Islam, Religion Of Peace - Iran, ISIS, Houthis, And Hamas As God's Witnesses

'Savage muthafuckas', said General Thackery Jones. 'Nuke 'em'.  This said in reference to the Islamic Republic of Iran, implacable enemy of Israel which since its inception has vowed to eliminate it and exterminate all Jews.  Gone was the imperial rule of the shahs, and forgotten was the glory of Cyrus the Great, Xerxes, and the Persian empire. History was expunged.  Only the future remained - a universal world Islamic caliphate of doctrinal discipline, unremitting hatred for the infidel, obedience only to Allah and his divinely ordained state. 

The ayatollahs and mullahs of Iran enforced sharia law, reduced women to bonded slaves, brooked no dissent, and began a decades-long reign of terror promoted and extended by its proxies ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Shabab, and the Houthis.  Iran was transformed from the cultural center of the Middle East to the dark, black hole of religious fundamentalism, penitential rule, and profound intolerance. 

Nuking them would be a good idea, the General went on to say in his brief before the Joint Chiefs of staff. 'We would be doing the world a favor, ridding it of....'.  Here he stopped, eyes to the ceiling, searching for the right temperate, appropriate socio-military phrase to describe Iran when only the worst, most racist, most brutal, hateful words came to mind, one flooded with howling muezzins, beheaded Christians, eviscerated women, headless babies, and disemboweled children.  

He sputtered, turned red, raised his arms in a silent, angry plea, but mindful of his position, rank, and responsibility to rational strategy finished with only 'this abomination'. 

General Jones was cut from the same cloth as Air Force General Curtis LeMay, a bloody-minded no-holds barred soldier who had proposed annihilation of every last German on the face of the earth, the extermination of the yellow races who bombed Pearl Harbor and who had said publicly that America should 'Nuke the Russians back to the Stone Age'. 

 

Nothing in the ensuing decades - no accommodating liberalism, no conciliatory One World twaddle, no 'peace in our time' progressive cravenness - had changed Jones' mind.  An enemy of the United States must be eliminated without a second thought. 

However, a good, obedient soldier in the chain of command, Jones held his tongue; and went on in a more approachable way to insist strongly on the use of overwhelming force against the Tehran regime.  It would finally free Israel from the threat of Muslim hordes, would certainly effect a regime change and liberate millions of chador, burqa-robed women, rid the world of nuclear terror, and open American markets to plentiful oil reserves. 

'Neutralizing them would be a Godsend to the world', he said in his closing remarks. 

Fellows Brown, like many on the progressive Left, knew of General Jones and his race-mongering, international bullying, and warned the American public not only of the proposed breach of international law, but a summary dismissal of Islam, a religion of peace.  Such Islamophobia was a hateful expression of American white supremacism, and should be resisted.  

Yes, there was a religious element to Middle East terrorism - the shouts of Allahu Akbar by Palestinians as they beheaded Israeli civilians could not be ignored, but their fight was only territorial, political, and historical, not religious.  Hamas was simply fighting for the right of return and access to the Temple Mount, so if they were less circumspect in their insistence than one might have hoped, they should be forgiven. 

Brown was a progressive's progressive - a man committed to world peace, environmentalism, gay rights, and the restoration of the black man to his proper, rightful place atop the human pyramid - so when it came to Donald Trump's aggressively racist claims that Islam was at the very core of Muslim radicalism and was the moving force behind Iran's expansionism and terror, Brown objected.  'Islam is a religion of peace', he insisted, citing chapter and verse of the Quran. 

Of course, he quoted these seemingly conciliatory verses out of context, for peace in the religion was only the result of militant elimination of the unbeliever.  The peaceful world of an Islamic caliphate which would include all faithful believers would only come about after the marauding, Genghis Khan-type slaughter of history.  Infidel's heads on spikes and bloody entrails spilled on the roadside were the necessary precursors to a peaceful kingdom. 

 

Inclusivity was not an arbitrary term, said Fellows.  It meant everyone of every race, creed, sexual orientation, and nationality.  'A progressive doesn't choose whom to admit into the big tent of brotherhood'. 

This embrace of Iranian sovereignty, Palestinian rights, and the understandable political nature of Muslim revolt against ensconced authoritarian regimes was, despite the clarity and conviction expressed by Fellows, had some bothersome points.  The failed colonialist, hegemonic assault on the Taliban in Afghanistan did result in a misogynist, punitive fundamentalist regime; and the spokesmen of every Iranian client group in the Middle East vowed to return women to the dungeon, to continue female genital mutilation, and turn them into sex slaves - all worrying ideas. 

'A gutter religion', General Jones whispered in an overheard aside to his adjutant, but when publicized  he was unapologetic.  In more carefully worded terms, he asked the American public to look at this Stone Age religion, this throwback to Neanderthal primitivism, this base, unthinking, bloody-minded clerical horror show.  In so many words he said, 'The world would be better off without them'. 

Liberals did the most incredible, balletic, impossibly fantastical dance around the facts, insisting that Iran's nuclear enrichment was only for peaceful purposes, that Islamic fundamentalism was a legitimate acknowledgment of the centrality of religion in civic life, and that the aggressive actions of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Iranian dependents were only anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist, moral struggles. 

'Nuke 'em', said General Jones referring to American liberals 'with their heads up their asses'; but of course he insisted that he had been misquoted and never would challenge the right of the opposition to speak their minds. 

In the end, General Jones prevailed, and President Trump attacked and destroyed Iran's nuclear installations, removing at least the existential threat from the regime.  The ayatollahs remain in power and as long as they do, they will continue their oppression of their citizens and sow insurrection throughout the Middle East; but their ability to do both has been curtailed.

Now that the strikes have succeeded, the lid is off on criticism of Islamic fundamentalism, a Jew-hating, misogynist, primitive religion of no earthly use to anyone and nothing but a destructive, aggressive, hegemonic movement. 

Fellows Brown knew it all along.  America, and especially the MAGA creeps of Trumpism, were as racist as promised, and their barely concealed desire to eliminate a valid, divinely-inspired, peaceful religion was now out in the open.  He and his progressive colleagues vowed to keep up the good fight, help return Iran to the commonwealth of nations, and give Islam the respect it deserves. 

Americans might be credulous, but not entirely stupid and they knew that Islam was far from a religion of peace but a violent, hateful, uncompromisingly brutal one, and the actions of Israel and America to neutralize Iran and stop the Muslim juggernaut were applauded.  Not only that, the more that progressives condemned the Trump actions and championed Islam, the less were their chances of victory in the coming midterm elections. 

'Good riddance to them', shouted General Jones, waving his arms across the protesting crowd gathered in front of the White House.  'Maggots, leeches, pampered Nancys...'; and he and his Commander in Chief were right - for the first time, radical, hegemonic, primitive, fundamentalist Islam had been called out and confronted. 

Fellows couldn't believe the ignorance, the base stupidity of Trump and his minions; but the truth of the matter was that he and his lot had been sent packing perhaps once and for all.  Their support of Hamas and Iran had been the final straw. 

'Fuck 'em', said General Jones.