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