Submission is the Better Part of Valor

Steyn Online ^ | 3 Feb 2020 | Kate Smyth

[Rummyfan]

In recent months, the premature passing of two titans of Islamic jihad - a Sunni scholar and a Shiite soldier - has raised interesting questions about extremism (not least of all media extremism). The left's perspective on the untimely departures - due to President Trump - of al-Baghdadi and Soleimani has been hagiographic in every respect short of mentioning the 72 virgins (exhausted by preceding martyrs as they must be). Trump's precisely targeted approach to waging war on terror at a leadership level has been arguably more popular with Muslims in the Middle East than with "liberals" in the West.

Coinciding with this, the move to end interminable US-led wars is an acknowledgment of the resistance of the Dar-al Islam to democratisation, whether imposed by "nation-building" or arising - "Arab Spring" style - from within. In 2020, ideological progress in the Muslim world seems unlikely in the foreseeable future (much as the left might harbour hopes of an Ummah-wide referendum on same-sex marriage). Given the circumstances, confining the conflict to dealing with top theocratic terrorists - but not their Make-Islam-Great-Again worldview - seems as good an exit strategy as any.

Meanwhile, the ideology continues to make inroads into the West, where we deal ever more narrowly (and evasively) with terrorism as "part-and-parcel" of the wider project to accommodate Islam. An increasing degree of media and political deference surrounds any mention of the subject (or avoidance thereof). And while multiculturalists point to a betrayal by jihadists of the Religion of Peace, many Muslims - London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, among them - take aim at a betrayal by another group of their co-religionists: "Uncle Toms".

[Rummyfan]

Q: "Do you want to kill ex-Muslims?"

A: "In Islam it is clear that apostates do attract capital punishment and we don't shy away from that."

[PGalt]

Good article. Thanks for posting.

Would the assets used on Suleiman the Magnificent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_the_Magnificent been better spent on $0R0$?

Think about this...

https://thinkaboutit.news/george-soros-has-200-organizations-to-attack-america/

Walk softly and carry a big level builder...er Chief.

Enemies foreign, ENEMIES domestic.

In The Collectivist Cup, the other also rans pulled up in the far turn.

Down the stretch it was Marx v Mohammed

At the wire? Mohammed.

By a head.

[IronJack]

Do these jihadi butchers all get the SAME 42 virgins? Uh ... no thanks.

[sauropod]

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