DEFEAT FOR ISLAMICISTS IS VICTORY FOR FREEDOM
Many in the West declaim the apparent absence of "Moderate Muslim" voices speaking out against the perversion of Islam used to excuse Islamicist attacks against innocent people in pursuit of political aims. However, mass protests in several cities in Turkey on Saturday, May 5, 2007 in opposition to the candidacy of Islamicist politician Mohammed Gul prove otherwise.
The Deutsche Presse-Agentur article "Thousands March in Support of Secular Democracy" (http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1300749.php/Thousands_march_in_support_of_secular_democracy__Roundup) reports:
"Tens of thousands people took to the streets of three western Turkish towns on Saturday to protest the prospect of the Islamist-rooted politician Abdullah Gul becoming the next head of state."
The "Moderate Muslim" voice is far from stilled.
Normal, everyday Muslims simply go to work, send their kids to school, and do their best to better their own lives and the lives of their progeny. The far outnumbered radicals are undermined by the establishment of representative republics, and fostered and fed by the existence of brutal dictatorships in the Muslim world. The aim of the Bush Administration's Global War on Terror is to eliminate this status quo.
People with no sewers, no clean water, no reliable power grids, no education for their children, no jobs, and no property in which they can enjoy the rights of ownership, are prime fodder for the voices of insanity who whisper to them to strap bombs on their own children and send them into pizza parlors to murder those who have hope. Poverty is no excuse for violence, period; however, the Islamacists feed upon the bleak future that many in the Arab world see. It is this hopelessness that feeds their anti-Western, violent campaigns.
Without hope, no future exists, not in the mind, not in the heart, and not in the soul.
This example of average, everyday Muslims retaliating against the jihadist Islamacists is mirrored in the massive protest in Pakistan against the imam of the "Red Mosque" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6530935.stm). Normal, everyday people see life improving for the people in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Muslims are finding their voices to shout down those who use their religion as an excuse to murder innocent people to further perverse political goals.
In Iraq and in Afghanistan, the United States and Coalition have worked diligently to establish representative republics, build schools, establish sewers and water treatment plants, modify outmoded power systems to provide reliable power, all in pursuit of building a real future for those populations, defeating the hopelessness upon which the Islamicists prey.
What has been the Islamicists' response?
They attack the schools (http://hrw.org/campaigns/afghanistan/2006/education), murder the teachers, attack water treatment plants and set car bombs next to hospitals (http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=16657), and lie in wait like the cowards they are to attack the forces attempting to establish security and stability in those nations. The Islamicists know that a better life for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan is a death knell for their dead-end cause. Even more sadly, many in US elected circles see the same threat to their own ambitions.
The rest of the Muslim world sees life improve for the people of those nations. The populations of other Muslim countries will demand reforms and governments responsive to their needs, and they will pour into the streets to demand the same hope that has led the people of Turkey to enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the Muslim world.
Yet, in the face of a cogent strategy to rip the Islamicist movement out by the very roots, the US Democrat Party's response has been to attack, without let or hindrance, every aspect of the current administration's policies in the Global War on Terror (http://www.democrats.org/a/iraq/). They know that success in Iraq and Afghanistan spells disaster for their own political ambitions; pathetically, they have invested deeply in the defeat of US military efforts in Iran and in Afghanistan for their own political ends. Their entire espoused foreign policy is aimed at victory not over the terrorists and the Islamicist malefactors, but over the Bush administration, and, by extension, over the United States Military itself.
The Islamicists must not succeed, and neither should the US Democrat Party.
President Bush's legacy will not be completely illumined for generations to come. That legacy is the genesis of a snowball effect in the "Muslim World" that is daily bringing those nations into the modern world. This is part and parcel of the definition of "victory" in Iraq, and is, by extension, the definition of victory in the Global War on Terror (http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/iraq_strategy_nov2005.html). Just like the myth of the absence of Moderate Muslim voices, the urban myth of an absence of a definition of victory in Iraq and Afghanistan is laid bare by a brief perusal of printed fact.
Fanatics get the press, the Democrat attacks on the war are in the limelight as well, but the average Muslim is getting a little more optimistic about the future. That is the direction of the Global War on Terror, and that is going to lead us all into a brighter tomorrow.
Joel C Pousson is an independent military analyst and human rights activist.
Many in the West declaim the apparent absence of "Moderate Muslim" voices speaking out against the perversion of Islam used to excuse Islamicist attacks against innocent people in pursuit of political aims. However, mass protests in several cities in Turkey on Saturday, May 5, 2007 in opposition to the candidacy of Islamicist politician Mohammed Gul prove otherwise.
The Deutsche Presse-Agentur article "Thousands March in Support of Secular Democracy" (http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1300749.php/Thousands_march_in_support_of_secular_democracy__Roundup) reports:
"Tens of thousands people took to the streets of three western Turkish towns on Saturday to protest the prospect of the Islamist-rooted politician Abdullah Gul becoming the next head of state."
The "Moderate Muslim" voice is far from stilled.
Normal, everyday Muslims simply go to work, send their kids to school, and do their best to better their own lives and the lives of their progeny. The far outnumbered radicals are undermined by the establishment of representative republics, and fostered and fed by the existence of brutal dictatorships in the Muslim world. The aim of the Bush Administration's Global War on Terror is to eliminate this status quo.
People with no sewers, no clean water, no reliable power grids, no education for their children, no jobs, and no property in which they can enjoy the rights of ownership, are prime fodder for the voices of insanity who whisper to them to strap bombs on their own children and send them into pizza parlors to murder those who have hope. Poverty is no excuse for violence, period; however, the Islamacists feed upon the bleak future that many in the Arab world see. It is this hopelessness that feeds their anti-Western, violent campaigns.
Without hope, no future exists, not in the mind, not in the heart, and not in the soul.
This example of average, everyday Muslims retaliating against the jihadist Islamacists is mirrored in the massive protest in Pakistan against the imam of the "Red Mosque" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6530935.stm). Normal, everyday people see life improving for the people in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Muslims are finding their voices to shout down those who use their religion as an excuse to murder innocent people to further perverse political goals.
In Iraq and in Afghanistan, the United States and Coalition have worked diligently to establish representative republics, build schools, establish sewers and water treatment plants, modify outmoded power systems to provide reliable power, all in pursuit of building a real future for those populations, defeating the hopelessness upon which the Islamicists prey.
What has been the Islamicists' response?
They attack the schools (http://hrw.org/campaigns/afghanistan/2006/education), murder the teachers, attack water treatment plants and set car bombs next to hospitals (http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=16657), and lie in wait like the cowards they are to attack the forces attempting to establish security and stability in those nations. The Islamicists know that a better life for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan is a death knell for their dead-end cause. Even more sadly, many in US elected circles see the same threat to their own ambitions.
The rest of the Muslim world sees life improve for the people of those nations. The populations of other Muslim countries will demand reforms and governments responsive to their needs, and they will pour into the streets to demand the same hope that has led the people of Turkey to enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the Muslim world.
Yet, in the face of a cogent strategy to rip the Islamicist movement out by the very roots, the US Democrat Party's response has been to attack, without let or hindrance, every aspect of the current administration's policies in the Global War on Terror (http://www.democrats.org/a/iraq/). They know that success in Iraq and Afghanistan spells disaster for their own political ambitions; pathetically, they have invested deeply in the defeat of US military efforts in Iran and in Afghanistan for their own political ends. Their entire espoused foreign policy is aimed at victory not over the terrorists and the Islamicist malefactors, but over the Bush administration, and, by extension, over the United States Military itself.
The Islamicists must not succeed, and neither should the US Democrat Party.
President Bush's legacy will not be completely illumined for generations to come. That legacy is the genesis of a snowball effect in the "Muslim World" that is daily bringing those nations into the modern world. This is part and parcel of the definition of "victory" in Iraq, and is, by extension, the definition of victory in the Global War on Terror (http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/iraq_strategy_nov2005.html). Just like the myth of the absence of Moderate Muslim voices, the urban myth of an absence of a definition of victory in Iraq and Afghanistan is laid bare by a brief perusal of printed fact.
Fanatics get the press, the Democrat attacks on the war are in the limelight as well, but the average Muslim is getting a little more optimistic about the future. That is the direction of the Global War on Terror, and that is going to lead us all into a brighter tomorrow.
Joel C Pousson is an independent military analyst and human rights activist.
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Dear Joel, I have tried to write you. Samuel the American is here. write back. I have so many things to say....
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