The New World

Islamofascism. A new word to fear and a new word to be depressed about.

I can't remember who said it, but: extremists only become more so. And it's true.

When you look at the world today, it is populated by extremists who are determined to impose their will on others. Muslim extremists are the worst because their attitude is that if you are not one of them, you are either an infidel who doesn't deserve to live, or a martyr for the cause.

There is no winning with these people. Even if you gave them everything they demanded, they would find something else to bitch about.

The western world, of course, cannot give into to radicals who's only desire is to martyr themselves for an amorphous cause.

Let's get some understanding here: Al Qaeda's demands are that all foreign armies leave Arabic countries, that so called 'democratized' Arabic nations fall into line and become fundamentalist governments, or Caliphates under Sharia Law, that Islam be spread throughout the world so the world becomes an Islamic paradise, that all Infidels be branded or destroyed, that Israel be destroyed, and so on. They are willing to achieve this goal through terrorism.

These fundamentalists call it a Holy Jihad. It's not. Muhummad actually stipulated that Jihads only be called if the Holy Land was imperiled, and only by a Council of Clerics. The accusations that Muslims are now engaged in a Crusader-type Jihad is a lie of epic proportions, as is the lie that the Western World hates all Muslims. And the great man is probably as pissy as hell at what his children have done to his religion and in his name.

What these fundamentalists have learned is that public relations and the media are one of the most important tools in their arsenal. Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, and the others can all point to 'aggression' by America, Israel, Britain, any Western Nation and say "See? We told you they hate us and we must fight back before they destroy us." Anything Israel does is blamed on Americans.

However, in the latest conflict, no one - and I include Arab nations - came out and demanded Israel stop immediately. There was umming and ahhing and when Hezbollah were pushed back far enough, then nations decided enough was enough. Hezbollah, on the other hand, were waging a successful PR campaign in their own enclaves and recruiting.

The West, although valiantly engaging the enemy in their War on Terror, cannot win a guerilla war; nor can it win a war by wiping out a religion or a people. It makes no difference how many troops are sent, there will always be suicide bombers or snipers
or ieds.

What can you do against a person who see it as their ticket to paradise to kill as many non-believers as possible and be 'rewarded' for mass murder?

How, then, can peace be restored? Appeasement? Has never worked before and won't now. An escalation in attacks? One escalate deserves another and Islam won't lack for soldiers to the cause. Assassination of key commanders? Sure, it works but only for a limited time and only until a successor is chosen.

How about education? How about Islamic nations taking responsibility for their own people again and teaching the kids what the Qu'ran, the proper one, not the one hijacked by radicals, is all about? How about getting out there and killing that fucker Bin Laden and his entire cadre of tosspots?

Because you can bet your bottom dollar he's out there, in the caves of Pakistan, up the Khyber Pass, planning more mass murder against people he sees as non-human.

It's going to be a long and bloody global war with atrocities on both sides. The enemy is going to do despicable things and because of our retaliation, civilians will die. Let's face it, you cannot prosecute a war, any war, without civilian deaths. It's okay to be careful, but in the end civilians will die and we'd better get used to it because the enemy is going after unarmed people - soft targets, or in their language, infidels.

Time is running out because Muslims are about to have nuclear weaponry. Then it's really going to get ugly.