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Terror Networks
The Evil of Global Jihad
2013-09-24
[NATIONALREVIEW] ... Yet modern Salafi Jihadism takes this dynamic to an unprecedented level. It has the instinctive reflex toward unrestrained brutality. Gratuitous violence guarantees attention. Think about the Iraq war. The image of masked assailants sawing off the heads of bound and terrified prisoners is seared indelibly into our memory.

Of course, this raises a key question: How do the jihadists excuse their atrocities?

In the blend of theocratic absolutism and perverse consequentialism. From the jihadist perspective, their violence is justified in the service of God's intrinsic will.

Grappling with this notion of ordained will is crucial. It affords us insight into the existential rigidity with which these terrorists regard the world. In short, Salafi Jihadists claim that the price of peace is our non-interference -- they hint that our acquiescence will buy us our safety. They're lying.
I'm glad that the writer uses the term "Salafi Jihadism," even though it's kind of unwieldy. The enemy isn't so much Islam as it is Salafism, not just the murderous bastards on active jihad, but also the "political" Salafists (and their inbred Deobandi country cousins). They're the ones who riot at the drop of a hat, blow up Sufi shrines, and bully their neighbors because they're not devout enough. Then he waters his arguments down with the obligatory
Just as we must guard against those who would use atrocities to spread bigotry, so must Salafi Jihadism meet our unhesitating resolve...
The "bigotry" has already spread. Everybody who pays any attention at all already holds Islam in contempt. It's the sea in which the jihadi krazed killer swims. It's global jihad's cheering section. It's the essence of rationality to despise such an abomination.

Instead, we get all worked up about the brutes caged in Guantanamo. All of them but the ones kept for intel value should be dead. The only way to defeat terrorism is to make its would-be practitioners too afraid for themselves to put on the damned turbans.

Count the number of prisoners the jihadis have taken who've gotten away with their lives.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Iran Was Persia. They loved Hitler so renamed Persia to Iran or The name Iran means the land of Aryans.
Posted by: Dale   2013-09-24 18:27  

#2  That is a akin to (for a Jew) telling the enemy is not so much Nazism as extreme Nazism.
Posted by: JFM   2013-09-24 09:31  

#1  "The enemy isn't so much Islam as it is Salafism,"

Khomeinism aka "Wilayat al Faqih" is what woke up Islam as a political enemy of Western Civilization in the 20th century. We'd ignore this "Shiite Salafism" at our peril.

"Just as we must guard against those who would use atrocities to spread bigotry"

Why is opposition and/or rejection of a political platform 'bigotry' if the adherents of said platform claim some sort of supernatural endorsement for their political goals?

Decades ago the US government not only officially rejected the religious doctrine of the divinity of the Japanese Emperor. It actually used armed force to make the Emperor swear off any claims of divinity. Was that bigotry?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2013-09-24 03:12  

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