The Death Of Orthodox Islam

by Alan Caruba - September 12th, 2008 - Canada Free Press

Iraq has been deemed “the wrong war in the wrong place” by people who, decades hence, will be deemed very wrong in their judgment. One of its critics, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, said not long ago, “The war is lost.” He’s wrong.

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Throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world, al Qaeda and other jihadists are being hunted and killed.

Bin Laden may be alive but it no longer matters. Throughout the Middle East and even in the heart of the most orthodox practice of Islam, in Saudi Arabia, opinions are shifting and the tides of social change are on the move. In a decade or two they will shed their seventh century outlook and wonder that they were ever so backward and barbaric.

For that you can thank President George W. Bush and the Neocons who understood the lessons of history, who understood that 9/11 had to be dealt with by punishing the enemy, Islamofascism, until the price for it was too harsh to pay.

Many have said repeatedly for a couple of years now that the opponents of the war against Islamo-fascism are simply trying to apply old lessons about war between nation states to a new environment where it does not fit. It is a war against a movement, a unique movement which has control of few nation states, but which is dedicated to ruling the world. Islamo-fascism is simultaneously conducting guerrilla war against nation states in the middle east while raging against the supposed injustice of those dictators actually selling oil to the west. We are condemned for buying that oil and for daring to try and live free within a culture they decry. This movement does not tolerate freedom. Everyone must be subservient to the religious dogma of the movement.

This war is far from over. It is not a war against Al Qaeda or Osama Bin Laden. It is a war against Hamas and Hezbolla and Iran's Ayatollahs and Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood and etc., etc., etc. It is even a war against the pansies in our State Department who have banned use of any Muslim term to describe them because they do not understand what we are fighting and do not see how such waffling weakness hurts our side in the war. Still we are winning.

I am not sure who Alan Caruba is, but he has written an extremely intriguing article about this war for western freedom, and those in the west who still do not seem to "get it".