Will It Stop Terrorism To Build Schools?

No. It won't. But it will help.

In Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson wrote:

"I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death."

This is nonsense.

First of all, there are children all over the world who are not offered a bright future, but who have, nevertheless, never thought of dedicating their lives to destroying the free world.

What about the two Muslim doctors in Britain who were planning a suicide attack on the Glasgow Airport? It is only by luck that the deadly devices didn't detonate. One of them who provided money for the cars and bombs was a senior house officer in the neurology department of University Hospital of North Staffordshire. Does this sound like someone "without a bright enough future?"

Islamic terrorism has its roots in the ideology of Islam. The primary doctrinal source of Islam, the Qur'an, teaches hatred and encourages violence against non-Muslims. That simple fact needs to be acknowledged worldwide by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Then we'll be able to solve the problem. As long as we avoid that fact, our efforts will not succeed.

The content of the Qur'an is not at all difficult to confirm. Stop listening to opinions and read the Qur'an yourself to find out.

Even with all that, it is also true that helping give poor Muslim children an alternative to a maddrassa will help produce Muslim adults who are less interested in following their holy book to the letter, and that is a good thing. It would help. But it is not the whole solution by any means.

Read more about Mortenson's work.

Read more about the Islamic ideology.

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Pat Condell: Islam is Not a Victim

PAT CONDELL is so eloquent and makes so many good points so quickly and with such intelligence, it's like listening to great music. Here's one of my favorite videos of his:



Pat has a collection of his rants on DVD for sale on his web site. I just ordered it and I'm going to put it on audio and listen to it in my car. He has constructed some sharp ways of communicating his points — points we are all trying to make in our conversations — so his brief talks are worth studying. We can use Pat's skill to help us communicate our points to our friends and family with style and punch and persuasiveness.

Let's listen to his talks over and over. Let's get the rhythm, the humor, the information, the order he delivers it in and the language he uses to deliver it, and let's use all that to persuade and convince people we talk to. The most important thing you can do to help turn the tide against Islam's relentless encroachment is teach people about Islam. Pat can help.

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Support an Open Fuel Standard

"THIS YEAR, the United States and other countries will send OPEC countries more money than the United States taxpayers send our own Department of Defense," says Anne Korin in the video below.

This can change. It costs very little for car manufacturers to tweak their engines so they can burn several different kinds of fuels — in other words, to create a single engine that can burn ethanol and methanol and gasoline, whichever is available or cheapest. Car manufacturers already make some of their cars with this tweak. If car manufacturers were required to do this by the government (just as they are required to build in seat belts), fuel companies would have enough confidence to build fueling stations for alternative fuels, and then what would happen? The different kinds of fuels could compete.

Right now oil is a fuel monopoly. It is the only fuel most cars use. This monopoly is controlled by OPEC. They don't produce all the oil on the market, but they produce such a large amount that they can change the global price of oil when they wish. This means the global price of oil is controlled by Jihadis, and they are using their oil monopoly to do two things at once: To fund a global jihad, and to weaken the free world.

The idea of "drill here, drill now" will help remove money from OPEC and put it into the U.S. market, which is a good thing, but it still leaves OPEC controlling oil prices, which means Jihadis are controlling the price of transportation, which means Jihadis are controlling the global economy. "Drill here, drill now" is a good thing to do, but it is not the whole solution. Whenever more oil is added to the global market, OPEC reduces its output accordingly. Their control of their output controls the price. It is oil jihad. We need to defeat it with freedom. In this case, a free market competition between transportation fuels.

In the U.S., we only use 2% of our oil creating electricity. Building more nuclear power plants or wind turbines won't help much with the transportation issue until more cars and trucks are electric. But making more fuel options possible (by mandating the open fuel standard) will strongly impact the transportation issue quickly, giving us freedom from the monopoly, and freedom from control by OPEC, while cutting off a significant flow of money to people committed to sabotaging Western democracies.

Watch Anne Korin speak about the problem and the solution in the video below. Korin is the director of policy and strategic planning at Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and the editor of Energy Security:



The simplest, cheapest, quickest way to eliminate OPEC's control on the world economy is making it a law that cars must be made with an open fuel standard. Do you want to cut off money going to Jihadis bent on the West's destruction? Write to your representatives now.

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The Situation Is Urgent

THE BLOGGER, PinkNeck, wrote an article about the movie, Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. It is a great summary of why we are working so hard to stop Islam's relentless encroachment. One of the points she made is:

I know when you watch Obsession you will wonder if this is an exaggeration. It is not: It is only the tip of the iceberg. In fact, in the year since this DVD was released in September of 2007, Islam has attacked Infidels 2,317 times! Since 9/11 they have attacked non-believers 12,091 times. Across the world they have killed thousands upon thousands of people. (Figures listed are from thereligionofpeace.com which keeps extremely accurate records of all the attacks since 9/11.)

So why haven’t you heard more about this? For one thing, the liberal media and our politically correct societies feel all religions have a right to worship any way they want. But Islam is not a religion like any other on the planet. It is more accurately a government out to destroy all other forms of government. And it is far worse than any communism or dictatorship.

While we are helping our kids with their schoolwork, while we are watching our favorite television show, and while we are putting in the extra hours at work to get that promotion — while all of this is going on, Islam is marching forward, worming its way through the cracks, gaining concessions, and out-and-out killing innocent people all over the world.

PinkNeck published this article just a little while ago, and already the total number of attacks is significantly larger. And some of these attacks kill or maim a lot of people in a single bomb-blast, causing unspeakable suffering to the families of the victims. Many times a day these bombings and shootings are occurring around the world. On The Religion of Peace site PinkNeck mentions, scroll down a little and you can see what Jihadis have done in the last couple of days. I just looked at it, and it describes six attacks in the last two days. The top item is from yesterday: "Assam, India — Harkat-ul-Jehadi-e-Islami terrorists massacre over seventy people in six deadly blasts across several towns."

They must be stopped.

The first step is for enough people to be aware it is happening and to understand why it's happening. You are the key. Be as gentle as you can, but help people understand what's going on. This information is not getting out fast enough. Getting this information out there — making people understand this and getting through their resistance to the information — this is not a prelude to the battle; this IS the battle!

If you need to learn more about Islam, read PinkNeck's entire article: Obsession the Movie. It's a great overview of the problem and the solution.

If you want some coaching on how to introduce this topic to people, go here: The Least You Need To Know.

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Citizen Warrior Heroes

I'VE CREATED a new blog, Citizen Warrior Heroes. It has positive stories about people or organizations who are standing up to Islam's relentless encroachment to expose it or successfully stop it.

Sometimes this topic — dealing with jihad and terrorism and the Jihadis' hatred of the West, and so on — can be disturbing. It's upsetting. And some of us hesitate to share such upsetting information with people we know. It's really almost too much to confront.

So I thought the new site would have a more positive feel to it. I'll be publishing short articles you can forward — articles that still help people understand Islam's insidious imposition, but communicating it in a more inspiring, shareable way.

When articles are short, they are more likely to be read. When they are positive, they are more likely to be passed on.

Anyway, check it out: Citizen Warrior Heroes. And pass it on. If you subscribe via email, you can then easily forward the short posts to others. Let's get the word out!

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