There is no doubt they are perfectly honorable men
and woman, but you cannot expect them to find a cure for jihadism any more than
you can expect a perfectly honorable group of rats to find a cure for the
disease which is most associated with them: the plague.
And yet, Clifford D. May is telling us about a
group of men and women who came together to “develop a comprehensive plan to
prevent the underlying causes of extremism in fragile states in the Sahel, Horn
of Africa, and the Near East.” He says this was done at the urging of guess who
– you won't believe this – the Congress of the United States. It is like Harvey
Weinstein calling for abstinence.
You can read all about this strange phantasmagoria
in the article that Clifford May wrote under the title: “Extremism and fragile
states,” published on September 11, 2018 in The Washington Times.
The truth is that Islamic jihadism exists for the
same reason there was the carpet bombing of the German city of Dresden and the
nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is that
America and its allies in Europe and Asia were attacked. And so, they responded
with counterattacks of their own. They may have done a great deal of overkill,
but they did not start the fight.
Rightly or wrongly, a handful of Muslim kids see
their kinfolks being attacked by the Christian forces of NATO and the Jewish
forces of Israel – all done for no reason and without provocation. And so, the
kids formed militia cells to respond with counterattacks of their own.
The kids were forced to use the unconventional
methods and weapons they developed on their own because the conventional armies
of the Muslim countries that were supposed to protect their kinfolks, proved
incapable of doing the job. The lesson here is that Muslim jihadism will
disappear when the “Judeo-Christian” menace to Islam will disappear. That's
where it all begins and ends. It is as simple as that.
But that's not what people like Clifford May and those
like him –– as well as the editors of the Washington Times and those like them
–– want. In fact, what they want is the opposite. So you ask: What can be done
to verify this claim? Again, the answer is simple. Look at the title of May's
article. It speaks of “fragile states.” Now go over past issues of the
Washington Times as well as the previous columns of Clifford May. What do you
think you'll find? You'll find all kinds grand debates about the virtues of
destabilizing countries that happen to be Muslim, one of which being Iran at
this very moment.
Do you know what destabilize means, my friend? It
means render the country fragile. So you have a situation in which those who
cause the fragility of nations (call them destabilizers) pretend to search for
a cure to that fragility. They lament they cannot find one, and then blame the
illness on the Muslim kids who are actually fighting the destabilizers in a
losing effort to protect the victimized nations from becoming fragile and
collapsing.
But collapse is what the destabilizers want
because it gives them the opportunity to do regime change. If and when this
happens, they'll pick their man and his group of traitors, and ask them to form
a government. When ready, the group will move the nation into the orbit of the
destabilizers who will exploit it no end.
Instead of facing up to these realities and using
honest methods to search for a cure to a problem they say is upsetting them,
the destabilizers beat around the bush. They do so by producing all kinds of
fake theories that make no sense. You can see how they go about doing it in the
following condensed passage:
“Extremism thrives where governments are weak.
Britain, France and Germany produce extremists. What role is played by Islam?
We are at war with a movement in the Islamic world. Many of those joining
jihadi groups are fleeing fragile if not failing states; others want to
participate in what they see as a glorious project. And some may be eager to
trade humdrum lives for a license to pillage. There's Lebanon where the
dominant force is Hezbollah, terrorist proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran”.