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The Jihadists' Promise: Power over Death
by Louis René Beres
• September 23, 2014 at 5:00 am
Jihadi
violence serves not only to advance the terrorist's delusion of immortality,
but also to add, however perversely, an apparent and desperately needed
erotic satisfaction, using religion as the justification.
Persuasive
promises of immortality -- the desperate hope to live forever -- underlie
virtually all major religions.
Washington
and Jerusalem should finally address what needs to be done in addition to
military remediation -- reinforcing efforts to convince these terrorists that
their expected martyrdom is ultimately just an elaborate fiction.
Even after witnessing several beheadings and mass executions, American
and Western strategists dealing with Jihadist terror still miss the key
point. Whatever the particular terrorist group of the moment -- the Islamic
State [IS or ISIS], Hamas, al-Qaeda, or some other kindred terror
organization -- the core struggle is never really about territory, geography,
or democracy. Always -- in Iraq, Afghanistan Syria, or Gaza -- this enemy
seeks something far more important and compelling. In essence, Jihadi
violence serves not only to advance the terrorist's delusion of immortality,
but also to add, however perversely, an apparent and desperately needed
erotic satisfaction, using religion as the justification.
Iran - Still in the Axis of Evil
by Gill Gillespie and Shabnam
Assadollahi • September 23, 2014 at 4:30 am
The aim
of the current Iranian regime is clearly to acquire a nuclear weapons
capability and to retain as much territory in Iraq as possible under Shia
Islamist rule, whatever the human cost. Those aims are also the reason Iran's
regime is now trying to intervene in Iraq.
Iran will
doubtless be demanding that any cooperation with the West be compensated for
by "concessions" permitting its nuclear weapons program.
Involving
Iran in Iraq at this point will merely alienate any Sunni allies whose
assistance is much needed to defeat IS.
Many
people inside Iran have alerted the U.S. Administration for over two years
about other industrial facilities being secretly built in Iran and not
declared to the International Atomic Energy. So far, all intelligence from
within Iran has been wilfully ignored by the Obama Administration.
As Hassan Rouhani, the supposed "moderate" Iran President, is
soon to visit New York to continue nuclear negotiations with the G5 + 1, it
is important to remember that the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran
continues to be among the largest funders and promoters of terrorism
worldwide, and remember as well the continuing human rights atrocities that
the regime has committed against its people since it came into power in 1979.
The West should not accept any compromise on shutting down Iran's
nuclear-weapons program or allow Iran any opportunity to blackmail the West
into a compromise on it on the pretext of its "helping" to fight
the Islamic State [IS].
Iran's interference in Iraq has always been, and will always be,
negative. In the same way as IS, Iran's human rights atrocities against its
own people should, by themselves, disqualify the regime from any part in
negotiations either on Iraq or nuclear weapons capability.
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