Why Terrorists Terrorize

Terrorists don’t just hate our culture and our freedom. That goes without saying. What they’re really pissed off about and why they are pursuing their side of the war of terror with such fervor, is they are terrified that their own followers and adherents will like our culture and freedom so much they will desert Islam and become westernized with all the downside that implies:

For men, mullas think the downside includes:

• Unlimited economic opportunity
• Freedom of religion
• Reduced (at the very least) requirement for routine, one-off suicide bombing
• Jihads limited to “encouraging” lower gas prices
• Whiskey – on the rocks, neat, or mixed with Coke
• Topless bars
• Pork chops
• Allowed to wear deodorant
• (Interestingly, all these are apparently allowed if you’re in the U.S. taking flying lessons in preparation for a MAJOR suicide mission. Must be some kind of special dispensation for groups needing to infiltrate our godless culture, when in de West, descend into debauchery.)

For women, mullahs think the downside includes:

• No burkas
• Able to drive
• Able to go to the market alone
• Able to get a job
• Find the boy of your dreams and marry him
• Find the girl of your dreams, if you prefer
• Go to school; learn to read
• Able to be raped without being killed by relatives
• Other benefits way to numerous to mention, possibly numbering in the thousands (Knowing this, how can lefties possibly have any other goal than wiping this anti-woman religion off the face of the Earth?)

The mullahs’ primary interest is inflating their own importance and value to their “flocks."

Digression Alert 1: Can there be flocks of violent, bloodthirsty predators? I think the rule is that flocks have to be warm and cuddly things, like sheep. Christians are typically good about having warm and cuddly flocks of parishioners. So for the radical Islamists, maybe we should use the term “pride” except that pride, as in pride of lions, puts terrorists in an overly positive light. PACK! That's the word. Mad mullahs have packs of terrorists, not flocks or prides.

Back to the action – Mullahs do not want their recruited and brainwashed terrorists to be tempted to the paths of goodness and free-thinking and capitalism and McDonalds and Budweiser. It’s evidently hard to keep their boys from being tempted, so the next best things is to destroy those who would tempt the boys, and evidently, the girls. This does two things:

1. It whittles down the number radicals who might be tempted, and
2. It demonstrates to the rest of the pack that they better not even think of drifting from the narrowly defined path of the Prophet.

Digression Alert 2: This all reminds me of the whole idea of mafia thugs and why they stay in the business. I always wondered, growing up as I did in white bread, small town middle America – four hundred miles from the nearest gangster – where all I knew about organized crime was what I saw on television, why the bit player muscle guys stayed in the business knowing that as soon as it became convenient for Mr. Big, they would be whacked. Why didn’t they go and get real jobs where the likelihood of being killed or incarcerated was all but nonexistent. I didn’t get any real insight until the movie “Goodfellas” came out. But this is an entry unto itself.

Back to the action – There are obviously enough totally brainwashed and weak-minded individuals to "staff" the packs with an adequate number of enforcers or suicide / homicide bombers.

So to put a cap on this little rant, the mullahs think they have the final answer to getting to heaven, and their rules say that lying, cheating, maiming, killing innocents are all written in the Quran as the official rules of the game. Anybody bucking their system from the inside is playing with fire (in the form of a bomb's byproduct) and anybody on the outside that doesn’t hie to their rules is in danger although there is at least something less than 1-1 odds of death.

While I don’t believe, perhaps naively, that most of the radical Islamist leadership imagine they will actually take over the world, they are doing everything they can to keep their numbers from dwindling. And that’s all they really care about. Oh, and wiping Israel and all Jews off the face of the Earth.