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Psychological Warfare and Terrorism (de fanging Islam)
Crisis Magazine ^ | October 23, 2014 | WILLIAM KILPATRICK

Posted on 10/25/2014 1:57:17 PM PDT by NYer

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1 posted on 10/25/2014 1:57:17 PM PDT by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; Berlin_Freeper; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 10/25/2014 1:57:37 PM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: NYer

I’ve said all along it’s not “72 virgins”. It’s a “72-year-old virgin”.


3 posted on 10/25/2014 2:02:02 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: ataDude

A picture of 72 Helen Thomases should cure them of jihad.


4 posted on 10/25/2014 2:04:42 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: NYer
Silly. It's no more likely that a Muslim will give up the 72 virgin belief than that a Christian will give up the ‘Resurrection’ belief.Besides the 72 virgin belief is primarily for the surplus men. When one can can have four wives - three men will have none.
5 posted on 10/25/2014 2:17:58 PM PDT by GOPJ (Obama would rather we die than offend West Africa. - freeper goldstategop (same for the CDC))
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To: NYer

Confident and well-armed Christians are the best antidote to muslim barbarity. Anything less and you invite the cancer to metastasize.


6 posted on 10/25/2014 2:22:58 PM PDT by marron
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7 posted on 10/25/2014 2:25:08 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: NYer

We have to fight their evil ideas with better ideas, won’t happen on Obamas watch.


8 posted on 10/25/2014 2:26:30 PM PDT by ully2
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To: ataDude

No, each dead jihadi gets beaten up in paradise by George Washington and 71 other Virginians!


9 posted on 10/25/2014 2:48:33 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: Publius

Actually what I thought would be clever is if the US dropped flyers with nice glossies of female pilots. Just sow doubt that their fellow warriors might have been killed by women.


10 posted on 10/25/2014 2:50:49 PM PDT by Madam Theophilus (iI)
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To: NYer

The first real salvo of purely psychological warfare in the post 9/11 world was when GW told the American people that islam is a religion of peace. That big whopper was the writing on the wall that our own govt had no intention of winning a damned thing, and it was business as usual, the citizenry be damned.


11 posted on 10/25/2014 3:18:47 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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We're going to find out, sooner or later,

If Abdullah will pray, to a glowing crater.


12 posted on 10/25/2014 3:21:51 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: NYer

Dum-dums bullets, flame throwers, napalm, etc. are powerful deterrents.


13 posted on 10/25/2014 3:22:46 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: GOPJ

HOW ISLAM—AND THE EVER-PRESENT THREAT IT POSES TO HUMANITY—COULD BE BROUGHT TO AN END IN ONE, SIMPLE STEP

Matthew Bracken writes:
Your commenter James P. writes:
Muslim refusal to engage in rational debate, engage in self-examination, or permit “humorous” attacks on their religion are not weaknesses. They are mighty strengths! They are not Islam’s “brittle glass jaw”; they are its bulging biceps! These attributes generate fear in their enemies, and cause their enemies to seek to avoid provoking Muslims and to appease Muslims when they are angry.

I agree that these attributes of Islam have proven to be a great advantage to it as a war religion for 1,400 years. However, we are now seeing before our eyes a paradigm shift that may bring about the end of Islam in the present generation. Samuel Huntington spoke of Islam’s “bloody borders,” but until the modern era, the true scope of the horror was only realized by the victims living on those borders who were under constant attack (the ultimately unsuccessful and now condemned counter-jihad we call the Crusades being the notable exception). Five hundred or a thousand miles from Islam’s bloody borders, it was always difficult to make people understand the existential threat Islam presented to all non-Muslim societies. After its early rampant “break out” period, when seen in the context of each generation, Islam appeared to be merely biting off one more small slice of territory at a time. And on it marched, generation after generation, always moving forward, rarely being pushed back, impervious to self-examination or reformation, as deadly in our modern times as it was at the beginning.

That is changing now, because today the entire world sees Islam’s true face revealed when Muslims go into these insane rages after perceived insults to Mohammed. Their ingrained lack of introspection means that Muslims can easily be provoked into going beyond the stealth-mode they normally follow beyond Islam’s bloody borders, waking up the world to the existential threat Islam poses to all non-Muslim societies. Down the centuries, the West has often had appeasers and accommodationists as leaders, men who were willing to cut short-term local deals that over time always led to incremental Islamic advances. And these weak Western leaders were the only men who mattered, era by era. Today, as a contrast, average citizens around the world are beginning to understand how to push Islam’s automatic rage buttons, and this changes the former equation in a fundamental way. As you mentioned, videos released by lone, non-state actors at the right time could be used to torpedo the next sell-out by Western appeasers, such as over the inclusion of Turkey in the EU.

Another fundamental difference today from prior centuries is that millions of people understand that Islam has another tremendous weakness, another glass jaw, and that is their worship of the black moon rock in Mecca as Islam’s literal god-head. This black rock enshrined in the corner of the Kaaba is essential to Islam in a way that nothing in Judaism or Christianity is. The Cross lives in the hearts of Christians, and Christianity would not be destroyed if Jerusalem or Rome were destroyed. But that physical black rock in Mecca is the “hard drive” of Islam. Muslims believe that it contains all of the sins of all of the observant followers of the Prophet since the time of Mohammed, as sort of an Islamic Doomsday Book. Two of the Five Pillars of Islam involve the physical worship of that black moon rock. One is the Hajj to Mecca where pilgrims walk in a circle around the rock, and the other is the five-time daily prayer performed in its direction. (The other three pillars are ephemeral: the Shahada conversion prayer, the tithe, and observing Ramadan.) A religion that is impervious to change or self-examination (which James P says are strengths) cannot suddenly be reduced to The Three Pillars of Islam after 1,400 unbroken years as the Five Pillars of Islam.

In ancient Islamic history, the black moon rock was once stolen by a competing tribe, but after a brief time it was “found.” Islam carried on because nobody outside of a very small circle of imams even knew the rock was missing before it was replaced. But if Mecca was suddenly turned into a giant crater, there would be no way to conceal the fact from the world at large, including every Muslim. Today, observant Muslims believe that if every infidel nation fired every rocket and bomb at Mecca, Allah would turn them back or stop them in mid-flight. It is impossible for observant Muslims to believe that the Infidels could destroy the Kaaba, which is literally the physical manifestation on earth of their “greatest God.”

The Crusaders were only able to retake Jerusalem for a short time, and never got close to taking Mecca (assuming that they even understood its importance to Islam and had some notion of taking it). It was not within their power to threaten this source of Islam’s power and mystique, even if they had desired to do so. In all eras before modern mass communications, even if a Crusader “commando team” had made it to Mecca, it would not have changed anything, because the leading Muslim clerics would have replaced the black rock and rebuilt the Kaaba, and nobody would have ever known, in the same way that nobody at the time knew that the black rock had once been stolen and carried off.

Today, the entire world would know in the same hour that Mecca had been destroyed. This would destroy Islam as surely as the Aztec and Inca religions and empires were destroyed when the Spanish conquistadors captured and executed the “living Gods” at the center of the Aztec and Inca belief systems. If there is no Mecca, there is no Islam. There can be no Islam with three instead of five pillars, the two physical pillars having been destroyed by the Gods of the Infidels. “Allahu Akbar” means “our God is greatest.” This cannot be so if the Infidel God destroys the physical god-head of Islam, which is the black moon rock at the Kaaba in Mecca.

I have no expectation that any American president would order the destruction of Mecca, even if American cities had been destroyed with nuclear bombs sent from a Muslim country with a clear return address. However, not all nations are as hamstrung by self-doubt and political correctness as we are. Russia, India, and Israel, I am sure, have Mecca on their target list. If Moscow, New Delhi, or Tel Aviv were destroyed by an Islamic bomb, I believe that Mecca would be wiped off the planet Earth the same day, even the same hour.

And that would spell the end of Islam, after its unparalleled 1,400-year reign of terror.

No Mecca, no Islam, as long as the world witnesses Mecca’s physical annihilation. There will follow a period of madness, with many Muslims committing mass suicide and mass terror, but more of them will become atheists or convert to Christianity (“the stronger horse”). In all cases, Islam as we know it will be finished. After fourteen centuries, the steady mantra “Our God is greatest” cannot become “We used to believe that our God was the greatest, but it was proven to be weaker, if not a fraud.” The glass jaw of Islam, its inability to self-examine or reform in any way, will prove to be its Achilles’ heel. The 1,400-year run of murder and madness will at last come to an end. After sixty generations, we may be the one to witness its ultimate destruction and collapse.

God willing.


14 posted on 10/25/2014 3:23:45 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: GOPJ

Most Muslim men can’t get one wife or girlfriend, much less 4 wives. That’s why they fall for the 72 virgin bit.

And it’s nothing like Christian resurrection. That is based on love and Islam is based on hatred. That never lasts.


15 posted on 10/25/2014 3:26:25 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: SpaceBar

Bush will be held accountable by history for that naïve lie.


16 posted on 10/25/2014 3:27:28 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Travis McGee
No black moon rock, no Islam.


17 posted on 10/25/2014 3:28:45 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

What do you think about reports that the Islamic State wants to destroy Mecca and the Kaaba because it is idol worship and does not focus on Muhammad and Allah?

See

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3174075/posts


18 posted on 10/25/2014 3:55:57 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Travis McGee
No black moon rock, no Islam.

The rock's history suggests it's not that easy.

19 posted on 10/25/2014 3:58:14 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: ifinnegan

From what I’ve read, Mecca is already destroyed by the Saudis. We’re just going to have to take them out like we took out the Japs. We’ll probably be long in our graves before western governments face up to this little fact.


20 posted on 10/25/2014 4:02:00 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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