What We Are About--A Re-Look

Over time, persons entangled in protracted engagements run the risk of blurring and sliding, almost imperceptibly, away from their starting vision. For this reason, we pause periodically to go back to ground, to put to “paper” just what we are doing with this blog and its companion website.

First off, why do we have both a blog and a website? When we began publishing in July of 2004, we were learning how to create a website. In the process, we discovered the Google Blogger, which allowed us to have a quick site, using a canned template, and they offered these services without charge. By contrast, our website host offered us a more complex, canned system for newbies, like us, which had a steeper learning curve. Nevertheless, it enabled us to have a website while learning to have one.

Quickly we discovered that Blogger offered us the opportunity to be more attuned to current events and publications and to write more casually. We decided to stick to one point per blog and to key off existing news items, op-eds, and other articles. We would choose either to use some existing item in whole or in part or to write something de novo. We could write much more quickly by writing directly, in a “shoot from the hip” mode, and be much more casual. Something in each of us needs that kind of outlet. We knew we could publish multiple times a week, depending on available material striking our interest--and sometimes depending on available writers. We are happy with SIXTH COLUMN.

The website, 6th COLUMN AGAINST JIHAD, we explain on its About Us page. It has the same orientation and purpose as SIXTH COLUMN, but its publications are longer, cover areas more in depth across multiple points, and add new material once or twice a month. Generally speaking, the website is where we cover background issues and principles in greater depth. The majority of articles we publish are original to the website and are not usually reprints of existing articles. Some have referred to the website as the place for “thought pieces,” although that should not indicate that the blog pieces do not involve thought.

From the first, we have been fighting wars within wars. Islam and its activism known as "Jihad" have clearly been ONE OF THE ENEMIES. We have studied it, using its own materials and many excellent materials which tell the truth about Islam, and we understand Islam right down to its fundamentals. We have not gotten hung up or distracted by bogus issues such as the fact that Islam masquerades its real identity and nature as a religion; we are not religionists of any kind. We also have not succumbed to bogus matters such as “political correctness” and “multiculturalism.” We see Islam for what it is, and we tell it like it is. But, Islam is not all of the problem.

A co-existing war within the war comes from elements we call the Fifth Column, meaning those persons, institutions, and ideas which intend destruction of America and Western culture by their efforts alone and in concert with Jihadists. All unite in hatred for America and the West, something we won’t stand for. The best name for this combination of anti-American and anti-Western elements is the Unholy Alliance, given by David Horowitz of Front Page Magazine. We cannot just deal with Islam without also dealing with these fifth columnists. Islam would always be too weak ever to pose a threat to the USA without the preexisting damage caused by fifth columnists and what they have done to American and Western culture. These postmodernist fifth columnists are cashing in on two centuries of philosophical erosion of America and Europe which have produced the cultural rot of North America and Europe by their war on reason itself.

Our approach is unusual among blogs and websites which deal with these same subject areas. We focus on the fundamental ideas involved in the diagnoses as well as the cure for these problems. Most sites deal with lots of facts. While lots of facts are vital and necessary, they are not sufficient to a proper level of understanding. Both the philosophical principles of our enemies and those needed for us to win will determine the outcome of these wars. Thus, we dwell on the whys which produce the hows.

We celebrate those who expose all the facts which serve as intellectual ammunition for all of us. But, it is the philosophies involved where the BIG MONEY and BIG GUNS are. This is a war of ideas that we are in, and no one in Western governments and their militaries seems to have sufficient appreciation or expertise.

We have the same focus now as when we started, and we will keep the same focus. We want to get as many people as possible, nationally and internationally, to start thinking about Islam and the fifth columns IN TERMS OF PRINCIPLES. Why? Because understanding at the level of principles cuts right through the various obfuscatory distractions, such as: Islam being a religion, political correctness, multiculturalism, moral and epistemological relativism, and the endless academic, journalistic, and political excuses trying to substitute for leadership. We know that everyone is capable of thinking his or her way through these wars within the war to reach crystal clarity of understanding about what the problems are and what to do about them.

We are fully open to ideas and contrary opinions and commentary. We are open to publishing both the pro and con from others, nationally and internationally. We encourage readers to email us their thoughts and opinions, rather like stopping by for a chat.