s post-Christian
America. One need look no farther than Ivy League university campuses to see
people by the thousands recruited not only into the quasi-religion of
socialism/Marxism, but also into embracing even more exotic totalitarian
beliefs and behaviors (for example, the celebration of dozens of brand-new
genders, each
with its own legally mandatory pronoun). Ideas that would
have caused every previous generation of young Americans to burst out loud
laughing. But now, it’s their deadly
serious reality.
Others have expressed feelings of disgust with the human
race and disengagement with reality.
Likewise, the Daily Mail reported on another depressed/suicidal
viewer who said, “I … don’t really see any reason to keep doing things at all. I live in
a dying world.”
What are we witnessing here? Distraught and disillusioned
young people ripe for transition to a radically different reality. It’s the perfect storm my friend.
How much more deeply appealing is the apocalyptic,
end-times, utopian Islamic fantasy world revolving around the final war between
good and evil, believer and infidel – not to mention universal joy and
brotherhood – oh yeah, and lots of sex in this world and the next – being sold
to our disillusioned young people by ISIS recruiters?
After all, consider that the young millennial quoted is not
wrong in observing that we “live in a dying world.” The
once-vibrant, hope-filled Christian culture that fueled the spectacular growth
of America, the U.K. and Europe has all but disintegrated, leaving behind
millions of demoralized souls, anxious, depressed, aimless, hopeless – their
lives without apparent meaning or purpose.
Enter radical Islam. Like the young “Avatar” fan seeking a
quick reincarnation, newly radicalized Muslims want to believe that if they
commit suicide in jihad, they “will be rebirthed” in the utopian
world described by hypnotic story-tellers like Awlaki.
So when ISIS encourages “self-radicalized” warriors for
Allah to “commit jihad where you are” – resulting in increasingly frequent
terror attacks across America – the experience for the entranced suicide bomber
is somewhat akin to playing a really super-cool new video game. After he dies
during the game’s glorious finale, he expects to be rebooted – “rebirthed” –
brought back to life in a brand new world, his adventure continuing, only much
better.
Award-winning
journalist William Finnegan, writing in the New Yorker, describes the mesmerizing appeal of the jihad adventure to
aimless, rudderless Westerners this way:
Not understood by the majority of the West, killing Osama bin
Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki – even defeating the Islamic State militarily,
essential as that may be – will not guarantee to stop the
ideology, or
reverse its growth. Terror is jihadism’s most
frightening weapon but not its core. Its ideas, which can be summed up as Muslim supremacism, are its greatest strength.
These ideas are sold as righteous, utopian, and salvific. They promise to
relieve an enormous experience of impotence and humiliation. Even to certain
young Westerners, living in comfort and freedom, with no credible personal
grievances, they seem to offer an exciting counterculture. The world is ending,
and it is ending in blood. Choose Paradise.
Joining the ultimate gang
Today, in the age of ISIS – with its self-declared Caliphate
and devastating terror attacks worldwide, and supposedly contrasted with the
pathetically feeble and perverse leadership of Barack Obama – there’s one more
element present that was lacking when Awlaki was alive, and that’s success. Or at least the
perception of success – and in the marketing world, perception equals reality.
Success, which breeds hope, is also a prime inducement for women to join ISIS,
whose recruitment efforts have been surprisingly resonant with females, the
most insecure and lonely of which are targeted with promises of “faith,
sisterhood and love.”
This ad will end in 14 seconds.
Clearly, today’s recruitment message is not merely about
being a devout Muslim jihadist, serving Allah, being part of a family of
believers and taking the martyrdom-express train ride to paradise. It’s also
now about being a member of the biggest, baddest gang in
the world, which is
expanding its crime territory, kicking America’s butt, kidnapping lots of hot
women to be sex slaves – the call them, “wives” – and sowing fear and trembling
throughout the infidel Western world. That’s the sales pitch.
Fighting the ‘coalition of devils’
“The world has come together in
a global coalition to eradicate Jihad. The media around the globe is painting
Jihad in the worst possible colors. Day and night the masses are hearing an
orchestra of smear against the mujahideen. In such an inhospitable environment,
Jihad is still flourishing, like a blessed tree sprouting through an earth of
waste and pollution. The Jihad movement has not only survived, but is
expanding.”
– Anwar al-Awlaki
The object of the ISIS recruiter is not to make the new
member want to become a monster, but to seduce him into believing he is
surrounded by monsters. ISIS calls America, Britain and other allies a
“coalition of devils,” or “The Great
Satan” so the ISIS member sees himself as a righteous warrior defending himself
and his brothers and sisters against the marauding legions of the damned.
Think of it this way: You and I, had we been part of 1944’s
Operation Valkyrie, one of at least 16 plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler, would
have been lying and preparing bombs and assassination plans all day long. After
all, we were at war and behind enemy lines, so of course we’d be plotting
mayhem and deceiving everyone around us! “War is deception,” said Sun Tzu,
and we were engaged in a dangerous but righteous effort to slay a monster, stop
a genocide and end a terrible war. Our cause was righteous in the extreme. (The
great Christian pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was one of many
courageous people executed for their part in the unsuccessful operation to kill
Hitler.)
That’s how jihadists feel about attacking us – except
they’re insane and totally in the grip of demonic possession.
The process of brainwashing new converts into becoming
genocidal monsters is disconcertingly easy. Here’s how Israeli counterterrorism
expert Itamar
Marcus explains what he calls “The Genocide
Mechanism,” illustrating his points with the Rwandan Genocide, in which the
Hutu majority slaughtered around 900,000 Tutsis in a 100-day period in 1994:
Common to the framing of all genocide is a very specific
kind of demonization. In Rwanda, the Hutus taught that the Tutsis were
cockroaches and snakes. Tutsi women were portrayed as cunning seductresses who
used beauty and sexual power to conquer the Hutus. … Radio Rwanda repeatedly
broadcast a warning that Hutus were about to be attacked by Tutsis, to convince
the Hutus that they needed to attack first to protect themselves.
This demonization included two specific components. First,
the victims had to be perceived as a clear and present threat, so that the
killers were convinced they were acting in self-defense. Second, the victims
were dehumanized, so that the killers convinced themselves that they were not
destroying real human beings.
Cockroaches!
If cockroaches are in your kitchen (one, they’re a threat,
and two, they’re not human), you have a right and duty to kill them.
During his murder orgy in Orlando, Omar Mateen told a 9-1-1
operator he shot more than 100 people – half of them fatally – because he
wanted “America to stop bombing Afghanistan.” In other words,
Americans are, one, a threat, and two, not human. (Well, they’re infidels,
Kaffaar and oppressors, which is close enough.) ISIS warriors actually know
they’re destroying “real human beings” – they just consider them damned and
destined for hell anyway, so why not speed up the train ride?
With this type of ISIS-inspired freelance terror attack
being committed ever more frequently in the U.S., is there any way to
discourage people like Omar Mateen from boarding the jihad train? Although
there are many vital aspects to defeating jihad that must be pursued
simultaneously, one of the most important is the most obvious: ISIS needs to be
crushed so badly militarily (which in itself will serve to greatly discredit
its ideology) that it becomes widely shunned by observers worldwide. Very
simply, if ISIS is widely seen as the losing team (join, and very quickly you
die, end of story – no sex, no glory), a lot fewer players will want to join
that team.
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli general and later prime minister,
wrote a book called “Warrior.” In it, he reflected on his years as a daring
soldier fighting for his nation’s survival. Sharon wrote that, in dealing with
Israel’s Arab-Muslim attackers, he “came to view the objective not simply as
retaliation, or even deterrence in the usual sense. It was to create in the
Arabs a psychology of defeat, to beat them every time and to beat them so
decisively that they would develop the conviction they could never win.”
Final destination
“When a believer is leaving this world and entering the next,
angels with faces shining brightly like the sun descend from the heavens
carrying a shroud and embalming fragrance from Paradise …”
– Anwar al-Awlaki
THE BOTTOM LINE: Ultimately, the appeal of
Islamic jihad is that, to the many people seduced into it, it mimics genuine
righteousness and selfless dedication to God. Jihadist wannabes can buy into
such murderous insanity precisely because their insanity happens to closely
parallel the truth! After all, self-sacrifice, martyrdom – giving up one’s life
for God –is great and noble and honorable. “Foxe’s
Book of Martyrs,” an encyclopedic compilation of true stories of
Christian martyrdom, was one of the most popular books in the Protestant world
from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Genuine martyrdom is an exceedingly
high calling, as is standing up and courageously opposing evil oppressors –
exactly what jihadists are told they are doing when they’re slaughtering
innocent men, women, and children. What they’re being taught has the resonance of truth, although they end up embracing a hideous perversion of truth. This Type of lie is called Taqiyyah in
Arabic. The same type of deceptive lie that Satan convinced Eve in Eden that
she would be like God if she ate the forbidden fruit.
Ultimately, the God-shaped hole in the jihadist has not been
filled by God, but by an extremely dark, deceitful and demonic imposter called
Satan. And when the last slip of the train ticket is finally collected, the
passenger discovers, to his great surprise, that he has been lied to by the
Great Deceiver himself – and that his final destination is not at all what he
had been promised.
Thanks
for listening my friend!
-
de Andréa
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