Every bomb we drop will kill civilians. If it’s a car full of jihadis they will turn it into a school bus full of orphans. A command and control center will become a day-care center. ISIS has learned Hamas’s playb0ok well, thanks to the liberal morons in the media who propagate whatever they are fed because they are incapable of deciding between truth and lies, having been indoctrinated into viewing both on equal footing.
If we are going to bomb anyone it should be Qatar, for financing ISIS, and Turkey, for supporting their recruitment efforts. Oh, and Saudi Arabia for starting this whole fundamentalist mess in the first place. Then give the Kurds any weapon they want as well as the military advisers to use it, and let them take care of business.
But just watch. The first pictures of dead children will soon be coming our way, and Obama and the Europeans do not have the stomach for this fight.
It’s not that I don’t believe ISIS needs to be stopped, just that bombing is not going to fix anything. Radical Islam is suffocating less violent and more tolerant sects of Islam around the world thanks to the funding by the Gulf States including Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and is abetted by the doctrine of Political Correctness in the West which is ideologically blind to the intolerance of radical Islam and holds it to a lower standard than any other religion. The Westboro Baptist Church is notorious in the United States for its intolerant view of Christianity, yet the WBC is politically and ideologically liberal compared ISIS, Hamas, and fundamentalist Wahhabi sects taking over mosques around the world. WBC has not killed a single human being; the same cannot be said for these radical Islamic sects.
In order to fight ISIS we would need to remove the blinders of political correctness that prevent us from seeing the world as it is. The Koran is filled with brutality, and while the Bible is too, the difference is that no one today is killing in the name of Christ while tens of thousands kill in the name of Allah. Having Obama portray himself as a Muslim Imam, as Bookworm Room aptly puts it, telling us what Islam teaches shows the moral and intellectual vacuum at the center of today’s policy-making elite. Political Correctness is a form of elitism no different from the “white man’s burden” of Colonialism. Exactly how is Obama telling Muslims what their beliefs should be any different from European missionaries in colonial Africa? Why should we listen to American and European liberals tell us what Islam believes instead of the Muslims themselves?
We cannot defeat an enemy we refuse to see, so there is little point in wasting the lives of men and material on limited air strikes. All we will be doing is “cutting the grass” – an aphorism Israelis use to illustrate their Gaza strategy. Do enough to keep the militants in check, but not too much to defeat them. This strategy works when the threat is somewhat contained as it is in the Gaza strip, but not when it is growing and strengthening.
Hamas might be weakened by such a strategy but ISIS is not. With each new beheading video ISIS’s brand grows throughout the world. Its ideas and ideology spread in ways that must seem puzzling to the elites driving hybrids with COEXIST bumper stickers on them. These elites can’t even fathom another world view especially one as alien to liberal beliefs as Islam. ISIS and a sizable portion of the Muslim community do not want coexistence. Coexistence is something you do while you are weak, not when your forces are rolling through the desert sands in triumph. They have made it very clear that their goals are nothing less than the Muslim conquest of the world. In such a world there will be no place for Jews and Christians, or the LGBT community for that matter. There will be no freedom or democracy because both are haram, forbidden by Islamic law that states the only law is God’s Law.
It’s not like ISIS suddenly discovered this in the Koran. The basis for Islamic world domination has been laying in that book since it was written. “I (Allah) will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them. This because they contended against Allah and His Messenger: If any contend against Allah and His Messenger, Allah is strict in punishment,” (Koran 8:9, 12-13). The Koran and the associated Hadith and other Islamic texts also portray Mohammad as the Ideal Man, al-insan al-kamil – the Perfect Man, a 7th century Ubermensch whose actions and life were to be emulated by all good Muslims. Unfortunately Mohammad is closer in life and action to Genghis Khan than he is Gautama Buddha or Jesus Christ, and the table below proves it.
Number killed by Mohammad or under his direct orders:
| Number Killed |
Where |
Circumstances |
| ?tens? |
Nakhla Raid |
Muhammad justifies the killing of women and children (Al-Mushrikun) (1) |
| 2 |
unclear |
Muhammad orders an adulterous couple stoned to death. (2) |
| 70 |
Battle of Badr |
Muhammad personally leads his warriors into battle against superior forces. (3) |
| 1 |
Battle of Badr |
Uqba bin Abi Mu'ait begs for his life. "Who will look after my children, O Muhammad?" "Hell" Muhammad replies and orders Uqba killed. |
| 1 |
Battle of Badr |
Abu Jahl beheaded. |
| 1 |
unclear |
Jewish poet Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf assassinated on Mohammed's orders for writing verses insulting Muslim women. |
| 1 |
unclear |
Jewish merchant Ibn Sunayna killed after Mohammed orders his followers to "Kill any Jew that falls into your power." Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirate Rasul Allah, A. Guillaume trans, 369 |
| 1 |
unclear |
Sufyan ibn Khalid al-Hudhali killed on Mohammed's orders. |
| 1 |
Uhud Mountain |
Muhammad kills Quraysh warrior Ubayy bin Khalaf who had once taunted him. |
| 600+ |
Banu Qurayzah tribe |
Muhammad participates in the killing of captives in the marketplace of Medina. |
| ?100s? |
Banu Mustaliq tribe |
Men killed, women, children enslaved. |
| 93 |
Khaybar Raid |
Muhammad breaks treaty with Jewish tribe. |
| 1 |
Khaybar Raid |
Kinana bin al-Rabi tortured to reveal location of treasure, beheaded by Mohammed. |
| 1 |
unclear |
Zaynab bint al-Harith attempts to poison Mohammed (some traditions say she was spared). |
| ?100s? |
Mecca |
Muhammad orders those who resist, and those on a list to be killed. |
| 3 |
unclear |
Murder of the Poets. Muhammad orders murders of Abu 'Afak, Asma bint Marwan - the latter of whom was pregnant. |
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| 700 - 2,000 |
Total |
|
So for those of you keeping score at home, here is the number of people killed by Jesus:
Jesus: -1 (Christ raised Lazarus from the dead)
From the elite’s point of view both prophets are highly fictionalized characters whose believers are equally misguided. Political Correctness simply wipes away the misdeeds of Mohammad and places him on equal footing with Christ, and in doing so says more about their mindset than the reality of Christianity and Islam. And their ignorance has led them to make policies that have created the conditions whereby an entire generation of Muslims now sees the best chance at the global caliphate since the siege of Vienna. This vision of Islam has displaced all others including the most tolerant and pacifistic of sects from Nigeria to Indonesia.
You cannot defeat an enemy by leaving his ideology intact. In order to stop ISIS we must accept they are fighting on behalf of Islam. Accepting that reality then forces us to confront a larger question: How do we fight Islam?
I’m not sure a religious war of Islam against Infidel is necessary at this point. I refuse to believe that all Muslims sympathize with ISIS, and that some are just as sickened by their beliefs as non-Muslims are. They need to be the ones leading the fight against ISIS on ideological grounds, not President Obama. Obama is the commander in chief. All he needs to do is say “Harm an American and your death will be imminent.” That’s it. No grand speeches about what Islam is or isn’t. We’ll leave that to the Muslims in the US and Europe to decide.
So until the ruling class loses its political correctness, until American Muslims stand against ISIS, and until the President stops issuing threats and unleashes the gates of hell on anyone that kills an American, then I believe bombing ISIS will do more harm than good and is therefore a bad idea.
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Sources:
1. Muhammed Ibn Ismaiel Al-Bukhari, Shih al-Bukhari: The Translation of the Meanings, Muhammed M. Khan trans, Dar Es Salaam, 1997, vol 4, book 56, no. 3012. Note that other traditions in (nos. 3014 and 3015) have Muhammad forbidding the massacre of women and children.
Here is how no. 3012 reads:
The prophet passed by me at a place called Al-Abwa’ or Waddan, and was asked whether it was permissible to attack Al-Mushrikun (unbelieving) warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, “They (i.e. women and children) are from them (i.e. Al-Mushrikun).”
2. Bukhari, vol. 4, book 61, no. 3635
3. Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah, A. Guillaume, trans, Oxford University Press, 1955, p. 301
