Jihad and the Relativist Enemy Within

Sources and Related Documents:

May 29, 2008 - Australian News: Al-Qaeda urges use of WMD
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23775429-2,00.html

May 29, 2008 - Daily Mail: Al-Qaeda's Terrifying Vision of a Devastated America in the Wake of a Nuclear Attack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023268/posts

May 29, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: SITE red-faced as Islamist 'Washington ruin' image turns out to be from Fallout 3 game
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uncertain-world/2053942/SITE%27s-embarrassment-as-Islamist-%27Washington-apocalypse%27-image-turns-out-to-be-from-Fallout-3-game.html

Bethesda Softworks Fallout 3 Images
http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/downloads/wallpapers.html
-- image of Capital referenced in media reports
http://fallout.bethsoft.com/images/downloads/wallpapers/fallout-wp1-1680x1050.jpg

Contact for Bethesda Softworks
http://www.bethsoft.com/eng/contact.html

Bethesda Softworks: "Where does Fallout 3 take place?"
"In the Capitol Wasteland in and around Washington, DC."
http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/info/faq.html

Wikipedia - Moral relativism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism

October 22, 2008 - The Strategic Imperative in Fighting Jihad - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/110.html

October 17, 2008 - Jihad and the "Reconciliation" with Islamic Supremacism - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/109.html
-- American Military Leaders Support Surrender in War of Ideas to the Taliban's Ideology
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/109.html#T01
-- Where Do Insurgents Come From?
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/109.html#insurgents

September 26, 2008 - Fractured Fairytales about Jihad on Capitol Hill - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/107.html

September 24, 2008 - U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project Calls for Engagement with Muslim Brotherhood - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/engagement_with_mb.html

September 18, 2008 - Jihad and the Growing Surrender in Counterterrorism - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/105.html

August 22, 2008 - Transnational Jihad, Supremacism, and Cold War Tactics - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/099.html
-- Cold War Tactics to Fight Statists When Faced With Supremacists
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/099.html#Cold_War
-- The Regional Conflict Perspective to Jihad
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/099.html#Regionalization

July 29, 2008 - Ignorance about the Enemy's Ideology is the Problem - by Jeffrey Imm (special to IPT News)
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/733

July 2, 2008 - Crossroads in History: The Struggle against Jihad and Supremacist Ideologies - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html
-- PDF format
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/Crossroads_in_History_Jeffrey_Imm.pdf
- Two Pronged Ideological Attack of Islamic Supremacism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html#G.3
- Major Islamic Supremacist Political Organizations in America
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html#G.5
- Infiltration of America's Military to Prevent Focus on Islamic Supremacism - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html#H.4
--- Seeking to Change What America's Military Says
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html#H.4.1
--- Seeking to Change Who America's Military Views as the Threat
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html#H.4.2
--- Seeking to Change What America's Military Views as the War
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html#H.4.3
--- A Brief Voice of Reason
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html#H.4.4
-- Rejecting Liberty in the Debate on Islamic Supremacism
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html#H.3

September 2001 - Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/sjres23.enr.html

October 2002 - Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq (Public Law No: 107-243; House Joint Resolution 114)
http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/hjres114.pdf
-- Alternate link
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/H.J.Res.114.pdf

October 16, 2007 - Reuters: Shi'ite tribal leaders in Iraq say Islamism on rise
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAR644313.htm

October 22, 2008 - Washington Times: Cleric lends voice to coalition -- Mullah Najim Mahmoud Khalil al Jabouri - reported AQ media person
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/22/cleric-lends-voice-to-coalition/
--- Washington Times reports claims that Al Jabouri now "against" Al-Qaeda from tactical perspective
--- Al Jabouri: "I never feel sorry for the one year and one month I worked with al Qaeda. ... . At that time, I felt I was working for my country"

April 13, 2008 - UPI: Gates: Enemy in Iraq is extremism
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/04/13/Gates_Enemy_in_Iraq_is_extremism/UPI-69821208117940/

June 2008 - U.S. National Defense 2008 document (PDF)
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/national_defense_strategy_073108.pdf?sid=ST2008073100531&pos=list
-- Alternate link
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/national_defense_strategy_073108.pdf

September 1939 - Charles Lindbergh: Des Moines Speech
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/filmmore/reference/primary/desmoinesspeech.html

March 17, 2008 - Jihad, Islamism, and Non-Interventionism - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/079.html

The Jeffersonian Perspective - Natural Rights -- by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.
http://eyler.freeservers.com/JeffPers/jefpco08.htm

United States Archives: Transcript of Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

October 21, 2008 - CNN: Muslim-American voices heard in presidential race
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/21/muslim.voter.involvement/index.html
--- Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) Ahmed Rehab interviewed

October 24, 2008 - AP: Report: "U.S. Muslims relieved by Powell's attack on anti-Islam rhetoric"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031146.html
--- AP: Salam al-Marayati of MPAC quoted: "Presidential candidates are not willing to have their photo taken, they don't meet with Muslim organizations, and they shy away from any issue that may link them to the Muslim community"
--- Note: AP fails to reference history on MPAC and Salam al-Marayati
----- See also:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/007159.php
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F6895223-91ED-4BA3-AF45-1C556C04E379

July 8, 2008 - Detroit Times: Obama, McCain should condemn Islamophobia - by CAIR's Dawud Walid
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080708/OPINION01/807080308/1008

July 31, 2008 - Washington Times: Inside the Ring - War of Ideas
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/31/inside-the-ring-9598419/

July 16, 2008 - The Jihadist who is still a Jihadist - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/092.html#Al-Sharif

July 13, 2008 - Guardian/Observer: The heretic -- How Al-Qaeda's mastermind turned his back on terror (Part Two) -- by Lawrence Wright
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/13/heretic.alqaida.part.two

Muslim Brotherhood Movement Page (Hizb Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimoon)
http://www.ummah.net/ikhwan/
Theme: "Allah is our objective. The messenger is our leader. Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."

Osama bin Fragged: a review of terrorist propaganda games - by Frank Caron
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/games/terrorist-propaganda-games-roundup.ars/2

Bush targeted in jihadist FPS
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6157912.html

September 18, 2006 - Islamic Radicals Release "Night of Bush Capturing" Game
http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/364755.html

September 11, 2006 - FOX News: Islamogaming: Looking for Video Games in the Muslim World
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213027,00.html

October 23, 2008 - Pakistan Daily Times: Militants see global financial crisis as sign of West’s weakness
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\10\23\story_23-10-2008_pg7_9

October 23, 2008 - MEMRI: Prominent Egyptian Cleric Zaghloul Al-Naggar: Global Economic Crisis is 'War Waged By Allah'; Economy Should Be Based 'On Healthy Islamic Principles'; U.S. Will Be 'Totally Annihilated'
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD209208

October 24, 2008 - Dawn: US envoy reiterates support to democracy -- U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson
http://www.dawn.com/2008/10/24/top17.htm

November 21, 2007 - Dawn: U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson has met with Taliban promoter Maulana Fazlur Rehman,
as part of promoting "free and fair elections"
http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/21/top8.htm

Global Security, Maulana Fazlur Rehman is well-known "defender of the interests of the
Taliban in the grand Deobandi alliance mostly spearheaded by the jihadi militia."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/mma.htm

June 10, 2008 - Pakistan and the Growing Threat of a Sharia Mini-State - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/087.html

October 23, 2008 - MEMRI: Pakistani Parliament: Talks Rather Than Army Operation Against Taliban
http://www.thememriblog.org/urdupashtu/blog_personal/en/10796.htm

October 24, 2008 - Guardian: Pakistan rejects 'America's war' on extremists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/24/pakistan-us-foreign-policy-terrorism

Pakistan Public Polls on Support for Sharia
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/sources_reconciliation.html#Pakistan_Sharia

November 21, 2007 - New Zealand News.Net: Bush offers unconditional support for Musharraf
http://www.newzealandnews.net/story/302170
-- "In an interview with ABC News, Mr Bush said General Musharraf was 'truly somebody who believes in democracy'."

August 13, 2007 - Pakistan President Seeks Mainstream Taliban - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/040.html

April 16, 2008 - Pakistan Daily Times: NA resolutions condemn anti-Quran film, cartoons
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\04\16\story_16-4-2008_pg7_6

October 21, 2008 - Reuters and AP: "Afghan journalist jail for Prophet Mohammad blasphemy"
--- appeal court commutes death sentence for "blasphemy" for journalist Perwiz Kambakhsh
--- "for distributing an Internet article that said the Prophet Mohammad had ignored the rights of women"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24531340-23109,00.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/21/asia/AS-Afghan-Journalist-Trial.php

August 31, 2008 - British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic Supremacism - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/101.html
 

Counter-Radicalization and Related Commentaries:
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/sources_relativism.html#counter-radicalization

June 2008 - West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) Sentinel: Engaging Islamists in the West - by Peter Mandaville (page 5)
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/sentinel/CTCSentinel-Vol1Iss7.pdf
--- George Mason University professor Peter Manadville calls for U.S. to engage with Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups as a counterterrorist strategy

August 21, 2008 - Leaked Data on Radicalization in the UK - Counterterrorism Blog - by Matthew Levitt
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/leaked_data_on_radicalization.php
-- Alternate Link:
http://eurabia.blogse.nl/log/terrorism/leaked-data-on-radicalization-in-the-uk.html

July 17, 2008 - The Way Back from Islamism - Counterterrorism Blog - by Matthew Levitt
http://www.jihadmonitor.org/articles.php?entry=59375

August 19, 2008 - Ideological Blinders and Missed Opportunities in Counter-Radicalization - Counterterrorism Blog - by Matthew Levitt
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/ideological_blinders_and_misse.php

August 27, 2008 - Counterradicalization in the Netherlands - Counterterrorism Blog - by Lorenzo Vidino
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/counterradicalization_in_the_n.php

July 2008 - West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) Sentinel: Why Terrorists Quit: Gaining From Al-Qa'ida's Losses - by Michael Jacobson (page 1)
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/opedsPDFs/487faa39e38cb.pdf

August 2008 - Combating Terrorism Center - The Sentinel - A Preliminary Assessment of Counter-
Radicalization in the Netherlands - by Lorenzo Vidino (page 12)
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/sentinel/CTCSentinel_Vol1Iss9.pdf