The Worst Is To Come

Steven writes: I have this dreadful feeling that a truly apocalyptic act of Islamic terrorism will occur in our lifetimes. A nuclear or biological attack that will kill thousands or hundreds of thousands. This is what ISIS and Al Qaeda want – a world-historical, civilization-ending confrontation. They will do everything they can to force it on the world. They want to destroy our corporate consumerist post-religious secular world order and replace it with holy war, and then world Islamic theocracy. Genocidal mass slaughter is what they want, and I fear they’ll eventually manage to pull it off one day. The thing is, I am fairly sure the majority of the world’s Muslims are good people who just want the same things in life as everybody else. But I fear they don’t have enough courage and enough sense of righteous outrage to definitively root out their jihadi co-religionists. When they see Islamic-inspired atrocities they do a lip-service condemnation but they still see “Islamophobia” and countering possible stigma from the actions of their religious brethren as more important than shutting down the jihadis. They seem easily cowed by displays of ruthless violence (as exemplified in the ISIS snuff videos) The good ones run away because their families are more important to them than ideologies. The bad ones fight, kill and happily die because they feel empowered by being the shock force of Allah. The Jihadis have everybody scared because they love death. Normal, good people love life, but the self-appointed warriors of Islam worship death, and because death is effortless and permanent and life is demanding and temporary, they could win.