The Predictability of Islam

"Islam is dogma and worship, fatherland and nationality, religion and state, spirituality and action. Qur'an and sword."
Hasan al-Banna

Islam represents the spiritual reality of a huge segment of the world population, over one billion people. It is a compelling, dominating spiritual-political force which herds the faithful into a very specific, ordered way of life. The only dynamic it now represents, however, is its fierce determination to extend its world grasp. Its rise as a world-class religion was swiftly achieved through violent conquest. And it has returned to that pure state of its original method of persuasion.

In all likelihood if there was a monolithic unification within Islam, rather than competing, mutually-derided and hate-mongering oppositional sects they would be far more successful in their goal of world domination and an eventual religious-political-social suzerainty. A world caliphate is the aspiration of a divided-among-themselves religion born of the sword and afflicting itself by the sword.

Here is the Arab Middle East divided between itself; the Sunni majority abhoring and maligning the Shia minority, and each, given the opportunity, eager and willing to deliver death blows upon one another. Civil wars of ferocious brutality resulting from an upset equilibrium where one tyrant is removed and another takes his place. The vicious slaughter that took place when Iran and Iraq warred a fine example of inter-religious, inter-nation conflict.

Non-Arab, Muslim Shia Iran making common cause with Syria and Hezbollah and Iraq, all under Shia domination. And the Gulf States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan (and Turkey), along with other North Africa Muslim states presenting a unified majority-Sunni opposition to the naked ambitions of the Islamic Republic of Iran. And within Syria, a Shia minority Alawite Baath regime dominates a Sunni majority, a perfect micro-example of the greater conflict.

And then, there is the odd religion out, the predecessor to the trinity of the Abrahamic religions, which Islam feels justified in characterizing as redundant, outworn and outgrown by the successor, Islam, religious monotheism made perfect; no need for substitutes nor for competitors. Syria's Baathist regime is battling a Sunni insurgency, aided hugely by its sponsor Iran, and its creature, Hezbollah. Syria's more advanced weaponry courtesy of Russia and Iran is meant to be shared out to Hezbollah.

And Hezbollah, which along with Hamas, both Islamist terrorist groups aspiring to government, one in Lebanon, the other in a nascent 'Palestine', are eager to acquire more advanced, accurate missiles. Which Israel is prepared to deny them, even while Syria is prepared to deliver. And to prevent that occurrence, Israel has intervened to bomb Syrian sites through intruding on Syrian and Lebanese airspace.

The UN is appalled, the Arab League calls on censure.

The Arab League has consistently appealed to the West to intervene in Syria, to rescue the Syrian population, largely Sunni, from the brutal attacks and airstrikes of the Syrian regime. The Arab League and Turkey, although having the means through oil-rich funding and advanced weaponry and standing armies to do the job themselves, will not.

But they call upon the United States to bring matters to a head. Traditionally when America has intervened, it has brought down the righteous wrath of the Arab world on its head. Now that a country that rules in the Western tradition of democracy and rule of law has taken out some lethal weaponry, Arab League chief Navil Elaraby warns of serious repercussions, and that the UN Security Council must "immediately move to stop the Israeli aggressions on Syria."

Qatar and Saudi Arabia, while backing the Syrian opposition, live in fear of other types of repercussions; the al-Qaeda and al-Nusra terrorist militias that have gathered behind the Syrian Free Army to do their work for them far more effectively than the rag-tag Syrian militias ever did, eventually taking over Syria, making it a Sharia-led tyranny, aided by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Where in Egypt Mohammed Morsi "strongly objects" to Syria's military, yet condemns Israel's airstrikes as a violation of international law.

Lebanon's Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour called on the Arab League to take a "firm stance regarding Israel's aggression against Syria", a country that is busy paving the way "for a wide aggression that would blow up the region", and the prospect of Israel, single-nationedly, taking on the wider Arab Muslim world in conquest for Judaic control leers loud in comedic opera.

Lebanon knows all about being blown up and it knows too all about being manipulated and controlled by Syria and by Iran through Hezbollah.

The Shiite-led government of Iraq urges its Arab partners to foster closer ties to Iran. Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr proclaims "Syria's dignity should be preserved", urging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that it is high time to "retaliate".  The Egyptian leftist opposition group states its comdenation of the "licentious" Israeli attack. "No single Arab person, regardless of how much they disagree with the regime of Bashar Assad, can accept this aggression", for Israel represents the "first enemy" of the Arab world.

Sanctimonious condemnation en masse from a hugely dysfunctional group of tyrants, dictators, and authoritarian oppressors, singling out the 'other' among them as representing the fount of all ills besetting the Arab/Muslim world. Israel bombs a weapons facility and military sites killing a handful of Syrian military elite  and the world of Islam shudders and screams for the UN Security Council.

Syria bombs its own, just as Sudan has done, just as Bahrain has done with Saudi military aid, slaughtering hundreds of thousands, but what that represents in the Arab/Muslim world is the order of things as they are ordained.