Woolly thinking never won any war!

The three 'I's' of winning a war are: identify the problem facing us; identify then who and what the enemy is; and lastly identify the enemy's strategy for getting to where he wants to get. In other words who is our enemy? What is their goal? How are they trying to achieve that goal?

Then we have to thwart, thwart, thwart! No war has ever been won on the defensive! To win a war, a nation, or a civilization, has to go on the attack. Offence not defence is key! Moreover, it is self-evident that to win a war we need to think clearly. We also need to think creatively. Alas, we are thinking neither clearly nor creatively.

Jack Straw, the British Foreign Secretary, Tony Blair, and George W. Bush were all adamant that the EU needed to admit Turkey as a full member of the Union. Turkey has been given the green light to begin negotiations. The train has already left the station. It is said that the negotiations will take between ten and fifteen years to complete. In this time, Turkey is supposed to comply with the stringent list of regulations as set out by the Commission.

This is a regrettable move indeed. The last thing that Europe needs is a country the size of Turkey to enter the Union. Already Turkey has a population brushing 80 million, and nearly all are Muslims (only a very small percentage of Turks are actually infidels). Its population is expected to reach 100 million by about the year 2020. This will make it bigger even than Germany, since not enough babies are being born in Germany to sustain its population.

Turkey, then, will become the largest nation in the block; and that will mean a Muslim nation will dominate Europe! Turks are guided by their Koran. Don’t be fooled into thinking that it is a secular nation; it really is not. Kemal Atatürk started trying to secularize Turkey, but the process has never been very successful. It has remained broadly secular only by the power of the military and police.

Such is the nature of the nation we will allow to enter the Union.

To any clear-thinking person, this is potentially very, very dangerous. Very dangerous indeed. Since Muslims are guided by their Koran, and the ultimate aim of all good Muslims is the promotion of Shari'ah to its rightful place: it is the body of Islamic laws, God’s (Allah’s) laws, that must supersede our man-made laws.

In starting the process of accession to the EU for Turkey, Europe has embarked on a process of slow death! We are committing cultural suicide. There is NO other way to look at this!

President Bush, evidently no master of geopolitics, and Messrs Blair and Straw, also, it seems, no masters of geopolitics either, obviously have no understanding of what is really going on here. They do not understand the nature of Islam. They keep on insisting that Islam is a religion of love. It’s a faith based on love, not hate said Bush in September 2002. Really Mr. Bush? Really?

This is the first myth of Islam. To disabuse yourself of this lie, Mr. President, please read the following extracts from the Koran. To Muslims, terror comes as second nature! If they love, then it is only their own kind!

But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans [us] wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem [of war]; but if they repent and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for God is Oft-forgiving, most Merciful. Al-Qur’an, Repentence (Al-Tawba) Surah IX, 5 (Translation by A. Yusuf Ali)

Seize them and slay them wherever ye find them;…Al-Qur’an, Women (Al-Nisa’) Surah IV, 89, 91 (Translation by A. Yusuf Ali)

Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by God and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth (even if they are the People of the Book [Jews and Christians]) until they pay the Jizya [special tax on infidels] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. Al-Qur’an, Repentance (Al-Tawba) Surah IX, 29 (Translation by A. Yusuf Ali)

…When the sacred months are over [Ramadan] slay the idolaters [Christians, Jews, and the people of all other faiths] wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them… The Koran, Repentance [(Al-Tawba)] Surah 9, 4 (Translation by N. J. Dawood)

They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing [as they]: But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of God [from what is forbidden]. But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and [in any case] take no friends or helpers from their ranks. Al-Qur’an, Women, (Al-Nisa’) Surah IV, 89 (Translation by A. Yusuf Ali)

Do these quotes, taken directly from the Holy Qur’an, sound like like quotations from a book which promotes love? Or do they sound, perhaps, as though they might come from a book which promotes the emotion of hatred towards people who don’t follow the faith of Islam, the teachings of Muhammad, the injunctions of Allah?

To me, it is clear: The Koran promotes a feeling of them and us, i.e. the infidels and the believers. To Muslims, the world is clearly divided into infidels and believers, into two parts, the House of Islam (the ‘home’ of the believers) known as Dar al-Islam and the House of War (the ‘home’ of war) known as Dar al-Harb. Not being a believer in their faith, I know exactly where I belong! Do you?

Despite what Messrs Bush, Blair and Straw would have us believe, Muslims do not love infidels. Infidels are to be defeated, to be taken over, to be made to submit to Allah, to be made to acknowledge that Muhammad is Allah’s final Messenger, to believe that no messenger will come after Muhammad, to believe that Muhammad perfected religion for man for ALL time!

So please, Mr. President, do your homework before you utter such ridiculous statements in future, will you? Since you are making a fool out of yourself, and are, into the bargain, endangering the Americans and all of us who live in the free world by promoting such falsehoods!

So, as you see, terror comes as part and parcel of the Islamic faith. Muslims are meant to terrorize the infidel, until they have been subdued, and until they bow in submission to the one true God!

But remember this: They don’t see this as we see it - as terrorism. They are doing their duty to God; so they don't call it terrorism; rather they call it JIHAD! So let’s have less of the second myth: the myth that we are fighting a war on terror. For what we are actually fighting are Jihadis: warriors fighting a holy war, or the Jihad. That means to say, fighting in the way of Allah, fighting against the infidel in order to spread Islam throughout the world, fighting to establish Shari'ah law, fighting to establish a caliphate, fighting for the supremacy of Islam!

Myth number three: That Osama bin Laden and his ilk have taken a perfectly good, benign faith and twisted its tenets. They haven't. These are the people who are following their faith to the letter! You want proof? Read the extracts from the Qur'an above! That's the proof; and there is plenty more proof for the reading in the Qur'an, too.

The fourth myth is that we are going to prevent a clash of civilizations à la Huntington by allowing Turkey into the European Union. What we will actually and really be doing by allowing the Turks in is giving away our civilization. The Turks will be given on a plate what they have failed to achieve militarily: namely, the takeover of Europe! They are the clever ones; we are the fools!

The clash of civilizations will , in any case, not be prevented by allowing the Turks in. This will only bring the clash into Europe itself. The result, eventually, will be civil war in Europe! And if you don't believe this, if you think this is far-fetched, then just look around at all the hot spots throughout the world: they are almost all caused by Muslims, and they are almost all in places where the Muslim population has become strong through sheer numbers! That's the proof! Moreover, if you think that it will somehow be different in Europe, then you are deluding yourself.

In actual fact, we really shouldn’t be on the defensive like this. No war was ever won on the defensive. Ever! To win a war, it is imperative that we be on the offensive. Thwart! Thwart! Thwart! Each and every time!

We are waging a war at the moment which has been very badly defined, since the enemy – the true enemy – has not been identified. The true enemy is Islam and its relentless spread throughout the Western world. Furthermore, it isn’t a clash of civilizations we should be preventing, but this: the spread of an alien faith, Islam, in the West!

By inviting so many Muslim immigrants into Europe, the US, Australia, and beyond, short of thwarting their efforts to spread their faith, we are assisting them! Further, by inviting the Turks to join us in the European Union, we are inviting the Turks (Muslims almost all) to come to Europe to spread the same faith: Islam! What we ought to be doing is rolling back the frontiers, halting the spread of this pernicious religion, and thwarting all their attempts to spread it! This is our real war! This is our real challenge!

It is He Who hath sent His Apostle with Guidance and the Religion of Truth to proclaim it over all religion, even though the pagans [that refers to us] may detest it. Al-Qur’an, Repentance (Al-Tawba) Surah IX, 33. This verse is also repeated in The Battle Array, (Saff) Surah LXI, 9 (Translation by A. Yusuf Ali)

©Mark Alexander