Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America's Schools [Paperback] by John Giduck. Beslan is NOT a one-off; not before, not now and not in the abyss-like vortex of the coming er, Muslim jihadist made assault on our children and schools.
Ok. Now listen up fellow citizens of the amazingly still free Western Canon currently under a relentless asymetrical assault by the Marxist Left and the totalitarian Death Cults of Islam. As the title says, little is known by most anyone about the full story of Beslan and Islam. Nope, not a tedious conspiracy bore, but the simple fact of the stratospheric nihilistic child murdering nature of Islam itself and by default millions of Muslims who practice it.
The awesomely qualified, profoundly experienced and empirical scholar John Giduck has the most in depth and witheringly terrible book on it all. The twist is that there is enormous evidence that true Muslims are planning a massive and co-ordinated assault on American schools. Yes they are. Just like Beslan. And just like they ALREADY do across the world. This is Islam. Buy the book. Read it. Accept it and ACT effectively as the book directs.
I will. Even if it's now illegal to survive, folks.
Dig the vids with the caveat that from some PC retarded habit, the otherwise very good and very nice guy Glenn Beck just can’t seem to grasp that the core problem is Islam, Islam, Islam, Mohammad, Mohammad, Mohammad, Koran, Koran, Koran. Islamic terror is not an anomaly, but authentic and natural Islam.
What ya gonna do, kid? While we still have our kids that is.
From Blogcritics:
“Why was John Giduck – unique among all others, American or otherwise - afforded such access in the aftermath of Beslan? Because he already had a long history, relationships, and trust built into the Special Forces community of Russia. He was not a Johnny-come-lately to the scene – he’d already spent a decade and a half working and training with Russian Special Forces.
John Giduck holds a master’s degree in Russian Studies and International Affairs, with a certificate in Russian History, Culture, and Language from St. Petersburg University in Russia. He has traveled Russia, lived and worked there – the Russian people know him, and trust him.
Giduck is the only American to have conducted any on-site analysis of the siege, or given access to any of the players. He made several trips and spent months in Russia for the express purpose of studying Beslan.
No one else has ever bothered. Giduck is also uniquely qualified to analyze the strategic and tactical situation within the broader context of the War of Terror. He holds the highest level of certification in Homeland Security and is a member of the executive Advisory Board of the American College of Homeland Security.
He is a U.S. Army Special Forces hand-to-hand combat and firearms instructor and is highly skilled in several international martial arts disciplines. Through the Archangel Group, he currently provides consulting and training on anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism to law enforcement and other agencies – he is one of our nation’s leading experts on terrorism.
John Giduck was the only American to conduct months of on-site investigation. It is this unique, knowledgeable, and experienced perspective that John Giduck brings to this book. As American civilians, we would be foolish to rely upon the notoriously inaccurate media reports of the events at Beslan or white-washed political analysis of the aftermath. There is no one else out there more qualified to analyze the events leading up to Beslan, and contextualize the subsequent ramifications for America than this author.
The author makes no bones about it, and his assessment has been confirmed many times over by the FBI – we will suffer a massive, simultaneous, multi-site terrorist attack on our schools, and likely very soon. Beslan, in all its horror, degradation, and suffering, was merely a trial run for what Islamic terrorists intend to visit upon American children.
There is no more room for pallid hopes that they will “see the light” or grant mercy upon the innocents. Islamic terrorists have already attacked the schools of other nations (not just Beslan), they have said they will attack our schools, and they will. Lieutenant Colonel John D. Grossman, who wrote the forward for this book and is himself an expert on terrorism, has an axiom that states that the best predictor of future conduct is past behavior.
In the case of terrorism against children, to plan for anything less than a full-out, multi-site assault on our schools would be criminally negligent.
Finally, in Part Four, Preparing America for Battle, Giduck lays out a very comprehensive plan to prepare us for the inevitable. There is much to do to prepare, and not much is being done about it. When John asked Russian experts what the most important things were for America to learn from Beslan, it was to prepare – physically, tactically, and mentally.
Russians are not typically a people who take great pains to keep their opinions to themselves. However, when urges to articulate what America must do to prepare for an assault on her own schools, even the most vocal become strangely humble. They know what is at stake. “Security in schools should be a large system,” Special Forces commander Sergei Lisyuk says. “The first and most important part of the system must be the information and intelligence system.”
....He is not unrealistic about the changes this would entail. “This would be a large deviation from how schools have historically viewed themselves and their mission,” he admits. “But if they do not adapt to the times, and recognize the threats they are now under, they may not have children to teach”…To keep their children safe in order to educate them, [schools] must take on – at least to some degree a tactical mindset.
We Americans are woefully under-informed and ill-prepared for a ruthless attack against our children, likely because we cannot fathom it. Giduck understands the threat like no other and conveys the seriousness and urgency with which we must face the facts:
The problem up until now is that to most Americans – despite all of the terror attacks on our fellow citizens, on our property, and despite 9/11 – the very notion of Islamist extremists coming here to kill us remains a distant and unrealistic thought.
The average person does not get up every day and seriously contemplate that the bridge he is about to drive across on his way to work, or the office building he is about to walk into, the mall or restaurant she will have lunch in, the school or day-care her children will merrily clamor into that morning, may well be the target of a terrorist attack. Moreover, Americans have not been given the information needed – in the context required – to recognize this is not only a realistic and serious concern, but an inevitable one.
…Most of us are incapable of realistically appreciating that Beslan was little more than a dry run of operations [Islamists] intend to soon be running on American soil, against American targets, and American children.
Giduck has spoken with a number of security officials and administrators from different school districts and though they are aware of the threat, they know that what really needs to be done to prepare for a Beslan-type attack in America would never be tolerated by school boards or parents.
[To] a person they say, “That will be the case until the first school is attacked, and there is a big body count of children.” Only then will America wake up to the reality of the situation and what must be done to prepare for what is certain to happen again.
I can’t speak for you, but I am most adamantly not willing to wait for children’s bodies to pile up before we begin preparations. This book is so chock-full of practical preparations that it would be negligent to not implement them – if we fail to plan, we plan to fail. And in the case of terrorism, children will certainly die as a result of our wish to not face the harsh reality in which we now live. We are a nation at war, and it is coming very soon to a neighborhood near you.
One of Giduck’s comprehensive approaches to this book was to painstakingly provide history behind world-wide Islamic jihad. Throw out what you think you know about Islam, and be prepared to have your eyes opened.
Giduck, in the tone of a dispassionate counter-terror instructor, leaves you absolutely no room for doubt as to what we are up against. He says it is critical that we Americans put aside our “naïve expectations and unrealistic hopes of a happy or peaceful resolution.” We are in a war that cannot and will not be fought only by our Armed Forces – we are all, quite literally, in a fight for our lives.
In order to understand the threat we face today, what the terrorists are planning for America this very minutes, some grasp of the history of Islam and its impact on the world is essential...
It has become popular and politically correct to publicly tout Islam as the “religion of peace.” Though the vast majority of Muslims live peaceful lives, it remains a faith steeped in a foundation of violence. Today, there is no other single common factor in the wholesale slaughter of innocent men, women, and children around the world than the perpetrators’ conscription into the Islamic faith. And when a terror attack occurs, the average, everyday Muslims living in America are all too quickly seen on television decrying the non-Islamic community for blaming them for the acts of the terrorists.
Their only response is that the consequences of the terrorist attacks should not be taken out on them. In this, too, they prey upon the sensitivity of Americans to claims of discrimination and bigotry. Strangely, what seems never to be heard is an outright condemnation of the terrorists’ atrocities.
For a single religion to spawn so much hatred, so much inhuman capacity to commit violence against the innocent – there must be a cause. That cause cannot be the preaching of tolerance and peace so often ascribed to it.
According to [Billy] Waugh [Special Operations], America must start recognizing that we are not dealing with a group of people who see anything from our perspective. “Islamic fundamentalists have the capacity to believe in something to the point where they would give up their lives for it. We don’t have that level of belief for anything in our country, and...part of the shock with suicide bombers and hijackers...is our inability to understand this level of passion and commitment.
It seems horribly misguided to us, but it’s real, and it isn’t changing. Our ideas about them have to change to fit reality.” It would seem that the majority – the hundreds of millions – of peace-loving Muslims the world over would condemn the extremists, would come out in opposition of their atrocities. Few do".
From an Amazon review by Alyssa A. Lappen:
"First of all, Giduck notes that Chechnya is an large center of global Islamic terrorism, not the innocent victim of Russian brutality. As he points out, although the Naqshabandi Sufi sect is prominent in Chechnya, it is not the peaceful ideology that it is often portrayed.
On the contrary, Chechen Islamic terrorists have murdered thousands of innocent Russians in previous terror attacks, wounded a much larger number and taken still more hostage in dozens, perhaps hundreds of assaults. According to one source, over time, Chechens have considered it "the very best thing to do...to commit fraud and hurt people of other religions." He continued, "Historically, they would rob, steal, kidnap and sell slaves for money rather than develop an economy." And they have done all this in the name of Allah and Islam.
Secondly, thousands of these Chechen terrorists now reside in America, having immigrated as "war refugees," all too often under the auspices of the naïve and uninformed U.S. government.
Thirdly, the U.S. has thousands and thousands of unprotected potential "soft" terrorist targets, including grammar, middle and high schools in every state, bridges and tunnels, railroads, shopping malls, restaurants, parks, entertainment centers, assembly halls and so on.
As Giduck sees it, Americans even after 9/11 remain largely and dangerously oblivious to the fact that Islamic terrorists have immigrated legally and illegally and mean to do great harm. Very few have a substantive knowledge of the history of Islam, much less its historical use of violence or the gravitation of Muslim masses to the radical modern Shi'ite and Sunni sects that justify, fund and commit violence with the stated intention of creating a worldwide Islamic empire and enforcing the Islamic Sharia law globally. But their ignorance does not make the U.S. immune to this scourge, Giduck writes.
On the contrary, the national American amnesia on Islamic history is a "deadly affliction." Contrary to politically correct thinking, Giduck notes, while the average Muslim lives a peaceful life, what is touted by the PC press as a "religion of peace" is actually "a faith steeped in a foundation of violence." And actually, there is "no other single common factor in the wholesale slaughter of innocent men, women and children" worldwide except "the perpetrators' conscription into the Islamic faith."
After terror attacks, American Muslims all too quickly decry non-Muslims for blaming Islam for the terrorist acts. They prey upon the American sensitivity to discrimination and bigotry, yet seldom if ever offer "outright condemnation of the terrorists' atrocities." Witness, for example, the current global press assault on Israel's defensive attacks against Shi'ite Hezbollah Islamic terrorists in Lebanon.
Instead of blaming Islamic terrorists for thousands and thousands of ceaseless, cross-border rocket attacks on Israel, the global press criticizes Israel for daring to respond--a position that only encourages more terrorism, in the U.S., as well as Israel".
Colonel Neville: Dig the link for a hoot on what would it really means if you actually boycotted Israeli and Jewish products. It's curiously much easier to boycott Muslim er, products. I've cut right down on figs and dates, and as for child brides, bomb vests, Krazy Korans, pervert Sheik's and Imam's of madness? Who needs 'em!
Well, the vid might help you to get a laugh and sleep tonight...the dark dreams of the enlightened.
