Jihad, keystone of Islamic doctrine.

The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S) provides an interesting analysis of a booklet found in the possession of Hezbollah operatives during the recent Lebanese open house.

The analysis states that traditional Sunni Islam "does not place [jihad] at the center of its worldview." However, it appears that Shia Islam does see jihad as being in the classical tradition (given, we logically conclude, the statement in the ITIC analysis that the "view of jihad espoused by Imam Khomeini and his successor, Khamenei, is not based merely on classical Islamic sources." (Emphasis added.)).

We are firmly of the opinion that Islam is at the root of terrorism. Islam as it is right now, as practiced, as accepted, as laid out in this Hezbollah booklet, the default Islam, the Islam that you get when you reach mental lockup state after reading reams and reams of Muslim horse feathers and you then hit the "Reset" button.

THAT Islam.

The Islam that the 77% of Palestinians hold dear, the Islam that allows them to support yet another pointless depredation against Israel, in this case "the Hamas kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, the provocation that . . . recently led to a new Israeli offensive in Gaza."

THAT Islam.

The Islam that's killed over five thousand souls since 9/11. (See Religion of Peace link at the bottom of this page.)

THAT Islam.

If classical Sunni Islam doesn't make jihad central, murderous present-day Sunni organizations like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic Liberation Party, Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami do.

Wahhabi Sunni doctrine preaches unadulterated hatred for the infidel and is spread around the world today thanks to Saudi Arabia. Eighty percent of mosques in the U.S. are built with Saudi money and poisonous Wahhabi literature is what those mosques distribute..

THAT is the Islam we need to crush absolutely. "Abandon those beliefs for die!"

There's historical precedent for the effectiveness of this approach. It's the record of Islamic conquest throughout all of Islam's history, from its earliest days to the present moment.