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“It’s the ideology, stupid . . . .”
If you haven’t read the FBI affidavit that details the activities of the Fort Dix Six, you really should. It reads like the script of a thriller you feel like you’ve seen. You know the one: the audience knows who the mole is but the bad guys don’t. Yet the bad guys make numerous statements like “You probably work for the FBI,”  which the mole has to laugh off as ludicrous.
Turns out the mole did work for the Hoover Men. He was embedded with this group for over a year. Nice work, boys!
Now, the mainstream media is quick to point out that there has been no proof that the group was “linked” to Al Qaeda.   And, once again, the MSM is wrong.
While they may not have been linked through cell phones and email, Andy McCarthy over at National Review Online points out that the Fort Dix Six (and countless other terrorist cells) are linked to Al Qaeda by something much stronger:Â ideology.
Al Qaeda is a powerful force. It is a sprawling, atomized, international network of cells. It has proved quite adept at orchestrating savage attacks. But the main danger it poses has never been the orders its generals give to its colonels and on down some regimented chain-of-command. If we had only to worry about members of al Qaeda carrying out orders of al Qaeda, the war on terror would be neither as uphill nor as infinite as it seems to be. The principal challenge posed by al Qaeda is that it spearheads the spread of a strong, though noxious, ideology.
Indeed, al Qaeda does not purport to give direction only to its own members, or even that the directions it does impart are al Qaeda’s own directions. The network presumes to be guiding all Muslims toward what Islam compels. This is abundantly clear from Osama bin Laden’s infamous 1998 fatwa — “infamous†in the sense that it is often mentioned in press, although, to judge from today’s coverage and “expert†commentary, not much attention has been given to what it actually says. Here’s bin Laden (italics mine):
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military — is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it[.] … This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God, “and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together,†and “fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God.â€