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With the start of Ramabomb, the
Free World should increase its security measures in light of Mohamadans’ habit
of escalating their usual level of violence to higher frequencies with more
deadly consequences. The jihadist bombing of a bus of Israeli tourists in
Bulgaria last week foreshadows the renewed tradition of savagery during the
month considered sacred on the Islamic calendar. While bracing themselves for
the inevitable jihadist attacks, civilized people should also take stock of
events since Ramabomb ended last year.
Outbreaks of jihadist
insurgencies have led to the fall of a handful of oppressive though not
explicitly theocratic regimes within the Islamic bloc. In Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt
& Libya, autocratic governments have collapsed in the face of an Islamic
tsunami. Future waves of this storm threaten to devastate Syria, Irak,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia and Algeria.
The authoritarian yet not
overtly Islamic regimes have given way to power grabs by Islamists. The most
populous nation in the Middle East, Egypt, has succumbed to the Moslem
Brotherhood. The appearance of a fully enshrouded wife of the newly elected
president serves as a harbinger of further oppression of the perennial targets
of Islamists: women and non-Mohamadans. Jihadis have ramped up attacks on
churches and the Christians inside them since the collapse of Mubarak’s
government.
The Free World has no reason to
favor blindly the widespread discontent leading to toppling of governments throughout
the Middle East. The unrest in Iran appeared on its face as opposition to the
Islamic oligarchy. However, the demonstrators were not demanding freedom from the
foreign ideology imposed on their ancestors by Arab armies centuries ago. The
crowds did not storm and destroy mosks, madrassas or other edifices of Islam as
Islamists did to symbols of Persian civilization and modernity in general
erected during the Shah’s reign. They merely demanded the ouster of the current
occupants in the seats of power. Calls
for a less brutal dictator in Iran do not equate to desire for liberty.
If someone needs a concrete
example of how a country can devolve to a full- fledged totalitarian state with
Islam as its sole basis for power, a look at Iran over the course of the past
35 yrs is required. Iran, like Egypt, is a highly populated and predominantly
Islamic nation. However, a significant presence of other ideologies has existed
in these two places. Both were headed by an autocratic who was outwardly friendly
toward the Free World. Sadly, in the cases of these two significant members of
the Islamic bloc, the United States’ governmental policy turned against its
erstwhile allies against Islamists in favor of rebels who soon displayed their
Islamist loyalties.
Some glimmers of hope have
occurred despite rising tide of Islamization. The secession of South Sudan struck
a blow for freedom against the cesspool of merciless jihadis ruling the
northern portion of Sudan. The
National Forces Alliance, a political party seemingly non-Islamist, won a plurality
of parliamentary seats. The NFA grabbed more than twice as many seats in
elections this month than did the Moslem Brotherhood’s party and another
Islamist group in the forefront of toppling Kadaffy’s regime. Moncef Marzouki,
the newly elected president of Tunisia, has openly pushed for a secular
republic without a constitution not based on Sharia. In Algeria, the National
Liberation Front, a mostly non-Islamist party comprised of supporters of the
military-run regime, secured nearly a majority of seats in parliamentary
elections in May.
Unfortunately, even apparent
victories against the further encroachment of Islam seem tenuous or fleeting.
The fragile South Sudanese government will not be able to hold off continued
attacks by jihadis without significant aid, military and humanitarian, from the
Free World. Also, the National Forces Alliance in Libya, despite the reputation
as an alternative to Islamic parties, has stated its desire for Sharia to serve
as the basis of the country’s laws. Marzouki’s hopes for a secular republic
depend on the sizeable group of Tunisian Islamists’ refraining from seizing
power then imposing a theocracy when future elections go against their wishes. Algerian
elections have had weak turnouts so the results provide little legitimacy for
the non-theocratic government among the populace. Throughout history, Islamists
have not graciously accepted others’ refusal to submit to their totalitarian
ideology and cede power to those rejecting Islamic supremacy. No one should
remain under any delusions that any country within the Islamic bloc will
transition smoothly or rapidly into a republic dedicated to economic and social
freedoms.
COPYRIGHT BY
CHARLES KASTRIOT JULY 2012
