You say tomato, I say Jihadist

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles" -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Jihad. Yes, jihad is a word that some Muslims would have us believe simply means "struggle." And in one sense, jihad does have that meaning. But jihad also means more.

The Koran, the 'perfect' book of Allah, talks about jihad. But even as a 'perfect' book, Muslims can't agree on how to interpret the book, much less on how to define jihad. 

But the executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Nihad Awad, has asked that Americans stop using the term 'jihadists' when referring to jihadist terrorists.

CAIR, as many know, is a jihadist organization liked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, the latter group who has links to Barack Obama. The U.S. Justice Department has referred to CAIR as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the Holy Land Foundation trial that proved the Muslim Brotherhood was financing Hamas and that CAIR is an arm (or another body part--use your imagination) of the Muslim Brotherhood.

CAIR was officially designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on November 15, 2014. Yet this organization still operates on behalf of jihadists and other Muslims, in the United States and Canada.

After the jihadist attack in Nice on Bastille Day (on July 14th) whereby 84 infidels were killed by a jihadist whom ISIS called one of their own, Awad tried to argue that terrorism has nothing to do with an ideology of jihad. This tactic of lying in order to advance Islam's goal of establishing world dominance is known as 'taqiyya' and was first used by one of Muhammad's jihadists to kill an enemy using a lie to trick him so that he could be murdered.

Awad wants to us to believe that jihad and terrorism are in no ways related. It's his attempt to clean up Islam and separate it from the ideology that drives terrorism. If you go to his Twitter account, you will see countless tweets about Islamophobia, a term designed by a Muslim think tank in order to create shame in Westerners who question the so-called 'religion of peace.' 

Heck, even George W. Bush said that the word "Islam" means 'peace.' It doesn't. It means 'surrender.'

Awad, once a member of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee, was recorded to have said at a 1993 meeting ways in which to support Hamas and the "goals, strategies and American perceptions of the Muslim Brotherhood" in the United States.

Apparently, Barack Obama bought into Awad's propaganda as he has frequently met with the Muslim Brotherhood at the White House, the place where the Brotherhood has vowed that one day the Islamic flag will replace the American flag.

By not using the term 'jihadist,' CAIR would succeed in preventing us from understanding the ideology that drives terrorism. To say that jihad does not inspire terrorist attacks by using a more, say, orthodox interpretation of jihad is pure fertilizer.



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All gun control measures fail in Senate

The Constitution of the United States won on Monday. The Senate tried to pass a series of gun control measures but all four amendments were defeated.

The first vote was Sen. Chuck Grassley's (R-Iowa) amendment proposal to increase funding for current background checks. It needed 60 votes but the tally was 53 to 47. 

Next was Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) proposal to expand gun background checks and close the gun show loophole where gun sales are not tracked. This vote ended 44 to 56. It appears the Senate wasn't ready for the "Big Brother" approach. 

The fact is, many gun shows are not allowing private sales due to the controversy, so in large part, the problem doesn't exist. 

Last week, following the Orlando Islamic terrorist attack, Murphy filibustered for 14 hours and 50 minutes seeking legislative action that had nothing to do with the shooting. 

The filibuster was a perfectly-timed, insensitive political response to the slaughter. The gunman sought a gun-free zone. He had considered Orlando's Disney World but it has security and he decided it wasn't a "soft" enough target. He chose the Pulse nightclub instead and killed 49 people and wounded 53 others.

The third vote was on a measure by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tx.) that would allow the government to delay gun sales to suspected terrorists for 72 hours, but require prosecutors to show probable cause to block the sale permanently. Even the NRA backs this legislation, but the amendment still failed 53 to 47.

The fourth vote was a measure by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to keep people on a government terrorism watch list or other suspected terrorists from buying guns. The Department of Justice endorsed this but the legislation failed 47 to 53. 

If I'm not mistaken, Ms. Feinstein carries.

Never passing up the chance to flare his nostrils and blame the GOP for Islamic terrorism, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D- NY, and uncle to Amy Schumer) said, "It's hard to believe, but still true, that our Republican colleagues voted to allow suspected terrorists to buy guns. We will keep pushing until they see the light." 

This coming from the political party that refuses to open their eyes and define the enemy and their ideology. This coming from the political party that refuses to compromise and blocked two Republican amendments because Democrats want total control over who can buy guns.

Meanwhile, in Democrat-controlled Chicago, there have been about 1800 shooting victims so far this year. Of these, there have been about 300 deaths as a result. The city has very strict gun control laws.

Detroit, another Democrat-led city with strict gun-control laws where more people die of gun-related incidents than traffic accidents.

The best way to stop terrorism in the United States is to defeat the terrorists where they live. To do that, we actually have to know who they are and what makes them do what they do--their ideology--so we can better predict their behavior.

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." --Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

It's Islamic jihad, people.

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"Just a Bunch of Guys Who Decided to Go for a Walk: What difference does it make?"

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." Sun Tzu, The Art of War. 

Hillary Clinton doesn't know the enemy and she does not seem to really know herself. In a Fox News report today, by Judson Burger and the Fox News team, it was revealed the Hillary "What-Difference-Does-It-Make" Clinton and the State Department refused to label Boko Haram as a terrorist organization.

Of course, since the kidnapping by this group of almost 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, she has called their actions "abominable," and said it was an act of terrorism the merits "the fullest response possible."