And I think of Japan post surrender. “Die in the last cave” fanaticism was turned to meek compliance do to an order from the emperor. Like throwing a switch.
Does Islam have a potential “switch” that has never been tested? I am thinking about Mecca and other unholy sites of the death cult. Two of the five pillars of islam involve physical adoration of the black moon rock in mecca. There can't be “the three pillars of islam” and it carries on, if the kaaba is cratered massively.
“Allahu akbar” doesn't have any meaning if allah couldn't protect the kaaba from obliteration. I wonder if the global umma wouldn't suffer a vast crisis in cult belief. Just total wild guesses, but I think there would be mass conversion to other religions, a mass turn to atheism and nihilism from another segment of the population, and finally some percentage would go wild ass barking mad and go on instant final jihad, like rabid dogs on one final banzai charge.
Obviously that would be a problem, but rabid barking dogs can't reconstitute their religion, if their uber-allah has proven himself to be a fraud, by not being the most powerful god. That's what they pray: “our god is greater.” If mecca is craterized, along with other prized sites, obviously he wasn't greater, and the underpinning of the cult falls away like the trap door on a gallows.
PS: I’m not recommending any course of action. But I think this might come to pass, if the jihadis manage to WMD one or more of our cities. Well, perhaps The One would not retaliate. He’d probably recommend surrender to Islam as the best path to avoid more WMDs. But not all countries have an Obama in charge. Some countries are much more likely to go “old testament” against Mecca if they lose cities. Only then would the “no mecca” theory of islamic extinction be put to the test.
We will find
Sooner or later
If Achmed’ll pray
To a glowing crater