The Nihilism of Islamofascism

Edward Cline at CapMag.com has this to say on the 'philosophic' nature of Muslim terrorism: The Nihilism of Islamifascism: Taking it Personally. Some choice quotes:

The unexpurgated Koran offers the perfect “moral” game plan for killers who are fundamentally the same as Charles Manson, Richard Speck, or the Son of Sam, obsessed with death, their victims’ and their own. After all, Mohammed commands the true Moslem to:

“Kill the disbelievers where we find them.”

“Slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers.”

“Strike off the heads of the disbelievers…(make a) wide slaughter of them…”

Those are just samplers from the Koran.

Cline characterizes Islamic extremism as Nihilism. And there's a lot to say for doing so. Extreme proponents like Al-Zarqawi clearly have nothinn on their mind than mayhem for mayhem's sake.

In her later writings, especially in Atlas Shrugged, Miss Rand identified the nature of the beast, that is, its motive and purpose: a hatred of existence, of the good for being the good; and destruction of it for the sake of destruction, and killing for the sake of killing.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines nihilism (which, as a political philosophy, first appeared in Tsarist Russia) as: “Negative doctrines in religion or morals; total rejection of current religious beliefs or moral principles.” In a strictly philosophical context, nihilism is “an extreme form of skepticism, involving the denial of all existence,” or “nothingness, non-existence.”

The Columbia Encyclopedia describes the modus operandi of nihilist “activists” in Russia, which differ not an iota from the contemporary terrorist methods of Al-Quada, Hamas, Hezballah, the IRA, Basque Separatists, and other terrorist organizations:

“Nihilism stressed the need to destroy existing economic and social institutions, whatever was to be the nature of the better order for which the destruction was to prepare…” Agreement between different programs of nihilism “was not essential to the immediate objective, destruction. Direct action, such as assassination and arson, was characteristic. Such acts were not necessarily directed by any central authority. Small groups and even individuals were encouraged to plan and execute terroristic acts independently.”

Sound familiar?

Compulsory reading.