Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Another Problem With Islam

99.99% of suicide bombers have one thing in common...they would call themselves Muslims and would claim to love Allah and the Koran.

Bible readers understand this is because Satan is currently using this false religion to wreak chaos on earth...because he knows his time is short and he has lots of things to destroy and lots of souls to harvest before the Lord returns.

But what does the secular world have to say about why these folks are blowing themselves up? Why are they so angry?

We used to believe it was because the poor Muslims had had such a tough time living in poverty that they were susceptible to intense brain washing by religious zealots. But now that doesn't jibe with the Times Square attempted bombing by a Pakistani. He was educated, good looking, had a great job and seemed well on his way to being Americanized. So what gives?

Author and Johns Hopkins Prof, Fouad Ajami, has some great insight into what the world is facing off with in it's battle with Islam.

'A Muslim has no nationality except his belief," the intellectual godfather of the Islamists, Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, wrote decades ago. Qutb's "children" are everywhere now; they carry the nationalities of foreign lands and plot against them. The Pakistani born Faisal Shahzad is a devotee of Sayyid Qutb's doctrine, and Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, was another.

Qutb was executed by the secular dictatorship of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1966. But his thoughts and legacy endure. Globalization, the shaking up of continents, the ease of travel, and the doors for immigration flung wide open by Western liberal societies have given Qutb's worldview greater power and relevance. What can we make of a young man like Shahzad working for Elizabeth Arden, receiving that all-American degree, the MBA, jogging in the evening in Bridgeport, then plotting mass mayhem in Times Square?


The Islamists are now within the gates. They fled the fires and the failures of the Islamic world but brought the ruin with them. They mock national borders and identities. A parliamentary report issued by Britain's House of Commons on the London Underground bombings of July 7, 2005 lays bare this menace and the challenge it poses to a system of open borders and modern citizenship.

This is a long twilight war, the struggle against radical Islamism. We can't wish it away. No strategy of winning "hearts and minds," no great outreach, will bring this struggle to an end. America can't conciliate these furies. These men of nowhere—Faisal Shahzad, Nidal Malik Hasan, the American-born renegade cleric Anwar Awlaki now holed up in Yemen and their likes—are a deadly breed of combatants in this new kind of war. Modernity both attracts and unsettles them. America is at once the object of their dreams and the scapegoat onto which they project their deepest malignancies.

See it all here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703338004575230142684329162.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

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