What is your view of terrorism?
3/17/2007
What is your view of terrorism?
Terrorism, as we have increasingly experienced it during the last 30 years or so, is a deliberate and murderously focused effort to destroy Western Civilization.
First of all, for this statement to be credible one has to become thoroughly aware of what has happened within Sunni Islam since the 19th century and before. Actually, the 14th century Islamic scholar, Ibn Tamiyah, was the first intellectual to formulate the need for Muslims to go back to the strict roots of their religion by mercilessly exterminating anyone who did not adhere precisely to the doctrines of their faith as promulgated by Mohammed and his followers.
It is the conviction of Tamiyyah as well as later Islamic scholars, such as Masuddi, Hassan-al-Banna, starter of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammed-al-Wahhabi purifier of the Sunni sect and the most recent dogmatist and others that the Quran does not allow for any other interpretation except the most dogmatic one they prefer.
These scholars have made it their life's work to selectively interpret the Quran in a manner that provides cover for their convictions that all deviant Muslims must be killed as well as all infidels, meaning Christans and Jews. They urge the Islamic world to subdue the whole world till everyone is either converted or dead. When 80 years ago, serious oil money started to put enormous resources at the disposal of the Wahhabi tribe and its clerics, they could finally organize their narrow Quran- based education and organize their murder squads to follow through on their fanatic beliefs.
This is no metaphoric fancy but a deadly serious business. It is because of these religious underpinnings that so many Muslims have been persuaded to become terrorists, because the Quran tells them to murder infidels whenever and wherever they can. It's explained as being the purpose of their lives and it also explains why so many of the 9/11 group of terrorists were so dedicated yet relatively well educated. They grew up with the "modified" Quran and deeply believed its many inimical tenets.
It is a cult of death, not a religion in our sense of the word. But it explains the kamikaze attitude of so many of their followers, which has proven to be such a horribly effective way of fighting a powerful enemy (the West) with relatively small resources of their own. Their biggest resource may well be the willing martyrs and their utter will to destroy anyone in the way of establishing Muslim hegemony in the world.
Yet, we need to make a distinction between Muslims who do not subscribe to this death cult interpretation of the Quran and the Jihadists who do. Because fear of religious reprisals has increasingly led ordinary Muslims to keep quiet and their heads in the sand. For a long time already militant Imams have used their mosques to spread their version of fanatic Islam and so far there have been few instances where a mosque congregation has been able to rid themselves of these fanatic preachers. The preachers make sure they have a number of bullies among their followers to intimidate the unwilling.
It reminds us of what Hitler and Stalin and their bullies did in the 30-ies to intimidate themselves into the greatest menace of the 20th century. Having learned the price and cost of those lessons we should not be reluctant to prepare for an all out war against Muslim radicalism today.
This is a long way to explain why our being in Iraq is an essential step in this effort to regain our international footings and protect our homeland as much as possible from more terrorist attacks.
Taking the fight to Afghanistan and Iraq has provided us with a Middle Eastern battlefield which has been attracting many thousands of Jihadists to come in and try to kill Americans and their coalition partners. At a significant sacrifice of our own people we have eliminated many thousands of their fanatic fighters and as a result kept them away from western targets of opportunity. So far.
At the same time and to the extent possible this effort may provide an opportunity to create a more open, partially secularist, political system with the promise of peace and economic growth for the region. There are many in the Middle East who want this to happen, but like Hitler's Germany the good people cannot destroy these fanatics without outside help. That's why we are there, because not doing this, bailing out in other words, would eventually cause us to meet these Jihadists here at home to fight them on our own soil while they have, by then, a long string of successful ventures behind them and all the resources they need. We will have lost the opportunity to save Western Civilization and instead will have delivered the world back into the hands of barbarism.
I wonder what Washington, Adams, Franklin and Jefferson would think of that epitaph. !!?
What is your view of terrorism?
Terrorism, as we have increasingly experienced it during the last 30 years or so, is a deliberate and murderously focused effort to destroy Western Civilization.
First of all, for this statement to be credible one has to become thoroughly aware of what has happened within Sunni Islam since the 19th century and before. Actually, the 14th century Islamic scholar, Ibn Tamiyah, was the first intellectual to formulate the need for Muslims to go back to the strict roots of their religion by mercilessly exterminating anyone who did not adhere precisely to the doctrines of their faith as promulgated by Mohammed and his followers.
It is the conviction of Tamiyyah as well as later Islamic scholars, such as Masuddi, Hassan-al-Banna, starter of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammed-al-Wahhabi purifier of the Sunni sect and the most recent dogmatist and others that the Quran does not allow for any other interpretation except the most dogmatic one they prefer.
These scholars have made it their life's work to selectively interpret the Quran in a manner that provides cover for their convictions that all deviant Muslims must be killed as well as all infidels, meaning Christans and Jews. They urge the Islamic world to subdue the whole world till everyone is either converted or dead. When 80 years ago, serious oil money started to put enormous resources at the disposal of the Wahhabi tribe and its clerics, they could finally organize their narrow Quran- based education and organize their murder squads to follow through on their fanatic beliefs.
This is no metaphoric fancy but a deadly serious business. It is because of these religious underpinnings that so many Muslims have been persuaded to become terrorists, because the Quran tells them to murder infidels whenever and wherever they can. It's explained as being the purpose of their lives and it also explains why so many of the 9/11 group of terrorists were so dedicated yet relatively well educated. They grew up with the "modified" Quran and deeply believed its many inimical tenets.
It is a cult of death, not a religion in our sense of the word. But it explains the kamikaze attitude of so many of their followers, which has proven to be such a horribly effective way of fighting a powerful enemy (the West) with relatively small resources of their own. Their biggest resource may well be the willing martyrs and their utter will to destroy anyone in the way of establishing Muslim hegemony in the world.
Yet, we need to make a distinction between Muslims who do not subscribe to this death cult interpretation of the Quran and the Jihadists who do. Because fear of religious reprisals has increasingly led ordinary Muslims to keep quiet and their heads in the sand. For a long time already militant Imams have used their mosques to spread their version of fanatic Islam and so far there have been few instances where a mosque congregation has been able to rid themselves of these fanatic preachers. The preachers make sure they have a number of bullies among their followers to intimidate the unwilling.
It reminds us of what Hitler and Stalin and their bullies did in the 30-ies to intimidate themselves into the greatest menace of the 20th century. Having learned the price and cost of those lessons we should not be reluctant to prepare for an all out war against Muslim radicalism today.
This is a long way to explain why our being in Iraq is an essential step in this effort to regain our international footings and protect our homeland as much as possible from more terrorist attacks.
Taking the fight to Afghanistan and Iraq has provided us with a Middle Eastern battlefield which has been attracting many thousands of Jihadists to come in and try to kill Americans and their coalition partners. At a significant sacrifice of our own people we have eliminated many thousands of their fanatic fighters and as a result kept them away from western targets of opportunity. So far.
At the same time and to the extent possible this effort may provide an opportunity to create a more open, partially secularist, political system with the promise of peace and economic growth for the region. There are many in the Middle East who want this to happen, but like Hitler's Germany the good people cannot destroy these fanatics without outside help. That's why we are there, because not doing this, bailing out in other words, would eventually cause us to meet these Jihadists here at home to fight them on our own soil while they have, by then, a long string of successful ventures behind them and all the resources they need. We will have lost the opportunity to save Western Civilization and instead will have delivered the world back into the hands of barbarism.
I wonder what Washington, Adams, Franklin and Jefferson would think of that epitaph. !!?
posted by Schaesberg at 10:38 AM
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