Serving Islam
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke.
Of course the great philosopher knew little of radicalized Islam, and he spoke of politics, not the politics of religion and the intoxicating power of empowering grievance into hatred, revenge and bloodthirsty slaughter. Nor, likely, did he ever suspect that his country, and the countries nearby, and those across the oceans that share the democratic ideal; in short the westernized, liberalized, freedom-guaranteeing, human-rights supporting countries of the world, would be embattled by a bitter and vicious global jihadist movement.
How peculiar it is that the Islam that came to birth in the Middle East, then spread through the sword to Africa, Europe, the far East, steadfastly stagnated as a political, social, scientific, technological force after its initial successes. Literal and absolute acceptance of the Koran's indelible urgencies ensured that Muslims heeded the call to remain separate from unbelievers, while engaging in the jihad of speech and violent deed to convert.
How meet it is that Pakistan, whose people are scorned by Arabs for their misfortune of birth, has become the crucible of terror. Speaking Urdu, not the sacred language of the Koran, they function as the spear-bearers, the advance troops, to augment those of the Middle East, their brethren in global jihad. A jihad that is interrupted now and again as the factions turn their tribal ire on one another, lapsing in their recognition of their true enemy, viewing one another as religious traitors, apostates.
Yet there is a synchronicity here; where Pakistan loathes their powerful neighbour India as an oppressor, a belligerent and battle-ready nation eager to re-absorb Pakistan into its vast territory. While it is India, a hugely-diversely-populated democracy, that must pay heed to its defence from the violent offences directed by Pakistan through myriad state-sponsored jihadist militia proxies eager to destroy what it can of India and its peoples. That distrust, fear and hatred by Pakistan of India has been strained into the very bones and sinew of their people.
A comparison neatly made of Palestinian Arabs who have their very own powerful, albeit population-scant neighbour, the State of Israel, whom the Palestinians 'resist' as 'oppressors' waiting to pounce on the ill-done-by, grievance-suffused, self-pitying, and ultimately dynamically belligerent dispossessed. A dispossessed only too willing to remain as they are, to demonstrate to a sympathetic world their refugee status, victims of Zionism. While dedicating themselves to the 'resistance' of suicide bombing and rocket attacks.
Among the Salifist-dedicated Pakistanis, the jihadis of the Magreb, the Saudi-funded jihadis huddling in the mountainous regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan writ large is that incendiary, dearly-held sense of aggrieved entitlement. Entitlement to self-pity, aggrandized bitterness, hatred; entitlement to bloody revenge, the more horrific the more expressive of their self-entitled outrage against the world which has so signally, shabbily dishonoured them.
Stealthy infiltration of democractic societies by hellfire-breathing Islamist clerics instill the fever of social discord, the virus of the brotherhood of jihad in the conflicted minds of young Muslims caught between the societal values and mores of their foreign countries of birth, and the heritage, religion, and cultural values of their parents' homelands. The Internet as a gathering-place for sharing of intent and lethal-weapons construction is invaluable. Conspiracies caught on the cusp of enactment apprehend wishful jihadis who rage their spite.
Who declaim that their acts of revenge against the infidels, the Christians, the Zionists may be termed barbaric, or immoral or cruel, but they represent, in fact, in the eyes of fundamentalist Muslims, fanatical jihadists, and above all Allah, acts of restorative justice. There is no courage like that of the dedicated jihadists. Loving, embracing death as they do. They have no fear of what they do, visiting death upon others, for in this way they gain martyrdom.
Serving Islam.
Labels: Human Relations, Political Realities, Religion
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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