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RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
Who is making this terrorism … actually, ancient, ordinary Caliphism contemplating, again, world-hegemony by conversion, enslavement or extermination … happen? Apparently lots and lots of people do not know, are still unconcerned, are wondering, are casting about for an explanation or are simply denying the phenomenology.
Well … it’s the mullahs, boys and girls, it’s the mullahs.
Here is some superb Saudi misdirection, claiming the problem is among young people with psychological and sociological dysfunctions … and of course, more study is needed … translation: I want more tax-payer and/or petrodollar subsidies for my three Daimlers, two jets and four vacation mansions, each with its own continuously refreshed stable of young boys.
Al Saud, of course, is the world’s principle funder of terrorism. They pay the mullahs.
Here, from Pakistan (!), is a more realistic frame of reference: focus on the clerics, the mullahs.
Michel Moutot, Attacks Challenge “Lone Wolf” Theory See also here
Douglas V. Gibbs, Islam, And The Tail Of A Scorpion
Eli Lake: It’s possible to imagine a world in the future where American presidents would speak plainly about radical Islam. It would likely be a world in which the U.S. stopped waging a global war on terror.
No, any American President can wage war on and defeat Caliphists with or without allied nations in the Middle East. The USA is not a beggar nation, not yet, not ever. Nor is she tied down by Caliphist sensibilities. The USA is a sovereign nation state with power adequate to her needs and those of friendly nation states. An American President would act on that basis and the whole world, including nations in the Middle East, would shout Hooray!
America’s true allies at this time and into the future are India and Russia.
Update 1: Religious freedom news in the USA: Holt vs. Hobbs, and here.
Update 2: The savage idolatry of a man and a book customarily denominated as Islam will be defeated by Christians, Hindus and so some extent Buddhists, as before, and by no one else. Seculars/Globalists have neither the depth of learning, the art of warfare nor the moral courage required to defeat that terrifying monster.
It takes religious people to defeat a pretense of religion. Irreligious and non-religious people cannot do it, not ever. See Richard Fernandez illustrating this phenomenon.
In every truthful intel product, the first listed phenomenon and driver of the future is: The Unexpected.
Update 3: The Unexpected, Exhibit A: a very brave Man al-Sisi, a Soldier. See also morchidat in Morocco.
The smart move would be for USA, Russia and India to join forces to second al-Sisi’s insights in this regard. Those three are the principal targets of the clerics al-Sisi reproaches and thus have common ground here. Al-Sisi says “No!” to reconstitution of 7th Century Arab avaricious murder.
Related here and here and here and here and here.
Again al-Sisi tells Muslims to reform to modernity, at Davos. See also morchidat in Morocco.
Update 4: Richard Fernandez from 2003, The Three Conjectures.
Conjecture 3: The War on Terror is the ‘Golden Hour’ — the final chance
It is supremely ironic that the survival of the Islamic world should hinge on an American victory in the War on Terror, the last chance to prevent that terrible day in which all the decisions will have already been made for us. That effort really consists of two separate aspects: a campaign to destroy the locus of militant Islam and prevent their acquisition of WMDs; and an attempt to awaken the world to the urgency of the threat. While American arms have proven irresistible, much of Europe, as well as moderates in the Islamic world, remain blind to the danger and indeed increase it. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad recently “told an international conference of young Muslim leaders … (that) … Muslims must acquire skills and technology so they can create modern weapons and strike fear into the hearts of our enemies”. Fecklessness and gunpowder are a lethal combination. The terrible ifs accumulate.
Update 5: And Al Saud intends to keep it up. See also here.
Update 6: GEN (Ret.) Jack Keane tells US Senators what is happening.
Update 7: An interesting comment string arose at Instapundit when Glenn Reynolds referenced Mark Cunningham on the subject of what The Fraud should say about Islam. I commented as follows, making an important observation regarding the effect of religion on affairs:
Were I to take Cunningham’s essay as serious thought — and I think it is not — I would say his face is too close to the canvas, he has seen a couple of swirls of paint and yelled, “Eureka!” Were he serious, he would pull back to ponder the whole canvas or at least more of it than has caught his fancy. His enthusiasm would, shall we say, moderate.
Serious, productive thought cannot come from other than a monastic. Men and women bearing the daily burdens and cares of life, such as Cunningham, simply cannot and will not create intellectual and moral forms that benefit anyone lastingly. They are too busy, and justly so, one hopes. Such men and women can use such forms once they are created, but create them they can not and will not. Those stepped way back from the canvas — monastics — do that. The truth is the whole.
Update 8: Again from Richard Fernandez, May 2015: Fighting Entropy and Fighting Entropy Part 2. These essays belong together with his The Three Conjectures from 2003.
Update 9: Richard Butrick, in 2012: It’s The Mullahs, Stupid. And in 2015: The Vast Majority Of Muslims.
Update 10: Southern Poverty Communist Law Center put ten American women on its hit list.
Update 11: The Saudi Connection: Wahhabism and Global Jihad, and related: Qatar.
Update 12: Reality has caught up with King Abdullah of Jordan, at least superficially
Update 13: Benny Avni: The Lone Wolf Theory Is A Myth
Update 14: Putin’s Syria Play Means West Must Rethink Everything
Update 15: Dr. Ben Carson and Muslim Islamophobes
Update 16: Counter-Terrorism: The Origins Of Islamic Terrorism
Update 17: “Why would I tell you about this?” the imam said. “They’re not terrorists,” he said of the radicals. “They just hate the U.S. government.”
Update 18: There’s also turning al Saud out of house and home and restoring the Hashemites to Mecca and Medina. Not so hard to do. Then, make the Ayatollahs an offer they can’t refuse. That would settle things down. And not even difficult.
Update 19: Richard Butrick: It’s The Mullahs, Stupid
Update 20: Bahrain’s King Hamad Calls For Religious Tolerance
Update 21: Cynthia Farahat: Who Is Sisi Of Egypt? A Reformer.
Update 22: El-Sisi sends sharp, clear message to Turkey on Libya
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