Sunday, September 02, 2007

Islamist totalitarianism

There was one notable difference between the three religions in the segments of the CNN series of "God's warriors" not much remarked upon. Namely, while the Jewish so-called "warriors" were concerned about their Bible-based, God-given rights to this land, and the Christian "warriors" were concerned to"purify" American society from indecent and immoral secular influences as they see it, the Muslim warriors were focused on actually killing infidels and converting the whole world to Islam. The Judeo-Christian extremists are relatively tolerant, but the Muslim extremists are about murdering all who believe or practise differently from themselves.
This is a primitive belief system, that all others who don't do as you do are either convertible or "disposable." This is the kind of mentality that lead to the murder of millions of Hindu Indians as pagans during the Muslim conquest of India (that lead to the establishment of Pakistan and Bangladesh), the murder of millions of Russians and others who did not accept Stalin's version of Communism and to the Nazi Holocaust of European Jews.
Totalitarian dictators, including Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Ceacescu, Idi Amin (see "The last king of Scotland"), Saddam and Mugabe, all go through a common process of evolution. They first take power, usually by devious means and using the armed forces. They swear that they are going to improve the plight of the people and destroy corruption. Then they start killing people who stand in their way, and then they extend the killing to all possible rivals. In this way, once they have total power, they indulge their pleasure in killing and their fear of being overthrown by establishing a killing organization, that is supposed to protect them and the State. They invent plots against themselves and use this as an excuse to torture and murder whoever they like.
Islamism is the same, everyone who is not one of them is suspect, including all "moderate" Muslims and all infidels, that specifically includes all Jews and Christians. These extremists must be stopped before they attain power anywhere again, as they did in Afghanistan, where they killed thousands of their own people. But, in Europe and the US they would kill millions if they could, and they would definitely massacre all Israeli Jews (now 6 million of us). Don't say it's not possible, such a thing has been done before! According to the doctrine of the main Islamist groups (al Qaeda, Hizb-ut-tarieh, etc.) their goal is to first establish the Caliphate, and then to make it universal the Caliph and his forces will wage war against the infidels until they are defeated and destroyed (read "The Islamist" by Ed Husayn, brought up in Britain)!
In that resepct it is crucial that Iraq not be left by the US as a future fertile training ground for the Islamists, and that Iran must be stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons. There is much breast-beating among the liberal left about not taking the "imperialist" path of attacking Iran to prevent it actually achieving its goal of nuclear capability. However, in the final (!) analysis, not to do so might likely mean the end of Western civilization as we know it, and might result in a tremendous killing field throughout the world.

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