How to Empower Violent Extremism

National Review ^ | 2/24/2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Servant of the Cross]

How to empower violent Islamic warfare across the Middle East and aggression by Putin's Russia?

Elect BHO to the Oval Office.

[Tax-chick]

Writers who aren’t part of the Democrat Propaganda Ministry shouldn’t use “violent extremism” or “extremist violence.”

[elhombrelibre]

Putin’s re-building of the Soviet empire and the rise of ISIS are the two prime examples of how bad a President Obama is. It’s shocking that some FReepers have looked at Putin as the anti-Obama. In fact, he’s as phony as Obama and out front of him in making the Russian nation, through his president-for-life approach, his personal property.

[Servant of the Cross]

True. Like a war on "terror", it doesn't properly identify the battle or the real enemy.

We should have the courage to name the enemy who began the unprovoked war that we are forced to repel.

[nathanbedford]

The Islamist objects that the poverty and general wretchedness of the Middle East do not derive from self-inflicted pathologies like autocracy, statism, fundamentalism, collectivism, endemic tribalism, misogyny, or intolerance; rather, they are caused by aggressive foreign enemies, Americans and Jews in particular. At home, traitors, heretics, apostates, and atheists have weakened Islamic spiritual life, in pursuit of a tawdry covetousness of Western trinkets and shibboleths.

Doctor Hansen cites classic examples of projection creating a "mirror image" in another tribe or nation of the reciprocal of the very shortcomings which afflict one's self.

So long as Islam can supply a steady stream of conspiracy theories and other rationalizations we can expect Islam to be paranoid and aggressive. So long as the left such as we see the Obama administration can deflect by playing the race card, we will have a very dangerous internal element in America. These two entities, irrational Islam and overbearing leftism, share more than their contempt for the liberty of the individual, they both are cults and both succeed in bamboozling their cult members with these rationalizations because they provide emotional release.

The emotions trump reason and the result is tyranny and bloodshed.

[Hugin]

Extremist violins on the other hand are fine.

[Teacher317]

The Islamist objects that the poverty and general wretchedness of the Middle East do not derive from self-inflicted pathologies ... ; rather, they are caused by aggressive foreign enemies, Americans and Jews in particular.

Odd, since Islam began 1400 years ago, and the US was not created yet, nor had much of an influence in the Middle East until the mid-20th century.

In truth, Islam wants to kill everyone, including not-devout-enough Muslims. It is a murder cult, and always has been.

[Tax-chick]

LOL!