Posted on 07/28/2005 2:20:29 PM PDT by Trimegistus
Opinion: The Muslim mind is on fire Youssef M. Ibrahim July 26, 2005
DUBAI -- The world of Islam is on fire. Indeed, the Muslim mind is on fire. Above all, the West is now ready to take both of them on.
The latest reliable report confirms that on average 33 Iraqis die every day, executed by Iraqis and foreign jihadis and suicide bombers, not by US or British soldiers. In fact, fewer than ever US or British soldiers are dying since the invasion more than two years ago. Instead, we now watch on television hundreds of innocent Iraqis lying without limbs, bleeding in the streets dead or wounded for life. If this is jihad someone got his religious education completely upside down.
Palestine is on fire, too, with Palestinian armed groups fighting one another - Hamas against Fatah and all against the Palestinian Authority. All have rendered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas impotent and have diminished the world's respect and sympathy for Palestinian sufferings.
A couple of weeks ago London was on fire as Pakistani and other Muslims with British citizenship blew up tube stations in the name of Islam. Al Qaeda in Europe or one of its franchises proclaimed proudly the killing of 54 and wounding 700 innocent citizens was done to "avenge Islam" and Muslims.
Madrid was on fire, too, last year, when Muslim jihadis blew up train stations killing 160 people and wounding a few thousands.
The excuse in all the above cases was the war in Iraq, but let us not forget that in September 2001, long before Iraq, Osama Bin Laden proudly announced that he ordered the killing of some 3,000 in the United States, in the name of avenging Islam. Let us not forget that the killing began a long time before the invasion of Iraq.
Indeed, jihadis have been killing for a decade in the name of Islam. They killed innocent tourists and natives in Morocco and Egypt, in Africa, in Indonesia and in Yemen, all done in the name of Islam by Muslims who say that they are better than all other Muslims. They killed in India, in Thailand and are now talking of killing in Germany and Denmark and so on. There were attacks with bombs that killed scores inside Shia and Sunni mosques, inside churches and inside synagogues in Turkey and Tunisia, with Muslim preachers saying that it is okay to kill Jews and Christians - the so called infidels.
Above all, it is the Muslim mind that is on fire.
The Muslim fundamentalist who attacked the Dutch film director Theo Van Gogh in the Netherlands, stabbed him more than 23 times then cut his throat. He recently proudly proclaimed at his trial: "I did it because my religion - Islam - dictated it and I would do it again if were free." Which preacher told this guy this is Islam? That preacher should be in jail with him.
Do the cowardly jihadis who recruit suicide bombers really think that they will force the US Army and British troops out of Iraq by killing hundreds of innocent Iraqis? US troops now have bases and operate in Iraq but also from Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman.
The only accomplishment of jihadis is that now they have aroused the great "Western Tiger". There was a time when the United States and Europe welcomed Arab and Muslim immigrants, visitors and students, with open arms. London even allowed all dissidents escaping their countries to preach against those countries under the guise of political refugees.
Well, that is all over now. Time has become for the big Western vengeance.
Visas for Arab and Muslim young men will be impossible to get for the United States and Western Europe. Those working there will be expelled if they are illegal, and harassed even if their papers are in order.
Airlines will have to right to refuse boarding to passengers if their names even resemble names on a prohibited list on all flights heading to Europe and the United States.
What is more important to remember is this: When the West did unite after World War II to beat communism, the long Cold War began without pity. They took no prisoners. They all stood together, from the United States to Norway, from Britain to Spain, from Belgium to Switzerland. And they did bring down the biggest empire. Communism collapsed.
I fear those naïve Muslims who think that they are beating the West have now achieved their worst crime of all. The West is now going to war against not only Muslims, but also, sadly, Islam as a religion.
In this new cold and hot war, car bombs and suicide bombers here and there will be no match for the arsenal that those Westerners are putting together - an arsenal of laws, intelligence pooling, surveillance by satellites, armies of special forces and indeed, allies inside the Arab world who are tired of having their lives disrupted by demented so-called jihadis or those bearded preachers who, under the guise of preaching, do little to teach and much to ignite the fire, those who know little about Islam and nothing about humanity.
Youssef M. Ibrahim, a former Middle East correspondent for The New York Times and energy editor of the Wall Street Journal, is managing director of the Dubai-based Strategic Energy Investment Group
Good post.
BTTT!
The dominos are starting to fall.
as motssumoto (i think) said after pearl harbour.
i fear we have awoken a sleeping giant.
once we defeat the human waste commie bast*rd libs in this country then we can really get down to work on eradicating the virus that is islam.
I think Youssef has just become yet another target for these jerks. I hope he likes eating crackers with Solomon Rushdie.
It isn't the muslim mind that is on fire. It is the muslim spirit that smolders and seethes.
The source of Islam's energy is "hate." And I think the world, even moderate muslims, are beginning to recognize that fact.
“Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red dawn”
King Théoden LOTR III
On a side note, I have noticed a distinct change in the WOT coverage since 7/7, this is an example.
Oh I would disagree . He is voicing utter contempt for not only the tactics but the mindset that led to the adopting of those tactics. He is also telling any in the arab world that care to read it that they have sown the wind & now they will have to face the onslaught of "Reaping the Whirlwind". In 10 years you will see Imams preaching "Death to the Infidel" quietly waking up with their throats cut . You will also see current regimes collapsing under their own weight of corruption & incompetence.
"Well, that is all over now. Time has become for the big Western vengeance.
Visas for Arab and Muslim young men will be impossible to get for the United States and Western Europe. Those working there will be expelled if they are illegal, and harassed even if their papers are in order.
Airlines will have to right to refuse boarding to passengers if their names even resemble names on a prohibited list on all flights heading to Europe and the United States."
I kinda liked the article except for these 3 points above.
1) It's not vengeance, it's more like preventing the nut-jobs from doing any more damage. If it were all vengeance, the entire middle east would be glowing right now.
2) Stongly disagree that Arabs students here legally will have any problem at all. The ones who aren't are breaking the law and must leave. If I get a $140 ticket for breaking the law when taking a right on red, why can these people live their lives here and break the law the whole time? We must uphold the law, period.
3) This may actually be true and it is one I am happily prepared to accept as an airline traveler. The statement is reaching however and is more muslamic phobia of "we are the victims" statement.
Guess it's better then some articles I have seen by this leftist muslim.
Wow! An amazing piece considering the source. Perhaps a debate is beginning in the Middle East...
self ping
The fact is that most Muslims don't want to live under Sharia even if they believe that it is what Muhammad would want for them. It is the 10 to 20 percent of true believers who intimidate and force the others into it.
Hugh Hewitt just read this on his show.
REAL FEAR is spreading throughout the Islamic world. The people who are writing articles like these, and the things they say now, are because of that fear.
I want them afraid to leave their houses, over dosing on Mylanta and Lomotil, feel so panic stricken then charter their own planes to go back to the desert scared. I want to hear they feel nervous every second of their Lucifer worshipping lives, and fight back paralyzing panic when they see a non-Muslim face.
If a ' what have we done?' sense of panic isn't in every Muslim now, it soon will be. Their history is one of pride in all the fear, misery, death and destruction they have caused to this planet.
After 13 centuries their time is up.
Thanks for your comments. I notice that other people (like yourself) don't share my suspicious view of this article. So maybe I'll have to look at it again and see if I'm being too hard on the author.
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