ONWARD CHRISTIAN TALIBAN
By Mike Evans
An American who identified himself as a Palestinian Muslim recently told me that he was a peaceful Muslim who believed in fighting extremists and radicals. I congratulated him, only to learn that the extremists and radicals he referred to were what he called “Christian Taliban evangelicals” who believe the Bible and support Israel.
I was shocked to hear him claim that tens of thousands of American Muslims are fighting the radicals and extremists of the so-called “Christian Taliban Movement”.
This astonishing turning of language upside down signifies the extent to which Islamist extremists have taken the truth hostage in service of their increasingly violent campaign to impose their beliefs on the world. Indeed, as Prof. Alan Dershowitz has stated, “There is an element within the Islamic faith that has hijacked the faith, and I think they are aptly called Islamofascists.”
In the first campaign by the United States against the Islamofascists, the forces of democracy routed Osama bin Laden and the Taliban fundamentalists of Afghanistan in just two months. In his State of the Union Address in January 2002, President George W. Bush could declare that America had “rid the world of thousands of terrorists, destroyed Afghanistan’s terrorist training camps, saved a people from starvation, and freed a country from brutal oppression.”
It is hard to believe my American Muslim friend did not know who the real Taliban were, since some 80 percent of the mosques in America are funded by the Saudi Wahabists, fanatics who supported the Afghani Taliban. From 1996-2001, the Taliban "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" was notorious for its human rights abuses, not to mention harboring arch-terrorist bin Laden. The Taliban became infamous for their treatment of women, who were forced to wear the burqa in public, not allowed to work, not allowed to be educated after the age of eight, and faced public flogging and execution for violations of Sharia law.
In the words of Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar: “We want to live a life like the Prophet lived 1,400 years ago and jihad is our right. We want to recreate the time of the Prophet.”
This would be a disaster, according to former CIA director James Woolsey: “We have not figured out that we can’t open the gates to the Wahabites and let them structure — either through the organizations they fund or their mosques or anything else — let them structure in the West what it means to be Muslim. This would be like turning over Christianity to Torquemada.”
After Afghanistan, democracy’s focus soon turned to the next battle, in another country fighting to survive an onslaught by Islamist terrorists — Iraq. America is engaged in a bitter struggle there, made more difficult by the subversion of Iran, which supplies terrorists, weapons, and money in an effort to turn Iran’s nascent democracy into another totalitarian Islamist state like itself.
Iran is spreading its Islamic Revolution into Iraq, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories as the world sleeps. Its goal is to take over the Middle East and then the rest of the world. We don’t seem to understand that the Iraq conflict is the first major showdown in the world war on terrorism. America is in the middle of this war and must show the same resolve in destroying the terrorists’ worldwide network that we did in fighting Nazi Germany.
The evangelicals of America are certainly no “Taliban” branch of Christianity and would dearly like to find some way to work with the world’s hundreds of millions of good and decent Muslims who reject terrorism. They don’t support the genocidal extremists who have perverted Islam into an uncompromising hatred for Shiites, Jews, Christians, and apostates, and made it so repressive of women.
The ongoing war against Islamist extremism is the ultimate showdown between civilization as we know it and the evil powers that would destroy Israel and the Jewish people, Western values, Christianity and anything other than fanatical Islam.
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