Friday, July 29, 2016

An act of passiveness...

It seems contradictory that doing nothing can be considered an action, yet it is happening today, and every day...Like the familiar anecdotal elephant in the room, of which everyone is aware and no one dares mention, radical Islamic jihadists, in their all-consuming envy of all things superior to their closed-minded beliefs, choose to solve their problems not with construction to lift their misguided followers, but rather destruction to reduce all around them to their own level...

In the scientific world, Islam, like all religions, is a theory, or at best a belief upon which adherents base their day-to-day behavior, and their hope for their individual futures...The conflict occurs when a minority of believers comes to the conclusion that their own future destiny cannot be assured to their liking if even one soul continues to exist with a contrary creed...

Members of that unhappy minority, being by nature cowards unable to face opposition alone, seek out others of like faith, or failing that, start trolling the waters for weaker minds who might be coerced into entering their unholy alliance...Throwing out the chum of seething hatred and fear for those whom they see as owning unearned happiness, they drag their nets in search of pliable souls eager to blindly follow a murderous path to a false destination...

As with most of history's wars, the jihadists in their ambush of civilization, have taken advantage by striking the first blows, and drawing first blood...With motives unclear to traditional thinkers, the self-declared holy warriors have taken the early edge with broad-based surprise attacks on the mostly unsuspecting, unprepared and unarmed masses...

They further compound their leverage in their knowledge that an opposing world, made comfortable in the security of their military might, and grown soft and reluctant to use force against noncombatants, hesitates to strike back with overwhelming force when its cowardly enemy hides behind the women, children and elderly of trembling communities barely out of the bronze age...Using the innate fear found in docile, backward people, islamo-hoodlums commit their atrocities with seeming impunity, secure in their belief that a civilized world will not attack them as long as they hide behind their human shields...

In the words of General Chuck Yeager"By definition, war is immoral; there is no such thing as a clean war. Once armies are engaged, war is total."...In context, Yeager referred to the atrocities often associated with war which often results in as many civilian victims as there are military casualties...

The civilians held hostage by the delusive Mohammedites which have entered their midst are caught in a web, not only of fear for their lives if they should cross the invaders, but fear that opposing the perversion of their own religion might deny them a desired afterlife...And yet it has become clear that the only way to restore peace is to destroy the usurpers of their faith, whether it is done by them, or for them...

Even clearer is the vision of the result of this cleansing as the dissenters among the beset-upon civilians know that battling the deviant practitioners of their faith must result in their total removal to the last man, and may result in incalculable numbers of deaths among the innocents...They also know that having the war fought for them will likely result in a far greater death toll because of the western world's access to weapons capable of reducing entire nations to smoldering craters...

On the other side of the world, others look for a way out of this horrifying scenario, remembering the lessons of less than a century ago when a nation had its chance to rid itself of evildoers, and instead chose compliance and appeasement in the hope the atrocities would simply melt away...Their choice of taking no action resulted in worldwide conflict at the cost of the lives of millions, when the deaths of far fewer could have prevented it...

As the controversy draws to a seemingly inevitable clash, individuals, families and groups find themselves facing the choice of assigning final importance to only one of two allegiances: religion or country...One being intangible and yet encompassing not only life, but afterlife; the other representing all they've ever seen or heard their entire lives, and for which brave people died so that they might carry the torch forward...

At least at this point, it is a choice...At a later point, it may be an irreversible conclusion...The two alternatives seem on the surface to be narrowly connected, but once a collective decision is made, events may place former close allies on opposing ends of a wide moral chasm, similar to the choice faced by Americans in the mid-19th century...

The impending decision centers on whether a broad-based religious belief, already divided into sectarian splinter groups, is capable of cutting out its own cancerous organs, allowing it to co-exist with other dogmas, or if it is willing to allow others to perform the operation who, being unfamiliar with the anatomy, simply remove everything that looks like it could be a problem...In the latter case, the operation may be a success even though the patient dies...

It all seems to come to a choice between who lives, and who doesn't; them or us, with them bringing swords to fight a nuclear war...The choice narrows with each dawning day...


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