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A Study in Contemporary History
Contemporary History 101
Term Paper
UCLA: Spring Semester 2020
Instructor: Jeffery Smith
It was called the American Hiroshima.
Within 24 hours of eight American cities suffering the effects of radiation and blast
damage in June of 2010, Islamic terrorists claimed responsibility. Immediately
middle-east and far-east Muslim news outlets praised the attacks as a
retribution from Allah.
Those are the widely known facts. But my research, as this paper will show, based on
sources in the government who now have come forth years later, will show what
actually transpired after the attack and the outcome that we live with today.
In less than week after the attack, a vast majority of Americans demanded
retaliation on someone - anyone - for the hundreds of thousands of American
killed or dying from radiation poison. Not to mention the economic havoc caused
by the total disruption of commerce between our major cities after New York, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Seattle, and Boston were nuked. Within the week, the DOW
had dropped 10,000 points and the NASDQ Index was virtually wiped out.
Only Washington DC was spared when the nuke misfired and did
not initiate a nuclear detonation in a subway car under the Capital. The 'dirty
bomb' and the resulting radioactivity was contained underground.
The White House under President Giuliani was stormed with demands from Americans to
revenge the dead. Some mosques across the country were bombed or set aflame
with some Muslim congregation casualties and many middle-east looking places of
businesses were ransacked by mobs. CAIR and other Islamic civil rights
organizations demanded that the White House protect Muslim-Americans. The
President called out the National Guard and imposed a curfew on the affected
cities threatening martial law in the personal retributions did not cease.
Based on transcripts from White House meetings that week President Giuliani knew an
incorrect response would hurl the world into a holy war that would result in
hundreds of millions of people dead that would make WWII look like a domestic
squabble. He was quite aware of, and warned against in his campaign speeches
that Islamists wanted to actually bring on this holy war. They had to force America
to violently and irrationally act in order to gain the rabid support of over
one billion Muslim throughout the world. Giuliani knew that any reaction by America - passive or active - would give the Islamists the proof that America
was either too weak to respond to attack or would embark on persecuting Muslims
in their midst. Thus was the impetus for his historic speech to the nation on
June 11, 2010. It's reproduced here.
My fellow Americans
I come to you tonight with a heavy heart. Hundreds of
thousands of Americans are either dead or dying this week and you want to know
how we will respond to this infamous attack.
I have a response to your requests tonight. But first in
order to execute a proper response to those that have killed so many our fellow
Americans, you need to know that these attacks had two objectives in mind. One,
to kill as many Americans as possible and two, to elicit a response that they
hope for.
But let me clear the air of just who our enemy is, was,
and will continue to be in the future.
Our enemy is an ideology. The ideology of Islamism. And
that's important to understand. It's not just a group of fanatical individuals
we call terrorists nor is it a war on terror. Our war against the ideology of
Islamism begins with terrorism, but it does not end there. It will not end
until every Islamist group of global reach has been found, stopped and
defeated. Both overseas and this country as well.
As before 1941, we have underestimated the power of a
fascist ideology. Islamists want to overthrow existing governments in many
Muslim countries, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. They want to drive Israel out of the Middle
East. They want to drive Christians and Jews out of vast regions
of Asia and Africa. The violent adherents of
Islamism kill not merely to end lives, but to disrupt and end a way of life.
With every atrocity, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating
from the world and forsaking our friends. They stand against us, because we
stand in their way.
But Islamism has its non-violent side, too. They are
waging a form of jihad on the free world that is more insidious than the out
right tactics of their terrorists. The non-violent jihads seek to intimidate, infiltrate
and misinform us in an attempt to soften us up, so to speak, by confusing our
response to their overall aggressive agenda of domination by their Islamist
ideology. These jihads must be identified and countered in our freedom loving
and pluralistic society for they, though not in themselves violent, have the
same objective as the overall Islamist ideology -the imposition of Sharia law
upon non-Muslim and moderate Muslim nations alike.
That's what and who we are fighting. But there is one
other objective of the Islamists. If our response to this weeks barbaric attack
on our nation is uncontrolled and indiscriminate revenge, we would have given
the Islamists the weapon they need to recruit Muslims around the world to their
holy war.
I will not give them that weapon.
I know many of you want revenge and retaliation on anyone
or any place that might have contributed to the slaughter of so many innocent
Americans this week no matter how distant. But now that America has awakened to the threat
before us and the voices of appeasement and restraint have been drowned out, we
need to respond with a rational and logical plan of retaliation and defense
that would not alienate our Muslim-Americans. Though the Executive Order I
signed tonight will bring concern to many Muslim-Americans, I believe they will
see the logic in it and work with their fellow Americans to make this country
safe again and defeat the enemy both without and within.
The Executive Order I signed tonight will remove the
different weapons that the supporters of the Islamist ideology use against us,
find those that work to strike us again in our homeland, remove the cancerous
indoctrination of Muslim-American youth, and stop the invasion we are facing.
First, if and when we can definitely determine if any
country or countries were directly responsible for providing these nuclear
weapons to the terrorists, we will take swift and deadly action upon their
nation. Tracing the weapons back to their source and definitely proving in the
court of world opinion that a certain nation or nations is responsible will not
be easy but we will diligently pursue that path and seek retribution.
Second, our country has been invaded. There is no other
word for it. Those that executed this infamous act were able to obtain these
weapons by having them cross our borders. We can not afford to have that happen
again. As of tonight, I have ordered the National Guard supported by the Armed
Forces of this nation to secure the Canadian and Mexican borders.
Third, I have ordered the cessation of all immigration to
the United States
until the time when the INS is able to perform its duties properly in
accordance with protecting the sovereignty of this nation. The INS must vet
every documented and non-documented alien in the country before any new
immigration will be allowed to take place. It is up to Congress to pass a fair
and workable law in this regard.
Fourth, I have ordered that all mosques in this country
register with Homeland Security, that their imams be vetted for loyalty to the United States,
and all lectures be given in English and provided weekly to Homeland Security.
Fifth, as of tonight the sedition laws on the books will
be enforced. Anyone person or organization that preaches the destruction of the
United States
or its downfall or the replacement of our Constitution with some other form of
governance will be deemed a seditionist. This will not affect criticism of
Administration policies as long as it does not advocate overthrow of the
government. Criticisms in the free press will continue and legal suits can
continue to be filed through our court system under the protection of the
Constitution.
Sixth, the preaching or teaching of Sharia law or
attempts at implementing such a law will not be permitted. Attempts at the
imposition of Sharia law in this country - the political objective of Islamism
- will fall under the sedition laws.
Seventh, all non-profit charitable organizations and
foundations that support middle-east humanitarian services will cease operation
until they can be properly vetted for support of terrorism, terrorist states or
organizations, and seditious organizations in this country as deemed by the
Department of Justice and Congress.
Finally, our dependence on foreign energy sources is a
threat to national security and it must cease. I have ordered a 10-year plan
that will open every and all possible sources for oil in the country to
drilling and have ordered a fast track permit program for nuclear energy. Tax
credits will be issued to any and all companies and individuals who develop or
use alternative technologies to reduce the use of oil and natural gas products.
I've ordered the temporary lifting of controls on the mining and use of coal in
this country. We have more coal in this country than the entire middle-east has
oil. We have a national crisis on our hands and we are going to use the coal -
cleanly.
Some will feel that this executive order is too
draconian. But I ask you, my fellow Americans, the alternative is worse for
Muslim-Americans and our Constitution. As I said, I will not give the Islamist
the ultimate weapon they seek. I will not allow the persecution of
Muslim-Americans or threaten them with internment camps. I warn those who will
try and take foreign policy into their own hands in this country or seek to
unilaterally initiate meetings with declared enemies of this country. Hate
crimes will be dealt swiftly and harshly. All Muslim-Americans will be treated
as Americans and not as enemy combatants and will be protected under the laws
of the United States.
I hope both Muslim and non-Muslim citizens alike can
accept that this executive order as the correct way to deal with the threat
before us without giving the enemy the weapon they seek. If so, our nation can
see itself through this crisis, defeat our enemy, and once again help create a
peaceful world.
Good night and God bless.
One moderate, anti-Islamic organization called the American Islamic Forum for
Democracy followed up on the President's speech with this press release. The
call for a proactive approach by Muslim-Americans. The pertinent parts to the
president's executive order follows:
While the engagement by government of the (actual) Muslim
community is to be lauded and a necessary component of victory against the
ideology of militant Islamism, that engagement must be done in the setting of
clear ideological standards. Those standards should be articulated as follows:
The Rejection of Islamism as a political ideology--
Simply being 'anti-terror' does not make a Muslim necessarily moderate in the
American context. It simply gives him or her a seat at the table of humanity.
It is a core belief at the AIFD that political moderation within the Muslim
community is manifested most significantly in a rejection of political Islam
(anti-Islamism).
A Rejection of the concept of the 'Islamic state'-
Islamist Muslims may endorse democracies, elections, citizenship, and the rule
of law, but they are driven by an overriding vision of a Muslim majority
society led by theologians (imams and clerics) who run government through their
interpretation and enactment of Islamic law (sharia). Our government should
engage anti-Islamist Muslims predominantly and at the minimum- non-Islamist
Muslims. The ideology of Islamism- or the desire to put into place an 'Islamic
state'- is a clear and present danger to free people everywhere and directly
conflicts with the interests of the United States. Muslim moderates are those
who embrace both Americanism and a spiritual Islam while wholly rejecting
Islamism as a movement for the body politic and government of every nation, and
not just the one they happen to live in as a minority. Moderate Muslims
unequivocally advocate for American Constitutional government above all other
forms of governance whether Muslims are a minority or a majority.
Identification of radical Islamist organizations by name
as enemies of the United States- Moderate Muslims are able to both condemn
terrorism as an act, as well as the individuals and organizations -by name
-that utilize terrorism as a tactic for political change. Thus, a moderate
Muslim should be able to identify radical Islamist organizations by name such
as Al Qaeda, HAMAS, Hezbullah, and Islamic Jihad as ideological enemies of America.
Similarly, moderate Muslims should condemn by name global Islamist
organizations which seek to put into place Islamic states such as the Muslim
Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir, or Tabligh Jamaat. While these organizations may
at times "condemn terrorism" they often offer apologetics (if not
justifications) for terrorism and seek the establishment of both individual
Islamic states and a global or regional caliphate of them. Anti-Islamism is
central to being moderate in the American context.
The acceptance that the root cause of terrorism is
political Islam. Terror is only a means to the ends of the Islamic state. While
many Islamists may say they are against "terror," moderate,
liberty-loving Muslims accept the fact that the root cause of terrorism is the
ideology of Islamism and its intoxicating dreams of the Islamic state poised
against the ascendancy of western secular democracies. To blame American
foreign policy and other conspiracy theories for terrorism is to live in
denial.
To articulate the toxic role that Wahhabism (a radical
Saudi Arabian interpretation of Islam) has had upon the radicalization of some
members of the Muslim community. We must acknowledge the reality that 15 of the
19 terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks were indoctrinated in the
Wahhabiist ideology of jihad and its global goals.
Separate faith (spirituality) and nationalism. Moderate
Muslims in the west reject the mixture of their membership in the Muslim
community with their citizenship or membership in their nation's military.
Moderate Muslims understand that the personal practice of Islam, like all the
world religions, is threatened when a government is driven by the
interpretation of any one faith and not simply by overriding universal human principles
'under God'.
To advocate for individual freedom and liberty. Moderate
Muslims stand firmly for gender equality, free speech and against Islamist laws
concerning blasphemy and apostasy both within the Muslim community and outside
the Muslim community.
To acknowledge that much of current Islamic jurisprudence
(sharia) is in dire need of ijtihad (reform) and being brought into the 21st
century and modernity with a focus on liberty. Just as Christianity and other
faiths underwent reformation, so too is much of the current legal doctrine of
Islam in need of a similar modernization to be in full synergy with the
principles of individual freedom, limited constitutional government, and the
separation of religion and state.
Moderate Muslims refuse to accept victimization as the
focus of Muslim activism in the U.S.
They accept the fact that Muslims should rather be leading counterterrorism
against militant Islamists in the U.S. and around the world.
And so our nation over the next ten years played that most American of games - catch
up.
The nation did meet its ten year plan to remove its dependence on foreign energy
sources. Over time the majority of Muslim-Americans supported the Presidential
order helped by no small means with what was happening in Europe.
Out right civil war had broken out between Muslim and non-Muslim populations
supported on the continent by Islamic insurgency from southern Muslim Russia
and through Turkey from Islamic jihadists from the middle-east. Only Great
Britain was able to contain the violence due to it being separated from the continent of Europe by the English Channel.
Seeing the chaos in Europe and the resulting murder and persecution of Muslims that
resulted in the civil war, Muslim-Americans vowed never to have that happen in
the U.S. and those that agitated for the Islamist agenda were reported to the
authorities by Muslim-Americans.
In turn, the moderate Muslim nations saw that America stood by its Constitution
and the rights of Muslim-Americans thus defeating the plans of the Islamists to
recruit them to a holy war. It was a rough dozen of so years but the world
settled into an uneasy peace where what many liberals demanded came to pass.
Breathing room for talk and negotiation without the threat of violence by those
who would seek to undermine that attempt at consensus. Islam and democracy
settled into sort of a 'glasnost' and the religion of Islam shed almost its
entire political Islamic agenda.
The Islamists, stripped of their weapon of holy war,
were slowly dealt with over the next ten years and other free nations joined
the US in removing their threats to national security as outlined in the Presidents speech.
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