Former Kashmir Premier: Jihad benefited Kashmir cause

Lets see here, two middle-eastern countries both with NUCLEAR weapons in a dispute over soverneignty rights to Kashmir....hmmmm......forced into negotiations.....Dear us.

Wealth is a weapon of Jihad. And of course, damaging the economies of the Infidels, or causing them to spend money unnecessarily (how much is the Western world now spending to monitor the very Muslim populations that were heedlessly permitted to enter the countries of non-Muslim peoples and polities, without the necessary pondering of the implications of such a move.

For Muslim immigrants carry with them in their mental baggage certain immutable items that are completely different from what all non-Muslim immigrants bring with them. When Castro deliberately let loose many criminals (the Mariel Boat people), thereby inflicting them on the United States, that was of course bad enough. But a completely different level of menace and threat is involved with Muslim immigrants throughout the Western world, including those who, when they first arrive, seem entirely inoffensive and unthreatening. But they carry with them a mental meme, a dormant virus, that any number of events or personal setbacks or or deliberate inculcation of a more fervent faith can trigger into something more virulent. And dangerous not to the health of the carrier, but to the circumambient Infidels.

The "wealth" weapon can be used to spread mosques and madrasas worldwide -- which is why everything must be done to diminish Saudi and other Arab Muslim revenues. Besides, the more Muslims have to work, and work hard, and the more they have to worry about markets, and pleasing customers, and so on, the less time for using all that free time to become resentful of Islam's place in the world, and its right to dominate, and the perfidy of all non-Muslims, beginning with Israel, which is near at hand, and with the United States, the most powerful and redoubtable of Infidel states, the one least likely to share the appeasement now on view in the bureaucracy of the E.U., and among the assorted hirelings -- such as Chirac -- in European countries.

The Pakistani minister who explicitly recognizes the economic cost to India in policing Kashnmir is no different from Bin Laden who, in a recent tape, discussed the economic damage to the United States that he was inflicting. This got no attention; it was as if the expenditure of $300 billion and counting in Iraq and Afghanistan, to at best be left with a democratic, but in the case of Iraq even more fervently Muslim atmosphere than before (it would be wrong to call Ba'athism anything like Kemalism, but as long as it was largely an instrument in Iraq for the Sunni minority to retain power, naturally Islam, insofar as it was a vehicle for the Shi'a minority, would tend to be constrained or, with Saddam Hussein's mosque-building, Battle-of-Qadassiyah invoking, Qur'an-commissioning (and supposedly supplying his own blood for the ink) version of Defender of the Faith, co-opted.

That is why the West should cease all economic aid to Muslim countries. Every transfer, beyond the 5-6 trillion dollars already sent to the OPEC countries in the past 30 years (with no serious effort being made to recapture any of those oligiopolistic rents, instead with American leaders continually relying on the vain and inane hope that the Sauids would "moderate" prices were "our staunch allies" when they were nothing of the kind, and never were, and never could be (good god, how stupid people are, how unwilling to do the slightest research, how fixed in their smug assumptions that "everybody" knows to be true, in the same way that "everybody" knows "what the "final settlement" between Israel and the Arabs "has to be" -- more smug assumptions, more nonsense, more failure to think through the overwhelming influence, that cannot be suppressed even if here and there, for a year or five, things appear to be different -- as they did in Turkey for some decades -- of Islam).

The enormous cost, a cost that keeps rising, of monitoring Muslims in the Bilad al-kufr, the Lands of the Infidels, is now permanent. But there are ways to spend money, not on doing the work in Iraq that the Iraqis themselves should pay for and do themselves, or hire others to do, and certainly continuing to give a single dollar more to the vicious regime in Egypt or indded to any regime that does not accord full equality to its non-Muslim citizens, and that includes every right that Muslims have, to repair their houses of worship, and even to proselytize should they wish (if Muslims aree allowed to do so).

Muslims recognize perfectly, and discuss endlessly, the use of wealth as a weapon, just as they do the use of Da'wa and demography. What is puzzling, and more than puzzling infuriating, is the seeming absence of such discussion in the Western world, which has the most to lose from the spread of Islam.

There are many instruments of the Jihad to spread Islam and weaken Infidel societies and peoples. But these insturments are also available to those who are engaged in what may be called the counter-Jihad. Tiptoing around about all this, and becomoing indignant or full of horror when, for example, stories leak out about a proposal for planting "misinformation" -- surely the most obvious thing to be done in a war -- are extraordinary, and reflect, again, the ability of apologists for Islam to successfully throttle discussion, or continue to mislead.

This must not continue.

Chuck:
India and pak are 'south asian' countires - not mid-eastern ones.

Hugh's point of the accidental oil wealth used by dar-ur0islam to fund wahabi versions of violent jihad in darul-harb is well taken. Another 15-20 yrs and our best bet is a workable, rechargeble, envt friendly, commercially viable fuel-cell comes into its own. In one fell swoop, the stranglehold of the OPEC fatcats is broken forever....

Great are the countries like japan and Israel which have developed their human capital into so potent an economic force, bereft as both are of significant natural resources.

Kinda reminds me of Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' series where a resource-poor terminus by the sheer dint of superior mind power rises to build the second empire.....

"Great are the countries like Japan and Israel which have developed their human capital into so potent an economic force, bereft as both are of significant natural resources."

Resources are a false problem. Of course some of the leading industrial countries have large mineral resources - the coal and steel on which Britain's, France's, Germany and the U.S.A.'s industrial prosperities were built - but Italy, the Netherlands and Japan have practically none, and they have not been doing too badly. The difference is always an educated population willing to roll up its sleeves and with an interest in succeeding in any area of chosen business. Wealth is a function of work, not of the existence of raw materials; as long as people are willing and able to do the work, the raw materials will reach them.

The rconomic cost is not on India alone. Pakistan I would say suffers even more. All that money to nurture jihadists, the military etc. in Pakistan beggars their own popn.

Further, Pakistan cannot sleep on peace cos of shiite/sunni enmity. Then there is the Punjabis vs. the rest thing.

Add to that the mollions of afghan refugees who will be a formidable factor when Afghanistan decides to take back its land raken by Pakistan under the Durand Treaty which expired in 1993.

No. I`m not too worried about India. In fact all India has to do is srir internal Pakisran hostiliies and watch them fight it out among themselves.