A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi

country. Coptic Christians in Egypt, whose presence in that country predates the arrival of Islam, have
been slaughtered by fundamentalist Muslims, with authorities doing little or nothing to stop them. In the
Philippines and East Timor, Christians are being massacred by Muslims. Churches and Christian homes
in Nigeria are being burned, and Christians murdered, by Muslim extremists. The ancient Christian
presence in many Arab lands – Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, among others – has been decimated in the last
century by Muslim persecution.
Although totalitarian regimes have come to power in Indonesia, the Sudan and formally Taliban
Afghanistan, elsewhere some attempts are made to counter the insurgencies (in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, and
Chechnya). Even in Iran, revolutionary fervor seems to be slowly giving way to disillusionment and
cynics. When the reformist government of Mohammed Khatami started creeping gingerly toward a more
moderate course, the hardliner Imams put the quash on it, leading to more discontent by the Persian
people of Iran. It is unclear whether the U.S. military responses since Sept 11 will precipitate new waves
of radicalization in the Islamic world toppling existing regimes and bringing Islamic totalitarians to
power, or the opposite.
In June 1950, Kim Il Sung posed a large problem for the U.S in Korea. But he was not the problem.
Stalin was, and Truman never lost sight of that fact. The problem today is not a scattering of global
terrorists, but a whole raft of challenges to western culture through the script and sword of Islamist
totalitarianism.
The Threat!
Now Islam has reached out to wage a direct, frontal assault on its antithesis – its "Great Satan": the
United States, or, to be more accurate, liberty. All the while it attempts to pacify and confuse by claiming
to be the victim, and claiming to represent peace, equality, and justice. This movement follows the
standard ‘modus operandi’ of falsehoods by claiming to be the opposite of what it is, whispering in our
ears that evil is actually good, and that good is evil. That evil ‘lies’ is not surprising, but that anyone of
any intelligence and education still believes it is astonishing. Indeed it seems that "the bigger the lie, the
easier it is for unenlightened masses to swallow".
At first glance, shadowy Islamist terrorists look very different from any enemy we have ever faced,
and indeed, the tactics they employ are novel. But on closer scrutiny, the fundamental nature of our
present adversaries, once seen plainly, is all too familiar. What we confront today is repackaged
totalitarianism: Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, their coconspirators and enablers are the modern-day
successors of Lenin and Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot, as they join the list of the worst
found among human beings. If one wants a literary parallel that sheds light on the operation of Osama bin
Laden and his lieutenants, one should look to that enormous bestseller, published in two volumes in 1925
and 1926, Mein Kampf. Hitler was candid about his ambitions, aversions, and intentions. His virulent
hatred of the Jews is patent on every page, as is his narcissistic egotism, his sense of himself as a destiny,
his cold-blooded lucidity. Mein Kampf is the testament of a man bent on war, conquest, and slaughter.
Civilized society in the 20s and 30s did not take him seriously, being widely viewed as the ravings of a
lunatic too far out on the fringe to be of any credible threat. It was thought that surely voices of reason in
a country and people as enlightened as Germany in central Europe would not allow it. The world was
wrong then, and those who do not learn from history…
Osama bin Laden has been similarly candid. In a 1999 interview published in Esquire, bin Laden was
perfectly clear that his first ambition was to remove the American military from Saudi Arabia. "Every day
the Americans delay their departure," he said, "they will receive a new corpse." It does not require much
intelligence to understand that sentence. Nor was bin Laden ambiguous about his willingness to attack
civilians: "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians; they are all
targets in this fatwa". Published February 23, 1998 in the Al-Quds al-‘Arabi was a statement signed by
Sheikh Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin and other like-minded leaders;
" … [To] kill the Americans and their allies—civilians and military—is an individual duty for every Muslim
who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it" … "We – with God’s help – call on every Muslim
who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God’s order to kill the Americans and plunder
their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to