[The answer is apparently not obvious to many, but for those
paying attention, the aim of the Islamic terrorists is the
establishment of a global Caliphate under Shariah law.

Terrorism is simply a means to an end, much as conventional
forces use cruise missiles & cluster bombs in achieving their
goals.

There will be no global Caliphate under Shariah law; only the
destruction of the nations that gather against Israel for the
battle of Gog and Magog, and the rise of the false Messiah,
the Beast 666 and False Prophet in the West]

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Jul. 27, 2005 5:10
Burying our heads in the sand
By DANIEL PIPES

What do Islamist terrorists want? The answer should be obvious, but 
it is not.

A generation ago terrorists did make their wishes very clear. On
hijacking three airliners in September 1970, for example, the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine demanded, with success, the
release of Arab terrorists imprisoned in Great Britain, Switzerland
and West Germany. On attacking the Bnai Brith headquarters and two
other Washington, D.C. buildings in 1977, a Hanafi Muslim group
demanded the canceling of a feature movie, Mohammad, Messenger of God,
$750 (as reimbursement for a fine), the turning over of the five men
who had massacred the Hanafi leader's family, plus the killer of
Malcolm X.

Such "non-negotiable demands" lead to wrenching hostage dramas and
attendant policy dilemmas. "We will never negotiate with terrorists,"
declared the policymakers. "Give them Hawaii but get my husband back,"
pleaded the hostages' wives.

Those days are so remote and their terminology so forgotten that even
the American president now speaks of "non-negotiable demands" (in his
case, concerning human dignity), forgetting the deadly origins of this
phrase.

Instead, most anti-Western terrorist attacks these days are
perpetrated without demands being enunciated. Bombs go off, planes get
hijacked and crashed into buildings, hotels collapse. The dead are
counted. Detectives trace back the perpetrators identities. Shadowy
Web sites make post-hoc, unauthenticated claims.

But the reasons for the violence go unexplained. Analysts, including
myself, are left speculating about motives. These can concern the
terrorists' personal grievances u such as poverty, prejudice, or
cultural alienation. Alternately, they can respond to international
politics:

pulling "a Madrid" and getting governments to pull their troops from
Iraq.

convincing Americans to leave Saudi Arabia.

ending US support for Israel.

pressuring New Delhi to cede control of all Kashmir.

Any of these motives could have contributed to the violence; as
London's Daily Telegraph puts it, problems in Iraq and Afghanistan
each added "a new pebble to the mountain of grievances that militant
fanatics have erected."

Yet none of these issues is decisive to giving up one's life for the
sake of killing others.

In nearly all cases the jihadi terrorists have a patently self-evident
ambition: to establish a world dominated by Muslims, Islam, and the
Shari'a (Islamic law). Or, again to cite the Daily Telegraph, their
"real project is the extension of the Islamic territory across the
globe, and the establishment of a worldwide caliphate founded on
Shari'a law."

TERRORISTS OPENLY declare this goal. The Islamists who assassinated
Egypt's Anwar Sadat in 1981 decorated their holding cages with banners
proclaiming "The caliphate or death." A biography of Abdullah Azzam,
one of the most influential Islamist thinkers of recent times and an
influence on Osama bin Laden, declares that his life "revolved around
a single goal, namely the establishment of Allah's Rule on earth" and
restoring the caliphate.

Bin Laden himself spoke of ensuring that "the pious Caliphate will
start from Afghanistan."

His chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, also dreamed of reestablishing
the caliphate, for then, he wrote, "history would make a new turn, God
willing, in the opposite direction against the empire of the United
States and the world's Jewish government." Another al-Qaida leader,
Fazlur Rehman Khalil, publishes a magazine that declares "Due to the
blessings of jihad, America's countdown has begun. It will declare
defeat soon," to be followed by the creation of a caliphate.

[...]

Full article at Jerusalem Post...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/
ShowFull&cid=1122344277453&p=1006953079865


Cheers, Steve..

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