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In loving memory of my father, Fred Stakelbeck, Sr.
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FOREWORD
BY MICHELLE MALKIN
Blind diversity is suicide; political correctness is the handmaiden of Islamic terrorism; and the so-called tiny minority of fringe radical Muslims who support violent jihad is actually a mainstreamed legion of hundreds of millions that hides behind the deceptive banner of the Religion of Peace.
These are the inconvenient truths that should have jolted Americans into post-9/11 reality a decade ago.
Instead, we hit the snooze button.
More American civilians and soldiers died at the hands of Allahs soldiers. More of Mohammed Attas spiritual brethren infiltrated our shores. More lethal hatred for infidels festered in caves and on college campuses, in refugee enclaves and in jails, and on military bases here at home and abroad.
Intrepid journalist Erick Stakelbeck shouldnt have had to write this book.
But Americanslulled by the passage of time and the passivity of their governmentneed another blood-boiling wake-up call to pierce the fog of apathy that has set over the West.
You are holding in your hands the unvarnished, invaluable reporting that the rest of the mainstream media cant or wont do. My friend Erick has traveled the world to interview terrorists who are plotting the establishment of a global Islamic caliphateand who have succeeded in Islamicizing large swaths of Europe. He has investigated fifth column organizations on our soil that pledge allegiance not to our Republic, but to sharia law. In The Terrorist Next Door, he also blows the whistle on how the same reckless, open-borders policies I exposed in Invasion nine years ago continue to aid and abet jihadi-sympathizers from Somalia and elsewhere.
Ericks on-the-ground investigative work in Muslim enclaves and mosques covers every corner of our country. Jihad doesnt just threaten Washington, D.C., New York, and other metropolitan areas. Its spreading across the South and the heartland. Radical Islams virulently anti-American, anti-Western virus has infected a swelling army of homegrown jihadist wannabesnot just the sons and daughters of Muslim refugees, as Erick shows you, but also white suburban women, ethnic gang members, and alienated geeks.
On 9/11, I lived in the D.C. metro area. From a high-rise building in Montgomery County, Maryland, you could see the smoke plumes from the Pentagon, targeted by jihadi pilot Hani Hanjour and the suicide crew who hijacked American Airlines Flight 77. A year later, Muslim convert John Allen Muhammad and his young conspirator Lee Malvo murdered ten innocent men and women on a terrifying, three-week-long killing spree in the Beltway area. We will kill them all, jihad, Malvo had scrawled in jailhouse notes.
Several years later, my family and I moved to Colorado. The Rockies, I thought, would be a sanctuary from terrorism. The lesson for usand for all Americansis that there is no such thing as a safe haven from Islamic jihad. In February 2010, Afghan-born Muslim Najibullah Zazi of Denver pleaded guilty to terrorism charges related to his railway bombing plot hatched in Colorado and New York City. In April 2010, the feds charged Leadville, Colorado mom Jamie Paulin-Ramirez with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists as part of a wider plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who tested the narrow limits of Muslim tolerance by depicting Mohammed as a pig. And in February 2011, 20-year-old Saudi student Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari was arrested in connection with a plot to bomb former President George W. Bushs Dallas homealong with twelve reservoir dams in California and in my adopted home state of Colorado.
Once again, the U.S. State Departments sloppy solicitousness of foreign students from jihad-coddling countries came back to bite us. Remember: it was thanks to Saudi-pandering Foggy Bottom programs that several of the 9/11 hijackers were able to circumvent regular visa screening procedures and obtain entry into our country despite incomplete applications and deadly intentions. As the
Fort Worth Star Telegram article on Aldawsari makes clear, the visa screeners fell down on the job again:
Evidence seized from Aldawsaris apartment included bomb materials, a gas mask, a hazmat suit and lab equipment, the Justice Department said. Aldawsari also e-mailed himself instructions on how to convert a cellphone into a remote detonator and prepare a booby-trapped vehicle using items available in every home, the affidavit alleges.
FBI agents also seized a journal with entries showing that Aldawsari, enrolled at South Plains College near Lubbock, had been planning the attack for years, according to the affidavit.
Entries say Aldawsari worked to master English and sought and obtained a particular scholarship so he could come to the U.S. to target infidel Americans.
Young. Male. Saudi. Muslim. No independent means of income. These should have been automatic red flags. Yet, our anti-profiling national security agencies have shown a mind-boggling obliviousness to the sea of red flags flapping in the wind. Most alarming: the same bureaucratic incompetence that cripples our State Department and Homeland Security Department officials has emasculated our first line of defensethe U.S. military.
American soldiers on U.S. soil have paid a bloody price for these bipartisan failures of imagination and comprehension.
Political correctness is a gangrenous infection. For decades, American culture has submitted to a toxic diet of multiculturalism, identity politics, anti-Americanism, and entitlement. The problem metastasized under the Bush administration. Despite 9/11, government at all levels refused to screen out jihadi-apologizing influences in our military, at the FBI, in prisons, and even in city fire departments. Despite the bloody consequences of open borders, the Bush Pentagon allowed illegal aliens to enter the military. And the grievance lobby succeeded in plying the Muslim-jihadist-as-victim narrative to a sympathetic media. Homeland security has weakened further under the Obama administrationled by a chief executive who believes more empathy and education is the cure for Islamic imperialism.
The Fort Hood massacre is the starkest example since 9/11 of the continued perils of progressive political correctness. The violence at Fort Hood, President Obama told mourners, was incomprehensible. The twisted logic that led to the tragedy, he reiterated, may be too hard to comprehend. But what exactly was so hard to comprehend? Accused Fort Hood jihadist Nidal Hasan made his means, motives, and Koranic inspiration all too clear for those willing to see and hear. His jihadi colors flashed like bright neon lights on the Las Vegas stripand everyone in authority looked away:
The belligerent Hasan carried a business card proclaiming himself a Soldier of Allah.
In his 2007 slide presentation to fellow Army doctors on The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the Military, Hasan spelled it out: We love death more then (sic) you love life!
Hasan exposed the deadly tension between his adherence to Islam and service in the U.S. military. Slide 11 stated: Its getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims. Slide 12 cited Koranic injunctions against killing fellow believers. And Hasan made clear he wasnt alone among Muslim soldiers who should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly.
