After a sleepless night, I have concluded a radical group of
Muslim terrorist, in this case ISIL, is leading around people including two of
my friends, who happen to be very intelligent and successful people. It made me
wonder how they could do this, which is what kept me awake last night. Naomi
Klein wrote a book, Shock Doctrine: The
Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007).
She alluded to this in that book. Massive Natural disaster, for example, can “shock”
an entire population and make them vulnerable to unreasonable logic but so can
clever schemers. Her focus was on politico-economics perpetuated by the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. I wonder if that is what is
happening now with the gruesome beheading of three captured American and
British citizens. Technological advances in communications have been able to
take a primitive family or tribal trait evolved to protect them and their loved
ones from disaster and have turn it into an essentially worldwide response. In
times of extreme danger, the entire family or tribal members seem willing to
push the boundaries of logic.
Nearly three and one quarter thousand people die in auto
accident each day in the United
States and we are concerned but passively accept it; there
is neither shock nor do people panic or dash to arms or attempt to change the
way we govern ourselves—life goes on. Still certain relatively minor incidents
provoke disproportionate levels of “shock” and certain elements of society suddenly
rise up to form opinions, many of them fixed, and demand action. I look at the
furor over the Travon Martin and Michael Brown’s shootings; I see the magnitude
of response to children on our southern boarder; and Bundy stealing government grass
in Nevada. Incidents ranging in magnitude from the shoe bomber to the world
trade center and avoid the actual disasters, like the Japanese bombing of Pearl
Harbor or incidents in Nazi Germany, Chernobyl melt down, or the recent tsunami
in the Indian Ocean.
By what stretch of the imagination does the beheading of
three journalists by an organization of 20 to 30 thousand terrorists provoke a widespread
call to prevent girls from wearing a cloth over their as a sign of their faith.
In a fit of cynicism to point out the ridiculousness of it all, I recently
compared this to Jews wearing a skullcap or a Sheik wearing a turban, or nun wearing
a habit, etc. Most people understand they ISIS does what they do to call
attention to themselves. ISIS is a small group of extremist with the objective
of starting a worldwide holy war between all Christian and all Muslims. They
want people, like my friends, to rise up and condemn all Muslims just as Clevin
Bundy, egged on by the media, wanted all people in the United States to rise up
against the government. Most people do not even know the name of the fellow who
claims to be ISIS leader, thus leader of the Muslim world. Like Bundy, who
would have love it if the leader of the United Sates were to negotiate with him,
the leaders of ISIS would have loved it if the leaders of the Christian world (to
be clear, I am not talking about the Pope) would ask to negotiate with him; it
would have establish his place as a leader. I am sure ISIS loved it when the
residents of New York refuse to allow Muslims to build a Mosque in their city
just as the love it when my friends call to ban wearing Burkes in the western
world. It proves that even though they are a group of punks dressed in black, like
a kid with an assault rifle in a high school, they are an effective force the world
must deal with. It is predictable, that
the call to ban wearing hajib (head) and burkes (body) will result in the beheading
of more captives. The real answer to stopping the beheading is the degrading
and systematic destruction of ISIS. Prove there is a separation of church and
world governance; religion must not play a part in world government. Seven to ten thousand years of religious wars
and senseless killing as taught us that.
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