Consequences

 

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Consequences

Karen was conflicted. A sexual encounter with beautiful Inga while on vacation with Hilton, her boyfriend, left her sexually confused. Karen could not decide if she wanted Inga or Hilton. Inga said she could have both. Not convinced but uncertain Karen let him stray to a fantasy woman with an agenda of her own. That brief affair ended in tragedy and death. Realizing she wanted him more than she wanted Inga, Karen nursed him back to health. Happiness seemed within her grasp until the consequences manifested as post-traumatic stress. Can she share her life with a man in the grip of post-traumatic stress as experienced by soldiers, police and others many of whom seek relief in suicide? Is love enough to save him? What about Inga? Their lives came together in drama and must be resolved in drama.

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ISIS and the Middle East

A few months ago I wrote a blog describing what I had learned about how the Islamic fighters of ISIS or ISIL or Islamic Caliphate as they call it now treat the people they conquer.  Murder, beheadings, rape, enslavement, crucifixion, and any number of barbaric activities are the tools used to enforce their Muslim state. For awhile it appeared the Kurds would stop them but that has not worked and even American air power is not effective.

Western powers led by Barack Obama are talking about supporting the Kurds, Iraqis and even Assad in Syria with military advice and things like blankets and tents. Soft support it is called, no boots on the ground. Good enough.

Western soldiers are not welcome in Muslim lands. They are infidels in the eyes of devout Muslims who must either convert to Islam or be killed. In my mind no western soldier should be involved in the fight against ISIS.

Muslims in the Middle East are treacherous. The Saudi Arabians are nominally allies of the US but actually support ISIS with money and manpower. There are two main parts to Islam, Sunni and Shia. ISIS is Sunni and Saudi Arabians are Sunni hence they support each other. Iran and a large part of Iraq are Shia and are enemies of the Sunnis. Many of the Kurds in Iraq are Shia but there are other subgroups of Islam and even Christians in the area. These people are fleeing to Turkey since the Kurd fighters are not equipped to fight the ISIS fighters who have American equipment captured from the Iraqi Army that abandoned their posts as ISIS advanced from Syria.

The remnants of the Iraq army are unlikely to hold ISIS if it advances on Baghdad unless Iran intervenes. There are no moderate forces in Syria fighting Assad. Any arms given to the supposed Free Syrian Army will end up in the hands of ISIS.

It is a sad story of death and destruction but there is nothing practical the West can do about it. We must be prepared for the time Islamist forces once again assault Europe and then the Americas. It is their clear objective to implement Sharia around the world.

How Sunni Muslim Terrorists Treat Christians in Mosel Iraq

         Modern Muslim conquerors are repeating their traditional treatment of Christians and other non-Muslims in the lands they conquer. The Iraq city of Mosel was recently taken by the Sunni militants known as ISIS. Mosel had a community of 35,000 or so Christians who had lived there for generations surviving Sadam Husein and the US invasion. 

        ISIS took control of the city and told the Christians or Nassarah as they call them they had nothing to fear but within days they changed and instructed the Christians to convert to Islam, pay a special tax or be killed. Muslims have charged a tax on non-Muslims in their territories for centuries. The tax is called jizya and is paid for protection from Muslim brutality.

        Christian homes were identified with a large letter N on the door and declared property of the Islamic state. The Christians gathered what they could carry and tried to leave the city but they were robbed of all their possessions at the ISIS checkpoints and sent from the city on foot with only the clothes on their backs. When people asked to keep small keepsakes like a crucifix or even a baby bottle they were told Nassarah can have nothing.

        The expelled people are being cared for by Kurdish Christians in a nearby city which ISIS has not taken. The Kurd fighters are strong enough to deter the Sunni terrorists. Update - August 8, 2014 - The Kurds are unable to defend against ISIS and ISIS is on the move killing anyone who they catch that isn't a Sunni.

Source of the above– Toronto Star July 24, 2014 written by Tracey Shelton

        It is important to realize there are sects fighting in Syria and other Muslim countries that would impose Islam on people around the world. We may want to live in harmony with all people and religions but there are sects in one religion dedicated to ending our freedom and traditional way of life.

CONSTRUCTIVE CHAOS

         Creative destruction, constructive chaos! Are there any more chilling concepts when related to organizations and countries? 

        It has been reported that those terms were applied to the Middle East as policy to reorganize the borders of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and most other countries in the region.  A web site called the Centre for Research on Globalization has posted a piece authored by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya says, in part, (click on the name to go to his page)

“The “New Middle East” project was introduced publicly by Washington and Tel Aviv with the expectation that Lebanon would be the pressure point for realigning the whole Middle East and thereby unleashing the forces of “constructive chaos.” This “constructive chaos” –which generates conditions of violence and warfare throughout the region– would in turn be used so that the United States, Britain, and Israel could redraw the map of the Middle East in accordance with their geo-strategic needs and objectives.”

        Is this a conspiracy theory being promoted by an agency with its own agenda? 

       The project was documented in 2006 under the Bush administration and promoted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the New Middle East project. A map of the future region was prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Peters and published in the Armed Forces Journal in June 2006, Peters is a retired colonel of the U.S. National War Academy. The map can be seen on the New Middle East web page along with the rest of the information referenced in this blog.

       It reads like a terrible fantasy novel where horrible people in high places play with human lives like chess pieces. Women, children, men and boys are expendable to these people and suffering means nothing to them since they are safe in ivory towers in London, Washington, Moscow and who knows where else. They are playing the Great Game of Empire that goes back to the 1800’s when Britain and Russia fought for supremacy in the same region.

        Okay, maybe this web page is provocative intended to antagonize Israel, America and Great Britain. I am probably naive to think that a project like this is not current and active policy of these nations. It just doesn’t seem real BUT considering what is going on now, 2014, with the war in Syria, the conquest by ISIS and the disintegration of Iraq, possible breakup of Afghanistan, the Taliban in Pakistan, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and all the killing and brutality it seems the region is in chaos, constructive or not. 

       Is chaos leading to the “creative destruction” of the region as envisioned by powerful people in 2006? Is the grand plan proceeding on the backs of innocent Arabs and all people who live in the region?

       You can decide after you look at whatever evidence you find and believe. I believe there are forces that I don’t know or understand at work although they may not originate from the sources Mr. Nazemroaya has identified.

A Serious Warning from a World Leader

Tony Blair, the Former British Prime Minister, delivered a keynote speech at Bloomberg HQ in London entitled 'Why the Middle East Still Matters.' In it he described radical Islam as the greatest threat facing the world today.

The Full Text of Tony Blair's speech

            Blair said “However the Middle East matters. What is presently happening there, still represents the biggest threat to global security of the early 21st C. The region, including the wider area outside its conventional boundary – Pakistan, Afghanistan to the east and North Africa to the west – is in turmoil with no end in sight to the upheaval and any number of potential outcomes from the mildly optimistic to catastrophe.

            At the root of the crisis lies a radicalised and politicised view of Islam, an ideology that distorts and warps Islam’s true message. The threat of this radical Islam is not abating. It is growing. It is spreading across the world. It is de-stabilising communities and even nations. It is undermining the possibility of peaceful co-existence in an era of globalisation. And in the face of this threat we seem curiously reluctant to acknowledge it and powerless to counter it effectively.

           But I assert it nonetheless. I do so because underneath the turmoil and revolution of the past years is one very clear and unambiguous struggle: between those with a modern view of the Middle East, one of pluralistic societies and open economies, where the attitudes and patterns of globalisation are embraced; and, on the other side, those who want to impose an ideology born out of a belief that there is one proper religion and one proper view of it, and that this view should, exclusively, determine the nature of society and the political economy. We might call this latter perspective an ‘Islamist’ view, though one of the frustrating things about this debate is the inadequacy of the terminology and the tendency for any short hand to be capable of misinterpretation, so that you can appear to elide those who support the Islamist ideology with all Muslims.”

             He urged the West and indeed the entire world, to unite against the ideology Islamic extremism. Blair outlined potential foreign policy options for the West vis-a-vis various Middle Eastern countries in order to combat Islamists and to support religiously open and tolerant elements.

            Perhaps this statement by Blair sums up the message of his keynote speech best: "When we consider the defining challenges of our time, surely this one should be up there along with the challenge of the environment or economic instability."

           Former Foreign Office Minister Denis MacShane compared the speech to Churchill's 1946 Iron Curtain address.

Addendum 

           After I posted Mr. Blair’s speech I began to wonder if he was proposing dictators like President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt are leaders the west should support. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is a dictator where personal freedom is not valued highly particularly for women. Most leaders of Muslim countries, even though not considered to be Islamist states, are not models that western Christian countries want to emulate. Pakistan is particularly anti “the west” is practice although pretending to be an ally of the United States. 

          There is little doubt that Islamists wish to replace western democracy with a Caliphate based on sharia law and Muslim fundamentalism. If Mr. Blaire is warning us of the impending danger then I support him.