Mowahid H. Shah, "The New Cold War With Islam,"
Christian Science Monitor, July 30, 1990
Enver Masud, "The War on Islam," Madrasah Books (April 2003)
"The National Security
Strategy of the United States of America," The White House, April 29,
2003
"Bush's Crusade," The
Wisdom Fund, October 16, 2003
Enver Masud, "A Clash Between
Justice and Greed," The Wisdom Fund, October 26, 2004
Jonathan Power, "War of
Civilizations?," International Herald Tribune, October 29, 2004
[On October 6, 2005, President Bush Addressed The National Endowment For
Democracy On The Nature Of The Enemy We Face And The Strategy For Victory.
In this new century, freedom is once again under assault. The President
outlined the ideology of the terrorists and the strategy needed to defeat
this danger and see freedom's victory. . . .
The ideology known as Islamic radicalism, militant Jihadism, or
Islamo-fascism - different from the religion of Islam - exploits Islam to
serve a violent political vision that calls for the murder of all those who
do not share it. The followers of Islamic radicalism are bound together by
their shared ideology, not by any centralized command structure. Although
they fight on scattered battlefields, these terrorists share a similar
ideology and vision for the world openly stated in videos, audiotapes,
letters, declarations, and websites. . . .
The murderous ideology of the Islamic radicals is the great challenge of our
century. Yet, in many ways, this fight resembles the struggle against
communism in the last century.--"Fighting
a Global War on Terror," The White House, October 6, 2005]
Lee Sustar, "What
the 'War on Terror' is Really About," CounterPunch, October 22, 2005
[Some call this evil Islamic radicalism;
others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fascism.--"President Addresses Joint Armed Forces Officers' Wives'
Luncheon," The White House, October 25, 2005]
[In the former Soviet Union, it could mean accepting a qualified form of
Russian sphere of influence. In Asia, it could mean backing Japan and other
countries against any Chinese aggression, but also defusing the threat of
confrontation with China by encouraging the reintegration of Taiwan into the
mainland. In the Middle East, it could involve separating US goals from
Israeli ones and seeking detente with Iran.--Anatol Lieven, "Decadent
America must give up imperial ambitions," Financial Times, November 29, 2005]
[Is the president historically right in his diagnosis of the allegedly
similar dangers posed by Islamic extremism and by totalitarian communism?
The differences between the two may be more telling than their
similarities.--Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Do These Two Have Anything in Common?,"
Washington Post, December 4, 2005]
Drew Brown, "Rumsfeld warns of Islamic superstate if U.S. leaves Iraq too
soon," Knight Ridder Newspapers, December 5, 2005
[Rumsfeld, who laid out broad strategies for what the military and the Bush
administration are now calling the "long war," likened al Qaeda leader Osama
bin Laden to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin while urging Americans not to
give in on the battle of wills that could stretch for years.--Josh White and
Ann Scott Tyson, "Rumsfeld Offers Strategies for Current War,"
Washington Post, February 3, 2006]
[As well as emphasizing threats in the Islamic world, the review focuses on
Asia's growing importance to U.S. interests and the need to hedge against
China's emergence as a military power.--Mark Mazzetti, "Pentagon Plans for 'Long War' on
Extremism," Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2006]
[The U.S. Defense Department and the White House have decided that the
United States is now conducting "the Long War" rather than what previously
was known as the War against Terror, then as the Global Struggle against
Violent Extremism, and briefly - as one revealing Pentagon study described
it - a war against "the Universal Adversary."
Yet even if you include the 9/11 casualties, the number of Americans killed
by international terrorists since the late 1960s (which is when the State
Department began counting them) is about the same as that killed by
lightning - or by accident-causing deer, or by severe allergic reactions to
peanuts.--William Pfaff, "A 'long war'
designed to perpetuate itself," International Herald Tribune, February
10, 2006]
[. . . funded by an overall 2007 US defence spending request of more than
$513bn. . . . will raise concerns about exacerbating the "clash of
civilisations" and about the respect accorded to international law and human
rights. . . . anticipate US forces being engaged in irregular warfare around
the world. . . .
"One historical example that illustrates both concepts comes from the Arab
revolt in 1917 in a distant theatre of the first world war, when British
Colonel TE Lawrence and a group of lightly armed Bedouin tribesmen seized
the Ottoman port city of Aqaba--Pfaff, "America's
Long War," International Herald Tribune, February 10, 2006]
[The greatest risk to our society today is not Islamo-fascist terrorism, but
the people who use that term to scare us. As the human, fiscal and
ecological damage caused by our nation's economic priorities grows, it's
becoming clear that we're addicted to more than oil - we're addicted to
military spending, too.--Rick Steves, "The real threat to
U.S. security," Seattle Times, March 2, 2006]
William Pfaff, "NEW U.S. SECURITY STATEMENT IS AN INSULT TO THE WORLD," Tribune
Media Services, March 19, 2006
[The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to
spread 'democracy' throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic
opinion and jeopardised not only US security but that of much of the rest of
the world. This situation has no equal in American political history.--John
Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lobby
and U.S. Foreign Policy," London Review of Books, March 23, 2006]
[The Cold War was ended by engagement, rather than "destroying the threat,"
and that is a powerful lesson. . . . Al Qaeda is neither Nazi Germany nor
Soviet Russia. It is a tiny revanchist network that is dangerous in limited
ways.--John Tirman, "The
Cold War on Terror," AlterNet, April 17, 2006]
Ann Scott Tyson, "New Plans Foresee Fighting Terrorism Beyond War
Zones: Pentagon to Rely on Special Operations," Washington Post, April
23, 2006
"Bush calls terror fight WWIII," Herald Sun, May 6, 2006
[The war on terror is a false metaphor that has led to counterproductive and
self-defeating policies.--George Soros, "A
Self-Defeating War," antiwar.com, October 17, 2006]
Jackson Diehl, "Trump's
coming war against Islam," washingtonpost.com, December 11, 2016