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 The Forever War

 The attack on 9/11 was not an attack by terrorists as such, but rather an expression of radical Islam’s traditional attempts at destroying what it considers to be a satanic world order. They genuinely see themselves as involved in a holy war against the West. To understand this, we should examine history and learn from it.

After the conquest of North Africa and the conversion of the Berbers to Islam, the Arabs were frustrated that they faced the Sea (the Atlantic Ocean) with no more lands to conquer. According to Arab chronicles, when the Arab army reached the seashore for the first time, the Arab commander Uqba-ibn-Nafe waded into the sea and swashed his sword at the water to express his frustration that there were no more lands to conquer in order to spread the glory of Islam by terrorizing the conquered people to accept Islam or death.

The Arabs now started eyeing Spain, the country that lay across the Mediterranean. They faced the legendary Pillars of Hercules (later renamed by the Arabs as Jebel-ut-Tarik or Gibraltar as we know it today. Spain was then under the rule of the Visigoths, who had embraced Christianity. The Visigothic king who ruled Visigothic Spain was Roderic, also known as Rodrigo (in Spanish) King Rodrigo of Spain married the daughter of one of his noblemen, Count Julian, against the wishes of her father. To avenge what Julian perceived as his violated honor, he initiated secret negotiations with the enemy. He invited the Emir (Governor) Musa ibn Nusayr, the Muslim ruler of North Africa, based in Tunisia, to invade Spain. The Caliph al-Walid authorized the invasion of Spain (710-711 AD) on condition that Count Julian recited the Shahada and embraced Islam.

The two armies met on the banks of the Guadalete River on July 19, 711, in the extreme south of the Iberian Peninsula. The Muslim army was victorious and struck the Spanish Emperor’s head on a pole and paraded it before those contingents of the Spanish army that were still engaged in opposing the Muslims in the crossing of the Guadalete River.

After conquering Spain, the Muslims immediately began the campaign against Europe. Soon the Jews, along with the Christians, were made to pay the Jiziya poll tax was imposed on all non-Muslims (Kafirs) by the Muslims. They were also drafted for slave labor to demolish churches and build mosques from the columns of the destroyed churches. The Jews and Christians also could not carry weapons, ride horses, wear shoes, ring church bells, wear anything green, or resist a Muslim assault.

From these earliest times, proclaiming Jesus’ divinity and attempting to convert Muslims were made capital offenses. In the 9th century, Spanish Jews in Muslim areas were required to wear a patch of white cloth on their shoulders that bore the image of an ape; Christians, since they ate pork, wore the image of a pig. On the Caliph al-Mutawakkil’s orders, a yellow badge for Jews was made compulsory, setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later in Nazi Germany.

Thus began the Muslim invasion of France under the leadership of Abd-ur Rahman, who was then appointed the chieftain of the Muslim occupiers of Spain.

The Franks were a Gothic (Germanic) tribe who eventually became the French, as they are known today. It was another related Gothic clan – the Ostrogoths, who were ruling Spain when the Muslims attacked. The tales of mindless Muslim cruelty, savage torture, subterfuge deception, and blood-chilling ruthlessness that the Ostrogoths who fled Muslim-occupied Spain told their Frankish clansmen had contributed to stiffening the Frankish resolve to defeat the Muslim invaders.

The ferocity with which Charles (Karl) Martel fought against the invading Arabs and the personal weapon of a hammer-like axe that he used earned him the title of Karl the Hammer. October 10, 732 AD, marks the conclusion of the Battle of Tours, arguably one of the most decisive battles in all of history. Martel gathered his forces directly in the path of the oncoming Muslim army and prepared to defend himself by using a phalanx-style of combat. It was one of the rare times in the Middle Ages when infantry held its ground against a mounted attack. The exact length of the battle is undetermined; Arab sources claim that it lasted two days, whereas Christian sources hold that the fighting continued for seven days. In either case, the battle ended when the French captured and killed Abd-ur Rahman. Europe was safe for the next 700 years until the Muslims breached the Eastern Gateway when they overran Constantinople in 1453.

Constantinople proved far more difficult to conquer than the Muslims had expected and did not fall until 1453. The vast expansion of Islam had lost steam. The final battle would be fought by a ragtag group of defenders: Jews, Lithuanians, Habsburgs, Saxons, Bavarians, and Poles against Grand Vizier Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha and the might of the Ottoman army. Vienna would be the decisive battle.

The Battle of Vienna ended in defeat for the Muslims. It began the long slide by Islam into near irrelevance, as far as the Europeans cared. The battle opened after a 2-month siege of the Holy Roman Empire’s capital city on September 12, 1683, in the pre-dawn hours. It ended that era of Islamic expansion with a defeat at the hands of Jan III Sobieski and Charles V of Lorraine.

When the World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001, nobody in the news media seemed to understand the choice of September 11 by al-Qaeda as their attack date. It has often been suggested that this was merely a random date chosen for convenience. I beg to differ. It seems clear to me that Bin Laden was sending a message to America and the West. Al Qaeda had an old score to settle and was putting us on notice that the era of expansion was resuming after the interruption of Vienna. Night fell on September 12 for the soldiers of Allah. So our towers fell on the preceding morning, three hundred and eighteen years later.

I believe it is essential to understand this history in order to comprehend what we are up against; our enemy has a long memory and seeks to avenge the defeat of its ancestors. The radical Islamists are not upset about our presence in their lands, nor are they especially upset about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, nor about our “exploitation” of their oil fields, nor our invasion of Iraq. They are taking a much longer view, a view with a vengeance in mind! They want vengeance for Tours, vengeance for Granada, vengeance for Vienna. They want to reinvigorate Islam and return to the days of pride, victory, and submission by their foes. They want to establish the Caliphate and place the entire world under Sharia law. 9/11 was the first step in this process of re-establishing Jihad as a divine force of conversion and conquest, but it will not be the last. Suppose America, Europe, and Israel fail to understand this. In that case, they have made a fatal mistake in warfare in that they have failed to understand their enemy and even worse, they have failed to identify who their real enemy is.

About the Author

David Ramati is a Jewish Veteran of the Vietnam War who served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was born in Chicago and raised in Wisconsin. After serving in Vietnam, he moved to Israel, where he served for another 25 years as a combat infantry officer in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). He is married and has a son. He also has five beautiful daughters, thirty-six grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and more on the way. He is also an American citizen who carries on the proud tradition of serving in the Israeli Defense Force. He currently lives in the combat zone called Kiryat Arba Hebron and saw his time in the IDF as a continuation of his time in Vietnam in the fight for freedom as a proxy war against the enemies of America and the free world!

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