by Dr. Ephraim Herrera
A scenario in which Islamic groups seize power is not at all unrealistic, which means that a jihadist organization could achieve nuclear capability, supported by a population of 190 million people.
In November 2008, a
series of horrific attacks against civilian targets struck India. Some
173 people were killed and 300 were wounded. Ten Pakistani terrorists
carried out the attacks and one of them was captured alive.
In his interrogation,
the terrorist admitted he and his partners had been instructed to kill
tourists and Jews, while avoiding harming Muslims. Among the fatalities
were six Jews who had been staying at Chabad House and were hideously
tortured before they were killed, including Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and
his wife, Rebecca, whose pregnancy did not elicit a shred of pity from
her tormentors.
Last week, Pakistan
released on bail the mastermind behind the attacks, Zakiur Rehman
Lakhvi. The Indian government and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls
were flabbergasted by the decision.
In fact, there are no
Jews left in Pakistan. The name of the country, which was established in
1947, means "Land of the Pure." The small Jewish community that had
lived in Pakistan in its early days was attacked and forced to emigrate.
The absence of Jews in
Pakistan does not seem to prevent it from teaching extreme anti-Semitism
in the 50,000 madrassas that have been founded in the past three
decades. Pakistan also supports Jew-hating jihadists operating as
"proxy" in the bloody ongoing territorial dispute for control of
Kashmir.
Lashkar-e-Taiba, an
Islamic militant organization accused of planning and executing the
Mumbai attacks, was suspected by experts to have been unofficially
supported by the Pakistani government's intelligence agency.
French journalist
Bernard-Henri Levy wrote a best-seller about the brutal murder of Jewish
reporter Daniel Pearl and pointed out the connections between
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan security services and the father of the
Pakistani nuclear bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan.
Osama bin Laden's house
was adjacent to a Pakistani military base and the U.S. accused the
Pakistani authorities of knowing the identity of the house's occupant.
No wonder that jihadist
views are common in Pakistan: In certain areas, Shariah is the rule of
law. More than 85% of the public support it and more than 90% support
corporal punishment for people who break Islamic law.
The Taliban
organization is very dominant in Pakistan and in the 2007 armed conflict
in northwest Pakistan between the state and armed militant groups such
as the Pakistani Taliban, more than 10,000 people were killed. About 3
million were expelled from their homes.
A scenario in which
Islamic groups seize power is not at all unrealistic, which means that a
jihadist organization could achieve nuclear capability, supported by a
population of 190 million people.
U.S. foreign policy
contributes quite a bit to these murderous civil wars across the Muslim
world and its support in Pakistan, while turning a blind eye to the
volatile situation, joins the rest of the Obama administration's
dangerous moves.
Israel should warn the
world of threat from the only Muslim nuclear country in the world,
equipped with one hundred nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles with a
range of approximately 2,500 miles -- the distance between Pakistan's
western boundary and Israel.
Dr. Ephraim Herrera is the author of "Jihad -- Fundamentals and Fundamentalism."
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