How do the Islamist perpetrators figure that murdering an honour guard, driving cars into pedestrians, slaughtering non-Muslim bus passengers, taking hostage the patrons of a cafe, or massacring army kids and cartoonists will achieve their goal of applying Islamic law and building a caliphate? Logically, their violence only helps if it terrorises their enemies and compels them to bend to their wishes; If high-profile violence is counterproductive, why do they persist in this self-defeating behaviour? In the long term, then, these acts of violence damage to the Islamist cause. Turned around, the victims of that violence — some 10,000 fatalities in 2800 attacks in 2013 alone — did not die in vain but unwittingly sacrificed their lives in a dreadful war of wills. However, global Islamism will end up in the same dust-heap of history where fascism and communism can be found. Like those two other totalitarianisms, it promises terrible destruction and many deaths before ultimately failing. The war will be long and painful but in the end, again, the forces of civilisation will vanquish those of barbarism.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 01:25:56 +0000
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