THE EYE BEFORE THE STORM: THE IMPENDING WAR OF RETRIBUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

THE EYE BEFORE THE STORM: THE IMPENDING WAR OF RETRIBUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

1-Preamble

The message is as clear as the bright sunshine in summer, as the dazzling ghost in the skyline, that there are some persons or some beliefs out to cause mayhem and bring the rest of the world to their knees by reverting to the Stone Age traditions of dog-eat-dog, eye for an eye or tooth for a tooth. One of their doctrines was that if you did not accept their propositions, you were their enemy and had no choice but to go on a duel with them. We would like to quote at length what I wrote earlier on this blog regarding this subject matter I am skirting around:

·They (radicalized Muslims-my expansion) view non-believers of their faith as pagans and should be coerced to be followers as stipulated in their holy book, Quran. Is that true? Where is one's liberty or human right?

·They view women as inferior creatures that had to be used for man’s pleasure and producers of children. (Is that true as outlined in the UN Declaration of Women’s Right adopted by the General Assembly on November 7, 1967-my italics?)

·They therefore deny women education for fear that if they are educated they could rebel and ask for their liberty or become Amazons and turn round to rule them as some) Western Women. (Would one not be glad to have a Saudi Arabian woman president, as the German Chancellor Angela Merkel with her open-door policy of getting in Syrian refugees and others? What can a Western woman do that a Saudi Arabia or an Arab woman cannot do because of her belief?)

·They proclaim fatwa on persons as Salman Rushdie who questioned even in the work of fiction their beliefs. You can castigate Christianity, you could debate but the Christians will not hang you as ISIS is presently hanging Christians in their caliphate.  [Vide: http://vibanflagbooksinternatinal.blogspot.com/2014/09/religion-and-racism-in-wake-of-isis.html]

This sort of rhetoric cannot be condoned in the 21^st century. It cannot be the norm, as it is decadence. The tradition of the modern world is clear in all reasoning persons’ minds; that if you want to bring about positive changes, if you want people to follow your doctrines, and if you want them to follow and remain loyal with you or your philosophy, for as long as you want, you have to do it democratically and not using even a modicum of force. (I have defined democracy below for those who doubt it and want to revert to the old days of dog-eat-dog). If you succeed with your gentle and democratic means, your doctrine will last and even level rugged mountains, tear down walls of diamond, level stony and steel huddles on its wake and permeate all walks of life and humankind.

To be continued......