It is time to declare war on Radical Jihadist Muslims. In 2018 more than 25 Christian villages & many churches have been destroyed in Nigeria by militant Muslim groups. May 2019 the BBC claims that Christian persecution is at near genocide levels. Prince Charles stated, “It is an indescribable tragedy that Christianity is now under such threat in the Middle East”. There is a lot of reporting anytime Muslims around the world are attacked, but not as much reporting for other religions due to political correctness. The Qur’an contains 109 verses with graphic instructions that reference war with nonbelievers and how to eliminate or convert nonbelievers. Muslims that do not join the fight are called Hypocrites’ and are warned that Allah will punish them. Radical Muslim Jihadist intimidates and kills these Muslims.
Sri Lanka Christians were attacked on Easter Sunday 2019 by a radical Muslim group. This Radical Muslim coordinated attack has similarities to international terrorists like the Islamic State and al-Quaeda. According to Open Doors each month on average: 345 Christians are killed for faith-related reasons, 105 churches and Christian buildings are burned or attacked and 219 Christians are detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned. Women and young girls suffer most, especially in many third world cultures. Remember Radical Jihad Muslims attack all non-believers not just Christians.
Article I of the Constitution, invests Congress with the authority to declare war and to raise and maintain military forces. Congress decides and the President manages. The last time the United States declared War was WWII. Since WWII, Presidents have sent troops to battle several times. The War Powers Resolution is a federal law intended to check the President’s power, to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
Congress passed the War Powers Resolution in the aftermath of the Vietnam War to set up procedures for the President and Congress, to follow in situations that could lead to armed conflict. The most recent Authorized Use of Military Force (AUMF) was signed into law by President George Bush on September 18, 2001.
The authorization granted the President the authority to use all “necessary and appropriate force” against those whom he determined “planned, authorized, committed or aided” the September 11th attacks, or who harbored said persons or groups.
Is the September 2001 AUMF still valid? I think this AUMF needs to be rescinded immediately, followed by an updated AUMF relevant to the war being waged on America and the world today.
The target for a new AUMF would be Radical Islam. The mind set of too many world leaders is they think in terms of land and countries but Radical Islam Jihadist is an asymmetric war with no boundaries.
I was interviewed in 2006 and asked if we were winning in Iraq, or what would happen if we won. I said that defeating radical Muslim Jihad in one geographic location was like placing a square of Jell-O on a bench and hitting it with a maul. The Jell-O is no longer on the bench but has spread everywhere, and others have said fighting Radical Islam is like the game Whack-A-Mole.
A few of the groups around the world: Al-Shabab, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), El-Mourabitoun, Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), The Sons of the Islamic Sahara Movement for Justice, BOKO HARAM, Ansar al-Muslimin in the Lands of the Blacks (JAMBS), Ansar al-Sharia in Libya and Tunisia, Brotherhood of Terrorism Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) have trained with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in camps in the southern Philippines. Other groups in Asia do not appear on the US State Department list of Islamic terrorists such as PULO, Gerakan Mujahideen Islam Pattani (GMIP), Kampulan Militan Malaysia (KMM), Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI), Laskar Jihad, Indonesian Islamic Liberation Front (IILF) and the MILF to name a few. Let’s not forget Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and of course ISIS.
Why target radical Islam? Radical Islam is dangerous to everyone but is more dangerous to other Muslims (Hypocrites). Frequently the radical Muslims begin their Jihad within their own Muslim community. They threaten and kill in order to persuade and intimidate that Muslim community which often results in its supporting the Radical Jihad.
Most Muslims are good. A Jihad is not just a holy war. Jihad is described as a struggle or effort. A Jihad can be a believer’s internal struggle to live as well as possible. Jihad can also be the struggle to build a good Muslim society.
Rescind the current AUMF and create a new AUMF that authorizes military force anywhere in the world to defeat and kill radical Muslim Jihadists. Radical Muslims do not recognize borders, but they recognize they are authorized to wage war and kill non-believers including other Muslims because of a declared Fat-wa by a Muslim Religious Leader.
The new AUMF would not identify a specific country because Radical Islam does not recognize borders. The new AUMF would specify Radical Jihadist, authorizing kinetic military action, seizing financial assets and interdictive internet action. Remember these groups have plenty of money gained by drug trafficking, slave trade and kidnapping for ransom.
An example would be when a radical Muslim Jihad group goes to a country and pays the ruler money to look the other way allowing them free movement and use of an area for training and as a headquarters. Once discovered, America would partner with that country’s government to eliminate the threat.
The director of the FBI, Christopher A. Wray, appeared in front of Congress December 2017, and stated that there are about 1,000 terrorism cases in America in every state. America has seen plenty of attacks within our border in support of Radical Jihad.
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were in London to meet with the ambassador for the Barbary Pirates. These pirates were hijacking American ships, enslaving sailors, and demanding ransoms to free them. Adams and Jefferson asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves. Jefferson reported to Secretary of State John Jay:
The ambassador answered: (THE RIGHT) was founded on the Laws of the Prophet Muhammad, it is written in their Qur’an, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise.
CONCLUSION: I am not saying Muslims are bad, but I am saying that Muslims who support Radical Jihad are part of a large army and are a danger to the world. These enemy combatants may have been born in any country to include America. When America takes the lead, other countries will partner either by sharing intelligence or active military participation.