A Moderate Muslim Revolution

By Ryan Mauro

The extremists are losing the war within Islam.

The war on terror is largely a result of a civil war within Islam. The extremists use terrorism, oppress those who don't agree with them, and establish states based on strict Sharia law. The moderates, who may disagree with U.S. foreign policy but stand for freedom and democratic principles while opposing terrorism, may not have as powerful a voice, but they are decisively winning this conflict, making advances in almost every part of the Islamic world. The Middle East is where the turnaround is the greatest. When the Iranian regime rigged the elections in favor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on June 12, the population began a peaceful uprising and today protests against Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader, and chants calling for democracy and human rights are commonplace. The regime is today facing the greatest challenge to its very survival since its creation in 1979. This instability has already caused problems for terrorists relying upon Iranian support and when the regime one day inevitably falls, it will have positive consequences across the world. [more...]

KT McFarland in the Media

KT was on ABC Radio Tuesday night with Curtis Sliwa to discuss the CIA investigations and whether the UK traded the Lockerbie terrorist for oil concessions.
DEFCON 3 by KT: Afghanistan - What's Next?

KT joined host Heather Nauert on FOX's Strategy Room for a one hour special on Americans Veterans - the challenges and opportunities facing when they return home.

KT McFarland has the lead editorial on FOXNews.com's opinion page - CIA Trials Would be a Dangerous Mistake.

Brigitte Gabriel on CIA Interrogation

The Justice Department's move to open an investigation into CIA interrogation techniques is the most dangerous move since we had a change in administration. It is sending a clear message to our allies who are fighting this war with us against Jihadists, and who have proven vital in gathering intelligence for us, that the U.S. is not to be trusted and that whatever intelligence you share with the U.S. is going to be exposed by either the American media or insider politicians.

This is damaging the delicate relationship we have with most of our allies such as the Europeans who are dealing with their own internal problems, with the rise of homegrown Jihadists, and have to balance their cooperation with America with the rise of Islamic population in their own countries.

This is also emboldening the Jihadists who feel they have more of an ally with the current U.S. administration in certain areas instead of an enemy. The damage that this will do to CIA personnel and the agency in general is immeasurable. We are destroying our trusted men and women whose job is to gather intelligence in order to protect America - those who lay their life on the line to do so. We are clipping the wings off of our intelligence agency yet still expecting it to be held accountable when terrorism disasters strike America.

Islamic Honor Killing in America

Brigitte Gabriel, the New York Times bestselling author of They Must Be Stopped and president of Act! for America says "Rifqa Barry, an American young lady from Ohio, was threatened with death by her own father for converting to Christianity. Because of her conversion out of the Islamic faith, she has soiled the family's honor. The only action that will cleanse the family's honor is her blood.

This is such a foreign concept to Western nations. But because of the rise of Islamic immigration to the West, we are seeing these types of cases on the rise. We have had three cases in America in the last year: one in Texas, one in Atlanta and one in New York. Canada had to deal with a few cases as well. As recently as a few weeks ago, four women were found killed in Toronto floating down a river - killed by their own family.

In Europe, police representatives from many European countries met at The Hague to discuss the problem. Britain re-opened 110 cases last year of murder all suspected to be honor killings. This Ohioan girl's life is on the line if she is to be turned back to her family. If American courts allow this to happen, her blood will be on our hands.

Brigitte Gabriel on Home Grown Terrorists

The latest arrests of the seven men in North Carolina trained for Jihad and practiced military tactics and use of weapons in sleepy Caswell County, North Carolina brings home the reality that terrorist are recruiting wannabe terrorists right here on our soil.

Brigitte Gabriel, the New York Times bestselling author of They Must Be Stopped and president of Act! for America can provide in-depth analysis and commentary on these home grown terrorists.

The wiretapping program which caused such a stir in the media has been the most effective way to track and monitor terrorists operating on our soil. Even though this specific group was not plotting local terror attacks but international ones, they are a part of a group ready and willing to take orders from our enemies such as al-Qaida and other Islamic groups in America when they are needed.

Al-Qaida, as well as other terrorist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and lately Hiz-bu-tahrir, are actively recruiting Muslims as well as African Americans, Hispanics and in some cases Caucasians from the inner cities as well as the prison system. The mental indoctrination into Jihad against Israel in particular is now happening on college campuses all over the U.S., driven by the Muslim Student Association, which was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood.

KT McFarland in the Media This Week

KT McFarland's recent DEFCON 3 by KT for FOX News calls for a gasoline embargo on Iran.

KT has a 40-year retrospective on her former boss, Richard Nixon.

FOX News Channel's 'America's Newsroom' on 7/7 discussing Obama's Moscow trip.

KT on Sean Hannity's Great American Panel on 7/8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQZPIdbZeI8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkY7JUbb5JM

KT's extensive interview with Julie Menin on her career, women in politics, the future of the GOP and Obama's national security policy.

KT's weekly radio commentary for Long Island Public Radio. The transcript of this week's address, on Russia and Iran, is below:

PUTIN WASN'T BUYING OBAMA; AND WE SHOULD STOP SELLING GAS TO IRAN (full transcript)

President Obama has enjoyed a triumphal romp of the world - and been received with wild whoops of enthusiasm throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. But he hit a brick wall when he got to Moscow. In what was the most amazing displays of body language I’ve ever seen in diplomacy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made it clear he wasn’t buying what Obama was selling.

While Obama talked about lofty goals and moving beyond Cold War divisions, Putin was picking lint off the sleeve of his suit. When Obama talked about freeing the world of nuclear weapons, Putin gazed off in the other direction, with an extremely bored look on his face.

Behind the scenes it was much the same. Obama was hoping to achieve a grand bargain with the Russians – they would stop Iran’s nuclear program and in exchange, we would give up the Missile Shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Russians said nyet. We tried to sweeten things, presumably for the next round, by agreeing to put the missile shield on hold, but even this concession is unlikely to bring the Russians around anytime soon.

Even if Obama were to give Eastern Europe back to the Russian sphere of influence, it’s not clear the Russians will try to stop Iran or even could if they wanted to. Time is running out on America’s number one national security priority – preventing Iran from getting the bomb. Improved relationships with every country in the world mean little if that world includes a Nuclear Iran. And according to experts, that frightening prospect is only a year away.

So Obama has to try another track to bring the Iranians to the negotiating table - immediately - and ready to do business. The one way to get their attention now is a gasoline embargo.

Iran may be the world’s fourth largest oil exporter, but since it doesn’t refine that oil, Iran still has to IMPORT Forty percent of its gasoline. That gasoline comes from just 5 companies – four in Europe and one in India. The ships that deliver that gasoline are insured by a handful of companies in Britain, France, Germany and Japan. If we can pressure those refining and insurance companies to stop doing business with Iran, we can get Iran in the economic equivalent of a half nelson.

Congressional legislation to that effect has just been introduced by Senator Lieberman and others - to sanction any company that helps Iran import gasoline. Last year, British Petroleum, BP figured this was coming so they stopped selling gas to Iran, figuring they’d prefer to lose out on that business rather than risk their American customers.

If these European, Indian and Japanese companies do what BP did, and stop trading with Iran, others will probably move into fill the void. But they will charge Iran more for the gas – much more – which means the average Iranian has a higher price tag at the pump. That’s bound to make Iranian citizens really mad. Just two years ago, when the Mullahs tried to raise gas prices the Iranian people rioted – torching gas stations and taking to the streets.

Hmm… doesn’t that sound familiar?…

The Mullahs of Iran are unlikely to be lulled into giving up their nuclear weapons program just because we sing them the sweet songs of diplomacy.

On the other hand, the last thing we need right now is a military confrontation with Iran to topple their government.

What we can do, and should do immediately, is cut off their gasoline, so that those Iranian citizens, who have recently taken to the streets to protest a sham election, will take to the streets again to protest an incompetent government. That’s how we helped bring down the Soviet Union, and that’s how we can help bring down the Mullahs.

Brigitte Gabriel on the New Al-Zawahiri Tape

Al-Zawahiri, the second in command of Al-Qaida, released a new video message to Pakistani people yesterday, which shows the desperation of Al-Qaida to keep on going in its supposedl strongest region. Al-Qaida is fighting to survive and has lost its fundamental strength in the last few years. The U.S. government has killed or captured over 60% of Al-Qaida's leadership.

Brigitte Gabriel, the New York Times bestselling author of They Must Be Stopped and president of Act! for America can provide in-depth analysis and commentary on Al-Zawahiri.

Whether you agree or disagree with the previous administration's War on Terror, it has been successful on all fronts:

• We have done major damage to Al-Qaida's operation and leadership destroying 60% of its command structure. Al-Qaida today is even hurting for funds. Al-Zawahiri appealed to the Pakistanis in his video to support the organization with much-needed funding to carry on operations.
• We have brought democracy to Iraq where today there are almost 100 different political groups practicing democracy and participating in the government system. Iraq today is the envy of its surrounding neighbors such as Iran, Syria, Egypt and many others - thanks to the U.S. and its allies.
• We have eliminated the dictator Saddam Hussein who posed a major threat to the region and our interest.
• We have protected the homeland form a major terrorist attacks since 2001.
• Our immediate military involvement in Pakistan working with the secular military and applying pressure on the government has helped choke Al-Qaida in its stronghold.

All the above successes were achieved through strong, authoritative confrontation with terror. Despite all the criticism for the way we fought the War on Terror, the results speak for themselves.