Muslim Immigration is What ISIS Wants
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
To understand ISIS, you have to understand the
difference between terrorists and Islamic
terrorists.
Ordinary terrorists have two goals; to compel the
enemy to meet their political demands and to rally
their supporters to consolidate their class, race or
national identity group behind them.
Islamic
terrorists are not interested in the “political
demands” part. They will occasionally accept
concessions and even offer Hudnas, temporary truces,
but no permanent separate peace can be achieved with
them. It’s why Israel’s peace process with
terrorists has gone on failing for decades. It’s why
the attempt by Gaddafi to achieve peace with the
LIFG ended in a civil war and his death. It’s why
Obama’s attempts to negotiate with the “moderate
Taliban” failed miserably.
Al Qaeda and ISIS are not “negative” protest
movements formed in response to our foreign policy.
That’s a foolish self-centered idea held by foolish
self-centered Westerners. Al Qaeda and ISIS are
“positive” movements that seek to achieve larger
religious goals entirely apart from us. Islamic
terrorists are not responding to us. They are
responding to the Koran and to over a thousand years
of history.
Osama bin Laden did not carry out 9/11 to inflict
harm on Americans. That was a secondary goal. His
primary goal was to rally Muslims to build a
Caliphate by encouraging them to attack America.
The ritualistic “Why do they hate us” browbeating
favored by the chattering classes is nonsense. Al
Qaeda hated us because we were not Muslims. But it
was only using us as the hated “other” to
consolidate a collective Muslim identity. We are to
Islamists what the Jews were to Hitler; a useful
scapegoat whose otherness can be used to manufacture
a contrasting pure Aryan or Islamic identity.
No dialogue is possible with an ideology whose
virtue is premised on seeing you as utterly evil.
You can negotiate with terrorists, though you
shouldn’t. But Islamic terrorists rarely even bother
to negotiate. Their core focus is on rallying local
Muslims and the Ummah behind them. They don’t
recognize national borders so any hope for a
permanent peace behind recognized borders is wishful
thinking. Islam is a transnational movement. Islamic
terrorism is a race between terror groups around the
world to carve out their own Islamic states and then
use them as a springboard to a Caliphate.
ISIS is the end stage of Islamic terrorism. Its
leader is a Caliph with all Muslims obliged to
submit to him. The Islamic State is not just in
Syria and Iraq. It is everywhere that a Muslim
outpost swears allegiance to the Caliph. On its own
maps the Islamic State encompasses parts of Egypt,
Libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Russia.
The more local Islamic terror groups pledge
allegiance to ISIS, the bigger it becomes.
ISIS doesn’t plan to defeat America through acts of
terrorism. The plan for defeating America, like
every other country, Muslim or non-Muslim, is to
build a domestic Muslim terror movement that will be
able to hold territory and swear allegiance to the
Islamic State.
The idea of an American Emirate may seem silly but
consider Molenbeek, the neighborhood in Brussels
known as the Jihadi capital of Europe, deemed a
no-go zone by local authorities, right in the
capital of the European Union. You can take a taxi
from NATO HQ to a Muslim micro-state linked to most
of the major recent Islamic terror attacks in Europe
including the latest ISIS attack in Paris.
Molenbeek provides ISIS recruits for its war and a
gateway for ISIS attacks in Europe. The media is
filled with articles about what ISIS wants, but
there is no question that Molenbeek is what ISIS
wants.
And it’s only Muslim immigration to Europe that
makes an ISIS base like Molenbeek possible.
ISIS has short term and long term needs. In the
short term, ISIS needs as many recruits as possible.
And it is in the West where traditional Muslim ties
of kinship and community are so frayed that the
transnationalism of heading out to fight for a
Caliphate in someone else’s country is most deeply
appealing. ISIS aggressively seeks to recruit
Muslims in the West because they have the skills,
money and naiveté to be useful to the Islamic State.
But in the long term, ISIS needs more Muslim
immigration to the West to create a steady supply of
recruits, collaborators and eventually Western
emirates.
If ISIS is serious about making a bid for Italy, it
needs a large Muslim population on the ground. It
doesn’t even matter if this population comes from
refugees fleeing ISIS. The children of these
refugees will still be Sunni Muslims in a foreign
land where Algerian, Somali, Syrian and Pakistani
Muslims discover that they have more in common than
they do with the natives. It is this accidental
Western multiculturalism that erases tribal Muslim
rivalries and makes the ambition of a single Muslim
Caliphate appear plausible.
ISIS does not plan to defeat America with terror
plots. But those plots will eventually accumulate
into an organized domestic terror organization. An
Islamic State in America based around a majority
Muslim town or neighborhood with its own leader
pledging allegiance to the Caliph of the Islamic
State.
An American Molenbeek; and there are already plenty
of candidates for that horrifying honor.
Any Muslim plans for expanding into the West depend
on Muslim immigration. Whether it’s ISIS or its
Muslim Brotherhood ancestor, or any of the other
Islamist organizations and networks, they all
require manpower. Some of that manpower will be
provided by high Muslim birth rates, but it won’t be
nearly enough, not for a country the size of
America, without a large annual flow of Muslim
migrants.
We are told that halting Muslim immigration would
only encourage Muslim terrorism. But our open door
to Muslim immigration certainly hasn’t stopped
terrorism. Instead it has increased it by providing
reinforcements to the terrorists. If we can’t stop
Muslim terrorism with the population we have now,
how are we going to manage it if the Islamic
population continues doubling and even tripling?
Even if we defeat ISIS tomorrow, Al Qaeda and other
Islamist groups descended from the Muslim
Brotherhood will continue pursuing the same goals.
And they will rely on the Muslim population in the
United States to provide them with money, supplies,
cover and an infrastructure for terrorism.
ISIS can’t defeat us with terror attacks. The only
hope for an enduring Islamic victory over America is
through the rise of domestic groups that pledge
allegiance to the Caliphate. ISIS can’t invade
America. It has to be invited in. That’s what our
immigration policy does.
Trump isn’t a threat to national security. Muslim
immigration is.
Islamic terrorists can’t defeat us no matter how
many planes they fly into buildings. But they can
and will defeat us if they continue landing planes
at JFK and disembarking thousands and tens of
thousands of settlers who will serve as a base
population for their war against America.
Muslim immigration is the Islamic State’s only hope
for victory over America.