There is a recipe the Islamist
Terrorists use in their quest to control and destroy any one individual or
group. That recipe is: Fear and Intimidation.
Yet again we have been offered the
horrors of ISIS. I guess the effect of sawing a victim’s head off with a sword,
all while being filmed for later viewing on Al Jazeera media network and then
around the world, was losing its power. These bad guys needed to up the ante,
so to speak, by moving to a newer more dastardly level of shock for a shirking,
yet curious western world.
Next on the blood sacrifice list was a
young 26-year-old Jordanian pilot who had been shot down and captured by these
ruthless Muslim terrorists. This news event gained more traction when it was
discovered that the young pilot was from a prominent Jordanian family. These
craven religionists developed an elaborate video of this man’s execution. Wearing
the now ubiquitous orange jump suit, the pilot was chained inside an iron cage.
His jump suit had been impregnated with a flame accelerant. With cameras
rolling the pilot, also a Muslim, was set afire, and burned to death.
Something in the world of Islam had
reached a breaking point. The King of Jordan, Abdullah II, had seen enough. One
of his pilots was intentionally burned alive. This outrageous act of
barbarism was too much. A response was necessary to send a message to these
terrorists and all terrorists now and into the future. Before ascending to the
throne as King of Jordan, “Abdullah headed
Jordan's special forces, a critical position in a country where the army is one
of the throne's important pillars. Educated in Britain and the United States,
Abdullah was seen as a bridge between traditional Arab values and the surging
westernization of Jordan's younger generations.” Abdullah also spent 35
years in the Jordanian military. By all accounts he is not someone you want to
mess with. As of this writing, he and his air force have flown nearly 100
bombing missions against these ISIS insurgents. The net effect of the
retaliation by Jordan is the destruction of training facilities, safe havens,
and supply camps. And there doesn’t seem to be any end to the bombings.
How will other Muslim nations and
leaders respond to this brazen response by Jordan, which is about the size of
the state of Maine? Time will tell, but this much is certain: ISIS and their
ilk have attempted to beard the lion in his den. With Jordan taking the lead,
other Islamic nations and imams are expressing support for the tactics being
leveled at ISIS.
It
should be pointed out that the current President of the Arab Republic of Egypt,
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, in early January took a very bold stance by meeting
with Islamic clerics, calling them out concerning the ever darkening mood of
the rest of the world toward Islam. “Egypt’s
president opened the New Year with a dramatic call for a ‘revolution’ in Islam to
reform interpretations of the faith entrenched for hundreds of years, which he
said have made the Muslim world a source of ‘destruction’ and pitted it against
the rest of the world.”
I am certainly not alone in
believing that the Muslim world must unite if only to rid the world of these
Islamic terrorists who prey on anyone who does not bow to their bastardized
beliefs. The United States needs to come alongside as an ally offering whatever
resources are needed to take the fight to these heartless, gutless religious
pretenders. The one caveat would be that the United States is not left alone to
do all the fighting. When Muslims clean up their own internal mess, then the
problem terrorists pose will be vanquished for a time to come, leaving the rest
of the world, and particularly the West, in peace.
It can happen. But we must
stop these murderers from majoring in their recipe of fear and intimidation.
Historically, when Islamic extremists are on a rampage, they withdraw back into
their holes to hide when the world pushes back.
This is the time to stop
pussy-footing around with these devils. They have absolutely no regard for
anyone else’s rights and beliefs.
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