tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post9174354693634652200..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Inside the Jihadi MindPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-12077464317254546512017-06-05T00:32:59.884+01:002017-06-05T00:32:59.884+01:00The Saudi connection and its Wahhabist doctrine is...The Saudi connection and its Wahhabist doctrine is essential to understanding the modern jihadi threat.<br />Also: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/15/bae.armstrade?<br />Do read the excellent Pulitzer prize story of the origins of modern day terror by Lawrence Wright "The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11"honukokuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-8397677444184619202017-06-04T23:29:58.713+01:002017-06-04T23:29:58.713+01:00"they hate it because, among other things, de..."they hate it because, among other things, democratic societies are much harder to penetrate into and recruit from"<br /><br />Evidence? Certainly majority-Muslim countries supply more Jihadis to ISIS but that is simply a question of numbers. 23,000 UK citizens on the MI5 books is not nothing. <br /><br />Instead of accusing Douglas Murray of "dog whistling" how about engaging with his arguments? On the Left all we get is a lot of huffing and puffing Owen Jones-style petulance. The first step toward solving a problem is to acknowledge that it exists. So Murry is wrong - how so?<br /><br />ISIS is a very specific organisation, one that basically views Saudi Arabia as hopelessly decadent. It has (had) territorial objectives, yet in our modern times it also has a global reach - it is an ISIS of the mind as well as the ground. But how is that ground prepared? Massive funding of the most extreme Islam by (paradoxically) the Gulf States does not help. This needs to be addressed. Double-standards at home: tolerating the return of young men and women steeped in the blood of genocide also sends the wrong message. Promoting what separates us ("multiculturalism") than what we have in common (other than shopping), doesn't help. But equally, I accept, the French are doing no better. <br /><br />There are steps that can be taken, from blocking funding, to improving intelligence, cracking down on extremism and secularising society. The FPTP system will also prevent a Muslim Brotherhood-style party ultimately holding sway. <br /><br />Yet at the same time, the very globalisation of communication encourages cultural separation and as a society we fail to offer the children of Muslim immigrants a stronger set of values than their existing ones. I view the Rotherham-style degradation of women as one with terrorism - we have to represent self-evidently more attractive values than Islam. Our capitalist society, which glorifies only consumption, fails to do so. A properly socialist society might. <br />Speedynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-38641261261945267262017-06-04T23:17:05.725+01:002017-06-04T23:17:05.725+01:00I am sorry to say that one would read a more socio...I am sorry to say that one would read a more sociologically driven pieces in newspapers than in this blog, which is supposed to belong to 'sociological review'. Where is the analysis? what else you used other than, they hate us, they don't like us, etc? <br /><br />Sociologists, I am told, should have a bit of perspective, look at the wider context, use particular theory, etc. They do not jump into conclusions after few descriptive stuff.<br />Any way, it was a waste of time to read your garbage piece.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-61777548516279939402017-06-04T19:44:31.605+01:002017-06-04T19:44:31.605+01:00The relationship between 'Us' and 'The...The relationship between 'Us' and 'Them' is an interesting one.<br /><br />There are a few ways to look it. Who is being attacked by IS?, who is not being attacked by IS?<br /><br />The Muslim correlation. i.e the extent to which moderate Muslim countries, or non Muslim countries with A high % Muslim demographic.<br /><br />The point being this may show the nature of infiltration/influence, and also the conditions/factors influencing IS's growth.<br /><br />I have not looked into the above in any detail. I am just raising it in order to understand if countries taking part in terrorism. USA, UK, Russia etc result in a safety lowering in general, i.e to non aggression participants or more particular to the 'allies/aggressors' themselves.<br /><br />I very much suspect, as Corbyn constantly states a new approach to foreign policy is needed.Badennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-79790004672535009782017-06-04T19:23:00.070+01:002017-06-04T19:23:00.070+01:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKyNkjRumqYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKyNkjRumqYasquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-38015682917249414982017-06-04T19:03:39.938+01:002017-06-04T19:03:39.938+01:00’m not quite saying there’s no link between terror...’m not quite saying there’s no link between terrorism and British foreign policy. <br /><br />What I am saying is that it’s both wrong and simplistic to claim, or to imply, that these attacks are direct retaliations. <br /><br />The invasion of Iraq gave the jihadist savages a foothold in Iraq, similarly our destruction of Libya gave those same savages a foothold in Libya – and similarly in Syria. <br /><br />And our alliance with the Saudis gives the Saudis extra resources with which to fund their regional attack dogs. <br /><br />So yes, there is a clear link. <br /><br />But it isn’t the crude, retaliatory, “eye for an eye” link that some liberals claim. <br /><br />So of course our foreign policy orientation needs a radical change of direction – yes of course. <br /><br />But the savages who massacred the children in Manchester remain inhuman savages who need to be mercilessly crushed – and there should be no search for any dialogue with themRoberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18097624792336619525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-51627196358449417302017-06-04T19:02:45.721+01:002017-06-04T19:02:45.721+01:00IS hurl gay men off high buildings, burn alive cap...IS hurl gay men off high buildings, burn alive captured Jordanian pilots in cages and force young children to take part in executions. <br /><br />i.e. A death cult. <br /><br />We shouldn’t waste too much time understanding them. We should support the ground forces in Syria and Iraq combating them. <br /><br />What was the thinking behind targeting of a pop concert by a performer who consciously markets herself to young teenage girls? This was a much an attack on young women enjoying themselves as it was to do with foreign policy. <br /><br />Do you remember about 10 years ago when a jihadist plot was foiled to bomb nightclubs in Leicester Square? The Court heard transcripts of online conversations between the plotters and what they said to goad each other on. Included was sexist denunciations of women who go to nightclubs along the lines of , “they dress in short shirts”….”they drink alcohol”. <br /><br />Manchester was more about Islamist male Puritanism than anything else. <br /><br />Don’t make the mistake of seeing these specimens through the prism of western liberalism or leftism. Don’t be eurocentric. <br /><br />What makes them tick is very different to what moves us. A completely different traditionRoberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18097624792336619525noreply@blogger.com