Most
of the peaceful phrases in the Koran were spoken in the early stages
of the formation of Islam. The Koran specifically states that in
cases where the ‘laws’ are contradicting, the later rules are to
be followed. (The Koran is NOT organized by when the phrases were
spoken, but by the length of the phrase) The phrases that were spoken
in the later times are the ones that mainly concern governance and
foreign policy. After all, this is when Islam held the power of
government. This is also where the war against the U.S. Begins.
As far as the ‘Nation of
Islam’ was concerned, the United States was just another infidel
country. A big change occurred during the mid-20th century with the
U.S. support of Israel. Even then, the United States was only
indirectly involved. In 1982 and 1983 when the U.S. troops were in
Lebanon, we were violating Muslim land directly with our ground
forces and had to be thrown out. We became
'occupiers'
of Muslim land. From Islam’s point of view, the U.S. was
successfully thrown out. Then in 1991, Iraq invades the national
sovereignty of Kuwait. When U.S. troops moved into Saudi Arabia and
other Muslim countries in order to kick Iraq out of Kuwait, we became
‘occupiers’ again. Even if the national government invited us in.
Islam does not recognize the authority of the modern national
government.
Ever
since then, Islam has been at war directly against us because we
continue to be ‘occupiers’. The Islamic terrorist groups are the
‘army’ of Islam. These are not ‘extremists’ as much as they
are followers of the Islamic system of governance that overrides any
and all national governments. Bin Laden is an excellent example. He
believes (as do many others) that the sovereignty of Islam is being
challenged. Historically, sovereignty issues have started plenty of
wars. Defending your country and it's territory tests the loyalty of
the population.
Most
Muslims worldwide are ‘good’ people. They do not want war.
However, they will fight for their way of life. Like the ‘good’
southerners in 1862 who fought for the Confederacy. The ‘good’
Germans and Japanese in 1944 fought for their countries as much as
anything else. Many Muslims are already fighting against a foreign
influence that is in conflict with Islamic governance and ideology.
Naturally,
Islamic reaction is hostile to infringement upon what is considered
to be it's sovereignty. Hostility does not necessarily lead to war,
but the tendency is toward violence simply because the human
frustrations that Islam imposes upon its followers requires an
outlet. Anger is one of the few emotions that appear at least to an
outsider, to be acceptable. Anger easily leads to violence. In
addition, violence is more common at least in part because Islam has
a relatively low threshold for waging war. War tends to make people
chose. Most will naturally chose the side that they live with and
understand. (Even if evil, like slavery or
the Nazi government.)
We can expect that many Muslims if not most, to side with Islam in
any open conflict. Human nature demands this. This helps explain why
so many others believe that we are creating new enemies by our
actions ‘over there’. You may not agree with many of the reasons
that I have listed as to why ‘political’ Islam causes wars. Many
contain overlapping features. Yet even if you disagree on a number of
these issues, this is enough to explain why peace has been so elusive
in the Middle East and with Israel in particular. Too many issues
within Islam are of a nationalist nature to NOT cause organized
violence. It is noticeable how Islam and the modern national
government do not get along.
Continued
with next post. (Part 2 of 3)
)
No comments:
Post a Comment