Defeating Jihad: How the War on Terror May Yet Be Won, in Spite of Ourselves

by Srdja Trifkovic and Serge Trifkovic

Book Overview

From the author of The Sword of the Prophet comes an exploration on the waron terror and the political ideology of Islam. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 192865326X
• ISBN13: 9781928653264
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Regina Orthodox Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

We have met the enemy and he is us.

The author patiently describes the problem and spells out why it is a problem. In the last chapter, he proposes solutions. Most of our problems center around false beliefs that have been put out by the Muslims and assiduously taught by the academics and the mainstream media. For instance, the riots in France. Our media told us they were "French youths" unhappy over jobs, a very palatable and understandable problem. In fact, the rioters were French Muslim youths expressing their hatred for the West. Few Americans know that Islam teaches its members that they are not only permitted to lie to nonbelievers but that they have a positive duty to do so when it advances the cause of Islamic domination. Pursuant to this, Muslims say that Islam forbids killing innocents. That's true. What they don't tell you, is that no unbeliever is innocent. All deserve to die if they do not convert. Islam is a religion of peace. Yes, but only after the entire world has been subdued and converted to Islam. And on and on it goes, repeated and sanctioned by the mainstream media and even by the Republican Administration. For the Democrats, these lies are self-evident truths. The policies proposed to deal with these problems are bold but are common sense. But none of these policies will ever be implemented. The reason is the reason why they have not already been implemented: a bizarre belief system hiding under the glorified title "multiculturalism." Nobody ever asks what this word means. But looking at the practices carried out in its name, it clearly means: Except for Western culture, which is bad, all cultures are good, no matter how cruel, unfair, and inhumane some of them are. If this belief system is ever to be uprooted, we must understand how it came about and what continues to sustain it. This information can be found in While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America From Within. This belief system is still being taught to all Americans beginning at the grade school level and enshrined in common grammar-school textbooks put out by the mainstream publishers such as Houghton-Mifflin, McGraw-Hill and Prentice-Hall (under the advice of Muslim consultants). As long as the majority believes this nonsense, we have no chance to win. And a larger and larger majority will believe them as long as they are taught to innocent children.

A winnable war

Serge Trifkovic is fast becoming a leading authority on Islamic militancy and how to respond to it. His The Sword of the Prophet (2002) was an important look at militant Islam. In this sequel volume to that incisive work, Trifkovic continues his hard-hitting analysis coupled with a sober realism about the struggle we are in. This volume is broken into five parts: a brief review of Islam, its founder, its beliefs and practices, with special reference to Jihad; a lengthy examination of the crisis in Europe; an assessment of conditions in America; the global situation; and a series of proposed solutions. Taken together these five sections offer a comprehensive and informed overview of the nature of Islamic Jihad and the response of the West. The book offers, in short, a workable understanding of, and plan for, an effective response to the war on terrorism. And the author is quite right to begin by assessing the threat. A good deal of the problem lies in the fact that many Western intellectualoids refuse to even admit that there is a problem, or are much more inclined to blame the West for the current crisis. For example, the "9-11 Commission", the US Government report on terrorism, does note that Islamist terrorism is the main worry, but then goes on to argue that the reformist wing within Islam needs to be encouraged while the fundamentalist wing needs to be resisted. But Trifkovic argues that this distinction between a real, peaceful Islam and an a violent Islamic aberration is false. Jihad and terrorism, argues the author, are intrinsically imbedded in the Koran, hadith, and Sharia. The jihadists are fully acting in accord with their faith. Thus the real question is not, Are there moderate Muslims? Yes there are. But the question to really ask is, Is Islam itself moderate and peaceful? Trifkovic thinks not. Thus talk of reforming Islam becomes a questionable, if unobtainable, goal. It is this understanding of the real nature of Islam that explains so much about the current crisis in Europe and the incredibly weak and short-sighted Western response. Europa is quickly becoming Eurabia because most Westerners do not understand the real nature of Islam. Peace in Islam can ultimately come when all of the Dar-al-Harb (world of unbelievers) is converted - one way or another - into the Dar-al-Islam (the world of Islam). Thus Islam is in a permanent state of war with the Western infidels until it finally reigns throughout the globe. While the European response has been woefully inadequate, the American response has not been much better. Basically a policy of appeasement at home and saber-rattling abroad is in place. Fear of offending American Muslims has resulted in a superficial response at home. Foolish notions of tolerance, diversity and multiculturalism have failed to deal with the Islamic threat. Moreover, the West fails to understand that Muslims are unable or unwilling to properly assimilate and integrate into the West. Instead, Muslim concl

Causes and Consequences

While the sounds of One World-mantra are echoing ever more macabre in this age of the insurgent jihad, every glimmer of light in the mist of the Brave New World-correctness amounts to triumph. This book is an indispensable step toward the sane and honest dialogue on global Islam, which - at the moment - seems to be out of reach to the most of Europe's and America's political opinion-makers. Many had wondered that the West has so indolently ignored the inexplicably terrifying scenes of beheaded Serbs in 1990's Bosnia and Kosovo, both civilians and POWs, having been videotaped by their executioners as the examples of jihadic gruesome "achievements" at the "battlefield for Islam" (moreover, the most of Western governments openly took sides with the Bosnian Muslim and Kosovo Albanian "armies" which have included the mujahedeen fighters and ideologues). Many had also argued that "the West" has distastefully failed to hide the political malevolence toward the tragedy of Beslan and jihadic terror in Moscow. The notion that the very same "Western" politicians, media and academe remained completely deaf to the REAL causes and motivations behind the New York September 11th plane hijackers, London (Madrid, Bali, Tel Aviv...) bombers, ritual executions of Daniel Perle and Theo van Gog, gives an answer to their questions. On the other hand, I've always failed to understand the point of critiques, not so rarely shouted in Dr.Trifkovic's direction, about his alleged "Islamophobia". He's not sugarcoating the facts with diversity-claptrap (which I'm deeply grateful for), that's obvious. But, it hardly makes "The Sword of the Prophet" and "Defeating Jihad" the "anti-Muslim" books; if the memory serves right, Dr. Trifkovic was highly critical toward the US millitary approach in Iraq from the very beginning (on the other hand, "anti-Muslim" could mean anything in this Brave New World of ours, esp. in the light of the EU's new set of imposed Orwellian standards of the "hate speech", which make any viable academic discussion on the history of Islam simply impossible). If we want the generation of our children to live (as Andrew G.Bostom, MD, the co-author and editor of another, recently published, seminal work in the contemporary studies on Islam, "The Legacy Of Jihad", had put it) "in a world where the devastating institution of jihad has been acknowledged, renounced, dismantled, and relegated forever to the dustbin of history by Muslims themselves", we must, for a change, to come to terms with the facts first. Then, and then only, there might be a different perspective for the moribund post-civilization we live in.

If You Can Take The Truth, Read This Book. If Not, Forget It.

This book is not for liberals who think that more toleration will stop a holy waged in the name of a fanatically-intolerant ideology. Neither is it for conservatives who think a bigger Homeland Security budget and invading a few more countries will solve the problem. It is, quite simply, for people who want the truth: both left and right are clueless against jihad, because they haven't seriously faced its causes, methods, or objectives. Dr. Trifkovic has, and the War on Terror will never look the same to you again, after you read this book. It is both readable and erudite, practical and profound. Ignore the reviewers who say Dr. Trifkovic is biased: you won't think this when you've read it. Robert Locke www.robertlockearchive.com

Impressive Previews & Blurb

Trifkovic cuts through the foolishness that has blinded Westerners for so many years, to show us what we're really up against - and what it will take not to just win but to survive. Brian Mitchell Washington Bureau Chief, Investor's Business Daily. * * * * * Transcending predominant canards, Serge Trifkovic identifies with precision the existential threat to both Western and other modern democracies--global Islamic terrorism, as perpetrated by Muslims following the uniquely Islamic dogmas and historical practices of jihad. Trifkovic pursues the logic of this conclusion with a plan to neutralize jihadism by acknowledging its organic connection to so-called Islamic "activism", strictly regulating Muslim immigration to Western societies, and rediscovering Western cultural and moral values. His book is an indispensable work of erudition and uncompromising intellectual honesty which should be read attentively by elites in policymaking, the media, and the academy. Andrew G. Bostom, MD, author of "The Legacy of Jihad" * * * This is an important and timely book that addresses the key issue of where Islam REALLY stands vis-a-vis terrorism. The author asks us to set aside our politically correct inhibitions and look at the evidence. The book outlines a strategy for meeting the threat that might well serve as a model for Western governments to follow in their war on "global terrorism." Ambassador James Bissett Former Head of Canada's Immigration Service * * * * * Dr. Trifkovic offers important advice in our post-9-11 struggle. Success requires focusing on the strategic problem, not on the tactics used by our antagonists. The threat to our security comes not from the perpetrators of terrorist acts but from the philosophy that sets them in motion. Until we deal with this reality, success will elude us. Professor Col. Ronald L. Hatchett Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX Arms negotiator under Reagan