So we call them “masterminds…” This
weekend, CNN recapped two terrorist attacks which preceded Paris but were in
all respects eerily similar: the Kenya Westgate Mall attack in 2013 and the
twelve coordinated terror
attacks in Mumbai in November 2008.
Terrorists shot indiscriminately, went from a restaurant to the main railway
station, machine-gunning everybody they liked. A witness survivor described
them “like children with guns, deciding whom to kill.” One of the terrorists
survived and was subsequently questioned: “Did you feel no remorse?” He said,
“Yes, but the man said ‘if you want to be a big man, like me, you have to do
it’ – and he did it, so I did it too.”
“Masterminds?” Thanks to the Indian
Secret Service, we could actually hear the conversations that the terrorists
had on the phone. 35 SIM cards had been sold to terrorists and 3 of them were
activated during the attack. The conversation between the two “masterminds” was
as follows:
“Comrade,
kill the hostages. You never know when the police will attack. Kill them now!”
“Yes
Comrade Superior.”
“Do it
now. I want to hear you do it.” (Extended conversation, more delay: Comrade
Inferior was making excuses why the killing of the hostages should be
postponed. Eventually:)
“Yes
Comrade Superior.” (Two shots fired, hostages killed.)
“God is
with you! Allah is great!”
“Yes
Comrade Superior.”
“Remember,
for your mission to succeed, you must die!”
“Yes
Comrade Superior.”
“Leave
the phone on and go and attack. I am watching it on TV. They are on the roof
now. Go and attack. Do not let them take you alive!”
“Yes
Comrade Superior.”
The term Comrade Superior is a very apt translation of the term the
Terrorists used. This Comrade Superior
called the other by name, the way a school principal or class head teacher
would call upon a child reading his homework. A master-servant relationship was
apparent throughout the entire communication. The terrorist “on the scene” was
acting as if hypnotized, a real servant-mind. What is more, there is a deeply
Freudian subtext underlying this communication, which is likewise
disconcerting, in particular in view of what we have heard about how common it
is in this “society” that small boys are regularly raped by grown-up ISIS
members…
We speak of their “sophistication”
in operating on underground computer networks and coordinating attacks as if
they were Silicon Valley wizards. Whatever they do have, in terms of logistics
and functional ideas, they have stolen from Western Civilization. Their mental
development is that of a 10-year-old child playing a computer game and
arranging a “party” with his friends via cell phone.
Indeed, how much “sophistication”
does it take to take a gun from someone who virtually forces it upon you and
then go and pull a trigger, thinking: “I am God! I can kill anyone I choose!”?
I wonder what is worse: Obeying orders because you are “hypnotized” and
psychologically abused; or because you “have to” and there is no way out; or
because you like it…? After all, the Nazi war criminals in Nurnberg also
professed to have “only obeyed orders…”
A
brave German journalist who spent
significant time inside the State of ISIS recently described it on CNN as
a “real state” with their own police, system of administration, even schools,
where children are indoctrinated into their version of Islam and taught how to
fight and kill. This “state” was begun by Al Baghdadi with ex-Saddam troops and
Suni renegades inside the Buka
prison in Iraq. Merely stating that Al Qaida was
suppressed at the end of President Bush’s second term is misleading because the
indoctrination, initiation,
instigation and expansion of radical
Islamic ideology had never been greater. The one had been suppressed militarily
but it was reborn into the other.
There is a certain rationale common
to all of us, to my knowledge best expressed by a French writer-philosopher and
activist Jean Rostand: “Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of
men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.” (Thoughts of a Biologist, 1938) This
consists of a very simplistic logic, which overcomes the evil of killing by
diminishing the value of the individual human being: the more people there are,
the less the value of the individual.
Communist societies were based on
this indirectly: the value of the individual was “equalized” to the point at
which only the Party Law and Party Word (Party Committee’s word led by the
Dictator-Populist) mattered. People were told they were incapable of free
thinking because the Party knew better and would take care of them. The
situation within ISIS is eerily similar to that of a totalitarian state – only
so much worse for the fact that children are taught how to kill and hate.
Rights? The only right you have is
to die for Allah. What ISIS “provides” under the cloak of power and security is
the illusion of greatness, the delusion of grandeur, the dream of a super-human
being somewhere in the Beyond, with “full
breasted maidens, grapes and wine.” It
appalls me that Muslims everywhere are not up in arms about the fact that the
gang of 8-9 terrorists who perpetrated the recent Paris attacks had plotted
their killing spree in a Belgian pub, were not even religious (breached all
prohibitions Quran postulates on alcohol and drugs), were registered petty
criminals with long records for theft and robbery, and the girl who was thought
to have blown herself up had “converted to Islam” three months ago and likewise
had a long rap sheet for drug trafficking and other crimes!
We can bomb the hell out of them –
we will always win over evil and hatred – but if Muslims themselves do not step
up to the plate, their religion will be destroyed. Religion of Peace? That is
pure political correctness, propaganda of Obama’s administration. Buddhism,
Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity are all more peaceful than Islam, which is fundamentally a violent religion. It does not have to be – it is because that is how the
modern-day imams interpret it and preach it in a vicious proselytizing way to
their “sheep.” Instead, pursuant to Quran, they should teach: piety, humility,
honor, equality, brotherhood, morality and respect for elders, and even peace.
RADICAL ISLAMISTS’ notion of Allah
creates the ideal of super-human power to which everyone can connect and become
a part of – as soon as they accomplish their suicide mission. Imagine Nietzsche
on a cocktail of steroids rewriting Zarathustra. When I see those crowds
blindly yelling “Allah Akbar!” I recall Hitler rallies and their “Sieg Heil!” I
also recall the communist rallies I experienced in my own childhood – same
thing.
These Jihad “warriors” may appear
like children playing with guns but the results are much too real. What does
ISIS give them? A reporter on CNN said, “None of them ever held a job, power, a
girl’s hand… ISIS offers them all that.” They get a wife, the gun gives them
power – and their job is to kill. What a power it is!
Rostand would probably suggest
dropping a couple of nukes at their center positions, as there are hardly any good people left there now. It makes
little difference how you bomb them though, as long as the MYTH OF JIHAD is
perpetuated. This is achieved by their propaganda. ISIS propaganda shorts are
psychologically sophisticated in that they mix violence with power and faces of
smiling, welcoming “comrades.” All is underscored by powerful melodramatic
music, which reminds me of Communist gatherings: it is the music of the mass,
injecting the mass with superhuman powers. In between, you will notice an
occasional warm handshake, pat on the shoulder, wink of camaraderie and
friendship – apparent “love” their “recruits” are longing for. Killing is
merely a means to the end. The end, paradoxically, is altogether humane.
However, this humane end defeats
itself and ends in ultimate tragedy – death! Every totalitarian state leads its
individual citizens to destruction: some do so under the guise of equality and
better life for everybody, others under the pretense of Paradise in the
Beyond. Belief in something higher,
something bigger, something beyond me is what guides and motivates many of us.
Belief is positive. It does not need a cause or reason. Once a reason is
projected into belief, this reason may be manipulated by someone who does not
believe but only wants to manipulate, rule, aggrandize and empower himself.
http://politichicks.com/2015/11/are-muslims-rationalizing-isis/
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