This appeared here and I wish to thank Alan for allowing me to publish his work. RK
“For years there has been a rising tide of Islamic
radicalism, starting in the Middle East, providing a hospitable environment in
which terrorism grew naturally,” wrote former Ambassador John Bolton, in a May
edition of The Washington Times.
The eruption of the Islamic State (ISIS) has demonstrated
how swiftly it has been able to recruit thousands of jihadists to its ranks.
The millions it is earning from selling oil on the black market enables it to
provide salaries to those recruits. And weapons.
“This radical wave has been spreading throughout northern
Africa, into Asia, and now around the world,” warned Bolton.
There is a reason why there is such a supply of recruits
to the self-proclaimed caliphate that controls a large swath of northern Syria
and Iraq. Jim Clifton, CEO of the Gallup polling
organization, says. “The Middle East has collapsed into a state of chaos,
conflict, and suffering that was unimaginable and unforeseen just four years
ago.”
Clifton took note of the incident that triggered the
“Arab Spring” in which dictators were deposed in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.
“Food vendor Mohammed Bouazis set himself on fire. Bouazizi didn’t yell ‘Death
to America’ or ‘U.S. out of Iraq’ or ‘Allahu Akbar.’ He cried out, ‘I just want
to work!’”
No Customers
Clifton said, “Here’s an explanation you don’t hear very
often that is likely the root cause of the entire meltdown in the Middle East:
no customers.”
He noted that “When a society fails to create jobs, as in
countries throughout the Middle East, young men get up each morning with zero
hope for a great life, zero hope to get married (you usually can’t marry in
Middle Eastern society without a real job), zero dream of a family, zero dignity,
and zero self-respect.”
“What millions of young Middle Eastern males wake up to
every morning is unimaginable humiliation, indignation, desperation, and a form
of dangerous boredom.” Clifton noted that “There are over 100 million young
people aged 18 to 29 in the Middle East/North Africa area—meaning there are
probably 50 million young males.”
That is more than enough to recruit a huge army of holy
warriors who find meaning in their lives by joining ISIS and other groups like
Boko Haram in Nigeria. We are witnessing a war between Sunnis and Shiites, and
Clifton warned that “Western leaders prefer to operate through delusional
wishful-thinking policies.”
I received an account by an unidentified Lockheed
employee who cited research by a Danish psychologist, Nikolai Sennels
as published in 2010. The Lockheed employee had been in Saudi Arabia on three
assignments and noted that Saudi pilot trainees often had “dim memories and had
to be constantly reminded of things that were told to them the day before.”
They also had very limited night vision, “even on the brightest of moonlit
nights.”
The larger problem as noted by Sennels was attributed to
1,400 years of inbreeding, the Muslim practice of marrying first cousins; it
has been in effect for fifty generations and is based on the teachings of
Muhammad, their revered prophet, and the prohibition on marrying outside of the
Muslim faith.
Sennels noted that “The consequences for offspring of consanguineous
marriages are unpleasantly clear: Death, low intelligence or even mental
retardation, handicaps and diseases often leading to a slow and painful death.”
“Other
consequences are: Limited social skills and understanding, limited ability to
manage education and work procedures and painful treatment procedures. The
negative cognitive consequences also influence the executive functions. The
impairment of concentration and emotional control most often leads to
anti-social behavior.”
“The
economic costs and consequences for society of inbreeding,” said Sennels, “are
of course secondary to the reality of human suffering.”
Sennels
concluded that “A lower IQ, together with a religion that denounces critical
thinking, surely makes it harder for many Muslims to have success in our
high-tech knowledge societies.” In the case of the United States, He noted “One
study based on 300,000 Americans shows that the majority of Muslims in the USA
have a lower income, are less education, and have worse jobs than the
population as a whole.”
There
are many ramifications of the inbreeding that Judeo-Christian faiths prohibited
from their inception. It explains in many ways why it is wrong to believe that
Muslims in the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere “think” in the same
fashion as those in the West.
It
permits them to believe that beheading westerners is a way to impose their will
by videotaping this ancient, barbaric practice. It encourages the belief that
all non-Muslims are worthy of death.
The
flow of Muslims from the Middle East and North Africa into Europe has created a
massive problem for its native population. In Great Britain measures are being
taken to crack down on those who go abroad to become jihadists and return.
According
to Wikipedia: ”The Muslim
population of the U.S. increased dramatically in the 20th century, with much of
the growth driven by a comparatively high birth rate and immigrant communities
of mainly Arab and South Asian descent. About 72% of American Muslims are
immigrants or "second generation". In 2005, more people from Islamic
countries became legal permanent United States residents— nearly 96,000 — than
in any year in the previous two decades. In 2009, more than 115,000 Muslims
became legal residents of the United States.” The other element of the American
Muslim population is African-Americans who have been converting to Islam.
Westerners are
perplexed by the rise of fanatical Islam, but the answer comes down to a lack
of entrepreneurism in Middle Eastern and other Muslim nations, combined with
the problems resulting from generations of inbreeding.
It still means
war at some point and for some time to come.
© Alan Caruba,
2014
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