I've run across some interesting stories this week related to Islamofascism that I thought I would direct your attention to:
Egypt's Brotherhood Leader Calls Holocaust a Myth, Al-Reuters (12/22/05) HT: LGF
Khaled Abu Toameh, Hamas Coordinates with "Brotherhood", Jerusalem Post (12/20/05) HT: Thomas Jocelyn
Anton La Guardia, Arrests Reveal Zarqawi Network in Europe, London Telegraph (12/22/05) HT: LGF
Iraq's Zarqawi Sets up Gaza Branch at Palestinian Base, Debka (12/19/05) HT: Thomas Jocelyn
Scott Peterson, Waiting for the Rapture in Iran, ABC News (12/22/05) HT: LGF
Ben Macintyre, Mullahs Versus the Bloggers, London Times (12/23/05) HT: LGF
Regarding the first two posts on the Muslim Brotherhood, remember that this is the outlawed political party in Egypt that just won a number of seats in the parliamentary elections there. I've posted previously on the Brotherhood's primary ideological thinker, Sayyid Qutb, and the influence of French Social Darwinist thinker Alexis Carrel on Qutb's thought. Two weeks ago I posted on a recently uncovered document prepared by the Muslim Brotherhood in 1982 that outlines the plan to achieve worldwide Islamic domination. It is must reading.
The next two articles regarding the spread of the Zarqawi variety of Al-Qaeda are important for two reasons:
1) It demonstrates that Al-Qaeda is a developing organization, with Zarqawi, who is a much worse butcher than Osama bin Laden could ever imagine, as the "Executive Vice President of Development". The war against global terror doesn't end with the death or capture of bin Laden. What is driving Islamofascist terror is not organization, but ideology. We must understand this ideology in order to know how to attack it and wipe it from the face of the earth forever. Peace out.
2) The penetration of Al-Qaeda into Europe and Israel should put to rest any hopes that the worst of the war on terror is behind us. It will be worse, much worse, than any of us can imagine. As Lee Harris puts it in Civilization and Its Enemies, this is not a conflict between competing civilizations; it is the conflict between civilization and anti-civilization. Because Islamofascism as a doctrine is controlled more by Western nihilism than historic Islamic thought, we have even more to fear because destruction itself is the end. Only with the complete destruction of the West can Islamofascism build it's Islamic utopia.
Along those same lines, the ABC News article discusses the apocalyptic faith of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the place this ideology plays in his policy. The apocalyptic element of contemporary Islam is little discussed in the West. Think of an Islamic Left Behind. Islamofascism needs an apocalypse to make their system work, and they need a Mahdi (an Islamic/Neitzschean-type strong man) to make it happen. This is scary stuff, just like Left Behind.
Finally, there is some hope. The last article I link to discusses the proliferation of blogs as tools of rebellion and dissent for the youth of Iran. The reason this is an optimistic sign is that (as the article notes) 70 percent of Iran's population is under the age of 30. Think of that and how vastly different that culture will be in twenty years (if their current leadership doesn't lead us into a nuclear apocalypse). [rant on] Today, our society is weighted down by the retiring boomer generation which will prevent us from making much of a governmental change. The geezers and blue hairs have their hands in Uncle Sam's pockets, and they intend to take us down with the ship. [rant off]
Could it be that measures like those announced this week by the Iranian government prohibiting the playing of Western music will eventually cause a second Iranian Revolution? I think it will. And the soundtrack to the revolution will be Britney Spears. Lord have mercy. Then we will know there will be an apocalypse.
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