THE AGE OF FUNDAMENTALIST SAVAGERY

Mankind’s history has seen a continuous stream of savagery. The forms of human bestiality have changed only with the tools of inflicting pain, maiming, and death. In every age there can be found the use and beneficiaries of applied, thought-out, savagery. From the club to the nuclear bomb, nothing has changed except the tools, the knowledge, and the intelligence of the process. The motivation for man’s inhumanity to man has been the acquisition, maintenance, and aggrandizement of power. The use of savagery by Power Elites of the economic world to obtain their positions seems almost normal and certainly expectable. The same cannot be said of the Power Elites of the world of religion and belief.

Powerful religionists, petty and eminent, religious institutions of all stripes in all places from gilded temples to remote island witch doctors’ hovels, and religious practitioners with overt pretensions of holiness, Godliness, ethics, and purity of intent, have all engaged in the practice of torture and murder.

Through the centuries and with the incorporation or theft of ethical and moral pretensions, religious leaders and institutions have masked their own savagery by supporting the savagery of patriotism in its stead. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake to protect a king and England but was found innocent after her death and elevated to sainthood by the ecclesiastical court that burned her.

Now, these pretensions of the practitioners of Allah’s words as set down in the Koran, have elevated human savagery to a new level. The world of the early second millennium has experienced and continues to experience the terror imposed by Islamic power seekers. Islamic power elites believe that their brand of religious fervor is more powerful than economic power. They are showing that ignorance, destruction, and fear, are more powerful tools than those of the non-Islamic powers. Their hope is to create nuclear weapons and use them. That will lead to a short term victory if they succeed in reaching that horrific capability. When the first bombs are headed toward Israel, the destruction of a country of seventy million people is assured.

Western power elites are trying desperately to convince Iran of the fallacy of their thinking. However, we see a struggle raging between various national power elites. Some, like Russia and China, are positioning themselves to benefit from a modernizing Iran and are opposing those not benefiting from close ties with Iran – the United States and some of the NATO countries. Two massive religious-economic struggles for power are going on at the same time, struggles for control of energy derived from oil and nuclear capability, and military strength through nuclear capability. The religious struggle is for the minds of the Moslem world. The economic struggle is over control of oil,

A replacement for oil to drive the world's vehicles and industries would take the air out of the ballooning struggle. However, the world has yet to find a viable substitute and develop it for use in time to replace oil.

It can be reasonably assumed that Iran will use atomic weaponry when it acquires the capability of doing so. If Iran is not convinced or coerced to enable and allow oversight of its nuclear program, Israel or the U.S. will blow their nuclear facilities off the map. The rationale for Iran’s savagery is anchored in fundamentalist Islam’s belief system and the nature of its education toward destruction, savagery, and bestiality. The destruction of New York City’s World Trade Center and the murder of its inhabitants was the shot that should be listened to around the world.