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Our leaders must stop focusing upon ISIS! ISIS entices but it is not the crisis! A potential nuclear Iran is the crisis --here and now --today!

ISIS Crisis Entices



It is a truism that the most important thing is never the obvious thing --the enticing thing. Currently, ISIS is the most enticing topic in the world of talking heads. Yet even though ISIS entices, far more dangerous events are at play in the world: The coming of a nuclear Iran. Yet ISIS is of some importance. Despite all the well-deserved attention upon ISIS, however, the majority of media consultants miss the point entirely. ISIS is not significant because of what it's doing in the world. It is significant because what it is doing in the world draws legitimacy from the foundational texts of Islam. ISIS even does us the favor of publishing the Qur'anic justification for its practices.
Aside from the horror and gore of ISIS predations ISIS confronts the world with the specter of physical/violent Jihad not as the activity of a radical few, but Jihad as a Qur'anic imperative for all believers. In fact, Jihad has been a manifest and mandatory aspect of Islam since Mohammad migrated from Mecca to Medina, i.e. for the last 1400 years, as documented in the following Qur'an verses: 2:191-193, 2:216, 3:151, 4:74, 4:76, 4:95, 5:33, 8:12, 8:39, 8:67, 8:65, 9:5, 9:20, 9:29, 9:73, 9:123, 17:16, 33:60-62, 48:17, 48:29, 61:4, 61:9, among others. In addition to Jihad, ISIS articulates its devotion to the "beautiful pattern of conduct" of Muhammad (Qur'an 33:21), taking Muhammad to be the ideal example of ethical and moral behavior for all mankind. They remind the world, however, that all believers are called upon to imitate all of Muhammad's behaviors, including his warlord behaviors (622-632), such as his slaughtering of women and children, killing prisoners of war, assassinating, torturing, burning, stealing, robbing, conquering, extorting, raping, and enslaving, and more. Muslims are called upon to do all of these things --to do them in particular to unbelievers. And Muhammad's behaviors are not only described in the Qur'an but are precisely enumerated as well within the two other foundational texts of Islam: The Sira (Mohammad's biography) and Hadith (Mohammad's traditions). Given these troubling findings, many commentators prefer to exclude the bulk of Islamic material as "political," i.e. the material having to do with conquest, government, laws, etc., rather than "religious," i.e. beliefs about the nature of existence, God, and man's relation to God. Using the designation "Political Islam" facilitates the clarification that one is speaking about a political ideology and not about Muslims in general. The world's 1.4 billion Muslims are clearly, overwhelmingly, not patterning their lives after Muhammad's, nor are they strict adherents to the political aspects of Islam. Unfortunately, however, quite a few are. Which leads us back to ISIS. The warm and fuzzy aspects of Islam --the ones declared to "be" Islam by "moderate" Muslims, derive from the Meccan portions of the Qur'an, i.e. from Mohammad's time in Mecca, where he preached peace and justice, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

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Qur'anic doctrine of abrogation erases most of the peaceful Meccan passages of the Qur'an and replaces them with the "Mohammad as warlord" passages from Medina

Unfortunately, the Qur'anic doctrine of abrogation (Qur'an 2:106, 16:101, 53:3-4) erases most of the peaceful Meccan passages of the Qur'an and replaces them with the "Mohammad as warlord" passages from Medina. Significantly, however, many Islamic scholars do not believe the Qur'an requires abrogation of earlier verses. Many adherents find this confusing because the earlier Qur'anic verses (peaceful) are wholly inconsistent with later verses (not peaceful). In this case, then, given a dualistic Qur'an, (opposites true at the same time), it is understandable that many Muslims (fortunately) do not feel compelled to comply with the later (not peaceful) verses. In any case, if one pays attention to the Qur'an, one will find ISIS operating exactly as the Qur'an commands faithful Muslims to act. The fact your Muslim neighbors and co-workers don't act this way is likely because:
  • a) They haven't read their own foundational literature, or
  • b) They don't understand the dual nature (Mecca/Medina) of the Qur'an, or
  • c) They don't understand or agree with/agree exists the Qur'anic principle of abrogation, or
  • d) They do understand all these things but choose to ignore the commands of their faith anyway, "picking and choosing" the parts of the Qur'an they like best, and ignoring the others, or
  • e) They do understand these things, and comply with them as they are able, but mislead unbelievers into considering them to be "moderate."
Because ISIS claims Qur'anic justification for even its most heinous acts, it constitutes a slap in the face to the legions of Leftist nabobs still nattering about "the religion of peace," "jihad only means inner spiritual struggle," "all cultures are the same and of the same value," "if we stopped making them (Muslims) mad, they wouldn't hurt us," "but look at all the "moderate" Muslims," etc. These sorts of people, in our government, our media, our pulpits... are dangerous. They believe their own delusions. And in so believing they prevent Americans' understanding of a more catastrophic threat --a threat greater than a thousand patches of ISIS. Our thought leaders also wish to maintain our focus upon ISIS, to destroy it, because every single day it highlights the foundational principles of Political Islam. This means every single day ISIS puts the lie to twenty years of the Left's blather about Islam. Such effrontery cannot be tolerated by the Left. So, what should we focus upon in the days ahead? After 27,000 Islamic terror attacks since 9/11, and after November 13, what bears closest scrutiny now?

Iran. Nukes. Missile Guidance Technology

Every single moment of every single day, starting ten years ago, the nuclear Iran issue should be/should have been the sole focus of the best and brightest in all areas of our military and government. Why? Most fundamentally, Islamic jihadists claim to love death more than life. Death in Jihad is its own reward, the only certain way to enter paradise. Accordingly, Iran's leadership is unlikely to be concerned about losing ten or twenty million Iranians in a retaliatory nuclear strike by the U.S. And they have been refreshingly clear and consistent about their loathing for America and their intention to destroy America. Accordingly, the old "M.A.D. doctrine," the doctrine of mutually assured destruction were the U.S. or the Soviets to strike the other first, does not apply to Iran. There is no mandate for self-preservation at work. Given that Iran likely believes it can absorb a retaliatory strike by the U.S., what prevents it from launching a first strike upon the U.S.? Nothing, other than it has yet to construct a nuclear bomb. But Iran is already so advanced in missile and guidance technology its missiles are almost already capable of reaching the United States - accurately. And now, with President Obama's virtual consent, Iran is redoubling its efforts to build a nuclear device. Expert opinions vary, but it is likely that within five to eight years Iran will achieve nuclear warhead and missile technology sufficient to create a Hiroshima-sized blast over Manhattan. What then? Even if there is only a 1 in 100,000 chance Iran could pull this off, is there any conceivable reason the worst-case scenario shouldn't be on all our heads-up displays? There are no second chances with nuclear weapons. The Left's collective, "we're sorry, we didn't mean for that to happen," won't help much when New York's skyscrapers dissolve into plasma, when 100,000 New Yorkers die in the first three minutes, or when radiation makes the heart of Manhattan uninhabitable for a thousand years. Nope. It will just be too damned late. It is this 1 in 100,000 chance that should be talked about every day until we know we are safe. Obama once called ISIS "the J.V. team." Compared to a nuclear Iran, however, ISIS is at worst merely a faint harbinger of bad things to come. It can only be hoped our leaders are already feverishly war-gaming various scenarios to prevent a nuclear Iran (beyond the tissue paper of Obama's "deal"), and to cope with a nuclear Iran, considering all adult options, even up to and including a first strike. Our leaders must stop focusing upon ISIS! ISIS entices but it is not the crisis! A potential nuclear Iran is the crisis --here and now --today! Of course, it must be admitted we're talking about a bunch of New Yorkers here. But New Yorkers are people too.

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