We look at the Islamic terrorism sweeping Europe and a bitter smile rises to our lips: Good morning, Eliyahu! Welcome to the dubious club of victims of terrorism!
Hypocritical Europe, which knew how to send us righteous moral sermons about a 'proportionate' war on terror, now finds itself faced with all its monstrosity.
After every terrorist attack, security forces raid certain neighborhoods, arrest suspects, confiscate materials, and after a while we hear about the incident being cracked and the exposure of those involved.
But in Europe, like here, they focus on the external symptoms of the disease instead of treating its root cause.
Playing the game
Security officials treat terrorism as a crime, and the understanding that it is not at all like ordinary crime has not yet sunk in. Ordinary crime is committed by individuals, and when they are caught and put behind bars, you get a cleaner society.
In contrast, Arab terrorism may actually be carried out by individuals, but it is driven by the power of the collective, which fuels it and provides it with backing, overt or covert.
In this respect, those who hand out candy in the streets of Arab cities after terrorist attacks are terrorists just as much as those who wield a knife or a gun. All the more so because those who pay salaries to terrorists and name squares after them are first-rate supporters of terrorism.
In English, he recites slogans about 'peace of the brave', and in Arabic, he gives full support to the acts of terrorism and murder.
And we play the game.
We chase a brainwashed young man who is planning an attack, and have hushed conversations with the person who is brainwashing him and giving him the wind at his back. We confiscate explosives, but we don't touch the incitement materials and instigators.
The wider world also balks at an all-out war on Islamic terrorism out of a basic reverence for religious faith. But herein lies the fundamental flaw – this is not religious faith, but the complete opposite of everything related to religion and belief.
This is moral corruption and a loss of humanity, and this deviation must be eradicated.
Ideological war
Both Christianity and Islam venerate the Torah and consider it the foundation of their religions. The Seven Noahide Commandments are considered a cornerstone of all human culture. One of these seven commandments is the prohibition of murder and the belief in the sanctity of life for every human being created in the image of God.
Hence, anyone who cultivates a 'faith' of murder and bloodshed is actually acting against one of the central cornerstones of any religion. In doing so, he removes himself from all members of civilization, and proves that the 'faith' in whose name he speaks is nothing but a complete distortion of the Creator's command.
This is the real war that the world needs to fight – an ideological war, to internalize the value of the sanctity of life and uproot the culture of murder from among all human beings.
This also includes stopping the naming of squares after murderers, and stopping the flow of funds to the families of such heinous criminals.
If the world unites in a determined and stubborn struggle at the root of the problem, we will defeat the culture of murder and the horrors of terrorism and create a better world for us and our children.
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