Jihad
With Its Back To The Wall, And Staring Down The Barrel
The world keeps turning, albeit more turbulently
than usual in 2016. And each day, comes the news of fresh atrocities
perpetrated by the troops of radical Islamic terrorism.
It is killing dozens of innocent civilians, men,
women, children, the sick, the dying, even the handicapped; victims include Muslim,
Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, those from other religions, somewhere, seemingly
anywhere, around the world.
Of late, this jihad factory, is obviously quickening
the pace, but why?
Does it want to dominate the news? Is it suffering
too much attrition? Is it ramping up the effort to perpetrate its
indiscriminate crimes against humanity, in order to provoke a more massive
retaliation? Is it fighting for its survival with its back to the wall?
This, in the mistaken belief that it will radicalize
ever larger numbers of moderate Muslims,
and drive them willingly into its arms, seeking revenge for debatable wrongs
done.
And all in the name of an Islam rendered hard to
recognize, by a large, saddened, embarrassed, and suffering majority of its
adherents. What happened, some amongst them are wondering aloud, to the peace
of Islam?
But the jihad factory expects to attract more
warriors to its fanaticism- against the whole world, excepting, perhaps, only
themselves. Factional fights, and the rivalries and differences of leadership
apart, it is super busy batch-processing young people to die for their doomed
cause.
What medievalist cause is this though, that is
against everything modern and progressive, except weaponry and explosives?
It is thought up by radical Wahhabi clerics, in
Saudi-funded madrassas and mosques, that blatantly double as armories; and
twisted field commanders; all deliberately misinterpreting and distorting Islam,
and brainwashing their charges/congregations to suit.
What is the meaning of this bloodbath, unleashed by
‘commanders’ who use illiterate peasants, LTTE fashion, as suicide bombers? Are
they, after several years of depredations, about to meet the same fate as the
LTTE?
Why do they want to overthrow and/or annihilate if
they get hold of the means to do so – ‘the Godless, nominally Christian West,
the pagan Hindus, the Zionist Jews, apostates in their own midst, but as
defined by themselves?
Shias are being killed, if it is ISIS or the Taliban
acting. Sunnis are dying, if it is the Hezbollah! Islamic states are just as
much under attack - perhaps so that they can be terrorised and goaded into
greater fundamentalism and support for this bloodthirsty quest.
But, with oil and gas prices languishing, at less
than half of what they used to be, and little hope of revival, the bottom may
have been knocked out of the jihad business.
There’s drugs, prostitution and
extortion left, of course, but the organization needed for this, has been much
degraded by enemy fire and competition.
Women, as always for these misogynistic people, are
in the cross hairs. The liberated and westernized ones, the non-believers, for
being ‘depraved, immoral creatures’, and traditional muslim women too, so that they
don’t dare rise into asserting their equality.
These killers operate under constantly changing
banners and methods. There are lone-wolf
executioners, suicide-bombers, remote controlled explosives, vehicles, trucks,
assassins, women, even children, pressed into becoming the instruments of the
slaughter. It is a guerilla war of immense cunning.
In recent times, there have been new mass terrorist
killings, in France, Germany,
Afghanistan, Turkey, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, the US, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Libya,
Pakistan, the UAE, Somalia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Morocco, Italy, Spain, Norway,
Portugal, India, Sweden, Switzerland; and even in the land of their chief
financier and promoter of Wahabbism, Saudi Arabia.
How long before these worthies go after Pakistan’s
all-weather friend China, and spread into every other country, on the basis of
the doctrine that if you are not overtly for us, with money and guns supplied,
you must be against us!
And yet, ISIS,, the Al Qaeda, the LeT, the Taliban,
and their lesser and greater affiliates, have been steadily losing their top
leadership at an enhanced pace, as the world gathers its intelligence and
strikes back.
The attacks in Saudi Arabia are both illustrative
and significant. Is the money-flow slowing, or drying up, with the drop in oil
revenues? Is the intense military pressure on ISIS etc. bringing them to the
point of final collapse? Is it do or die time for them already, with not a
little blackmail thrown in?
Why is Pakistan, both its civil and military
leadership, plus the JeM, trying harder than ever to bring the Kashmir Valley to the
boil? Are they losing too many infiltrators inside the country, and having
difficulty sending in more? And are their local support bases in J&K, and
elsewhere in India, being flushed/rooted out and wiped clean much too often for
their comfort?
The savagery and frequency of the latest, almost
daily terrorist attacks, including those on Islamic states cracking down on
terrorism, suggests desperation.
The rise of Donald Trump in the US, is terrifying
for the jihadists and their financiers, if early noises from Qatar and Saudi
Arabia are to be listened to.
Should he win the presidency in November, it will
certainly go badly for them all. NATO will be galvanized into action as a force
multiplier and consensus builder, and the trainers, supporters, and sponsors of
international terrorism, such as Pakistan, will find their feet held to the
fire.
Knowing this, it is curious that the jihad factory
is trying, harder than ever, to browbeat both Europe and America into a
psychological surrender.
This, via terrorist attacks taken to the enemy, and
other forms of practised savagery, such
as beheadings, throwing homosexuals off roofs, and so forth, on home turf.
Every current atrocity committed however, is acting
like a shot in the arm for the Trump campaign. So why are they doing it? Is it
to panic his Democrat opposition into suing for peace with the jihadists? Are
they hoping against hope that Trump won’t win?
But the opposite seems to be happening willy-nilly. Around
the globe, the once moderate and liberal,
having had their countries bloodied, again and again, are starting to give up
on their own instincts.
They too, and are being sucked into altogether
tougher approach to terrorism advocated, for example, by both candidate Trump,
and our own prime minister Modi, amongst others.
With almost every country coming under the scourge
of radical Islamic terrorism, the world is rapidly losing its patience. All the
leftist apologia on colonialism/neo-colonialism, and its consequences, now worn
threadbare, causes a certain impatience, what with the scourge coming ever
closer. Nobody is exempt, after all - more so, the rich and privileged, who
make more attractive targets than random innocents.
For:
Nationalist Online
(1,101
words)
July
26th, 2016
Gautam
Mukherjee
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