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Jihad, Islamism and the United Nations
Jeffrey Imm


In the ongoing battle against Jihad, the most important advances are not tactical, but rather those advances that allow us to define, address, and counter the ideology behind Jihadist actions. As the 9/11 Commission report states, "Islamist terrorism is an immediate derivative of Islamism." (Notes, Part 12, Note 3, page 562) Recently, a little-noticed advance in countering Islamist ideology was achieved in the one of the least likely places of all: the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

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While Dr. Jasser's comments are for the American government, certainly they should also be applied to international peace organizations and American allies as well. It is past time for the United Nations, the United States, and our allies to address the issue of Islamism as an ideology behind Islamist terrorism. As long as the free world's standards of action in this war are based on fighting only terrorist tactics, and not recognizing or confronting the ideology that spawns Islamist terrorism, then we have not yet begun to fight.


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