The War on Jihad and the Jihadis
by Kyrel Zantonavitch
The West is currently fighting a rather difficult two-front war against jihadism and the jihadis. This is both an intellectual battle and a military one. In this death-struggle, the West is overwhelmingly strong in wealth, technology, and arms -- but remarkably weak in philosophy and morality.
The West today pretty much lacks all philosophical self-confidence and moral certainty. We may be rich, advanced, armed to the teeth and as strong as Superman -- but we're intellectually bereft. In this fight-to-the-finish, the West almost seems to yearn for death -- especially in Europe. Today's Western liberalism is a culture largely animated by self-hatred and dedicated to self-destruction.
In this odd, low-level war, the West is struggling for the hearts and minds of average Muslims, but against their ideologically-driven warriors. The first group can be reformed, and converted to civilization. The second group is beyond hope, and needs to be utterly neutralized -- or even exterminated.
In this world-wide battle-royal, the enemy jihadists take the form of soldiers, insurgents, guerrillas, and terrorists. They also take the form of civilian leaders, ideological recruiters, local organizers, international suppliers, charity-donors, and aid-workers. Both groups need to be obliterated from earthly existence.
But the West also needs to refute and defeat jihadism. We need to successfully philosophically damn and morally condemn it. If we do this effectively -- with truth and justice on our side -- the jihadis will almost immediately die out. By intellectually destroying the ideology of jihadism, we will extirpate the derivative jihadists -- cut them off at the root.
Therefore the West desperately needs to understand how to efficaciously argue against the deadly philosophy of jihadism. We need, at long last, to learn how to persuasively prove it false and evil -- to us and them. One obvious but powerful technique is our intellectual leaders must convincingly group jihadism with its close cousins, fascism and communism.
But to effectively do this, we must refute and defeat Islam as well. That's because this is jihadism's clear intellectual foundation. Therefore we need to philosophically damn and morally condemn it. Islam as we know it needs to be ruthlessly trashed, bashed, and smashed by the West.
To state it unequivocably: the ideology of historical and current Islam itself needs to be brutally attacked and ruthlessly destroyed. Why? Because it leads directly to jihadism, the jihadis, and our throats.
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