I founded ACT! for America because Islamic militants have declared war on America. I know what this means. For years, I witnessed first-hand how brutally jihadists treat non-Muslims.
We are in for the fight of our lives and we must ACT! - before it's too late.
U.K. media is reporting that the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) has placed sympathizers in elected offices including gaining significance influence over a local government council. According to a report in the Telegraph:
The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) — which believes in jihad and sharia law, and wants to turn Britain and Europe into an Islamic state — has placed sympathisers in elected office and claims, correctly, to be able to achieve “mass mobilisation” of voters. Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister, said the IFE had become, in effect, a secret party within Labour and other political parties. “They are acting almost as an entryist organisation, placing people within the political parties, recruiting members to those political parties, trying to get individuals selected and elected so they can exercise political influence and power, whether it’s at local government level or national level,” he said. “They are completely at odds with Labour’s programme, with our support for secularism.” Mr Fitzpatrick, the MP for Poplar and Canning Town, said the IFE had infiltrated and “corrupted” his party in east London in the same way that the far-Left Militant Tendency did in the 1980s. Leaked Labour lists show a 110 per cent rise in party membership in one constituency in two years.
[Excerpt: "The U.S. terror suspect known as “JihadJane” represents a troubling breed of convert holy warrior. Reuel Marc Gerecht [former CIA case officer] on why Western recruits are more likely to go on suicide missions."]
The arrest of “JihadJane,” aka Colleen Renee LaRose, a blond-haired, blue-eyed, 46-year-old American, ought to make us reflect on a major ingredient in contemporary jihadism: Westernization. European internal-security and intelligence officers have long feared Western converts to radical Islam—the type of people who once embraced Europe’s Cold War-era hard-core left-wing organizations.
But with convert holy warriors, there’s an expanded target pool: down-and-out misfits like LaRose, who have brushes with the law or become criminals. Finding militant Islam is like finding a forgiving family. Past personal failures and insults to one’s dignity are consumed by the possibility of imminent, righteous revenge. Through the Internet, newly minted believers can now touch an enormous “virtual umma,” a borderless community of radicals and holy warriors. LaRose found the home and a higher calling that she never had through jihadist Web sites. Carrying Western passports and names, fluent in the idiom and manners of non-believers, usually distant from family, friends, and social organizations, and often imbued with a Nietzschean sense of an individual’s historic possibilities, such Westerners make ideal holy warriors.
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