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(read the book free online<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0get a copy for your Kindle<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0read the Reddit AMA<\/a>)<\/strong>
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A little while back al-Qaeda’s American-born spokesman “Adam the American” released a video\u00a0exhorting Muslims in America to wage the “death by a-thousand cuts” version of jihad. \u00a0Instead of looking to stage large dramatic attacks which would require months of preparation and planning, he implored would-be jihadis to simply buy guns and start shooting people<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Muslims in the West have to remember that they are perfectly placed to play an important and decisive part in the jihad against the Zionists and Crusaders, and to do major damage to the enemies of Islam waging war on their religion, sacred places, and brethren.\u00a0 This is a golden opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way to show one\u2019s appreciation and thanks for this blessing, is to rush to discharge one\u2019s duty to his [community] and fight on its behalf with everything at his disposal.\u00a0 And in the West you\u2019ve got a lot at your disposal. Let\u2019s take America as an example, American is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms\u2026<\/p>\n

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So what are you waiting for?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And while there’s absolutely no evidence whatsoever that the recent shooting deaths in Chicago have anything at all to do with waging a\u00a0campaign\u00a0of terror on behalf of al-Qaeda, the marked uptick in violence is a troubling indication that our innercities may implode totally on their own, without any outside influence at all.<\/p>\n

In the last weekend of May, the bodycount was 4 dead and 28 wounded<\/a>, ranging in ages from 7 years-old to 68. \u00a0Two weeks later on the weekend of June 10th,\u00a0the fatalities had doubled<\/a>: 9 dead and 46 wounded. Between Saturday night and Sunday night alone 20 people were shot. \u00a0Although some shootings were obviously targeted, home invasions and\u00a0apparent\u00a0gang violence, a handful of them have troubling elements of randomness to them:<\/p>\n

Two people died after someone produced a handgun and fired several shots into a crowd of people in the 700 block of West 50th Place about 11:15 p.m. Sunday, hitting five people, police said.<\/p>\n

A white four-door car pulled up to a group of boys near the intersection of West 69th Street and South Artesian Avenue and someone inside opened fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As our military pours billions and billions of dollars into stopping threats from abroad, it’s important to keep in mind that the biggest threat to American security may be right here at home: an implosion of our innercities brought about by the social and economic devestation wrought by the War on Drugs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The precise era that saw a drug-law fueled explosion in our prison population, the early 1970s, are the exact same years that the economic situation of blacks began to starkly worsen and that the gap between rich and poor is wrenched wide open. Beginning in those years and continuing into today,\u00a0\u201cthe economic status of black compared to that of whites has, on average, stagnated or deteriorated.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Up until 1973, the precise year the Rockefeller drug laws were passed, the difference between black and white median income had been closing. But then that year it changed course, and in\u00a0\u201can ominous bellwether\u2026 the gap between black and white incomes started to grow wider again, in both absolute and relative terms.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Direct empirical research into incarceration\u2019s economic effects weren\u2019t done until recently, when\u00a0a Pew Charitable Trusts research paper<\/a>\u00a0showed that prior to imprisonment two-thirds of male inmates were employed and half were their family\u2019s primary source of income.\u00a0 Additionally, upon release an ex-con\u2019s annual earnings were reduced by 40%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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