Countering Islamic Supremacists

Hizb ut-Tahrir's meeting openly at a Hilton in suburban Chicago is brazen and alarming, not just to Americans concerned that a holocaust never happen again, but to those moderate members of the Muslim community whom they are out to intimidate. The group claims they are peaceful in nature, but they are a known training ground for terrorists--akin to the Hitler Youth. I happened to see a column in the NY Times headed, Terror Creeps into the Heartland:

It was the home of a Muslim religious teacher, but he was stockpiling more than copies of the Koran. His house blew up this month in a thunderous explosion that leveled much of his village and could be heard six miles away. Police reported that he was storing explosives, rockets, grenades and suicide vests.

Not Chicago, but Pakistan:

Even here in Karachi, the pragmatic commercial hub of the country, extremists have taken over some neighborhoods. A Pakistani police document marked “top secret,” given to me by a Pakistani concerned by the spreading tentacles of jihadis, states that Taliban agents sometimes set up armed checkpoints in one such neighborhood here.

These militants “generate funds through criminal activities like kidnapping for ransom, bank robbery, street robbery and other heinous crimes,” the report says.

Is this our future? More coverage of the suburban Oak Lawn event in the Chicago Jewish Star, quoting one of my friends from Wilmette who was among the protesters, and yielding the name of this invaluable group (I believe I heard an interview by WLS on Monday of a member)

Quilliam is the world’s first counter-extremism think tank. Located in London, our founders are former leading ideologues of UK-based extremist Islamist organizations. Quilliam stands for religious freedom, human rights, democracy and developing a Muslim identity at home in, and with the West.

Here's a USA group, which my friend is involved with, Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam.

Look, who would have thought kids from the Twin Cities, whose parents escaped from tribal strife in Somalia and came to America for opportunity and freedom, would be ripe for terrorist recruitment at a mosque in their community? Yet it happened.

Every American, every civic and religious group in this country needs to educate themselves on the nature of the threat we face to our freedoms, our democracy--Hamas even thinks Rotary is sinister--and reach out to truly moderate Muslims in America. They need our support and we theirs--to protect our children, the dignity of our women--our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

P.S. It's not capitalism that's failing. The Economist:A quiet revolution has begun in the Arab world; it will be complete only when the last failed dictatorship is voted out. HT Extreme Wisdom.