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percent of wars involving pairs of states of different religions between 1820 and
1929 were wars between Muslims and Christians”. (pg. 210)
“In 1990 Bernard Lewis, a leading Western scholar of Islam, analyzed 'The
Roots of Muslim Rage,' and concluded: 'It should now be clear that we are
facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies
and the governments that pursue them. This is no less than a clash of
civilizations – that perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient
rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the
worldwide expansion of both. It is crucially important that we on our side should
not be provoked into an equally historic but also equally irrational reaction
against our rival.'” (pg. 213)
That “Judeo-Christian heritage” and 'The Roots of Muslim Rage,' is what is captured in the FBI
“Militancy Considerations” training graph. Bernard Lewis of Princeton University further
reconstituted Huntington's self-serving statistic for the “basic ingredient that fuel conflict
between Islam and the West” in his post 9/11 ode to defending the West against “militant
Islam” titled “Crisis of Islam – Holy War and Unholy Terror”:
“... But Islam, like other religions, has also known periods when it inspired in
some of its followers a mood of hatred and violence. It is our misfortune that we
have to confront part of the Muslim world while it is going through such a period,
and when most – though by no means all - of that hatred is directed against us.”
(pg. 25)
“Terrorism requires only a few. Obviously the West must defend itself by
whatever means will be effective. But in devising means to fight the terrorist, it
would surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them.” (pg. xxxii)
That's all that the FBI is doing – implementing Bernard Lewis' prescription. The FBI, like
all the rest of the Western states security and war-mongering apparatuses of their vast
interlocking military-industrial-academe-media-intelligence complex, are defending the
West against the motivations outlined for them by the god's chosen peoples:
“For more than a thousand years, Islam provided the only universally acceptable
set of rules and principles for the regulation of public and social life. Even during
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