Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

November 21, 2007

We are frequently told that our conflict with radical Islam will continue for the foreseeable future. But few understand that our own government has been the single biggest promoter of radical Islam.

In 1953, the CIA organized a coup to bring down Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. As Steven Kinzer documents in his book Overthrow, the CIA spent huge sums to recruit radical Imams to mobilize support for the coup. Many of the same radical Imams later supported the revolutionary overthrow of the Shah by the Ayatollah Khomeni.

Also in 1953, the CIA began a relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian-born terrorist network from which al-Qaeda sprang.

In his book Devil's Game, Robert Dreyfuss documents that Washington funded al-Qaeda's Jihadist operations in Afghanistan well into the 1990s. Washington also intervened militarily on the side of Iranian-backed Muslim insurgents in Bosnia, and allies of al-Qaeda in Kosovo.

Now we're to believe that Washington will protect us from the same threat it nurtured for decades.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.