Muslims do not present a traditional battle front

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Oct 29, 2022 at 11:58

Dear Dr Pipes,

Reader Robert very correctly said that victories require wars and wars require a battlefront. But Robert did not mention that Islam follows the path laid out by its originator in the 7th century: it offers no battlefront; when it is weak, frivolous treaties are made and warriors go back to the drawing board.

Islam fights never ending wars where the violence is franchised to individuals. The Islamic wars consist of a little bullying on the school playground, a little discrimination in the offices against non-Muslims, a broken temple or church somewhere, a mother shot dead in a cafe in Jerusalem, a love lorn woman who falls for a Muslim guy, a bomb blast in Mogadishu, a few thousand Yezidi men murdered in Iraq and a few thousand women passed on as properties, an SUV riding ON some people in London, a kiss here or a rape there, a non-Muslim relegated to the role of dhimmi, or a 70 year old attacked by knife in NY. Not every Muslim does these things, but most muslims ignore these things when they are done by their Muslim brothers and sisters.

Islam can go very slow. Mullahs have no prosperity to chase and no GNP targets to meet. If everyone becomes a Muslim that is a victory and it does not matter if everyone become poor, sick or a refugee in the process. The war by attrition continues endlessly.

How do you win a war that is open on so many different fronts?

The traditional righteous wars (the dharmyuddhas) that we all know about and like to fight, Muslims have never known. And, very interestingly, Muslims have not won a traditional war anywhere in at least last 200 years (if they won a righteous war ever!!)

To win this war against Muslims we need more pens than swords. Muslim hearts need to be changed. The truth has to be relentlessly discovered and spoken. The pipeline of the franchised violence has to be attacked until it dries out.

I hope someone in Kashmir or Mogadishu or Kabul, or North Nigeria, or East Jerusalem is reading this message and takes a pledge of peace and progress.

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