Islamic Martyrs By-Pass THE JUDGMENT DAY!!!

Summary of basic considerations for action v. deterrance vis-a-vis Iran's nuclear program (including the Islamic belief that Islamic martyrs by-pass The Judgment Day coupled with Osama bin Ladin's Fatwa to Nuke 10 million Americans (please see below for reference materials re the Fatwa)) + Foreign Affairs article on nuclear detente with Iran
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johnkarls
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Islamic Martyrs By-Pass THE JUDGMENT DAY!!!

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There has been quite a bit written in the popular press advocating Cold War-style deterrence (so-called "MAD" or "Mutual Assured Distruction"!!!)

There are three basic problems with this approach.

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THE FIRST BASIC PROBLEM is that it is "common wisdom" (I will leave it to others to find all of the discussion of this topic in the media) THAT AT LEAST SIX ARAB NATIONS (INCLUDING SAUDI ARABIA AND EGYPT) WILL DEVELOP THEIR OWN NUCLEAR WEAPONS IMMEDIATELY IF IRAN (WHICH IS NON-ARAB PERSIA) GOES NUCLEAR!!!

Query whether it is desirable to have virtually all of the world's oil fields become the site of a nuclear holocaust!!!

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THE SECOND BASIC PROBLEM is that Ayatollah Khamenei (Iran's chief cleric, not to be confused with Ayatollah Khomeini who was Iran's chief cleric for 10 years after the revolution in 1979 against the Shah) and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are both fond of saying that Israel is a "one bomb state" - meaning that they will be able to destroy it with one nuclear weapon.

Query whether anyone would want either of these individuals to have a "finger on the trigger"!!!

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THE THIRD BASIC PROBLEM is the Islamic doctrine that ISLAMIC MARTYRS BY-PASS THE JUDGMENT DAY!!! Coupled with Osama bin Ladin's Fatwa to nuke 10 million Americans (for more information on the Fatwa, please see on this Bulletin Board "Ref Mats - Osama's Fatwa to Nuke 10 Million Americans").

This means that if a single potential martyr, instead of blowing up a subway in Britain or a train in Madrid, is able to lay her/his hands on a suitcase-size nuclear weapon, the West will most likely experience a nuclear holocaust.

One reference work on the Islamic belief that Islamic martyrs by-pass The Judgment Day (I will leave it to others to investigate further) is a book that our Reading Liberally group discussed on 18 May 2006 -- The NY Times Best Seller and Winner of the 2005 PEN Award for Non-Fiction - "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason" by Sam Harris (2004 WW Norton & Co, Inc.) with a forward by Harvard Law Prof. Alan Dershowitz who is himself the author of "America on Trial."

Harris' Best Seller describes how Islam has the same Judeo-Christian concept of The Judgment Day. But that every good Muslim has a mortal fear of The Judgment Day which, per Islamic belief, will occur only after centuries of mouldering in the earth and consists of being "interrogated by wrathful angels" with only a slim hope of proceeding to "Allah's Garden." And that every good Muslim believes that the only way to by-pass The Judgment Day and proceed immediately after death (vs. mouldering in the earth for centuries) to "Allah's Garden" is to become a martyr. And, further, that every martyr is able to select 72 friends/relatives to by-pass The Judgment Day with her/him -- which is why Western media photos of relatives of Arab martyrs often show them rejoicing!!!

Prof. Dershowitz's testimonial on the back cover of the hard-copy version of "The End of Faith" =

“Harris’s tour de force demonstrates how faith – blind, deaf and dumb, and unreasoned – threatens our very existence. His exposé of faith-based unreason – from the religious fanaticism of Islamic suicide bombers to the secular fanaticism of Noam Chomsky – is a clarion call for reasoned debate in this age of terrorism. A must read for all rational people.”

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It is true that potential martyrs already have other sources for nuclear weapons.

Indeed, the materials posted on this Bulletin Board for our December meeting will contain information about the "nightmare" that is the other Muslim nuclear bomb - Pakistan's. And how the fact that we have been able so far to exert influence post-9/11 on Pakistan to act sensibly vis-à-vis its nuclear weapons "hangs by a thread" as can be seen in the voluminous American-media commentary on the current crisis there.

In this regard, it should be noted that A.Q. Khan, the nuclear physicist who is still revered in Pakistan as the “Father of the Pakistani Nuclear Bomb,” was guilty of selling Pakistan’s nuclear secrets to North Korea, Iran and Libya to “jump start” their nuclear programs. (Libya’s Qaddafi, however, lost his nerve after the U.S. invasion of Iraq and immediately informed the U.S. that he/Libya would like to renounce nuclear weapons – Libya’s nuclear program was then dismantled under the aegis of the United Nations.)

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