Ron Paul is Right: The Self Made Jihad Problem Part III.

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This is the latest in a series.

The purpose is to bring the point home that the West has aided and abetted Islamic Jihadists in order to achieve dubious foreign policy goals. In the rush to combat Islamo-fascism, we have seen an enormous increase in the size and power of our government, and the shrinking and diminishing of the constitutional rights and protections of our people here at home.

This is a trend that is quite worrisome, as some of our countrymen rush to sacrifice their freedom for a very false sense of security. And as they surrender the rights that their ancestors died for, most are completely ignorant of the fact that the same government that promises to protect them is promoting policies that only add to the instability and chaos, which of course, justifies the continued "War on Terror."

PROBLEM, REACTION, SOLUTION.

Let's move to the facts.

According to Redmoon.com's The Islamists and the Globalists:

... In Afghanistan the CIA, prodded on by British Intelligence, began to fund the Islamic opponents of the pro-Soviet regime even prior to the Soviet invasion. President Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brezinski advocated the subversion in order to provoke the Soviet invasion that occurred on December 24, 1979.(14)

General Zia and the Jamaat-e Islami in Pakistan were two crucial elements that made the mujahedin revolt in Afghanistan successful. Their takeover of Pakistan was a necessary part of the plan to pull the Soviets into the Afghan conflict. As related in Part One, an Afghan warlord affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood by the name of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar emerged as the primary recipient of American military aid, despite his well known anti-Western views and his radical view of Islam (II)...

The work continues:

... (The) explosion of violence throughout the Middle East in the late '70s and early '80s was referred to by Zbigniew Brzezinski as the "Arc of Crisis." It was not something that occurred by chance, but was in fact the result of the deliberate plan developed by the Globalist strategists such as Dr. Alexander King, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and British operative Dr. Bernard Lewis.

The Middle Eastern "Arc of Crisis" was not a spontaneous internal conflagration, it was something that came about as a result of Western policy in league with the Muslim Brotherhood. Without help from the West radical Islam would have remained the illegitimate, repressive minority movement that it has always been, and the Middle East would have remained stable and prosperous (II)...

It's funny that I never hear about these events when I read Anti-Jihadist blogs or listen to Pro "War on Terror" candidates. More often than not, most Westerners aren't even interested in examining past events to find out how all of this came to pass. However, if we ignore the fact that our governments have and are advocating policies that lead to violence and political instability, then the War on Terror will indeed never end.

The Sovereign People will become the disenfranchised serfs; all in the name of "protecting" them from so-called terror.

Author Dan Ruuska, in his work America's Political Cancer and the Patriotic Cure writes:

... From 1979, and financed with taxpayer dollars for seventeen years, the Homeland Enemy (the author's term for our top government leadership) recruited, armed, and trained a militant Islamic jihad force into their proxy military weapon which they used against Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s and against Serbs in Yugoslavia in the 1990s (covertly they lured Russia into Afghanistan to create a "Vietnam quagmire" for Russia; covertly they initiated Federation-of-Yugoslavia conflict to privatize its natural resources and state assets into foreign corporate ownership).

They persuaded Saudi Arabia to match US funding. In the 1980s our 2001-2004 Vice President, National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, and Deputy Secretary of State helped to develop and operate that jihad proxy weapon for Afghanistan: they ran the CIA operation that recruited Muslim fighters from throughout the world, armed them, and trained them how to carry out guerrilla warfare and terrorist attacks. The CIA oversaw training of 100,000 Islamic fighters at camps in Pakistan, and trained their leaders at the CIA's Camp Perry in Virginia. Christian-Right groups had a biblical checklist by which they judged Senators and Congressmen. An item: "support for the Afghan 'freedom fighters.'"

The political pressure: support us, including training al-Qaeda with US tax dollars, or you don't deserve to be in Congress. Working together, America and Saudi Arabia altered the former moderate Islam of Afghanistan and Pakistan into a militant Islam: America printed textbooks filled with militant Islamic teachings and provided them to Afghan schoolchildren; Saudi Arabia opened and ran madrassas, militant-Islam religious schools. In this way America and Saudi Arabia conceived, gave birth to, and raised al-Qaeda and the Taliban. When the White House and Congress no longer needed Islamic jihad services, they abandoned their proxy weapon.

Recruited fighters returned home and spread throughout the Muslim world the military skills, and religious fervor, that America and Saudi Arabia taught them: guerrilla warfare and terrorism, wielded by militant Islam. The American/Saudi throw-away weapon stayed alive, tentacled worldwide and grew in size, became more sophisticated and lethal, and wanting justice for having been used as cannon fodder for Cold-War and free-market aims predictably redirected itself at its creators and their allies.

The painful truth, condensed into the space of a few paragraphs. Again, I wonder why most of our political class, with the exception of Representative Ron Paul, and the Anti-Jihad community as a whole, refuse to acknowledge and discuss these cold hard truths?

Moving on, we need to examine the Saudi Arabian connection to radical Islamic Jihad.

While it is common knowledge amongst the Anti Islamic block that Saudi Arabia is a primary funder and sponsor of radical Wahhabi Islam; what is less commonly known is that the West encouraged its development in order to counter Soviet Communist influence. Wahhabism is an Islamic movement that was made-to-order by Western Powers.

Robert Dreyfuss, writing for Mother Jones notes that:

... "During the summer of 1953 there happened to be an unusually large number of distinguished Muslim scholars in the United States," the document notes. But the participants didn't just "happen" to have crossed the Atlantic. The colloquium was organized by the U.S. government, which funded it, tapped participants it considered useful or promising, and bundled them off to New Jersey. Conference organizers had visited Cairo, Bahrain, Baghdad, Beirut, New Delhi, and other cities to scout for participants. Footing the bill—to the tune of $25,000, plus additional expenses for transporting attendees from the Middle East—was the International Information Administration (IIA), a branch of the State Department that had its roots in the U.S. intelligence community; supplementary funding was sought from U.S. airlines and from Aramco, the U.S. oil consortium in Saudi Arabia. Like many of the participants, Ramadan, a hard-edged ideologue and not a scholar, was visiting the conference as an all-expenses-paid guest.

A now-declassified IIA document labeled "Confidential—Security Information" sums up the purpose of the project: "On the surface, the conference looks like an exercise in pure learning. This in effect is the impression desired." The true goal, the memo notes, was to "bring together persons exerting great influence in formulating Muslim opinion in fields such as education, science, law and philosophy and inevitably, therefore, on politics…. Among the various results expected from the colloquium are the impetus and direction that may be given to the Renaissance movement within Islam itself." At the time, the United States was just beginning to feel its way around the Middle East, and American orientalists and academics were debating the extent to which political Islam might serve as a tool for American influence in the region...

The Author continues:

... For an organization established as a secret society, with a paramilitary arm that was responsible for assassinations and violence, to be characterized as a harbinger of a rebirth of Islam may seem odd. But such a view was entirely in character with U.S. policy at a time when virtually anyone who opposed communism was viewed as a potential ally. Whenever I interviewed CIA and State Department officials who served in the Middle East between World War II and the fall of the Soviet Union, they would repeat, almost like a catechism, that Islam was seen as a barrier both to Soviet expansion and to the spread of Marxist ideology among the masses. "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism," says Talcott Seelye, an American diplomat who, while serving in Jordan in the early 1950s, paid a visit to Said Ramadan. "We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." Indeed, adds Hermann Eilts, another veteran U.S. diplomat who was stationed in Saudi Arabia in the late '40s, American officials in Cairo had "regular meetings" with Ramadan's then-boss, Muslim Brotherhood leader Hassan al-Banna, "and found him perfectly empathetic..."

The writer notes that:

... the United States had made perhaps its biggest mistake in the Middle East since World War II: It chose to make common cause with Saudi Arabia's reactionary monarchy. Starting in the 1950s, Washington encouraged the kingdom to create a network of right-wing Islamic states and Islamist organizations, thus helping to build the foundation on which Al Qaeda would ultimately rest. Ramadan's Islamic Center was a major beneficiary of the policy, reaping generous funding from the kingdom.

The center soon became a place for Islamists from across the entire Muslim world to meet and make plans; it also acted as a publishing house for Islamist literature. Its purpose was to promote the Muslim Brotherhood's ideology, according to Hani Ramadan, Said's son, who has assumed his father's mantle as director of the center. "The creation of the Islamic Center was supposed to realize my father's desire of creating a center from which he could spread the teachings of Hassan al-Banna," he says, "a place where students coming from various Arab countries could meet and be trained in the message of Islam..."

And finally:

As it turned out, the Islamic Center was only the beginning of Ramadan's ambitions. In 1962 he helped create a broader, more powerful organization that would become the central nervous system for far-right Wahhabi internationalism: the Muslim World League. "My father wasn't just one of the leaders of the founding group of the league," says Hani Ramadan. "He had the original idea for its creation."

With vast Saudi funding, the league sent out missionaries, printed propaganda, and doled out funds for the building of Wahhabi-oriented mosques and Islamic associations from North Africa through Central Asia, even outside the Islamic world. According to Gilles Kepel, a noted French scholar of Islam, it also served as a conduit for Saudi money to radical Islamists, from the ultraright Islamic Society in Pakistan to Afghan jihadists to the Muslim Brotherhood itself.

"The league identified worthy beneficiaries, invited them to Saudi Arabia, and gave them the recommendation (tazkiya) that would later provide them with largesse from a generous private donor, a member of the royal family, a prince, or an ordinary businessman," Kepel wrote in his book, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam.

"The league was managed by members of the Saudi religious establishment...along with ulemas [Muslim clergy] from the Indian subcontinent connected to the Deoband Schools or to the party founded by Mawdudi." The Deobandi movement, a school of ultraorthodox Muslim fundamentalism founded in India, was instrumental in establishing the system of madrasas in Pakistan that trained the Taliban.

For those that seek further collaboration of the information presented above, please see this article hosted by The Globalist.com.

The facts, and the suppression of them by those who stand to gain most from a neverending "War on Terror," speak for themselves.

Ron Paul is Right, and the proposed solutions to this farce, such as the elimination of constitutional rights and endless and expensive wars that drain our national blood and treasure, are DEAD WRONG.

It's about time we worried about our own freedoms, our own defense, and our own nation for a change. Our attempts to play God in the Middle East have resulted in massive amounts of unnecessary pain, suffering, and death.

Toku.