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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:02:00 -0500
Subject: A quick tour of the evil we face !


National Review
December 02, 2004, 10:00 a.m.

The Heart of Darkness
A quick tour of the evil we face.



As the war on terror continues, it is vital to pause occasionally and
remind ourselves how truly horrific an enemy civilization confronts. In
militant Islam, America and its allies ‹ and even some nations that
have sidestepped this conflict ‹ face a breathtakingly evil foe. In
recent weeks, this Coalition of the Wicked has reconfirmed its
barbarism.

  Until liberation, Fallujah was an Islamist house of horrors. U.S.
soldiers discovered up to 20 blood-stained homes in which innocent
hostages were detained and killed, often on videotape. Amid guns,
rockets, and an unfinished car bomb, terror master Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi¹s headquarters included computer and audio-visual gear for
disseminating al Qaeda¹s hateful missives and real-life snuff films.

-Iraqi forces found a reputed toxic-weapons laboratory featuring
poisonous chemicals and anthrax recipes.

-Roughly half of Fallujah¹s mosques doubled as military outposts. Their
minarets became sniper¹s nests. American GIs found artillery shells,
machine guns, and anti-tank mines at the Saad Bin Waqas Mosque on
November 24. The Sunni shrine also housed a suspected mobile bomb
factory inside a truck, rocket-propelled grenades, surface-to-air
missile parts, and, a military spokesman told the Associated Press,
³documents that detailed insurgent interrogations of recent kidnap
victims.²

-Dublin-born Margaret Hassan, 59, married an Iraqi, converted to Islam,
and spent 30 years bringing Iraqis medicine, clean water, and other
relief. She also denounced the Iraq war. Impossible-to-please Islamic
extremists kidnapped her in October. A mid-November videotape showed an
unidentified terrorist fatally shooting a blindfolded captive believed
to be Hassan.

-James Mollen, 48, cheerfully spent 16 months improving Iraq¹s
beleaguered schools and linking some to the Internet. Nonetheless, a
Zarqawi-tied assassin fatally shot Mollen in the head as he drove
through Baghdad November 24.

-A Sunni communiqué promised, as NBC News¹s Richard Engel reported
November 18, ³to kill all organizers of coming elections here, and
anyone who votes.² Not since the Ku Klux Klan¹s glory days in the 1950s
and Œ60s have hooded villains threatened lethally to disenfranchise
those who aim to cast and count ballots.

  When Iran¹s theocrats are not enriching uranium, they destroy their
own people ‹ even teenagers. As the December 13 National Review notes,
a local Islamic judge sentenced a 14-year-old boy for breaking the
Ramadan fast. Last month, he endured 85 lashes, then died. Earlier this
year, officials publicly hanged a 16-year-old girl for having
pre-marital sex.

  -An Iranian group, seemingly with government supporters, is training
20,000 volunteers for suicide operations, the AP reports. The
Headquarters for Commemorating Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement
(HCMGIM) recently let 300 applicants choose among preparing for suicide
attacks on U.S. soldiers in Iraq, similar assaults in Israel, or
assassination attempts on Salman Rushdie, the British author of The
Satanic Verses against whom the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued
a 1989 fatwa. (Although Tehran later backed off of this death warrant,
Khomeini died before rescinding it, so it technically remains in
force.)

³This group spreads valuable ideas,² Iranian lawmaker Mahdi
Kouchakzadeh told the AP. ³Iran¹s foreign policy makers have to take
the dignified opinions of this group into consideration.² Kouchakzadeh,
a former Revolutionary Guardsman, attended HCMGIM¹s initial meeting, as
did Revolutionary Guard General Hossein Salami.

  British authorities on November 22 outlined an al Qaeda cell¹s
thwarted plans to blast the London Underground and Westminster Abbey,
crash planes into London¹s Heathrow Airport, and bomb three skyscrapers
at Canary Wharf, including 50-story One Canada Square. Last August,
British cops snagged eight terrorists including Dhiren Barot. He
allegedly possessed maps of the New York Stock Exchange, Citigroup¹s
Manhattan headquarters, Prudential¹s Newark, New Jersey base, and
Washington, D.C.¹s International Monetary Fund. These arrests raised
America¹s terrorist-alert level last summer.

  German politicians have proposed requiring imams to lead services in
German to prevent them from concealing extremist speech in Arabic or
Turkish.

³We will have to step up measures to track down hate preachers and
remove their residency rights,² Interior Minister Otto Schily told
Reuters November 16. Schily also advocated padlocking radical mosques.

  Belgium recently announced plans to restrain anti-Semitic and
anti-Western Arabic-language websites and radio stations. Police are
shielding Belgium¹s justice minister after she and two other officials
were menaced by mail. An Islamic convert allegedly warned he would
³ritually slaughter² one Belgian lawmaker who criticized Muslim
attitudes on women.

  In Holland, both mosques and churches have burned since filmmaker Theo
Van Gogh¹s November 2 murder, allegedly at the hands of Dutch-Moroccan
Mohammed Bouyeri, 26. Van Gogh, 47, a grand nephew of the 19th-century
Impressionist painter, produced a controversial movie about Islam¹s
treatment of women. Police say Bouyeri, inflamed by the film, shot Van
Gogh in Amsterdam, tried to sever his head, ³as if he were slicing
bread,² one eyewitness recalled, then stuck a five-page letter into Van
Gogh¹s chest with a knife.

Addressed to Somali-born Dutch legislator Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who worked
on Van Gogh¹s movie, the letter spewed death threats against Ali, plus
Koranic passages, and anti-Semitic rants. ³Hair-raising screams will be
squeezed from the lungs of the non-believers,² warned the Dutch- and
Arabic-language letter.

Bouyeri grew more fervent after leaving a relatively tame Islamic
center for a more radical one. Amsterdam¹s Al-Tawheed mosque sold books
that advised dropping gay people head first from tall buildings. Any
who survived were to be stoned to death.

Dutch police first noticed Bouyeri while investigating Samir Azzouz,
18, another Dutch-Moroccan. Azzouz and a Dutch Islamist were caught in
Ukraine bound for Chechnya. After searching Azzouz¹s apartment, Dutch
cops found detailed maps of Holland¹s parliament, Amsterdam¹s Schiphol
Airport, and the Borssele atomic power plant.

As Andrew Higgins chillingly related in the November 22 Wall Street
Journal, two days after Van Gogh¹s death, Islamists aimed their knives
at Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, a critic of open immigration.
They posted his picture on line beside this message: ³The punishment is
beheading, and the reward for doing it is paradise.²

Moderation against such fanaticism is inconceivable. Fundamentalist
Islam must be transcended from within while militant Islam must be
vanquished from without. Victory cannot come too soon.

Until then, Geert Wilders grasps the stakes. ³Bush was totally
correct,² he phoned Higgins while dashing between safe houses on the
advice of police. ³This is war, a world-wide war.²

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