Becoming 'radicalised.'

Becoming  'radicalised'.

I am talking, of course, about the extremist Muslim organisations, especially ISIS, ISIL, IS, Daesh, or 'the death cult,' as our own Prime Minister refers to it.

I am annoyed every time I hear this expression, as if the poor little victim of the 'radicalisation process' has no say in the matter. Like a cabbage that gets cooked - the cabbage does not make that choice. But people are not cabbages. They choose to be what they are. These people who they say have 'become radicalised'  made a choice - to abandon civilised values and become part of an evil, evil movement, a movement that wants to take us back to a time of barbarity when slavery was normal, terrible cruelty was condoned, and women and children were chattels. A time when a girl child of nine can be married. Without the option, without any chance at an education, and with no avenue of defence if the husband chooses to be brutal.

It always surprises me that women sometimes turn to extreme Islam.  Surely they can see how utterly, utterly stupid they are being. Who voluntarily steps forward to become a slave?  For Allah, of course. But why would they think that an Allah, who is supposed to be so 'merciful,'  would think it fine for them to be slaves. No. Young women who decide to be brides of ISIS are just fools.

Young men who decide they want to be ISIS fighters are not only fools, but are showing the evil side of themselves. It appears that what they really want is to be allowed to torture other people, to be allowed to have up to four wives, including little girls if they want, to be allowed to have slaves, as many as they want. And for all of this to be condoned. So do they really, truly believe that Allah will reward them?  Or is it simply that they want to be the most wicked of criminals in a place where that is approved.

Whatever, they do not 'become radicalised.' They are not victims. They are the ones who want to make the rest of us victims.

 

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Don't call the cult 'Islamic State!'

ISIL, ISIS, IS or 'Islamic State?'  No. It's a murderous cult, just as our Prime Minister, Tony Abbot, called them. We should stop dignifying the monsters by calling them what they want us to call them. Especially we should not call them 'Islamic State' which carries connotations of legitimacy.  So from now on, I'll call them the MCs - for 'murderous cult.'

We know of the MC's dreadful acts - the beheadings, the massacres, and then more massacres. It has just become public that a second American journalist has been beheaded.

But what sent chills through me was something that some would say by comparison, was quite minor. Maybe it's why I've only heard of it once, or maybe it is not even true - that they announced that every female under the age of 40 in their area of control should be forcibly circumcised. It is strange - it has always been denied that the hideous practice of female circumcision  (genital mutilation)  had anything to do with Islam, but it appears that the murderous cult do not agree. Do they chant Allahu Akbar as they take a knife to a woman's genitals?

The murderous cult has to be stamped out. And those Muslim communities who have fostered the ones who are now fighting with them, should stop pretending they had nothing to do with it, should maybe remember the radical muftis they allowed to speak at their mosques, and acknowledge that they do indeed bear some responsibility. Instead of screaming racism when the government attempts to deal with this very real problem, they should be first to do whatever they can.

So could some of them have some sympathy with the terrorists?  I think they probably do. For instance, Board of Imams Victoria president, Sheik Gul Saeed Shah, declined to comment on the problem because 'he did not know enough specifically about Islamic State.'   (Australian, 12/8/14.)  If there are a few like that, then maybe suicide bombing may be a good idea - only out in some paddock somewhere so they will be no innocent victims. 

But not 'Islamic State.' There is no legitimate 'state' just a collection of murderous thugs.

 
No pictures this time.  The subject is too sad and too true for pictures.