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OhioCoastie on April 3, 2009 at 7:20 PM

Sharia is as much of a threat to human existence as nazism was.

Settle down, Captain Hyperbole!

The Nazis controlled a government that was capable of running one of the largest economies in the world. The Nazis controlled a government capable of waging war with some of the world’s Great Powers, in some cases successfully. The Nazis controlled a government that was capable of implementing rocket weapons and coming damn close to inventing atomic weapons.

Those who implement Sharia are, under the best of circumstances, decades behind the West, and in the case of the Taliban, are centuries behind. They are incapable of waging war against the most backwards of Third World nations, let alone Great Powers. They couldn’t invent the wheel, much less an advanced weapons system.

The only valid comparison between Nazis and practitioners of Sharia is that they are both sub-human.

JohnGalt23 on April 3, 2009 at 7:53 PM

Loxodonta on April 3, 2009 at 8:16 PM

The jihadis don’t pose an imminent threat as great as the Nazis, but only in that the Nazis had the war machinery necessary to destroy much of Europe quickly and then occupy it.

To consider the threat of jihadism as “imminent”, at least in terms of the national security threat that Nazism posed is Chicken Littlism.

The Nazis could field a war machine because of their respect for modernity, science, and political sophistication. The reason that jihadis will never pose that threat is because of their lack of respect for these things.

However, jihadism does pose a threat as great as Nazism over the long term.

Left to their own devices, jihadism, in the long term, will find itself overshadowed, subsumed, and eventually conquered by other systems and philosophies, both virtuous and vile. I fear other political paradigms, both current and future, far more than I will ever fear a bunch of goatherders.

By purchase or theft, or through individual brutality or threat, they terrorize people, step by step, year by year, country by country, into submission.

What countries?

Iran? The fact is that Iran is as successful as the jihadis have been to this point, and they are well within sight of blowing it, largely because of their rejection of modernity, in a country full of young people who can see the benefits that modernity has brought to the rest of the world?

Afghanistan? For as long as I can remember, Afghanistan has been a basket case. I really don’t care if they get taken over or not.

Saudi Arabia? The fact is, as time goes on, the Saudis (and the Kuwaitis, Qataris, etc.), are moving away from Sharia, not towards it.

The truth is, separate out the propaganda and fear-mongering, modern Muslim states are becoming less likely to produce jihadis as time goes on.

If and when they can carry out another 9/11 in America, they will do it.

True. But 9/11 pales in comparison to the damage that the Nazis could have done left unchecked.

And if they can purchase or steal a nuclear bomb, they will use it.

Then we should be using our limited resources to making good and G*d-damn sure that they don’t get nuclear weapons, rather than following a messianic vision of democratizing parts of the world that simply aren’t ready for it.

And until their ideology is eradicated, they will continue to terrorize and threaten until their goal of world-wide submission is achieved.

They must be stopped.

As I said above, their ideology will be stopped by the march of history. There is simply no way that an ideology that rejects modernity can survive against ideologies that don’t.

And to worry about Wahabbism, jihadism, or Sharia toting radicals taking over the world is fantasy. You really want to be safe from these losers? Put up a reasonable defense, employ Hunter-Killer teams to seek out their leaders, and… most importantly… don’t go looking for rattlesnake nests. Let south Asia and the Middle East worry about South Asia and the Middle East.

JohnGalt23 on April 3, 2009 at 9:06 PM