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Why should you care about regimes in the Middle East? The scourge of international terrorism and suicide bombings has reached far beyond the United States and Israel, the Middle East’s sole democracy to the European Union, the Balkans as well as India, China, Russia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Thailand, the Philippines, and even the Islamic world. The Middle East includes 7 out of 19 of the most repressive regimes in the world and their weapons of mass destruction. It is also the hotbed of Islamic Totalitarianism and Jihad (Holy War), an ideology of world domination. 5 out of the world's 7 state sponsors of terrorism and half of the world’s major terror groups are Arab and Iranian. The combination of these factors makes it more important than ever to be acquainted with the reality of the Middle East.
Terrorism is above all politically motivated targeting of civilians.
For
example, the deliberate
killings of Israeli civilians by Palestinian armed groups are
both widespread and systematic, and are perpetrated as part of a
publicly announced policy to target civilians. What are Islamic Totalitarianism and Jihad? Islamic Totalitarianism —State Islam— rule by Islamic Law is a movement, akin to fascism and communism. Jihad (Arabic for "struggle") is a central duty of every Muslim and is "holy war." Or, more precisely: It means the legal, compulsory, communal effort to expand the territories ruled by Muslims at the expense of territories ruled by non-Muslims. The purpose of jihad, in other words, is not directly to spread the Islamic faith but to extend sovereign Muslim power including rule of Islamic law (faith, of course, often follows the flag). Jihad is thus unabashedly offensive in nature, with the eventual goal of achieving Muslim dominion over the entire globe. The Qur'an and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad are used by jihad terrorists today to justify their actions and gain new recruits. Some
modern
Muslim theologians have spoken of other things as jihads, such as
the struggle within the soul, defending the faith from critics,
supporting its growth and defense financially, even migrating to
non-Muslim lands for the purpose of spreading Islam, but no major
Muslim group has ever repudiated the doctrines of armed jihad.
Only when jihad is defeated will moderate Muslims finally find their
voice and truly begin the hard work of modernizing Islam. The
mechanics of tyranny make Arab and Iranian dictators inherently
belligerent. Even
if the Arab and Iranian dictators' regimes and their terrorist arms
had never initiated force against Israel and the other democracies,
they still would have no moral right to exist. The propaganda tactics deployed by Arab and Iranian regimes are as simple as they are cunning: diversion and deceit. The diversion is in the systematic changing of the subject from the real aim, which is oppression and embezzlement from their own people and even global Islamic tyranny, to issues that people in the democratic world care deeply about like freedom of expression, right of ownership or equality before the law. The deceit is in that all this crusading energy disappears once one leaves the borders of democratic states and enters Iran and the Arab world. Not only do Arab and Iranian dictators fail to accord Arab, Iranian and Muslim majorities in their states even a fraction of what they demand the democratic world including Israel accord its Arab, Iranian and Muslim minorities, they even incite against other people and support Islamic terrorism worldwide. In other words, Arab and Iranian dictators and their supporters hail democratic values only when it helps undermine democracy. Palestinian Authority TV Sermon, May 13, 2005: "Muslims Will Rule America, Britain ... and the Entire World; Israel is a Cancer; Jews are a Virus Resembling AIDS; Muslims Will Finish Them Off" | Transcript PALLYWOOD - "according to Palestinian sources" The first test of intentions is not what Arab and Iranian dictators say to the West, but what they say and do to the children, women, minorities and dissidents in their countries.
Because the same Arab and Iranian dictators oppress their fellow subjects, sponsor half of the world’s major terror groups and imperil the Middle East’s sole democracy. Democratically governed nations are more likely to secure the peace, deter aggression, expand open markets, promote economic development, protect Western citizens, combat international terrorism and crime, uphold human and worker rights, avoid humanitarian crises and refugee flows, improve the global environment, and protect human health.
The Israeli government is the only government in the Middle East that is elected by free citizens -- including 1.2 million Arabs and Muslims. Israel is the sole Middle East country with the rule of law (including an independent judiciary and state's monopoly to use force), freedom of speech, press and religion, property rights, minority rights, and the right to form voluntary organizations (especially political parties) etc. The enemies of Israel, by contrast, are dictatorships and state sponsored terrorist organizations. They do not recognize the individual rights of their own subjects, much less those of the citizens of Israel. They initiate force indiscriminately in order to retain and expand their power. Israel is the only country in the world which is regularly slated for extermination.
The
purpose of this website is
to provide links to information, predominantly from Arab, Iranian
and international sources, about the Middle-East = 10% of world
land area = 50%
of the world's major terror groups = 67%
of the world's state sponsors of terrorism = 22 Arab regimes,
Iran and Israel.
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