Global Jihad Is Here

American Thinker

By James Lewis

“Global jihad is at our doorstep,” said the head of Israel’s Military Intelligence this week.

Unlike our media and politicians, Major-General Aviv Kochavi is paid to see reality without fear or favor, and to tell it like it is.

American conservatives have thought so at least since the Twin Towers bombing in 2001, and some, like Andy McCarthy, have known it since the Blind Sheikh tried to truck-bomb the World Trade Center in 1993.

In fact, historians may date the start of the Global Jihad to October 1979 — to the Islamic Revolution in Iran, after Jimmy Carter betrayed our loyal ally the shah of Iran to the most cruel and oppressive reactionary ideology in the world.  That was the first major explosion of Muslim imperialism in modern times.  Iran is now moving toward nukes and missile production, with the quiet consent of Barack Hussein Obama.

Today, the most radical rebel faction in Syria has declared that it wants to establish an Islamic caliphate there.  The other word for “caliphate” is “empire,” and Islam is an imperialistic ideology, just as surely as Soviet Communism and the Nazis.

Being Muslims, we do not believe in political parties or parliamentary elections, but rather in an Islamic regime … Our heading towards the establishment of Islamic law (Sharia) is jihad in Allah’s way.

Yes, yes, we know all that. Same old, same old.  Even Obama is reportedly trying to knock out this particular gang of fanatics, in the delusional belief that the others are any different.

Treachery and deception are basic in war, and the global jihad has been marked by both of those from 1979 to today.  Jimmy Carter is still lying his head off about the global jihad he brought upon the world.  For eight years Bill Clinton knew all about Osama bin Laden but refused four opportunities to get rid of him

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