Amerikanische zeitung: 'Being PC hampers fight vs. Islamists'

The election-year focus on the ailing economy has seemed to push a number of
other relevant issues in the campaign nearly into oblivion. But trying to
disengage vital national security from the economy is folly, especially in
post 9/11 America.
In one stark example, the Wall Street Journal recently reported on a
181-page report to Congress of a commission studying the impact of an
electromagnetic-pulse (EMP) attack on the United States.

The July report states that an EMP attack is "one of a small number of
threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences" that
would paralyze our economy.

William Graham, the commission's chairman, told Congress that Iran's
military reports "explicitly discuss a nuclear EMP attack that would gravely
harm the United States."

We should not let our short-term memories delink the importance of
counterterrorism from our continued economic prosperity. From a global
perspective, the threat of Islamist-inspired terrorism is one of the most
significant issues of our time.

Our resounding failure in countering the fuel of terror in the past seven
years is due to our inability to constructively study and counter Islamism
(political Islam).

As Zeyno Baran, a senior fellow from the Hudson Institute, noted in recent
testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs: "Nearly all individuals involved in terrorism -
whether as a foot soldiers executing the attack or as upper-level
strategists, financiers or recruiters - start out as non-violent Islamists."

Islamism seeks to systemically marginalize debate and discourse within the
Islamic community.

Islamists promote the subjugation of other religions, persecution of other
Islamic minorities, the relative servitude of women and the brutal
elimination of certain social classes. They champion inhumane medieval laws.
including death for apostasy and blasphemy.

Islamism of old, however, is undergoing a face lift. Islamist handlers and
their corresponding organizations have come to the realization that overt
radicalism laced with violence does not bode well with the vast majority of
Muslims who are peace-loving and moderate.

Muslims are also under increasing pressure to help find an end to the
senseless hate and wanton violence. Hence, Islamists are changing their
focus toward a kinder, gentler, more patient strategy - the so-called "soft
jihad." They are now focusing ideologically upon America's secular values,
institutions, economics, politics, media and government.

Islamists are building alliances with those non-Muslims who are all too
ready to augment their victimology agenda while ignoring the core Islamist
ideas these groups are peddling.

Under the guise of religious accommodation and through the threat of
religious discrimination, Islamists are making their presence felt in most
major facets of American life. We have seen a few imams sue an airline in
Phoenix. International banks are forming separate divisions on Islamic
(sharia) financing that can become major political economic forces and tools
of political Islam and societal division. And we have even seen a few Muslim
community leaders meet with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff in
Houston in May 2007, exerting enough influence to all but paralyze the
utilization of any Muslim terms and ideologies that call out and identify
the threat of political Islam in clear terms such as jihad, Islamism and
Salafism.

It is time that our counterterrorism policies address the driving force of
political Islam and recognize the need for a postmodern Islam that separates
spiritual Islam from the transnational governmental goals of Islamism.

This is the paradigm that will empower us strategically as a nation to
finally partner with only those Muslims who stand for liberty, reject
victimology and reject the underpinnings of political Islam. The most direct
counter to political Islam is one that has patriotic and devout Muslims at
the frontlines of this struggle within the Muslim consciousness.

As we enter the last two months of this presidential campaign season, it's
time for Americans to hear how each candidate is going to address the threat
of political Islam.

Will exaggerated political correctness continue to hamstring our
counterterrorism work?

Our economy may be suffering now, but what will happen in the horrific event
of another major terrorist incident?

Are our leaders willing to rise up to counter the ideological threat we
continue to face?

It is no coincidence that 15 out of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were
well-versed in radical Wahabism. Yet, almost seven years later, we have done
virtually nothing to counter the ideologies of Wahabism and Islamism.

Will our leaders continue to appease the Islamists and the Saudi oil
machine, or will they act now and do what is right for the interests of
America and the rest of the Free World?

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