The Truth About Islamic Fundamentalists

Perhaps one of the greatest travesties from our war on terror was the knee jerk reaction of many in the media and Academic America after 9-11: “what have we done to them to cause them to hate us so much.” It is a fair question. Unfortunately many people failed to answer the question fairly. The solid truth is we have done little to nothing to warrant the attack and the initiation of this war. We pay them handsomely for their oil. Many have been made billionaires from oil revenues and the disbursement of that money and its use to develop infrastructure and jobs inside the oil-based countries is not our responsibility. We have assisted Arabic nations in their struggles, Albanian Muslims against Christian Serbs, Afghanis against Russian invaders, fed Somali Muslims starving in famine, and even provided aid to Iranians following an earthquake. Our federal aid dollars to countries like Pakistan are staggering. It is ludicrous to even begin to think that we are the cause of their hatred. Yet, there are, after 9-11 and persisting to this day, millions of people who contend we are to blame. Numerous books and magazine articles depict the West as the evil and terrorist attacks as the retaliation of victims. The result has been tragic because it shifts the focus off the real reason why these people attack us. That real reason is a fervent religious ideology that wants to destroy us because we stand in the way of their religious utopia.

The Jihadists in Pakistan and Yemen, and the theocrats in Iran are bent on continuing the fight regardless of what our media and our liberal academics say about America. Radical Islam adheres to the following global vision statement:

Islam is not a normal religion like the other religions in the world, and Muslim nations are not like normal nations. Muslim nations are very special because they have a command from Allah to rule the entire world and to be over every nation in the world. Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam doesn’t look for a nation to be in better condition than another nation. Islam doesn’t care about land or who owns the land. The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam. Any nation or power in this world that tries to get in the way of that goal Islam will fight and destroy. In order for Islam to fulfill that goal, Islam can use every power available every way it can be used to bring worldwide revolution. This is jihad.¹

Written in 1970 by Mawlana Abdul Ala Mawdudi, the founder of the Pakistani fundamentalist Islamic movement, this clearly articulates the ultimate goal of the Jihadist Movement.

The goal is evident throughout the Islamic World. Following the bombings in London in 2005, a Palestinian Cleric spoke on Palestinian television saying, we must “annihilate the infidels and the polytheists, your enemies and the enemies of the religion. God count them and kill them to the last one, and don’t leave even one.”² This goal is taught at a very young age. Jordanian textbooks for children in middle school states, “This religion [Islam] will destroy all other religions through the Islamic Jihad Fighters.”³ Simply put, radical Muslims believe that to kill nonbelievers advances Islam’s domination of the world. The ultimate goal is clearly world domination. This is not hyperbole. They speak it from their pulpits, and they broadcast it in the classrooms. Radical Islam seeks world domination. Period. We are and will continue to be one of their primary targets. - Mark Green MD

¹ Mawlana Abdul Ala Mawdudi, The Threat of Theocracy: Islam and World Domination, Breaking Spells, December 9, 2007. Pg. 1. http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/the-threat-of-theocracy-islam-and-world-domination/

² Palestinian Television Broadcast, July 8, 2005 presented on the DVD Obsession, Chapter 4

³ Jordanian School Book, 1998, presented on the DVD Obsession, Chapter 4