Waging War On Islamism, The Totalitarian Tumor In The Moslem Faith

Self ^ | 9/27/2001 | Marvin Galloway

[MHGinTN]

Ping-a-ling-a-ling

[XBob]

Religion may be the most volatile of cultural identifiers because it encompasses values deeply held. A threat to one's religion puts not only the present at risk but also one's cultural past and the future. Many religions, including Christianity and Islam, are so confident they are right that they have used force to obtain converts. Terrorism in the name of religion can be especially violent. Like all terrorists, those who are religiously motivated view their acts with moral certainty and even divine sanctions. What would otherwise be extraordinary acts of desperation become a religious duty in the mind of the religiously motivated terrorist. This helps explain the high level of commitment and willingness to risk death among religious extremist groups.

[Hugh Akston]

Nice work MHG. Looking forward to part III.

[MissAmericanPie]

Isn't this incredible and we are expected to just look the other way. How many out there have called your congressman yet? BTW you have mail.

[Reagan Man]

Thanks for the ping MHGinTN. I enjoyed it.

The Middle East exists in a time-warp of events that have long since past away, but continue to pop-up and cause trouble for mankind in the 21st century. Israel is the only nation in the Middle East that even resembles an advanced society which promotes freedom and liberty for its people.

If the Arab nations of the Middle East can't control their own people, then it is the natural responsibility of the free civilized world, the "good guys", to take matters into their own hands.

If it means America fights terrorism on its own, then so be it! We shall see.

There are so many pundits out there spewing their opinions on such a complex issue, that it's diffcult for reasonable people to see through this haze of misinterpretation, misunderstanding and misinformation. All this rising from a complete and utter lack of knowledge that exists in the minds of so many influential people.

I'd rather see American's embrace the opinions, values and beliefs of people like Newt Gingrich, Benjamin Netanyahu, former NATO commander (General) George Joulwan, and insiders like Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld and Condy Rice then listen to thre trash of the Jennings-Rather-Brokaw mentality.

[Pericles]

Keep going.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Good work. I think that what you've suggested is just what President Bush is doing. We have a few problems trying to convert the world by any kind of direct witnessing, however. First, even if the entire population of the US volunteered to spread out across the globe, we couldn't reach a quarter of the people. Look at Indonesia alone, a vast population spread out over a thousand islands. The Mideast is a tinderbox of nations joined by their distrust of America and their shared Muslim teachings.

Clinton and Co. especially used NGOs and other "relief agencies" as well as the UN to try to push Western values on foreign nations. He (and Congress) gave them permission, power, and US tax dollars and left behind a world resentful of our aggressiveness and corruptive influence, and many people made dependent on our humanitarian aid. The leftists in the media and the thousands of "relief agencies" have exploited international human rights abuses for their own agendas and to assuage their guilt.

I am awed by the job President Bush is doing in the face of immense pressure from Americans eager for retalliation and foreign nations suspicious of our motives. The alliance can only work if each nation's sovereignty is respected. That means we have to leave them to their beliefs and customs to insure cooperation in rooting out the real monsters in our midst.

I believe that we will all grow stronger in our faith. That the civilized world will not allow wanton murder of innocents for any cause, and especially across borders. We will have to respect international boundaries to keep this from exploding, IMHO. I am very grateful that President Bush is in office, and for faithful Christians immersed in prayer for our nation right now.

[Don Joe]

Today I heard a radio guy say something to the effect that some of these hijackers couldn't have known they were going to die because they went to strip clubs the night before and drank alcohol. The assumption being, of course, that if they had really been devout, they wouldn't have done sinful things if they knew they were going to die shortly and, I guess, risk going to hell. But if their ultimate act of dying as a martyr was going to gain them entrance to paradise, then their penultimate/antepenultimate acts of naked women and alcohol wouldn't have closed the gates of paradise to them.

The terrorist manual that these guys use tells them that they have to blend in, and tells them to shave their beards, etc. It tells them that they can break the rules for the jihad, and allah will accept it. The only two rules they are prohibited from breaking are pork and fornication. (Yes, utter hypocrisy, but that's the mentality.)

So, boozing it up at a strip joint would not be out of the question for these guys. Since they knew they were about to die, and "all was forgiven" (according to their training manual), they probably figured they'd whoop it up while they could.

[RJayneJ]

Thanks for the heads up! };^D)

[SauronOfMordor]

Any enemies of these are allies of theirs, even far-right fascist groups like the Taliban.

One widespread political fallacy is that fascism is a RIGHT-wing system, when it's actually LEFT-wing. What does fascism involve? A powerful central government which runs everything. What does Stalinism involve? a powerful central government which runs everything

Centralized control by the power structure (whether they call themselves the commissars or the imans) is LEFTism. The democratic, constitutional Republic of the founders is the true Right

[MHGinTN]

Your point is why I characterized the fanatic fundamentalism of the terrorists, the insanity that runs the Taliban as totalitarian, as in Islamism.

Iron Jack's statement, re, there's a god somewhere that likes murder committed in his name, is apropos ... there is such an one, Satan. Too many have come to think that's mythology, but what else could blind the minds of human beings such that they would slaughter even people from their own religion in the name of embarassing and striking out at another nation? The terrorists and the Taliban are, with their actions, screaming that Allah wants innocent blood to flow for his enjoyment, to receieve blessing from him. That is the description of the antichrist to be found in the Bible! Shouldn't we at least sit up and pay attention? At the very least, there's an enemy after US that wants nothing short of our extermination!

[Squire]

Centralized control by the power structure (whether they call themselves the commissars or the imans) is LEFTism. The democratic, constitutional Republic of the founders is the true Right

Exactly.

[Romulus]

I don't know what "modernity" means to you; for my part, my sympathies are with Christendom.

[habs4ever]

Western Civilization, even as debased as it has become.

[aruanan]

The only two rules they are prohibited from breaking are pork and fornication. (Yes, utter hypocrisy, but that's the mentality.)

So, Thou shalt not pork, huh?

[FReethesheeples]

bump

[Romulus]

"Western Civilization" has been opposing the Saracen for 1,200 years. "Modernity" (with its secular and technocratic aroma) is hardly the word.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Excellent essay, Marvin. Thank you.

I agree that Islam is the most violent and intolerant faith on the face of the earth. Their holy wars are based upon an intense hatred of the non-Muslim. And their history is riddled with violence and savage killing of their neighbors. Their desire is to force Christians of all denominations to convert to Islam or be killed or tortured. Thousands upon thousands of Christians have been first converted, and then sexually mutilated with kitchen knives and razor blades to make them conform to Muslim standards. Islam has a history of murder, terror, and subjugation to advance their cause of global conversion. Their hatred for America is sickening.