No, what we are seeing in Bin Laden and his ilk can all be justified within Islam itself when Islam really wants to show its upraised rear end to the world. The Islamic world is coalescing around this guy as though he were the Makhdi. More and more of them are voicing their allegiance to him and their belief in his ability to triumph. Islam, like Nazism and Communism before it, dooms adherents to some rather fatuous and fanatical flights of fancy.
WHAT! No scenes from Chechnya where they slice the heads off captured Russian soldiers. This is favorite Jihadist video footage and can be purchased from the right people. Krauthammer is right about the blood blood blood part.
This sums up perfectly why they must be destroyed. It will not end, otherwise.
Concerning the Nazi analogy -- Nazis themselves wanted to live; these radical muslims want to die killing infidels.
Oh, there's one other solution: We kill you.
What is seems to me Krauthammer is saying is that the Bin Ladens and the Hitlers of the world are "outside of the square" of humanity. They have crossed over a line that says that death takes precedence over any discussion or argument regarding politics, economics, or religion, which are areas that ASSUME that what is at stake, for either side in the debate, is the most optimal condition for life, NOT LIFE ITSELF.
This is a pretty good post. People need to keep in mind Muslims mean something other than what we think when they say they are "peace-loving", they believe they will be as soon as the whole world is living under Islamic law and forced to practice this faith. This is the peace they are after and to them the ends justifies the means.
On the up side---they'll have Hillary, Janet Reno, Jane Fonda and all the feminists in long garments and veils over their faces.
In its nihilism, its will to power, its celebration of blood and death, its craving for the cleansing purity that comes only from eradicating life and culture, radical Islam is heir, above all, to Nazism.
Sorry Charlie, the enemy is not nihilism, or even radical Islam (which is a self-redundant phrase). The enemy is the Koran itself:
Medina Suras
The Chapter of Women
[Chapters from the Koran]
The Harvard Classics 1909–14But if there befalls you grace from God, he would say—as though there were no friendship between you and him—‘O would that I had been with thee to attain this mighty happiness!’ Let those then fight in God’s way who sell this life of the world for the next; and whoso fights in God’s way, then, be he killed or be he victorious, we will give him a mighty hire.
What ails you that ye do not fight in God’s way, and for the weak men and women and children, who say, ‘Lord, bring us out of this town 19 of oppressive folk, and make for us from Thee a patron, and make for us from Thee a help?’
Those who believe fight in the way of God; and those who disbelieve fight in the way of Tâghût; fight ye then against the friends of Satan, verily, Satan’s tricks are weak.
Do ye not see those to whom it is said, ‘Restrain your hands, and be steadfast in prayer and give alms;’ and when it is prescribed for them to fight then a band of them fear men, as though it were the fear of God or a still stronger fear, and they say, ‘O our Lord! why hast thou prescribed for us to fight, couldst thou not let us abide till our near appointed time?’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is but slight, and the next is better for him who fears;’—but they shall not be wronged a straw.
... Why are ye two parties about the hypocrites, when God hath overturned them for what they earned? Do ye wish to guide those whom God hath led astray? Whoso God hath led astray ye shall not surely find for him a path. They would fain that ye misbelieve as they misbelieve, that ye might be alike; take ye not patrons from among them until they too flee in God’s way; but if they turn their backs, then seize them and kill them wheresoever ye find them, and take from them neither patron nor help,—save those who reach a people betwixt whom and you is an alliance—or who come to you while their bosoms prevent them from fighting you or fighting their own people. But had God pleased He would have given you dominion over them, and they would surely have fought you. But if they retire from you and do not fight you, and offer you peace,—then God hath given you no way against them.
Ye will find others who seek for quarter from you, and quarter from their own people; whenever they return to sedition they shall be overturned therein: but if they retire not from you, nor offer you peace, nor restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wheresoever ye find them;—over these we have made for you manifest power.
We are now faced with a new situation. A situation not unlike the one we faced in 1941. Strange zealots for whom suicide is not only acceptable, but an honor. Ignorant of the ways of the real world, they are frightened and suspicious of anyone who is different from them. Requiring each others' approval, destroying that which they do not understand is the only road they know to travel.
It may take a while for our current flavor of PC to wear off, but as moslems here are pretty clear in their tacit approval of the actions against the "infidel" or "kafir", it's just a matter of time before the PC wears off and we call the moslem community to account.
It might interest some of the younger folks to know that when the japs were put into the internment camps, it was done for their own protection. The government and the media was full of "kill the buck toothed monkey jap" posters because that's how wars are won.
I hope we all retire PC and see these anti-American moslems for what they are. No matter where they live.
It's Islam.