Are We Heading for a Crash? Here's Someone Who Thinks We Are

Fjordman, love him or hate him, when he speaks, you listen, because . . . well . . . he may be right . . . and that can scare the bejeezus out of you.

Moe, over at Moe's Jihad News, turned me on to this, from Fjordman, at Gates of Vienna. You can read it there, at Moe's, or here. Wherever you read it, I think it's important enough to spread far and wide:

Its Title: The Coming Crash

[quoting Gates of Vienna]

The noted blogger Fjordman is filing this report via Gates of Vienna. For a complete Fjordman blogography, see The Fjordman Files. There is also a multi-index listing here.

[quoting Fjordman]

I am preparing a text which I will publish at The Brussels Journal in the not-too-distant future, but I will begin the discussion here first. When I read the various comments at Lawrence Auster’s* place and Dennis Mangan’s blog**, Takuan Seiyo’s recent piece ***at TBJ and the latest post by El Inglés****at Gates of Vienna, I get the feeling that tensions are building up and that something big is going to happen within the coming generation, probably within the next five to ten years. Since I have been writing about geology lately I will use an analogy from plate tectonics: The tectonic plates of the Western world are now about to make a big move.

Tensions have been building slowly beneath the surface for many years and sooner or later these forces will be released in the form of a series of devastating earthquakes, followed by some secondary political and economic tsunamis. Some of the structures that currently appear to be rock solid will collapse like a house of cards during this period and the political landscape will change considerably. What appears unthinkable today will appear natural or inevitable twenty years from now. This is the discontinuity that El Inglés talks about. I would rank Britain as the Western European country most likely to first get a civil war caused by mass immigration and Multiculturalism. Denmark follows as number two and possibly Holland as number three. Both Belgium and Sweden are pretty bad, but too repressive to be first in line. Germany is too weighed down by her history to be first. This leaves France as a potential dark horse. I admit I don’t understand how the French think. On the surface, France looks screwed. On the other hand, France is historically speaking a revolutionary nation, for better or worse. Maybe there is some mini-Charles Martel in hiding somewhere. If so, he better show up soon.

I think we need to be realistic and realize that the current political-ideological order is completely broken and beyond repair. Instead of wasting time and energy on attempting to fix what cannot be fixed we need to prepare as best as we can for the coming crash and hopefully regroup to create something new and stronger afterward. There will be a pan-Western and perhaps international economic and social collapse in the not-too-distant future. I fear that this is too late to avoid by now. The people who support the ruling paradigm are too powerful and the paradigm contains so many flaws that it cannot be fixed. It needs to crash. We should focus on surviving this crash and on developing a new paradigm to replace the failed one.
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We need to learn from our enemies, both internal and external. The one thing I reluctantly admire about Marxists and Leftists of all stripes is above all their ability to organize and focus on long-term goals. Unfortunately, their goals are usually destructive, but we can and must learn from their organizational skills so that we can beat them at their own game. They must be squashed, otherwise we cannot deal rationally and adequately with our external enemies.

We must get rid of Feminism, which is destructive and merely an extension of Marxism, anyway. We must prepare as best as we can for a collapse of the US dollar and perhaps the Euro. We must document what is being done to us by treasonous elites for future references, for instance by making a video dedicated to anti-white verbal and physical violence around the world. We must take steps to ensure our physical safety and regain pride in our heritage.

We need to get rid of the EU, ridicule the UN and starve it for funds. I’m not sure whether we need NATO, either, although I’m willing to debate that part. The American defense umbrella may no longer be sustainable when the US economy fails. Besides, it is laughable to think that the US military would “protect” native Europeans from Muslims. It is the official policy of both major US parties to support — no accelerate — the continued destruction of Europe, just like it is their policy to continue the destruction of their own country. Just because the EU is awful, which it is, doesn’t necessarily mean that the USA is good. The American political elites are champions of dangerous and dysfunctional ideologies at home and abroad. The current US President Obama has publicly pledged himself to combat opposition to Islam rather than Islam itself, which means that it is official US policy to spread Islamic law. Uncle Sam is Uncle Sharia, as we have recently seen demonstrated. If the Soviet Union was the Evil Empire then the USA is the Diversity Empire, committed to spreading Multiculturalism and genetic Communism around the world, especially to white majority countries.

US General Wesley Clark during the bombing against Serbia in 1999 said more or less explicitly that the war was undertaken to impose “diversity.” I don’t hate Americans is general but their elites are just as hostile as the EU elites, and they have bigger guns. When I see how Nidal Hasan was treated by the US military I don’t think I want these people involved in my affairs. They would probably say that native Euros are Nazis who oppress the poor Muslims. Then they would bomb us and say it is for our own good, just like they did to the Serbs. The United States will not survive this century. It will be split into several countries according to ethnic, racial and perhaps even ideological lines. There is no such thing as a universal nation. People want to live with their own kind. The only ones who are not allowed to do so are whites, and they are starting to get tired of this double standard. People of European origins are among the least ethnocentric people on the planet and are currently being penalized heavily for this. Self-preservation is a natural instinct for all living things down to plants and bacteria. It’s about time that whites reclaim the same right without apology. I am increasingly convinced that the developments we are witnessing are deliberate.

The lies we are being served are virtually identical in every Western country. I’ve had some discussions about this with my friend Ohmyrus who thinks this is about a structural failure in our political system. I don’t necessarily disagree with that, but I also believe there is a planned long-term goal of breaking down all white majority nations to create a new global oligarchy. Anti-white ideologies are now taught in every Western university and were arguably elevated to national ideology in the USA with the election of Obama. I suspect this is because whites have historically had an unusually high emphasis on self-rule, rule by consent and power sharing, not to mention the fact that we ask too many questions. This is annoying to those who desire an authoritarian system with themselves on top. We need to be broken, culturally and demographically. This is why the elites desire mass immigration. The leading “Multicultural theorist” in my country, Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen of the University of Oslo, said frankly that the most important thing to do now is “deconstructing the majority so thoroughly that it can never be called the majority again.” He is essentially calling for dismantling his own people and he knows that he can do so with total impunity.

Also, I suspect that the main reason why many others hate us is that European civilization has been so incomparably much more influential and accomplished than any other civilization on this planet that our existence makes them feel inferior. The only way they can stop feeling inferior is by eradicating us. A terribly politically incorrect thing to say, but that’s my view.


NOTE: Fjordman previously approached this subject with his "how to face the coming crash in Aug 30, 2009, where he wrote:

if i have the time i should write a brief essay called "how to survive the coming crash." the crash is unavoidable by now. instead of wasting time and energy on trying to figure out how to "fix the system," which isn't doable and ...

There, he gives advice on what we individually can do to survive that crash. You can read it at
http://islamicdanger4u.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-face-coming-crash-by-fjordman.html

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Footnotes:

*The present crisis
by Lawrence Auster

[excerpts]

An aggressively anti-American, pro-terrorist Muslim U.S. Army officer committed mass murder on an Army base, and the political and media establishment are saying that the mass murder is bigoted America's fault, because the man's Army colleagues "harassed" him as a Muslim and made him lose his mind. In reality, far from being harassed, he was allowed complete freedom to make his numerous blood-curdling and treasonous statements, since everyone in today's diversity-cowed Army was afraid to make a formal complaint about him.
***
Evil is on the march, the evil of left-liberalism, and we seem to be powerless against it.
But we are not powerless, if we stand with truth and the right. Yes, at the moment the leftist evil is mounting to a peak, enabled and facilitated by the Western populations that have so far accepted its premises and so are unable or unwilling to oppose it. . . .
Read it all at http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/014716.html


**Defeatism
Dennis Mangan

[excerpt]

It is indeed my view that the U.S., as a political entity formed by and for white Americans, is just about irretrievable. The country has slipped from our grasp, and the huge demographic changes of the past 45 years - since the passage of the National Suicide Pact and the surge of illegal immigration from Mexico - look permanent. Demography is destiny. Most of these immigrants and their children have a vested interest in government preferences; conservatives have been trying to abolish affirmative action for decades now, unsuccessfully. Unless the populace suddenly embraces the political outlook of Milton Friedman, most of then will continue to clamor for government goodies, for race-based jobs and lawsuits, for family reunification, for amnesty.
More at http://mangans.blogspot.com/2009/11/defeatism.html


***From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 13: Harpo, Gekko, Barko, Sarko

Takuan Seiyo

[excerpt]

A nation that works for a living can weather perhaps even such great storms. But the jobs of the American lower class have been outsourced to imported Mexicans. The jobs of the American middle class have been exported to China and India. The jobs of the American upper-middle class have been taken from the white males who held them by merit, and given to resentful identity groups that hold them by the fiat of the government’s preferred skin colors and favored genitalia. And the jobs of the American upper class have been reprogrammed from leadership and service, to ripping off the less clever via lawyering, banksterism, and padding one’s golden CEO parachute, and then expiation via funding and leading socialist NGOs.
from http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4158


****On the Failure of Law Enforcement
by El Inglés

Introduction

I will argue in this essay that there are a number of mechanisms and tendencies in place in European countries that make it difficult, if not impossible, for them to control or restrain the burgeoning criminality of their Muslim populations under extant political paradigms. Readers of certain of my other essays will be familiar with the type of argument I advance here, though I apply it in this essay to new subject matter.It should be understood that this text is essentially a piece of analysis, an attempt to rigorously frame and discuss one large and important piece of the problem we face thanks to Islam. Though it does not attempt to formulate a response, it is written in the hope that those keen to defend their countries and peoples from the depredations of Muslim colonization will find it useful in clarifying their own thinking.

Continue reading this at http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-failure-of-law-enforcement.html

AND

Via Moe's Jihad News' America's confusion . . . "here's how you end up with Obama," comes . . .

Whitewashing Reality [Bill Bennett] at NRO

There is a rot that spreads outside of Washington into the larger culture. It begins with a confusion of terms, and by not calling things by their proper names, it begins with a disassembling of the moral categories. We don’t hear about terrorism or radical Islam so we are surprised to find it in our midst, and when we do, we don’t even recognize it. We have Army generals who elevate diversity over life, we have a president who speaks not of radical Islam or terrorism — though life is what we are fighting for and radical Islam and terrorism is what we are fighting against.
— William J. Bennett is host of Morning in America.
Read it all at . . .
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjlhY2E5Y2UxYzUxMjc5YWFjMzVjZjE5MjczYjNmNDY=

Harry Reid's Message to America

. . . and this is also the message of the Democrat Senators--and of the Pelosi-run Congress


well, let's send the same message back to our senators that are about to do what Harry Reid is showing what is in store for us.

Look for the senators that are running for re-election--and see that they are tossed out on their elitist rumps.

Ditto for the Congress men and women. They give us the finger, they get what they did to us.



. . . and what's the antidote to this screwing of America?

Well, here's a bright suggestion:

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/palin-odes/

Note: Please read Victor Davis Hanson's article with care: it points out the collusion between Wall Street, Bankers, and Government. Wall Street and the Banks apparently practice the Oldest Profession.

Revolutionary Situation in the United States

by Zack Lieberberg

October 24, 2008

According to V. I. Lenin, immediately before a revolution, a country goes through a revolutionary situation, which is defined as follows: Those on top are unable, and those on the bottom are unwilling, to maintain the current order of things.

Have we reached a revolutionary situation in these United States of America? Let’s take a look at some of our problems.

Take, for example, illegal immigration. According to some estimates, illegal immigrants today constitute 7 to 9 per cent of the population. It is the biggest invasion in history. It’s 10 times more than the entire Chinese military! Both opponents and advocates of illegal immigration know that this is causing our country enormous harm. Can we get rid of them? Of course, we can. We simply need the government to deport every single one of them, every time he or she is detected. Deport them when they come to the Department of Motor Vehicles to obtain a driver license. Deport them when they try to enroll their children in a school. Deport them when they come to an emergency room — after performing the necessary procedure, obviously, for we are not inhumane; but, because we are not suckers either, we should charge their country of origin for the services provided. And if a baby is born on US soil to an illegal immigrant, treat that baby as an illegal immigrant: deport it, along with its illegal immigrant parent. Anything else amounts to an amnesty. And since everything the government does regarding illegal immigration amounts to an amnesty, we can conclude that the government is unable to solve this problem.

Are we willing to cleanse this country of the illegals? Not really. First, we feel bad for them and their, oh, so cute babies. Second, most of them, like your cleaning lady, for example, are decent, hard-working people who charge you less than an American would, because they don’t pay taxes, and neither do you when you hire them. Therefore, this is not going to happen.

Or, take our war on drugs. Why doesn’t it work? Why is it dragging on and on, year after year, decade after decade, draining our resources without achieving anything at all? Because when the cops lead away the kid who’s been pushing drugs on a street corner, the kid who pushes drugs on the corner a block away seizes the opportunity and expands his business. And when the feds intercept a multi-million-dollar shipment of heroin, the dent they cause to the overall traffic of drugs is less than the one that the federal taxes leave on any legitimate business. Obviously, the government is unable to solve the drug problem.

Are we willing to win this war? We are, but only in theory. In theory, we could leave drug dealers alone and take away drug users. Without the drug users, those who would poison us all would go out of business. But are we willing to do it? Are we willing to send our own kids to jail, even for a few weeks, for experimenting with pot or even coke? Of course, not; we are not suicidal. And that’s exactly why the drug war will never solve the problem of drug use in this country. But it will handsomely feed a huge and unnecessary federal bureaucracy created specifically for the purpose of conducting that endless, meaningless war and, therefore, not interested to actually win it.

Can we win the war on terror?

Let me share an anecdote with you before I expand on that exciting question. Recently, I was at JFK airport seeing off a friend who was leaving for Japan. In a long line to the security station, there was a group of Japanese kids, apparently returning home from a trip to New York. If I had to guess their age, I would say 10 or 11. Each kid was wearing a Yankee baseball hat — no doubts a souvenir from the trip. Each kid was holding his or her passport open for the security officer. None of them seemed to speak English. As they one by one reached the officer, he would lift the hat off the head of the kid to compare the cute, smiling face to its likeness in the passport.

There were passengers of several other flights in that line. One of them was for Riyadh. When I saw the dark-skinned man accompanied by four creatures that resembled four bowling pins draped in dark fabric, I thought that was their destination. I was curious how the security officer would handle them. To my great disappointment, no international incident unfolded before my eyes. The officer, who had just diligently scrutinized the passports and faces of Japanese children, simply waved the Arabs through.

So, let me ask you again: Can our government win the war on terror?

Of course, we can. And we can do it without wasting the lives of our soldiers and hundreds of billions of our dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan. All we have to do to achieve that victory is kick Islam out of the United States. Once the term Muslim American becomes no more than an oxymoron, we will be able to sell our no longer needed airport security equipment to Eurabia and bail out our ailing banks without using a penny of taxpayers’ money. I know it, you know it, Osama bin Laden knows it, and even George Bush, who seems to know nothing at all, knows it as well; even if this knowledge didn’t stop him from announcing to us on September 12, 2001, that Islam was not an enemy. His government is most definitely unable to win this war.

But are we willing to uproot the Muslim community in the US? Sadly, we are not. Islam is a religion, and, whether you think it is a religion of peace or something entirely different, there is freedom of religion in this country, guaranteed by our Constitution. On the other hand, religion — every religion — is an ideology. An ideology can justify our way of life, as Judaism and Christianity do, be neutral towards it as is Buddhism, or openly and explicitly oppose it, as communism, fascism, and Islam. Why should we allow the enemy ideology to blossom on our soil? Because we are afraid we are not going to be able to draw the line, and once Islam is no longer a danger, the forces unleashed in order to contain it will turn against us: the Jews, the homosexuals, the blacks — everyone who has a historically well founded fear of persecution.

Nobody knows the answer.

If you thought the crisis we are currently going through was limited to the crumbling financial institutions, you were wrong. The sad state of our economy is only one side of it. This crisis has been in the making for decades; it involves every aspect of our lives.

The international prestige of the United States is at its lowest in, at least, a century.

The American political machine with its ongoing political debate between the two parties about the better future of this country has deteriorated into an unabashed race for power.

Liberals, abusing their ever growing influence, succeed in taking away our liberties — for example, the liberty to openly and publicly celebrate Christmas or to speak the truth when the thought police finds it politically incorrect.

The very same government that sends our soldiers to foreign lands to fight for obscure goals tries them for murder when they perform their duty and defend their lives and the lives of their comrades.

We could overcome this crisis, but we need a leader wise and strong enough to lead us out of it. George Bush does not qualify for the job. And neither does John McCain, who has failed to even acknowledge that the country is in the throes of a total crisis.

What’s going to happen?

A century ago, the obvious inability of the Russian monarchy to provide desperately needed leadership brought forth a young, charismatic leader who promised change, took the country from the tsar’s weak hands, and destroyed it as thoroughly as was possible. His name was Vladimir Lenin. His minions killed more Russian citizens than did the two world wars combined. His successors enslaved Eastern Europe for half a century. His followers turned China, North Korea, and Cuba into giant concentration camps. His legacy lives on in Putin’s Kremlin.

In the 1930’s, when Germany found itself leaderless and falling apart, a young, charismatic leader came forth, promised change, and took the country from the weak hands of an elderly chancellor. His name was Adolf Hitler. Supported by the enthusiasm of his compatriots, he led Germany through a brief renaissance to complete destruction, along with most of Europe, killing about 70 million people in the process. His legacy lives on in various neo-Nazi organizations across the world.

Today, the United States is in a strikingly similar situation. At the time when a strong leader is most desperately needed, the ruling elite finds itself unable to provide one. A young, charismatic leader comes forth and promises change. His name is Barack Hussein Obama. And I believe he is going to deliver on his promise of change, even though the most basic arithmetic tells us that it cannot be fulfilled. Why?

Because Barack Hussein Obama is, essentially, a foreigner. He may (or not) be born in the United States, but the values shared by the American people, the values that made this country great and prosperous, are as foreign to him as his Arabian, Kenyan, Indonesian roots are to us. He has nothing vested in this country. All his life here, he was closely associated with its enemies. He will destroy it with no regrets. The very fact that seven years after the devastating attack visited on the United States by Arabs, the Americans are going to place an Arab into the White house demonstrates the depth of the crisis we are in.

According to the polls, Obama is going to win the election. I would be surprised if he didn’t. In the 20 years since Ronald Reagan’s departure from the White House, the Republican party has done absolutely nothing to earn our votes. Even while a Republican president was in the Oval Office and the Republicans had the majority (earned more by the Clintons’ failures than their own accomplishments) in both the Congress and the Senate, they failed to accomplish anything of value. Yes, I remember the Bush tax cut; but, you know what’s going to happen to it in the very near future.

What can we do? Vote for Ralph Nader? Yeah, that will help. Start burning mosques? The FBI will be upon you faster than you can say the shahada.

What is needed today — and needed desperately — is a new political party that will be not be afraid to appear politically incorrect, that will be pragmatic, that will lead us out of the trap laid for us by our enemies, foreign and, mostly, domestic.

Any party organizers willing to volunteer?


October 24, 2008

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The Best Explanation About What's Going On in Afghanistan

From Moe's Jihad News:

Why we will lose in Afghanistan
[by Moe]

Let me rephrase that: there is nothing to be gained in Afghanistan. We can't lose by letting them stew in their own juices.

What we are hardly ever told about the country is that it has been for 300 years the scene of a bitter civil war, says Christopher Booker . . .

Continue Reading at . . .

http://allahhasnofuture.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-we-will-lose-in-afghanistan.html

There's No Guarantee . . .

. . . that a Moslem serving in our armed forces will not kill his fellows

There's No Guarantee . . . that "peaceful" (moderate) Moslems will not turn to jihad

There's No Guarantee . . . that our government will prosecute these jihadists as "terrorists" (not as temporarily or permanently insane or as suffering from "pre-or-post-traumatic stress syndrome")

There's No Guarantee . . . that Moslem organizations such as CAIR will not make an outcry against "backlash"

There's No Guarantee . . . that encouraged by government inaction more Moslems will not go on jihad

There's No Guarantee . . . that the police will not bend over backwards to defend Moslems who are attacking non-Moslems

There's No Guarantee . . . that the government will not be more intent on defending Moslems that are fearing imaginary "backlash" than non-Moslems attacked by Moslems

There's No Guarantee . . . that our armed forces, if ordered, will turn against the citizenry

There's No Guarantee . . . that veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will support the government's position and not the citizens'

There's No Guarantee . . . that emboldened, the jihadists will not demand that we in the US obey Islamic law (sharia) as is being pushed in Canada and the UK

There's No Guarantee . . . that our government will try to put a stop to them

There's No Guarantee . . . that more and more of our institutions and government agencies will not be controlled by Moslems or their fellow-travelling Leftists

There's No Guarantee . . . that emboldened, Moslems will not replace the Constitution piecemeal with Moslem law (sharia)

There's No Guarantee . . . that we will not put a stop to that and to them


ADDENDUM

There's No Guarantee. . .

. . . that just because you occupy the office of the president of the United States (lower case intentional), you are not an utter a$$-clown who refuses to honor the flag and the country for which many--too many--have died so that you (a$$-clown) can stand there giving, as Pam Geller so succinctly called it, a disrespectful, to those who have given life and limb, crotch salute:

via http://tundratabloid.blogspot.com/2009/11/quip-of-week-by-pamela-geller-obama.html

from http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/who-is-this-guy.html




















ATLAS SHRUGS: "Salute, pledge, something! Anything! Pretend to be a proud American, creep."
--Pamela Geller

















Who is this guy?
--Pam Geller

Face It, America!

from http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/face-it.html


It is time for America and the Obama administration to open their eyes and face up to the significance of the successful Fort Hood Islamist suicide attack. Here's an interesting analysis of the current situation by Robert Spencer:

"Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, murdered twelve people and wounded twenty-one inside Fort Hood in Texas yesterday, while, according to eyewitnesses, “shouting something in Arabic while he was shooting.” Investigators are scratching their heads and expressing puzzlement about why he did it.

According to NPR, “the motive behind the shootings was not immediately clear, officials said.”

The Washington Post agreed: “The motive remains unclear, although some sources reported the suspect is opposed to U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq and upset about an imminent deployment.”

The Huffington Post spun faster, asserting that “there is no concrete reporting as to whether Nidal Malik Hasan was in fact a Muslim or an Arab.”

Yet there was, and what’s more, Major Hasan’s motive was perfectly clear — but it was one that the forces of political correctness and the Islamic advocacy groups in the United States have been working for years to obscure. So it is that now that another major jihad terror attack has taken place on American soil, authorities and the mainstream media are at a loss to explain why it happened – and the abundant evidence that it was a jihad attack is ignored."-more

Why did the Piece of Human Excrement kill his fellow Soldiers?

Because he was an Moslem, Stupid! (not YOU, if you're reading this and knew OR GUESSED even before his name was announced (or a soon as it was) that he was on jihad--and committed a terrorist act


“Jihad Denial Syndrome” Exposed

from ACT for America
http://www.actforamerica.org/

The facts are emerging. The warning signs were there. Story after story is breaking new information. Even some in the “establishment media,” such as ABC News, have produced news segments revealing the evidence that Nidal Hasan was a radical Islamist.

The FBI had seen warning signs. So had the CIA and the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Numerous fellow officers had witnessed Hasan make statements, even during presentations he gave, that should have set off alarm bells.

Some of the latest news to come out is that Hasan had been in communication with an al Qaeda imam — and authorities knew it and dismissed Hasan’s contacts with the conclusion that he was doing “research” for a thesis!

The tapestry of jihad being pieced together has prompted Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman to call for hearings to investigate who knew what, when, and why action was not taken.

How is it possible that so many warning signs and red flags were ignored, rationalized, or dismissed?

There are at least two reasons.

The first is that too many in leadership in our country, whether in government, the military, or counterterrorism, do not want to connect the dots between the jihadist ideology, so clearly permeating the holy books of Islam, and the act of jihad.

ACT! has been exposing this failure ever since its founding. Dr. Walid Phares, during his presentation at the American Congress for Truth webcast conference “Radical Islam’s Threat to America” (held this past Saturday), stated astonishingly that eight years after 9/11 there is still widespread denial in our government about who the enemy is and why the enemy acts as he does.

This may help explain why, on the day of the Ft. Hood massacre, the FBI released a statement declaring “this was not a terrorist act.” How could they “rush to judgment” with such a faulty claim so quickly?

Answer: “Jihad Denial Syndrome.”

The second reason is linked to the first, which we discussed in our email alert yesterday — a culture of political correctness.

College campuses, Hollywood and television, and much of the “establishment media” are principal drivers of this culture of political correctness. In this worldview, there is a denial of fact and evidence that literally boggles the mind.

Our jihadist enemies throughout the world don’t hide the jihadist ideology — they celebrate it. It’s there for all the world to see — if it wants to. Too many of our leaders don’t want to.

Another enforcer of this political correctness is organizations like CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. For years CAIR has bullied, browbeat, intimidated and smeared anyone who dares to speak the truth about radical Islam. (See our petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR.)

Last Thursday night, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad denounced the violence — and then emphasized that this had nothing to do with Islam.

So did other representatives of other Islamist organizations.

In other words, they didn’t denounce the Islamist, jihadist ideology that led to the violence. Indeed, they in effect denied such an ideology existed. Awad was crystal clear when he stated, falsely, that no religion or ideology could justify such an atrocity.

And in doing so these Islamist enforcers of political correctness fired a warning shot across the bow of the media, the military and the government. They were making it clear that politically correct “Jihad Denial Syndrome” must be adhered to.

Eleven days ago ACT! for America launched a national national petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR, due to the mounting revelations of CAIR misdeeds and ties to terrorist organizations.

This petition is even more important now, in the aftermath of Ft. Hood. Why? Because America can no longer afford to be held hostage to a politically correct “Jihad Denial Syndrome” by a terrorist-tainted organization like CAIR.

This is why we continue to urge you, if you haven’t already done so, to sign our petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR.

Senator Lieberman is doing the right thing by convening hearings to investigate the Ft. Hood terrorist act.

We can’t change the culture of political correctness overnight, or the “Jihad Denial Syndrome” that political correctness has helped spawn.

But we are not powerless. There are actions we can take.

Join us today in signing the petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR.

One talk show host said this morning that political correctness can be annoying, even silly, but at Ft. Hood it was deadly.