by Newt Gingrich Congress needs a strategy to defeat both violent and cultural jihad. On Tuesday, the House Committee on Homeland Security, under the leadership of Chairman Michael McCaul, held the first of a series of very important hearings on the threat of radical Islamism. As I told the committee in my testimony, it is vital that the United States Congress undertake a thorough, no-holds-barred review of the long, global war in which we are now engaged with radical Islamists. This review will require a number of committees to coordinate, since it will have to include Intelligence, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, and Homeland Security at a minimum. Former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich There are three key, sobering observations about where we are today which should force this thorough, no-holds-barred review of our situation. These three points — which are backed up by the…
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THE arrival of more than 40,000 boat people in Australia’s north since Labor unwound John Howard’s border protection policies in late 2008 represents an alarming threat to Australia’s security as well as its social cohesion. This boat people phenomenon is essentially a determined Muslim immigration, being part of the stealth jihad, with the vast majority of arrivals being from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. This huge, unregulated Islamic inflow is the greatest single disaster of the Rudd and Gillard governments and perhaps the hardest to undo. The consequences will be with us for generations. The case of convicted Egyptian terrorist Maksoud Abdel Latif illustrates how the security system is overwhelmed by the present numbers. Let’s look at the numbers. Assume that 40,000 of those who have arrived so far are Muslims, mostly low skilled and with limited English. Assume that eventually they will all stay in Australia, which is the only…