As IF Times

Source: Germany now has North Africas sex crime troubles – Chicago Tribune

Those that have been following the news may have noticed that men from non western cultures do not have quite the same respect for acceptable protocols concerning women as they do in the west.  Of course, that’s kind of like saying Kim Kardashian is a flirt but this realization is dawning upon those that have created policies welcoming new cultures with expectations of easy assimilation.

It shows a naivete that is borne from lack of experience, or much worse, an inability to accept reality.  Outside the PC borders of western societies, men are treated as disposable commodities, much less women.   Imagine coming from a culture in which the exposure of a woman’s ankle is considered unacceptably lurid to being plopped into one in which women frequently dress like Taylor Swift.  What could go wrong?

The naive premise that everyone’s the same and worships the same set of values is as wrongheaded as expecting dogfish to fetch sticks.   There is and always has been a great divide in the view of women’s roles in society between the Judeo Christian/Secular and the Muslim based cultures.  In the 21st century, you’d like to think that death is a bit of an extreme penalty for showing an elbow, or that a display of calf is the same as an open for business signal.  But in some extreme Muslim societies, those views do exist.

In the extreme case of the ISIS group, women are explicitly held to be chattel and in fact, there are codified instruction manuals on rape protocols.  “Well, you can do the mother but not the daughter” or  “Only after prayers, but not before lunch”.  In the news today is an item which claims that an ISIS member executed his own mother for the crime of trying to talk him into leaving ISIS.

It’s no wonder the ISIS men are so savage; they can’t find women of free will to date them. What would be the sales pitch? “Well you can’t come out in the daytime unless covered completely in a designer sackcloth; you can’t speak unless spoken to, you need to do whatever, whenever; you get beaten when the mood strikes and are eligible to be stoned to death if you glance at the plumber…what’s a good wedding date?”.  How do they stop women from flooding in to hook such manly men?

If such behavior were exhibited in western cultures, the man would be in jail as fast as shrimp disappears from the buffet table, or at least be the subject of much squawking on The View.  Apologists are brushing off this behavior as if it was simply a function of religious differences.   What is needed is an end to the appeasement attitude and an acknowledgement that this kind of stuff has little to do with religion.  It is not only illegal in our culture, it’s inhumane and as the Brits say, it’s frowned upon.  Anybody who fears offending ISIS or apologizing for any anti-social behavior in the name of religious sensibilities should be made to live among them.

Source: Islamic State threatens to carry out attacks in Russia ‘very soon’

As the ISIS terrorist group has stepped up their activities, it looks more and more as if they really have no endgame other than mayhem and terror for its own sake.  The targets for their mayhem are of course the west in general,  with the Americans, the French and likely Israel near the top of the list.   But they’ve also kicked the Russian Bear, normally an enemy of the U.S, by claiming to have blown up a Russian airliner.  It’s not clear that they have supporters in the Middle East either, at least not overtly.  The Iraqis and Syrians disavow them and in fact are shooting them.   Though they claim a Muslim basis of justification for their actions, moderate Muslim groups have distanced themselves from ISIS.  They’ve isolated themselves from most everyone.

So what is the endgame? All the violence is notionally in the name of some interpretation of the Koran, but anyone who has a passing knowledge of the Koran knows that there is scant justification for the havoc being perpetrated in its name.  In the Christian Bible, there’s a well known passage about an eye for an eye, but you  don’t see Christians running around going all Aqib Talib every time they suffer a personal slight.

No, this is just pure evil, it seems to be murder for the sake of murder…as sport…that’s the endgame.   Up until ISIS came to notoriety, the first group of infamous evil guys were the Taliban.  Then along came Al Qaeda personified by Osama Bin Laden.  For a while, they were the main progenitors of fear and terror as demonstrated by the 9-11 World Trade center takedowns.  Boko Haram got into the mayhem business in Nigeria by kidnapping school girls, committing piracy on the high seas and blowing up hotels.  Now, some new Islamist group, Al Mourabitoun has claimed responsibility for a terror attack in Mali, taking over 30 lives.   These Islamist groups are appearing out of nowhere like bird droppings on a statue.  Some news sites are comparing the deaths attributed to each group as if they were football stats.  Apparently Boko Haram is now leading.

The west has fallen for the propaganda issued by all of these groups; the nonsense notion that the west has encroached upon Muslim sensibilities and therefore retribution is warranted.   The American president is apparently not too concerned about ISIS and ironically ISIS is not too concerned about the American president.  The west has been careful not to inflame religious sensibilities and  even avoid connecting the word Muslim with the word terrorist.  To this day, there are still idiots who think that the closing of Guantanamo Bay is necessary because its existence only serves to be a recruiting tool for those who would otherwise be peace loving pilgrims minding their own business.  Somehow the imprisonment of Islamist  thugs causes their blood to boil enough to go out to make someone else boil in blood.  There are those who still think that American foreign policy is responsible for the rise and spreading of these terror groups.  Those are the ones who flunked out of history class, where they otherwise would have learned that Muslims have been killing Christians for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Here’s the reality.  All of these groups do not consider their victims to be human.  The victims’  lives are no more consequential to them than flies on a dung pile.  The civilized world had better figure that out in order to fight the various incarnations of these groups properly; they need to adopt the same mindset.  A while ago, when Boko Haram kidnapped a bunch of schoolgirls, the west’s response was a social media campaign to “Bring Back Our Girls” as if an impassioned plea with thousands of likes would do the trick.  Not making that up.

How about civilized society puts together a crack team of the best video gamers in the world and assign them the task of executing kill programs as directed by intelligence agencies.  The various Islamist groups can’t be hard to find.  It’s a matter of political will to pull the triggers.  The Islamists think nothing of killing their victims like video game targets and so neither should there be any guilt by the civilized world in doing the same given the chance.  No second guessing, no hand wringing,  just sprites on a video screen.  We can even name this avenging group… we’ll call them El Kabong!  If it’s a deadly game, we should do our best to win. This is a better idea than those in charge now who think that reasoning, song singing and job offers will get the Islamists to stop killing.  The delusion has to stop. We need more Ah-nold and less Urkel. Bring on El Kabong.