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JIHADI TERRORISM: RIDICULOUS EXPLANATIONS, COMPLEX SOLUTIONS
Dr. BABU SUSEELAN
Communists, Nazis, and Fascists resorted to terrorism. They differed from
Islamic terrorism in that they were motivated by political agenda.
The fall of the Berlin Wall signaled the end of the cold war and a sign of
relief. But today, terrorist groups with the ideology of hate exist in
different countries with different hue and color. They are engaged in
murder, looting, kidnapping, beheading, hijacking, suicide murder, bombing
and other criminal acts for personal, political and religious gains. India
lost over 73,000 lives due to Jihadi terrorism over the last decade.
Israel, the only democratic country in the Middle East lost several
hundreds of innocent children, women and men due to terrorism perpetuated
by Islamic Hizballah, Hamas, Al-jihad, and Al-Qa'ida terrorists. Islamic
terrorist groups have slaughtered thousands of innocent people in Algeria
(Armed Islamic group, Harakat Ul-Mujahindian) Kashmir, India (Lashkar
e-Trayiba, Jaise-Mohamed), Uzbeckistan (Imu-Islamic group), the Philippines
(Abu Sayyaf group), Aden (Islamic Army of Aden), Egypt (Muslim
Brotherhood), and Afghanistan (Taliban). Several Islamic terrorist groups
are actively engaged in kidnapping, beheading, murder and bombing in
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Chechnya, Sudan and Nigeria.
Since 1990, several Islamic terrorist incidents were reported from Aden,
Yemen (1992, 2000), New York City (1993), Mogadishu, Somalia (1993),
Manila, Philippines (1995), Paris, France (1994, 2005), Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia (1995, 1996), Dar-ea-Salaam, Tanzania, Nairobi, Kenya (1998), Port
Angeles, Washington (1999), Amman, Jordan (1999, 2005), London (2005),
Strasbourg, France (2000), New York City, Washington, D.C, Pennsylvania
(2001), Paris and Brussels (2001), Madrid (2002), Kabul, Bali (2005),
Godhra, Gujarat, India (2002) Ayodhya, India (2005) and New Delhi, India
(2005). In India, Israel, and Iraq kidnapping, beheading, suicide murder,
and bombing by Muslim terrorists are a daily occurrence. Jihad terrorist
attacks are not limited to military targets. They use violence against
innocent children, women and men. Jihad terrorism and its variety,
including bombing, suicide murder, beheading, hijacking, kidnapping and
assassination can now be seen all over the world. These violent extremists
subvert democracy, civil government, secularism, and social progress and
tear apart economic stability. In each case of terrorism, the
fundamentalists with hard-core, rigid, dogmatic Islamic ideology were
involved. Their origins, ideology, development, tactics and agendas are
religiously legitimated based on Islamic worldview. These Islamic
terrorist's devilish acts of unimaginable hatred are designed to send
tremors of alarm, fear and a warning throughout the civilized world.
World wide terrorism-related casualties increased to 805 in 2005 from 233
in 1999. The terrorist groups often differ in their motivations,
objectives, ideologies and level of criminal activity. Several narco
terrorists and politically motivated terrorist groups exist in different
parts of the world. Western nations were successful in eradicating several
terrorist criminal gangs like Black Panther, Symphonies Liberation Army,
FLNA in the US, Shining Path Maoist guerrilla Group in Peru, Marxist
Guerrillas in Columbia, Tapa Marus in Argentina, Bader-Meinhof in Germany
and Red-Brigade in Italy with brute police and military action.
The destruction of the World Trade Center by Al-Qa'ida terrorists on
September 11, 2001 signaled the start of a new response to global
terrorism. Western nations have taken significant civil and judicial steps
including intelligence gathering, prosecution of terrorists, disruption of
funding flow for terrorists, and several counter terrorism activities.
These bureaucratic counter terrorism measures are complicated,
responsibilities are poorly defined, and targets are ambiguously selected.
Most of these actions are disconnected and have no impact in deterring
Islamic terrorism that is being waged in different parts of the world. We
need more. The policy of hit and run and selective identification and
counter measures are ineffective. We need a coordinated, well planned and
effective global war on Islamic terrorism.
PHONY ROOT CAUSE THEORIES
Islamic terrorism is a complex subject. The terrorism field is loaded with
international and national experts, each claiming special knowledge of the
subject that have roused so much controversy while continuing to be
misunderstood by so many. There are phony liberals marketing mindless root
causes of Islamic terrorism including Western, Israeli interference in the
Middle East, rapid social change, poverty, economic deprivation, poor
toilet training, low self-esteem, need for affiliation, dysfunctional
family, lack of education and so forth. And of course, these are
psychological excuses. The misguided leftists and armchair speculators miss
the point. Where do they fit in? This phony, liberal root cause theorists
are like an old farmer who for the first in his life sees a big blue whale
on the seashore and says, "I see it, but I don't believe it". The pseudo
liberal social scientists are being imbued with ethereal, pre-fabricated,
utopian ideas, which are too far divorced from reality. While the excuse
industry promote faulty root cause theories, Jihadi terrorists are engaged
in kidnapping, gratuitous beheading, looting, killing, bombing, airline
hijacking, suicide murder, car bombing, and gruesome murder of innocent
infidels all over the world. These pseudo liberals, communists, and
Islamist have no clue on the true nature of Jihad terrorism. The butchery
of Jihadi terrorism is explained to social causes and "understandable"
Islamic grievances. It fails to distinguish between the legitimate use of
social protests and terrorism. It seems phony liberals have a buoyant love
affair with irrational Islamist defense mechanisms. They usually shed
crocodile tears for the innocent victims. It is clear that what Jihad
terrorists are doing in the name of Islam is destructive, counter
productive, we think so, why aren't leftists liberals and Islamists able to
realize the dangers of Jihad terrorism?
In a civilized world, we cannot function if we believe in phony
explanations for Jihad terrorism. Wide spread irrationalism and uncritical
acceptance of unjustified root cause theories peddled by Communists and
liberals will have serious consequences for everyone. Such flimsy
explanations and mental misdirection would paralyze us. Civilized,
peace-loving people would be wise to check out Jihad mindset and criminal
behavior in proper perspective.
PATHOLOGY OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM
Jihad terrorism is not over the policies of US, Israel, and India, or due
to globalization, social change, poverty, economic deprivation or lack of
self-esteem, but rather the ideology, the cognitive-behavior processes of
Jihad Muslims. Terrorism, bombing, beheading and suicide murder are
symptoms of a deep-rooted pathology stemming from their "addictive
thinking" on Islam. The Islamic "addictive thinking" convinces jihad
terrorists that attack on infidel would restore Islamic pride and prove to
the infidel world that Jihad warriors are full of confidence and Islamic
pride. The root cause of jihad terrorism is to be found in the defective,
dangerous dogma that binds Jihad Muslims around the world together. The
Jihad Muslim's thinking process and behaviors are sanctioned in Islam. What
is less understandable is how and why mindless liberals fall prey to so
much distorted thought.
CRIMINAL THINKING OF JIHADI TERRORISTS
Jihadis often seek to identify infidels as targets because of their
ideological beliefs. They justify terrorism by rationalization and show no
remorse, fear, guilt or shame on murdering infidels. For jihadi terrorist
all infidels are legitimate target for terrorist attacks.
Jihad terrorists have unique needs, and the emotional pressure to gratify
these needs can greatly affect the way they think and feel. Their
"addictive thinking" on Islam operates in every fundamentalist Jihad
terrorists. The more we understand how jihad terrorists think and function,
the less likely we are to be paralyzed by the shock of their criminal acts,
and less likely we are to be taken in by their ingenious cunning and
manipulation. A young adolescent boy or girl who is carrying explosives to
commit suicide murder could not understand how he or she could be oblivious
to the disastrous effects to see his or her criminal act. They are unable
to see their own thinking or the magnitude of the destruction because they
are influenced by the addictive thinking and by the Islamic indoctrination.
Thinking patterns of Jihadi terrorists are different from the law-abiding
population. Jihadis perpetually maneuvers to prop up an ever-precarious
image of them as unique and powerful. In their ongoing attempts for
self-promotion, they care not whom they hurt. To them, the world and its
people are to be controlled like paws on their own chessboard. They use
their dogmatic, criminal ideology as a way to shield their image by pushing
the responsibility for their own terrorist behavior on to anyone and
anything available to themselves.
ANATOMY OF JIHAD TERRORISM
Jihad Terrorists are followers of Islam, which is a control system, a
closed dogma and it is designed to exclude dialogue, outside input, and
forbid freethinking. Whatever Muslims do, wherever they go, Muslims are
mandated to maintain status quo and the closed paradigm. Muslims are forced
to neutralize new ideas by the power and control system of the clergy.
Islamic states use force and other control mechanisms to maintain
equilibrium and the closed Islamic thought system. Islamic states and
Islamic religious leaders never tolerate dialogue, rational thinking,
pluralism, secularism and religious tolerance. They behave like an evil
empire and maintain absolute control and authority to crackdown free
inquiry and secular ideas for the maintenance of the Islamic toxic order.
For Muslims, maintaining the closed-system is more important than social
progress, democracy, and free spirited discussion. As a result, Muslims get
"chewed up" by the dogmatic system and are willing to sacrifice their life
through suicide murder, terrorism and violence.
Their goal is to make the world as Daral-Islam (the house of Islam)-where
Islam rules-and the non-Muslim world as Daral-Harb (the house of war) that
has to be conquered. The non-Muslim world should be terrorized,
intimidated, oppressed and conquered for Muslims.
In spite of rapid changes in science, technology and information system,
Muslims spend their energy to reinforce their closed-system and make their
society into "islands of no-change" where individual freedom and creativity
are crushed. Islamic societies maintain their equilibrium through control,
force, punishment and power. For Muslims living under closed system, don't
worry about modern education, women's freedom, art, literature, philosophy
and spirituality and ignore transcendental needs. They shut the door on
science, technology and information if it is not deemed "relevant" to
maintaining closed Islamic dogma.
BREAKING THROUGH THE ISLAMIC CLOSED SYSTEM
Communist societies used control mechanisms to maintain closed systems. But
it collapsed under tremendous covert and overt pressure from democratic
nations. They were forced to accept social evolution, democracy and
individual freedom and the closed Communist system lost its equilibrium.
But Islam, an imperialist dogma masked in religious phraseology is a hard
nut to crack.
Nations affected by Jihad terrorism have different agendas for countering
terrorism. There is no coordinated program for information collection,
sharing of intelligence, and understanding of program options and their
application. If counter strategy is to maximize its effect there is a need
to understand terrorist mindset, their ideology and their
cognitive-behavior processes.
Although most of the information from intelligence sources suggests that
there are a variety of judicial and military approaches working to
apprehend and contain terrorists. There is a fair amount of debate as to
the effectiveness of these counter terrorism strategies. The challenge it
seems is to look for the mindset and ideology that motivate, control and
direct Jihad terrorists.
Civilized world would pay a heavy price for not breaking through the
defensive wall of denial, resistance, and defenses created by Islam to
maintain its closed system. It is easy to believe in phony social cause
theories or to provide religious status for dysfunctional, fundamentalist
Islamic dogma that produce a steady stream of terrorists. We need to
penetrate Islamic groups and utilize all means available including
psychological warfare to introduce paradigm filters to open the closed
system. Paradigm filters can be introduced through corporations, schools,
universities, labor unions, and non-profit organizations. We need to
introduce programs for Thinking For A Change and split terrorist gangs and
cliques. Devise psychological techniques and emotional programs to induce
fear, guilt, remorse and shame among Muslims. And eventually we have to
give the ultimate ultimatum "you have to change or you will forced to be
free". Coercive or negative reinforcement techniques and effective paradigm
breaking programming shall have positive effect on modifying cognitive and
behavior processes.
The cognitive programming, which disrupts criminal thinking, thinking
errors, and dogmatic systems must by steadily reinforced through education,
media and propaganda. The goal is to send a liberating message, mind
altering ideas, not through appeasement, negotiation or discussion, but
through overt and covert dialogue to strongly pursue an agenda to break
through the closed, dogmatic mindset of jihad Muslims.
Long-term strategies shall include restructuring or destroying the closed
ideology of fundamentalist Islam, anti-social attitudes, values, and
beliefs. We need an integrated approach to break pro-terrorist association,
target criminogenic risk, crimnogenic logic using reward and punishment.
Jihad Muslims shall be changed and re-socialized with a forceful, balanced
approach utilizing psychological warfare, social learning techniques and
propaganda. The value of psycho, social, cognitive strategies extend well
beyond the military methods and it can be applied successfully in several
settings.
Effective counter terrorism strategies based on reliable information is not
an impossible dream, but it will take strong leadership, commitment,
courage and hard work. The civilized world community and democratic nations
should avoid and supporting state-initiated Islamization programs or
activities of organizations that pose a direct threat to civilized nations.
The challenge before us is to translate all available means, legal,
military, economic, political, social and psychological strategies to
eliminate terrorism once for all.
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