Denial and Its Discontents

by D. L. Adams (December 2009)

 

 

 

response to the jihadist massacre at Fort Hood was “we don’t know all the answers yet and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.” What facts remain to be gathered? The traitor, betrayer, Muslim, jihadist killer Major Nidal Malik Hasan shouted “Allah Akbar” (additional sources here, and here) as he gunned down his fellow American soldiers. There is nothing else that we need to know.

Koran, 66:9

And if any believe not in Allah and His Messenger, We have prepared, for those who reject Allah, a Blazing Fire! Koran, 48:13

O ye who believe! if ye obey those who disbelieve, they will make you turn back on your heels, and ye turn back as losers. Koran, 3:149

O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust. Koran, 5:51

jihad) is mentioned over 100 times in the Koran. This is the central core of the doctrine of Islam – jihad against the unbeliever.

Ye should believe in Allah and His messenger, and should strive for the cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives. That is better for you, if ye did but know. Koran, 61:11

Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah, and those who reject Faith Fight in the cause of Evil: So fight ye against the friends of Satan: feeble indeed is the cunning of Satan. Koran, 4:76

Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward.  Koran, 4:95

Koran, 4:91

There is even the suggestion commonly made now that Mr. Hasan himself was a victim, someone with “problems” as if this could in some way be an explanation or excuse for his Allah-Akbar-jihad-killings at Fort Hood. Such intellectually dishonest “explanations” remove all Islamic linkages to Hasan’s crimes, substituting for his own “Allah Akbar” motive, the more culturally sensitive, politically correct “he-had-some-personal-issues” nonsense.

FORT HOOD, Texas — In the wake of the mass shooting here last week, the U.S. Army announced today that it will look into better ways to identify soldiers showing signs of instability or personal problems.

The announcement came amid increasing reports that friends, relatives and associates of Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan said he showed signs of problems lately, perhaps stemming from political, religious and emotional pressures. (Dallas Morning News, 11/09/2009)

Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. Koran, 9:29

falsehoods and infiltration.

“Individual Islamists may appear law-abiding and reasonable, but they are part of a totalitarian movement, and as such, all must be considered potential killers.” Daniel Pipes, American Islam scholar, author.

 

Ideology and Motivation

O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter. Koran, 9:38

Koran, 9:111

But the Messenger, and those who believe with him, strive and fight with their wealth and their persons: for them are (all) good things: and it is they who will prosper. Koran, 9:88

Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (Vol. 5) explained that the fanaticism of Islam negated human feelings. Mass murder is Sunna in Islam. This means that because Mohammed did it, it is therefore the “right” thing, the sanctioned thing, to do. Anything that Mohammed did, and his life is documented in the Sira in extreme detail, is considered “the right thing to do.” “Sunna” is the path that all Muslims are to follow as Mohammed is considered the perfect model for all adherents of Islam to follow forever. This is an inversion of morality and ethics, but it is a concept fundamental to the doctrine of Islam.

pp. 430-431.

The captives were taken into Medina, where they dug mass graves in the marketplace. It was a long day, but eight hundred Jews met their death that day. Mohammed and his twelve year old wife sat and watched the executions the entire day and into the night. The Apostle of Allah had every adult male Jew killed. For every Jewish male pubic hair was a death sentence. If he had no pubic hair, then he would be raised as a Muslim.
Sira (Biography) of Mohammed, Ishaq: 690
(See citation below)

There was one Jewish woman killed on that day. She sat and talked with Mohammed’s child-wife, Aisha. When her time came, she got up, went over to the graves in good spirits and was killed.
Ishaq: 691
as quoted in Mohammed and the Unbelievers, (CSPI, 2006), p. 100.

We are in an existential war of civilizations but will not acknowledge it.

Our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, are but half wars because we will not acknowledge nor oppose the ideology of the enemy. We are not fighting an ideological war while the adherents of Islam fight our ideology of freedom and democracy with success after success. They cannot help but win because we are not engaged in the totality of the battle.

 

Political Correctness, Ignorance and National Survival

If we acknowledge that Islam is not a religion of peace the result is the fall of political correctness and multiculturalism. In addition, with this acknowledgement of the doctrine of Islam and the horrible atrocities that people do on account of it, there will be an intellectual re-awakening in this country from the deadening effects of decades of support of the empty and failed theory of multiculturalism and its protector political correctness. Such an intellectual rebirth is required if we are to effectively oppose the tyranny that is Islam. Our culture requires unfettered debate and a total embrace of freedom of speech – this must be considered a moral, intellectual and ethical imperative.

We must arrive at a point soon in America at which people who espouse multicultural nonsense and ignorance are shamed for their lack of understanding and authoritarian approach to discourse and knowledge. Our lack of knowledge of Islam, its history and doctrine, is our greatest weakness. The time must come soon when ignorance of the ideology and doctrine of Islam is considered a moral and ethical failure.

We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and evil is the abode of the unjust. Koran, 3:151

Our pretend world of multicultural fantasies and ignorance of Islam collapses around us when horrors like the jihad atrocity at Fort Hood occur. Decades of politically correct balderdash begins to slough away and suddenly many of us can think clearly again because the truth is obvious. We must accept the truth, and respond. Our honored innocent dead and the (future) victims of this political ideology of hate and intolerance are offended by our failure to act. Our lack of response is fundamentally about denial, ignorance, and political correctness. Our failures have catastrophic consequences.

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Lost Lessons of History

The United States has a long, unpleasant history with Islam regardless of the claims of President Obama to the contrary. The Barbary “Pirate” Wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that began with the kidnapping of American sailors by jihadists requiring payments of jizya (ransoms) and culminating in our victory at Tripoli (see US Marine Corps Hymn) was our first, but not last, experience with Islam and jihad.

In fact, President Thomas Jefferson created the US Navy specifically to defeat the Barbary Pirates (jihadists). How different is our current response to jihad than that of our founders!

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The greatest contribution of Islam to the development of the United States was the creation of the United States Navy. At an early September, 2009 end of Ramadan celebration at the White House the current occupant of that hallowed building described Islam in glowing terms but failed to mention Jefferson, jihad, and the creation of the US Navy to fight jihad.

Mr. Obama has failed to mention the anti-jihad origins of the Navy in his several catalogs of Islam’s “contributions” to the development of the United States. At Cairo, in his address to the so-called “Muslim world,” Mr. Obama said,

We have seen again and again through the actions of adherents of the ideology of Islam at home and abroad and confirmed by study of the doctrine of Islam itself (Koran, Sira, Hadith) that America (democracy/freedom) and Islam (supremacism/intolerance) are indeed “exclusive.” Islam is incompatible with American democracy and our constitution.

The irony of political correctness today regarding the importance of Islam to the development of the United States is that the US Navy was created to defeat Islamic jihadists.

When they inquired by what right the Barbary states preyed upon American shipping, enslaving both crews and passengers, America’s two foremost envoys (John Adams and Thomas Jefferson) were informed that “it was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise. (Christopher Hitchens, City Journal, Spring, 2007)

The US Navy resolved the problem of the so-called “Barbary Pirates” in the early 19^th century, but the problem of jihad at sea continues. On November 18^th the Maersk Alabama a US-flagged merchant ship that had been hijacked in April was attacked again by pirates several hundred miles off the Somali coast. This time, the Maersk Alabama escaped after exchanging fire with the pirates. One of the pirates was interviewed in April during the hijacking of the ship and the taking of its captain hostage for three days.

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Our non-response to, and coddling of Islam is an inexcusable failure for which future generations will excoriate us.

By Allah, and Allah willing, if I take an oath and later find something else better than that. then I do what is better and expiate my oath. Bukhari, Hadith, 7:67:427)

The ties of Islam and loyalty to Islam override all other loyalties and all other oaths for an adherent of this ideology, as is Mr. Hasan the jihad murderer.

Thou wilt not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day, loving those who resist Allah and His Messenger, even though they were their fathers or their sons, or their brothers, or their kindred. For such He has written Faith in their hearts, and strengthened them with a spirit from Himself. And He will admit them to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow, to dwell therein (for ever). Allah will be well pleased with them, and they with Him. They are the Party of Allah. Truly it is the Party of Allah that will achieve Felicity. (Koran, 58:22)

This is a never-ending war that will wax and wane like a bad moon but will never go away. There is nothing that we have done, no component of our foreign policy that has brought this war upon us. The war rages against us because we exist. This is difficult for many in our culture to accept. This non-acceptance is based upon opinion, wishful thinking, ignorance, and a rejection of knowledge.

 

Denial – Embracing a False Reality

If 9/11 and now the jihad-treason-massacre at Fort Hood are not enough to raise awareness in the United States as to the threat of Islam, what will it take? Must we have a nuked city before the ridiculous fetters of ignorance and politically correct falsehoods and fantasies are ripped away, and we finally respond and protect ourselves?

threat doctrine. This is military terminology for “why the enemy fights us.”

clear about their purposes. The jihad war will not stop because we are nice, and don’t want to “offend” anybody. Our tolerance for intolerance is now our great weakness.

false picture of the Islamic doctrine for western consumption but speak of the obligation of jihad to their congregants in mosques across the country and in their non-English publications and speeches are the “true Islam.” This is deception; Mohammed said that “War is deception.” There is an Islamic doctrine of deception against the kafir, it is called taqiyah (Bukhari, Hadith, 5:59:369).

Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “Khosrau will be ruined, and there will be no Khosrau after him, and Caesar will surely be ruined and there will be no Caesar after him, and you will spend their treasures in Allah’s Cause.” He called, “War is deceit’. (Bukhari 4,52,267)

Did ye think that ye would enter Heaven without Allah testing those of you who fought hard (In His Cause) and remained steadfast? Koran, 3:142

hateful and violent and so utterly intolerant. We are trained that Islam is one of the “Abrahamic faiths” and that Jews, Christians, and Muslims are all united as brothers who follow the monotheistic path and look to Abraham as an original leader/founder. It is all a lie. We believed Bill Clinton and Francis Fukiyama when they said that we were in a post- historical world after the fall of the Soviet Union; they were wrong.

Islam is a political ideology first and foremost. If Islam were primarily a religion this would be reflected in the calendar of Islam, it is not.

Immigration in Islam is critically important. The spread of Islam is the purpose of every adherent of this ideology. Because we Americans are a society of decent people, in the main, we want to welcome people to our country and culture. Islam is not here to assimilate – we have a hard time accepting this truth, even after 9/11 and Fort Hood. Our failure to acknowledge this expansionist aspect of Islam will result in our societal suicide, nothing less.

Modern Day Trojan Horse: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration, ANM Publishers, 2009, p.17)

“Sheikh Halima states that among the aims and the objectives of the Hijra (doctrine of Islamic immigration) are to revive jihad, to strengthen the Muslims, and to establish their authority over the non-Muslims.” (ibid, p.34)

Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah ‘s Apostle said, ” I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,’ and whoever says, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,’ his life and property will be saved by me except for Islamic law, and his accounts will be with Allah, (either to punish him or to forgive him.)” Bukhari, Hadith, 4:52:196

Bukhari, Hadith, 4:52:73

We fight two wars in two Islamic countries now, Afghanistan and Iraq. While our military efforts have been largely successful our ideological efforts have not kept pace. They have failed because we are not engaged in an ideological war against our enemies whose ideology is Islam. Our efforts in nation building have also apparently failed as on November 17, 2009 the list of most corrupt countries in the world was headed by Iraq and Afghanistan, not to be outdone of course by Somalia.

 

Denial and Confusion – Two Wars for Sharia Law

Sharia law. Both Iraq and Afghanistan are Sharia law states, their Constitutions state this clearly.

Iraq Constitution: Article 2-
First: Islam is the official religion of the State and it is a fundamental source of legislation:
A. No law that contradicts the established provisions of Islam may be established.
B. No law that contradicts the principles of democracy may be established.
C. No law that contradicts the rights and basic freedoms stipulated in this constitution may be established.

Second: This Constitution guarantees the Islamic identity of the majority of the Iraqi people and guarantees the full religious rights of all individuals to freedom of religious belief and practice such as Christians, Yazedis, and Mandi Sabeans.

Article 3:
(Iraq is a country of many nationalities, religions and sects and is a founding and active member of the Arab League and is committed to its covenant. Iraq is a part of the Islamic world.) Constitution of Iraq

Afghanistan Constitution: Article One
Ch. 1. Art. 1
Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic, independent, unitary and indivisible state.

Article Two
Ch. 1, Art. 2
The religion of the state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the sacred religion of Islam.

Followers of other religions are free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of law.
Constitution of Afghanistan

US-style Constitution upon the defeated empire of Japan. Our leading commander in the Pacific, Douglas MacArthur stayed on in Tokyo to make sure that this was done. We did this then because our concepts of “nation building” were profoundly different than they are now. Then our mission was to create sustainable democracies; is our mission now to create and sustain Sharia law Islamic states?

incompatible with American constitutional democracy and our fundamental concepts of human decency and justice?

The United States fought a 50-year cold war (occasionally hot) against Communism. The Soviet Union fell in 1989. This was mainly an ideological conflict. We fight no such war against Islam and it adherents. Why do we not engage on an ideological front as Islam does against us? This unanswered question is the foundation of the collapse of the United States as a great nation, and the seed of our fall.

Even at home within our own institutions (including the US military) the adherents of Islam (like Hasan and many others) kill the kafirs because doing so is their ticket to Islamic heaven and 72 virgins and pearly-skinned boys.

Al-Tirmidhi, Al-Jami’al-sahih, iii, p. 106 (no. 1712). (Hadith)) and (here, Martyrdom in Islam, by David Cook, Cambridge, 2007, p.37/footnote 7)

O ye who believe! If ye will aid (the cause of) Allah, He will aid you, and plant your feet firmly. Koran, 47:4

And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. Koran, 2:191

 

Fort Hood Jihad Atrocity

Mr. Hasan at Fort Hood, the killer-traitor-jihadist, was fulfilling his obligations according to the Islamic doctrine.

And if you are slain in the way of Allah or you die, certainly forgiveness from Allah and mercy is better than what they amass. Koran, 3:157

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There must be a massive cleaning of house across the institutions of our country so that political correctness is destroyed and those who embrace it to the detriment of their colleagues and their country are immediately dismissed from whatever positions of responsibility that they hold.

 

Lincoln and Existential War

proclaimed,

Lincoln’s own justification. In effect, Lincoln suspended the Constitution at times in order to save it.

delay in opening a Congressional investigation into the massacre at Fort Hood,

This embrace of the idea of “extremism” by Senator Lieberman is a tacit denial of the contents of the doctrine of Islam. All jihad terrorist killers, including the traitor jihadist Hasan, place their violent actions in a doctrinal context. Our leaders pretend (because of political correctness, ignorance, and multiculturalism) that the doctrine itself is beyond examination (and not a cause of all of this ongoing and growing jihadist horror) – this is a denial of the lessons of Jefferson and Adams and our long unpleasant, confrontational history with Islam. With a clear intellectual bias already stated one can have little hope for any investigation from this Committee.

Responding to the release of Hasan’s email traffic that showed his desire for jihad and the “afterlife” Lieberman said,

This is a bizarre and politically correct response from Lieberman. Hasan is not “accused,” Hasan is not a “suspect” – Hasan is guilty. Hasan was not “looking” for “spiritual sanctions” for his treason and murder spree at Fort Hood. The killer jihadist traitor already had his “sanctions” directly from Allah and Mohammed in the doctrine of Islam. “Searchers” do not shout “Allah Akbar” as they kill innocent non-Muslims.

A trial in this case is a formality, but an important one nevertheless. With dozens of witnesses there is no question as to guilt, only motive is under scrutiny. When Hasan said “Allah Akbar” the motive was established. This motive exists only within an Islamic doctrinal context. There is no “case” here per se except for us to accept the truth of the horror of what Hasan has done, the damage that he has caused, and the reasons for his murderous treason. The reason for the murders at Fort Hood by the traitor Hasan is the doctrine of Islam.

 

Jihad and Denial – A Future of Catastrophes

likely and entirely avoidable defeat. Why is it alright to sacrifice our warriors on the altar of the discredited and failed ideology of political correctness? When did we become so culturally spineless that causing offense to anyone could be seen as a “crime”? This national insanity must cease and the vigorous halls of true debate opened once again so that knowledge and learning can begin anew without fear of labels and silly self-censorship. Political correctness is the tool that the ignorant use to deny us our freedom of speech guarantees; it is intellectually indefensible and must be discredited and abandoned.

We must say loudly that if there are those who are offended by the discussion – too bad!

The jihadists continue to overplay their hands, and we continue to ignore that they exist. Can there be a more foolish culture in the history of the world?

Gibbon would say that Rome was more foolish, but it is not so. We have seen the future, it is 9/11 and more Hasans. Our future is founded upon our past – we cannot run from it or deny that this is so.

Our founders gave us the greatest Constitution ever seen in human history yet our leadership is reluctant to fulfill their oaths to defend it. We have the greatest universities in the world yet we refuse to learn from history, in fact we actively reject the lessons of history. We have the best and brightest but muzzle them and their ideas with political correctness and multicultural lies and complaints of intolerance. We have the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech but actively prevent its use for fear of “offending” one group or another. These self-imposed checks on our freedoms are indications of the extent of our fall.

Upon the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 Benjamin Franklin was approached by a citizen who inquired about the new government.

“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”
 “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Our founders have been through this before, they have left a record. Our early leaders understood the threat of Islam. Why do we ignore them all? President John Quincy Adams wrote,

…he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind…The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.

Our country was founded upon religious tolerance. We somehow are unable to accept, as a culture, that Islam is a political ideology of submission and conquest that also includes a religion. There is little concern over the religious rituals and practices of Islam though after Fort Hood there is now a great deal of concern, again, about the political ideology of Islam.

If we continue to pretend that Mr. Hasan and his horrific jihad atrocity are extraordinary exceptions and not illustrations of the “religion of peace” itself we cannot and will not respond. If we do not respond we are lost.

The Denial of Death, (Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 1973), p.47.)

 

 

 

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DL Adams is an American historian.