Dr. Daniel Pipes PhD spoke to the Zionist community in Melbourne.
November 11, 2009.
Pipes is a Ph.D. in ME history, author of many books, articles and commentator on news media.
He is adamant that no one in history ever won against ideologues by appeasements and discussions. WW2 was fought against Fascism,- it took years and tens of millions dead and plenty of hardware to squash it. Communism was dismantled after the Cold War. Islamism needs a similar will and war-to-win.iSRAEL BNEEDS TO HAVE A TACTIC TO WIN AND CONQUER, NOT TO APPEASE. It hasn't worked for them since their unilateral withdrawals. The USA talks about winning the war against terrorism,- no one talks about Israel winning the war against those who want to annihilate it.
He is convinced that the Palestinians have no intention of being satisfied with a State alongside Israel, only one instead of Israel. Therefore he feels that the Israeli Government has lost its way in strategic-deterrence thinking and has erred in unilateral withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza. These are signs of weakness against the intransigent ideological enemy.
Israel tries too hard to appear sensitive to public opinion and the saving of enemy lives to the detriment of its own people and soldiers, but to no avail. Public opinion is now stacked against it anyway. What is the point? One may as well be blamed for something real. Let the punishment fit the crime and act as a deterrent to its enemies until it says 'enough is enough.If we can't destroy them, let's join them!'
Islamism has become very cunning and subtle,- e.g. in Turkey, while in Iran, there are positive signs that the resistance is strong enough to one day overthrow the terrible regime of the Ayatollahs. If and when this will happen, it will help the rest of the Islamic world to escape from its yoke of Jihadism.
Re the Zionist Christians of America,- Pipes feels it is only second to the IDF in the war against the Jihadists on Israel’s side. Too many Jewish groups however steer clear of them,- he feels that’s a pity.
He spoke about the enemies within the USA as happened in Texas (below). Time to call a spade a spade, by calling it what it is,- not something it isn’t. It’s Jihad and Jihadism,- whether one likes it or not. The murderer called out Al Akhbar,- what more is needed to prove what it was?
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Daniel Pipes November 9, 2009-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sudden Jihad or "Inordinate Stress" at Ft. Hood?
by Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com
November 9, 2009
http://www.danielpipes.org/7737/sudden-jihad-inordinate-stress-ft-hood
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Ft. Hood jihadi, in a picture from 2000.
When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives.
The establishment – law enforcement, politicians, the media, and the academy – stands on one side of this debate, insisting that some kind of oppression caused Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, to kill 13 and wound 38 at Ft. Hood on Nov. 5. It disagrees on the specifics, however, presenting Hasan as the victim alternatively of "racism," "harassment he had received as a Muslim," a sense of not belonging," "pre-traumatic stress disorder," "mental problems," "emotional problems," "an inordinate amount of stress," or being deployed to Afghanistan as his "worst nightmare." Accordingly, a typical newspaper headline reads "Mindset of Rogue Major a Mystery.".
Instances of Muslim-on-unbeliever violence inspire the victim school to dig up new and imaginative excuses. Colorful examples (drawing on my article and weblog entry about denying Islamist terrorism) include:
• 1990: "A prescription drug for … depression" (to explain the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane)
• 1991: "A robbery gone wrong" (the murder of Makin Morcos in Sydney)
• 1994: "Road rage" (the killing of a random Jew on the Brooklyn Bridge)
• 1997: "Many, many enemies in his mind" (the shooting murder atop the Empire State Building)
• 2000: A traffic incident (the attack on a bus of Jewish schoolchildren near Paris)
• 2002: "A work dispute" (the double murder at LAX)
• 2002: A "stormy [family] relationship" (the Beltway snipers)
• 2003: An "attitude problem" (Hasan Karim Akbar's attack on fellow soldiers, killing two)
• 2003: Mental illness (the mutilation murder of Sebastian Sellam)
• 2004: "Loneliness and depression" (an explosion in Brescia, Italy outside a McDonald's restaurant)
• 2005: "A disagreement between the suspect and another staff member" (a rampage at a retirement center in Virginia)
• 2006: "An animus toward women" (a murderous rampage at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle)
• 2006: "His recent, arranged marriage may have made him stressed" (killing with an SUV in northern California)
Sgt. Hasan Karim Akbar, convicted of the 2003 murder of two fellow soldiers.
Additionally, when a Osama bin Laden-admiring Arab-American crashed a plane into a Tampa high-rise, blame fell on the acne drug Accutane.
As a charter member of the jihad school of interpretation, I reject these explanations as weak, obfuscatory, and apologetic. The jihadi school, still in the minority, perceives Hasan's attack as one of many Muslim efforts to vanquish infidels and impose Islamic law. We recall a prior episode of sudden jihad syndrome in the U.S. military, as well as the numerous cases of non-lethal Pentagon jihadi plots and the history of Muslim violence on American soil.
Far from being mystified by Hasan, we see overwhelming evidence of his jihadi intentions. He handed out Korans to neighbors just before going on his rampage and yelled "Allahu Akbar," the jihadi's cry, as he fired off over 100 rounds from two pistols. His superiors reportedly put him on probation for inappropriately proselytizing about Islam.
We note what former associates say about him: one, Val Finnell, quotes Hasan saying, "I'm a Muslim first and an American second" and recalls Hasan justifying suicide terrorism; another, Col Terry Lee, recalls that Hasan "claimed Muslims had the right to rise up and attack Americans"; the third, a psychiatrist who worked very closely with Hasan, described him as "almost belligerent about being Muslim."
Finally, the jihad school of thought attributes importance to the Islamic authorities' urging American Muslim soldiers to refuse to fight their co-religionists, thereby providing a basis for sudden jihad. In 2001, for example, responding to the U.S. attack on the Taliban, the mufti of Egypt, Ali Gum'a, issued a fatwa stating that "The Muslim soldier in the American army must refrain [from participating] in this war." Hasan himself, echoing that message, advised a young Muslim disciple, Duane Reasoner Jr., not to join the U.S. army because "Muslims shouldn't kill Muslims."
If the jihad explanation is overwhelmingly more persuasive than the victim one, it's also far more awkward to articulate. Everyone finds blaming road rage, Accutane, or an arranged marriage easier than discussing Islamic doctrines. And so, a prediction: what Ralph Peters calls the army's "unforgivable political correctness" will officially ascribe Hasan's assault to his victimization and will leave jihad unmentioned.
And thus will the army blind itself and not prepare for its next jihadi attack.
Mr. Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
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