Rockets Homed On Stones That Sing

“how terrible was my Penalty and my Warning!”

Quran chapter 54, verse 18

Islam, the fastest-growing^[542] religion of the 21^st century, is still showing the results of The Founder Effect. It is still picking on the same people Mohammed chose as his scapegoats in 624 AD. With only fourteen million^[543] Jews on this planet in the early 21^st century—less than the population of just one Islamic city, Cairo—fighting the Jews in the modern era seems like an automatic win. There are 1.6 billion Muslims^[544] in 57 Muslim nations—all with armies and with the finest military machinery oil money can buy. If they duke it out with the state of Israel, a nation of five-and-a-half million Jews,^[545] they will outnumber the Hebrews in that Khaibar-like sliver of a nation by a ratio of 240 to one. How could Islam possibly fail?

Even if just one Islamic nation, Iran, points its medium and long-range missiles^[546] at Israel—something it’s promised the Islamic world that it’s doing^[547]—that would pit Iran’s population of 69 million^[548] against a mere five-and-a-half million Jews. Wipe out just two Israeli cities—Tel Aviv and Haifa—and you’ve annihilated a country.

What about retaliation? Israel, too, has nuclear weapons. As Iranian president ‘Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on December 14, 2001, “The use of an atomic bomb against Israel would totally destroy Israel, while [the same] against the Islamic world would only cause damage. Such a scenario is not inconceivable.”^[549] It’s Khaibar all over again.

But this time the folks who might be terrified into surrender are not the Meccans, but secular Islamic nations like Egypt, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Not to mention us Westerners.

Is Mohammed’s strategy of picking on the little guy, his strategy of using the Jews to make others see things his way, still alive in the militant Muslim mind? Or is it mere “Jewish paranoia”^[550]? The hit-the-nerd approach popped up in May, 1998 when one of the most influential modern interpreters of the Islamic militant tradition, Osama bin Laden, tried to tell Westerners that his war to save the world and to give all humanity the truth of Islam went far, far back in time. He begged Europeans and Americans to understand that his beef was not with Westerners. His battle, he said, was really a war between Islam and the Jews. All others should spare themselves harm, step out of the way, and let the Muslims finish off the Jews without opposition.^[551]

Bin Laden wasn’t entirely honest in this statement. He was using what Mohammed called “deceit” ^[552]—disinformation, deliberate untruths, calculated lies. In speech after speech to his Muslim brethren bin Laden said the West is “the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind.” Toppling the Civilization of the West was at the top of Osama’s to-be-done list. “The desired target” of “this battle,” said Osama, referring to the global war of those he led and inspired—is “to establish the religion of Allah, Islam, on this earth and to implement His laws.”^[553] Osama meant all this earth! So if you’re not a Muslim, Osama’s real target is you. And your home is the Mecca he’d like to force into surrender by making a point—by making an example of a nation of Jews.

Osama is not the only one carrying on Mohammed’s pick-on-the-nerd tradition. In 1982, three years after Osama began his career as a full-time maker of jihad, the Islamic Revolutionary Government of Islam sent 1,500 members^[554] of its internal Revolutionary Guards,^[555] its holy bullies,^[556] to Southern Lebanon to establish a new group Hezbollah.^[557] Hezbollah’s name came from the title of one of Iran’s own government-organized gangs of holy enforcers, thugs wearing black who broke up political demonstrations in Iran’s cities with bars, chains, clubs, and fists. The name of the Iranian gangs was Ansar-e-Hezbollah.^[558]

For 24 years Hezbollah dug subterranean tunnels^[559] and fortified bunkers^[560] in the spirit of Mohammed at The Battle of the Trench. For 24 years—from 1982 to 2006—Hezbollah built up a store of more than 20,000 missiles^[561]…and a supply chain from Iran through Syria via tunnels 120 feet below the surface of the earth and “rat lines”^[562] running through gullies and creek beds on the Syrian border.^[563] That chain was designed to bring in a steady supply of missiles and armaments from Iran, a nation that by 2006 had rockets with a 1,200 mile range,^[564] rockets designed to carry nuclear warheads or the chemical warheads equipped with VX nerve gas allegedly manufactured in vast quantities by Iran’s allies, the Syrians.^[565]

The goal of Iran’s military arm in Lebanon,^[566] Hezbollah, was very specific, very much in line with Mohammed’s example…and remarkably true to Mohammed’s blunt statement in the Hadith that, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’”^[567] Hezbollah’s mission was genocide—the extermination of the “Zionist entity.”^[568] Its goal was to reestablish the traditional role of the Jews as Islam’s nerds. And it was to reestablish the tradition of killing the Jews in a manner so horrible that larger powers would surrender without a fight.

Those larger powers the militants want to terrify into surrender may well include Germany, Britain, France, Holland, Eastern Europe and the Balkan states. They may also include your nation and mine. And modern militant Islam’s attempt to massively upscale a desert strategy originally used to conquer towns so small they’d scarcely show up on a modern map, its attempt to apply that scapegoat strategy in today’s world, may represent a radical upshift, an evolutionary boost in the size, the structure, and the forms of pecking order competitions of superorganisms. But more on that in a minute.