BY MARTIN GOULD AND KATHLEEN WALTER, NEWSMAX—
War is on its way in the Middle East as Muslim countries are determined to force a showdown over the future of Israel, Ronald Reagan’s assistant defense secretary Frank Gaffney warned in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview.
“I’m afraid there’s a war coming, a very serious, perhaps cataclysmic regional war,” he said. “It will be presumably over, at least in part, the future existence of the state of Israel. It may involve all of its neighbors, as they have in the past, attacking Israel to try, as they say, to drive the Jews into the sea.
“It may involve the use of nuclear weapons,” Gaffney predicted. “But whatever form it takes and whenever it occurs, it is unlikely to be contained to that region, and we must do everything we can to prevent freedom’s enemies from thinking they have an opportunity to engage in that kind of
warfare.”
That means standing “absolutely, unmistakably” as one with Israel and doing everything to prevent Iran getting its hands on nuclear weapons.
Gaffney, who now heads up the nonprofit Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., was speaking on the day that the “moderate” Islamist party Ennahda claimed victory at the ballot box in Tunisia and the day after Libya’s new rulers declared that country will be run on Islamic principles and under Sharia law.
Gaffney does not believe Ennahda is really a moderating force. “I don’t believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party,” he said. “The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
“They may, as a matter of tactical expediency, choose to do so in incremental ways, often nonviolently, at least initially.
“The problem is that, because ultimately they must — according to Sharia, according to what they believe is God’s will — make everyone feel subdued in order to achieve their God-mandated direction, they will not remain moderate. They will not be satisfied with anything less than the ultimate supremacy of Sharia and they certainly will not resist the use of violence when it becomes expedient to get their way.”
Gaffney foresees a rising tide of Islamist governments growing throughout Middle East and North Africa and spreading even further.
“We’re witnessing not just the violent kind of jihad that these Islamists believe God compels them to engage in, but also, where they must for tactical reasons, a more stealthy kind, or civilizational jihad as the Muslim Brotherhood calls it. We’re witnessing that playing out, not only in places in the Middle East but also in Europe, in Australia, in Canada and here in the United States as well,” he said.
The spread of Sharia, which Gaffney said often is referred to as “Communism with a god,” is “the most urgent and grievous challenge we face as a free people.
“Those who follow this program of Sharia believe that God is directing them to engage in jihad or whatever form of warfare is necessary to accomplish their goals . . . .Through stealth, they have successfully penetrated important parts of the free world including our own government and civil society institutions.”
The Obama administration has to stop “embracing” the Muslim Brotherhood, Gaffney said.
“This is legitimating our enemies,” he said. “It is facilitating their influence operations and their penetration and it greatly increases the prospect that they will be successful at what the Muslim Brotherhood’s own documents indicate is their desire, which is to destroy western civilization from within.”
Gaffney noted that Ennahda had won what appears to be a clean election in Tunisia, but that doesn’t mean there ever will be another vote there.
“The problem is not simply democracy. People are pointing to Tunisia as a perfect example of democracy at work. Democracy is fine if all you want is one-man-one-vote one-time. That is precisely what the Muslim Brotherhood and its like-minded Islamist friends want.”
The Obama administration must apply pressure to ensure that democracy has a future there and elsewhere in the region, Gaffney said.
“The president and his administration are not even pursuing that,” he said. “What we are likely to wind up with, not just in Tunisia, not just in Libya, not just in Egypt, but probably in due course in Syria — as we have in Lebanon, as we have in Gaza and probably will have down the road in Yemen, Bahrain, maybe Saudi Arabia — is the takeover, the unmistakable takeover, perhaps through the ballot box, of people who will not seek or allow others freedom, who will impose Sharia and who will use whatever resources they amass as a result, not only to suppress their own people, but to endanger us.”
This is all prophecised in the books of Ezekiel, Chapters 38 and 39. All of Israel’s enemies will be utterly, totally, and finally destroyed, decimated. Praise the name of the Lord!
I agree with Gaffney that the Muslim’s are an enemy to Israel, and to the United States. I don’t understand how he misses the fact that Obama himself, is a Muslim, and an enemy to Israel and the United States. How is an enemy suppose to fight an enemy, when they are one and the same? The Muslim Brotherhood has their leader, Obama, placed in the highest position in the world!
I Concur. And when war comes, of course Nuclear weapons will be used by our enemies if they have them and , I hope, by outselves, as a matter of course. I personally accept
and believe that God made it part of man’s nature to make war. That said, I believe that the use of ANY weapon ,including nuclear, is morally equal. Given the choice between an arrow in the belly and standing on ground zero, I would take ground zero every time. As for the vast destruction of people and property, too bad! That is, and always has been, war.
Don Rockwell
The third American Revolution occured in 2008 when Obamanation was elected to the office of President of the United States. He has turned us towards an evil alliance with the Islamic world. Gaffney is right about that Islam is a threat to Israel and the Western World including the United States. I do agree that Obamanation is a Muslim and is destroying our war against Islamic terror.
By the year 2014, the American Army will be worth nothing as a fighting force because of Obamanation’s policies.
I’m with Rick – Israel will prevail just as the One TRUE God has said. Yahweh will not allow His people to be “push out to sea” or completely distroyed in any other way for that matter! It’s a battle they WILL lose and the REAL God will be glorified before all the world. Thank you, Lord!
God Almighty is going to remove His church from the earth in the rapture before nuclear war begins. The Middle East is indeed on the verge of war. I believe that the rapture could happen at any second because there is nothing else that needs to happen prophetically except that the last person to be saved has not yet received salvation. As much as I dislike King Obama, the Obamanation in the White House, God is using him to bring the world to the point where the Anti-Christ is ready to step in. With a righteous man or woman as President, this could not happen. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t do the right thing or vote for Godly people. It just means that we are where we are for a reason. And God is in control. Maranantha. Come quickly, Lord Jesus!
When I looked at that banner “Shariah will dominate the world” I immediately wanted to lift up a BANNER that says: JESUS IS SHARIAH, for Jesus said: “I am THE WAY” … Yes, JESUS is the TRUE WAY, the TRUE PATH.
In response to Marie, with all due respect Marie; there is something that has to happen before the Rapture takes place and that is the building of the temple in Jerusalem.
Marantha! Come Lord Jesus!