04-25-2007, 12:58 AM
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That is why it is important to fight people and not a book. The desire to follow Mein Kampf becomes less acute after you have been soundly defeated and punished.
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- More efficient to fight a single book, than a million mullahs?
- In order to discredit Islam, one has to either discredit the Quran or the author. Discrediting the practitioners, is unlikely to have the same effect. In the example above discrediting a 1000 SS leaders was not enough - it worked only because the ideology of racist fascism along with its author was discredited.
- Documented history in these matters has succeeded only when the ideology has been put to shame. Communism, Fascism come to mind. The US never seriously hated all Russians but always differentiated between the people and the ideology. The ideology was the target and not the people or even the leaders.
- The only difference between the defeated ideologies of Fascism and Communism is that Islamism has the halo of the "God" around it. Once, you can figure or get used to that idea and show indifference to that halo effect, the rest of it becomes very similar to the discredited ideologies
I have always liked your idea of making the mullah as the target - and it makes a lot of sense. At this time though, I hold the view that targeting the leaders alone is not enough.
That is why it is important to fight people and not a book. The desire to follow Mein Kampf becomes less acute after you have been soundly defeated and punished.
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- More efficient to fight a single book, than a million mullahs?
- In order to discredit Islam, one has to either discredit the Quran or the author. Discrediting the practitioners, is unlikely to have the same effect. In the example above discrediting a 1000 SS leaders was not enough - it worked only because the ideology of racist fascism along with its author was discredited.
- Documented history in these matters has succeeded only when the ideology has been put to shame. Communism, Fascism come to mind. The US never seriously hated all Russians but always differentiated between the people and the ideology. The ideology was the target and not the people or even the leaders.
- The only difference between the defeated ideologies of Fascism and Communism is that Islamism has the halo of the "God" around it. Once, you can figure or get used to that idea and show indifference to that halo effect, the rest of it becomes very similar to the discredited ideologies
I have always liked your idea of making the mullah as the target - and it makes a lot of sense. At this time though, I hold the view that targeting the leaders alone is not enough.