Islam Watch - "A Democracy Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" by Tashbih Sayyed

Nobody can deny that the United States of America is in the middle of a war. Our way of life and our freedoms are under attack from all sides. Our enemy, Islamist fascism, is determined to replace our American civic religion by its own absolutist ideology - Wahhabism. To destroy our civilization, it is ready to go to any length. It has already used homicide bombers, improvised explosive devises, madrassas, Islamic centers and mosques to perpetuate jihad in the U.S. and now is ready to employ the most effective and the most lethal weapon to defeat us – our own democracy.

For radical Islam, there is much to rejoice in the news that Muslims have finally come of age in terms of political representation and are ready to influence the direction of public policy in the U.S. Islamists are confident that they can now use the power of un-suspecting Muslim American voters in the service of global jihad. One of the avenues that the Islamists are going to use in trying to change the direction of American policies is the institution of debate and discussion that is an integral part of any democratic society. But unlike the citizens of a western democracy who use their right of freedom of expression to consolidate the freedoms and advance the causes of progress and intellectual prosperity, Islamists will try to use it to perpetuate their anti-American agenda and empower global jihad.

On close scrutiny, it becomes clear that being fascists in their ideology, Islamists are following in the foot steps of the Nazi party in using the existing democratic setup of the U.S. to launch themselves up into power. After the failed attempt in 1923 to gain power by force, Hitler realized that it was more feasible to build the Nazi party up “within the framework of the Constitution”. Hitler said in 1925: “If out-voting them takes longer than out-shooting them, at least the result would be guaranteed by their own constitution...Any lawful process is slow...Sooner or later we shall have a majority—and after that, Germany”. To Hitler, no cost was too high for triumph; in overthrowing the Republic in 1933, Hitler made good on his vow to “destroy democracy with the weapons of democracy.” And so will the Islamists in the U.S. if we will fail to stop them from using our constitutional freedoms to subvert our democracy.

Islamists at this stage in the war, want to use our democratic process to render our security laws like the Patriotic Act toothless, so that the Islamist fascists can act with impunity. In order to bring our open society down, they are using every possible opportunity, like in today’s mid term elections, they want Democrats to win because they believe that Democrats will work to weaken the security apparatus as instituted by the Republicans to defeat the terrorists. After carefully examining the performance of democrats on the national security legislation and Islamists have ascertained that the democrats are the only group whose voting pattern tends to support terrorists’ rights over Americans’ rights. And that was enough for them to throw their weight behind the Democrats.

Convinced that once the Democrats will win the control of the House and Senate, they will either abrogate the security laws like the Patriotic Act or soften it so much that it will then easily be exploited by them, the Islamists have launched a concerted campaign to convince the Muslims to back the Democrats. The instructions and commands being issued from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and other centers of global jihad are clear on the issue.

The Kuwaiti daily Al-Seyassah’s October 29 “Digest of Public Opinion” discussed the midterm elections, saying that if “extremists such as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and the Republicans at large rule longer, America will likely be transformed into a dictatorship and as such we expect that the situation currently existing in Guantanamo is likely to face the Americans themselves. … Consequently, most political observers are currently expecting the Republicans to incur an overwhelming defeat during the upcoming congressional elections.”

An editorial in the October 19–25 Egyptian state-run English-language weekly Al-Ahram said, “The Republican Party is in so much trouble it may risk a major confrontation in the Middle East before half-term congressional elections in November. Republicans are far behind in the polls.” The columnist Sandy Shanks wrote on Al-Jazeera’s Web site on October 22, “If the Democratic Party seizes Congress or the Senate. … This might even open the door for impeachment,” He asked rhetorically, “How badly does Bush want to win next month?” The August 30 edition of the London-based Arabic-language daily Asharq Al-Awsat featured “The U.S. Republican Party and Defeat,” an article by an Al-Arabiya TV host and columnist, Hussein Shobokshi. “The Republican Party is beginning to see the danger signs and recognize that the current administration will cause it to lose … and suffer a defeat in the next elections,” he wrote. Recently, a group of Arab diplomats that included the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki of Iran met in Damascus. Among the topics of discussion was the American elections, Mr. Mottaki called Mr. Bush a “loser” and said that after next week’s elections, the president will be politically paralyzed and unable to initiate any political moves. As he discussed the upcoming elections before a crowd chanting “death to America, death to Israel,” Hojatoleslam Ahmad Khatami, who led last week’s Friday prayers in Tehran, said: “The savage and devilish acts and performances of Bush, as a Republican, have placed his party in a very critical condition.” An editorial in the October 27 Saudi English-language daily Arab News said, “As the hours tick by to the November 7 midterm election, the Bush administration is wiggling frantically on the butcher’s hook.” The editorial criticized American actions in Iraq and Mr. Bush for “trying to bolster electoral support for his Republican Party at the ballot box.” [ref] Afraid that if their real agenda of empowering Islamist fascism is known to the ordinary mosque going Muslims, they may not support them, Islamist leaders have worked very hard to cloak their real agenda in terms of civil liberty issues. They did not tell the Muslims the real reasons behind their push to back the Democrats. They used the same arguments as were being used by the left and liberal groups and by adding their own spin to make it palatable to their Muslim audience succeeded in turning them against the steps the U.S. took to secure itself.

American Muslims were told that the U.S. war on terror is basically a war on Islam and the invasion of Iraq was aimed at empowering Israel. They were told that Iran has a right to develop the nuclear weapons. Using their control over Islamic centers and most of the mosques in the U.S., Radical Islamist leadership harnessed the liberal and left leaning tendencies in the American Muslims to turn them against most of the steps taken by the Bush administration in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, to secure America as Islam specific.

Muslims need to know the truth: Republican policies are not anti-Muslim. Islamist leaders are projecting these policies as anti-Islam only because they want to help their global jihad. Now that Muslims, according to a survey, have come of age in terms of political representation, they have a responsibility to expose a leadership that has been using them to advance the cause of anti-Americanism. Muslims will have to remember that their power is only because of democracy and by following radical Islam they will only be undermining their own authority. A democracy is a terrible thing to waste.

Source: FamilySecurityMatters.org