Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Jihad's goal: caliphate

When terrorism makes sense -Barry Rubin

A radical Islamist dictatorship in which the ruling elite's whims are rationalized as divine will is the shining hell that is the movement's ultimate goal. This replaces the Marxist dictatorship of those claiming to embody the proletariat's needs with that of those pretending to interpret divine desires.

Crazy people can be given therapy; misunderstandings can be cleared up with dialogue; honest grievances can be resolved by mutual concessions. [However,] with determined, ideologically clear, mass-based revolutionary movements you can either defeat them or surrender. A third option is holding them off - that is, preventing them from winning for a very long time until they are truly worn down. Refer here to the history of Communism.
[Jerusalem Post]

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