{"id":234,"date":"2015-01-17T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2015\/01\/the-war-with-radical-islam.html"},"modified":"2015-01-17T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T09:13:00","slug":"the-war-with-radical-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2015\/01\/the-war-with-radical-islam.html","title":{"rendered":"The War with Radical Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was not speaking metaphorically when he said that France is at war with radical Islam<\/a>. There is, indeed, a full-fledged war underway, and the heinous terrorist attacks in Paris were part of it. Yet, like most wars, this one is about more than religion, fanaticism, and ideology. It is also about geopolitics, and its ultimate solution lies in geopolitics as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Crimes like those in Paris, New York, London, and Madrid \u2013 attacks on countless cafes, malls, buses, trains, and nightclubs \u2013 affront our most basic human values, because they involve the deliberate murder of innocents and seek to spread fear throughout society. We are wont to declare them the work of lunatics and sociopaths, and we feel repulsed by the very idea that they may have an explanation beyond the insanity of their perpetrators.<\/p>\n

Yet, in most cases, terrorism is not rooted in insanity. It is more often an act of war, albeit war by the weak rather than by organized states and their armies. Islamist terrorism is a reflection, indeed an extension, of today\u2019s wars in the Middle East. And with the meddling of outside powers, those wars are becoming a single regional war \u2013 one that is continually morphing, expanding, and becoming increasingly violent.<\/p>\n

From the jihadist perspective \u2013 the one that American or French Muslims, for example, may pick up in training camps in Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen \u2013 daily life is ultra-violent. Death is pervasive, coming as often as not from the bombs, drones, and troops of the United States, France, and other Western powers. And the victims are often the innocent \u201ccollateral damage\u201d of Western strikes that hit homes, weddings, funerals, and community meetings.<\/p>\n

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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was not speaking metaphorically when he said that France is at war with radical Islam. There is, indeed, a full-fledged war underway, and the heinous terrorist attacks in Paris were part of it. Yet, like most wars, this one is about more than religion, fanaticism, and ideology. It is also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe War with Radical Islam<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was not speaking metaphorically when he said that France is at war with radical Islam. 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