Political Islam, i.e. radical Islam, is actually a cutout for continued communist aggessionagainst the West. This is perhaps the most justifiable explanation forthe resurgence of radical Islam in recent years, though it receivesscant recognition.

We knew this to be true back in the 1970s and 1980s, when the communist-inspired PLObegan its operations against Israel. We knew that Hezbollah and theother Muslim terrorist organizations got their training, weapons andsupport from Syria - a Ba'athist (Stalinist Arab Communist Party)country. We knew by extension that Syria, like all Soviet clientstates, was acting on behalf of the Soviet Union.

But after theSoviet Union "fell" in the 1990s, suddenly we were confronted with"Muslim" terrorism. Still the same actors, still the same supportnetworks, still the same tactics, yet now it was supposedly a dire newthreat. And if you think horrific public killings and suicide bombings– even using children – are an Islamic invention, ask anyone who servedin Vietnam. Communist tactics, all. Even before the communists,Japanese frequently used this tactic in WW II. A very good article on Alternet.org, The Hard Truth About Suicide Bombers had this to say:

Martyrmissions made their official twentieth-century debut in the SecondWorld War with the Kamikazes; they showed up again in the 1960s, whenViet Cong sympathizers exploded themselves amidst U.S. troops. Theirdebut in the Islamic world was not until the 1980s, during theIran-Iraq war.

If you listen to statements fromjihadists like Osama Bin Laden, their justification for war against theWest is based on the same tired slogans repeated by leftists since the1930s, i.e. that America and its allies are "imperialist," "greedycapitalists" "exploiting" the rest of the world, yada yada, only now itis the Muslim world we are supposedly oppressing.

Meanwhile, strong evidence has surfaced that al Qaeda is stage-managed by the KGB. This was the assertion of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko– poisoned in 2006 with radioactive polonium-210 by Putin’s KGBassassins. Litvinenko asserted, among other things, that al Qaedanumber two, Ayman Al-Zawahiri is in fact a KGB agent. And it is he, notBin-Laden, who many believe calls the shots. Other Russian dissidents support this claim.

Some will argue that it was Hasan Al Banna who initiated the modern “Islamic resurgence” when he foundedthe Muslim Brotherhood in 1928. And it is true that this group was thespringboard for most of the modern jihadists groups known today. Alater Brotherhood leader, Sayyid Qutb,was, if anything, an even greater Islamic purist than Al Banna. Yet theSoviets’ have historically demonstrated an uncanny ability to capture such movements for their own nefarious purposes.

The Islamic jihadists are no exception.

This assertion provides the most compelling internally consistent explanation for the left's enthusiastic embraceof Islam. Consider: the left is supposedly all about women'sliberation, equality, saving the "oppressed of the earth" and ismilitantly opposed to religion and religious intolerance in all itsforms. If this is true, then on ideological grounds the left should beat war with radical Islam, or at least see it as a dangerouscompetitor, because radical Islam is the most intolerant, misogynistic,oppressive, religiously fanatic bunch of lunatics in the world --except perhaps the communists.

National Lawyers Guild (oldest US communist front) Lawyer Lynn Stewart, who was convicted of communicating messages to Islamic radicals for her client, the jailed blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, gave it away when she said:

They[radical Islamic movements] are basically forces of nationalliberation. And I think that we, as persons who are committed to theliberation of oppressed people, should fasten on the need forself-determination…My own sense is that, were the Islamists to beempowered, there would be movements within their own countries…toliberate.

There it is: "...were the Islamists tobe empowered, there would be movements within their own countries… toliberate." You have to know leftist terminology. "Liberate" everywhereand always refers to imposing a communist regime, for that is alwaysthe leftists’ long run goal. So what she is saying is that thesemovements are actually communist movements in disguise. And indeed, thestatements by radical Islamic leaders, though couched in Islamicphraseology, essentially advocate the same thing.

This does not mean that radical Islam is not a threat in-and-of-itself.

Justas most American liberals are unaware that their purpose is to givelegitimacy – "mainstream" if you will – the radical left's communistagenda, most Muslim Jihadists are unaware that they fight on behalf ofthe same ideology. Many of them believe the exhortations of theirImams. Some Imams may even believe it. Many truly believe they areworking on Allah's behalf to create a worldwide Muslim caliphate.Because of this, they have to be considered a stand-alone threat.

And herein lies the purpose of this post.

This 1/2 hour video is an abridged version of a 1.5 hour documentary, the Third Jihad, narrated by Dr. Zuhdi Jasser.An American and prominent Muslim himself, Jasser states that after 9/11he dedicated his life to battling radical Islam. It came out last year.If you haven’t already seen it, watch it and forward it to everyone youknow.