For five years we have heard, principally from those who wield executive power, of a claimed need to make fundamental changes in this country, to change the world’s””particularly the Muslim world’s””perception of us, to press “reset” buttons. We have heard not a word from those sources suggesting any need to understand and confront a totalitarian ideology that has existed since at least the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1920s.
The ideology has regarded the United States as its principal adversary since the late 1940s, when a Brotherhood principal, Sayid Qutb, visited this country and was aghast at what he saw as its decadence. The first World Trade Center bombing, in 1993, al Qaeda attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, on the USS Cole in 2000, the 9/11 attacks, and those in the dozen years since””all were fueled by Islamist hatred for the U.S. and its values.
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(WSJ Op-Ed) Michael Mukasey–Make No Mistake, It Was Jihad
For five years we have heard, principally from those who wield executive power, of a claimed need to make fundamental changes in this country, to change the world’s””particularly the Muslim world’s””perception of us, to press “reset” buttons. We have heard not a word from those sources suggesting any need to understand and confront a totalitarian ideology that has existed since at least the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1920s.
The ideology has regarded the United States as its principal adversary since the late 1940s, when a Brotherhood principal, Sayid Qutb, visited this country and was aghast at what he saw as its decadence. The first World Trade Center bombing, in 1993, al Qaeda attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, on the USS Cole in 2000, the 9/11 attacks, and those in the dozen years since””all were fueled by Islamist hatred for the U.S. and its values.
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