Generational Dynamics

  Worldwide Muslim versus Muslim War

The number of terror attacks has been growing. In just the past month, there was a deadly July 7 shooting in Dallas, a massive terror attack Dhaka on July 1, the Istanbul airport attack on June 28, and the mass shooting in Orlando on June 12. 

The natural reaction by politicians to the situation is to look for ways to increase their own political power or get money, no matter what the effect on others. This is evident in moronic ideological "solutions to terrorism" that are being proposed. Here are some examples:

• Gun control. On Friday, the morning after the Nice attack, Smith & Wesson stock went higher, as it always does after a terror attack, because gun owners know that President Obama is going to give another speech making the ridiculous call for gun control. Calls for gun control increase gun sales, as well as development of techniques for home-made guns, including 3D-printed guns. No proposed gun control law would have prevented any of the recent terror attacks. France has strong gun control laws, and yet the terrorist possessed guns and explosives. Also the attack in Nice was with a truck, and I'm waiting for someone to propose truck control.

• Ban all Muslims or interrogate all Muslims. This would create an enormous backlash domestically. It would be a farce, since it would entrap only ordinary Muslims, and real jihadists would learn to lie and evade any tests. The perpetrator in Nice was stopped by the police before the attack, and was asked why he was driving his truck in that area. He said that he was delivering ice cream for the celebrations, and the police left him alone. If he could so easily fool the French police, then any jihadist could learn to do the same.

• Solve the "core problems." People who make this proposal usually blame the U.S. for Muslim hostility, and claim that if we were nicer to Muslims, the attacks would stop. This farcical proposal is contradicted by almost eight years of President Obama's apology tours to Muslim countries. Another analyst made the equally idiotic claim blaming the terror attacks on the rise of the far-right in Europe. Last year, I explained in detail in "12-Sep-15 World View -- Saudi Arabia's Grand Mosque, site of huge construction accident, has links to 9/11" 

• The modern rise of al-Qaeda, the 9/11 attacks, and the increasing jihadist attacks since then were traced back to three major events that took place in 1979: 

• 1.  Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 

• 2.  Iran's Great Islamic Revolution. 

• 3.  Salafist attack on Mecca's Grand Mosque. 

(Salafis are fundamentalists who believe in a return to the original ways of Islam. The word 'Salafi' comes from the Arabic phrase, 'as-salaf as-saliheen', which refers to the first three generations of Muslims (starting with the Companions of the Prophet), otherwise known as the Pious Predecessors.)

• The United States had absolutely nothing to do with the rise of jihadism, and it's extreme nationalist arrogance to even believe so. It would be nice if some of these self-styled "experts" who blame the US for everything would learn a little about what's going on in the world.

• Bomb Raqqa. I heard one military analyst say that we should "get serious" and wipe out ISIS by bombing and flattening Raqqa, their headquarters, even though hundreds of thousands of civilians would be killed. This is laughable beyond belief. ISIS would move its headquarters out of Raqqa. The huge civilian massacre would create an enormous international backlash. And it wouldn't even do any good. There are thousands of people killed in terrorist attacks every month -- in Syria, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in India, in Bangladesh, in Yemen, in Egypt, in Nigeria, and in other countries, and none of that would be even touched by bombing Raqqa. There's a huge war being waged by Muslims against Muslims, with the number of Westerners killed being minuscule by comparison. This war is growing, and so the spillover with terror attacks in the West is going to grow as well, and flattening Raqqa would only make things worse.

• Dissolve the EU or civil war in the EU. I heard a couple of analysts say that the Nice attack should encourage other countries to leave the EU, suggesting that this would prevent jihadists from crossing borders. That doesn't make sense. If anything, the Nice attack will unify the EU, since they need each other to fight terrorism. The most that would happen is some additional border closings, or modification of the Schengen zone. But even so, that would not have prevented the Nice attack, where the perpetrators was a permanent resident and a "lone wolf" who didn't cross any borders.

The attack in Nice France makes a mockery of all "solutions." It was perpetrated by a permanent resident of France, who lived in Nice with a job as a delivery driver. He was known to the police as a petty thief, but not as a terrorist. No one has claimed credit for the attack, so it may have been perpetrated entirely locally. He has an ex-wife and three kids, so that the attack might have been a way of getting revenge against his ex-wife. He comes from a well-to-do family in Tunisia, where his father was speaking to the press. He expressed shock that his son had perpetrated this act. He said that his son was mentally unstable, and that when he was off his meds he would become extremely angry and break things. So the Nice France attack might simply have been perpetrated by a madman. 

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, there is no solution to the terrorism problem. The rise of terrorism is organic, coming from young generations with limited, distorted views of the world. None of the above solutions would reach them. With the worldwide Muslim versus Muslim war growing, there's going to be more and more "spillover" into the West, and so the number of terrorist attacks will continue to increase. All of the "solutions" listed above only make things worse.

DYI Comments:  Generation Dynamics' John J. Xenakis is spot on.  This is a holy civil war of Muslims against Muslim.  However I do disagree as the alliance(U.S. U.K. NATO, EU) has made matters worse with our on going resource wars(oil & gas).  The next flash point is Sudan as the U.S. is attempting to chase out the Chinese and secure oil for the alliance.

     
DYI