What Does ISIS Hope to Achieve With Random Violence?
What is ISIS trying to accomplish with their seemingly random murders of
non-Muslims? This has been puzzling me for awhile. I know terrorism is
supposed to scare people, but for what ultimate purpose? People will be
scared for awhile, and then normal life will resume. ISIS is not going
to conquer France by killing 129 people. What are they doing? They're
obviously investing time and money to plan and carry out these attacks.
Why?
The bigger goal, the central Islamic goal is, of course, to bring non-Muslims under the rule of Islamic law. That goal is laid out clearly and unmistakably in standard Islamic doctrine. But why does ISIS think that randomly blowing up and shooting infidels will achieve this?
The strategy ISIS and other orthodox Muslims are now following was laid out by by the late Sheikh Abu-Bakr Naji. His big insight was this: It is impossible now to achieve Islam's prime directive the
traditional way, which was to invade countries and establish Islamic
law by force. This method may have worked fine when non-Muslim countries
were unconcerned with things happening in other parts of the world.
Back in those days, using the traditional method, Islam successfully
established most of the now-existing 56 Muslim countries. But these days
non-Muslim countries are too powerful militarily and would stop it.
Naji thought the Taliban did a great job setting up a true Islamic state, faithful to Islamic law, but look what happened: The "crusader nations" destroyed it.
Osama bin Laden thought he would make the cowardly infidels succumb to
fear with a few very big violent attacks, such as 9/11. But that
strategy failed. It only strengthened non-Muslim resolve and triggered a
massive retaliation.
So in 2005, Naji proposed a new strategy: He said the way to ultimately
accomplish the prime directive is to fight the entire non-Muslim world
everywhere at once, and to create an increasing occurrence of
ever-more-violent events so non-Muslims everywhere would feel insecure
and would eventually live in constant fear of violent death. They would
lose trust in their government's ability to protect them. They would
become exhausted from insecurity and fear, and would then be willing to
embrace Islamic rule just to make the violence stop and to be able to
live in some sort of peace.
I just read an article about the Friday 13th attack in Paris, and the New York Times quoted
a 42 year-old French accountant: "I feel sickened, angry," he said.
Coming so soon after the attacks in January, he said, "It is starting to
be too much." This struck me as an expression of exactly the state of
mind Naji was talking about.
In order to accomplish frequent attacks, Naji said Muslims must create
bases of operations inside the non-Muslim nations. That means Muslim
immigration is necessary, coupled with the Muslims' refusal to integrate
into the non-Muslim society, leaving areas of Muslim-only populations
(what many have called no-go zones) within non-Muslim countries. This way, terrorism operations could be organized and carried out more effectively.
ISIS and other Islamic groups have embraced this strategy worldwide.
Muslim immigration into non-Muslim countries has increased, especially with the new influx of refugees (created by ISIS). And no-go zones are being created in most non-Muslim countries, even in the U.S. The
number of violent events is accelerating. We in the West usually only
hear about the very large events, but constant random killing of
non-Muslims is happening all over the world now, as chronicled by thereligionofpeace.com. A general feeling of insecurity is increasing.
But ultimately, I believe this strategy can only fail. The people in
Western nations are not as weak or as easily cowed as we may appear.
They are mistaking a reluctance to fight with an unwillingness to defend
ourselves — a mistake they will pay dearly for. We are nice people, for
the most part, and we bend over backwards to give people the benefit of
the doubt, but when we understand what is really happening, we suddenly
and completely change our tune. Look what France's response has been to
its latest jihad attacks: They immediately bombed the hell out of ISIS strongholds, closed their borders, arrested 104 suspected jihadis, and are shutting down the orthodox mosques in France.
People in the West are like the old man being harassed and taunted by the punks in this video.
He just wanted them to go away so he could go on about his day, but
when he realized they were not going to leave him alone, he knocked them
out.
That's why all over Europe (and Canada and Australia) there are protests
against the influx of regugees — partly out of a new understanding of
the facts surrounding Muslim immigration — it produces more rapes, more
criminal activity, and in the process of trying to create Muslim-only
areas, non-Muslims are forced out by constant harassment. The trend is
toward a growing resistance to Muslim immigration.
We can look at Flight 93 on
9/11 for a good illustration of how people in the West change their
stance from relatively passive to ready to fight. The jihadis on board
all the planes that day told their passengers to stay calm, and
everything was going to be all right. But the people aboard Flight 93
found out about the other planes. And once they understood what was
really going on, they attacked and stopped the plane from reaching its
destination.
Like the people on Flight 93, our fellow non-Muslims may only need
accurate information. We need to share with our fellow non-Muslims what
ISIS plans on doing. It will create a resolve to defeat them.
The above explanation of Naji's strategy is summarized from an article by Amir Taheri. Read his article here: The Jihadis' Master Plan to Break Us.
You can read a book by Naji: The Management of Savagery.
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