A DECADE OF
RADICAL ISLAM: Will the West wake up to the
threat in time?
By Joel C.
Rosenberg
(WASHINGTON, D.C.,
December 29, 2009) -- By the grace of God, and
the brave action of fast-thinking passengers
over the skies of Detroit last week, Americans
were spared a massive terrorist attack that was
planned for Christmas Day.
Chilling details are now emerging of a wider
plot, with possibly hundreds of suicide bombers
coming to the U.S. Yemen's foreign minister told
a British paper, "Of course there are a number
of al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen and some of
their leaders. We realise this danger. They may
actually plan attacks like the one we have just
had in Detroit. There are maybe hundreds of them
-- 200, 300."
Dozens of similar terror plots have been foiled
over the last eight years, as I document in
Inside The Revolution. But overall, the West is
still asleep to the danger posed by adherents of
Radical Islam.
The U.N. is doing nothing to stop Iran from
getting the Bomb. Europe is doing nothing to
stop Iran from getting the Bomb. Asia is doing
nothing to stop Iran from getting the Bomb.
President Obama refuses to recognize that his
diplomatic overtures to the Radical regime in
Iran are being laughed at in Tehran, while the
mullahs race for nuclear weapons continues
unabated. The President refuses to fully support
the pro-democracy Reformers in the streets of
Iran, even though they are willing to die to
bring about true, peaceful change in their
country. The President, to his credit, has
committed more U.S. troops to fight al Qaeda and
the Taliban in Afghanistan. But he dithered for
much of the year and let many Americans die on
the battlefield in the process. Meanwhile,
Washington is doing everything it can to
restrain Israel from dealing decisively with
Iran.
How is all this a recipe for protecting the
American people and our most faithful allies
from disaster? We have been fortunate so far.
But how long can this last if so many leaders
here and around the world pay little or no
serious attention to the central threat of our
time?
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