Thoughts About the Islamic Jihad

Monday, 8 September 2014

Hugo Salinas Price

Reports have been circulating on the Internet that the Islamic State “ISIS” is a creation of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and that the Caliph or religious head of ISIS, Baghdadi, is actually a Jew.

So questions arise: Is ISIS for real? If not, will its creators reduce it to insignificance once it has fulfilled the function for which it was created? Can a fanatic religious movement be dissolved or controlled?  Can a fanatic religious movement, initially created by outside interests, slip out of control permanently?

If the Islamic State is for real, then the danger it poses to the US would not be what the US Media are presently saying: that Islamic terrorists might enter the US and disrupt life by committing destructive outrages.

The real danger is that Islam might take hold in the US.

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Fanaticism is highly contagious.

There is a black male “underclass” in the US. This underclass includes the black men in the jails - the majority of men in the jails of the US are blacks; the unemployed and unemployable blacks, including outright thugs and those who live disorderly lives in general contempt of the Law; and the millions of young black boys, lost souls who have no hope of ever achieving anything to make their lives worth living.

It seems to me that this underclass of the black male population in the US could be highly susceptible to a fanatical mass movement fueled by the up-welling and release of intense feelings of resentment and hatred, which result from purposeless lives and the frustrations of being eternal outsiders and under-achievers.

The Islamic Jihad proclaimed by the Islamic State in distant Iraq and Syria is a religious fanaticism which could take hold in the perfect breeding-ground of the black male underclass in the US, with terrible consequences.

Nazism was a political fanaticism. But the fanaticism of Islamic Jihad is much worse and deadly because it is a religious fanaticism.

Islam is a religion for men. We have all seen pictures of hundreds upon hundreds of men – and only men - in religious services in mosques, where they all bow down with their foreheads to the ground, in total submission to Allah.

Women do not have a prominent place in the Koran. The Koran has been analyzed as a series of harangues spoken by a military leader to his army. So far as I know, Islam does not have women “go to Heaven” - only men go to Allah’s Heaven. At any rate, unquestionably, the Koran addresses itself to men, and men as fighters.

Think of an Islamic version of Martin Luther King, or a new sports hero like Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay), given to proselytizing for Islam. That leader is assassinated, but another rises up in his place, and on and on. (The classic response to such a problem, on the part of government, would be to promote a false leader who would subtly defuse the movement by channeling conflicts into “talks”. But whether such a ploy would be viable, is an open question.)

Islam appears to be made to order for down-and-out black males. Islamic Jihad would give them a purpose in life; it would encourage and give religious sanction to violence against all the “Infidel Whites”, as an outlet for the accumulated and repressed resentments of the black American underclass. Violence is of course, no solution to deep problems, but violence rooted in religion is not amenable to reasoning. Witness the bloody conflict between Catholic Irish and Protestant Irish in the recent past. Think of an event such as took place in Ferguson, Missouri, supposing that the black population of the US were largely Islamic.

The black men converting to Islam would look forward to dying for their religion. Moslems believe that death in the militant service of Islam is highly rewarded by Allah. Islamic Jihad would not be a harmless type of “Tea Party” movement; it would be a death-dealing movement. The black men would swell with pride in their new-found conviction and willingness to put down their lives in destroying the Infidel Whites which have “oppressed” them for centuries. Each fanatical convert to Islam would joyfully die in this “struggle”, provided he could kill a dozen whites before dying.

Islamic Jihad, born in Iraq and Syria, could, in time, give rise to an enormous bloodbath in the US, as a religious and race war combined. The only way to put an end to that war would be extermination of each and every Jihadist. There could be no possible truce, for Islamic Jihad does not accept truces. Islamic Jihad stands for “Victory or Death”, the classic formula of fanaticism (Compare with "Siegen oder Sterben", the Nazi motto, which means exactly the same thing). Alternatively, in such a revolution the US might be forced to split up into two countries, with a black Islamic South, and a white rest of the country. A precedent for splitting up into two countries is the case of India, which in 1947 was forced to split up into Islamic Pakistan-Bangladesh (originally united) and Hindu India, due to irreconcilable differences between the Indian Hindu population and its Islamic population.

One of the characteristics of fanaticism is that it attracts adherents. People naturally gravitate to groups that offer certainty and display complete conviction regarding the justice of their cause and their rights. Though the majority of blacks in the US are peaceable and law-abiding, they might see that one by one their friends are drawn away to the Islamic Jihad. The movement of these peaceable black males to join the ranks of Islam would doubtless be supported by credible threats against those reluctant to participate.

At present, Islam accounts for only a tiny minority (0.8% - eight out of every 1,000) of the American population, but this might change: fanaticism is catching.  (In the 5 years between 2008-2012, 500,000 Moslems became legal residents of the US, according to Pew Research Center.)

Europe is in a much worse situation, since it has accepted Islamic immigrants who now form an important component of the European population; this Islamic population is increasing much more rapidly than the native, European population. In Europe, Islamic fanaticism and Jihad are not future possibilities, but an imminent threat. In Russia, which is in fact a part of Europe, 25% of the population is Islamic. There, too, the Islamic population grows at a much faster rate than the native Russian population.

The various European governments might attempt to stem the spread of the Islamic Jihad among their Islamic populations by arresting leaders; but the Western Liberal philosophy of religious and racial tolerance would hinder these efforts, just as it has been an obstacle to restricting Islamic immigration into Europe and Britain. Besides, ideas cannot be jailed. Once Islamic Jihadism has inoculated Europe and Britain, there will be no ending the plague without rivers of bloodshed.

Europe and Britain have been stomping on the Islamic nations of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for several hundred years; for Europe and Britain, “blowback time"  is approaching. The US began to interfere in the area after WW II, and has created for itself deadly Islamic enemies. Should Moslems in the US react in sympathy with their brothers in MENA, they would find a ripe field for proselytizing in the black underclass in the US.

Moslems living in Moslem countries are quite happy with their lives; they do not wish to be anything else than Moslems; they live, work, trade and grow wealthy among their fellow Moslems. Historically, Moslems have allowed Christians and Jews to live among them peaceably, where Moslems have been the rulers. Iran is an example. But we must be clear about a fundamental fact: Islam and Western Civilization are totally incompatible, and true Moslems will never adapt to Western ways of life under Western-style governments. Quite the contrary, true Moslems consider that it is Allah's Will that all humanity shall convert to Islam, by fire and the sword if necessary.

The West is now likely to be overthrown by Islam. If present trends continue, in 40 years Europe will be Islamic territory. The only way to avoid this outcome, would be to: 1. Expel all Moslems from the confines of Western Civilization, regardless of what nationality they may have acquired, and 2. Immediately forbid any immigration of Moslems into the West - a policy which Japan follows, made possible by their ancient wisdom.

At present, it is obvious that neither of these policies will be implemented in any country part of Western Civilization.