A Storm of Unstoppable Proportions

However determined the Western allies may be to pacify the growing reality of Islamist offences against moderate Islamic regimes and their populations, for the very compelling reason that this is the way, ultimately, that they will defend the populations within their own borders, it seems a task of monumental proportions, resembling the labours of Sisyphus. As soon as one area is thought to have been rid of vicious Islamist jihadists, another opens up.

The amazing thing, to the western mind, about the passions latterly unleashed by Islamist Terror Incorporated, is that these Muslims, dedicated to inflicting unreasoning fear and horror through their gruesome acts of mass murder, claim to be acting in the name of Islam, directed by interpretations of the Koran, the hadith, through sharia law. Theirs, they insist, is the true face of Islam, while moderate Muslims shudder, and deny that their Islam is one of murder and mayhem.

That the vast aggregate of moderates within the Muslim world are themselves labelled apostates by fanatical Islamists ensures that their time on this earth is limited. For the Islam that the fanatics serve does not recognize the humanity of those who defy medieval fundamentalist Islam, instead inspiring jihadists to greater atrocities for the greater glory of Islam. And just incidentally to achieve the highest order of praise, becoming martyrs to Islam.

It seems unfeasible, compellingly lunatic, frantically puzzling to those in the West, that Islamists' first order of business is to destroy those among the Ummah who don't share their deep dedication to the destruction of all vestiges of Western influences by murdering those who live between both worlds. But the point is to radicalize all of Islam, to ensure that all Islamic countries obey sharia law, nurture suspicion, fear and hatred of all that is not fundamental to 'pure' Islam.

And from there march on to righteous jihad that demands utter submission to the exhortations of the war-hungry mullahs, to attain the fulfillment of a global Islamist imperialism. Resentment of non-Muslim successes in modern achievements leading to political and social domination through excellence in scientific enquiry, education, justice, finances and social structures fuel the determination of Islamists to bring a brutal end to Western influence and its universal success.

To the Islamists there is nothing sacred about a mosque, about one's co-religionists, about the health and welfare of children, of women, of entire communities. They can all be destroyed with impunity, sacrificed to the larger achievement of global domination of a fundamentalist, Islamist order. To the lover of Islam, the student of Islam, all of this is counter to Islam's original purpose and the message of Muhammad.

Claiming to embrace death rather than fearing and attempting to avoid it, as most intellectually sound and rational humans do, dedicated jihadists have managed to stifle the human being residing within all of humanity, to emerge as killing machines fearing nothing and hating everything that doesn't represent the achievement of their goal. Their mullahs and imams and ayatollahs celebrate their bloody exploits and suicide missions as martyrs to the cause.

Their pride in themselves, their insistence that honour is to be found in spreading fear and violating all human norms of civilization and human rights speaks volumes of their lack of the fundamentals of humanity, their total abnegation of charity and responsibility toward even those of their own faith. If there will ever be a working protocol to apprehend this pathology of hate-lust and death-deliverance it can only be from within.

All the weapons and armed forces that the combined determination of Western countries muster to defend themselves by defeating and obliterating Islamist jihadism will fail, without at least a corresponding dedication to that same end evinced and acted upon by the countries of the Islamic world. It is their plague that has spread its deadly tentacles toward the entire world.

It is from them that the final, deliberate and decisive actions must come to contain and combat Islamist terror. Self-preservation alone should dictate that they would recognize this as inevitable, before they fall to the inevitable onslaught that is raging toward them.