Our Religious War
by James Glaser
January 12, 2010

Members of our Congress and people in our White House want us to believe that the terrorist we are fighting want to kill us, take over America, and install their Muslim law. I guess they really believe that, or that may be their excuse to kill Muslims. The reason given for this desire to destroy America is that "they" hate our freedom.

Does that sound right to you? They hate our freedom so much they are willing to die so we lose it? Does that even make sense, or is there another reason?

We are killing Muslims every day. We are not killing Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, or atheists, we are killing Muslims. Not just in one country, nor in two countries, but now we are killing Muslims in five countries—Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. At least those are the countries you and I know about.

A few years ago, the Pentagon's U.S. Science Board was asked if maybe our backing of Israel had anything to do with this conflict.

An unusually candid view of the dangers accruing from the U.S. identification with Israel's policies appeared five years ago in an unclassified study published by the Pentagon-appointed U.S. Defense Science Board on Sept. 23, 2004.

"Muslims do not 'hate our freedom,' but rather, they hate our policies. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the longstanding, even increasing support for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, and the Gulf States.

"Thus, when American public diplomacy talks about bringing democracy to Islamic societies, this is seen as no more than self-serving hypocrisy."

Did you hear about this report on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, or PBS? Nope. Reports that contradict the White House or the Department of Defense don't get much air time. You can believe that is because of some Jewish conspiracy, or you may think it is because the religious right is trying to get Armageddon going, but I think you would be wrong on both counts.

I think it is a lot simpler than that. I think it is all about money, and the Military Industrial Complex. The defense industry made trillions in profits during the Cold War. They loved it because that war went on and on for decades. When it came to an end, they were hurt. Oh they had a bunch of little wars in Haiti, the Balkans, Grenada, and Iraq, but they were little wars, and the profits were small, and contracts for war materials were short-term.

They needed an enemy that would fight for years and years, heck decades would be great. So, now we are fighting Muslims. We, the Christians, are on one side, and the only other really big religion with a huge multi-country land base, Muslims are on the other side.

Well, we couldn't tell the world we were going to take on another religion, so we had to come up with a name for our new enemy, and "terrorist" has worked out quite nicely, don't you think? Anyone could be a terrorist, maybe it is just luck of the draw that the only terrorists we can find are Muslims, or maybe, just maybe we are really in a religious war.

I remember an American General saying our God was bigger than their God.

Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, the new deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence, is a much-decorated and twice-wounded veteran of covert military operations. From the bloody 1993 clash with Muslim warlords in Somalia chronicled in "Black Hawk Down" and the hunt for Colombian drug czar Pablo Escobar to the ill-fated attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980, Boykin was in the thick of things.

William G. "Jerry" Boykin

I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.
Lt. Gen. William G. 'Jerry' Boykin, speaking about battle with a Muslim warlord. Yet the former commander and 13-year veteran of the Army's top-secret Delta Force is also an outspoken evangelical Christian who appeared in dress uniform and polished jump boots before a religious group in Oregon in June to declare that radical Islamists hated the United States "because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian... and the enemy is a guy named Satan."

Discussing the battle against a Muslim warlord in Somalia, Boykin told another audience, "I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol."

"We in the army of God, in the house of God, kingdom of God have been raised for such a time as this," Boykin said last year.

On at least one occasion, in Sandy, Ore., in June, Boykin said of President Bush: "He's in the White House because God put him there."

Published on Thursday, October 16, 2003 by the Los Angeles Times

We have been killing Muslims on a regular daily basis for the last nine plus years. At least for Washington, The word "terrorist" and Muslim are interchangeable. The Military Industrial Complex, and I guess we could add the Pentagon, got their war and their enemy, and this war will go on and on and on. That means profits as far as the eye can see.

Religious wars have always worked before, and this one is a profit maker. As long as the profits roll in, we will be killing Muslims.

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