Masopher’s Mind

I was listening to a lecture by Gilles Kepler and it really brought back to me just how instrumental London is in creating radical Islam.  Almost none of what I am about to say was mentioned by Kepler by the way, but here’s what I think.

English guy (T.E. Lawrence) goes riding through Arabia inciting Anti Ottoman and Anti German sentiment. This leads to the defeat of two empires one in the Middle East and the other a bit later in North Africa. The Middle East and Africa is divvied up between the French and English. In a similar fashion, later Germany and Europe is divvied up between the USA and Russia.

England decides to break up Indiostan into Muslim and a Hindu countries, making one country that has two parts and another much larger one dividing it and leaving a large plot of land unallocated. The two new countries, India and Pakistan-Bangladesh fall into fighting and civil war as Muslims and Hindus become displaced and soon one set of Muslims(The Bengalis) decide not to be part of the other set (The Pakistanis). Both countries soon acquire nuclear weapons, Allah/Vishnu know where from, and proceed to start not only racing to destruction but proliferating weapons of mass destruction to every rag head, bearded prophet and wild eyed dictator that can fork over oil money.

Along with the lovely Muslim and Hindu countries, England “loses control” of its large Jewish population and by lose control I mean encourages and assists;  to grab a large swathe of land which displaces a Muslim population and creates a contentious Jewish country.

Later, England loses control of the Persian population and by loses control I mean the puppet that was exploiting his people and allowing BP to plunder the oil was thrown out in a revolution that put a serious dent in global wealth via the crash of 1979 and creates a serious enemy of the West in the form of Khomeini and his Iranian successors.

One massive country with oil slips away but thanks to billions of dollars worth of planes in the Al Yamamah agreements another is held tightly as a friend. Over the years the Saudi government with its Yemeni refugees proves to be an invaluable source of information, insurgents and energy.

England has also been inviting uneducated unfamiliar populations from India, Pakistan and dozens of Arab and North African countries into England to essentially graft themselves onto the UK population. They can become “British” but they can never be “English”. England is a country of Caucasians that was known for sending several crusades into these same countries and with much foreign office meddling (see above for Lawrence of Arabia or various “Chatham House Version” incursions).  The British are the populations that pay taxes do the menial jobs and get used and sponsored in efforts to bring down the governments of the countries that they left behind.

Sooner or later the Muslims start talking. Yes they are helping the Muslim brotherhood fight Egypt, Syria and Libya, and yes they are helping the Mujahideen fight the Soviets but they also start trading stories about Palestine, and the fact that most of the apostate Governments and “near enemies” are actually part sponsored by English and Western taxes.

The story can get confusing because there is so much happening all at once but the Muslims eventually seem to get the point that England and its set of Western colonies(The states of America) are the real (far)enemy. Even young Nigerians bear a taint of London schooling as they board American flights on Christmas day with the intent of setting their crotch on fire to the demise of people heading home to eat figgy pudding and some honey roasted ham with their loved ones.

The English threat is very obvious to the Arab, North African, Persian and South Asian populations, its not a threat of direct force but a threat of machination. But the double talking double dealing lessons have been learned by the target populations along with a sense of cynicism and paranoia. India, Pakistan, Iran Israel and Saudi Arabia exchange pleasantries one day and threaten each other existentially the very next. What once threatened Spain, Germany and France in one form two centuries ago now threatens the future of humanity in this one. It’s not England but it’s unmistakably English.

President Obama had his state of the union speech this week. Republicans sneered at it Democrats applauded it. With minor losses in the house, Democrats are feeling a sense of vulnerability and talk of concessions has broken out in the ranks. But Obama, great politician that he is, puts a great face on the situation. The worst recession, the most complex PAIR of wars, civil right, freedom, American principles on the back foot: Obama’s task is the most significant and yet could appear the least important. Americans are walking on thin air with the ground 1000 feet below like Elmer Fudd in the old “Looney Toons” cartoons. Obama’s task is to fill the void that Americans are traversing before they realize just how oblivious they are to the danger and gravity takes it’s toll. And this is why even if Obama is successful no one will realize it. Keeping the shakey country together while it’s citizens blithely go about their business could take everything out of Obama’s presidency. Success mean little but failiure could mean everything.
1 year into his presidency and Obama seems to have reached the highmark of his popularity. His healthcare bill is sputtering against heavy senatorial and lobbyist pressure, his hand held out to Iran has been slapped away and he is ramping up the Afghan war while at the same time capitulating to the Taliban. China has ignored pleas for the environment and the financial sector has ignored pleas for reform. It looks dire. There is not one desperate issue, there are several, none of which the rest of the democrats seem to be able to help with. Obamas problems is lack of leadership not lack of his own; as a leader he is a giant among them but for precisely that. Obama is the Atlas upon which the Americans and citizens of the world sit, only by his fall can his Herculean effort be recognized.
But we shall see, he has not delivered a first round knockout to his many opponents but he is a thinker, a strategist and there are still at least three rounds of good old fashion rope-a-dope left for this prizefighter.

This is badly done but a statement none the less. Africa is where Al Qaeda is at. It’s where Al Qaeda was always at. Yeah, there is a lot of talk about Arabs and Afghanistan but in all truth, Al Qaeda is inspired by Egyptians, fomented by a Yemeni in Sudan (where Al Qaeda really started rolling) and is kept running by Libyans, Egyptians, Algerians and Somalis. Mogadishu, Somalia is where America got its first modern black eye. Al Qaeda got another hit at the USA with embassy bombings in Kenya. The sea between Yemen and Somalia is a pirate haven. Is it a shock that another terrorist (from Africa) tried to blow up an airplane? No. Airplanes are Al Qaeda’s MO, with roots in the Libyan sponsored Lockerbie bombing. With Arabs and Easterners focused on national issues, al Qaeda going back to its origins by relying on Somalis to attack Dutch authors and Nigerians to set their selves on fire in airplanes.

I’m pushing a really racist boundary today, but I want to be clear that I am not talking about Aethiopia or, for the less educated, Sub Saharan Africa. I am talking about Northern Africa. It just seems that when you mix Muslims and the desert you get a really fucked up brand of violence that has nothing to do with the Muslims in the greener parts of the Turk/Arab/Persian/Asian world. The Nexus of Al Qaeda starts in Saudi Arabia, Stretches south to Somalia and then West to Algeria. It is not the countries south of the former Soviet empire but the countries south of Europe that breeds al Qaeda.

Lebanon was a really progressive country, Iraq was almost secular, Iran is pretty moderate, Afghanistan never had “Taliban” until the 90s, even Pakistan was pretty moderate by today’s standards. But in the sands of Egypt, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan Libya, Algeria and Saudi Arabia trouble was just stirring up and was happily exported to Afghanistan to die under Soviet guns. A sizable amount did not die and hardened in battle returned home to start struggles/troubles of their own.

Sudan murders its own and is at war with Chad, Somalia is at war with itself far beyond failed in statehood. Libya after sponsoring terrorism for many years is finally on its long way back to being recognized, buying its way back into international recognition and imprisoning thousands of seasoned al Qaeda fighters. Algeria struggles daily with its own brand of Al Qaeda and the AQIM (Al Qaeda in Islamic Magreb) grows stronger forging ties with Narco terrorists in South America even “peaceful” Egypt must turn a massive amount of its citizens into military and paramilitary units just in hope of stopping the tide of terrorists coming from all sides. The Jews to the north are perhaps Egypt’s firmest allies.

Africa (not the Aethiopian part of Africa) is not the cradle of civilization but the snake in the cradle of civilization. Al Qaeda operatives believe they are caught up in a cosmic battle or carrying out a great clash of civilizations but in truth just Al Qaeda is like the Sahara desert or Kalahari, it can only destroys civilization.