A new Kind of war , How we defeat it?
Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour
Introduction
New Kind of War
As we face our Islamist terrorist enemy in this post-Cold War era, it becomes clear that we are engaged in yet another world war. This present war on terror is, without a doubt, a new kind of war. We can summarize its new aspects with one concrete example: the suicide bomber. He is eager to blow himself up in order to kill as many innocent people as possible from among Christians, Jews and, yes, other Muslims. Young men are usually inspired by dreams of the future and of enjoying their lives, but the suicide bomber is motivated only by the thought of being a martyr and he is convinced that virgins are waiting for him in paradise and will reward him for blowing himself up amongst "infidels."
The suicide bomber is a human bomb walking the streets ready to destroy other people, any time and any place. It is very difficult to recognize him and to predict where and when he will strike.
With this new weapon - the human bomb - our Islamic terrorist enemy has neutralized the most horrifying weapon: the nuclear bomb. But it has neutralized it only in our hands of course.
This War’s Ingredients:
1-The weapon is the suicide bomber.
2-The ammunition is the Muslim tradition and religion.
3-The factories of ammunitions are the mosques, the Islamic centers in the West and in the U.S, the Muslim system of educations and the Arabic web sites.
4-The battle field is the mentality of all Muslims.
5-The soldiers and the generals of war are fanatic extreme Muslim scholars and the Sheikhs.
6- The very nature of this war is 100% an intellectual-ideological religious war.
7-Who will win this kind of war? The terrorists.
8-Why:Because the U.S is using its army in 90% of this war.
The Crucial Reassessment:
1-How can the U.S win this war and save thousands of lives and billions of dollars?
By using the same tactic of the intellectual-ideological religious war.
2-How could the U.S use this tactic?
By responding to every enemy weapon to neutralize it:
The weapon [suicide bomber] must be convinced that if he kills innocent people or himself he will be the enemy of Islam.
The ammunitions [Muslim tradition and religion] must be used against the terrorist themselves.
The factories of ammunitions: [Mosques, Islamic centers in the West and the U. S and the educational system in Muslim World]are under the control of U.S. allies. These factories of ammunitions in the Muslim World must be reformed in the name of Islam by the pressure of the U.S and the U.N. - along with real political reform. The mosques and the so-called Islamic schools in the U.S must be reformed and the websites of the fanatics must be faced. Individuals such as myself are willing to do this if we receive American support.
The battle field of this warwill be the mentality of all Muslims.
The soldiers and the generals of this war against terroristsare people like me who are free Muslim scholars and sheikhs. We are willing to fight but need the support of the U.S.
The very nature of this war against terrorists: A large percentage of it can be – and must be – an intellectual war.
Who will win this kind of war?
The U.S. will win it.
Why?
Because the terrorist Muslims have their power by using the name of Islam we must explain from within Islam the contradiction between Islam and the bloody culture of the terrorists.
It is not hard to have the silent Muslim majority on our side if we can reach them. It is not hard to convince some of the fanatics by using the fanatic tradition against them. Also, it is very easy to recruit open-minded Muslims and organize them in this peaceful war against terrorism. Actually, they are eager to be organized and supported by the U.S so that they can attain freedom and rid themselves and the world of the terrorist danger.
This proposal comes as a step of this peaceful intellectual war against terrorism
Four conferences for online war against terrorism
The fanatics Wahabis are controlling most of the Arabic websites. Muslim Brothers were the first people in Egypt in using computers for their political cause, so are the Saudis fanatics and others. It is their best way to reach all their secret organizations and cells and individuals in the entire world. They use it in fighting the US even inside the American soil itself misusing the American value of freedom of belief and speech. The American agencies may have the most sophisticated tools to fight them back in the field of high tech, but they are not qualified in facing them in the Arabic websites because it become so wide fields full of different tones and accents inside the Wahabi religious discourse itself.
For example; there are websites seems to be moderate Muslims and have nothing to do with the political discourse, concentrating on the religious issues only. For the ordinary Muslim, they seem just religious websites, so they have a millions of partisans. The Expert Muslim scholars in this field have another opinion. These so – called moderate traditional web sites - are the most dangerous sites. They use the religious tradition to prepare the ordinary Muslim to be fanatic, and then he may become suicide bomber after that.
The most famous moderate web site is Islam online, owned and controlled by Sheikh Al Qaradawy, the spiritual leader of Muslim Brothers. This so – called Moderate Sheikh has a famous bloody fatwa calling to kill all American civilians in Iraq. It is a public famous fatwa, what about his “Islam online website”? It needs many groups of open minded Muslim scholars to face it and to analyze it.
The Saudis have the most of the fanatic web sites. It is easy to say the Saudi Arabic web sites have many different fanatic kinds of discourse. There are the official sheikhs who attack Ben Laden and defending the Saudi Kingdom while they are upholding the same faith and same belief of Ben Laden. There are the sites of some Sheikhs like Salman Al Ouda and Safar Al Hawaly who were against the Saudi regime and put in prison, then were released in one condition: not to attack the Saudi State. Accordingly, they ignore the Saudi policy but focus on attacking the West and the U.S and encouraging the terrorists every where. Other Saudi oppositions in London have their own websites attacking the Saudi family and the U.S together and encouraging the war against the West. Al Mas’ary and Al Fakeeh are good example for this category. London has many other fanatic Muslims who have famous web sites attacking the Arabic regimes and the U.S and the West: Yaser Al serry and Hany Al seba’ey from Egypt and Al Bakry from Syria as example. There are many of websites talk in behalf of Ben Laden and Al Zarqawy, but generally; all of the fanatic web sites are preaching the same bloody religious culture of Ben Laden but in different tunes and different accents.
These Arabic websites are increasing every day in the entire Muslim world, increasing the real danger to the U.S and the West. The extremely danger is that this Arabic field of war is mostly ignored by the U.S. It is the time to fight them back in this online war.
This proposal aims to fight back in this war to defend the U.S and the West.
This online war will be supervised by holding four conferences to:
1- Explore this new kind of war.
2-Analyze the fanatic websites, and how they brainwash the young Muslims and prepare them to be suicide bombers, how they recruit them, and how they raise fund. Then how to face them.
3-Expose and analyze the so – called moderate Muslims and sheikhs who have two discourses, deceiving the West and the U.S. while they are working for the terrorism.
4- How to deal with “Al Fatwa”- the verdict or the rule given by the Sheikh – as the most dangerous weapon against them.
Finally, those four conferences will:
1- Create a continuous committee to maintain this online war.
2-Establish many web sites to serve in this war.
3- Organize the secular and other open minded Arab scholars and their web sites to be in our side against the terrorism.
4- Establishing new Muslim generation specialized in this online war.
5- Translating and presenting this unknown field - the Arabic fanatic web sites - to the Americans
The first conference:
Explore the online war: “The Arabic fanatic websites” and its five days workshops
This is the pioneer conference in its field:” The Arabic fanatic websites” and it is supposed to be attended by the American intellectuals, scholars, researchers and journalists. It is a must to prepare it in the best way by five days workshops held by the Arabic experts in the Arabic fanatic websites. Those Arabic experts will prepare the details needed for the success of this conference.
This first conference is supposed to be held in Washington .D, C, one month after the five days workshop.
Steps of holding the five days workshop
1- Call for papers.
2- Receiving the papers and choosing the best of them.
3- Inviting the experts to attend the five days workshop in Washington D.C.
4- The five days workshop will discuss and enrich and modify the papers of the Arabic experts in these fields: The criterion that defines the fanatic terrorist Arabic website, the different categories of the fanatic Arabic websites according to this definition, the possibility of getting information about the terrorists from these websites and the professional high tech used in these websites.
5- Finally the Arabic experts will prepare all the details and the materials in Arabic and its translation into English for the conference.
6- After the five days workshop the Arabic experts will work in completing translation and prepare all the documents for the conference.
7-All the data needed and papers of the Arabic experts will be sent to the American guests two weeks before the conference.
8 -According to the five days workshop, the modified papers of the Arabic experts with all the materials will be discussed by the American experts and intellectuals in the four sessions of the first day of the two days conference. The other day of the conference will discuss the results of the conference and how to activate them and choose the title of the next conference.