Dear oh dear. Here we go. Terrorists murdering innocent U.S. civilians and trying to justify it by claiming it is in response to the treatment of the Iraqi enemy combatants.
I don't see how badly treating someone who had been trying to kill you, can be equal to chopping the head off of an innocent citizen of the same country of those doing the mistreating. But then again, I am not a terrorist and I don't have a goal.
What goal could they have? It's the Israel/Palestine tit-for-tat thing. And ultimately, what they want is for such an outrage that wanton slaughter takes place in revenge - because that is what they try to do.
They think, if I kill one of yours and claim it as a tit-for-tat thing, hopefully it will drive you so mad you will come in with all barrels blasting. This will kill many innocents. Enrage all our Arab and Muslim brothers. And a full-scale all out war will ensue.
They may claim it is for something done to one of theirs. But that just goes to show they cannot be pleased. Because it is always for something.
Get out of Saudi Arabia - the most holy Arab/Muslim grounds - or we blow you up. Get out of Iraq or we blow you up. You mistreated someone so we chop off your head. How dare you say something bad about someone who is telling all Muslims to kill you - we now have to blow you up.
Obviously there is no common sense in their argument. Which leaves only what they truly want... all out war in a full-on scale.
If you believe in Nostradamus, you will know he talks about a Third World War and that it will basically be between Islam and the West. Is that what we have now? Is there a war going on between Islam and the rest of the world? With that war sometimes taking on physical fighting in a-typical war fashion (guns, bombs, etc.), and sometimes more subtle as Islam spreads throughout the world of its own accord as people become disenfranchised with the Christian churches and their heads.
For instance, there are already some documented locations within Western Democracies where Islamic "Sharia Law" can be implemented instead of the laws of that country. If that is not a slow infiltration of turning a country into one governed by Islamic laws then I don't know what is. It always happens in little steps. First it is Sharia for certain things, until it is Islam law for everything under the guise of religious freedom.
Perhaps the unfortunate thing about this is, it isn't really about Islam verses the rest of us. It is really about those at the head of Islam in certain locations in which Islam is governed strictly, wanting more power. And using the religion as a tool to gain that increased power.
The distinction needs to be made and understood, lest we lump all people of a certain religion together.
The Saudi Wahabis are ultimately behind the whole rotten lot. Their brand of Islam is a repressive brand. Transgression being dealt with harshly - such as the beheadings of criminals every Friday night after Friday evening prayers at the local main Mosque.
The beheading of an American civilian is an indication it was a Saudi terrorist group who carried out the deed. Because beheadings are Saudi Wahabi standard operating procedures.
Just as there are different brands of Christianity - Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and so on - there are different brands of Islam. Like Christianity, not all brands of Islam are the same.
You have the scumbag Wahabi brand of Saudi Arabia. The Shia brand of Iran and the Ayatollahs. With a religious hierarchy much like a Christian church - priests, archbishops, cardinals, etc. And then there is the free-ranging Sunni brand without any religious head.
Of the three, Wahabi Islam is the worst. Even having religious policemen who walk around making sure there is no transgression going on. Make sure your shapeless black tent isn't an inch to short showing a tiny bit of ankle, or having too short sleeves showing too much arm. Hitting transgressors with canes. Others who physically remove (cut out) or cover over with black ink pens, anything of objection within imported print media and other material - such as coloring in the skin of a scantily clad girl on a CD cover. Outlawing toys such as Barbie because it will corrupt young girls.
The Wahabis are the enemy, not Islam as a whole. We need to grasp this important definition. And further understand it is the leaders of Wahabi Islam who we need to remove, and who we need to stop funding.
We can stop the funding by not buying any more oil from Saudi Arabia - it's the oil money which has allowed their brand of Islam to be spread to places such as Afghanistan. We can stop buying their oil by finding our own. And that should be much easier seeing as oil is not a fossil fuel but occurs naturally - as outlined in a previous entry which can be read
here.
Without the millions of dollars from oil, the Wahabis will have a tougher time foisting their brand if Islam onto other people.
So why should they be interesting in causing trouble in Iraq?
Because a free Iraq - and remember, Iraq is basically between Ayatollah controlled Iran and Wahabi controlled Saudi Arabia - could cause the people of Saudi Arabia to also want electoral freedom and the right to choose their leaders. And as politics goes, people vote for those who will give them what they want. And they will thus vote for someone who will remove the eons of repressive control.
The incumbent powers that be don't want to give up what they have and will fight to keep it. Hence, Saudi Arabia has a vested interest in stopping Iraq from becoming a democratic country.
The war on terror is really a war on the leaders of Wahabi Islam.
Addendum: I've just learnt a few more disturbing details of the beheading. Namely, it was done with a long knife. After the terrorists read some stuff out they push him forward, grabbed his head and held it back and started to hack through his neck while yelling "Alah is Great". He began screaming and fighting. It took three goes with the knife to silence him. Then two more goes to completely sever his head.
Apart from the obvious sickeningness of it all, I hope it will urge any other people who are being taken to fight their ass off to prevent the kidnapping. I hope lessons will be learnt like those of 9/11 - don't go quietly. Their end goal has changed from one of ransom to one of killing. And just like passengers have taken down suspect people on flights since 9/11, I hope others in the midst of being kidnapped will fight with all their might. Fight as if their life depended on it, because their life will depend on it. And I hope they will all begin to carry weapons on their person. And to use those weapons.