Obsession And Clarion: Discussion, News And Announcements

Clarion Fund is a new non-partisan 501(c)3 focused on educating Americans on issues impacting our national security. Their website appears to be in the early stages of being built out. In late September or early October they intend to be focusing more on radicalIslam.com - a sort of hub for political activists interested in interacting with both politicians and our media to urge them to pay close attention to and do the right thing on issues impacting America's national security. It will also focus acutely on America's need to confront the serious threat posed by the continuing world wide growth of radical Islam, regardless of current events and eventual outcomes in Iraq.

In speaking with Gregory Ross, Clarion's Director of Communications, it is clear he has some frustrations. Perhaps the most serious of those being the tendency for Americans, media and our politicians to fully conflate the war in Iraq with the larger worldwide struggle against radical Islam. His point, a solid one, is that no matter what happens in Iraq, the battle against radical Islam will not end there; nor will it end in Afghanistan, or any other single location infected with that dangerous extremism. It is a world wide confrontation, if not a war, for sure.

A new movie, The Third Jihad, wraps just next week. It's release date is presently TBA; however, it is expected to be released before the end of the year.

In some ways, it's apparent that Clarion Fund intends to enlarge the discussion of radical Islam, so that it is no longer simply focused upon terrorist acts, and / or military actions. In the end, radical Islam is a political agenda, nearly as much as it is a religious one - and the ways and means radical Islam employs to realize its goals do include an infiltration of sorts, allowing them to take advantage of liberal institutions and current Western thinking, particularly multi-cultural-ism, to establish and nurture a hateful ideology right within our midst.

When Greg made the above point, I couldn't help but think of a widely-reported, recent controversy right here in Fairfax, Va. - in which a Saudi supported school was found to be teaching the very type of hateful extremism against which Clarion is determined to fight.

I imagine those interested in this current ideological struggle will be hearing more about Clarion Fund in days and months to come. What with a new website, movie, and a new round of promotion for Obsession based around the anniversary of 9/11 - I'm certain of it.