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So far this Christmas, Religion of Peace devotees have bombed a church in the Philippines, blown up 45 flood refugees waiting in line for Western food aid, plotted to bomb a Christmas tree lighting in Oregon and a recruitment center in Maryland, massacred 86 innocents in attacks on Nigerian churches, planned to poison American food buffets and implant bombs in human bodies, plotted the slaughter
of civilians in Holland, London and a newspaper office in
Denmark... and even set off the first suicide blast in Sweden,
which was intended for Christmas shoppers.

So when do we stop pretending that Islam is just another religion?


Cairo to Damascus (PDF)
by John Roy Carl­son
1951, Knopf, 474 pages

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Best known for Under Cover [1943], a chron­i­cle about his years-long infil­tra­tion of the fas­cist Fifth Col­umn move­ment in the United States, John Roy Carl­son pub­lished Cairo to Dam­as­cus in 1951. A work that is at least impor­tant today as it was when pub­lished, Cairo to Dam­as­cus recorded the Nazi recrude­s­cence in the Mid­dle East after the end of World War II. With alarm, Carl­son wrote that, if the sit­u­a­tion were not cor­rected, the Third Reich alumni in the “Holy Land” would pre­cip­i­tate a cat­a­stro­phe of epic pro­por­tions. In the post-911 era, his words are haunting.

In the fourth chap­ter of the book, Carl­son writes of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, the Islamic fas­cist orga­ni­za­tion that is the par­ent orga­ni­za­tion of Al Qaeda, Hamas and Pales­tin­ian Islamic Jihad. On pages 91 and 92 of the orig­i­nal text, Carl­son inter­viewed Has­san al-Banna, the founder of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, find­ing his total­i­tar­ian inter­pre­ta­tion of Islam to be iden­ti­cal with the way West­ern total­i­tar­i­ans approached Chris­tian­ity. Enun­ci­at­ing the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s goal of estab­lish­ing a world­wide total­i­tar­ian Islamic theoc­racy, al-Banna antic­i­pates the doc­trine expressed in the Broth­er­hood doc­u­ment The Project, dis­cussed in FTR#537. “ . . . I asked his views on estab­lish­ing the Caliphate, the com­plete merger of Church and State—the Moslem equiv­a­lent of reli­gious total­i­tar­i­an­ism, as in Spain. ‘We want an Ara­bian United States with a Caliphate at its head and every Arab state sub­scrib­ing whole­heart­edly to the laws of the Koran. . . . The laws of the Koran are suit­able for all men at all times to the end of the world.’ . . . I could not help mak­ing a men­tal note that the word ‘Chris­t­ian’ has been sim­i­larly used and with sim­i­lar fanati­cism among West­ern expo­nents of author­i­tar­i­an­ism. . . .”
(Cairo to Dam­as­cus, p. 92.)

In addi­tion to relat­ing his per­sonal encoun­ters with Nazi com­bat vet­er­ans of World War II, Carl­son writes exten­sively of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem—SS offi­cer, Axis spy, recruiter of numer­ous com­bat units for the Third Reich, and the first leader of the Pales­tin­ian national move­ment. Carl­son related the Grand Mufti’s cre­ation of the World Mus­lim Con­gress. The WMC even­tu­ally became the Islamic branch of the fas­cist World Anti-Communist League and a pri­mary ele­ment in the U.S.-backed Afghan war against the Soviet Union. (That con­flict ulti­mately spawned Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden as a mil­i­tary leader.) “In Feb­ru­ary 1951 he sud­denly reap­peared in Karachi, Pak­istan to meet old friends who had sup­ported his cause in Iraq and to pre­side over a twelve-day World Moslem Con­gress. In a typ­i­cal inflam­ma­tory address, he called for a ‘full strug­gle’ by the Moslems ‘to meet the aggressor’—meaning, in this instance, the non-Moslem Hin­dus of India. He assured the del­e­gates: ‘We shall meet next with sword in hand on the soil of either Kash­mir or Pales­tine.’” (Ibid.; p. 423.) (For more about the Grand Mufti, see—among other programs—FTR#414, as well as FTR#456.

Carlson’s assess­ment of the Arab-Israeli con­flict is as rel­e­vant today as when the book was pub­lished: “ . . . I pray that these ancient Semitic peo­ples will rec­on­cile their dif­fer­ences, that Pales­tine refugees who, in the main, left their homes because Arab lead­ers urged them to do so—expecting a short war and a quick victory—will be reset­tled. The only alter­na­tive to peace is dis­as­ter for Arab, Jew, and Chris­t­ian, for none may hope to pros­per alone. . . .” (Ibid.; p. viii.)