There is an obvious push by radical Islamists to spread their barbaric belief system across the globe. They call it the Caliphate, and they have aspirations of a world subjugated to their interpretation of Islam. None of this is new stuff. We’ve been watching and reading about it for several years now.
This being the case, why has our main effort continued to be “whack a mole” while the Islamists are committed to a concerted effort to raise up a new generation of radicals?
In 2014, a filmmaker from Vice News embedded himself with ISIS in Raqqa, Syria. One of the ISIS members interviewed was running a training camp for children. He stated,
“For us, we believe that this generation of children is the generation of the caliphate. This generation will fight the infidels and apostates, the Americans and their allies, God willing. The right doctrine has been implanted in these children,”
In November of 2015, a PBS documentary reported on ISIS training children as young as three-years-old in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. The documentary shows an ISIS member teaching the children to operate Ak-47s and hand grenades.
The Long War Journal brings us the most recent development in the disturbing trend of radical Islamists and their strategy to indoctrinate the next generation of jihadists.
The Islamic State’s “Library of Zeal” has released an application for teaching the Arabic alphabet to children on Android devices. The vocabulary taught within the application includes jihadist themes.
Words like “tank,” “gun,” and “rocket” are among the first few taught within the application.
By now, this end state shouldn’t surprise anyone. Yet, European countries have continued to open their borders to Middle Eastern migrants, and any suggestion to the contrary in the United States it met with accusations of xenophobia.
London just elected the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital, and in a demonstration of solidarity for Ramadan printed the phrase “Praise Allah” on the city’s iconic red buses.
You know what, f**k Europe—we saved them twice. They made their bed, let them lie in it.
I’m more concerned with what the United States is doing against this clear and present danger? (h/t Tom Clancy)
Answer: The Obama administration continues to make the humanitarian argument.
Despite Paris and Belgium, despite the fact that European women and children are sexually assaulted by throngs of migrant men, Obama seeks to emulate Germany’s immigration debacle and believes that Angela Merkel “is on the right side of history on this issue.”
In November of 2015, Obama made the claim that members of the GOP were “scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America”—as if only members of the GOP are concerned about more San Bernardino terrorists slipping through the cracks (pronounced walking upright through the gaping holes) in immigration.
Ironically, Obama made this statement while in the Philippines—a state that has fought an insurgency with Muslim secessionists for decades. A state that knows all too well how an organized body of Muslims can demand, fight for, and ultimately win autonomy. A state that recently elected a new president—Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte is known as the “Trump of the East” and has vocally pledged to kill suspected criminals and end crime within six months. In reference to territorial disputes in the South China Sea, Duterte stated, “I’ll go down, riding a jet-ski, carrying a Filipino flag … and then I would say, ‘This is ours.”
Duterte’s comments may be testosterone fueled rhetoric, but it demonstrates that the Philippine electorate is looking for stronger leadership to replace an ineffective leader and increasingly absent U.S. ally. Good for them. The world is in desperate need of leaders that view the world through a lens of realism.
Could leadership, or its seven-year absence—in the United States—be partly responsible for the continued rise of ISIS—or Trump for that matter? (rhetorical) And to think, many Americans are seriously considering voting for a liar who refuses to utter the phrase radical Islamists. (and who lied about being in combat)
The kid that blew himself up and killed 65 civilians in Baghdad was only a teenager. We can’t afford to give the keys to the White House to a stolen valor c**t who will do nothing to prevent today’s three-year-olds from entering the U.S. and becoming tomorrow’s suicide bombers.