When Will The Fighting Stop In Iraq?

DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH. In Iraq, Islamists (Muslims trying to follow the Koran to the letter) are attacking modern Muslims (people who want to update their religion and only practice the best of it) and anyone who tries to help them (U.S. troops, for example). Why? Because the modern Muslims are creating a "man-made" government (a democracy). This is against the rules for fundamentalists. Islamists are attacking modern Muslims creating a free country.

As any good Muslim can tell you, the Koran commands its followers to live under Sharia law and a Muslim who avoids doing that (A Muslim trying to create a democracy, for example) is a traitor to Islam and deserves to die.

This will probably be going on for a long time in Iraq. Islamists from around the world are jumping at the chance to fight infidels and apostates anywhere they can, and Iraq is the place to be these days.

But this process of Islamists blowing themselves up will be around long after U.S. troops leave (if they ever leave). Suicide bombers in Palestine have been at it for at least 30 years and show no sign of letting up.

The only way to curb the suicide bombings in the long run is to remove the Islamists' safe havens. In other words, the only way to stop it is to create democracies. That won't really stop it, but it will curb the number of attacks immensely. Islamists who are financed by Islamic states like Saudi Arabia or Iran or Syria have a far easier time getting recruits and weapons than people in free democracies where they find little support.

A great added bonus to helping to create democracies where none existed before is that millions of women will be able to live their lives as free human beings for the first time.

But all democracies are going to be continually harassed by Islamist suicide bombers, probably forever. They will not go away. They're like a bad dream you can't wake up from. If you ignore them, they will take control of countries, eliminating human rights, build up their strength, and then infiltrate our countries and try to kill some of us. If you appease them, they will consider you an easy target and will attack you even more. If you fight them, you are "an enemy of Islam" and must be destroyed. It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you are not a Muslim, you are an enemy to these people. Read why here.

This is a relentless, implacable problem that needs to be dealt with, not as a hobby but in earnest. It is unfortunate that this exists in the world, but wishing it would go away doesn't help. Many people want it to be solved quickly so they can get back to their lives. That is a mistaken and potentially dangerous attitude. Take the problem lightly or only deal with it half-heartedly, and the problem will only get worse. In fact, that is why we've got our worsened problems now: Western governments haven't been taking it seriously enough, and neither have us citizens.

The Islamist movement was successfully suppressed for 150 years, but things have changed. The cause of the suppression has been forgotten by people in the free world and the Islamists have picked up where they left off, but with new technology and oil money at their disposal. If we in the free world do not rise to the occasion, they will only grow stronger.