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You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone who says they know what makes a suicide bomber. Equally split, the theories are that they hate being poor, or they hate Israel, or the United States under some Zionist conspiracy provoked them.

I learned as an investigator that for any crime theory to stick, you have to provide the MMO - Motive, Means, Opportunity. I apply the same basic deductive reasoning to most of my analysis of Current Events, particularly the Global War on Terror.

It broke down into three parts:

1. Trying to analyze what exactly makes people use Terrorism as a tactic.
2. Figuring out why the statistics point to terrorists being overwhelmingly Muslim.
3. Are any other countries going to help us with this, or do they stand against us simply by not participating?

Putin’s Russia - The Other White Meat

Let’s throw more fuel onto the fire with this analysis from RadioFreeEurope Russia: As Middle East Heats Up, Moscow Maintains Balancing Act:

Russia could, however, feasibly benefit from an escalation of hostilities in the Middle East. As a major energy exporter, Russia would benefit from the likely major rise in oil and gas prices. China and the EU, on the other hand, would likely face severe economic difficulties.

Not only would Russia profit financially, but could gain new geopolitical ground, with the EU more dependent on Russia for energy. That could also push China to rely more on Russian energy resources, causing Beijing to invest in building pipelines in Russia’s Far East.

I mean, are we going to win this thing? Clearly, it’s in Russia’s best interest to fan the flames. Oh yes, and they’re the ones with the loosely controlled Chem / Bio / Nuke technology.

I keep having that Bill Paxton / Hudson breakout role in Aliens moment:

We’re in some real pretty s**t right now. That’s it man, game over man, game over!

How Do You Win the GWOT Vs. Jihad When Nobody’s In Charge To Surrender?!?

By ‘win’ I mean that I want my kids to be able to go to a 7-Eleven without having someone strapping a bomb push a plunger. I don’t want to read about Chechen-style school takeovers. I definitely don’t want to have to take my Potassium Iodide because of a dirty bomb, RDD, low-yield nuke, or other nonsense. How do we make all of this go away?

Fighting Terrorism Is A Lot Like Fighting The Living Dead

I was playing my XBox 360 a few months ago. A game called Dead Rising. Self descriptive title but the point I’m trying to make is how do you win this kind of conflict when the enemy is all around and you don’t know who they are until they try to kill you?

What Makes A Suicide Bomber?

There are a plethora of books you could read to get the same information or corroborate this single-source analysis. This is straightforward analysis but as I was reading it, it seemed boilerplate for the typical “I hate Islam” stuff you would expect to see from any Pajamas Media crowd - except that I can’t refute this work.

Quoted from Jihad Watch: Islam 101:

Islam 101

by Gregory M. Davis
author, Religion of Peace? Islam’s War Against the World
producer/director, Islam: What the West Needs to Know — An Examination of Islam, Violence, and the Fate of the Non-Muslim World

Islam 101 is meant to help people become better educated about the fundamentals of Islam and to help the more knowledgeable better convey the facts to others.

Similarly, my book and documentary are meant to serve as concise explanations of the major moving parts of Islam and their implications for Western society. Islam 101 is a condensation of the book and documentary with the aim of lending clarity to the public understanding of Islam and of exposing the inadequacy of prevailing views. All should feel free to distribute and/or reproduce it.

Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? | With A Suicide Bomber, Are We Better Safe Than Sorry?

So to relieve my initial skepticism about Davis’ studies as a source I cross-referenced most of the data. I won’t bore you with links and bullets but unfortunately it comes down to who you want to believe.

• Muslim scholars say the Davis analysis is not true,
• …however actual linguistic analysis of the Koran similar to what Christian scholars do with the original Greek language of the New Testament reveals not only massive issues with the linguistic roots,
• … it also supports the theories of the intended speech of the Koran pointing towards violence.

Davis answers his critics:

It must be emphasized that all of the analysis provided here derives from the Islamic sources themselves and is not the product of critical Western scholarship. (Indeed, most modern Western scholarship of Islam is hardly “critical” in any meaningful sense.) It is Islam’s self-interpretation that necessitates and glorifies violence, not any foreign interpretation of it.

People are blowing themselves up, crashing planes into buildings, and killing little girls for not wearing headscarves and we’ve been calling them extremists. What if they’re the norm? What if the moderate Muslims are the ones who are not adhering to the Koran?

Whatever. This is grim and depressing news.

What’s it going to take? KGB-style retaliation?

Tell me what it’s going to take to win. After six years of research on the subject I’ve got my theories but I’m always open to new suggestions. You do the research. I’ll be playing my XBox 360. And stocking up on the Potassium Iodide.

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