We have been led to believe by the left, advocates for peace and Islamists themselves that there is no global Islamic movement, that there is no global threat posed by Islamic militants.

We have been told that the conflicts that do exist are akin to a struggle by “freedom fighters,” we have been led to believe that if there were no war in Iraq, there would be no need for a war on terror, as if the often misguided policies of George Bush are the sole cause of the radical Islamic movement.

As is often the case, realty is far different from perception. While one could ague the war in Iraq is the biggest of all distractions, one could in no way argue the war on terror is a figment of Bush 43’s imagination or even has anything to do the United States in particular. This war would be waging today irrespective of the US and its policies. For decades, if not centuries, Islamists have waged all out war against the west and infidels everywhere, there stated aim being to establish a global Islamic movement.

Their plan for the rest of us is summed up by a familiar credo: submit, convert or die. From India to Russia to Spain to France to the Netherlands to the Philippines to Indonesia to China Islamists have made their presence is felt.

Perhaps nowhere is the brutal savagery more devastating than the African continent where radicals are waging all out war to install Islamic governments in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan. In Sudan these Islamist have murdered thousands of Christians and other non-Muslims in the Darfur region. In Somalia, a nation ravaged by war for decades, the Islamists are close to achieving their goal. There, government troops from Ethiopia have attempted to stem the flow of radical Islam, with moderate success.

Meanwhile in Southeast Asia, especially Thailand, Islamists have become increasingly brazen. According to recent figures sectarian violence committed by Islamic radicals against Buddhists Monks, teachers, and others have increased exponentially, with a particular increase in beheadings and all this because of George Bush? Hardly.
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