Islamic Terrorism Is Over If You Want It
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
In time for Christmas, the National Intelligence
Council is predicting that Islamic Terrorism will
end by 2030. And that seems reasonable. What room
will there be for headchopping barbarians in the
enlightened world of tomorrow where food comes in
pill form, flying cars take you around the country
in a minute and everyone follows international law.
By 2034, the last murder will have taken place
and by 2042, a scientific cure will be found for
crime. By 2051, even bad thoughts will have been
eliminated, and by 2062, work as we know it will be
abolished and everyone will mediate all day on the
serious questions of life. "Why are we here? What is
our purpose in life? How can there be a National
Intelligence Council so devoid of intelligence?"
In the real world, by 2030, there will be thousands
of emirates, many no more than small terrorist
groups, but some of which control sizable
territories. Mali is a reminder that a dedicated
Islamist militia backed by oil money can create its
own Afghanistan anywhere it likes. And once it has
its emirate, then like any good bunch of robber
barons, the Islamist militia will take a cut of the
drug trade, kidnap the sons of the wealthy for
ransom and shake down the international community
for foreign aid.
Western countries are already paying their Jizya as
foreign aid, trading cash for the promise of
stability. The United States and its allies have
paid out fortunes to Afghan and Iraqi militias
during the past two wars. And that doesn't even
begin to take into account the sheer amount of money
spent on development in the Muslim world. It is
likely that the United States has spent more on
Jizya, the traditional protection money payment of
the Dhimmi to the Muslim, than every other nation
had throughout all of history. And that's just the
down payment on the big bill.
Back when the Marines first saw action against the
Barbary pirates, most nations found it easier to pay
the savages than fight the savages. There are
countless such private deals that have been made
already and there will be countless more made to
allow Western countries, and their companies and
NGOs to function in territory controlled by Islamist
Emirates. And that territory will include
international shipping lanes.
The world could end Islamic terrorism by 2030, or at
least depress its stock by quite a bit, but that
would require doing something about the supply of
terror preachers, oil money and spare males, and we
have no interest in doing that. Instead the new
program is to invest in Political Islamists like the
Muslim Brotherhood while maintaining selective
peacekeeping operations against some of the more
odious Islamic Emirates.
By 2030 there will be a hundred miniature
Afghanistans, especially across Africa, while
international peacekeeping forces composed of a
combination of local militaries and NATO troops try
to push out the local bands of Salafi holy warriors,
and their pirate camps, brothels and drug labs.
There will be drones over the skies of a hundred
deserts fighting Toyota pickup trucks with bands of
hooded men firing machine guns. There will be wire
transfers from a dozen Islamic finance institutions
wending their way from the great oil economies of
the Persian Gulf and American soldiers, most of whom
will have more in common with the special forces
operator than the infantryman, who have never seen a
conventional war fought in their lifetime, heading
in on another rescue mission in the territory of a
Terror Emirate.
Imagine the conflicts of the Cold War if instead of
a single snakehead in Moscow, there had been a
million Communist millionaires across the world, and
if the Viet Cong were coming out of Oakland. Imagine
the Drug War if the drug lords weren't just savages,
but savages fighting for a world government that
would turn us into their serfs. Imagine World War II
if the Nazis were a religion that anyone could
convert to and immediately become a member of the
master race with the right to rob, rape and kill
anyone from the inferior breeds.
But you don't have to wait for 2030 to see that
world. It's already here.
By 2030, Europe will have an even bigger gap between
the rich and the poor. Terrorism will be fought with
surveillance cameras, DNA banks, numberless
informants, some of whom may be double agents,
constant technological innovations, many of them
imported from the otherwise verboten Jewish State,
and federalized police forces that are hard to
distinguish from a police state. The new police
state will be able to access the entire contents of
any computer or mobile device at a click. Even
speech that is still permitted today will lead to
prison sentences at worst or at best, mandatory
reeducation at special centers organized to combat
extremism.
The bombs will still keep going off, but they will
be a nuisance. Europeans will learn to adapt to the
occasional suicide bombing the way that Israelis
have. A bomb will go off, the survivors will be
carted away to be treated by nationalized medical
staff from the same religion as the bombers, who
will occasionally help the bombers finish the job,
the broken glass will be swept away and the
television channels and newspapers will praise the
spirit of a people unwilling to give in to extremism
and hatred, while prominently featuring the
half-hearted condemnation of a local cleric.
The No-Go Zones will grow and slowly turn into
emirates. The authorities will make deals with the
local gangs, who will act as Islamist militias.
There will be lashes and honor killings in the
formal setting of Islamic law and no one will pay
attention. Urban and suburban enclaves will
eventually become indistinguishable from Gaza. By
2030 the first crude homemade rocket, made with
plans offered on the internet, may rise into the
Parisian sky aimed at the Eiffel Tower.
By 2030 there will be more Muslims in the United
States than there are now in France. There will be
at least one Congressman who was not only sworn in
on the Koran but who announces that his program is
to implement full Islamic law. There will be at
least one Muslim cabinet member in every single
administration, regardless of party. The Muslim
liaison may even be promoted to full Czar in charge
of Muslim relations.
Like Europe, the United States will operate a
paranoid surveillance state that its critics decry,
even while both the state and its critics support
the Muslim immigration that makes such a
surveillance state mandatory. And to remind everyone
of that there will be occasional terrorist attacks,
some thwarted, some not, including possibly one big
one, when an Islamist terrorist group finally gets
its hands on chemical or nuclear weapons from one of
the Islamic states in Egypt, Pakistan, Syria or the
country formerly known as Saudi Arabia.
The America of 2030 will operate on the
contradictory paradigms of Muslim affirmative action
and Muslim wars. It will spend nearly as much trying
to buy off Muslims as it will spend on trying to
kill their terrorists. Half its intellectual capital
will be sunk into praising Islam while the other
half will be spent trying to find more elegant ways
to stop Muslim violence and kill Muslim terrorists.
Homo Americanus circa 2030 will be a veteran of two
dozen wars in the Muslim world and two-hundred
Muslim affirmative action programs. By 2030 the best
way to get a job in the lagging American economy
will be to be a Muslim.
The Russia of 2030 will be a Eurasian Empire that
will incorporate Islam on equal terms with the
Russian Orthodox Church. Muslims will be encouraged
to think of Eurasia as their Caliphate and it will
enforce Islamic law, with its own religious police,
which will answer to Moscow. The Eurasian Union will
be a decaying lawless territory run by warlords who
pay tribute to the head warlord in Moscow. Some of
those warlords will be Christian and some Muslim. In
the cities they will look like the mafia and in the
rural territories they will be conventional feudal
lords.
Some Eurasian Muslim warlords will provide training
camps and money for Islamic terrorist groups on the
condition that they don't attack them. Many of the
Jihadists of 2030 will come out of these camps,
going off to fight in Asia, Africa, the Middle East
or Europe, and returning with trophies of war,
slaves and tales of adventure that encourage other
young men to follow in their footsteps.
Other countries, including possibly the United
States, will set up similar terrorist training camps
on their own territory for Islamist groups plotting
to carve out their own Emirates in Russia. By 2030,
there will be little Afghanistans everywhere, with
Jihadis training in Arizona and North Dakota for
attacks on Russia's Eurasian holdings, Jihadis
training in Russia for attacks on America and
Europe, and Jihadis training in China for an attack
on everyone.
By 2030, most countries will have come to view
Islamic terrorism as a strategic asset, the way that
Saudi Arabia and most Muslim countries do. They will
recognize that the only way to transform the
strategic liability of Muslim terrorism into an
asset is by funding it and aiming it at their
enemies. This will not be an entirely new strategy,
but it will be taking place on an entirely new
scale, and there will be a dramatic expansion by
Islamist militias, many of whom will gain valuable
experience, training and weapons by serving as the
barbarian armies of a decaying West that they will
use to conquer the West, the way that the Goth
ancestors of Westerners did.
The Western leaders of 2012, like their ancient
Roman counterparts, have come to admire the virtues
of the savage more than the virtues of their own
civilization. By 2030 it will be clearer than ever
whether the outcome of their bloody halfhearted
campaigns to civilize the savages with doses of
democracy and civic institutions will have led to
civilized savages or the savaging of civilizations.
Is this world of 2030 inevitable? Not at all, but
considering current trends and policies, it is a far
more likely outcome than the end of Islamic
terrorism.
In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono put up
billboards with the message, "War is Over! If you
want it" to protest against the Vietnam War. That's
the magical thinking policy that Washington DC runs
on now and the National Intelligence Council, under
the Director of National Intelligence, who deleted
any mention of Al Qaeda from the Benghazi talking
points, reflect that magical thinking.
Will Islamic Terrorism end by 2030? It can if we
want it to. There are two sure ways to end a war;
either by winning it or by losing it. The world's
most famous cokehead and mental patient duo meant
the latter when they offered their Viet Cong
Christmas greeting, but winning wars is still an
option. It just isn't the option that we've chosen.
The hearts and minds way of war will take us to the
2030 that I have described. And that 2030 will take
us to a 2060 and a 2090 where the war is over
because we weren't willing to fight our enemies as
ruthlessly as they were fighting to destroy us.
Islamic terrorism can be over by September 12, 2030
if we decide to fight it the way that most of us
thought we would on September 12, 2001. We can give
our children and grandchildren the gift of a world
without Islamic Terrorism. Or we can give them the
nightmare of another 18 years of Islamic terror.