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What if the West took terrorism to the Muslims' home turf?
Here’s a VERY interesting discussion we had at lunch today here in Boystown, with more than a few people at the table fans of alternate history works by the likes of Harry Turtledove and shows like FOX’s old Sliders series (not, as Oprah believes, about those little hamburgers she has by the dozens at “snack time”, but the show starring Jerry O’Connel as a scientist with a magic remote control that slides him into dimensions where history played out differently).
Our friend Panda met most of us at Nookie’s Tree today, where we all had samplings off their fall menu (chicken pot pie, braised spare ribs, hearty beef stew, pumpkin ravioli, with stuffing and corn bread and sweet poato casserole), except Panda, who had a hamburger like always (and then, like always, covered it in ketchup, ate about 1/4 of it, and then regretted he didn’t get a “fall special” like the rest of us and instead got a hamburger again like always. “It’s those raccoons in my walls,” he said. “They make me so tired with their gnawing and scraping and talking all night that I can’t think straight and didn’t want to read the menu because reading things makes my head hurt”).
Oh, Panda. Perpetually bedeviled by imaginary raccoons, forever ordering hamburgers he never really enjoys because he doesn’t like reading menus.
Randomly, while using a butter knife to scoop more ketchup out of the Heinz bottle, Panda started talking about the movie 2012, the Roland Emmerich disaster flick we’ve mentioned before on this site (which we thought was boring…a remarkable feat, indeed, for a movie about the end of the world). “I read on Perez that they wanted to blow up Medina, Ohio in that movie but then Muslims said they’d kill everyone involved with the movie if they did that, so they blew up Rome instead,” Panda told us, getting most of the story right.
But, it was the Medina in the Middle East the Muslims threatened to kill people over, as it’s written in the Koran, somewhere, that none of the Muslim holy sites will ever be destroyed — and so if a movie showed Mecca, Medina, and the Dome of the Rock, Hagia Sofia, and other famous mosques being obliterated, Muslims apparently would have seizures in the street, unable to process what they were seeing.
They would go more unhinged, apparently, than they do when someone draws a picture of Muhammad (“I bet he looked just like a big butt,” Panda said, “and that’s why they won’t draw him. A big butt for a face, or he looked like that big guy in Goonies who ate the Snickers bars and had the messed up face. I wouldn’t be drawing him either if he looked like that. I’d scare myself.”).
For too long the West has molly-coddled Muslims, with the PC police geared up to come after anyone who speaks the truth about them. Islam is not a religion of peace; it’s not even a religion in our book. It’s just a giant cover for a worldwide terrorist organization bent on global domination, something that makes C.O.B.R.A. from the old G.I. Joe cartoons look tame, religious, and peaceful in its own right.
When Muslims shout Allah Akbar and kill our soldiers, ram planes into our buildings, and set off bombs in the streets or on buses, the MSM rushes to insist how misunderstood Muslims are, how peaceful they really are, and how Islam is just another way of saying “I sure love all mankind”.
Yah, right.
Panda, still trying to get more ketchup out of that bottle, like a sunbear after the last of the honey in a slippery jug, asked what we all thought would have happened if Roland Emmerich had the stones to show Islam’s holy sites being destroyed, as Emmerich gleefully showed the Vatican, the Christ statue in Rio, and Tibetan monestaries being crushed in the apocalypse.
We all agreed Emmerich was right, and that all over the peaceful, misunderstood Muslim world turbaned, black-robed lunatics would have climbed up into minurets to scream for the director’s head, and for the deaths of every single person on the credits roll for the movie (because, Islam, you must remember, is the religion of peace, and this is how peaceful people behave when they don’t like something in pop culture: they call for beheadings and the deaths of hundreds).
Panda pushed the question and wondered what would happen if one day the West got sick of “all this terrorist crap” and Westerners started using terrorist tactics against the Muslim world, to “see how they like it”.
We’re actually surprised Muslims haven’t attacked the Vatican and taken out St. Peter’s by now. It would be a lot easier for them to do than hitting anything in the United States. For anyone who’s ever been to Italy, you must realize how incompetent the Italian government is in general. Garbage strikes can last for years, it seems, and every cop we’ve run across in Italy sure seemed amenable to bribes of all denominations. The Vatican itself is defended by gay swiss men wearing brightly colored clown suits. There are no ninja nuns lurking in the shadows like gargoyles protecting the place. There are no metal detectors to get into the basillica itself. The last time any of us was there, we could still find unlocked wooden doors, unguarded, where we could access storerooms and long corridors in which we could wander as long as we wanted without ever being stopped by anyone.
Muslims remind us a lot of a dog named Zodie who we’re friends with. Zodie, when left alone, will rip up newspapers, pee on the carpet, destroy a pillow or two, and cause controlled chaos in the apartment whenever she’s upset about something or wants to lash out at the bad humans who’ve been ignoring her. But, she doesn’t ever do anything TOO TERRIBLE, as if she knows if she did she’d take a last ride to the pound. She’ll sit there, with her big eyes, staring up at the Thanksgiving turkey, smacking her lips and thinking about going for that ultimate score, but she won’t do it. She somehow knows the punishment for that would be much, much worse than what she’d get after ripping up the latest Vogue.
If Muslims hit the Vatican, or took out another major Christian symbol, we bet the payback for that would be the destruction of Mecca or Medina. At least we hope it would, because the West can’t keep standing by idly while Muslims attack and attack and attack.
If it’s really true that Muslims believe none of their religious sites can be destroyed, and someday, or in some alternate universe, either a military strike or a reverse-terrorist attack takes out the Dome of the Rock or one of their major mosques, then the faith in Islam could very well be shaken in many people. It seems like that would have the effect of pulling back the curtain on the Wizard, rendering all those crazed imams and ayatollahs powerless as people realized most of what’s in the Koran is utter garbage.
There would probably be WWIII, but it would be a war between a civilized West with modern weapons versus people who want it to be the Middle Ages. Terrorist attacks and the economic games the Saudis play are one thing, but a direct confrontation between the West and Islam would not go well for Islam at all.
And it would be wonderful, in the aftermath of that, if Islam was then treated worldwide like Nazism was in Germany. No more mosques, no more Korans, no more coddling of terrorists.
We tend to believe Muslims realize all of this too.
But we wonder what would have happened if they had taken out the White House and the US Capitol on 9/11 back in 2001, instead of hitting the Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Maybe it wouldn’t take a religious, Christian target to launch a full scale reprisal against Islam…maybe if they had hit American political institutions with vested emotional importance to all Americans, Islam would have been struck back hard too.
The same could be true if they hit Parliament or Buckingham Palace, or if they took out the Eifel Tower or Arc D’Triumphe. There are a lot of buildings in the world that seem like they would have already been targeted by Muslims, but have been left alone…perhaps knowing that if they hit these targets, the consequences for them would be too great for them to bear.
It’s Zodie the Dog versus Thanksgiving Dinner some more. She knows what she can get away with, and what she can’t.
It would be very interesting if Turtledove or someone like Tom Clancy ever wrote a book in which the West hit back at Islam by taking out its holiest sites in retaliation for some abominable attack on Western culture and history.
What do you think would happen?
Maybe we’ll collect enough ideas and write some fiction ourselves in that vein.
What think you?
