Why Is There No Honest
Discourse About Terrorism’s Roots?
By Frank Salvato
We hear a lot about the subject of terrorism today. This has
been the case for mainstream America – and the world – since the horrific
attacks of September 11th, 2001. Each night on the news, as if by the networks’
design, there are the obligatory stories about a car bombing or a suicide
attack, perhaps a fifteen second shot of the aftermath, a condescending,
concerned look from the anchor and then a commercial. “We’ll be right back with
another story about Britney Spears’ crotch, right after this!” That the single
biggest threat to our nation has become B-Roll news program filler should
disgust each and every one of us. Then, each and every one of us is to blame
that it has come to this.
Try to think back to the last time you saw the images of
September 11th on television or in the mainstream media newspapers and
magazines? Chances are it was either directly after the attacks or during a
memorial segment commemorating the anniversary of those attacks. The truth is
that the mainstream media removed the images of September 11th from our sight –
the images of death and destruction, the murder of thousands of innocents, the
people who chose to leap to their deaths rather than burn alive – because they
deemed the images “too disturbing” for us to see.
Try to remember the last time you heard an ingenuous,
learned, intelligent discussion about the root causes of Islamist terrorism on a
news program or a news issues television show. Most likely it was directly after
9/11. The overwhelming majority of inspection done on the issue today centers on
the treatment – or perceived mistreatment – of radical Islamofascists caught on
the field of battle or those who were apprehended for being implicated in plots
to slaughter innocents both here in the United States and abroad. Then, of
course, we have the pseudo-intellectual network talking heads and anti-war
zealots who insist that it is the radical Islamist, caught with AK-47 in hand,
who is the victim of the oppression that America has to offer. It couldn’t
possibly be that the person pulling the trigger or detonating the suicide
vest is to blame. America’s foreign policy “made them do it.”
The fact of the matter is this: The politically correct
mainstream media; agenda-driven, sensationalistic, emotionally opportunistic,
one-sided and uneducated, has assumed, nay commandeered, the role of arbiter of
what is right and what is wrong. They have crowned themselves “deciders” of what
is appropriate for our consumption and what is not. They have come to dictate,
in totalitarian fashion, the parameters of any public conversation with regard
to the most important issue of the day, the survival of our nation.
Proof of this can be found in the absence of any pictures or
footage of the 9/11 attacks on news broadcasts. It can be found in their
grotesque and politically correct reluctance to even speak the words “Islam” and
“terrorism” in the same sentence. It can be found in their refusal to
acknowledge that almost 100% of the legitimately defined terrorist acts are
perpetrated at the hands of Wahhabist terrorists – Islamist radicals, Islamist
fundamentalists – dedicated to the demise of Western Civilization and the
establishment of a global Caliphate.
It can be found in the fact that an overwhelming majority of
Americans and Westerners can’t even explain the difference between the Sunni and
Shi’ite sects of Islam.
In his 2003 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, The Institute of
World Politics’ Dr. Michael Waller stated:
“The testimony of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) before this subcommittee on 26 June of this year is a case in point, where
the witness failed even to discuss the subject on which he was requested to
testify, which was on growing Wahhabi influence in the United States. The FBI
Director himself has a splendid staff of speechwriters who painstakingly avoid
using the words ‘Islam’ and ‘terrorist’ in the same sentence. Such dissembling
does a disservice to the American public and arguably has harmed efforts to
protect the country from terrorism.
“Part of the trepidation against honestly discussing the
issue is the atmosphere of fear and intimidation surrounding part of the
discourse. Oftentimes as soon as a non-Muslim notes that nearly 100 percent rate
of terrorist attacks were perpetrated in recent years by those who call
themselves Muslim, certain self-proclaimed Muslim ‘leaders’ in the United States
take to the airwaves, the press and the Internet to denounce the critic as being
‘racist’ or ‘bigoted.’ Some of their non-Muslim friends have done the same,
creating a chilling effect on open discussion, leading to poor public
understanding of the conflict at hand.”
We see in this instance that suspicious and most likely
nefarious forces from within the Islamofascist community work in parallel with
the American Fourth Estate to quell honest and open dialogue and debate on the
root causes of Islamofascist aggression.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an
unindicted coconspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing federal
court case, has been cited by most every terrorism and counterterrorism expert
and analyst as having links to Hamas. Several of their high-ranking officials
have been found to have had ties to terrorist organizations. Yet, incredibly, in
the face of this knowledge, the FBI and other governmental agencies continue to
engage CAIR as a credible civil rights group, going as far as to enlist their
“help” in the training of government personnel on the issue of tolerance toward
the Islamic community.
The mainstream media and organizations like CAIR are just two
obstructionist entities regarding the open and honest discussion of the causes
of radical Islamist terrorism, Islamofascist aggression. Their motives are
ideologically driven. The mainstream media has an embedded progressive-liberal
agenda – an anti-American bias, as it were – that has been documented in
research done by the Pew Public Policy Research Center. Organizations like CAIR
have a vested interest in seeing the radical and unyielding tenets of Islam
prevail over American doctrine as mandated by the US Constitution.
But, even though these two forces are formidable, even though
they, both singularly and collectively, pose a serious and substantial threat to
our nation’s very existence, the greatest threat to the longevity of our
country, to our survival as a nation, is our own apathy.
The average American spends more time watching reality
television than they do exploring the real threat facing our nation in Islamofascist aggression.
Most haven’t any idea that mosques promoting Wahhabism ideology, ideology that
preaches hate for the West and the downfall of the United States, funded by
Saudi Arabia, exist in our own neighborhoods, our own towns and cities.
One document of Wahhabist origin brought to light by the Holy
Land Foundation trial, the Ikhwan in America, states:
"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist
Process.' The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of
grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within
and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the
believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over
all other religions."
As we apathetically, narcissistically, place our own lives,
our own self-importance, our own wants and desires above our responsibility to
gather knowledge on a foe whose mission is the demise of our very
way of life, that foe exists, recruits, trains and plots in our own
neighborhoods, our own religious communities and our own government agencies.
We, We the People, are too lazy, too comfortable, too apathetic to engage
in our constitutionally mandated civic responsibility to be aware, to provide
proper government oversight. Instead we allow the mainstream media to dictate
the political agenda and the faux-civil rights organizations to set the
ideological parameters.
We are our own worst enemy. Think about that, think about the
abdication of our civic responsibilities, the next time you are watching your
child sleep, the next time you are worried about their future. Then do something
about it.
Related
Reading:
Statement of J. Michael
Waller
Annenberg Professor of International Communication Institute of World
Politics
http://judiciary.senate.gov/print_testimony.cfm?id=960&wit_id=2719
Ikhwan in America
http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/HLF/IkhwanAmerica.pdf
Basics Project: Understanding
the Threat of Radical Islam
http://www.basicsproject.org/educational_cd_series.htm#Understanding_the_Threat_of_Radical_Islam
Basics Project & America’s
Truth Forum: Educational Symposium on Terrorism
http://www.basicsproject.org/terrorism/symposium_on_terrorism.htm
