Our war with Islamist
...There is much more.Just a few hours ago, Sky News published an interview with a Taliban commander in Pakistan who stated his intention to attack Europe. Iraq is mentioned — of course — but not as the casus belli, simply as another theater in a larger campaign.
A Taliban commander has told Sky News that the militants are for the first time plotting to attack Westerners in Britain and the rest of Europe. ... Referring to Tony Blair and George Bush, Mullah Amin said: "It's acceptable to kill ordinary people in Europe because these are the people who have voted in the Government. "They came to our home and attacked our women and children. "The ordinary people of these countries are behind this - so we will not spare them. We will kill them and laugh over them like they are killing us and laughing at us." He said Taliban fighters were learning from the Iraq insurgency in their use of remote-controlled bombs, landmines and suicide bombers. He said: "They are our best tactic."
And the casus belli isn't about Afghanistan the nation-state at all either; nobody is fighting for the political independence of a country in the Western sense. It about the clash between the sacred space of Islam with the secular space of Europe. Two-tour Afghan veteran British Army Major Jamie Loden wrote a 25,000 word master's thesis on "The Need For An Ideological Response To Islamic Extremism", described in an interview in the Guardian. Major Loden understood that there was a large element of infidel versus believer in the whole mix; that events in Helmand province and "Leicester and Bradford" were inextricably related.
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The idea of trying to "reform Islam" has been taken up by some of the most influential politicians in Britain. Home Secretary John Reid warned that the the UK risks losing the "battle of ideas" with al-Qa'eda.
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One of the things missing from the ideological battle is return fire from our side. We worry about alienating the non Islamist Muslims so we do not expose the wickedness and perversity of the enemy for what it is. To give just one example, consider the insult that Jews are the sons and daughters of pigs and monkeys. This is apparently in the Koran, which suggest that the book is less than infalible since the assertion is demonstrably untrue. If there were any doubt whatsoever, it could be dispelled with DNA tests. While the Islamist might dispute the results of such a test and issue a fatwa against those publishing it, in the war of ideas they could not look more ridiculous or silly.
To give just one example, consider the insult that Jews are the sons and daughters of pigs and monkeys. This is apparently in the Koran, which suggest that the book is less than infallible since the assertion is demonstrably untrue.
ReplyDeleteHow to put this delicately? Your knowledge of the Koran, um, leaves something to be desired. If you're going to stand on your soapbox and rally the US to war against much of Muslim society, it might behoove you to have a better understanding of the religion which I believe you've claimed is an inherent failure.
At least, I think you said Islam has failed to create a functional society. Or something incredibly informed along those lines.