Denis McDhimmi White House National Security Adviser Speaks to Hamas-Linked Group
[{"sender": "Bill Siegel", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "3/8/2011 4:57:57 PM", "subject": "Denis McDhimmi White House National Security Adviser Speaks to Hamas-Linked Group", "body": "Bill Siegel thought you might find this of interest: \nhttp://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8911/pub_detail.asp \n\nMarch 8, 2011 \nDenis McDhimmi \nWhite House National Security Adviser Speaks to Hamas-Linked Group \nBill Siegel  \n\nOn March 6, in anticipation of Congressional hearings on domestic radicalization, Deputy National Security Adviser \nDenis McDonough stated the following: \n\"President Obama recognizes that through our words and deeds we can either play into al Qaeda's narrative and \nmessaging or we can challenge it and thereby undermine it. We're determined to undermine it. For example, we \nknow there are many different reasons why individuals—from many different faiths—succumb to terrorist \nideologies. And there is no one easy profile of a terrorist. But based on extensive investigations, research and \nprofiles of the violent extremists we've captured or arrested, and who falsely claim to be fighting in the name of \nIslam, we know that they all share one thing—they all believe that the United States is somehow at war with \nIslam, and that this justifies violence against Americans. So we are actively and aggressively undermining that \nideology. We're exposing the lie that America and Islam are somehow in conflict. That is why President Obama \nhas stated time and again that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam.\" \n\nThis statement encapsulates so much of what this writer has identified as the \"Control Factor:\" that function of \nour minds which will distort our perceptions so as not to present ourselves with the ever so fearful reality that \nconfronts us under the banner of Islam today. That is, rather than to clearly see, focus upon, and set about to \ncreate strategies to properly confront the threat which we currently face- a threat that by definition we do not \ncontrol and see little way over which to regain control- our minds essentially collude to reconstruct in a manner \nwhich deludes us with the sense that we are in control. \n\n1. The statement essentially reduces the threat we face to that of terrorism caused by al-Qaeda. By defining and \nlimiting the threat to a band of \"radical extremists\" who have distorted the doctrine of a great religion, we buy \ninto the sense that our military might and criminal detection methods will ultimately save the day. The fantasy is \nthat this is a problem that we can get our arms around because under our Constitutional principles, terrorism is a \nviolation that we are permitted to fight against. \n\nYet terrorism is only one of three levels upon which the threat is attacking us and al-Qaeda is only a piece of the \nterrorism level. The second level, the \"Civilization Jihad,\" a term used by the Muslim Brotherhood itself to \ndescribe its long term effort to peaceably infiltrate American and Western society at all levels in order to bring it \ndown from the inside through the freedoms that Western Constitutions afford, is well at work and in process \ntoday. This has also been called the \"Stealth Jihad.\" \n\nThere is a third level, the \"International Institutional Jihad,\" upon which organizations such as the UN, along with \nits 57 Member State bloc the Organization of the Islamic Conference, work to push through those principles of \nSharia Law and Islamic doctrine which it Members can agree upon such as the 1990 Cairo Declaration of Human \nRights which is fully at odds with U.S. Constitutional tenets. Once these principles become international \nstandards, the institutions seek to push them into Western societies through treaties and trade deals over which \nthe Members have leverage. \n\nMcDonough's words, by limiting the threat to Al Qaeda, intentionally ignore the other levels of threat which, for \nall intents and purposes can be even more dangerous because our Constitution does not afford us easy means to \ncombat. Nor does our desired general sense of morality. \n\n2. By focusing on \"reasons\" for this terrorist piece of the pie, the Control Factor further sets out the narrative \nthat we can gain control over the problem. By looking for \"root causes,\" we advance the notion that by \neliminating or reducing those elements we can eliminate the symptom-terrorism. This is part of a long-engaged \nLeftist narrative that has been utilized across a vast array of social problems in order to gain control over funding \nand policy. Now, it is being used to avoid seeing a problem clearly, much less addressing it intelligently. \n\nIt is this administration's (and also, unfortunately, many members of Bush's as well) distortion to frame terrorism \nas a result of victimhood. That is, by establishing the root causes of terrorism as either a response to U.S. policy, \nto economic conditions, to Israeli occupation, and so on, the Control Factor sells the buried wish that since we \ncause the conditions, we can fix the symptom without the grueling costs of war and confrontation. When both \nsides collude in this form of narrative, we allow it to continue and grow. Yet placing the cause of the problem \nwithin ourselves is false and strips us of the proper incentive to stand up and fight against a threat that simply \nseeks our destruction no matter what we do. \n\n3. McDonough fights the enemy's battle for us in the simple phrase of those \"who falsely claim to be fighting in \nthe name of Islam.\" Here, the Control Factor refuses to accept what the enemy has repeatedly made clear—there \nis a Holy War between Islam and the Western world, it has been declared by a significant faction of Muslims and \nagreed upon by many more either explicitly or through silence and omission, and the war is defined by the enemy \nitself under the banner of Islam to seek the destruction of Western society as it is and to replace it with a Sharia \nbased global Islamic Ummah. This is what the enemy says itself. The Control Factor tells us that this can not be, \nthat Islam is a \"peaceful\" and \"great\" religion that has been \"hijacked\" by a few \"crazies\" and that most \nMuslims worldwide are much like us peace loving Westerners who seek a world based on mutual tolerance. If \nthere is any \"war,\" it emanates from those of us Westerners who are \"racists,\" \"bigots,\" or otherwise and fail to \nacknowledge the realities of the Muslim peoples. The critical issue here is that the Control Factor, as expressed \nthrough McDonough, takes full responsibility for defining Islam and identifying the enemy. The enemy, however, \ndefines itself and needs to identify itself both through its actions, its words, and importantly what it does not do \nand say. \n\nThis \"transfer of responsibility\" from the enemy to ourselves that McDonough's words so freely take on is \nsymptomatic of the deep addictive style the West has adopted to avoid hard confrontation. Once again, the \nControl Factor utilizes Western guilt to define the conflict as resulting from improper acts of its own. It then \nseeks to redeem itself by accommodating the enemy. This shows up in America's dealings with Islam as well as \nthe \"Israeli-Palestinian Conflict;\" responsibility for the problem is transferred to the West or Israel in a grand \npsychological effort to avoid facing the terrors and costs of hard confrontation, terror, or war. And in each \nexample, as with all psychological defenses, the defense creates the very conditions it seeks to avoid. Until the \nWest is fully able to place responsibility back upon the Islamic world for the actions it takes and omits to take, \nthe West will only dig itself deeper into a weaker position. Unfortunately, the game of guilt gives us no guidance \nas to how it is to end; when enough has been repaid. Instead, it is geared to continue indefinitely. \n\n4. McDonough's statement that the U.S. is not at war with Islam is a pleasant Control Factor fantasy but does \nlittle to eliminate the fact that the enemy has declared it so. We can walk away and pretend there is no war, \nfollow the deceptive words of those in this country engaged in the Civilization Jihad who attack us for any \nresponse to the war other than bending over backwards to accommodate Islam and tolerate that which does not \ntolerate anything other than itself. Yet that path leads only to further the cause of the enemy. \n\n5. Perhaps most telling of all of McDonough's statement is the word \"never.\" To claim we will never be at war \nwith Islam regardless of what Islam or Muslims worldwide do to us is the height of Dhimmitude—a phrase coined \nby Bat Yeor, an expert on Dhimmi behavior throughout Islamic history. In Islam, a Dhimmi is generally a Jew or \nChristian (there are others) who has agreed to accept a lesser and humiliating status with duties including the \npayment of a special tax, in exchange for life in an Islamic controlled land. It is a protection contract: you can \nlive as long as you abide by these conditions. In claiming that we could \"never\" be at war with Islam, McDonough \nhas staked out Dhimmi status for all non-Muslims in the U.S. and has put words to the famous act of Obama in \nbowing to the King of Saudi Arabia. \n\nBy denying that we are at war with Islam, McDonough has admitted that those words have meaning, just that \nthey do not fit U.S. policy. By denying that the U.S. would ever be at war with Islam, McDonough has sent the \nmessage of unconditional surrender in advance. This is pure Control Factor maneuvering and threatens our nation \nworse than the underlying threat itself. Put simply, our Constitution does not afford us easy ways to combat the \nthreat we face- we can fight certain types of terrorism in certain (albeit still under great dispute) ways yet we \nhave no effective means to combat the Civilization Jihad and are fast losing leverage to resist the International \nInstitutional Jihad. Unless and until we all obtain better control over our Control Factors so that we can develop \nsufficient acceptable means to fight on these levels, we are headed to self-destruction."}]