Diary of Defeat, December 2024

DEPOSING ASSAD WAS MORE THAN A REGIME CHANGE.  The cautious euphoria over the departure of Bashar al-Assad from Syria hides something of greater significance.  Assad was the last of the Baathist dictators who in principle were a  toxic mix of secular Arab nationalism and Eastern Bloc-style socialism opposed to fundamentalist Islam. 

Baathism, its ideological pretensions notwithstanding, lacked the inherent perceived legitimacy of Arab monarchies which were thus able to provide their peoples with a sufficient dose of freedom — freedom which, in turn, allowed for a measure of civil society that the Baathist regimes lacked.  However, under their rule, ethnic and religious minorities were protected from the excesses of Islamic fundamentalism.  Not any more.

Baathism has a perilous history.  Founded in Syria in the 1940s it took two irreconcilable forms which took control in Syria and Iraq.  It had organisations throughout the Middle East/North African states but only achieved power in Egypt, Syria and Iraq. 

Nasser was a Baathist ruling Egypt until he was replaced by Sadat who moved away from Baathist principles towards Islamism in exchange for its support.  But his peace treaty with Israel was too much for the Islamists, who assassinated him in 1981.  The increasing power of Islamists peaked with the Arab Spring in 2011 and the popular election of the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohamed Morsi.  His autocratic excesses led to a revolt with the Islamists quashed and a more moderate president, Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, elected with 96% of the vote.  However, Egypt is said to have returned to authoritarianism since then. 

Gaddafi ruled Libya following his success in a coup d’état against King Idris in 1969.  While claiming no party affiliation, he transformed Libya into a new socialist republic and support for Arab unity with Egypt and Syria.  He also advocated for sharia law and Islamic values, though their incompatibility with modern economic and social relations meant they were not enforced.  His increasing eccentricity, corruption and an autocratic personality cult funded by oil revenues, he was killed in 2011 by military rebels who formed during the Arab Spring.  While Islamic fundamentalism does not have a strong hold in Libya, its increasing influence has created a morality police crack-down, enforcing Islamic principles.  Extremist groups, once in fear of Gaddafi, are now strengthening their foothold.  In general, Libya’s governance is under severe stress.

Syria’s tyrant Assad has been now been deposed by Islamists albeit presenting a moderate façade.  It seems inevitable that a steady increase in Islamist influence will see a greater application of Koranic principles in both government and civil society.  Its effects from throughout the Middle East makes a Syrian move to fundamentalism very likely.

From an Islamic conquest perspective, eleven of the 21 Mediterranean states are Muslim majority, with a population percentage of 61%.  All of them are increasing in Islamic population and militancy.  Don't place bets on Syria being a moderate exception.  

FALSE FLAG ASSESSMENT OF THE MAGDEBURG CHRISTMAS ATTACK.

If we check terrorist activities from a ‘who gains, who loses’ point of view, we reach a different conclusion than the official or actual cause of the events.  Take Tarrant’s attack on the Al Noor and Linwood mosques.  Without diminishing the tragic loss of life, many people and agencies benefited greatly from the attack.  Jacinda Ardern generated considerable kudos for herself, and NZ basked in her glow, despite the government having to issue grovelling apologies to the Muslim community and to upgrade agencies and change laws loosely relating to the event.  Anti-terrorist organisations and Islam itself globally are actively using the massacre as a reference point in highlighting Islamophobia, white supremacists and anti-Muslim events.  Some $30 milllion accrued to the victims, and a Hajj pilgrimage was paid for.  Who won?  Islam.  Who lost?  Western civilisation, principally because a member of it transgressed its moral rules, resulting in navel-gazing self-retribution.  Tarrant killed 51 people, not as a false flag event as the benefits might support, but as a participant in real life gaming.  But Muslims, in the name of their religion, kill an average 35 people every single day for the last 23 years, dwarfing terrorist attacks by all other groups combined.

So what to make of the Magdeburg attack?  It was ostensibly committed by a Saudi ex-Muslim ‘Islamophobic’ supporter of the Right-wing AfD party driving a car into a Christmas market crowd.  If we look beyond the superficial reports, however, there are some curious features.  Firstly, it was a vehicular attack.  This is a typical method of attack by Islamic terrorists, with another a week later in New Orleans.  20 such terror events have happened since 2016, killing 153 and wounding 772.  Did he have help?  A company named, with extreme irony, ‘Mecca Security’ was responsible for pedestrian safety but anti-jihad bollards and barriers were operated in breach of standards.

Secondly, these actions have the support of Islam’s holy book.  Koran 8:60 exhorts Muslims to “...make ready against them all you can of power, including steeds of war (tanks, planes, missiles, artillery) to threaten the enemy of Allah and your enemy…”  Anyone who dies in committing such an action is granted immediate access to paradise, which for Muslim males is a truly glorious concept. 

Thirdly, the Saudi terrorist targeted a Christmas market crowd, of whom the Muslim content was minimal and infidel content maximal.  

Fourthly, the event occurred on a Friday, Islam’s holy day when mosques are crowded with the pious.  The website The Religion of Peace carries thousands of news reports of Muslim terrorist activities, of which Saturday is the most common – the day after imams inspire Muslims to strike terror in the hearts of the infidels, and their actions hit the press.  Saturday reports are almost three times those of the average of the other six days. 

Fifthly, one of the core features of Islamic conquest is the use of deception, as Muhammad says in a hadith, “War is deceit”.  While many are aware of the term taqiyya, meaning dissembling, Islam has many terms covering specific conditions.  In the Magdeburg case, ‘kitman’ could apply - the concealment of things in process until they are complete, hiding the real state of one’s convictions. Or ‘muruna’, meaning dispensing with sharia law so as to appear moderate, or in this case, in opposition to Islam.  Or ‘talbis’, concealing one’s convictions.  The highly influential scholar Al Ghazali states that “if a praiseworthy and permissible aim is only achieved by lying, it is permissible.  If the aim is obligatory, then lying is obligatory.”  And spreading terror is obligatory in Islam.

We may never find out if the attacker Taleb al-Abdulmohsen consciously acted on behalf of Islam under a false flag of ‘Islamophobia’.   Comment is made here that judging by his name and posts he is radical Shi’ite and this explains his attitude to Saudi Arabia.  Another source comments on his terrorist links and plans to carry out a mass killing.

But his action was compliant with the obligations of Islam, it used methods common to Islamic terrorists, and the benefits of his action accrue only to Islam.  On this basis it is valid to conclude he was an Islamic terrorist.

NOW IS THE TIME OF REFLECTION.  What were 2024’s most momentous events? 

• Toppling Asad tops the list, presaging a new era of oppression in Syria despite the moderate rhetoric.
• Muslim voting blocs forming in the West is a step up towards Islamic influence of government policy.  With the Muslim population of England and Wales growing at 11.9 times that of non-Muslims (2011-2021) a child born now will likely live to see a Muslim-majority nation in 80 years’ time.  How many people are aware of the reversal of moral progress that this will bring?