Ghazw, jihad, and the Islamic way of war.
A ghazw is an Islamic warrior that takes part in gha-ziya. (*) The ghazw raids frontier lands in order to clear the land for jihad and eventual expansion of “the Muslim world” (the umma).
As Tony Blankley notes in a recent audio interview (†), for the past several hundred years, most Muslims have considered North America and Europe to be “neutral,” and not the targets of Islamic conquest. Now, unfortunately, more and more Muslims see North America and Europe as the next targets for Islamic conquest. Thus we have many raids by ghazw warriors intended to soften up the defenses of the intended conquests. At the same time the strategy of dawa is used to ruthlessly exploit multiculturalism, diversity ideology, and “tolerance” on behalf of the overall divide-and-conquer strategy. At last, the Western powers are betrayed from within through the Trojan horse of “benign immigration and refugees” and assorted fifth-columnists, while Islamic powers such as Iran gain the upper hand militarily through the stockpile and use of nuclear weapons. This is the radical Islamic strategy. It is now rapidly becoming popular within Islamic culture.
The purpose of the Global War on Terrorism is ultimately to defeat and discredit radical Islam now, before it gains the upper hand militarily.