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The Unity of Hatred

There are those who scoff at the universal fear of Islamist terror among so many countries and populations of the world who have been singled out by jihadist groups as potential targets. These are disparate groups of fanatical misfits, it is pointed out. They pose no real danger to the world commensurate with the past dangers of fascism and communism, both blighted ideologies at either end of the polarized political spectrum that brought the world to the cusp of social disintegration.

It's true there was a generalized disharmony brought to the world through the introduction of those vile ideologies, each of which were founded for the purpose of bringing a new type of political religion to the world at large, to transform it, through violent global conflict to either a totalitarian fascist agenda, or a confrontationally socialist agenda with an emphasis on Marxist fascism. When entire countries regained their equilibrium through civil wars, they then turned their intent to fashion a broader hegemony externally.

Those countries on whom the baleful intent of spreading fascism or communism was turned reacted by defending themselves. Assembling their armies to counteract the advance of an incoming enemy army, one intent on overturning their social, political and religious way of life. Restraining their freedoms. Those were the modern world's paroxysms in countering the relentless push forward for both of these ideologies; conventional warfare fought against a common enemy.

Fascist Islamists have infiltrated the societies of the countries they seek to wreak their vengeance upon, subverting vulnerable youth in the cultural societies and mosques and madrassas, cultivating their feeble awareness of Islam into a more febrile, vibrant, hormone-and-faith-driven fundamentalism and finally radicalism embracing the honour inherent in the greater glory of Islamic jihad. To become a martyr through the prosecution of Allah's will.

There is no army to battle. There are the disparate underground cells of disaffected Muslim youth, brought to holy jihad as interpreted by fanatical clerics encouraging the myth of divinely inspired holy war against the infidels, the Crusaders, the Jews, and those great swaths of Muslim faithful whose moderate embrace of their religion marks them as apostates, deserving of death. In this war there are no armies to come together in a clash of determination to prevail one over the other.

There are militant jihadists in many countries of the world, intent on disrupting society, on overturning governments, liberal democracies to dictatorships, autocracies to sheikdoms. For they are corrupt in the opinion of fundamentalist and unforgiving Islamists. Muslim countries in the far East and the Middle East, in Africa and elsewhere are hard put to identify and isolate, to battle and incarcerate the threats within from Islamist fanatics intent on achieving global domination.

Restoring the dream of the caliphate. Defeating the enemy. Restoring pride to Islam. Groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Jihad in Egypt, al Qaeda and the Taliban as well as a score of others from Sudan to Indonesia, Somalia to the Philippines, Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan all labouring mightily to undo the damage that has been done to Islam throughout modern history by its enemies.

These are organized, well funded, well equipped militias of various sizes, in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and they are also small cells existing throughout the Western world whose strength lies in their elusiveness. All of whom are able to communicate via modern telecommunications, and to send encouragement and practical plans for bomb-building and violent assignations via the Internet sites they employ for that purpose.

And while there is often acrimony between them, and some groups represent Sunni Islam, while others are comprised of Shia Muslims, they all seek to prevail, to achieve their agenda, first for ascendancy in their own countries through geographical separation of an Islamic state of Sharia law in Russia, Pakistan, India, Lebanon and Egypt, then to achieve the larger goal of global domination.

There is great hope in the reality that these fanatics do not represent the vast majority of moderate, peaceful Muslims whose goal is to live freely among others, and that even among the jihadist groups there will always remain tribal and sectarian grievances and violent hatred, sufficient so that they will turn bitterly against one another before they turn on their infidel targets.

There is great hope that Muslim academics and clerics of repute and respect among the greater Muslim populations of the world will continue to reject the hate-filled agendas of the militant jihadists in ever greater numbers so that their condemnation of militant jihad may finally have the desired effect of turning disaffected Muslim youth away from fanaticism.

Meanwhile, the world still stands on tenterhooks of apprehension.

Labels: Religion, Social-Cultural Deviations, Terrorism

posted by Pieface @ Monday, November 10, 2008