PsyWar: Militant Islam's Worst Enemy
The Islamists have enjoyed a long run in which they have directed the most hateful imaginable propaganda and violence against Jews, Christians, Hindus, and the wrong kinds of Muslims. As stated by Sir Arthur Harris, however, "[t]he Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." It is this article's purpose to unleash a whirlwind that will make Islamists the world's pariahs, and probably to the extent that the world's civilized nations will deport their adherents and fellow travelers as undesirables.
A brief history of PsyWar, and its decisive effectiveness over the centuries, should instruct the reader how to use it against Islamists throughout the world. Let's start with the Protestant Reformation, in which both sides used the newly developed printing press to distribute propaganda, as shown in Figure 1. These images may look exaggerated and over the top to the modern reader, but the Propaganda Man (the audience to whom the propaganda is directed) of the early 16th century lived in genuine terror of eternal damnation.
Figure 1. Protestant and Catholic PsyWar, Early 1500s
One day, Bob Hammond, missionary broadcaster of The Voice of China and Asia, told Jack that multitudes of Chinese people had been won to Communism through mass distribution of cartoon booklets. Jack felt that God was leading him to use the same technique to win multitudes to the Lord Jesus Christ.The takeaway is that images are the most powerful means of communication. The human brain is designed to process images rather than words, and it may even be instinctive for us to accept any image as the truth. This was certainly the case until our ancestors learned to draw pictures. Images can also fascinate us and hold our attention in seconds, in contrast to words, in which the Propaganda Man may lose interest.
Psychological warfare, therefore, involves the planned and scientific use of images to win the Propaganda Man's support. The purpose of these images is not, like a Charlie Hebdo or Doonesbury cartoon, to entertain. Their purpose is to win wars, and preferably before the first shot is fired. The Islamist enemy is terrified of images, and rightly so, as was the infamous Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall.
"Those Damned Pictures!"
"Let’s stop them damn pictures. I don’t care so much what the papers write about – my constituents can’t read – but damn it, they can see pictures." So said William Marcy Tweed, who was eventually sent to prison for corruption. Tweed's most feared enemy was cartoonist Thomas Nast, the creator of the Republican Elephant, Democratic Donkey, the familiar plump and jolly Santa Claus, and, more infamously, anti-Catholic and anti-Irish cartoons. Figure 2 shows one of Nast's many anti-Tweed cartoons.Figure 2. "Who Stole the People's Money?
Dishonest Propaganda Is Not Good for Children and Other Living Things
The Spanish-American War, which left more than 70,000 soldiers dead on all sides, was largely the result of propaganda from the Yellow Press. Figure 3 shows the predecessor to Grant Hamilton's even more vicious "The Spanish Brute."
Figure 3. "Peace in Cuba Under Spanish Rule is Worse than Hell."
Figure 4. The Spanish Brute
Figure 5. "Destroy This Mad Brute."
Adolf Hitler was unfortunately the German who learned the most from Germany's propaganda deficiencies in the First World War, as he stated very clearly in Mein Kampf. "It was the total failure of the whole German system of information – a failure which was perfectly obvious to every soldier – that urged me to consider the problem of propaganda in a comprehensive way." This is, by the way, Israel's problem today. If Israel used propaganda effectively, its enemies would never be able to depict it as a human rights violator while getting away with terroristic violence and atrocities against even their own civilians. Only recently has Israel gone so far as to depict Palestinian terrorists hiding behind civilians, schools, and hospitals.
Figure 6 compares German propaganda, whose sole purpose was to ridicule Germany's enemies, with that of the Triple Entente. The latter portrayed Germany as a collective monster capable of slaughtering women and children, and was sufficiently effective to draw the United States into the war.
Figure 6. German vs. Triple Entente Propaganda
World War II: Demonizing the Enemy
Figure 7 shows a U.S. government poster in which a Japanese soldier with exaggerated Asian features hits an American prisoner with a rifle butt. Again, unlike the cute and relatively innocuous Mohammad cartoons that incited so much Islamist violence, this poster's purpose was not to entertain. Its purpose was to incite visceral hatred. In the context of the Pearl Harbor attack and the Bataan Death March, it was highly successful.
Figure 7. Anti-Japanese Poster, World War II
Figure 8. Who Needs Cartoons When We Have ISIS?
PsyWar is, like cavalry, an offensive weapon. General Patton wrote of the former, "The saber is solely a weapon of offense and is used in conjunction with the other offensive weapon, the horse. … No direct parries are taught, because at the completion of a parry the enemy is already beyond reach of an attack. The surest parry is a disabled opponent." Propaganda must be used similarly to discredit the enemy rather than defend against his attacks.
As an example, it is a mistake for Israel and its supporters to protest, no matter how accurately, that the International Solidarity Movement's Rachel Corrie was killed by accident. We must instead circulate the ISM's own statements that she was far more useful to its cause dead than alive. As soon as we convince the Propaganda Man that the ISM knowingly, willfully, and recklessly endangered the life of an "international," and then gloated about her death, the ISM can say nothing against which we must defend.
An article in Arutz Sheva complains about the rise of anti-Semitism on American campuses. The best approach is not to try to defend against anti-Semitism, but to promote hatred of its perpetrators. A simple recitation of the militant Islamic world's treatment of gay people and women, for example, should incite revulsion against the Palestinians and their sympathizers. When Students for Justice in Palestine, a Muslim Student Association, or similar group organizes an anti-Israel hate-fest, our side can pre-emptively post "women's safety advisories" that describe the militant Islamic position that women are chattel, and that any unveiled woman is a legitimate object for rape. Circulate images of Iranians hanging gay people, add a deliberately inflammatory caption like "Kill a faggot for Allah," and perhaps another image of a gay pride event in Tel Aviv to make it quite clear to the LGBT community who its enemies and friends really are.
Give the Haters What They Want
Every society, meanwhile, has an underclass that needs somebody to blame for its own shortcomings. Let's therefore follow the advice of the Mob Museum in Las Vegas: "Give the people what they want." Portray the militant Islamist as a likely rapist of blonde and blue-eyed women in Northern Europe, olive-skinned ones in Southern Europe, black ones in African-American communities, and so on. Depict a grunting Islamist menacing a woman of the Propaganda Man's ethnicity with a caption like "Hey infidel! What are you going to do about it?" Images of this nature, with Nazi or Japanese instead of Islamist villains, sold millions of men's adventure magazines in the 1950s through the 1970s, and with good reason. Back this up with the words of the mullah who said women who don't wear burqas are "uncovered meat" whom any man is free to take.
Footage from The International Jew, in which swarming rats morph into Jews, can be clipped and reused to create scenes in which the rats interchange with goose-stepping Nazis and braying Islamists. "Wherever rats appear, they bring ruin by destroying mankind's goods and foodstuffs. They are cunning, cowardly, and cruel, and usually appear in massive hordes." It is important to drive the point home with scenes in which Nazis and Islamists proclaim that they are the Master Race (Herrenvolk) or Religion (Dar al Islam) and are going to dominate the world. Alternate a Hitler speech with a mullah or imam proclaiming that Islam is going to rule the world.
To put this even more bluntly, remember that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels convinced the German underclass to hate peaceful, loyal, and productive Jewish citizens. Does anybody think the same methods will not evoke similar hatred of militant "Islamists" who are really trying to carve out sharia-ruled enclaves while they threaten violence against the surrounding societies?
"I do not bite my thumb at you, Sir, but I do bite my thumb."
It's libel or slander to falsely accuse a specific individual of, for example, taking bribes to enact speech codes and "anti-hate" laws whose purpose is to silence critics of "militant Islam." Shakespeare had the right idea in Romeo and Juliet, though. We do not accuse any specific individual of corruption, but rather say, "Some of them must be on the Islamist payroll, as there is no other rational explanation for laws that punish truthful speech. I am certainly not going to point to anybody in particular without proof, but it is certain that some have taken Islamist money to betray their countries and societies." This effectively carpet-bombs every single European legislator and jurist behind the speech codes with the taint of corruption while libeling nobody.
While images and videos are the most effective forms of PsyWar, jokes also work. As an example, "What do you get when you bomb a Palestinian hospital, school, or mosque?" The Propaganda Man thinks he is about to hear a cruel and insensitive joke by those nasty Israelis until he gets the punch line: "Secondary explosions."
The bottom line is, however, that the conduct of ISIS, Hamas, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and Iran, along with rising anti-Semitic violence in Europe along with rape epidemics throughout the Judeo-Christian world, all prove that we are dealing with the 21st century's counterparts of actual Nazis. PsyWar is the most humane way to shut them down before they precipitate another world war, so let's get to it.
William A. Levinson is the author of several books on business management including content on organizational psychology, as well as manufacturing productivity and quality.
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