The threat of Islamist terrorism is absolutely real. The attacks in London weren't unpredictable or undefined. They were carried out by a cell of terrorists who believed that global Sharia law ought to be implemented, that the Dar al-Harab, territory of war, must be turned into the Dar al-Islam by forceful means. In order to fight the threat of Islamism, three myths must immediately die, and we in the West must do all we can to put them to death.

Myth number one, only a negligible minority of Muslims are Islamists.

It's simply not true that the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of Muslims don't believe in the goals of Islamism, even if they're unwilling to participate themselves in the jihad.

Bernard Lewis explains, quote, significant numbers of Muslims are ready to approve and a few of

them to apply this interpretation of this religion. As Muslim moderate Zudhijasser puts it, it's a political

movement of 30 to 40% of Muslims globally and 80 to 90% of establishment leadership due to

petro Islam of Saudis and Qatari's. Myth number two, not everyone who is non-violent is non-Islamist. President Trump has spoken out about the nature of Islamism, but he made the mistake of doing so in Saudi Arabia, ignoring the Saudi support for Wahhabism all over the planet. In doing so, he lumped Islamists in with moderates, a crucial mistake. American groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Islamic

Society of North America also reflect an Islamist worldview. Dr. Jalal Zubari, director of the Center for

Islamic Pluralism, says, quote, they support Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet these organizations

are routinely utilized as points of contact for governments on the local state and federal

level. The seedbed for terrorism is a far larger community of people who agree with terrorist views and tut-tut their means.

Myth number three.

The West has no part in pushing Islamic reform.

The notion here seems to be that only the Islamic world can produce reform inside Islam.

That's true.

But the federal government and Western governments around the world have an obligation to help identify reformers and moderates and provide them with support while excising everyone else.

This doesn't mean we can't engage in real politics, but it does mean we can't blather about the threat of Islamism while standing in the middle of Riyadh next to one of the greatest sponsors of Islamism on the planet.

We took an active role in promoting democracy in Western

Europe rather than communism in the aftermath of World War II. We should be playing a similar

role in the Muslim world now. This is why it was so egregious for President Obama to simply

declare an, quote, Arab Spring and do nothing to support actual moderate forces. Finally, we must

fight the perception that we can't kill enough terrorists to make a difference. We certainly can, and we must. We must also take measures

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