In the one-thing-leads-to-another way that the internet has of sailing me along from one post to another board to a mainstream publication to an independent site — with me able to retrace the steps only about as often as I can retrace the steps that landed me at a particular thought — I came upon one of those party-dampening reminders that there ARE radical Muslims worldwide who DO mean us harm.
Almost as many of them as there are of us, according to the sight at which I arrived perhaps serendipitously, for the author sounds like a highly advanced intellect. I take the liberty of excerpting from his blog Thinking Man:
“In the denouement of the Mumbai massacre, it seems well worth pointing out, for those who still don’t know, there are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world today. Of those, a conservatively estimated 10 to 15 percent are radical Muslims, or Muslim extremists, who regard the United States as the Great Satan — by which is meant: the United States should be expunged from the face of the earth, and the Koran should replace our Constitution.
To spare you the math, 15 percent of 1.2 billion is 280 million. That means there are more Muslim extremists in the world than there are people in the United States of America.
These Muslims are spread everywhere across the globe.
It is surmised that the Mumbai terrorists were merely following the instruction manual of al-Qaeda’s erstwhile Saudi Arabian chief — one Abd al-Aziz al-Muqrin — who, in 2004, published on the internet an instructional killing essay for jihadists. That essay is entitled “The Targets Inside Cities.”
The text of al-Murqrin’s essay spells out, in no uncertain terms, “the degree of value” placed (by jihadists) upon each group of innocent civilian. Thus, Jews are the number one group on al-Muqrin’s list — American and Israelis Jews first, followed by British Jews. Christians are the next group — American Christians first, again followed by British. Al-Muqrin then subdivides by profession: businessmen first, military next, tourist next, and so on…
Each one of them would only have to kill one of us, with a few million of them working more prodigiously or a few Incidents taking out masses of people in one whack. Such as in underground railways or highrise office buildings.
Barack Obama has TWICE said — that I myself have heard, mentioning again that my hearing has not yet fallen to the ravages of Middle Age — that he ESPECIALLY wants to hear from the people who disagree with him. That’d be me.
As it happens, I have been given no reason to take him at his word. That’s the Truth. He couldn’t disown Reverend Wright, then he threw him under the bus. He would accept public campaign financing, but he didn’t. He would start bringing our troops home on Day One, now it’s only some troops, with more troops bound for Afghanistan. There won’t be any lobbyists in his Administration, now lobbyists just can’t finagle for their own cause.
But what choice do I have? After all, presuming that his eligibility issue will be satisfactorily resolved, sweeping it under the rug NOT constituting resolution, Barack Hussein Obama is our next President.
If it is true that anywhere NEAR 280 million radical Muslims mean us harm, then it seems very clear to me that we, the objects of their annihilation, will set about ensuring that we rely upon our Haters for absolutely nothing. Zero, nada, zip, zilch.
Oil included.
But separately from radical Islam, I have observed that several other nationalities and countries have not exactly been rooting for the home team. Or if they are, their support is too anemic to matter.
Speaking of, call me crazy, I believe this Crisis would inspire me to turn off the spiggot on foreign aid.
In the meantime, the people of this and every country must ask themselves whether they want to be a hodge podge of separate countries or whether they want one gigantic nation with one gigantic government — Starbucks, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Gap, Borders, WAL*MART, Best Buy, Costco all around.
Me, I’m all for national distinction . . . it makes travel so much more interesting.
I share certain economic sympathies with the Secessionists. Alas — which is to say, considering REALITY — in light of the sheer magnitude of contemporary dangers, the notion of squaring off against them as even SMALLER entities strikes me as counterintuitive. Even so, Washington is out of control and there is no doubt in my mind that, economically speaking, People will be better served by a reversion of states’ rights to the states. Culturally, aesthetically, spiritually, in the same way that it is not interesting to fly half way around the world to find the same Stuff you left at home, it is not so interesting to drive across THIS country only to find Sameness.
If we ARE going the Sovereign Nation route — like brave and independent people — my very strong suggestion is that we identify and begin manufacturing the things without which we would be FUCKED. One per state, THAT’S the Heavy Industry in that state. Fifty’s not enough? Make it a hundred, two per state. Company towns . . . see my earlier post entitled The Housing Hoopla.
We need a passenger car, we need a truck, we need a plane, we need a ship, we need a gun, we need ammo, we need a cooking unit, we need a refrigeration unit. We need one full line of toiletries. A television, a computer, a radio, tools. Cloth, think hemp.
It won’t be practical. The items will be expensive. That’s okay. Rich foreigners LOVE expensive American Stuff. Think, Top Of The Line. The Cadillacs of necessities. It will have a favorable impact on exports, I’ve no doubt — billionaires are tuning up all over the place. American Aristocracy will buy the goods, too.
Badge of Honor meets Snob Appeal, and they both keep up with the Joneses.
The points are short, sweet, quaint, imperative and two:
1. SELF-SUFFICIENCY
2. JOBS