About Jihad ("Pepsi Jihad")

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What is this summissive behaviour?How can we explain the behaviour of such female mercenaries of a misogynous system, that of a victim to his killer or that of many millions of observant Muslims around the world, whoseancestors, ancient cultures and civilisations have been victims of the invasion of early Muslims?!

Experts call this bizarre emotional attachment of the victim to his abuser “Stockholm Syndrome”. The syndrome develops when the victim has no power to save himself but spontaneously hopes for removal of the threat. The victims' need to survive seems to be stronger than his impulse to hate the threatening master. And in all cases, the threatening master is perceived as showing some degree of kindness and guidance to the one being threatened.

Stockholm Syndrome, though recently remarked, has been in the history of mankind a key success for some aggressors and a historical misfortune for their victims. In the case of many Islamic societies, the aggressors were the early Islamic invaders who violently imposed Islam on other victims. Islam in these societies is effective like Stockholm Syndrome, a yoke of submission. Regarding the syndrome, Islamic invaders were the threatening masters of our society; their kindness was perceived in their threatening sword and their guidance by the rules of Sharia. The early Islamic invaders were in fact the abusers and the helpless Iranian society was the victims. The process continues today, the abusers are the IRI’s authorities and their victims are our people.

Psychoanalysists argue that Stockholm Syndrome may be the result of employing the strategy evolved by newborn babies to form an emotional attachment to the nearest powerful adult in order to maximise the probability that this adult will enable the survival of the child. If this hypothisis is correct, I can imagine that the syndrome in the Islamic societies can affect women more than men because women were mostly unwished female babies of a culture that is religiously misogynous. In this view the syndrome can be a further explanation to the mechanism creating conscious veiled women even among Muslim women living in the non-Islamic societies.

Regarding the fact that Islam has historically used the effects of Stockholm Syndrome, Islamists threaten the Muslim societies with the aim of identifying those who are or may become new Islamists. For example, we know that with a view to aiding in training of machine killers, the IRI set up jihadist centres in Iran to recruit and train volunteers for “martyrdom-seeking operations. These “Lovers of Martyrdom will be so brainwashed that they can willingly carry out suicide operations against the targets or civilians of “enemies” of Islam. Their brutality must reinforce the threatening effects of Stockholm Sydrome in the Muslim societies.

A better understanding of the circumstances that causes a Muslim to become an Islamist, a terrorist or a conscious veiled woman is not due to the psycho-pathology, but in the specific case of the Islamic world, it is due to the religious background. Knowing this fact may help us prevent the process of Muslims becoming Islamists. It is worth emphasising that preventing Muslims from Islamism is no way implies justification for Islam, by contrast a de-islamisation of our society is vitally necessary, which is of course another big topic.

Today, in a higher proportion, when we search for the causes of terrorism, we will focus on Islamism. Terrorist violence is more likely to be increasingly carried out by Muslims. However, we should not only condemn these blind terrorists, but more particularly we should worldwide point out Islamism as the real cause of terrorism. Especially when it seems to be the trigger of a social Stockholm Syndrome. Under such a syndrome a submissive social attitude develops when the society has no power to save themselves from their Islamic abusers. This is meanwhile an important factor that must be remarked if we want to improve political awareness of Iranians.

Another side, the lack of an evident terrorist profile or diagnosable mental illness makes us difficult to predict who will become Islamists. To distinguish between an Islamist terrorist and a simple Muslim is an important task of Iranian democrats. Muslims, like other people, cannot be blamed for their religion, but explained what they had no right to know before. The final solution of Islamic societies is a conscious removal of the religion from the social and political life in a democratic process. Today, Iranian society has considerably loosened from the Islamic chain of the world. A renaissance in the Islamic world can very probably start from Iran.

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"Pepsi Jihad"

Intelligence Officials Say America's Inclusiveness Helps To Dampen Terror Risks

Though the United States is not immune to the grass-roots extremism that has inspired attacks in Europe, the inclusiveness of American society may help against radical Islam's spread here, intelligence officials said Thursday.

Philip Mudd, a senior official in the FBI's National Security Branch, termed the U.S. domestic threat a "Pepsi jihad" - an outgrowth of extremism he said has spread among young people over the past 15 years and has been popularized by the Internet.

"We see in this country on the East Coast, on the West Coast and the center of this country - kids who have no contact with al Qaeda but who are radicalized by the ideology," Mudd said.

Dipping into subject matter that is unusual for intelligence professionals, Mudd and CIA Director Michael Hayden agreed that the United States needs to preserve its melting-pot heritage to help reduce the threat.

The country's history as an immigrant nation and its "experience with bringing in various groups and giving them, frankly, more opportunity than they might have elsewhere has helped us immeasurably" in dampening extremism, Hayden said.

The assessment came during the intelligence leaders' wide-ranging annual review of global threats before the House Intelligence Committee. Five top intelligence officials covered issues from Iran and Iraq to government eavesdropping and al Qaeda.

National Intelligence Director John Negroponte promised lawmakers that the top analysts across the 16 intelligence agencies will finish a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq by month's end.

He disputed suggestions that it should have been done before President Bush unveiled his strategy for Iraq last week calling for 21,500 additional troops. Negroponte noted that spy agencies have regularly provided Bush and other policy-makers with intelligence assessments and participated in the administration's strategy sessions on Iraq.

Committee members raised questions about the consequences if the United States fails in Iraq. "Number one," Hayden replied, it would create "a living hell for the Iraqi people, as the forces that are now out of control there, the self-sustaining violence continues to spill over into the region."

It would also give al Qaeda a safe haven to plot attacks against the West, he added.

The lawmakers pressed the intelligence officials on Iranian intentions.

Hayden said Tehran has a substantial presence in Iraq - "not just diplomatic or commercial, but representatives of the Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iranian intelligence service."

While U.S. analysts once put a less hostile face on Iranian efforts, "I've come to a much darker interpretation of Iranian actions in the past 12 to 18 months," Hayden said.

Now, he believes, the Iranians want to punish the United States and tie it down in Iraq so its options in the region - and against Iran - are limited.

Negroponte said Iran since 2003 has been emboldened by the situation in Iraq and the end of Saddam Hussein's rule, its increased oil revenues and other factors. The United States believes that Iran still considers the threat of terrorism a key element of its national security strategy.

He said Iranian-backed Hezbollah has "licked their wounds" from the conflict this summer with Israel, and he doesn't believe the group has had trouble resupplying its weapons stocks in Lebanon.



But, Negroponte noted, Hezbollah is not as visible on Lebanon's southern border with Israel as it was prior to last summer's conflict.

"The outposts there don't have the Hezbollah flag flying anymore. There's a more robust U.N. presence. And for the first time in many, many years, there's also a Lebanese army presence," Negroponte said. "They're probably not in quite as advantageous a position in the south as they were previously, although I don't doubt there's a lot of political sympathy for them down there."

The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, acknowledged that Hezbollah is replenishing its arsenal, particularly those stocks. Long-range missile capabilities are "probably very high on the list of capabilities that they want to replenish," he added.