Monday, October 27, 2014

Why that religion and not another?

Roger L. Simon at PJ Media nails it regarding why the "lone wolf who just happened to find direction in jihadist ideology"meme won't wash:

You don’t see “lone wolves” adhering to another religion or ideology. Those guys up in Canada and the New York nut case with the hatchet, they weren’t spouting Mahayana Buddhism or Zoroastrianism or the Book of Mormon or the Book of Mark or the Bhagavad Gita or Kabbalah or even, these days, Marxism-Leninism-Mao-Tse-tung thought… or have I missed something?
So our so-called protective agencies — foreign and domestic — living in this PC nightmare, don’t even get to ask the most obvious operative questions such as: Just what is it about Islam that attracts these people? (Can you imagine the discontent this creates inside the FBI, intel agencies and especially the military? The memoirs are just beginning.)

And so no lasting progress is made, no traction is gained, in the war against jihad.

4 comments:

  1. Maybe not so much lately, but there's been some pretty whacky stuff done in the name of Jesus, this quite recently:
    http://www.hlntv.com/video/2014/10/17/christensen-pamela-stabbed-daughters-meet-jesus

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  2. So it's all relative and America is as bad as the IS caliphate or Taliban-ruled Afghanistan or Iran, right? The neighbor folks you see dressed up and getting in their cars on Sunday morning to head to church are consumed by a rabid ideology that motivates them to conquer towns and cities, behead unbelievers by the thousand per week and take the women as sex slaves, right?

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  3. Just an observation about religious nut cases. They're everywhere in time and on the planet now.

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  4. And in some cases they form highly organized caliphates / armies / terror networks and pose a threat to modernity and basic order.

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