Ideology is even more dangerous than the terrorists themselves
Rachel Avraham makes a crucial point about Islam:
Mendi Safadi, head of the Safadi Center for International Diplomacy, Research, Public Relations and Human Rights, stated in a recent interview: “Terrorism is spreading and we are engaged in a pursuit of those who commit terrorist actions but we have still not learned that terrorism is based on an ideology, not people. We have still not learned the essential basis of the War on Terror. We still have not given the victims of terrorism the consolation that there will be no more victims. What more needs to happen until we understand that the solution is in our hands and that we only need the courage to face up to it until terrorism is destroyed?This is exactly why distinctions have to be made between good or bad religions, along with ideologies. And, to be transparent about what elements exist within a specific religion/ideology. Otherwise, how will you convince anybody, say, that Judaism's a religion worth upholding by contrast?
“We cannot fight against terrorism using democratic tools and human rights laws,” he explained. “We clearly see that a radical terrorist state is building an atomic bomb and in the West, they are exploring how to take care of it without collateral damage. They do this as followers of the mullahs' regime shout "Death to America and death to Israel" while educating their people to hate and be bloodthirsty.”
Safadi believes that the best way to take care of this threat is to go after the ideology that stands behind the terror.
The question remains: If the root of Islamist terrorism is the ideology and not the people, then why until now have we gone after the terrorists but not their ideology? According to Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University, “The ideology is embedded in the religion. Jihad is an obligation, a mitzvah. There are all kinds of modern interpretations, such as jihad being against one's evil inclinations or the devil but these do not convince those who are sure that jihad is against the infidel. It is a very big problem to fight against the ideology, so we take the weapons from them and convince them that the damage that will be caused to Muslims and Islam will be much worse than the gain from jihad. It is called a credible threat. Only credible threats will change their decision.”
To prove this point, Kedar explained that the only time Iran halted its nuclear program was when former US President George W. Bush invaded Iraq and the Iranians thought that they were going to be next: “But once they understood that America was a paper tiger that was going to do nothing against them, they resumed it. Economic measures will not make them change their policies. They only have to survive a year with the sanctions and just hope that Trump won’t be re-elected. Trump’s strategy will only work if he is re-elected. Nevertheless, the ideology is very well-rooted in the culture. It is 14 centuries old. You cannot tell them to leave basic tenets of Islam. It is not easy at all. This is what makes it very hard.”
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