{"id":1480,"date":"2009-12-31T08:19:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T08:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2009-12-31T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T08:19:07","slug":"knowing_our_enemy_part_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Knowing Our Enemy Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last&nbsp;in a series of four articles from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/OpEd-Contributor\/Jihadist-terrorists-are-still-trying-to-kill-us-8691103-80172257.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;which they have posted to help all of us understand who we are fighting in the war on terror.&nbsp; It is written by Andrew G. Bostom and is found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/OpEd-Contributor\/Islamism-or-Islam_-Islamist-or-Islamic_-8700372-80339737.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;today.<\/p>\n<p>The opening paragraph of the article states:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Turkey&#8217;s current Prime Minister Erdogan, commenting in August, 2007 on the term &#8220;moderate Islam,&#8221; frequently used in the West to describe his ruling political party, the AKP, stated, &#8220;These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that&#8217;s it.&#8221;&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So what are we doing when we attempt to make friends with &#8216;moderate&#8217; Muslims?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Organization of the Islamic Conference (a 57 nation group that includes all Muslim nations and makes up the largest voting bloc in the UN)&nbsp;ratified the 1990 Cairo Declaration, or &#8220;Universal Declaration of Human Rights in <strong>Islam.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/strong>This universal declaration includes such statements as:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Articles 19 and 22 reiterate Shari&#8217;a principles, stated throughout the document, which clearly apply to the &#8220;punishment&#8221;&#8211;death&#8211;for so-called &#8220;apostates&#8221; from Islam.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Cairo Declaration&#8211;entirely consistent with Islamic Law&#8211;also introduces unacceptable discrimination against non-Muslims and women, while sanctioning the legitimacy of dehumanizing, Shari&#8217;a-compliant punishments such as flogging, amputation, and stoning.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article points out that a large percentage of Muslims in the world believe in the principles of Sharia law and seek the establishment of a worldwide Caliphate run on the principles of Sharia law.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is the enemy we face.&nbsp; There is no room for negotiation.&nbsp; Our leaders need to understand that the jihadists are not fighting us because of what we have done or are doing&#8211;they are fighting us because of who we are and the freedoms we enjoy.&nbsp; Closing Guantanamo or releasing a few token terrorists will not end this war.&nbsp; The only way the war on terror ends is when a point is reached where the terrorist training camps are closed, the terrorist leaders are dead, and the terrorists-in-training decide they don&#8217;t want to die also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last&nbsp;in a series of four articles from the Washington Examiner&nbsp;which they have posted to help all of us understand who we are fighting in the war on terror.&nbsp; It is written by Andrew G. Bostom and is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}