The Clash Of Civilizations And The Great Caliphate

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Subject: THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE GREAT CALIPHATE

Below is an article by Larry Abraham. (Larry Abraham is editor of a monthly newsletter entitled "Insider Report." It tracks global trends, with emphasis on information for investors). It gives you an insight on why terrorists are attacking the Western World and us. It is long but well worth the read. This article brings all of the issues together and states why it is important for us to gain this perspective. This is an impressive, and intelligent overview of the militant Islamic movement.

THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE GREAT CALIPHATE by
Larry Abraham, January 29, 2004.

President Bush and his administration spokesmen are not telling the American people what they really need to know about this "war." If they don't do that between now and November it may cost them the election.

The war against terror did not begin on September 11, 2001, nor will it end with the peaceful transition to civilian authority in Iraq, whenever that may be. In fact, Iraq is but a footnote in the bigger context of this encounter, but an important one nonetheless.

This war is what the Jihad! ists themselves are calling the "Third Great Jihad." They are operating within the framework of a time line, which reaches back to the very creation of Islam in the seventh century and are presently attempting to recreate the dynamics, which gave rise to the religion in the first two hundred years of its existence.

No religion in history grew as fast, in its infancy, and the reasons for the initial growth of Islam are not hard to explain when you understand what the world was like at the time of Muhammad's death in 632 AD.

Remember that the Western Roman Empire was in ruins and the Eastern Empire, based in Constantinople, was trying desperately to keep the power of its early grandeur while transitioning to Christianity as a de facto state
religion. The costs to the average person were large, as he was being required to meet the constantly rising taxes levied by the state along with the tithes coerced by the Church.

What Islam offered was the "carrot or the sword". If you became a convert, your taxes were immediately eliminated, as was your tithe. If you didn't, you faced death. The choice was not hard for most to make, unless you were a very devoted martyr in the making.

At the beginning, even the theology was not too hard for most to swallow, considering that both Jewry and Christianity were given their due by the Prophet. There is but one God-Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet,
as was Jesus, and the pre-Christian Jewish prophets of the Torah (Old Testament). Both were called "children! of the book"--the book being the Koran, which replaced both the Old and New Testaments for former Christians and Jews.

With this practical approach to spreading the "word" Islam grew like wildfire, reaching out from the Saudi Arabian Peninsula in all directions. This early growth is what the Muslims call the "First Great Jihad" and it met with little resistance until Charles Martel of France, the father of Charlemagne, stopped them in the battle of Tours in France, after they had firmly established Islam on the Iberian
Peninsula.

This first onslaught against the West continued in various forms and at various times until Islam was finally driven out of Spain in 1492 at the battle of Granada.

The "Second Great Jihad" came with the Ottoman Turks. This empire succeeded in bringing about the downfall of Constantinople as a Christian stronghold and an end to Roman hegemony in all of its forms. The Ottoman Empire was Islam's most successful expansion of territory even though the religion itself had fractured into warring sects and bitter rivalries with each claiming the ultimate truths in "the ways of the Prophet". By 1683 the Ottomans had suffered a series of defeats on both land and sea and the final, unsuccessful attempt to capture Vienna set the stage for the collapse of any further territorial ambitions and Islam shrunk into various sheikhdoms, emir dominated principalities, and roving tribes of nomads.

However, by this time a growing anti-western sentiment, blaming its internal failures on anyone but themselves, was taking hold and setting th! e stage for a new revival known as Wahhabism, a sect which came into full bloom under the House of Saud on the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the onset of WWI. It is this Wahhabi version of Islam, which has infected the religion itself, now finding adherents in almost all branches and sects, especially the Shiites.

Wahhabiism calls for the complete and total rejection or destruction of anything and everything, which is not based in the original teachings of The Prophet and finds its most glaring practice in the policies of the Afghani Taliban or the Shiite practices of the late Ayatollah Khomeini in > Iran. Its Ali Pasha (Field Marshall) is now known as Osama bin Laden, the leader of the "Third Jihad", who is Wahhabi as were his 9/11 attack teams, 18 of which were also Saudi. The strategy for this "holy war" did not begin with the planning of the destruction of the World Trade Center. It began with the top! pling of the Shah of Iran back in the late 1970's. With his plans and programs to "westernize" his country, along with his close ties to the U.S. and subdued acceptance of the State of Israel, the Shah was the soft target. Remember "America Held Hostage"?



Thanks, in large part to the hypocritical and disastrous policies of the Jimmy Carter State Department, the revolution was set into motion, the Shah was deposed, his armed forces scattered or murdered and stage one was complete. The Third Jihad now had a base of operations and the oil wealth to support its grand design or what they call the "Great Caliphate". What this design calls for is the replacement of all secular leadership in any country with Muslim majorities. This would include, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, all the Emirates, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and finally what they call the "occupied territory" Israel.

As a part of this strategy, forces of the jihad will infiltrate governments and the military as a prelude to taking control, once the secular leadership is ousted or assassinated. Such was the case in Lebanon leading to the Syrian occupation and in Egypt with the murder of Anwar Sadat, along with the multiple attempts on the lives of Hussein in Jordan, Mubarak of Egypt and Musharraf in Pakistan. Pakistan is a particular prize because of its nuclear weapons. (Please note al Qaeda call for the Islamic-militant overthrow of Musharraf in Pakistan on March 25th.)

The long-range strategy of the Third Jihad counts on three strategic goals.



First, the U.S. withdrawing from the region just as it did in Southeast Asia, following Vietnam. Second, taking control of the oil wealth in the Muslim countries, which would be upwards to 75% of known reserves; third,
using nuclear weapons or other WMDs to annihilate Israel.

A further outcome of successfully achieving these objectives would be to place the United Nations as the sole arbiter in East/West negotiations and paralyze western resistance, leading to total withdrawal from all Islamic dominated countries.

Evidence of the Bush Administration awareness of this plan is found in the events immediately following the 9/11! attacks. The administration's first move was to shore up Pakistan and Egypt, believing that these two would be
the next targets for al Qaeda, while Americans focused on the disaster in New York. The administration also knew that the most important objective was to send a loud and clear message that the U.S. was in the region to
stay, not only to shore up our allies but to send a message to the Jihadists. The attack on Afghanistan was necessary to break-up a secure al Qaeda base of operations and put their leadership on the run or in prison.

The war in Iraq also met a very strategic necessity in that no one knew how much collaboration existed between Saddam Hussein and the master planners of the Third Jihad or Hussein's willingness to ! hand off WMDs to terrorist groups including the PLO in Israel. What was known were serious indications of on-going collaboration as Saddam funneled money to families of suicide bombers attacking the Israelis and others in Kuwait.

What the U.S. needed to establish was a significant base of operations smack dab in the middle of the Islamic world, in a location, which effectively cut it in half. Iraq was the ideal target for this and a host of other strategic
reasons.

Leadership of various anti-American groups both here and abroad understood the vital nature of the Bush initiative and thus launched their demonstrations, worldwide, to "Stop The War". Failing this, they also laid plans to build a political campaign inside the country, with the War in! Iraq as a plebiscite, using a little known politician as the thrust point--Howard Dean. This helps to explain how quickly the Radical Left moved into the Dean campaign with both people and money, creating what the clueless media called the "Dean Phenomenon".

By building on the left-wing base in the Democrat party and the "Hate Bush" crowd, the campaign has already resulted in a consensus among the aspirants, minus Joe Lieberman, to withdraw the U.S. from Iraq and turn the operation over to the U.N. And, if past is prologue, i.e., Vietnam, once the U.S. leaves it will not go back under any circumstances, possibly even the destruction of Israel.

Should George W. Bush be defeated in November we could expect to see the dominoes start to fall in the secular Islamic countries and The Clash of Civilizations, predicted several years ago by Samuel Huntington, would then become a life-changing event in all of our lives.

What surprised the Jihadists following the 9/11attack was how American sentiment mobilized around the president and a profound sense of patriotism spread across the country. They were not expecting this reaction, based on what had happened in the past, nor were they expecting the determined resolve of the President himself. I also believe this is one of the reasons we have not had any further attacks within our borders. They are content to wait, just as one of their tactical mentors; V.I. Lenin admonished..."two steps forward, one step back".

A couple additional events serve as valuable footnotes to the current circumstances we face: the destruction of the human assets factor of the CIA during the Carter presidency, presided over by the late Senator
Frank Church. This fact has plagued our intelligence agencies right up to this very day with consequences, which are now obvious. And, Jimmy Carter himself, the one man who must bear the bulk of the responsibility for setting the stage of the Third Jihad.


Lastly, we should not expect to see any meaningful cooperation from Western
Europe, especially the French. Since failing to protect their own interests in Algeria (by turning the country over to the first of the Arab terrorists, Ammad Ben Bella), the country itself is now occupied by Islamic immigrants totaling twenty percent of the population.

We are in the battle of our lives, a battle that will go on for many years' possibly even generations. If we fail to understand what we are facing or falter in the challenge of "knowing our enemy" the re! sults will be catastrophic. Imagine a world where al Qaeda regimes control 75% of the world's oil, have at their disposal nuclear weapons, legions of willing suicide soldiers, and our national survival is dependent on the good graces of Kofi Annan and the United Nations.

There is one final footnote, which may be the scariest of all. Either none of the Democrats currently leading the drive to their party's nomination are aware of the facts of the Great Caliphate and Third Jihad or they do know
and they don't care so long as their power lust is satisfied. But, I can guarantee you one thing for sure: some of their most ardent supporters are aware of this and will do anything they can to bring it about.
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Note: this was written before John Kerry had the nomination sewed up...but, recent events clearly demonstrate that Kerry is going to fulfill Abraham's prediction of the Democrats calling for the UN and the French/Germans/Spain coalition to force the US out of Iraq. Also understand that the current 9/11
hearings are a political show, and Clarke's book was timed for these hearings and the campaign. And this is why Condoleezza Rice is seeking a private meeting with this commission to tell it like it is. The national security issues involved around 9/11 cannot be an open book to the public, and I believe we have to understand that.

This is scary stuff. President Bush and! the Republicans are obviously extremely cautious in bringing this issue to the campaign because the left-leaning media and the Kerry Democratic left would call this racist against Islam and a distraction for the alleged lies of WMD and our reasons for going into Iraq. Bush correctly referred to the axis of evil (Iran, Libya, Iraq and North Korea) as a pointed strategy to blunt the (WMD-terrorist movement and he has been very successful in thwarting al Qaeda, despite what everyone on the left says. We are far better off without the threat from Iraq and Libya -- all within the last 12 months. We are threatened in Pakistan and if Musharraf is assassinated (it's been tried several times in the past year), we can see how the militants will gain control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, which have already spread to Ir! an (by a militant Islamic scientist) and if Musharraf is taken out we have both Iran and Pakistan as militant Islamic power bases armed with nuclear weapons. And let's not overlook Mr. Abraham's issue about the potential for militant Islamic states who would control 75% of the world's oil.

This probably why Dick Cheney, Rice, Powell, and Wolfowitz are so committed
to the belief that we are in this struggle for the free world as we have known it and focused on defeating the militant Islamic al Qaeda's global strategy. They skirt the core issues raised by Mr. Abraham in this article because of the political-correctness implications, but after reading this, you understand what is at stake here. Kerry and the liberal Democrats want control of Washington at any price. Abraham clearly spells out what price that is: Victory for al Qaeda and the Islamic
militancy.


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Larry Abraham?s words of foreboding and caution are not far fetched at all, but can be subject to debate in some instances. It seems to me that Osama bin Laden was dealt a serious setback and is taking a timeout to regroup and plan a different plan. Maybe he had an aspiration to become the recognized Islamic Ali Pasha but I figure he had and still has the greater aspiration to become the Islamic Caliph and de facto global ruler. His reckoning that 9/11 would ignite a global Islamic uprising and Jihad turned out to be wrong and he ended up facing forces that he promised would never set foot in Afghanistan, thus he was wrong again. His highly praised and touted 55th (555th ?) Battalion cut and run in Afghanistan and those who didn?t were rendered to a pink raspberry jam vapor/dust soon enough and that didn?t set well at all with the fickled Osama groupies of the time.

What has happened, is happening now and will continue to happen is that Al Qaeda and their ilk will hammer at the west?s perceived week points and try to influence political events via terrorism. They will exploit every nook where they can find political divisionism and hammer away in an effort to gain some traction with a real or perceived more compliant political structure. Spain has rolled over and gave up the fight, France and Italy are facing and struggling with increasing Islamic militancy, threatened terrorism is a factor in Australia?s election process and to a lesser degree this is true in the Philippines and Indonesia. My gloomy thought is that we won?t get through Nov 2 without an effort or multiple efforts to force some Al Qaeda desired outcome via a terrorist attack or attacks. It?s also my thought that the current ratcheting up of the battles in Iraq are directly connected to our election season vacillation, or apparent vacillation. But this then gets into a political debate and we?d have to peruse this discussion in the assigned political debate forum. Any seconds?

Scamp

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BigJohnson
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posted 09-22-2004 12:18 AM
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awsome post dude! long to read but well worth it.

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posted 09-22-2004 07:43 PM
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Yep.Well worth the read.
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Whitehorse
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posted 09-23-2004 05:03 PM
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Reading this, one can see why it's easy to lose patience with these dunces in the hate-Bush crowd. These foolish, foolish people are blithely purveying their tripe while the truly evil are planning to kill us. We have to face this evil head on, like we have been doing under the leadership of President Bush. We have got to roll these islamist terrorists back as far as possible, destroy them if we can. & it's a darn better thing to do it there rather than here!!!

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Locksley
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posted 09-23-2004 08:24 PM
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We must know our enemy because they know us and our every weakness.

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posted 09-24-2004 12:19 AM
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Well that's definitely worth the time to read. Most of that information is new to me, though, so if this is the case, how come no one else is spreading this information? It sure seems to all fit together, so can anyone here confirm this information?
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Locksley
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posted 09-24-2004 08:02 AM
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Larry Abraham - CNP Member 1984, 1988; Chairman of Abraham Financial Corporation, which has interests in oil/gas drilling, precious metals mining, telecommunications, venture capital funding and financial planning. President of Double A Publications; editor, Insider report; Life Member, Committee for Monetary Research and Education; a sponsor for the original National Committee to Legalize Gold (now called National Committee for Monetary Reform); member, International Advisory Board, Wealth Institute 2 and Wealth Magazine; lecturer, author, co-chairman of Freedom Inc. 3 http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.a.htm and also The Council for National Policy: What It Is
John 10: 26-30
"But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one."

Many Evangelical, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Catholic, Mormon and other ecumenically-minded leaders are members of the Council for National Policy, the 500+ member organization which plans the strategy of the Religious Right in the United States.

The CNP, according to their 1996 Telephone Directory, was founded in 1981. While those involved are from the United States, their organizations and influence cover the globe, both religiously and politically. Members include corporate executives, television evangelists, legislators, former military or high ranking government officers, leaders of 'think tanks' dedicated to molding society and those who many view as Christian leadership. Members in many cases are owners or leaders from industry such as lumber, oil, mining, commodities, real estate, the media, including owners of radio, television and print, with all aspects of life covered. Many are involved in education, determining to influence society's direction by direct input with children and youth.
http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.htm

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Locksley
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posted 09-24-2004 08:18 AM
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Also check this sight http://globalspecops.com/clash.html and this one http://uplink.space.com/showflat.php...ce&Number=3810

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Locksley
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posted 09-24-2004 08:38 AM
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This is another article on the third jihad http://support3rdid.com/ubbthreads/s...=0&Number=1746 and this artical http://www.intellectualconservative....ticle3450.html

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I just had Kerry on TV with a speach about a hour long. If there was no such word as " i " the speach would only last a few minutes. Every thing was I will do it I will do it

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