Western governments are in denial.
Right now they know that there is no appetite for any kind of 'boots on the ground' nor for any tie-up with the odious Assad regime.
So what can they do to address this very significant threat?
They are no doubt counting on ISIS' fifth columns within the USA, UK and France to commit bombing atrocities such that a groundswell of opinion for military intervention builds. They must calculate how many bombings are needed. Another Boston or maybe a spectacular like 9/11 or another Fusilier Lee Rigby or 7/7 in London? Or maybe this time in Paris, which has a very special concern about its growing and self-alienated Muslim minority?
We should be alarmed because these atrocities will occur. There is an inevitability about this that has escaped the media.
Islam is a religion of dominance. Its adherents allow for no 'non-believers'. You are either a Muslim and follower of Mohammed or you are an infidel. Simply put, ones that doesn't follow Islam. It will come as no comfort to Christians, Jews, Hindus, Taoists, Buddhists, Atheists or those that follow the Jedi tradition, that their long and often deeply held beliefs, count for nothing. They are infidels and they must either convert to Islam or be punished.
The punishment is now being meted out on a daily basis in Iraq, to Christians and to Yazidis. Also now, we hear, to Shiite Muslims. The punishment is death. There is no concept of co-existence, no 'my way or the highway'. It's the Muslim way or death! Nothing extreme about this Sunni Muslim religion! Think about this when you next hear some liberal fool tell you that Islam is the religion of peace! Look twice and listen thrice at the 'moderate' Islamist that says that these fanatics don't represent the true face of Islam. Simply put, these fanatics do represent Islam.
Catholics and Protestants fought many wars and caused countless deaths in furtherance of the schism in Christianity but the numbers have the potential to fade into insignificance compared to the deaths that will flow from the conflict between the two strands of Islam. The 8 year long Iraq/Iran war cost the lives of an estimated million souls but that can be viewed as an appetizer for the multi-course banquet of death that awaits. The 200,000 deaths in the proxy war being fought in Syria is also barely a taste of things to come.
Right now, Sunni Saudi Arabia, with its extreme (though that term is relative) Wahabi sect, is at war with Shiite Iran and, in Syria and Iraq, the Saudis are in the ascendancy. I say this, not to seek support for Iran, who are as likely to be as murderous as are the Saudi and Qatari backed ISIS fanatics. Rather, this is a statement of the current state of play, however, should as seems ever more likely, Iran complete its quest for nuclear weapons, then the whole dynamic changes.
In this goal of achieving a nuclear capability, the Iranians are being aided by the inept policies of the Obama administration and a resurgent Russia (also a beneficiary of Obama's failed policies) as well as a feeble European Union foreign affairs effort.
The civilised world faces an existential battle.
Communist China is feeling the effects of this. India has seen this in the recent past, so has , Argentina, France, Nigeria and the aforementioned USA and UK to name just some of the countries. Even the peacefully neutral Swedes and Norwegians are experiencing the conflict between their open societies and those of their Islamic migrant communities. Denmark too has seen the illiberal consequences of allowing a cartoonist to publish his works. Indeed Russia too, has tragic experience of trying to co-exist with the 'religion of peace' but Putin, having, some in the West say 'brutally dealt' with Islamic dissidents and terrorists, is currently playing a different game to secure Russia's borders and to poke America and the EU, in the eye at every opportunity.
So the solution?
First some history.
When the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, invaded Kuwait in 1990, Margaret Thatcher was reported as telling the American President, George H Bush, not to go 'wobbly' and to have 'stiffened his spine' on the issue of confronting Saddam. She saw the threat posed by Saddam and so too did Bush #1 quickly come to this realisation.
With, ISIS, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the civilised world faces a similar choice - either we fight now, in the sands of Arabia and Persia or we fight soon on the streets of London, Paris, New York, Beijing and Dehli.
Make no mistake, this is a fight that isn't going to go away. It takes a certain type of fanaticism to hack-off the heads of people that don't follow your brand of religion. The same kind of fanaticism that causes people to fly planes into buildings or walk into a hotel and randomly shoot people or to strap on a suicide bomb vest and detonate the bomb in a crowded market place. Does it sound like these are people that can be reasoned with? The lure of the 72 virgins is just too great for these people. So since death is what they most want, death should be visited upon them and their supporters.
The solutions are not pretty but there is nothing nice about the aftermath of a suicide bombing or the beheading of innocents.
The world needs to decide where it stands and then back-up their declared position. Russia needs to say if they are with the West or against it. There can be no fence-sitting or neutrality. Why? Well this is about all-out war. And it will be bloody and terrible. ISIS and similar intolerant organisations need to be destroyed, not neutered, annihilated completely.
Similarly Saudi Arabia and Qatar need to be brought to heel. They cannot enjoy the fruits of western civilisation and industry while at the same time seeking the destruction of those societies. The leadership of these countries need to be changed to reflect the required new direction that these countries must take.
Iran must immediately cease funding its proxies in Lebanon and Palestine and completely destroy its nuclear programme. Again, regime change is needed.
Pakistan must give-up its nuclear weapons. At this time the state is too unstable to be trusted with such weapons. Its security services operate as a 'state within a state' and must be brought under democratic control before they decide to pass on enriched uranium to Islamic terrorists.
In Iraq and Syria, the allies - those that are 'with us' - need to impose a very heavy and brutally ruthless, military solution. Any opposition, any, must be crushed and crushed completely. There can be no hand-wringing in the media or from liberals in the West. The consequences of a softly-softly approach can already be seen on the streets of our cities where ISIS fellow-travelers become ever more bold in pushing their murderous ideologies. Where Islamsists kill a British soldier , on the streets of the capital and try to hack-off his head. Where Islamists explode bombs at the finish-line of a marathon race. Unfeeling brutality and force must be met with the a multiplied version of the same. Make no mistake though, this will mean bombs dropped by planes and so called civilian casualties but we will also require to put 'boots on the ground'. We will also need to impose economic sanctions against these people - starve them of the goods and yes, foods, that their people need. Frankly faced with pictures of the victims of ISIS or the pictures of starving ISIS followers, I would always be moved by the former and never by the latter.
The approach to Iraq and Syria must also be applied in North Africa and Nigeria.
In the home countries, Islamists must also make a decision. Are they with their home country, in the existential fight against radical Islam or are they with the enemy? If the latter, then they must be imprisoned - yes whole families interred. You, as an Islamist, cannot live in the USA, UK or France etc., and burn the flags of those countries or spit on its soldiers. You cannot declare certain areas as alcohol-free or forbid people to have dogs or women to walk around without a hijab. These home countries and their traditions existed ever before you did.
Immediately, the oxygen of publicity must be deprived to Islamic organisations, the Muslim Council in the UK and CAIR in the USA are at best, just apologists for their murderous co-religionists. They place an equivalence on the actions of these barbarians with those of the West They insist on applying the laws of the host countries when it suits them, while all the time trying to impose Sharia law.
Immediately, any of the ISIS fighters, from western countries, that return 'home', must be imprisoned. They must be taken out of circulation.
Immediately, the 'hate' legislation that exists in so many countries must be applied against these people that would threaten our very existence. They may not all be prepared to be front-line 'fighters' but they support, with their hate-filled words, the elimination of Western ways. There is a 'hands-off' policy linked to the failed multi-culturalist policies that the West has adopted, which exempts Muslims from the application of law. This has to stop.
Immediately, the Palestinian boil needs to be lanced. The Abbas regime in the West Bank must be issued with an ultimatum. Either you accept the right of Israel to exist or we (the West) will immediately cease all aid and impose a blockade to starve you into submission and we will fund opposition to Fatah, that does want peace.
In respect of Gaza, a similar ultimatum. Either give-up the ISIS like Hamas terrorists or face the brutal consequences of your continued intransigence. You have to decide if you want war or peace but know that war will be total and Gaza flattened!
The UK Prime Minister, David Cameron has talked of a generational struggle against this poisonous ideology and other politicians are coming to realise the battles that must be fought. As said earlier though, this isn't about the traditional 'West' This struggle affects India, China, Latin America, Africa and indeed, all of the world.
Who are you with?
Right now they know that there is no appetite for any kind of 'boots on the ground' nor for any tie-up with the odious Assad regime.
So what can they do to address this very significant threat?
They are no doubt counting on ISIS' fifth columns within the USA, UK and France to commit bombing atrocities such that a groundswell of opinion for military intervention builds. They must calculate how many bombings are needed. Another Boston or maybe a spectacular like 9/11 or another Fusilier Lee Rigby or 7/7 in London? Or maybe this time in Paris, which has a very special concern about its growing and self-alienated Muslim minority?
We should be alarmed because these atrocities will occur. There is an inevitability about this that has escaped the media.
Islam is a religion of dominance. Its adherents allow for no 'non-believers'. You are either a Muslim and follower of Mohammed or you are an infidel. Simply put, ones that doesn't follow Islam. It will come as no comfort to Christians, Jews, Hindus, Taoists, Buddhists, Atheists or those that follow the Jedi tradition, that their long and often deeply held beliefs, count for nothing. They are infidels and they must either convert to Islam or be punished.
The punishment is now being meted out on a daily basis in Iraq, to Christians and to Yazidis. Also now, we hear, to Shiite Muslims. The punishment is death. There is no concept of co-existence, no 'my way or the highway'. It's the Muslim way or death! Nothing extreme about this Sunni Muslim religion! Think about this when you next hear some liberal fool tell you that Islam is the religion of peace! Look twice and listen thrice at the 'moderate' Islamist that says that these fanatics don't represent the true face of Islam. Simply put, these fanatics do represent Islam.
Catholics and Protestants fought many wars and caused countless deaths in furtherance of the schism in Christianity but the numbers have the potential to fade into insignificance compared to the deaths that will flow from the conflict between the two strands of Islam. The 8 year long Iraq/Iran war cost the lives of an estimated million souls but that can be viewed as an appetizer for the multi-course banquet of death that awaits. The 200,000 deaths in the proxy war being fought in Syria is also barely a taste of things to come.
Right now, Sunni Saudi Arabia, with its extreme (though that term is relative) Wahabi sect, is at war with Shiite Iran and, in Syria and Iraq, the Saudis are in the ascendancy. I say this, not to seek support for Iran, who are as likely to be as murderous as are the Saudi and Qatari backed ISIS fanatics. Rather, this is a statement of the current state of play, however, should as seems ever more likely, Iran complete its quest for nuclear weapons, then the whole dynamic changes.
In this goal of achieving a nuclear capability, the Iranians are being aided by the inept policies of the Obama administration and a resurgent Russia (also a beneficiary of Obama's failed policies) as well as a feeble European Union foreign affairs effort.
The civilised world faces an existential battle.
Communist China is feeling the effects of this. India has seen this in the recent past, so has , Argentina, France, Nigeria and the aforementioned USA and UK to name just some of the countries. Even the peacefully neutral Swedes and Norwegians are experiencing the conflict between their open societies and those of their Islamic migrant communities. Denmark too has seen the illiberal consequences of allowing a cartoonist to publish his works. Indeed Russia too, has tragic experience of trying to co-exist with the 'religion of peace' but Putin, having, some in the West say 'brutally dealt' with Islamic dissidents and terrorists, is currently playing a different game to secure Russia's borders and to poke America and the EU, in the eye at every opportunity.
So the solution?
First some history.
When the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, invaded Kuwait in 1990, Margaret Thatcher was reported as telling the American President, George H Bush, not to go 'wobbly' and to have 'stiffened his spine' on the issue of confronting Saddam. She saw the threat posed by Saddam and so too did Bush #1 quickly come to this realisation.
With, ISIS, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the civilised world faces a similar choice - either we fight now, in the sands of Arabia and Persia or we fight soon on the streets of London, Paris, New York, Beijing and Dehli.
Make no mistake, this is a fight that isn't going to go away. It takes a certain type of fanaticism to hack-off the heads of people that don't follow your brand of religion. The same kind of fanaticism that causes people to fly planes into buildings or walk into a hotel and randomly shoot people or to strap on a suicide bomb vest and detonate the bomb in a crowded market place. Does it sound like these are people that can be reasoned with? The lure of the 72 virgins is just too great for these people. So since death is what they most want, death should be visited upon them and their supporters.
The solutions are not pretty but there is nothing nice about the aftermath of a suicide bombing or the beheading of innocents.
The world needs to decide where it stands and then back-up their declared position. Russia needs to say if they are with the West or against it. There can be no fence-sitting or neutrality. Why? Well this is about all-out war. And it will be bloody and terrible. ISIS and similar intolerant organisations need to be destroyed, not neutered, annihilated completely.
Similarly Saudi Arabia and Qatar need to be brought to heel. They cannot enjoy the fruits of western civilisation and industry while at the same time seeking the destruction of those societies. The leadership of these countries need to be changed to reflect the required new direction that these countries must take.
Iran must immediately cease funding its proxies in Lebanon and Palestine and completely destroy its nuclear programme. Again, regime change is needed.
Pakistan must give-up its nuclear weapons. At this time the state is too unstable to be trusted with such weapons. Its security services operate as a 'state within a state' and must be brought under democratic control before they decide to pass on enriched uranium to Islamic terrorists.
In Iraq and Syria, the allies - those that are 'with us' - need to impose a very heavy and brutally ruthless, military solution. Any opposition, any, must be crushed and crushed completely. There can be no hand-wringing in the media or from liberals in the West. The consequences of a softly-softly approach can already be seen on the streets of our cities where ISIS fellow-travelers become ever more bold in pushing their murderous ideologies. Where Islamsists kill a British soldier , on the streets of the capital and try to hack-off his head. Where Islamists explode bombs at the finish-line of a marathon race. Unfeeling brutality and force must be met with the a multiplied version of the same. Make no mistake though, this will mean bombs dropped by planes and so called civilian casualties but we will also require to put 'boots on the ground'. We will also need to impose economic sanctions against these people - starve them of the goods and yes, foods, that their people need. Frankly faced with pictures of the victims of ISIS or the pictures of starving ISIS followers, I would always be moved by the former and never by the latter.
The approach to Iraq and Syria must also be applied in North Africa and Nigeria.
In the home countries, Islamists must also make a decision. Are they with their home country, in the existential fight against radical Islam or are they with the enemy? If the latter, then they must be imprisoned - yes whole families interred. You, as an Islamist, cannot live in the USA, UK or France etc., and burn the flags of those countries or spit on its soldiers. You cannot declare certain areas as alcohol-free or forbid people to have dogs or women to walk around without a hijab. These home countries and their traditions existed ever before you did.
Immediately, the oxygen of publicity must be deprived to Islamic organisations, the Muslim Council in the UK and CAIR in the USA are at best, just apologists for their murderous co-religionists. They place an equivalence on the actions of these barbarians with those of the West They insist on applying the laws of the host countries when it suits them, while all the time trying to impose Sharia law.
Immediately, any of the ISIS fighters, from western countries, that return 'home', must be imprisoned. They must be taken out of circulation.
Immediately, the 'hate' legislation that exists in so many countries must be applied against these people that would threaten our very existence. They may not all be prepared to be front-line 'fighters' but they support, with their hate-filled words, the elimination of Western ways. There is a 'hands-off' policy linked to the failed multi-culturalist policies that the West has adopted, which exempts Muslims from the application of law. This has to stop.
Immediately, the Palestinian boil needs to be lanced. The Abbas regime in the West Bank must be issued with an ultimatum. Either you accept the right of Israel to exist or we (the West) will immediately cease all aid and impose a blockade to starve you into submission and we will fund opposition to Fatah, that does want peace.
In respect of Gaza, a similar ultimatum. Either give-up the ISIS like Hamas terrorists or face the brutal consequences of your continued intransigence. You have to decide if you want war or peace but know that war will be total and Gaza flattened!
The UK Prime Minister, David Cameron has talked of a generational struggle against this poisonous ideology and other politicians are coming to realise the battles that must be fought. As said earlier though, this isn't about the traditional 'West' This struggle affects India, China, Latin America, Africa and indeed, all of the world.
Who are you with?
