On Muslim solidarity

In the war between militant Islam and the rest of the world, one thing is becoming horribly clear: In their quest to simply hurt, maim and kill infidels, Muslim terrorists feel that collateral damage that includes their very own people is not a factor whatsoever.
When these terrorists detonate a bomb somewhere they don't seem to mind at all if they kill fellow Muslims in the process. The act itself is obscene, the indifference to the suffering of even their own is even worse. But the most appalling side to this issue is the way the general population handles events and people like these.

THEY DO NOTHING.

They get killed by their own, and they don't fight, they don't protest, they don't say a word. Look at the horrific violence in Indonesia, Iraq, the Philippines, the many African countries. Either they all agree with it, or they are resigned to it being a way of life.

Some European countries refuse to designate Hamas as a terrorist organization because they have a social wing, and a humanitarian wing. The Arabs only need these organizations because normal daily life has become all but impossible because of the strict security imposed by Israel after so many Jews were murdered and maimed by Muslim terrorists. The motives of Hamas are therefore cynical and pragmatic: We end life as we know it for our fellow Arabs, thus forcing them to turn to us. And Hamas has plenty of money, the Saudi's (and until recently Iraq) make sure of that.

But the blame does not rest on Hamas alone. The Arabs in general are all too ready to turn to Hamas. There are plenty of examples where the stability and security of a nation was threatened by an insurrectionist group that acted against a neighbour, and the neighbours retaliation threatened the entire country. If the insurrection is not broadly supported, or even acted against, it will wither and die.

The Muslim terrorists that act this way have learned this lesson in Vietnam. The VC would occupy a village, mount strikes and actions from it, and a retaliation against the village was sure to follow, in Vietnam often out of all proportion. People who where until then neutral in the conflict, or even oblivious of it, were immediately traumatized, and - although many realized who caused all the misery - often became mortal enemies of the US.

Israel shows relative restraint in this conflict, no doubt aware of the effect a more forceful response might have. But the issue at heart is the obscene pragmatism that enables terrorist to sacrifice the wellfare and wellbeing of their own people, in order to create a larger base of support for their operations, and to make an enemy hated even more. The hatred and depravity needed for this is unfathomable. And it would be as incomprehensible to the "militants" themselves as well, if they had ANY love in their beings at all.

But they don't. They are hatred incarnate.