Must Read: Andrew McCarthy’s “Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad
May 3 at 9:09am by Macranger
Rush Limbaugh interviewed Andy McCarthy yesterday and it was riveting. Here’s a taste.
“RUSH: And we resume our conversation with Andrew McCarthy; author of Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad. If you just missed it, we just finished a discussion of Andy being the lead prosecutor on the conviction of the Blind Sheik — 1993 World Trade Center — and I want to repeat this point because I think it’s crucial. In preparing for the prosecution and possible witness testimony on the stand of the Blind Sheik — who ended up not taking the stand — you had to prepare for it, and you assumed him to be a fruitcake. Nobody, nobody’s religion could actually have things in scripture that he was citing, and you found out everything he said was there. It opened your eyes, and I think this is the kind of thing… We’re in the middle of a presidential campaign, and you’ve talked about the notion here that they declared war on us, you cite 1993. We didn’t take it seriously until 2001. Do you think we still take it seriously?
MCCARTHY: We’re taking it less seriously. I think there was a time right after 9/11, probably I put it at about 18 months — probably into the Iraq operation, so longer than that — that I think we really were taking it seriously. We certainly changed our enforcement methods. The Justice Department still had a role, but it was much more subordinate. The military was out front, which it needed to be in that phase, but there was a realization that it needed to be a wholesale government approach. But when I read things like what we’ve heard in the last few days about how we’re getting guidance inside the government about purging our lexicon and saying things like jihadism and mujahideen and the like and –
RUSH: Wait. Wait, wait, wait! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Who’s getting what? Guidance? Who in the government is sending this out to who?
MCCARTHY: Well, the reporting that’s come out since — I guess it was about April 24th — is that the internal syncing at least in parts of the administration — and this is something the State Department’s pushed for a long time — is that we make a mistake call jihadism, jihadism; because there are all kinds of jihad, not just forceable jihad. This is how the thinking goes. And, by the way, while there may be all kinds of jihad, jihad is a military concept. That’s how it grew up. That’s the reason there is a Muslim world in the first place. But secondly the idea is that when you call them jihadists, you are somehow emboldening them as if what they were relying on is how we regard them rather than how they see themselves. And that you also –
RUSH: So what are we supposed to call ‘em?
MCCARTHY: Well, I’m down to thinking — as I wrote in a piece in National Review a couple years ago, I think maybe — we should just call it “Mabel” or something. Because it seems like everything that you say that touches on this… We’re so intimidated by the idea that there’s a religious label on this and everybody is so afraid of their shadow to talk about it, that whenever you say what is obvious — which is that you can’t take the “Islam” out of Islamic terror and that the main cause of this is not democracy or lack of democracy; or, you know, ancient hatreds or the economy, poverty, or whatever our excuse is this week. This is driven by doctrine. You know, we have poor people all over the world. They’re not all committing terrorism.”
Which is absolutely correct. Andy McCarthy knows what he is talking about as he was the prosecutor of the Blind Sheik who was responsible for the World Trade Center attack in 1993. One of the main reasons that liberalism is incapable of dealing with terrorism is because of this warm touchy feely co-dependent foreign policy they are always espousing. Such as that John Kerry espoused during his 2004 run for President. The left is so determined to put all of mankind into one commune of humanity that they cannot see that some of us “humans” are ruthless thug killers with an ideology that is bent on destroying the rest of us.
There is much more to the interview so get over to the link and read up.
