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The American Fifth Column
American Fifth Column
America has a growing enemy within. This enemy is referred to by experts as America’s Fifth Column. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the term Fifth Column refers to “A clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation’s solidarity [unity] by any means at their disposal.”

As Britannica notes, the term is credited to Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his “fifth column,” intent on undermining the loyalist government from within.

Does such a group of subversive agents’ intent upon undermining American unity actually exist today? If they do, who are they, what are their methods and what is their goal?
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Constitutional Literacy

The Origin of John Locke's
Natural Rights Philosophy

The Declaration of Independence embodied the ’sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, or the elementary books of public right… Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney. Basically, there is a ‘natural order’ of things in the world, cleverly and expertly designed by God for the guidance of mankind; the ‘laws’ of this natural order may be discovered by human reason; these laws so discovered furnish a reliable and immutable standard for testing the ideas, the conduct, and the institutions of men.

How did this become the prevailing idea “back in the day”?

A good number of Americans were educated at British universities, where the doctrines of Newton and Locke were commonplaces; while those who were educated at Princeton, Yale, or Harvard could read, if they would, these authors in the original, or become familiar with their ideas through books of exposition.

Many were initiated, in youth, in the doctrines of civil liberty, as they were taught by such men as Plato, Demosthenes, Cicero and other renowned persons among the ancients; and such as Sidney and Milton, Locke and Hoadley, among the moderns, It would not have been uncommon to read, as a teenager, Algernon Sidney’s Works, John Locke’s Works, Lord Bacon’s Works, Gordon’s Tacitus, and Cato’s Letters.

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Terrorism

The Muslim Brotherhood:
An Association for Jihadists

One of the more clandestine groups in radical Islam is the Muslim Brotherhood. Originating in Egypt in 1928, the group has been outlawed in Egypt yet it members hold seats in the Egyptian government. That this radically fundamentalist Islamist group is the parent organization to some of the most violent terror groups operating today. It thrives as a pseudo professional association for terrorists while feigning legitimacy as a political movement. So, what is the Muslim Brotherhood and why should every American be concerned about its activities both within the United States and around the world?

The Muslim Brotherhood has become a central issue in federal court proceedings now taking place in Dallas, Texas. These proceedings involve what, until now, has been portrayed as an Islamist philanthropic organization, The Holy Land Foundation. But the Muslim Brotherhood, the Holy Land Foundation and over 300 unindicted co-conspirators are enabling and funding terrorist groups around the world with money derived from people right here in the United States.

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Suggested Viewing
Terrorism: Jihad USA-Homegrown Terror
Jihad USA: Homegrown Terror is an hour long program presented by FOX News the subject of jihad on American soil, the growing issue of homegrown jihadism and the examination of several events that have already taken place on American soil that can be attributed to homegrown jihadis.
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Terrorism: Fitna the Movie by Geert Wilders
Fitna is the film by Dutch MP Geert Wilders that caused a worldwide uproar before anyone had seen a single frame. It's subject: radical Islam and the Quran.
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Podcasts
Terrorism: Women in the Radical Islamist Culture
"Cassandra" spent years married to a fundamentalist Islamist and then years trying to get out of the marriage. Basics Project talked to "Cassandra," author of Escape from an Arab Marriage, about the things women -- especially American women -- need to know before entering into a relationship with an Islamic fundamentalist.
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Terrorism: Update Terrorism
Basics Project provides a running review of events related to terrorism in podcast form.

Programs, Events & Initiatives

National Federation of Republican Women:
70th Anniversary Celebration
Women in Fundamentalist Islam: Frank Salvato, Speaker
June 21, 2008 at 1:00pm -- Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois

Understanding the Threat of Radical Islam
A Basics Project Original Educational CD Series
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