The Saudi world conquest initiative is progressing smoothly. More mosques are popping up in the West, churches are burned down in the East, and fear grips the hearts of Infidels everywhere. Mark Steyn illuminates the Saudi strategy on the legal front.
How will we lose the war against “radical Islam”?
Well, it won’t be in a tank battle. Or in the Sunni Triangle or the caves of Bora Bora. It won’t be because terrorists fly three jets into the Oval Office, Buckingham Palace and the Basilica of St. Peter’s on the same Tuesday morning.
The war will be lost incrementally because we are unable to reverse the ongoing radicalization of Muslim populations in South Asia, Indonesia, the Balkans, Western Europe and, yes, North America. And who’s behind that radicalization? Who funds the mosques and Islamic centers that in the last 30 years have set up shop on just about every Main Street around the planet?
For the answer, let us turn to a fascinating book called Alms For Jihad: Charity And Terrorism In The Islamic World by J. Millard Burr, a former USAID relief coordinator, and the scholar Robert O. Collins. Can’t find it in your local Barnes & Noble? Never mind, let’s go to Amazon. Everything’s available there. And sure enough, you’ll come through to the Alms For Jihad page and find a smattering of approving reviews from respectably torpid publications: “The most comprehensive look at the web of Islamic charities that have financed conflicts all around the world,” according to Canada’s Globe And Mail, which is like The New York Times but without the jokes.
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