Chaos in the Name of Islam...

The city of Islam is in chaos, student protestors are being tear gassed and shot, Western embassies have been torched,  McDonald's has been ransacked, and not even the Colonel's secret recipe is safe behind the counters at a Pakistani KFC.  The pillars of Western civilization are being toppled and replaced with those of Islam.  Allah, the compassionate and merciful, is being invoked to assemble the faithful into a collective force that will bring death to Denmark, France, Britain, Israel and America.  The doomed European countries have provoked these rioters by publishing childish drawings that included the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-clad turban.  Israel and America have done no such thing, but are included as default targets of Muslim rage.

 

The American media has been quite respectful of the Muslim outrage by not republishing the cartoons in newspapers and magazines, but our leaders have expressed solidarity with out European colleagues that they have every right to free speech.  Israel-- still working to remove settlers from a newly created Palestinian state run by Hamas, a group whose platform includes the destruction of their western patrons-- has also refrained from republishing the offensive art.  This however has not stopped the Iranian president from calling his resident cartoonists to take up pen and paper to make a mockery of the Holocaust.  The Danish and French papers have announced that they would gladly republish the Iranian cartoons in their own publishings.

 

How can a dispute so ridiculous and sardonically funny incite so many in the Muslim world to destroy their own cities and economies in order to teach a lesson to the arrogant West?  Punishment by suicide obscures any principles that are meant to be emphasized.  There must be another agenda at work.

 

The rioters are composed of students and the religiously devout-- those that are most easily and predictably manipulated.  I have no doubt that clerics, that run the schools and mosques in the countries overrun with chaos, are responsible for instigating the violence that has monopolized the media.  These Islamic Pharisees have amplified this otherwise miniscule insult to an abstract level that calls for an apocalyptic holy war between the faithful and the infidel.  The sheep that follow these wolves sacrifice themselves for the glory of Allah, they kill and they slaughter in order to purge their culture of tainted Western trends, they wish to live according to the code of the Koran as the clerics interpret it. 

 

And they will interpret the Koran to provide themselves with absolute power.  They applaud the terrorists even though innocent children have been murdered en masse.  These clerics live in lavish estates upwind from the city, so that they can maintain their senses while those teeming masses in the slums of the city must continually suffer the dementia caused by the build up of carbon monoxide in their blood stream due to the lack of pollution controls.  The clear headed plutocracy has convinced the poor that they represent a theocracy and that to disobey them is to disobey Allah.

 

America has seen the same threat.  The right-wing of the Republican Party has been working to define themselves as the voice of the Lord-- those that will lead the country into providence.  Luckily with the help of the still culpable media, the public is exposed to the pseudo-theocratic corruption.  We learn of the exploitation done by the politicians at the expense of the public and then we grow reluctant to reelect the crooked in exchange for those that have yet to prove themselves so depraved.

 

The rulers in these far away and chaotic countries don't suffer from the chains of free speech and independent press.  They can censor what they deem to be heretical or deviant to the teachings of Muhammad.  Ideally they would prefer to replace the Western placed figure heads and provide the nations of Islam with a true leader that would represent the culture they define as their own. 

 

Unfortunately, the culture that they have been forced to endorse has been based around violence (as seen in Iran after the fall of the Shah).  Those that dragged the country out from under the thumb of the west did so using violence and feel reluctant to give up what they are accustomed to.  So the violence prevails and since foreign diplomacy requires embassies and globalization blessed their cities with the yellow arches and popcorn chicken, which are so characteristic of America, they turn their anger towards these stores, restaurants, and embassies, regardless of whether they employ their fellow Muslims.  Ordinary citizens are afraid to venture out in public and economies slow to a crawl, hurting commerce and costing the countries millions in GDP further solidifying their status as a nation of poverty.

 

Al Qaeda works to create chaos in these struggling nations.  In cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood they hope to replace the governments-- democratic, socialist or otherwise-- with a theocracy operated by an extremely privileged few.  These few endeavor to live the life of Muhammad and conquer a land as vast as his and institute their versions of what Allah would declare law.  They don't want to honor Muhammad, they want to be Muhammad. 

 

To create their state of Islam they need the current governments to topple and for chaos to reach such a level whereas, the oppression of the antagonizers would be a relief from the madness.  The frenzies that we see sweeping the Muslim dominated nations is a stage of the take over.  Those whose lives are being ruined are mere pawns, sheep to the slaughter and an exploitable resource. 

 

Are the sheep a product of failed education systems, economies, cultural role models or the heavy pollution that fogs the skies and the mind?  No one is to say, but the leaders that they obey are guilty of the same crimes that they deplore from the West.