They are using classic Mao strategy.

"Reality demonstrates that Islam, the only creed extending its hold on human minds, explicitly claims the superiority of its believers over unbelievers and urges them to take over the unbeliever’s land whenever they can."
~ Found on a Blog

That is as well written a phrase as anything I've read on the subject. They are using classic Mao strategy. Mao Tse Tung used a promise of redistribution of wealth as a marketing and recruiting tool for the first 15 years of his effort. As Mao became evermore successful and his army got bigger, he dropped the ruses and moved to consolidate what he really wanted - money and power.

I have become more and more convinced that this too is about money and power and idealized (but outrageous) Muslim religious precepts are merely tools used by those who seek the more concrete rewards of war. As proof think about how OBL, Saddam, Arafat and so many other Muslim leaders have used a consolidated power base to enrich themselves and their families while allowing their subjects to suffer in squalor. What other explanation is there for the hundreds of Arab leader owned yachts sailing the Mediterranean while loaded with Muslim men, booze, and scantily clothed non-Muslim European and African women?

A letter to the Coeur d'Alene Press editor yesterday explained:
"For anyone confused about the relative values of Christianity vs. Islam here is a simple test. What do the scriptures say? The bible instructs us to love our enemies. Islam instructs followers to kill anyone who disagrees with them. Islam teaches to stone and stomp to death a women found to be dishonored (like rape victims), while Jesus challenged a group of men intent on bloodshed and saved a woman's life. Islam allows women to be beaten to death, while Christianity honors them as equals before God."
If you remain unconvinced of the horrors of Islamic terrorisism listen to former US Special Forces soldier Michael Yon. Michael recently posted this update from Diyala Province.

"Speaking through an American interpreter, Lieutenant David Wallach who is a native Arabic speaker, the Iraqi official related how al Qaeda united these gangs who then became absorbed into “al Qaeda.” They recruited boys born during the years 1991, 92 and 93 who were each given weapons, including pistols, a bicycle and a phone (with phone cards paid) and a salary of $100 per month, all courtesy of al Qaeda. These boys were used for kidnapping, torturing and murdering people..

At first, he said, they would only target Shia, but over time the new al Qaeda directed attacks against Sunni, and then anyone who thought differently. The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al Qaeda invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about 11 years old. As LT David Wallach interpreted the man’s words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, “What did he say?” Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al Qaeda served the boy to his family." .

We should not allow to go unnoticed that the wanton and public slaughter of Muslim women and children is being perpetrated primarily by those (unknowingly oppressed by their own society) who reside at the lowest levels of the economic scale. This is terrorism for the sake of intimidation..

One of the 5 pillars of Islam demands the elimination of economic and other forms of inequality. It seems that doesn't apply inside their own society. We and our assets are to be the equalizers. .

The Quranic Concept of War even teaches followers to lull non-believers into a false sense of security by pretending to be friendly until the strength can be found to overcome them.

If you commit assault, murder or are deceptive to people who disagree with you, you are violating Christian scriptures but are fulfilling the dictates of the Koran.

Too many Americans and American leaders are refusing to face these simple facts, and their numbers are growing.

The UK's new leaders appear to have joined the Spanish in the plunge into total denial. I don't get it with these people, if you look at history any culture that accepts Islam into its culture ultimately disintegrates into violence. It is like an incipient cancer that will grow until cut out.

Saddam Hussein proclaimed, "This is the mother of all wars." In retrospect, I think he was, is, and will be proven right.

Mike Linnane