Exit Zero on The Real War

In response to Armed Liberal's "Ports, Autarky, Gated Communities, and BBQ", Winds reader Mary Madigan of Exit Zero wrote a comment worth turning into a Guest Blog.

[You ask] But who or what is out to kill us? (And who is "us"?)

If 'us' is defined as the five-sixths of the population of the planet that does not want to live under Islamic (Sharia) law, then our enemies are the supporters of those Islamic (Sharia) laws.

Sharia laws are, in all their forms, apartheid and authoritarian. As practiced in states like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Sudan, they're also totalitarian, pro-slavery and genocidal. Our policy of so-called "moderation" requries us to ally with to ally with totalitarian, pro-slavery, genocidal states. It's impossible to see how an alliance with states that are not only totalitarian, pro-slavery, and genocidal could be called moderate or liberal. These states also support the terrorist groups that have murdered many of "us". They're doing this because they're at war with us.

It's also impossible to see how an alliance with states that are totalitarian, pro-slavery, genocidal and at war with us is ever going to work. Our current arrangement is not pragmatic, liberal or moderate.

Since we don't have Manchurian-candidate-like powers of mind-control, it's also impossible to see how we can reform these fascists through our beneficence and goodwill.

Our enemies include that states that are ruled by Sharia (the Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iran), the terrorist groups that support Sharia (like al Qaeda, al Sadr's Mahdi Army, Pakistani Islamist groups, Hamas, Hezbollah, Thai Muslim separatist groups, Chechen 'rebels', etc.) and 'peaceful' groups like Hizb-ut-Tahrir and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Like Europe during the late 1930's, some Muslims support totalitarian groups and some don't. That doesn't really matter, because we never would have won a war if we declared war on all Europeans. There is no effective way to fight an entire culture or religion. The option is too stupid to even contemplate.

There's a real false dichotomy being offered here - we're given two very bad choices:

• Following our already-established policy of appeasing and allying with fascist genocidaires

• Or, fight "Islam" and withdraw into isolationism.

Both choices are absurd.

We have a lot of allies in the Middle East and in the Muslim world - our allies include the victims of the current Arab/Islamist campaign of ethnic cleansing - genuine moderate or liberal Muslims and Arabs, Copts, Jews, African blacks, Kurdish Muslims, non-Muslim Kurds, etc. If we identify our enemies, we can either fight them by

• Directly confronting and contradicting their beliefs
• Outlawing apartheid, genocidal Sharia laws
• Enforcing our own laws against intimidating threats (fatwas), destroying embassies, killing our diplomats, and generally waging war against the world's population.

Currently, we're ignoring our own laws and our own rights in an effort to appease these fascist states and groups. If we don't respect our laws and the lives or our own citizens, why should they?