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Combacting Jihadi terrorism:Problems,Processes and Prospects

5/1/2006 5:29:38 PM  Dr.Babu Suseelan

Few days ago, I was in a restaurant in New York.  The newspaper I had been reading reported the death of nine Hindus in Kashmir. A Pakistani Muslim sitting nearby screamed right into my face  “for Hindus  we need more bombs”. On the same day, fifty four Hindus were killed in  Bangladesh by Islamic terrorist. The next day 50 people including children and women were killed in a bomb explosion in Bihar. Today a Taliban terrorist beheaded a Hindu engineer working in Kabul. Within the last year, Muslim terrorists in Kashmir killed several hundred Hindu women, men and children in Jihadi fashion. Few months ago bombs planted by Jiadi terrorists exploded in the temple town of Varanasi, India killing twenty-five people. Attacking temples, parliament house, crowded shopping centers, torching people alive in passenger trains, bombing of hotels and rioting and disrupting public life by Jihadi terrorists is a daily occurrence in India.  Last week forty-five people were killed in a bomb exploded by Jihadi terrorists in Egypt. Several hundred people were killed or maimed by Muslim terrorists in Algeria.  Few weeks ago Islamic Thinkers Society of America demonstrated in front of the Israeli Consulate in New York.  Shouting death to America they were carrying placards with the following slogans:

·                    Israeli Zionists what do you say? The real Holocaust is on its way

·                    The mushroom cloud is on its way! The real Holocaust is on its way

·                    Israel won’t last long…Indeed, Allah will repeat the Holocaust right on the soil of Israel

·                    No wonder they call you sons of apes and pigs because that’s what you are

·                    May the FBI burn in Hell!

·                    Mossad burn in Hell

·                    Homeland Security burn in Hell

·                    Islam will dominate the world

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 The following item was posted inside a major Mosque in London: 

·       “If If a kafir (non-Muslim) is going into a Muslim country and he is walking by, he is like a cow. Anyone can take him. That is the Islamic rule. If Muslims cannot take them, you know, and sell them in the market, then kill them. It is ok”.

 (“Extremism Shows Its Tenacity” The Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2005) These episodes and continuous Jihadi terrorist attacks in India, Israel, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Sudan, and Indonesia have proven Islamic Jihaid’s proclivity for terrorism. Jihadi terrorism around the world is unabated and continues to claim thousands of innocent lives each year. The media is replete with reports of terrorism, bombing, riots, arson, honor killing and beheading by jihadi terrorists. All over the world, Jihadi terrorism is a serious threat to peace, security, liberty and democracy. No country in the world is immune from the deleterious effects of this heinous crime. Worldwide Jihadi terrorism related incidents have increased to 1275 in 2005 from 233 in 1999. One wonders what kind of culture promotes killing of innocent people? Culture is a broad concept and is a stabilizing force. People are socialized into their culture to lead a civilized life. In all Islamic countries, war, violence, riot, terrorism and hostility against non-believers serve Muslims to establish a culturally coherent community. The Koran justifies killing of kaafirs (non-believers).  Jihadi culture is based on war against non-believers. To yell out “foreign pigs”, harassing tourists with non-Islamic name in Muslim countries, to characterize non-Muslims as Kaafirs, to shout Allahu Akbur while beheading infidels are examples of this Jihadi culture. For Jihadis, culture means ritualized violence. Muslims internalize this intolerance of no-believers and the violent culture provides internal cohesiveness and unity and stability and a sense of security and action guidelines for violence. Islamic culture establishes behavior norms, moral principles and provides a foundation for the values. Many hostile social practices against non-Muslims are organized around it, and it provides a rationale and support for ritualized violence. Muslims have a commonality of understanding Islamic rituals and built in cultural hostility towards non-Muslims. In Islam, there is no such thing as listening to your conscience, or questioning of conscience. The history of Islam shows this trend clearly. Islamic clergy justifies killing of infidels according to the laws of Allah, in which a kafir, labeled as Dhimi cannot be regarded as equal to a Muslim, and cannot have any human rights. The Koran, Hadith and Sura clearly state:  

·       Al Allah is the enemy of unbelievers and Dhimis are the enemies of Allah

·        II In Allah’s eyes, unbelievers are the worst of beasts, and the enemies of Allah

 ·       Ne Neither Allah can be expected to grant equal rights to his enemies,nor·       N   do these enemies deserve rights equal to those of Muslims For centuries, Jihadis have resorted to mass murder, oppression, intimidation, kidnapping, terrorism, and assassination in the name of Islam. And today, only the threat, the methods, and goals differ. Now, Jihadi terrorism is one of the greatest single threats to the existing world order. Modern day jihadi terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hizbullah, Lasker-Tobia, Al Bader, Taliban, Al Queda, Tehreek E-Jihadi, and Hizbul Mujahideen virtually ensure that Jihadi terrorism will be with us for many years to come.  

DEADLY JIHADI IDEOLOGY 

It is absolutely essential to understand the deadly ideology, which transforms simple human beings into suicide bombers and terrorists. We cannot deal with the problem of terrorism until and unless we completely comprehend the ideology which extols the virtues of violence and preaches hatred, incite violence and enjoins on its followers to instill terror in the heart of those who do not believe in Allah (8:12), insists on its followers to make a war on unbelievers who dwell around them (9:12) compels its followers to be harsh to unbelievers, tells them that ultimate abode of infidels is Hell, directs them to lay hold in infidels, bind them, burn them in the fire of Hell, then fasten them with a chain of seventy feet long. For, the infidel did not believe in Allah, the Most High. In nutshell, all these guidelines could be construed as Jihad. Jihad is a doctrine of permanent warfare. Jihad, the Holy War and terrorism are almost   synonymous terms. Islam has divided humanity in two parts: Dar-Ul-Harb and Dar-Ul-Islam. Dar-Ul-Islam means the nations where Islam has been firmly established and Dar-ul-Harb means the nation, which is yet to be subjugated bylslam.

                                                                                         

                                Prophet Mohamed has poisoned the minds of Muslims, by telling them that Kaafirs are not just nuisances, but are enemies of Allah, emphasizing repeatedly not to question the morality of this conclusion, but to follow Allah’s system, and that Islamic system has descended to earth from Allah’s Janat (Islamic heaven). There is no God but Allah, and all other Gods are false Gods, they are the works of shaitaan (Devil). Don’t listen to these Gods. They will take you to Hell. It is the bounden duty of each and every Muslim to keep fighting till the rule of Allah is established in all over the world. The killing of 300 innocent children in a school in Beslan, Russia, bomb blast in a train in Spain in which more than 200 people were killed, bomb blast in UK, attack on World Trade Center in New York, burning of Paris, protest demonstration against President George Bush by 500,000 Muslims in Mumbay, burning down Danish Embassy in Beirut after publication of prophet Mohamed’s cartoon in Denmark, all are part of that grand strategy to frighten and terrorize infidels and accept Islamic domination. 

PHONY ROOT CAUSE THEORIES OF JIHADI TERRORISM 

Islamic terrorism is a complex subject. The terrorism field is loaded with many experts, each claiming special knowledge of the subject that have aroused so much controversy while continuing to be misunderstood by so many. There are phony liberals, leftist intellectuals and pseudo secularists marketing mindless root cause theories of Jihadi terrorism including western interference, Israel’s policies, rapid social change, poverty, unemployment, low self-esteem, need for affiliation, unmet childhood needs, and so forth. And of course, these are psychological excuses. The misguided leftists and armchair speculators miss the point. Where do they fit in? This phony, liberal root cause theorists are like an old farmer who for the first time in his life sees a big blue whale on the seashore and says, “I see it, but I don’t believe it”. The pseudo liberal social scientists are imbued with ethereal, pre-fabricated, utopian ideas, which are too far divorced from reality. While the excuse industry promotes faulty root cause theories, Jihadi terrorists are engaged in kidnapping, gratuitous beheading, looting, killing, bombing, airline hijacking, suicide murder, car bombing, and terrorizing innocent infidels all over the world. These Islamist apologists have no clue on the true nature of Jihadi terrorism. The butchery of Jihadi terrorism is explained in social causes and understandable Islamic grievances. It fails to distinguish between legitimate use of social protests and terrorism. It seems that communists and Islamist have established an unholy nexus and frequently shed crocodile tears for the innocent victims.  It is vital to understand that Islamic menace exists because of liberal’s habitual tolerance of intolerance.  Their tolerance of intolerance is not tolerance. This type of pathological tolerance, sobering sympathy for Jihadis and stony indifference to victims is immoral and barbaric. In democratic societies, we cannot survive if we believe in phony, meaningless, abstract, leftist theories of Jihadi terrorism. Uncritical acceptance of false, unsubstantiated root cause theories peddled by communists and leftist liberals will have disastrous consequences for everyone. Such mental misdirection and deliberate psycho-linguistic-programming will result in our psycho paralysis.  Free thinking, peace loving people would be wise to make a motivational analysis of such pseudo intellectual’s extreme insensitivity to the victims of terrorism, and syrupy sympathy for Jihadi terrorists. Jihadi terrorism is not over the policies of the U.S, Israel, India, or due to globalization, rapid social change, poverty, and lack of self-esteem. Rather, terrorism is stemming from the ideology, the cognitive-behavior process, and criminal thinking of jihadi Muslims.  Another optimistic conclusion of the liberals is that introducing democracy in Islamic nations can eliminate Jihadi terrorism.  It is divorced from empirical evidence.   It is wishful thinking over reality. Islam and the governmental system known as democracy are indeed incompatible. Democracy is the rule of the majority and Islam is the will of Allah. Either the society accepts the will of the majority or one accepts that society is ordered by the divine will of Allah. All Islamic society accepts the divine will of Allah. Promoting democracy in Islamic societies without breaking the closed Islamic dogma is futile and wasteful. 

MISGUIDED MUSLIMS: A MISNOMAR 

There is one more misconception that Jihadi terrorists are misguided Muslims and that they are not real Muslims. The Jihadi terrorists are not misguided Muslims. They are the real Muslims doing what their prophet instructed them to do. Several misguided leftists also nurture the fallacious notion that Islam is peace and Muslims are peace-loving people.  This assumption is based on ignorance and lack of understanding of the brutal past of Islam. Non-Islamic countries in Asia and the Middle East have been suffering from jihadi terrorism for hundreds of years. India has been experiencing Jihadi terrorism for several centuries. The Mughal King Akbar had killed 30,000-40,000 Hindus in one day. It is common knowledge in India that 14,000 Hindu girls burnt themselves in the fire, in a city named Chittor in Rajasthan in India when Hindu soldiers were not able to defend the homes of their womenfolk against the barbarian Islamic forces. Timur the terrible had ordered his Jihadi warriors to kill 100,000 Hindu prisoners in one day. The sword of Islam was washed in the blood of the infidels. In 1946, more than 5000 Hindus were slaughtered in Kolkatta, India in one day, when the Muslim Chief Minister of Bengal, an Indian state, ordered direct action against Hindus if they did not agree to partition of India. Islam brought war, beheading, murder, assassination and mass killing to India, a country known for religious tolerance, pluralism, peace and harmony.    

BRUTAL HISTORY OF ISLAM 

Throughout its recorded history, fundamentalist Islam tried to establish an ontological form of Islam through Jihadi terrorism. For centuries, Jihadis have resorted to mass murder, oppression, torture and terrorism in the name of Islam. The basic premises of Jihadi terrorist is that their violent acts stem from feelings of rage, hatred reinforced by their Islamic belief system. The addictive Islamic thinking convinces Jihadi terrorists that attack on infidels would restore Islamic pride and prove to the infidel world that Jihad warriors are full of confidence and Islamic pride. Islamic past is replete with war, conquest, death and destruction. Islam caused the disappearance of several civilization and millions of innocent people throughout Europe, Middle East and Asia. Muslims invaders are known for ethnic cleansing, burning of libraries, destruction of temples and educational institutions and statues of historical significance. There were 24% Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan in 1947 when India was divided. After Pakistan was declared as an Islamic nation, reign of terror, murder and rape was let loose against Hindus and Sikhs. They were given two choices either to convert to Islam or face death. At present, the number of Hindus has been reduced to 1 percent in Pakistan. In East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, there were 35% Hindus and Christians in 1947. They were also tortured and butchered in Jihadi tradition. Many were killed or forcefully converted. Today non-Muslims comprise only 8% percent of the population in Bangladesh. In 1989, in India ruled Kashmir, 350,000 Hindus were driven out by Jihadis. They are still languishing in refuge camps outside Kashmir. India has faced several deadly Jihadi terrorist incidences since 1947. Muslim Jihadis are engaged in riots, violence, bombing, murder, assassination, looting and terrorism against Hindus in India and it is unabated. Bombs are exploding daily in India. Historians have said that the Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in the history of the world. 

CEIMINAL THINKING OF JIHADI TERRORISTS

 Koran and Hadit encourage and motivate Muslims to fight against infidels. Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs and all non-believers are target for attack. They often seek to identify infidels as targets because of their ideological beliefs. Jihadis justify terrorism by rationalization and show no fear, guilt, remorse, shame or empathy. Islam is a control system, a closed dogma and it is designed to exclude dialogue, outside input, and forbid freethinking. Whatever Muslims do, wherever they go, Muslims are mandated to maintain status quo and the closed paradigm. They cannot tolerate the existence of different versions of the closed Islamic paradigm. Differences within the Islamic paradigm are settled with war (Sunni, Shia, Ahamedia, Bahai). In so doing this provides more conviction for those committed to the paradigm tightly. Islam cannot and will not tolerate any emerging cosmic, epistemological, scientific, philosophical concepts if it is a threat to core components of Islam. Muslims are forced to neutralize new ideas by the power and control system of the Islamic clergy. Islamic states use force and other control mechanisms to maintain equilibrium and the closed Islamic thought system. Their goal is to make the world as Darul-Islam (the house of Islam) where Islam rules and the non-Muslims world as Darul-Harb (the house of war) that has to be conquered. The non-Muslim world should be terrorized, intimidated, oppressed and conquered for Muslims. The Islamic paradigm’s primary core belief is in a powerful Allah, and Allah has revealed his will through Mohamed, the only and the last prophet. All other means of knowing other than through Mohamed

are subject to error. Any emerging knowledge of even the most insignificant nature cannot be true if it is in any way incompatible with Allah’s revelation. The Islamic system has very strong prescriptive implications. All norms and social practices are rooted in Allah’s will. Allah’s will cannot be thwarted and must prevail. Thus the Islamic paradigm may influence anything a Muslim might do or think about.

 Islamic thinking patterns are very similar to criminal and addictive thinking. Jihadi Muslims, addicts and criminals say it is okay to violate others (infidels) or their property. Jihadi Muslims, addicts and criminals think it is okay to infringe the freedom of others as much as you like and to do whatever you need to get high. The main feature of this addictive, criminal, Islamic thinking is denial. They construct a wall of denial and hide behind their wall of denial and justify the use of force and deceptive techniques no matter what harm they cause to others. They have no fear, guilt, shame, empathy, and remorse and engage in constant blame game. They are obsessed with their desire to hurt others and march towards a self-destructive road through their dysfunctional behavior. Obsessed with their addictive/criminal thinking, they think and act irrationally, because their thoughts and behavior revolve around their obsessive thoughts, false justification and erroneous excuses about their criminal acts.  The continued pattern of such thinking and behavior leads to destructive acts. When thinking errors become thinking patterns the stage is set for continual, habitual destructive behavior. To stay in their denial, they blame the victims, they lie, invent imaginary causes, twists facts-anything that serve their addictive/criminal thinking and deadly actions. They are governed by the pleasure principle. They seek pleasure by inflicting pain on others. The addicts, criminals and Jihadi Muslims have a tendency to ‘Push’ responsibility for their actions to the outside (i.e., blaming circumstances, society, or even the victim). They exhibit grandiose ideas and are reluctant to accept personal responsibility for their destructive behavior. Instead of critical, constructive or concrete thinking, or taking purposeful actions, they tend to show a false sense that they can do anything and blame others. Like criminals with criminal thinking, Jihadi Muslims seldom think the rules don’t apply to them and they do not recognize other’s rights and con innocent people and compel others into doing what they want. The greatest obstacle in beginning successful prevention and cure for terrorism is the denial of the addictive/criminal-thinking pattern of Jihadi Muslims. How do Muslims train Jihadi terrorists?  Jihadi terrorists are indoctrinated and socialized into deviant behavior at an early age in Islamic religious schools called madras’s. Islam is a closed political dogma disguised in ecclesiastical terms and its is designed to exclude dialogue, outside input, and forbid freethinking. They are brainwashed into the closed, dysfunctional paradigm and they are mandated to maintain the rigid, reductionist dogma wherever they go, whatever they do. Muslims are trained to neutralize new ideas, reject any paradigm shift, new concepts, theories and rational ideas. Islamic states and Islamic religious leaders use force, other control mechanisms including fatwah to maintain equilibrium and the closed, rigid, dysfunctional thought system. Islamic states spend their resources and energy to reinforce their Islamic closed paradigm and make Islamic societies into ‘islands of no change’ where individual freedom, human rights, and creativity are curtailed and crushed. In order to maintain their closed Islamic system, Islamic states ignore modern education, human rights, women’s liberation, art, literature, science, philosophy and diplomacy. As a result, Muslim fundamentalists never tolerate freethinking, rational ideas, pluralism, secularism, and religious tolerance. The Islamic toxic order is maintained by intimidation, threat and violence. For Muslims, maintaining the closed system is more important that social progress, democracy, and free spirited, creative thinking.  This leads Muslims being ‘chewed up’ by the dogmatic system and is willing to sacrifice their life through suicide bombing, terrorism, riot, arson, violence and constant war against infidels.                                             Who are behind Islamic education system? Who are the financiers? Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Libya, Pakistan, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates and Sudan are providing financial and logistical support for terrorists. They train young Muslims and indoctrinate them with rigid, hostile Islamic ideology. In India where politicians are engaged in vote bank politics provide millions of dollar for Islamic education. Over 145 million Muslims are living in India and the national and state governments provide subsidy for Islamic education and Hajj pilgrimage to appease Muslims. It is also reported that the World Bank is providing financial assistance for Islamic maddrasa education. There are more than 70,000 Madrassas in Bangladesh and Pakistan training Jihadis to fight in the name of Islam. Jiahdis settled in Europe and USA also finances Jihadi training schools in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Muslim immigrant communities who are alienated from the mainstream society and refuse to assimilate into host countries culture provide support for Jihadi terrorism. The hidden agents of Islam are working overtime behind and on the sidelines of the scene to spread the destructive Jihad dogma into democratic countries. Their ultimate goals are to subvert democracy, and introduce intolerant Sharia type Islam. Islamic clergies funded by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and aided and abetted by immigrant Muslims recruit and indoctrinate Muslims for Jihadi terrorism. They use sophisticated brainwashing techniques to indoctrinate them, provide financial and logistical support and send them to different parts of the world for terrorist acts. 

OBSTACLES TO EFFECTIVE TERRORISM PREVENTION 

Given that the primary outcome anticipated from terrorism intervention is the protection of the public, efforts to prevent Jihadi terrorism are paramount. Resistance to reform has been evident in Islam. Since its inception, prophet Mohamed resisted various forms of reform including tolerance, freedom, pluralism and democracy. Although resistance to reform has been observed throughout the history of Islam, it has manifested in a variety of defensive mechanisms intended to protect Muslims from becoming aware of unacceptable thoughts. Reformation in Islam is not possible until Muslims are forced to freedom from their pathological addiction to the rigid, closed dogma. Thus the elimination of resistance is the cornerstone of any counter terrorism strategy. Resistance serves as a self-protective function for Muslims. Resistance occurs due to their distorted thinking and thinking errors. It seems from Muslim’s cognitive rejection of explanation of their rigid Islamic dogma that are inconsistent with their pre-existing schema is to preserve their rigid, deadly Islamic dogma. The degree of resistance and the reasons for it are constantly changing. It is imperative that resistance to change could be eliminated through the development of strong paradigm breaking strategies. Effective result oriented programs shall be implemented to reduce or weaken the conditions that maintain resistance. To further compound the situation, Islamic societies often do not acknowledge that they need to reform Islam. Jihadis view their criminal behavior is an egosyntonic manner. That is they are relatively unconcerned about their actions. The indifference of Islamic culture and its influence of terrorists mask our awareness of terrorist psychology. We need a systematic and comprehensive assessment of Islamic social constructs for the successful planning, implementation and delivery of appropriate and effective plan of actions. Muslim’s temperamental and personality factors conducive to criminal activity such as grandiosity, callousness, impulsivity, anger, egocentrism, and poor problem solving skills are all potential factors to consider, since they can influence Jihadi terrorists to engage in terrorist acts. Attitudinal characteristics that should be addressed include antisocial attitudes, values and beliefs and their perception of non-believers.  Best prevention policies and strategies must start with good assessment, knowing Jihadi terrorist’s ideology, motivational level, cognitive style, criminal risk and need. If we can study their criminal ideology, and target their criminal risk and need, then we can design more effective plan of action to prevent and counter terrorism.  The policies of preventing and countering terrorism have changed dramatically since September 2001. Currently western democratic nations are engaged in identifying, arresting, prosecuting Jihadi terrorists. High-intensity prevention and detention policies and programs are probably a step in the right direction. But here too, if Islamic societies do not accept change ‘body and soul’, the chances are very high they will revert back into old criminal behaviors and most likely resort to terrorism.  What more can be done to that is not already being done?  We currently point to the amount of dollars we spent, the number of people we have employed in security, and we show that we have arrested several terrorists. However, we still have little to show in the way of winning the war on terrorism. We have enacted several security policies and introduced several high tech programs. Although these policies may be understandable within the boarder political, societal and cultural context, they are loosely related to the root cause of Jihadi terrorism. Identifying, imprisoning and detaining individual Jiahdi terrorists tend to have less impact. The same is true of negotiation with Islamic militants, appeasement, economic assistance, and political truce. Some of these less appropriate policies and plan of action have been found to have negative effects. Various types of policies and strategies are relatively successful in the short term, but will fail over the long term. There are many inconsistencies and blind spots in these legal, military, economic strategies. 

There are clearly some concepts that are key to effective terrorism prevention strategies. They are:

   Dynamic risk assessment of Jihadi terrorists

·        Appropriate targeting of specific criminogenic needs of Jihadi militants

·        Restructuring Islamic schools, Teaching of Koran should be modified or banned

·        Neutralization of Jiahdi social networks

·        Psycholinguistic and cognitive-behavior programs to secularize Islamic societies

·        Strengthening of protective factors of democratic societies

·        Long-term strategies shall include restructuring or destroying the closed, destructive, rigid ideology of Islam, its values, anti social attitudes, and false belief system.

·        Weaken by changing strongly defended core Jihadi beliefs, or by changing seriously sanctioned to something like ignored or ridiculed

·        Weaken and change cosmic Islamic version and epistemological beliefs

·        Control unrestricted immigration of Muslims

·        Develop at minimum, unified, standardized, international norms for dealing with terrorism in all countries

·        Disqualify Islamic states supporting Jihadi terrorism from International Organizations including United Nations

·        Restrict conversion of into Islam

·        Block all terrorist financial route

    We need to develop high-intensity programs including psycho-linguistic programming, cognitive-behavior restructuring strategies and psychological warfare to break the closed Islamic paradigm. A powerful tool that may help us to break the rigid Islamic paradigm and win the war on terror is the media. We need films, videos, TV channels and Internet games, audiocassettes, videocassettes made available to the public that deals strictly with Jihadi terrorism and related issues. On the film and TV shows, there could be stories of victims, reformed terrorists, and what’s going on in their lives now and “were are they now feature”, stories of oppressed women in Islamic countries, honor killing, and stories of women and teenage suicide bombers. The challenge before us is to translate all available legal, military, economic, political, psychological and social concepts and strategies to eliminate Jihadi terrorism once for all. Jihadi terrorism could be wiped out from the face of the earth only democratic nations including USA, UK, Russia, Israel, France, Japan and India join together and take concrete plan of actions to destroy the deadly Jihadi terrorism and the dogmatic, reductionist ideology that sustains and promotes Jihaditerrorism                                                                                                               Remember, many of us here never been stripped of our freedoms, because we are people of luxury that haven’t the slightest clue of what if it like to wake up one day and have our “rights” taken away, and that is why it is so much more important for us to take the responsibility of understanding what is truly going on because we have been blessed with the taste and fruit of freedom. Therefore, we should not wait until it’s torn and weak to start grasping tighter to it. If you cherish your freedom then you must fight for it. Much blood was shed so that you could have it and if it means anything to you then you should pay attention to what is going on today in the name of Islam.   

THIS WAR ON JIHADI TEERORISM WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE.