Eyes to See: The Foothold of Jihadi Underpinnings
Abstract
The magnitude of the Jihadi threat confronting the West goes largely unrecognized because of Western civilization's unwillingness to explore the underpinnings of Jihadi conduct. These underpinnings are well-established and rigorously authenticated precepts that serve as a foothold for Jihadi conduct, making Islam a ready-made ideology that suits the Jihadis' insatiable goals for territorial conquest and a religious-based totalitarian government. The West's disinclination towards exploring these underpinnings is partly due to its entrapment within a self-referencing inward spiral of cognition that blinds it to the genuine intentions of its Jihadi foes. Likewise, the Jihadis are trapped within an expanding outward spiral of cognition based upon a system of unyielding and self-legitimizing expansionist concepts. Preventing the eclipse of Western civilization is dependent upon the West's timely recognition of the revolutionary Jihadi vanguard as a peril to its existence. This paper first demonstrates how the West is unwilling to recognize the threat it faces because of political correctness and an uncontested intellectual emasculation. These elements forge a mirror-image perception of the enemy that has created a self-referencing lexicon in the war on terrorism. As the West's lead agent in the war on terrorism, the United States Government has failed to accurately define the threat it faces, thereby creating disparate efforts in quelling Jihadi exertions. The second part of the paper discusses the underpinnings of Jihadi conduct, their fixed nature, and how they are being used as a foothold to carry out a long-term campaign for world domination. Lastly, the paper highlights the magnitude of the Jihadi threat and how the West must fully awaken to posture for survival.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 05, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA468790
Entities
People
- John M. Klein Jr.
Organizations
- National Defense University