{"id":826,"date":"2010-08-23T22:17:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T04:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2010-08-23T22:17:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T04:17:11","slug":"islams-achilles-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"Islam’s Achilles Heel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
In a July 21, 2010 statement, former Speaker Newt Gingrich threw down the gauntlet exactly as it should be by every American political leader.\u00a0 He said, \u201cThere should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. \u00a0The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Referring to the proposed \u201cCordoba House\u201d mosque overlooking the World Trade Center site, where Islamic jihadists killed more than 3000 innocent people, he said, \u201cToday, some of the Mosque\u2019s backers insist this term is being used to \u2018symbolize interfaith cooperation\u2019 when, in fact, every Islamist in the world recognizes Cordoba as a symbol of Islamic conquest. \u00a0It is a sign of their contempt for Americans and their confidence in our historic ignorance that they would deliberately insult us this way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose Islamists and their apologists who argue for \u2018religious toleration\u2019 are arrogantly dishonest. \u00a0They ignore the fact that more than 100 mosques already exist in New York City. Meanwhile, there are no churches or synagogues in all of Saudi Arabia. \u00a0In fact no Christian or Jew can even enter<\/em> Mecca.\u00a0 And they lecture us about tolerance\u2026\u00a0 America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. ..\u201d<\/p>\n

The cultural-political offensive of which Gingrich speaks is a clear indicator of why it is time we elected a president with the experience, the knowledge, the mental toughness, and the historical perspective necessary to lead our country in time of war.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Muslim Umma now consists of some 1.5 billion people, worldwide.\u00a0 And while birth rates in the Muslim world may be declining to just above replacement rates, Muslim birthrates in Europe and the United States continue to far outstrip those of native Europeans and Americans.\u00a0 This fact, coupled with radical Islam\u2019s unwavering determination and limitless patience, should tell us that the West could never win a war of attrition against Islam.\u00a0 If we are to win the War on Terror we must look elsewhere to find radical Islam\u2019s Achilles heel.<\/p>\n

So what is their weakness?\u00a0 It is not in numbers; the Umma provides an almost unlimited source of jihadist war fighters for al Qaeda and its subsidiaries and the Taliban.\u00a0 It is not their fear of death because, for Muslims, the greatest honor is to die in the service of Allah.\u00a0 And it certainly is not their fear of war.\u00a0 Radical Islam is willing to sacrifice unlimited numbers of men, women, and children in their quest for world domination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, if we can assume that Muslim women\u2026 oppressed, abused, covered from head to toe with layers of shapeless black cloth, and treated no better than farm animals\u2026 are no less vain than women in western cultures, then the Achilles heel of radical Islam is almost certainly the long-smoldering desire of Muslim women to enjoy the same freedom of expression and the same realization of self-worth available to women in western cultures. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In majority Islamic countries women are not allowed to vote, they can\u2019t go out in public without being covered from head to toe and without their husband or another male member of the family, they\u2019re not allowed to drive an automobile or work outside the home, and they\u2019re not allowed to receive a meaningful education. \u00a0\u00a0And if a woman brings dishonor to her family by being raped, committing adultery, consorting with infidels, or converting to Christianity or Judaism, she may even be subject to \u201chonor killing,\u201d i.e. put to death by the male members of her family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Iran, a woman named Hajieh Esmailvand currently stands convicted of adultery.\u00a0 And while she has been imprisoned since January 2000, news reports suggest that, after serving five more years behind bars, she will be buried up to her chest and stoned to death.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, August 11, within minutes of hearing the latest details of Ms. Esmailvand\u2019s plight on CNN, Barack Obama issued a White House press release offering his best wishes to Muslims in the United States and around the world as they began their celebration of Ramadan.\u00a0 In his statement, Obama expressed the belief that \u201cRamadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality,\u201d and that the rituals of Ramadan \u201cremind us of the principles that we hold in common and Islam\u2019s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings…\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Somehow, the concept of gender equality and the barbaric practice of \u201cstoning\u201d was lost in the translation, as was any mention of the complete absence of Christian and Jewish places of worship in the Muslim world.<\/p>\n

He concluded by saying, \u201c<\/strong>Here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong>This assumes, of course, that one considers the act of turning a large section of lower Manhattan into a mass grave to be an \u201cextraordinary contribution to our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

As evidence of a latent hunger for gender equality, 300 Afghan women recently demonstrated against a new law requiring women to submit to the sexual demands of their husbands at least once every four days.\u00a0 For their courage they were pelted with stones and called \u201cdogs\u201d and \u201cslaves of the Christians.\u201d \u00a0In the absence of worldwide support from non-Muslim women, their courage will likely be seen as just an isolated act of defiance warranting a Fatwa<\/em> (sentence of death).\u00a0 What is needed to inspire Muslim women around the globe is a definitive statement by Michelle Robinson Obama, the wife of the most revered man in the Muslim world.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, her best opportunity came and went in early June 2009 when Obama made his first trip to the Middle East.\u00a0 Instead of accompanying her husband to Saudi Arabia, where he famously bowed to the Saudi King, and to Cairo, where he proclaimed to the world that, \u201cIslam has always been a part of America\u2019s story,\u201d Michelle stayed behind in Washington, later flying to join her junketing husband in Paris for a glitzy weekend conquest of the City of Lights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So why did Mrs. Obama\u00a0 not accompany her husband to the Middle East, as Laura Bush did during her husband\u2019s presidency?\u00a0 Could it be that the Obamas were bowing to Muslim custom which prohibited him from bringing his wife into countries that accept Sharia Law?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

While even the most strident women\u2019s rights groups in the West appear to have been intimidated into inaction, lest they become targets of Muslim brutality, we should not assume that Muslim women are beyond the reach of western image makers and thought leaders. \u00a0And while Michelle Obama is unlikely to take a proactive role in proselytizing the women of the Muslim world, she can be drawn unwillingly into that role.<\/p>\n

While it is currently a target for defeat by conservative women\u2019s groups, the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA), sponsored by Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer, is now awaiting action in House and Senate committees. \u00a0Under the proposal, violence is defined as \u201cany act of gender-based violence against women or girls committed because of their gender that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life\u2026\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

The bill creates an \u201cAmbassador-at-Large<\/a> for Global Women’s Issues<\/a>,\u201d based in the State Department and tasked to assure a \u201cgender integration\u201d perspective in all State Department policies and programs.\u00a0 The bill calls for a \u201ccomprehensive, five-year international strategy to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls internationally\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead of attacking IVAWA as just another leftist plot to extend American feminist ideals to women around the world, conservative women might begin thinking in terms of a grand strategy to infiltrate or hijack IVAWA, using it as a cultural weapon-of-mass-destruction \u00a0against radical Islam with Michelle Obama out front, leading the charge.\u00a0 Inasmuch as the purpose of IVAWA is to support the development and enforcement of legal and judicial sanctions and protections, both civil and criminal, on behalf of oppressed women everywhere, why not turn it to our strategic advantage in the War on Terror?<\/p>\n

If it is true that the unfulfilled aspirations of Muslim women is the only real weakness of radical Islam, it may be that the only way we can ever hope to defeat them is by creating chaos within the Muslim family structure\u2026 between fathers and daughters, between sisters and brothers, and between husbands and wives\u2026 depriving Muslim men of their whipping dogs, their sex slaves, and their human doormats.\u00a0 If we can keep Abdul and Mahmoud occupied, worrying about restoring peace in their own bedrooms, they won\u2019t be spending nearly as much time thinking of ways to send all of us infidels to our final reward.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

If enough American women\u2026 conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats\u2026 will co-opt a well-funded government vehicle such as IVAWA, showing Muslim women what western life has to offer and demanding that they be set free, how could Michelle Obama refuse to play a leading role?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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