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Yes, This Is About Islam Novelist Salman Rushdie speaks the unspoken obvious. Repost from 2001.
Transcript of Osama bin Laden tape Department of Defense transcript showing bin Laden gloating over Islam's victory in American deaths

The events of September 11, 2001 made clear the most severe threat to American free enterprise in history.

The suicide missions using hijacked airliners targeted the twin towers of the World Trade Center as the most visible symbol of capitalism and the Pentagon as the center of U.S. military power. The hijacked plane in which passengers overwhelmed the terrorists and crashed in Pennsylvania may have been targeted at the White House or Capitol building.

The Islamist terrorists who carried out the September 11 attacks represent an ideology that seeks the destruction of capitalism and its greatest symbol, the United States, through jihad, or "religious war."

President Bush responded with America's War on Terrorism. Congress passed and the President signed the USA PATRIOT Act anti-terrorism bill. The Center strongly supports the Congress and the President in the War on Terrorism, recognizing the dangers to civil liberties in wartime legislation but supporting wartime law enforcement capabilities and scrutinizing the application of the law for abuses.

Islamist religious fanaticism poses a far more dangerous threat to free enterprise than communism during the Soviet era in Russia. It is imperative for an informed American citizenry to know this enemy. The term Islamist is used is the sense defined in the Encyclopeadia of the Orient. In brief: Islamism is opposed to secular democratic governments and institutions; is opposed to non-Muslim culture, values and art; is opposed to both capitalism and socialism in most forms; feels inferiority since the decline of the great Muslim empires that once ruled the known world; tends towards dreams and delusions of grandeur; is fascinated by modern technology; uses violence to achieve its goals.

Islamic leaders caution that Islamist fanaticism is not representative of the views of most Muslims.

Posted here to increase public understanding of the September 11 attacks by Islamist terrorists are discussions of "martyrdom operations," as Islamists call such suicide missions.

The Islamic Legitimacy of The "Martyrdom Operations" is an article from Nida'ul Islam magazine in Australia justifying suicide missions. It is vital for Americans to understand the religious underpinnings of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The Islamic Ruling On The Permissibility Of Martyrdom Operations is a more complex discussion by Islamic scholars justifying suicide missions. The discussion contains many Islamic terms from the Arabic unfamiliar to most Americans. A search engine such as Google can find most of them in an understandable context.

For a thoroughgoing presentation of extreme anti-American Islamist propaganda, visit http://www.inin.net/, website of the Islamic News and Information Network.

National Security

Declaration of National Emergency by Reason Of Certain Terrorist Attacks 09/14/01 Proclamation 7463 by President George W. Bush.

Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People 09/20/01 One of the great presidential speeches of American history.

Executive Order on Terrorist Financing 09/24/01 Freezing the assets of suspected foreign terrorists.

Citizen Preparedness in War on Terrorism Executive Order 11/09/01 Executive Order 13234 by President George W. Bush.

President Issues Military Order 11/13/01 Provides for the military detention of suspected non-citizen terrorists and their trial by military commission.

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