1) Ishaq writes on 7th c jihadi murder of poet & mom Asma accused of "blasphemy": "That was the first day Islam became powerful among B. Khatma; before that Muslims hid the fact. The day after she was killed the men of B. Khatma became Muslims because they saw the power of Islam"
2) Ishaq's story is consistently sought to be dismissed by Islamists as "weak" - one can see why: it openly acknowledges the mindset of the first Islamists and their acknowledgment that the conversions were by terror, at a level of sadism that wd numb and shock the target popn.
3)But Ishaq's story shd also make sense in the current debates over France beheadings: the violent agitation ag France is the same tactic as by Asma's Muslim assassin who taunted the children of his victim over their mothers corpse.
4)The psychology of terror is exactly the same: the jihadi is saying they will kill whoever they deem useful to demonstrate their power and made an example of, and whoever protests this will be subject to killings. It flourishes where the terrorist's support doesnt pay the price.
5)Muslims agitating now are following the example of the subhuman assassin Umayr who pulled Asma's suckling baby from her breast and ran the knife through her heart: they are following up on Paty's beheading by the threat of further violence to gag the protest against it.
6)If they can pull this threat off and get away with it, they believe they can repeat the first Islamist's success in Yathrib through the terror campaign as attested to in Ishaq. Then they succeeded because no state operated in those oases and made mincemeat out of the scum.
7) terror of Islamist kind succeeds only when each terror act does not diminish the supporting structure, by number, by institution, by ideological leadership. Instead excuses are found to protect them so they can quietly grow their strength for the next larger scale assertion.
8) the first psychological barrier that protects jihadis is our reluctance to accept that jihadis r no longer humans as we understand them: they have lost the basic terms of engagement that we can try to use to bring around ppl gone out of line. They only understand sadistic pain
9) the only thing that will stop jihadis is immediate visible, tangible reduction in strength for every attempt at assertion - by numbers, institutions, organizations. And making them face the same or more pain than they inflict on others.
10) Samuel Paty's beheader got it light: he was shot. He shd hv been made to face the same method he applied on Paty. Perhaps very slowly. They understand and rely on shock and awe. To deal with them you need to make examples out of them with greater shock and awe.
11) only when jihadis know there is an open season on them, that they can be ruthlessly hunted and finished off wherever they are found with all the methods of dispatching people that they have practised on their victims - will they stop.
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