Posted: 27 Dec 2015 08:18 PM PST
To understand ISIS, you have to understand the difference
between terrorists and Islamic terrorists.
Ordinary terrorists have two goals; to compel the enemy to meet their
political demands and to rally their supporters to consolidate their class,
race or national identity group behind them.
Islamic
terrorists are not interested in the “political demands” part. They will
occasionally accept concessions and even offer Hudnas, temporary truces, but
no permanent separate peace can be achieved with them. It’s why Israel’s
peace process with terrorists has gone on failing for decades. It’s why the
attempt by Gaddafi to achieve peace with the LIFG ended in a civil war and
his death. It’s why Obama’s attempts to negotiate with the “moderate Taliban”
failed miserably.
Al Qaeda and ISIS are not “negative” protest movements formed in response to
our foreign policy. That’s a foolish self-centered idea held by foolish
self-centered Westerners. Al Qaeda and ISIS are “positive” movements that
seek to achieve larger religious goals entirely apart from us. Islamic
terrorists are not responding to us. They are responding to the Koran and to
over a thousand years of history.
Osama bin Laden did not carry out 9/11 to inflict harm on Americans. That was
a secondary goal. His primary goal was to rally Muslims to build a Caliphate
by encouraging them to attack America.
The ritualistic “Why do they hate us” browbeating favored by the chattering
classes is nonsense. Al Qaeda hated us because we were not Muslims. But it
was only using us as the hated “other” to consolidate a collective Muslim
identity. We are to Islamists what the Jews were to Hitler; a useful scapegoat
whose otherness can be used to manufacture a contrasting pure Aryan or
Islamic identity.
No dialogue is possible with an ideology whose virtue is premised on seeing
you as utterly evil.
You can negotiate with terrorists, though you shouldn’t. But Islamic
terrorists rarely even bother to negotiate. Their core focus is on rallying
local Muslims and the Ummah behind them. They don’t recognize national
borders so any hope for a permanent peace behind recognized borders is
wishful thinking. Islam is a transnational movement. Islamic terrorism is a
race between terror groups around the world to carve out their own Islamic
states and then use them as a springboard to a Caliphate.
ISIS is the end stage of Islamic terrorism. Its leader is a Caliph with all
Muslims obliged to submit to him. The Islamic State is not just in Syria and
Iraq. It is everywhere that a Muslim outpost swears allegiance to the Caliph.
On its own maps the Islamic State encompasses parts of Egypt, Libya, Algeria,
Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Russia. The more local Islamic terror groups pledge
allegiance to ISIS, the bigger it becomes.
ISIS doesn’t plan to defeat America through acts of terrorism. The plan for
defeating America, like every other country, Muslim or non-Muslim, is to
build a domestic Muslim terror movement that will be able to hold territory
and swear allegiance to the Islamic State.
The idea of an American Emirate may seem silly but consider Molenbeek, the
neighborhood in Brussels known as the Jihadi capital of Europe, deemed a
no-go zone by local authorities, right in the capital of the European
Union. You can take a taxi from NATO HQ to a Muslim micro-state linked
to most of the major recent Islamic terror attacks in Europe including the
latest ISIS attack in Paris.
Molenbeek provides ISIS recruits for its war and a gateway for ISIS attacks
in Europe. The media is filled with articles about what ISIS wants, but there
is no question that Molenbeek is what ISIS wants.
And it’s only Muslim immigration to Europe that makes an ISIS base like
Molenbeek possible.
ISIS has short term and long term needs. In the short term, ISIS needs as
many recruits as possible. And it is in the West where traditional Muslim
ties of kinship and community are so frayed that the transnationalism of
heading out to fight for a Caliphate in someone else’s country is most deeply
appealing. ISIS aggressively seeks to recruit Muslims in the West because
they have the skills, money and naiveté to be useful to the Islamic State.
But in the long term, ISIS needs more Muslim immigration to the West to
create a steady supply of recruits, collaborators and eventually Western
emirates.
If ISIS is serious about making a bid for Italy, it needs a large Muslim
population on the ground. It doesn’t even matter if this population comes
from refugees fleeing ISIS. The children of these refugees will still be
Sunni Muslims in a foreign land where Algerian, Somali, Syrian and Pakistani
Muslims discover that they have more in common than they do with the natives.
It is this accidental Western multiculturalism that erases tribal Muslim
rivalries and makes the ambition of a single Muslim Caliphate appear
plausible.
ISIS does not plan to defeat America with terror plots. But those plots will
eventually accumulate into an organized domestic terror organization. An
Islamic State in America based around a majority Muslim town or neighborhood
with its own leader pledging allegiance to the Caliph of the Islamic State.
An American Molenbeek; and there are already plenty of candidates for that
horrifying honor.
Any Muslim plans for expanding into the West depend on Muslim immigration.
Whether it’s ISIS or its Muslim Brotherhood ancestor, or any of the other
Islamist organizations and networks, they all require manpower. Some of that
manpower will be provided by high Muslim birth rates, but it won’t be nearly
enough, not for a country the size of America, without a large annual flow of
Muslim migrants.
We are told that halting Muslim immigration would only encourage Muslim
terrorism. But our open door to Muslim immigration certainly hasn’t stopped
terrorism. Instead it has increased it by providing reinforcements to the
terrorists. If we can’t stop Muslim terrorism with the population we have
now, how are we going to manage it if the Islamic population continues
doubling and even tripling?
Even if we defeat ISIS tomorrow, Al Qaeda and other Islamist groups descended
from the Muslim Brotherhood will continue pursuing the same goals. And they
will rely on the Muslim population in the United States to provide them with
money, supplies, cover and an infrastructure for terrorism.
ISIS can’t defeat us with terror attacks. The only hope for an enduring
Islamic victory over America is through the rise of domestic groups that
pledge allegiance to the Caliphate. ISIS can’t invade America. It has to be
invited in. That’s what our immigration policy does.
Trump isn’t a threat to national security. Muslim immigration is.
Islamic terrorists can’t defeat us no matter how many planes they fly into
buildings. But they can and will defeat us if they continue landing planes at
JFK and disembarking thousands and tens of thousands of settlers who will
serve as a base population for their war against America.
Muslim immigration is the Islamic State’s only hope for victory over America.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger
and a Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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