Middle Eastern Muslims are not all jihadists. Are they sympathizers? I don't know. Many, for sure. The jihadist movement is a death cult with an outsized impact on the rest of the world. Their random terror acts are designed to produce disruption, reaction, and to build enthusiasm for their movement. It works, it magnifies them and politically stirs the West into forfeiting freedoms for security, which is a terrible thing.
9-11 was not Pearl Harbor, but the world would be a more pleasant place if these ardent Muslims dedicated themselves to more constructive secular pursuits rather than killing Westerners, Jews, and eachother. Theirs is a mission and a holy purpose, and many people want their life to mean something dramatic. Furthermore, killing and blowing things up is so easy that anybody can do it. Checking out, in a blaze of glory.
Theirs is not a Western culture. It has different cultural premises and assumptions, and, like cockroaches in a building, they will never be eliminated. All I want is to keep them out of my life and to let them wreak havoc, if they must, in their own habitat. Israel can take care of itself very well.
Islamophobia? I'll confess to a mild case of that due to reading the news. It might not be fair, but I am human with healthy tribal instincts. They have managed to make themselves my bogeymen and I do not like to ride airplanes with them.
This from David Warren on Fifteen Years:
Several thousand were killed on that day in 2001 — the anniversary of the Ottoman defeat at the Gates of Vienna. This was a comparatively small number, by modern standards. The rich symbolism of this Islamist operation was lost on the West, which no longer cares for history or legend. A brilliant assault of “asymmetric warfare,” it fulfilled all of its objectives. The torch has since been passed from the more moderate al-Qaeda to the more fanatic Daesh, and will be passed again in due course. Osama bin-Laden personally lost face by being hunted down and killed like a rat, but his vision of a restored Islamic Caliphate survives him. It inspires still the young in heart and mind.
The Caliphate, today, is more likely to be achieved by immigration than by terror or armies. Charles Martel is dead. Merkel and Hollande are alive. There will be no let-up: Car Packed With Gas Cylinders Found Outside Synagogue In Marseilles, Similar To Cylinders Found With Terrorists In Paris
