Strategies For Countering Radical Islamist Ideologies:

The greatest hurdle Americans need to get over in order to properly respond to the growing threat of radical Islam is purely intellectual in nature; specifically, it is epistemological, and revolves around the abstract realm of “knowledge.” Before attempting to formulate a long-term strategy to counter radical Islam, Americans must first and foremost understand Islam, particularly its laws and doctrines, the same way Muslims understand it—without giving it undue Western (liberal) interpretations. This is apparently not as simple as expected: all peoples of whatever civilizations and religions tend to assume that other peoples more or less share in their worldview, which they assume is objective, including notions of right and wrong, good and bad. The mainstream interpretation, particularly in academia, of radical Islam is that it is a byproduct of various sorts of discontent (economic, political, social) and has little to do with the religion itself. To trace “jihadist” violence to Islam itself is discouraged; in academia, it may be treated as anathema.

The first thing we need to do is quit abstracting the obvious, and intellectualizing the simple. Islam is bad. Islam is dangerous. Islam deserves our due diligence, or Islam will hurt us. Islam is the source of radical Islam, the source of terrorism. While every Muslim is not a terrorist, nor every Islamic state a terrorist state, every Muslim is potentially dangerous, and every Islamic state is potentially a terrorist state, because Islam is the source of terrorism. ...Does this mean that other sources of terrorism don’t exist? No. It only means that other sources aren’t relevant to this debate, which at the moment involves our military and its members. For instance, an IRA sympathizer in the US military poses little or no threat, so long as he isn’t stationed around British interest. I dare say an environmentalist wacko in uniform isn’t much of a threat in his military surroundings. On the other hand, an IRA sympathizer in the British army, especially one who voices his opposition to Britain, should be watched closely. Intellectual debates about the cause, justification or the meaning of IRA tensions would be a foolish distraction for the officers in charge of that soldier. A Muslim in the US military, especially one who voices his pro terrorist, anti American sentiments, should be watched closely, discharged or disposed of on a training mission, before he hurts someone. Discussions about degrees of Islam, what is radical, what is not, are idiotic. Islam is a mental illness, a psychological, emotional and spiritual sickness posing as a religion. Some people are effected by it more than others, and the effects on some groups differ from the effects on other groups, but it is an illness that can mentally damage anyone, and those damaged individuals or groups are dangerous.

In America we have a saying, "He got religion," when we see someone who was previously a notorious sinner start going to church, reading the Bible, and singing in the choir. That's what a Christian does when he "gets religion."

Unfortunately, when a Muslim "gets religion," he starts obeying the Koran, and starts killing infidels.

For a Moslem, Sudden Jihad Syndrome is the equivalent of singing in the choir.

Uh...no.

“has nothing to do with the religion itself”...??????

ARE We are talking about 1500 YEARS of “innappropriate pre-traumatic-post-mid-life-crisis-neurosis-of-reference-malignant-narcissistic-paranoid-self-loathing-premature-potty-training-unfulfilled-inner-child-shaming” behavior then?

I beg to differ. It’s the religion itself. I’m sorry.

This education clearly is not going to begin in our universities; not in our schools; not in our MSM and not in any majority of Christian Churches and not in many synogues. And we know, despite heinous unfoldings; not in our Military - for those most 'up close and personal' with authentic jihad and it's jihadists.

Am just wondering; where this education might begin. . .

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