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10 Nov 2009 05:03 pm
Creating The Clash
Marc Lynch on the Ft. Hood shooting:
The grand strategy of al-Qaeda and its affiliated ideologues is, and
has always been, to generate a clash of civilizations between Islam and
the West which does not currently exist. Their great challenge is that
the vast majority of Muslims reject their theology, ideology, strategy
and tactics. That's especially true of American Muslims. They
therefore feel the need to change the environment in which Muslims live
in order to change their calculations about the appropriateness of
extremist identities and ideologies and actions.
Terrorism
is a means towards that end. The object is to create a violent,
polarized environment in which Muslims are forced to embrace a narrow,
extreme version of Muslim identity. They want Muslims to accept a
master narrative in which the Islamic umma is existentially
threatened by Western aggression, and the only theologically and
strategically appropriate individual response is to join the jihad in
the path of god (as they have defined it).
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