My column about the Muslim Brotherhood's strategy document seems to be making its way around the web. I'm getting lots of e-mails from people wanting to see the original document. Here it is. Scroll down for the English translation.
By the way, a Dallas reader writes in about the Holy Land Trial:
I spent an afternoon watching and listening to the prosecution testimony 2 weeks ago (during an FBI agent's testimony.) I was disheartened by the overwhelming volume of minutiae presented as evidence that the jury must assimilate without the prosecutor explaining the relevance of each piece of evidence. I am hopeful the prosecutor is able to pull the evidence together in a clear, cogent manner in closing arguments. If not, the defense will prevail because of confusion on the part of the jury.
This is the third person I've communicated with who has been present at the trial, and who reports the same thing: that the prosecution is inundating the jury with evidence. This is the third person who has said to me that they doubt a conviction will be possible, because of the way the prosecution has presented its case.
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"He never will, Lynn. People like that, if they were to be put up against the wall by jihadis and asked to give their final words before being executed, would find some way to blame their murder on Jerry Falwell."
And similarly, Rod Dreher will find some way to blame every evil that befalls a US citizen on some aspect of Islam. Franklin got it right - the US is a de facto Christian hegemony, and Rod Dreher has become the Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy looking for a commie/Muslim behind every tree.
Once again, I pray that Dreher will wake up to this reality quicker than his sleepwalk through the run-up to the war.
I know you didn't mean it that way, Will, but I am compelled to clarify your post: while it is true that I am asserting that the US is a de facto Christian hegemony, I have not expressed the stated opinion about Rod.
I believe you are being too harsh on Rod, but that's just my view.
Does anyone intend to (try to) answer the question in my 11:48 AM post?
He never will, Lynn. People like that, if they were to be put up against the wall by jihadis and asked to give their final words before being executed, would find some way to blame their murder on Jerry Falwell.
Well, being a glass-half-full kind of guy, I would hope one would go, "Doh! We completely forgot about *these* fundamentalists."
"Can someone, please, tell me why the invasion of Afghanistan, the violent overthrow of its government, and the destruction of the al-Qaeda training camps and death and dispersion of their members was not enough of a response to 9/11?"
What you describe would have been an appropriate response from an adminstration that was not influenced by fringy neo-conservative ideologues. 9/11 was used by the Bush administration as a fulcrum to launch the US into a pre-planned New American Century, the permanent US occupation of the Middle East. Our oil-based economy cannot tolerate the instability to oil prices that al-Qaeda and extreme Islam represents, so we police the area in the guise of a Global War on Terror.
Bush has already told us that he intends for this occupation to extend past his presidency. I'm afraid it will extend far past his presidency.
Let's hope he does NOT extend his presidency along with the occupation (surge) he started and extended.
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