Islamists set the rules

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Many of the ‘Secular, Liberal and Progressive’ eminent people and Sec-Soc media get worked up the moment you remind them that “Most, if not all Terrorists are Muslims”. They ‘pounce’ on you yelling ‘U a Communal, Fascist, Nazi, Milosevic and what not’! You press further and ask them why only “Islam’ is at loggerheads with rest of the world? They cite ‘couple of verses’ from Koran- out of context, to convince you how the religion preaches “Only Peace and Brotherhood”! They never are tired of telling us that Muslims the entire world over are backward, illiterate, prosecuted, disadvantaged, discriminated against, and blah blah blah!

If you are my type- a skeptic- and dare ask, if it is so then why do other minorities in other countries…are not all these (backward, illiterate, prosecuted, disadvantaged, discriminated against) but Muslims alone? They have no answer but surely you would be ‘labeled’ as a ‘Communalist’-especially if you are a Hindu and live in your own country that is Bharat!

I always believed that ‘there was a method in this madness’, and it is confirmed by this article ‘Islamists set the rules’ as published in the Pioneer today.

It is an interesting read. A Must read.

So, allow me to read with you with my ‘usual communal remarks’. This time I agree with the writer and my comments are only to highlight some points made here in.

Prudent Indian.

Islamists set the rules

Barry Rubin And there are many in the West who are ready to play along in the mistaken belief that kind words and concessions can transform them. Nothing like that will ever happen, nor will Islamists like Hamas ever see the light of reason Radical forces in West Asia have rewritten the international rulebook in a way designed so they can’t lose. That is, there’s no easy response to their behaviour and strategies.

What’s even more worrisome is the widespread failure in the West (Entire world so to say. Being Indian, I will keep focus on Indian landscape) even to realise this is happening. Hamas and Hizbullah fire from among civilians and use civilian homes for military purposes, Syria or Iran deploy disinformation, radical regimes pretend moderation, and there are plenty of suckers (read mainly SEC-SOC MSM media, left leaning Intelligentsia and other avowedly secular .messiahs’) to bite the bait. (And vomit it all over)

Extremism makes many believe that kind words and concessions can transform them (if not them (Muslims) but certainly have transformed the Islam apologists for sure, they have become richer and ‘eminent’, some have done better…got Padma Bhushan too) ; intransigence produces a response that if they won’t give up we must do so.

Here are some new rules in which “we” (Islamists) represents such disparate forces as Hamas, Hizbullah, Iran, Iraqi insurgents, Al Qaeda, Syria, the Taliban, and others, including radical Arab nationalists (HUJI,SIMI, Lashkars,Pakistan on west. Bangladesh on east…). These forces are not all alike or allied (they certainly are, read carefully and you find that Islam, very much like Communism believe in Global Brotherhood. BUT, both Communism and Islam makes a clear distinction between Believers and Non believers … for Islam it is ‘Jihad’ and for communism it is ‘unbridled power to decide’ what is good for you or me) but do often follow a parallel set of rules quite different from how international affairs have generally been conducted.

♦ We’ll never give up. No matter what you do, we will continue fighting. No matter what you offer we will keep attacking you. Since you can’t win, you should give up. (You yield an inch, they will demand a yard. You try to pacify them by yielding that and they demand a Kilometer, concede that…they demanded a nation…u gave them, yet they demand more)

♦ We’re indifferent to pressure you put on us. We will turn this pressure against you. Against us, deterrence does not exist; diplomacy does not convince. Neither does the carrot buy us off, nor does the stick make us yield. There are no solutions that can end the conflict. You cannot win militarily nor make peace through diplomacy. (Right he says. I wish to add u just can not win them by any overtures.)

♦ If you set economic sanctions we’ll say you are starving our people in an act of “collective punishment”. Moreover, sanctions will cost you money and generate opposition among those who lose profits. (True)

♦ In response to military operations we’ll attack your civilians. Casualties will undermine your internal (ably assisted and abetted by ‘embedded’ SEC-SOC journalists and Liberals, Human Rightists, retired judges with an eye on Rajaya Sabha seat) support. We will try to force you to kill civilians accidentally. We won’t care but will use this to persuade many (and in plenty) that you are evil. Thus, we will simultaneously murder your civilians and get you condemned as human rights’ violators. (I agree.)

♦ If you try to isolate us we will use your media and intellectuals against you (They are either ‘comrades or cohorts, albeit they use ‘PEN’ than sword’). At times, we’ll hint at moderation and make promises of change. We won’t do so enough to alienate our own followers but enough to subvert yours. They will demand you engage us, which means you making concessions for nothing real in exchange. (Ummm! Yes absolutely true. 15% for Muslims, and’ Muslim first’ by the man who, we are told is the PM of billion plus Indians?)

♦ Talking to our own (Muslims) people, we foment hatred and demonise (Kafirs, non believers) you. Speaking to the West (Hindu too or any one else for that matter), we will accuse you of fomenting hatred. We will hypocritically turn against you all the concepts you developed: racism, imperialism, failure to understand the “other”, and so on. These, of course, are our ideas but your feelings of guilt, ignorance about us, and indifference to ideology will make you not notice that fact.

♦ We will claim to be victims and “underdogs”. Because you (read Majority….whichever…irrespective of nation.) are the stronger and more “advanced” that means you are the villains. We’re not held responsible for our deeds or expected to live up to the same standards. There is no shortage of, to quote Lenin, “useful idiots” (Communists) who will echo our propaganda.

♦ Since our societies are weak, (why?) undemocratic (democracy and Islam are compatible?), and have few real moderates (really! Do name one Muslim who is ‘moderate’ by any standard), you will have to make deals with phoney (imposed) moderates and dictatorial regimes weakened by corruption and incompetence.

♦ Even the less radical regimes, often our immediate adversaries, partly play into our hands. Due to popular pressure-plus their desire to mobilise support and distract attention from their own shortcomings – they trumpet Arab and Islamic solidarity. They denounce the West (Hindus, RSS and any and every thing remotely connected with Hindus (non believers)), blame all problems on Israel (India), and revile America (and Hindus), even as they accept your aid (They demand as their right! Haj subsidy is an example to start with). They glorify interpretations of Islam not too far from ours. They cheer Iraqi insurgents, Hizbullah and Hamas. They don’t struggle against Iran getting nuclear weapons (Cohorts! Remember a ‘front’ lending support to the present-day ‘United (?) Progressive (!) Alliance (really?:) UPA). They lay the basis for our mass support and recruits, as Lenin said, selling us the rope to hang them as well as you.

♦ There’s no diplomatic solution for you, though you yearn to find one (Even What they call as ‘people to people contact’! HUH! Some self styled ‘secular and liberals’ who are champions of ‘candle march’ on Wagha and Atari are just victims of ‘Stockholm’s syndrome’). There’s no military solution for you, whether you try that or not. You love life, we love death; you are divided, we are united; you want to get back to material satisfaction, we are dedicated revolutionaries. We will outlast you.

Finally, our greatest weapon is that you truly don’t understand all the points made above.(agreed) You are taught, informed, and often led by people who simply don’t (nay- have some vested interest to not) comprehend what an alternative, highly ideological, revolutionary worldview means. In effect, we will try, and often succeed, to turn your “best and brightest” (“best and brightest”hahahahahahah! Here they are factory like produced JNUites, who get to become ‘Secular and liberal’ journalists in MSM) into the worst and dimmest who think you can persuade us, blame you for the conflicts, or expect that we will alter our course, and we will use those mistakes against you.

The above analysis seems pessimistic (it is exact dear, do not be apologetic about it) but actually is the opposite (but, this is what it is). Most of this strategy’s power is based on spreading illusions (with the able help of MSM), depending on gullibility (!). Much of the rest relies on their enemies’ psychological weaknesses. In a sustained conflict, the radicals’ technological and organisational weaknesses, along with their mistaken assessments and unrealistic ideology, will bring inevitable defeat. They will lose even if they never surrender. They can kill people but not overcome societies determined to grow, prosper, and survive. The keys to a successful response are steadfastness and understanding. To paraphrase Francis Bacon and Franklin Roosevelt, there is nothing to fear but fear – and gullibility – itself.

(Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal. His latest books are The Truth About Syria and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle-East.)