We can kill the messengers, BUT WE WILL NEVER KILL THE MESSAGE, not the way we operate in2017 against Middle Eastern interests.
Bullets and bombs are a short term, wasted, useless "solution" to the problem of ISIS. Iraqi teenage boys in 2017 are flocking to ISIS because they have no other hope in life after the USA military destroyed their society.
Tweety and Bannon have entirely the wrong approach to fighting ISIS in the long run. We can kill ISIS soldiers and bomb territory so it is not useful. But hard power is only a short term solution. I heard a general once say, when you cut soft power, reduce the State Department effort to win hearts and minds, we have to buy more bullets. The reverse is also true. The bigger our international effort is, the fewer bullets we need to buy.
"'Why we hate you': ISIS reveal 6 reasons why they despise Westerners in jihadi magazine"
In an article entitled 'Why We Hate you and Want to Fight You', the 15th edition of the terrorists' periodical Dabiq spells out why the jihads are hell bent on destroying the West
ByJon Dean
14:25, 31 JUL 2016
Updated00:40, 1 AUG 2016
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/why-hate-you-isis-reveal-8533563
"In an article entitled 'Why We Hate you and Want to Fight You', the 15th edition of the terrorists' periodical Dabiq spells out why the jihads are hell bent on destroying the West."
1. Because you are disbelievers
"We hate you, first and foremost, because you are disbelievers; you reject the oneness of Allah – whether you realize it or not – by making partners for Him in worship, you blaspheme against Him, claiming that He has a son, you fabricate lies against His prophets and messengers, and you indulge in all manner of devilish practices."
2 . Because you are liberal
"We hate you because your secular, liberal societies permit the very things that Allah has prohibited while banning many of the things He has permitted, a matter that doesn’t concern you because you Christian disbelief and paganism 32 separate between religion and state, thereby granting supreme authority to your whims and desires via the legislators you vote into power."
3. Because some of you are atheist
"In the case of the atheist fringe, we hate you and wage war against you because you disbelieve in the existence of your Lord and Creator."
4. For your crimes against Islam
5. For your crimes against Muslims
"We hate you for your crimes against the Muslims; your drones and fighter jets bomb, kill, and maim our people around the world, and your puppets in the usurped lands of the Muslims oppress, torture, and wage war against anyone who calls to the truth."deo
6. For invading our lands"
Here is one way to use "soft power" against ISIS, a television show.
"Arab TV Series Dramatizes Life Under ISIS"
By BEN HUBBARDMAY 16, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/world/middleeast/isis-ramadan-tv-drama.html
"A mother travels to Syria to find her son after he ran away to join the Islamic State. A Christian renounces her faith and plots to blow up a church. A black-clad matron tells teenage girls to rest up before they are raped by extremist fighters.
These frighteningly familiar stories of life under the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria will this month become plotlines on prime-time television across the Arab world.
A sprawling, 30-part dramatic series is scheduled to make its debut on MBC 1, the Arab world’s most watched satellite channel, during the holy month of Ramadan, said Ali Jaber, the director of television for the MBC Network."
More . . .
"Some diplomats have told Mr. Jaber that they like the idea of using television to challenge the jihadists’ message. In March, he was invited to discuss the show with Western and Middle Eastern diplomats at a summit meeting in Washington hosted by Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson."
Ending . . . not in English yet.
"The show will be broadcast in Arabic as “Al Gharabeeb Al Soud,” and the network hopes to produce an English-language version for wider distribution."
"Can Good Television Beat the Islamic State?"
How a Saudi television network — with a hand from Hollywood showrunners — is countering the narrative of terrorist propaganda.
By Cynthia P. Schneider - April 7, 2017 - Schneider is a nonresident senior fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings. She leads the Arts and Culture Initiative in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and teaches courses in diplomacy and culture in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From 1998-2001, she served as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/07/can-good-television-beat-the-islamic-state-mbc/
Tweety has leanred better and does not use the term "radical Islamist." But so many of his followers are still wallowing in the notion they can kill 1.6billion Muslims.
"There’s No Such Thing as a “Self-Radicalized” Islamic Terrorist"
“Self-Radicalized” Islamic Terrorist?
By Matthew Clark2 yrs. Maybe 2015
https://aclj.org/jihad/self-radicalized-islamic-terrorist
Matthew has demonstrated the confused thinking we are dealing with, simple and real.
How can it NOT be called "self radicalized" if a mother of a new baby, a military psychiatrist, or security guard turn into murderers. At a minimum, terrorists are simply criminals failing in life, and the maximum, they are simply criminals committing crimes against humanity. They are NOT MUSLIMS, they are CRIMINALS.
