Since its beginning, Islamic expansion involved a systematic program of regime change, in which jihad became the symbol for Muslim effort. The Islam Code P.1.
The demise of the Ottomans represented an opportunity--ould Muslims reestablish khilafat, in its full and proper sense?The Islam Code P.2.
The Qur'an contains passages that justify warfare as aspect of the foundational narrative of Islam. Conclusion:The Islam Code P.3.
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From Local to Global Jihad. Global Jihad P.4. |
Al Qaeda’s Adaptive Strategy and Iraq. Global Jihad P.6. |
Conclusion and Implications. Global Jihad P.7.
The following is a list of potential
hotspots where, directly or indirectly, bin Laden and his allies could
fan the flames of existing tensions:
Sept. 3, 2006: Yesterday Al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri and an American Al-Qaida urged all Americans to convert to Islam. But martyrdom through suicide they preach, is a paranoid sense that the world needs to be purified. The apocalypse within:
Updated 1 Dec.2006: Case Analysis: SA in Indonesia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Chechnya.
On Dec. 22, 2005, the leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (no not Iran this time) stated that the Holocaust was a "myth" and denounced Western governments for criticizing those who say the Jewish genocide did not happen. Future World Jihad P.4: Jerusalem’s Armageddon. Future World Jihad P.5: What Now? In spite of the rhetoric of bin-Laden supported by millions of Muslims worldwide-- of a Western religious crusade, the new conflict between the post-Christian West and Islam-- is more a clash between secular materialism and a revived religion. Here is the Evidence: Bangladesh,
Indonesia,
Pakistan,
plus
more Enter:
Global Jihad Case Study: Central Asia P.1. Likely to become a new arena of international interest in the 21st century, not least because of its cocktail of abundant oil and gas, Islamic jihadist groups, dictatorial regimes, and rivalry between Russia, China, Pakistan, the US and Iran. Central Asia P.2. Hydrocarbons and the Great Powers. Central Asia P.3. |
As
far a current information concerns Bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri
and others are operating out of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal
Areas (FATA) bordering Afghanistan.
 According to U.S. counterterrorism sources, U.S. intelligence had gathered some very good leads in the early days of the hunt for bin Laden and other high-value al Qaeda targets, and they shared this intelligence with their counterparts in the Pakistani security apparatus to try to organize operations to act on the intelligence. During this process, people within the intelligence apparatus passed information back to al Qaeda, thus compromising the sources and methods being used to collect the information. Al Qaeda has learned from the mistakes made by the men it has lost and has better secured the methods it uses to communicate with the outside world. This increased security, however, results in increased insulation, which has adversely affected not only communications but also financial transfers and recruiting. The tension between operations and security poses a significant problem for an organization that seeks to maintain and manage a global militant network. Should they attempt to become more operationally active and effective -- and decrease their security measures to do so -- they will provide more opportunities to get the one break it needs to find bin Laden. |
An Exact Overview of Radical Islam Today P.1.
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focusing on the wiping "Israel off the map" by the next jihadist leader
in waiting, the world media have largely ignored other
statements Iran's President Ahmadinejad made at the same time,
for example:
We are in the process of an historical war between the World of Arrogance [i.e. the West] and the Islamic world, and this war has been going on for hundreds of years. ...In this very grave war,… Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? But you had best know that this slogan and this goal are attainable, and surely can be achieved... Currently under way in Iran Hassan Abbassi is the architect of the so-called "war preparation plan". During his lecture for the same audience, Abbassi has said: The Americans are not ready to send a million men (to defeat the Islamic Republic)," Abbasi said. "Even economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic will fail thanks to opposition from the Western public opinion and the refusal of most countries to implement (them). But it is not only the US that Abbasi wants to take on and humiliate. He has described Britain as "the mother of all evils". In his lecture he claimed that the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and the Gulf states were all "children of the same mother: the British Empire." As for France and Germany, they are "countries in terminal decline", according to Abbasi. "Once we have defeated the Anglo-Saxons the rest will run for cover. JOHN HALL in a Richmond Times-Dispatch titled "Imperialistic Iran" further quoted Abbasi as stating: We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization... we must make use of everything we have at hand to strike at this front by means of our suicide operations or by means of our missiles. There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them. Obviously designed to send a message to the English speaking world, note how the rest of the graphic looks like, seen left below. Next see on the right a picture taken while the President of Iran came dawn from the podium: Yes, that is the USA already at the bottom of the hourglass, but notice that the USA is already broken in the bottom of the hourglass prior to the fall of Israel. What is the message they are trying to send?
Khaleej Times Online reported that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged Iranians to resist “the enemy’s threats.” And Hassan Abbassi, Ahmadinejad's chief strategist once more said: "We are able to endanger both, US security and its economic interests anywhere in the world." Today our group has completed a major researchproject that expands on what we presented last year in Future World Jihad P.5 bringing some explosive information to light, but first let us start with the following: The Quest for World Jihad: Introduction The quest for booty had been a central impetus behind the Islamic conquests, enabling the Arab aristocracy to live in great luxury. But it was not until the early 740s that the Abbasids, who resided at the time in the small village of Humayma in southern Transjordan, managed to gain control over the activities of the Hashemiyya. The Quest for World Jihad P.1. Mentioned in the introduction of eSocial Science News World Jihad Research Project P.1, Dr Tawfik Hamid (one of the nine experts worldwide that have assisted us with this, thus extremely well researched series) described in his book “The Roots of Jihad” that Islamic Terrorism has the support of the majority of Muslims. The ‘roots’ of the ‘why’, we believe, now, has been fully explained by the first two parts of this series. The Quest for World Jihad P.2. Earlier we described the significance of the Ottoman Empire in the context of today's world jihad. However the fall of the Ottoman Empire, which ended at a stroke thirteen hundred years of Islamic imperialism, was not a necessary, let alone an inevitable, consequence of World War 1. The Quest for World Jihad P.3. Where early this year we placed a six part investigation of British encounters with Islamic warfare, we proceed now with the transitional period towards what on 9/11 became a US encounter with Islamic warfare. The Quest for World Jihad P.4. |
  Some, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a "true believer." Thus new forms of religiosity, such as Islamic fundamentalism and Christian evangelicalism, have come to thrive in post-traditional, secular contexts precisely because they remain detached from any cultural background. We should also make distinctions between Arab and non-Arab Muslims, hegemony and tolerance, and the role of the umma and the sharia in Muslim religious life. The cartoon rage demonstrated the limits of our understanding of contemporary Islamic religious practice in the West and the role of Islam as a screen onto which Western societies project their own identity crisis? 
Previous Al Qaeda Directive: Targeting oil is now the Highest Priority of the Economic Jihad. When we started this website we among others placed an overview of what I at the time called The Islamic Front in Africa on-line, today an update, starting with Al-Qaeda, Dubai/Port and Iraq:  While we mentioned in December that during 2006 China’s economic imbalances will have severe consequences, the year will see major violence as Baghdad seeks to go after the rejectionist elements, and the Iranian nuclear program will ratchet up to dangerous levels of brinksmanship, here an update about the latter. Geopolitical View: Iran Today reporter Seymour Hersh caused a discussion when suggesting that Bush plans on war with Iran using tactical nukes. However, probably Hersh got some information that was looking at a deterrent strategy against nuclear terrorism (announced by Iran), they had to show how if nuclear weapons went off in the United States it would respond. In the latter case the US indeed would target Iran. See our own, esociologyesoscience.com, "The Iran Documents" assesment below. Iran just completed major military maneuvers titled the “Great Prophet.” Elsewhere in Iran however, disaffected ethnic groups are this week harnessed by US intelligence to destabilize the clerical regime. A History of Iran: The Iran Documents P.1 In our recent The Quest for World Jihad we mentioned Iran as the next contender, today we proceed with completely underreported aspects or recent Iranian history that might become of surprising significance in the near future. The Iran Documents P.2: The Impact of Nazi Germany.  |
Update
It is clear that the US's "War on Terror" has been flawed so far, the question we try to answer is--how can it done better. Today's War on Terrorism.
And while for
most American Muslims, the terrorist message does not become much of a
catalyst for action this is different in Europe. A
New 'Jihad' Wave?
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United States and now also Europe, are increasingly forced to confront
the challenge it faces in its interaction with the Islamic world. Of course
this is not, a "war on terrorism" because terrorism is merely a tool that
certain, not all, Islamic groups use to achieve their end result. However
sixty years ago the Military Intelligence Service of the U.S. War Department
in an 11-page section titled “Islam: A Threat to World Stability,” already
explained how the Muslim world (then making up one-seventh of the world’s
population, now about one-sixth) could impede world stability. It further
pointed out the frustration of Muslims, the sense of longing for an earlier
era, the political volatility, the susceptibility to extremist ideologies.
The
Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad P.1: Egypt and the Sudan.
Today (Febr. 25, 2006) Al-Qaida vowed more attacks a day after an attempt to bomb the world's biggest oil processing complex, and added that it carried out the attack "based on the instructions of, Osama bin Laden. In this P.3 however, I will argue that Al-Qaeda does not want a popular revolution in Saudi Arabia, because this may lead to a U.S. invasion to ensure the continued flow of oil. The Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad P.3: Wahhabi's and Shi'ites. |
In
October 1940, representatives of the Free Arabs signed an Axis-Arab Manifesto
of Liberation in Berlin. Both Hitler and Mussolini expressed strong support
for an independent, united Arab nation. From
Hitler to the "Arab Reich"P.1.
Not long after the war, many German military officers and Nazi party officials were granted sanctuary in Middle Eastern countries, most notably Egypt and Syria, where they helped develop the militaries and intelligences agencies of those countries. In 1953 rumors spread in the Middle East that Hitler might still be alive and living in Brazil. From Hitler to the "Arab Reich" P.2. In 1996 "the Qods Force, the covert-action arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, arranged" the Khobar Towers bombing. In early June 2002 the leaders of four major terrorist organizations-Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine general command-met in Tehran, Iran. From Hitler to the "Arab Reich" P.3. “The new alliance has come. The eleventh of September has brought together [the two sides] because the new right has reacted positively They say, and I agree with them 100 percent, what happened on the eleventh of September, if it is the Muslims who did it, it is not an act of terrorism but an act of counterterrorism.”But what is the"new right"? From Hitler to the "Arab Reich" P.4. A
Convergence of Militant Islam and the New Right?
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president of Iran, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, is imbued with the paranoid vision,
seeking to precipitate an apocalypse (nuclear war), so that the savior
- the Shiite's „Mahdi" can manifest. Plus:
The
Worldview that influences bin Laden, Part 1:
From their latest messages it appears al Qaeda not only has good Internet connections, but given the large number of statements released this year, a wide network of support. They convey the group's intent, the leadership's philosophy, and in itself, constitute a form of militarism for its intend is to cripple Western powers. The Worldview that influences bin Laden, Part 2: Islamofascism? The Worldview that influences bin Laden, Part 3: The Paranoia of Suicide Terrorists.  
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