The brutal attack on the staff of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, yesterday in Paris has
raised higher the spectre of a real religious war between Islam and
the rest of the world. It seems that the appeasers (like you know who) are still
stuck with their heads in the sand maintaining that Muslims are a peaceful lot and
that it is just extremists of some unspecified religious persuasion who are
grabbing headlines around the world with all these unspeakable butcheries.
George W. Bush was tut-tutted when he opined that the
horrors of 9/11 necessitated an extended “crusade” against such Islamic
extremism. This word evoked the thought of how those medieval evils were
eventually neutered by Christendom’s crusades and Islamic infighting. However,
fate has a way of keeping mankind’s next Pax
Romana at bay … in that so much of the world’s oil has been found to lie
under the sands of Araby and petroleum has become the life blood of our modern
society.
As a result of these sea changes, very many in the Muslim
world began feeling their oats and decided that they now had the capital wherewithal to
convert the rest of us to their backward thinking. And so, oil-funded Islamic
proselytizing became the norm which then evoked more and more extremist
thinking and actions in a religion unfortunately founded not on love but on
butchery. The history of Islam, much like the history of early Christianity, is
replete with mayhem and murder. The difference is that Christianity and most of
the other world’s religions have evolved out of such insanity. Islam has not … as we continue to experience on almost a daily basis.
Fortunately, there are some Muslims who have recognized this
flaw of faith. The current president of Egypt, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, has
called for Islam to abandon its extremism and growing militancy because it is corrosive
and ultimately futile … see:
Fox News Story. (How many U.S. media outlets have carried this item? Has the Obama
administration reacted favorably to this ray of hope?) And in the 1920’s Kemal
Ataturk in Turkey also recognized this Islamic failing and tried to modernize
his country into a secular state. However much of the progress he made is
now being rolled back by Turkey’s current fundamentalist president, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan.
I suppose that the conclusion of this short overview is that things are very likely to get worse as ancient Muslim beliefs continue
to scrape against modern societies. And, yes, if things maintain their
current path, the non-Muslim world (including Russia, India and China) probably
is in for a very long and bloody crusade to modernize these zealots of Mohammed’s
teachings. That is, unless the likes of Sissi or a neo-Ataturk can bring
about a Muslim religious reformation. This, I believe, should clearly be the basis of
any foreign-policy push back from the United States’ government against Islamic
terrorism.
But all I have witnessed here at home is exactly the opposite.
Afterward: For a slightly more frank view ... see: The Diplomad's Thoughts.
After Afterward: George Will thinks that Sissi should get the next Nobel Peace Prize for this stance. I agree. However, President Obamais, once again, is coming down on the side of the Muslim extremists ... see: Daily Caller Story.
