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Frank Gaffney, the neoconservative movement's leading spokesman on "Islamism," has just discovered to his great shock and consternation that the people he variously calls "Islamists," "Islamo-fascists," and "jihadists"--but never, you know, "Muslims"--are ensconced in America and gaining a foothold in the corridors of power. Paraphrasing the title of Bat Ye'or's Eurabia, he calls this new regime "Amerabia."
May I ask where Gaffney has been? It is now May 2008. Steven Emerson's extremely alarming, mind-altering documentary Jihad in America, showing the profound inroads that jihadist and terror-supporting communities had made in heartland cities across this country, was broadcast on PBS in 1994. Just in case Mr. Gaffney misses the significance of that last sentence, I'll help him out:
It's been a known fact for at least 14 years that Mideast-based jihadist communities and organizations are widely established in America.
Even Americans knowledgeable about Europe’s growing accommodation to the totalitarian ideology known alternatively as Islamism, jihadism or Islamofascism tend smugly to believe the same thing can’t happen here. Think again. Every day, new evidence appears of similar acts of submission – the Islamists call it “dhimmitude” – on the part of the U.S. government, judges, the press and leading corporations.
Eurabia, meet the United States of Amerabia.