Iran is building a nuclear missile capability, supports (Sunni) Hamas and runs Hezbollah to create trouble in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Al-Queda, protected by the Taliban, continues to wage war against western civilization. Some call this a Clash of Civilizations, others call it Jihad. This blog is an attempt to end the conflict as peacefully as possible with an intelligent victory for the West.
We believe that Islamic culture and religion have a lot to do with the roots of the conflict. Muslims are now or recently have been fighting non-Muslims and other Muslims all over the world, from the Philippines, to India and Kashmir, in Darfur, within Iraq, in Chechnya, in Bosnia, within Lebanon, between Israel and a whole host of Arab states and groupings, recently in Algeria, in Thailand, and so on. Plus, they blow things up in Africa, Bali, Spain, Britain, the US, Kenya, Tanzania, Argentina, Yemen, Iraq and Israel, to name a few.
Having experienced two world wars, watched the recent Second Congo War, and seen the rise of nuclear weapons, the developed world basically wants to get past the era of major conflicts, if possible. The growth of the wannabe nascent Iranian Empire, complete with ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, impedes this progress.
Islamic teaching is that Muslims must physically dominate and humiliate all other religious categories, and that force and violence are legitimate in pursuing these goals. In recent centuries, this hasn’t been possible. Now that has changed.
Islamic basic culture and religion weren’t that different a hundred years ago or even five hundred years ago. The current surge in conflict is fueled by an enormous influx of unearned oil money, injected into hostile, undeveloped societies, enabling them to wage various kinds of war and conflict against the rest of the world. This must stop.
Of course, with over a billion Muslims in the world, there must be, and there is, a great deal of difference and diversity. Just because Islam says that Muslims may own slaves and must hate Hindus, that doesn’t mean that they all follow these rules. On September 11th, 2001, most Muslims didn’t, of course, kill anybody. They are not the problem. The problem is the violence fed and stimulated by oil money.
In practical terms, al Qaeda and the government of Iran are the primary problems. The leaders of al Qaeda are in hiding. But the leaders of Iran are building nuclear weapons, lying about it, and have been yelling “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” for 30 years.
Al-Qaeda apparently gets its money from Osama bin Laden, one of the heirs of the bin Laden wealth. This wealth comes from construction paid for by Saudi oil money. Western money flows through Saudi Arabia to Osama bin Laden, and probably others, to al-Qaeda.
Iran has two main uses for nuclear weapons. Either they will follow-up their support of Hezbollah and Hamas with a nuclear strike against Israel, or they will use the threat of nuclear attack to achieve hegemony over the oil fields of the Middle East. Or both.
However odd it may seem, the explanation that best fits the facts, is the pursuit of a new Iran-based Caliphate over the Muslim world, with Iran’s Supreme Leader as the Caliph. This would explain the anti-Israel, anti-American, and anti-Arab aspects of Iranian policy. Nuclear weapons and a consequent oil monopoly are the tools to do the conquering. Sunni resistance would be fierce, however. This announcement from Iran explains it, somewhat.
The Israelis are worried about the nuclear strike, and the Arab countries are worried about Iranian domination. Israel has been talking about a pre-emptive strike against Iran, and the Arab states have re-energized their own nuclear development programs. The point is, that the local countries that know Iran the best, take this very, very seriously.



