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Evil and cowardice

by | Oct 29, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

I realise that I am a few days late to this hilarious dogpile onto The Jeff Bezos Blog – er, I mean, The Washington Compost – because of the way that they completely screwed up the obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But it’s never too late to mock the hell out of a failing shitty newspaper that routinely lies to the American people and has a purely political agenda:

As for me, my reaction to the wonderful news that The Washington Shitpost got so thoroughly destroyed by Twatter is rather simpler and more on the nose:

However, there is a more thoughtful approach that we can, and should, take to the news that the founder and leader of those radical Islamist f***heads (Lord, forgive me my redundancies) in ISIS got turned into nasty red goo:

Paul Ramsey does make a thought-provoking point about whether evil men are cowardly by nature.

The rhetoric of His Most August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus, the First of His Name, concerning the (alleged) death of al-Baghdadi, was surely over the top.

But that’s the point. That’s how Alpha males talk:

So that deals with whether or not the God-Emperor’s language was appropriate. Given that it promptly caused the Left to lose their shit (again), and forced them into the unenviable position of having to defend the very thing that most of the readers and viewers of the corrupt and lying mainstream (((media))) hate the most (again), his rhetoric was perfectly pitched and timed.

The man is a damn genius at rhetoric. Seriously, I actually really enjoy watching and listening to the God-Emperor’s speeches simply because of the man’s awesome abilities to dump half a hundredweight of horseradish directly into the shorts of his enemies, thereby forcing them to defend the indefensible and automatically making themselves look like blithering idiots.

It is a masterful skill and one that I wish I could emulate. Sadly, I am too dialectically inclined and have rather poor skills in rhetoric, at least by comparison to a true master of the art such as His Astral Majesty.

But all of this skirts around the actual philosophical issue at hand here.

Was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi evil? From the point of view of any rational and sensible child of Western civilisation, he most assuredly was. His list of war crimes and crimes against humanity is long and appalling.

But, from the perspective of a RIF, his actions and policies and rhetoric were all entirely in line with their “holy” book, the Koran, which was supposedly given to them directly from the mouth and mind of their so-called “prophet” Mohammed. That execration of a text provides an exhaustive list of behaviours and tactics that Islamists must follow in order to enter their version of Paradise, and no matter what you might think of him, al-Baghdadi evidently followed those instructions quite closely.

As Obi-Wan Kenobi – or rather, his Force-ghost – put it so well in Return of the Jedi, you’re going to find that most of the truths that you take for granted in your life depend entirely on your own point of view. And the reality is that history tends to be written by the victors. Since the USA has been largely winning the war against ISIS and radical Islam, mostly by turning radical Islamists into red jelly – yes, all right, pipe down, you lot, enough with the applause and cheering already – the USA has also largely shaped the view of radical Islam in the West, in both good and bad ways.

The mass (((media))) in the USA may well be entirely in the tank for Islam and its abominable ideology, but they do not really speak for the rest of the country. And the rest of the country views ISIS through the lens of Western civilisation, which is to say, the European nations and Christian morality.

That is not how Islamists view men like al-Baghdadi. They view men like that as heroes.

Think about what it means to be a hero. It means, among other things, possessing significant quantities of the four primary masculine virtues of strength, courage, honour, and mastery.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is likely dead – remember that he has been pronounced dead many times before, and has always popped up somewhere alive and well later on. This time it appears that he got squashed for good, because ISIS themselves appointed a new leader right after the announcement, so let’s hope that the choirboy in question got his just desserts.

But, while you can certainly call said choirboy evil, by any moral standard except Islam’s – which elevates that which Christians find abhorrent and sinful and denigrates that which we find holy and just – you cannot really call him cowardly.

It is easy to call evil men cowards. Most evil men are, in fact, cowards. They get others to do the dirty work for them. The Left’s favourite iconic figure, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, was the perfect example of a man who was supposedly a great revolutionary hero, but died a whimpering, sniveling coward.

Yet there are lots of evil men throughout history who were anything but cowards.

Take Mao Tse-Tung. There is no doubt whatsoever that he was a profoundly effed up, deeply evil man. His policies were directly responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of his countrymen through starvation and persecution. But he was also the same man who led 10,000 Communist Party troops on the terrible Long March – which has long since gone down in history as a legendary example of an extreme military ass-kicking that was rapidly turned into a huge moral victory.

You don’t do something like that without being brave, resolute, and tough.

The same is true for one Josef Stalin, whose actions before WWII directly led to the weakening of the Soviet military to the point where the command structure was paralysed by indecision when Operation Barbarossa started, and let the German Wehrmacht penetrate deep into Russian territory, surround Leningrad, approach Moscow, and engage in a truly epic series of battles in and around Stalingrad.

It was Stalin’s reign of terror, and his collectivist policies, and his economic illiteracy, and his extreme paranoia, that led to the deaths of anywhere between 20 and 60 MILLION Russians, and God only knows how many Ukrainians in the Holodomor, between 1930 and his eventual death. Nobody even truly knows how many people died because of Stalin’s purges; all that we do know is that Russia suffered to a degree never before seen in all of its tragic history under him.

But one thing that no sane man could say, is that Stalin was weak.

He was anything but. He was a calculating, dangerous, brutal schemer who had no problem whatsoever using men to accomplish his ends, and then throwing them away when they no longer served his purposes. Just look at what he did to the heads of the KGB and its predecessor services under his rule.

His very name means “Man of Steel” in Russian. “Stalin” was not his real name – that would be “Djugashvili” – but he applied that moniker to himself because he wanted and needed to create a cult of personality around himself. And he succeeded.

It is easy to condemn evil men as weak and cowardly. As the Batman likes to say, “criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot” – which, in the main, they are. But that does not mean that they are entirely cowardly, and that does not mean that they are incapable of mastering and demonstrating masculine virtues – even if they can, at best, only fake the masculine virtues.

Faking it is, after all, enough to achieve some degree of notoriety and fame, and enough to construct a legend to which followers will be attracted.

The good news for the USA and its allies in the war against Islam – which is what it is, and don’t let any politically correct airhead tell you otherwise – is that many of these Islamist leaders end up weak, broken men hiding out from the American war machine. That is how Osama bin Laden ended his days – as a tired, powerless old man in a crappy little house with nothing much more than porn (for what is a wannabe Caliph without degenerate porn, after all) and recordings of his speeches from his glory days, to remind him of what he used to be.

And that, too, is apparently how al-Baghdadi died.

This is very much to the good, and I for one am very happy that he is burning in Hell right now. But let us not make the mistake of assuming that, just because the RIFs of ISIS are losing, they are by definition weak and cowardly. They are neither, and we underestimate the evil of their ideology at our peril if we make the mistake of assuming that every Muslim who follows it is a weak coward.

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