Posted on 09/24/2010 5:03:35 PM PDT by La Lydia
The main argument against building the Park51 (Ground Zero) mosque adjacent to Ground Zero has been that its placement would be a lasting affront to the memory of the Americans who died at the hands of Muslim terrorists. And that argument is certainly sufficient by itself. But it is not the most important argument against a mosque in that location. To understand what is, we must remember what happened the last time we fought against suicide bombers, who, like their contemporary Muslim counterparts, were inspired by what they felt to be a divine mission. In the Second World War, Japanese suicide bombers posed a huge threat to allied ships...The individual pilot faced certain death, but he accepted that fate because he believed that the Gods were with him and with Japan.
The word used to describe this tactic (“kamikaze”) refers to an event in Japanese history where the country was saved from invasion and conquest by Kubla Khan. A sudden typhoon scattered the Khan’s fleet. The Japanese saw the wind as an intervention by their Gods, and so in WWII they called their suicide pilots another divine wind, that is, the kamikaze. The sense that the Gods are with you must be kept strong enough in the minds of suicide pilots to override the normal instinct for self-preservation, but that means that defeats and victories alike are leveraged.
A great victory is not just something that advances your cause—equally important to the suicide bomber is that it strongly reinforces his sense that the Gods are with him; for did not the victory show that the Gods were smiling on Japan? This was also the basis of the Japanese soldier’s fanatical zeal toward fighting to the death, with surrender not being an honorable option.
The enormously destructive bombing of Britain and Germany only brought out the stubbornness of the population, yet the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagakasi quickly broke the Japanese will to fight, even though their fighting spirit had been unmatched throughout the war. Why? Something is certainly due to the scope of the weapon used, but more important was the leveraging effect that defeats and victories have on people with a sense of divine mission.
Catastrophes on the scale of Hiroshima could not be reconciled with the notion that the Gods were with Japan. The sense of a divine mission simply vanished....
The case of Japan in WWII tells us why building the mosque at Ground Zero will not just offend American sensibilities—more important is that it will cost many additional American lives. Islamist suicide bombers too need to have the idea firmly in their minds that Allah is with them and their cause.
That means that the same leveraging effect is in play. Great victories enhance the conviction that Allah is with them, and that will produce even more suicide bombers. Great defeats (for example, the destruction of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan) will begin to undermine that conviction; for how could Allah desert his warriors so?
Who can doubt that potential and actual Islamic terrorists will take it as a sign from Allah when a huge mosque is built in the shadow of their greatest victory? Surely they will see it as Allah crowning their victory of 9/11 and making it even greater.
And just as surely, they will see it as an invitation to even greater things than 9/11, because Allah has shown them again that he is with them. That is the psychology of terrorists with a sense of divine mission. And so we need to avoid at all costs anything that will be seen as a divine blessing for their efforts, and we should instead be looking for ways to hand them demoralizing defeats...
In 1872 the Arabs invented the condom, using a goat’s lower intestine.
In 1873 the British somewhat refined the idea by taking the intestine out of the goat first.
Yes. Anyone who denies that the Mosque will be seen as a monument to Islamic Jihad is delusional.
Dropping nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki worked so well in breaking the Japanese’ sense of divine mission that it should have been repeated on the Taliban and anyone else who believes in Jihad.
The building of the mosque will be a sign that Allah wills for Islam to prevail in this generation. To believe that Allah does not will for Islam to prevail just now requires the utter defeat of Jihad and the cutting off of the supply of wealth from which it proceeds- the oil money..
I’m thinking a smoldering Iran might be seen as a signal from Allah, too,
Have more Koran burnings. Then drop napalm on anyone, anywhere, who protests.
Bush knew this instinctively and acted on that knowledge. BO talks about "absorbing" more terror attacks.
My granddaughter was born at 10:01 this morning. (All is well)
What kind of world are my kids and grandkids going to live in if SOMEONE isn’t willing to take care of the business at hand?
I see a MONSTER storm coming if SOMEONE isn’t willing to STAND in its way.
I may post things that make me seem like a bloodthirsty barbarian. I am a bloodthirsty barbarian. I make no apologies. There is no leadership in this country. BO and his band of merrymen may not be able to absorb what the good people of the Nation are getting ready to hand him.
POST 29 is so sad on this link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2588040/posts
That is the one that will be required this cycle. If we put it off long enough then we will have to add Pakistan and probably Egypt and Saudi Arabia. If we wait beyond that then well we will probably be deciding whether to site the Caliphate in New York or Chicago.
I agree. As many readers as possible should know of this article. Thanks for the post.
A victory mosque just like the ones these filthy freaks build at centers of previous sites of their cowardly strikes. None of these weak muslim nutcases could STAND to fight an armed and ready enemy.
When you find a nest of snakes in your basement, you do not allow them to go ahead and create a bigger, more elaborate nest.
exactly as unfortunately many in various areas are full of mosques,islamic centres and schools,and we’re well aware of them and what they “harbor”.
Congratulations on your Granddaughter...Name?
You are right we have to be willing to fight this battle to win.
Well said!
Congrats on the new Grandaughter!!
Thank you. :-)
60 minutes doing a peace on this right now..
you gotta see the interview of Pam Geller. Talk about a bias in the questioning of her.
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