WW III: The World’s Largest Terrorist Group
[Part four in a series]
The diplomats of America, Britain and a few other nations tell us that we are five years into a “war on terror.” It’s an understatement they don’t want us to perceive. But what is “terror” anyway? Who is the enemy? Is this a war that includes the concept and goal of victory?
To answer the last questions first: no and no. The “war” is largely against the people of the states that proclaimed it but are not soberly waging it. How can they when they persistently refrain from answering the first two questions, what is terror and who is the enemy?
Want a scare? How do you suppose President Rodham-Clinton might define “terror” or her enemies?
Years ago President Bush made one speech identifying the enemy as “terrorists and the states that support them.” Except for one brief reiteration by new publicist Tony Snow, that valuable clarification has been buried. Thus, this writer again takes the challenge of identifying not only terror and terrorism but the “world’s largest terrorist group. Surely we should be at war with them, assuming those who lead and control our nations want the true war to be waged and won.
Please see the essays, “WW III, the War of Lies” parts one and two for useful context on this subject. But to push on for today…
The Jewish people know that jihad has been ongoing for 1400 years but why ask them about terror? They just need to cease fire, shut up and acquiesce in carving another terror state from their central hills and valleys for this too is a major, or perhaps the major State Department policy of the past decade. So Jews shut up; but do hear Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the spiritual leader of Iran and the world’s Shiites who declared on July 31 that Iran and Hizbollah would lead Muslim nations in destroying the “Zionist wolves” as well as “the Great Satan,” America. The founder of Hizbollah, Subhi al-Tefeili has stated that its supreme leader, above Hassan Nasrallah is Ali Khamenei (memri July 24, 2006, #289), so he ought to know about the parties to the war.
In a similar vein, President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has become a challenging household name by promising almost everyday to “destroy the Zionist entity” (Israel) and extinguish it from the Middle East.
So let’s try to identify the world’s largest terrorist group. Those who already have answered “the U.S. State Department” go sit in the corner. We said the largest and will add most overtly violent, not the most sinister or hypocritical group. The truth busters at Foggy Bottom may not even be the wealthiest bunch of terrorists although they no doubt are allied with them, but leave that question for another time…
On July 12, the army of Allah (“Hizbollah”) attacked Israel, murdering six soldiers guarding the border and kidnapping two others. They followed this with barrages of rockets that have not ceased since. Does the army of Allah deserve the accolade of “the world’s largest terrorist group?” After all, three weeks later it still is attacking Israel with rockets and fending off IDF cross border raids whose ostensible purpose is to stop the barrages. Today about two hundred rockets hit Israel, some reaching Hadera, thirty miles north of Tel Aviv.
Adducing the above comment by Hezbollah’s founder, Mr. Khamenei, the Middle East Media Research Institute states that “Hizbollah is not an independent Lebanese organization; it is part and parcel of the Iranian State” (ibid) that, after all, created the “army.” Moreover, Mohsen Rezai, former head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Secretary in its current cabinet publicly announces Hizbollah’s military policies and states that “Lebanon is in the hands of Hezbollah” (memri 7-27-06, #1215). Editors representing the top Iranian religious seminaries at Qom refer repeatedly to their “jihadist movement in Hizbollah-Lebanon” (Jomhouri-ye Eslami cited in memri #1216, 7-28-06). And they disparage “muftis of the court” (of Saud) and “the mufti of Al-Azhar” [University in Cairo]for criticizing their military unit, Hizbollah and its attack on Israel.
“Hizbollah is part of us…the Islamic Republic [Iran] is with it physically, militarily and financially” states Muktada al Sader head of the Iran-backed Shiite “mahdi army” that today led hundreds of thousands of Shiites through the streets of Baghdad screaming, “death to Israel” and “death to America… The Mahdi Army and Hezbollah are one” said al Sadr. Mr. Ahmadinejad considers himself the Mahdi, the twelfth or “hidden Imam” who has emerged from a thousand-year nap to take the world into apocalyptic chaos…
So, we have established that Hizbollah is part of the Iranian armed forces, has the fervent backing of the highest powers in Iran’s government and affiliated Shiite courts within and outside of Iran, and that the artificial state of “Lebanon,” a Franco-British concoction with no national basis and more unstable even than “Iraq” is a de facto colony of Iran via Hizbollah which also dominates the government of Lebanon, “its borders, seacoast and security, even the streets and alleys of Beirut” asserts Rezai, and the fighting bears him out. ”Beirut is our [Hezbollah’s] capital” says Nasrallah. Thus, the “Lebanese” army has been assisting Hezbollah’s war on Israel and is a party to the war. But the client government in Israel has the war aim of strengthening rather than destroying this army. No victory in sight there, unless it’s for terror…
Perhaps than we could award Iran - Lebanon the prize of being the world’s largest terrorist group, or even broaden it, as al Sadr’s words and deeds suggest to include all Shiite Muslims. But there’s a bit more evidence to consider before giving out the gold.
On July 28, 2006, the Iranian News agency, Fars reported on a meeting in Damascus between Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary, Ali Larijani and Hassan Nasrallah, head of Hezbollah (Memri #1228, 8-03-06). This underscores the identity of Iran with Hezbollah and adds the artificial, Franco-British state of Syria, whose capital is Damascus to the running for top terror-dog. So the group is not solely Shiite.
Iran and its State News Agency subsequently took a page from the Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s 1984 by trying to erase all official mentions of the visit (ibid). But the ugly truth was out. The news site Sharq (http://shaghonline.ir/news/archivevs) not only confirmed the connection in Damascus but added that there were two meetings: one between the Iranian delegation and Hamas chieftain Khaled Meshal and his Deputy, Abu Marzouq, and a second meeting between the Iranians and Islamic Jihad, including its Secretary General, Ramadan Abdallah Shalah. At these meetings, Iran’s Larijani also was said to have assured Palestinians (an artificial state and people in the making) that he “was certain of Hezbollah’s victory” against Israel (Memri op. cit.).
This assemblage indicates the multifaceted, heterodox shape of the world’s largest terror group. It includes the Iranian-led Shiite factions, most prominently Hezbollah that via Iran’s ally, Syria (Debkafile June 23 and Memri 7-13-06, #1204) and the “Mahdi army” in Mesopotamia are linked with the Sunni Muslim groups including Hamas and the Islamic brotherhood, both originally native to Egypt and now funded by the House of Saud and worldwide in membership.
The Anglo-American diplomats, in sending their soldiers to fight for “freedom and democracy in Iraq” have compounded the lies at the root of these problems. ”Iraq” is a fiction and so is the notion that it is amenable to democracy. The Anglo-American elites have hastened its disintegration into explicitly Jihadist components.
The enemy certainly seems to be coming into view, and yet those who lead what’s left of the west defiantly refuse to call things by their names, perhaps because living in glass houses they prefer not to throw stones…
Thus, although Israel is only fractionally mobilized it is battling elements of a vast global jihad in “Lebanon-Hizbollah” which is part of Iran’s armed forces and linked via Damascus with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and even the Bush administration’s major initiative, that agglomeration of lies, “democratic Iraq.” But there’s more, even without noting that Damascus is the main vector for the Vatican’s various Middle Eastern plans or Mel Gibson’s status as a true son of the Church…
Bear in mind that the European Union, Russia and most of the UN do not list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization although its youth groups dress in brown shirts, give the familiar Nazi salute and are pledged to the murder of Jews. The EU, Russia and the UN thus must be okay with the extermination of the Jews that Ahmadinejad promises. After all, there’s a photo of Kofi Anan shaking hands with Hezbollah’s chief Nasrallah and “thanking him for maintaining security in south Lebanon” (Beirut 2000). Could these European and other states be part of the world’s largest terror group?
Don’t ask any street corner brown-shirted thug: go to the top of one of the states most concerned with global jihad. Ask the Syrian Deputy Minister of Religious Endowment, Abad al-Sattar who states, “Jihad is now incumbent on every Muslim, Arab and Christian [sic, Christians can’t do jihad, but let him explain]. The time has come for the duty of jihad.”
What does this heterodox ecumenism entail? Here is the relevant religious text that al-Sattar cites: “The Koran depicts the people of Israel in a very sinister and dark way. Allah did not curse any other people… the only ones who were cursed are those murderous criminals [Jews]… The people who were given the Torah are likened to a donkey carrying books. They were also likened to apes and pigs. And they are, indeed, the descendants of apes and pigs as the Koran teaches us… This is a Koranic text. Islam is Islam and the Koran is the Koran. One cannot change even a single letter of it” (Memri 7-28-06, #1217, Syrian Television 7-21-06 & 11-08-05).
There it is: Islam is Islam. The Koran tells us that Jews are descended from apes and pigs, and Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas-Islamic Jihad agree with the Religious Minister in Damascus that the Jews must be exterminated, complete with Nazi uniforms and salutes.
It is not true that this is Neo-Nazism: these words show Islam to be the original Nazism, the original ideological project to exterminate the Jews. And Mel and his Church long have been in substantial de facto agreement with this goal and done their worst to provide examples and incitement.
The world’s largest terrorist group is Islam. Some say that Western leaders ignore it at their peril but this is inaccurate. It imperils their nations, yes, but the leaders of the west are mostly playing for the other team. This is why they dare not honestly define terror or the “war on terror.” After all, most of them do not think that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization; the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of France praise Iran and its great culture which explicitly involves exterminating Jews, a goal which France thus approves (as was evident in the major help it provided Saddam Hussein in building the nuclear reactor at Osirak and lying repeatedly about its capabilities). And then there’s Foggy Bottom and its drive toward a “Palestinian” State led by Hamas and Fatah whose avowed purpose is…
Thus we arrive at an old story: “the nations take council together, saying, ‘come, let us cut them off from nationhood that Israel’s name not be remembered anymore… Edom and Ishmael strike a covenant…” (Pslam 83).
The world’s largest terrorist group is nearly as large as the world community. Yet, for its forthright, troops-on-the-ground presence, Islam takes the prize. The line about “apes and pigs” earns it the blue ribbon as the world’s most venerable form of terror, a war in which the victim has been clearly marked.