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| Iraq's Jihad Myths |
| 2008-02-18 |
| By Reuel Marc Gerecht Among Democrats and even many Republicans, it is by now accepted wisdom that the war in Iraq brought huge numbers of holy warriors to the anti-American cause. But is it true? I don't think so. Muslim holy warriors are a diverse lot, reacting with differing intensity to the hot-button issues that define contemporary Islamic militancy. For many fundamentalists, what is seen as an unrelenting Western assault on Muslim male honor and female virtue is the core infuriating offense. For others it may be the alienation that second-generation young Muslim men encounter in an immigrant-unfriendly Europe. And for still others, Iraq, Afghanistan, the tyranny of U.S.-backed Muslim rulers and the Palestinian resistance can all come together to convert individual indignities into a holy-warrior faith. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Can I vote for RETREAT TOWARDS [violent/bloody] OBSCURITY/EXTINCTION yet? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-02-18 22:06 |
| #2 "Iff BIN LADENISM is now IN DECLINE ... IRAQ could well prove to be AMERICA's DECISIVE VICTORY over OSAMA BIN LADEN, AL QAEDA [Radical islam], AND ALL THOSE MUSLIMS WHOM BELIEVE THAT GOD HAD SANCTIFIED VIOLENCE AGZ THE UNITED STATES [incl. WEST/DEMOCRACY]...". IMO, IRAN-CENTRIC/FOCII OSAMA, etal. > ARTICLE IS PREMATURE as Osama = Radical Islam can, wid Materiel, better, more realistic pragmatic Battlefield Tactics, AND ESPEC LEADERSHIP-GNERALSHIP [multi-Dimensional?] still defeat Dubya = USA-led MILFORS + ME ENTRENCHMENT. *9-11/WOT > for Amer's Radical Islamist enemies > WAR TO SAVE AND JUSTIFY WORLD ISLAM includ RADICAL ISLAMISM, + PRECLUDE/PREVENT A USSR-STYLE SELF-IMPLOSION. BOTH THE WESTERN COALITION + WORLD ISLAM ARE WALKING ON A SENSITIVE TIGHTROPE HERE, AND THEY AREN'T TRAINED PROFESSIONAL CIRCUS =ENTERTAINMENT EXPERTS. IMO, any de facto defeat of the Radical Islamist GLOBALIST agenda will have serious, potentially catastrophic ripple effects for both World Islam + Radical Islamism as proclaimed God-based Faith-Theology/Ideos. As for OSAMA > he will do whatever it takes to INDUCE AND ENSURE THAT HIS PERCEIVED ISLAMIC/ISLAMIST END-TIMES APOCALYPSE = APOCALYP "FINAL BATTLE" FOR THE FATE OF ISLAM IS FOUGHT = DECIDED INSIDE IRAN. IMO again, for my fellow Aghan war veteran-brother OSAMA TO MAINTAIN HIS CREDIBILITY/IMAGE AS A GOD/ISLAM-BASED SPIRITUAL LEADER, THERE MUST BE A DE FACTO APPEARANCE BY THE SO-CALLED "HIDDEN IMAM-MAHDI" whom will defeat iff not destroy the Western Coalition and Presence in the Islamic ME-World, as decided or initiated in a GREAT BATTLE WON BY ISLAM AGZ NON-ISLAM ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF IRAN = ANCIENT PERSIA. THE OSAMA I KNOW/REMEMBER FROM THE ANTI-SOVIET WAR IS WILLING TO DIE FOR ISLAM, BUT NOT TO BE SEEN BY FELLOW MUSLIMS AS A DESTROYER OF ISLAM = ACCCIDENTAL/INADVERTENT INSTIGATOR OF THE DESTRUCTION OF ISLAM, WHOSE OVER-OBSESSIVE ZEALOTRY-MANIAS INDIR LED TO THE DESTRUCTION OF HIS OWN FAITH. OSAMA > ISLAM MUST WIN ITS APOCALYPSE AND GLOBAL EMPIRE, OR ELSE RETREAT TOWARDS [violent/bloody] OBSCURITY/EXTINCTION. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-02-18 19:26 |
| #1 Article: For others it may be the alienation that second-generation young Muslim men encounter in an immigrant-unfriendly Europe. A lot of American commentators take comfort in the idea that Muslims in Europe have been radicalized because Europeans are unfriendly to immigrants. But if this were the case - that prejudice breeds terrorists, why aren't we seeing non-Muslim terrorists emerge? |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2008-02-18 14:19 |