The Islamist threat
The radicals are all Muslim. That is not to say that all Muslims are terrorists but practically all terrorists are Muslim.
The percentage of radicals is difficult to ascertain. I believe it is relatively high. In the UK a poll indicate one in ten thought the London Subway bombings were OK. One in ten would probably not actively participate in terrorists act, but I think at least 1% of the one tenth would. This would amount to 1 in 1000. And here we are talking about a group of Muslims who are more westernized than most. If you look at Palestinians on the West Bank the percentage is much higher.
To corroborate the numbers I find the article about MI5 surveillance in the UK valuable.
The head of MI5 informs that they are tracking 1,600 fanatics from 200 al-Qaeda cells. And many more are believed to exist. I have heard there are 3,000,000 Muslims more or less in the UK. One potential terrorist out of each thousand would correspond to 3000. Are we really to believe that the MI5 actually have discovered more than 50% of all potential terrorists? I think not. The real number is probably much higher.
But let us just use the conservative estimate of 1 potential terrorist in each 1000 Muslims and the 1 sympathizer in each 10 Muslims for illustrative purposes.
Out of a total Muslim population of 1,5 billion, one and a half million are either terrorists or are ready to become terrorist - and a whopping 150 million are sympathizers and will to a large degree indirectly give support, i.e. politically and economically.
1,500,000 out of a world wide population of 6 billion may not seem like such a high number. But remember we are talking absolute animals. They would not hesitate one second to kill anybody – even small children. Actually I believe they would not even hesitate to exterminate the entire human race.
People who can do terrorism can do ANYTHING. Beslan was one example.
We have therefore a large number of people who will stop at nothing. They have large financial resources and even political support. They are not all un-intelligent as history has shown. Many terrorists have turned out to be relatively well educated.
The world of today
This fact we must insert into the current factual geo-political situation.
- Many of the terrorists are already in the West living amongst us and large Muslim populations.
- They can easily travel into the West
- There is no allied concerted front against this threat
- A large percentage of the west – maybe a majority in Europe – are either pacifist or defeatist or both and readily co-operate and fraternatize with the enemy
- The USSR has broken down and the WMD technologies and scientist are readily available for a relative small price. Even materials can be had.
- A number of dictator states in the world give or will give refuge and even support to terrorists
- WMD weapons are proliferated. One Muslim country already has nuclear weapons, Pakistan, and their chief scientist has sold the know-how to at least one more country. One Muslim country, Iran, is publicly and actively seeking nuclear weapons.
- Any Muslim country is politically unstable and may suffer coup attempts such as the one in Pakistan recently. Who gets to hold the button of WMD is unpredictable.
- Were it not for the Security Council the UN might as well be Muslim. The UN is thus completely ineffective and might as well not exist.
The frightening possibilities
With enough financial resources the outright sale of a nuclear bomb is not unthinkable. It is thought that corruption in the ex USSR is reaching the equivalent of 50% of the public sector economies. The “sale” of know-how is a fact.
The whereabouts of cold war nuclear scientist, biologists and chemists is not controlled. Furthermore, in the West the most advanced university courses of chemistry, biology and nuclear engineering are readily available for anybody interested and qualified.
Now combine this with the ever increasing technological development. I remember reading about one Australian research group working on a vaccine for a virus. This led to them inadvertently creating an extremely potent virus that killed all mice. The size of the group: 5 scientists!
With time it becomes ever easier and ever more likely that extremely potent weapons will be created. With the resources of a state available there are no limits.
I predict this future scenario
The Islamist terrorists will continue to make attacks. In the next few years we will have at least one major attack in the west and several smaller ones. All with conventional weapons or possibly with primitive low effect WMD.
This will lead to an increase in friction between us and the relatively moderate Muslims living among us. In the west mass internments of Muslims in camps and deportations of Muslims will slowly be established or planned.
Israel will with the more or less clandestine support of the US make pre-emptive strikes against countries like Iran before they manage to produce a nuclear bomb. This will however only delay the fabrication in certain countries and do nothing so ever about countries like Pakistan. Israel can not afford to attack a nuclear power, as it is so small that just one counterstrike could be a catastrophe.
There will be a continued increased radicalization of Muslims and Westerners and more hate against the Jews. In the Muslim world ever more radical states and even more religious craze will appear. Moderate Muslims will have no voice what so ever in the Muslim world.
No sooner than in 5 years and probably no later than within 25 years, in countries like France , civil war like conditions will be constant in metropolitan areas now completely dominated by “youths”. Europeans will simply flee or be expelled and Muslim ghettoes and mini states will be a fact. The police and military forces are themselves infiltrated and the political system as well leading to complete ineffectiveness. At this point Sharia law will be begun to be exercised in the mini states.
Around this time several Muslim states will have WMD and consequently the terrorists will be armed likewise.
Either they will attack one large Western city or several at the same time. I believe the weapon of choice will be nuclear and capable of at least one million casualties.
The cities in most danger are London, New York, Washington and Los Angeles. London seems to me the most probable target.
The answer of the West will be a nuclear attack, perhaps massive, on the Muslim countries. They will answer back but ineffectively unless they at this time already have potent biological weapons. More western cities especially European capitals will feel the attack.
All Muslims in Western countries will be sought interned, expelled or simply exterminated. There will be fighting in the streets and minor civil wars will break out in all western countries with Muslim populations. Major civil war will break out in countries like France. The western world will win. Atrocities will be committed by both sides.
Finally the Muslim world will be disarmed and completely isolated.
By then millions will be dead. Many of them innocents.
What do you think are probable or possible scenarios for the future?
Do you think I am far out? I sure hope I am. But it looks bleak.
I would like to propose that we infidel bloggers start thinking about possible scenarios for the future and present them. Maybe we can thus raise the awareness and possible even avoid worst case.
Can we perhaps generate models with variables that could present possible results. Can we identify some of the many variables and conditions that will lead to some or the other future?
At this point generating, say a computer model, would be a large undertaking. But identifying some of the variables should be easy and thus scenarios much more consolidated and corroborated than my rather simple one should be possible.
Update
WC already has done a scenario in five parts on his blog. It is great writing and a good read. Scary as hell.
World War III: 21 Days in August – Part 1
World War III: 21 Days in August – Part 2
World War III: 21 Days in August – Part 3
World War III: 21 Days in August – Part 4
World War III: 21 Days in August – Part 5
Update 2
Another scenario, this one by, Raymond S. Kraft, and no less scary:
December 7, 2008
Update 3
A number of smaller scenarios on terroris attacks from a classified leaked report developed by the Department of Homeland Security and the Council of Homeland Security:
National Planning Scenarios
I wonder how this was released. By now it must be mandatory Al-Qaeda reading.
Crossposted at Hmmh...
10 comments:
VS
I made an attempt at such a scenario that you propose. It's called World War III: 21 Days in A ugust in 5 parts and starts at http://the-gathering-storm.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=367827
One major player has been left out of the picture - China.
The Islamists regard China as a long term cultural enemy: "This International Crusade and Buddhism have the permanent five chairs [on the UN Security Council] ... America and Britain represent the Christian Protestants, Russia represents the Christian Orthodox, France represents Christian Catholic and China represents the Buddhists"
from http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=611882006
Although China has a sizeable Muslim minority, for some reason it doesn't seem have a 'Muslim Problem' of the kind we have in Europe.
No scenario for the future of Islam is complete without taking into account the reaction of China to any threat of interruption to its oil supplies, or any Jihadist nonsense on its Western frontier.
WC, great piece of writing. I felt like I was there.
I need a cabin in the woods too!
There must be more scenarios around I will look them up.
religion of pieces,
You are right the Chinese are a factor.
The Muslims in China are not a factor, as long they continue being so tough. Power is the only language Islamists understand.
However, I do not think they would enter a war against the US to "protect" their interests in the Middle East. They need the US market as much as they need the oil. And the US needs that China gets its oil as well.
I think we all have a gut feeling that real bad things are on the horizon but, beyond some very general ideas, I think it may still be too early to see any real detail emerging out of the fog.
Biological or chemical weapons are the trickiest to use effectively, nuclear fusion or fission weapons can’t just be made in some jihadi’s basement nor can delivery systems but a dirty bomb is relatively easy to make.
Air delivery of an attack, despite 9/11 would seem hardest, followed by land, with an attack against one of our seaports easiest right now given the massive number of uninspected cargo containers and ships, mostly foreign or foreign registry, coming in every day.
It is true that lots of weapons research people in the former Soviet Union have fallen from being the privileged elite to scrambling to feed their families and thus would probably sell their expertise. There are also weapons research sites that have inadequate or no protection. From the news, it also appears that a lot of necessary equipment or actual weapons are floating around the states of the former Soviet Union, Pakistan’s Dr Khan has also been very busy distributing goodies to his Muslim friends and there has not been a shortage of Western companies willing to sellout the West by supplying the necessary technology for a price. So a jihadist with lots of cash might be able to pick up expertise, technology or actual weapons.
Terrorists usually like to attack softer targets, so I would think they would more likely attack civilian rather than military targets to start. While they would like to do another 9/11, a similar attack would be a lot harder to pull off today, so I think they might start with U.S. interests or allies outside of the U.S. and work towards us.
The thing I see very clearly, though, is the attribution problem. You can be sure that the state or states authoring such an attack will try to muddy the waters in every way they can—false trails, misdirection, cutouts, clues leading to another country—the whole nine yards; just look at the inability of the FBI to find out who was behind the Anthrax attacks.
If we are attacked there will be a tremendous number of critics arguing that unless we can very clearly identify (some, I’m sure, will want practically 100% certainty) who the culprits are and which state or states authored, financed, supplied or facilitated the terrorists, we should not launch a retaliatory attack, especially a nuclear attack, against them. Given the lack of guts and vision exhibited in today’s political and intellectual circles, this problem could seriously delay or even stop retaliation. In such a confusing situation, when emotions are running extremely high, it will probably all come down to the character of the President; will it be a Carter or a Reagan, a Wilson or a Lincoln, a Hoover or a Roosevelt?
There could be as many as 50 million people in America on their deathbed in as little as 2 weeks, and the terrorists wouldnt even have to set foot in the U.S. !!
There is a strain of Smallpox that has a VERY NEAR 100 percent mortality rate, and a BUNCH of it is missin.. With a little lab work by a second year lab student, there could be enuff to distribute to operatives in Mexico and have it spread thru the border-crossin points which would send the virus thruout the U.S. in a matter of hours.. Next the hospitals would be over-ran by sufferers which would spread the germ even wider..
A thimble-full of the Smallpox Virus in just 100 locations of border entry points would be enuff to do the job.. Traceable ?? NOPE !! Retaliation ?? Dont count on it !!
Will Bill,
The biological weapons are the most scary ones. But they are difficult to work with. I think this is the only thing that has spared us so far.
As part of a future scenario they are really worrisome. Smallpox is bad. Natural resistance is low and an attack would kill many. But we do have some vaccines and can fabricate more.
But a new strain of virus could be fatal and decimate or eradicate large populations.
I wonder what kind of experiments/plans the terrorists are working on right now?
What can we do stop it?
The U.S. has a few-hundred-thousand Smallpox Vaccine doses on-hand, and 2 million more backordered.. That aint gonna go very far toward 300 million population !!
The answer is gonna be ISOLATION..
Get a cabin VERY FAR back in the woods and after you gather the first of your guests with you, be prepared to kill anybody else that gets within 1000 yards of you !!
Von Schlicht,
This is an excellent post.
My opinion is that the West and Israel have shot our wad. We had our chance in Iraq and Israel had their chance in the Hizbollah war, both of us relinquished our chance without victory.
Victory, in war, is achieved by beating the enemy so badly that he becomes convinced that he has no chance to win, in fact, no chance to survive as a culture.
This is the truth about war. We, the western world, seem to have no stomach for such a hard truth. Therefore, as I said, we have squandered our chance at resolving this situation relatively peacefully.
The Islamofascists have become emboldened by our indecisiveness, and by our meekness. They believe they can win, so they will continue to attack.
As you outline here, the consequences of that will be horrible.
I believe we will destroy their world, in fact, I think we will have a victory of sorts. However, the post-war world will look nothing like the paradise in which we live today.
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