The Ultimate Persuasion
So many stories coming out of Islamist Badlands. Where to start? Let's see, how about a brief recounting of the latest attempts by Islamic jihadists to pay obeisance to the Koran and perform Allah's most vital duties that have been invested in them to further the cause of Muslims world wide?Pious Muslims of ordinary stature in so many parts of the globe often don't quite know what has hit them when their brethren of a more controversial nature in pursuing radical Islam target them, preferring mysteriously not to focus their deadly undivided attention upon the infidels and the Jews.
However, most Muslims going about their daily prayers, and doing their best to keep their families fed, clothed and protected from harm know in their hearts that the obloquy of the West against their co-religionists is quite simply wrong. They find comfort, while nursing their wounds and mourning their dead, that no true Muslim could ever find it in his heart to offer violent death to other Muslims.
They remain content in the certain knowledge that this orgy of violence that has been thrust upon them represents the covert activities of those whose beliefs and activities are inimical to Islamic tradition; infidels, apostates and Jews. Yet there are those who learn their lessons well and whose eyes have been opened to the very real threat that jihadists in the purity of their zeal and their vibrant hatred, pose a threat to their existence, as ordinary Muslims.
Take, for example, the case of the acting director of the Baghdad psychiatric hospital arrested for allegedly assisting al-Qaeda in Iraq in soliciting the assistance of two mentally impaired young women in the recent bombings in two population-heavy animal markets. The successful murder of a hundred innocent bystanders, including many children whose parents took them along to see the animals, and the maiming of many others, was an Islamist triumph.
For this is war, war against any and all who might deny the supremacy and superiority of deadly militant Islamists eager to achieve their goal of a globally-recognized and deferentially adhered-to Islamic society, the longed-for Caliphate, to restore the glory that was Islam when it appeared on the world stage, in the Middle East, in Africa, in Europe, as a quasi-liberating theology, encouraging commerce, artistry, intellectual discourse among peoples.
This is that Caliphate's alter ego, unfortunately, but equally unfortunately, in the perception and in the unspeakably carnage-visiting Islamists this is war. And as none other than Khalid Sheik Mohammed, 9-11's mastermind has dolefully declared: "I did it, but this [is] the language of any war. I don't like to kill people. I feel very sorry they killed kids in 9/11. What I will do? This is the language. Sometime I want to make great awakening between American to stop foreign policy in our land."
There you have it, an almost-apologetic, edifying statement reasoning that this war has been occasioned by the poisonous presence of Western interests in Muslim lands. Which the doves and the apologists for militant Islam have been impatiently shrilling all along. But the cat's out of the bag; how to put him, hissing and scratching, back in again, safely?
Outrage at neo-colonialism's exploitation has led to implacable jihadist intent to obliterate the enemy. Islamic honour must be restored. The arrogance of the exploiters has its response in jihadist determination.
The enemy is not only a white capitalist, it is also a darker-hued family that responds five times a day to the muezzin's call to prayer. And the truly sad thing about the arrest of the acting director of the psychiatric hospital was that he felt he had no choice, since Ibrahim Muhammad Agel, former director of the hospital had been murdered in December; shot on the street because he refused to co-operate with al-Qaeda. Lesson learned.
It was, after all, only two sub-normal girls involved, who would be stylishly outfitted in an explosives backpack and suicide vest; they need not even know their mission, nor would they require knowledge of when and how to detonate their deadly cargo, carried out on their behalf by remote control. Oh, and the other hundred once-living souls split into the atmosphere through the explosives' concussion?
Expendable; this is, after all, war. How utterly naive to cavil.
More, then? a)Pakistani authorities have captured a senior Taliban commander, Mansoor Dadullah. His apprehension may ensure a brief lull in activities. b)Nine, perhaps ten people exercising their freedom to attend a pre-election rally in Pakistan were successfully targeted by a suicidist bomber. c)Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan was sufficiently rash to travel in the Khyber tribal district, ripe for abduction. His fate? Who knows?
In Iraq, two car bombs sent earthquake-like shudders through Baghdad, killing eleven unfortunates and wounding thirty more. Missing their likely target, in the process. None other than U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates. Mr. Gates no doubt hastened to depart the environs of unbridled sectarian hatred.
And the governor of Kandahar province, Asadullah Khalid got lucky, despite the best attempts by a very determined reaper-of-death-assistant's plans. The roadside bomb scheduled to dispatch him to a very unfamiliar place - not here, not there, not anywhere - left him happily unscathed, although his car was hit by the bomb.
Another time, another place.
Labels: Middle East, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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