Via LGF:
The Other Jihad by Ralph Peters is dubbed a “must read” by Charles Johnson. I am inclined to agree–especially if you are unclear that we are at war and that that war goes way beyond Iraq, IEDs, and Humvees:
The mosque stood empty beside the road in a Christian town in Kenya. Funded by Saudis, it wasn’t meant for worshippers. It was meant to stake a claim.
The mosque annoyed the locals. Windows were broken. A goat grazed in the garbage-speckled yard. Yet that shabby mosque was part of an extremist campaign that threatens widespread strife in the years ahead.
On a trip to Kenya and Tanzania last month, I saw recently built mosques wherever I went. Even along the predominantly Muslim coast, there were far more mosques and madrassahs than the worshippers needed. I counted seven mosques along one street in a Mombasa slum – most of them new but neglected.
The construction boom is part of what my personal observation convinces me is “the other jihad,” the slow-roll attempt by fundamentalists from the Arabian Peninsula to reclaim East Africa for the faith of the Prophet. We dismiss Osama bin Laden’s dream of re-establishing the caliphate, Islam’s bygone empire, as madness. But Saudis, Yemenis, Omanis and oil-rich Gulf Arabs are every bit as determined as bin Laden to reassert Muslim domination of the lands Islam once ruled.
August 24th, 2005 | Africa, Global War On Terror, Jihad Watch, Politics