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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Sheftall's Paradigm 

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Mood: Wakka?
Reading: God told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers
Currently listening to: Piano Sonata No 15 In C Major - Mozart
Quote of the day: "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg

Interesting article that i read - never really thought about these parallels.

Full article here.

...I call this set of observations "Sheftall's Paradigm". There are crucial parallels between the Japanese and today's suicide terrorists that can be highlighted in the four steps of Sheftall's Paradigm:

- Cult-like, highly organized aspects of indoctrination: For the Kamikaze it was the cult of unquestioning obedience to authority -- personified in the institution of the emperor -- as the ultimate expression of Japanese identity ; for the terrorist, it is radical Islam as taught by teachers at the Madrasahs and Mullahs at the Mosques.

- Long "gestation" period during which the relevant personnel lead an almost "living dead" existence, in full knowledge that their upcoming missions entail their own deaths. For the Kamikaze, this period was passed after assignment to a Kamikaze squadron, during the training they received , and over the weeks and sometimes months they waited for their sortie orders . For the modern day radical Islamic- terrorist, this period commences with their assignment to become a suicide bomber , during the training they receive , and while awaiting their mission orders .

- Full public awareness/support among sympathetic home population, giving "hero" status to the bombers.

- Dependence on a religious (or in Japanese case, quasi-religious) ideology to legitimize this unnatural tactic by depicting the target (i.e., USA, rational West) as decadent, evil, cowardly, apostate, fundamentally "weak"; lacking both in humanism and "natural vigor", etc. For both Kamikaze and Islamic terrorism, step four applies.

In an interview with Professor Sheftall, he described these four parallels thusly: "Despite the obvious differences between Islamic suicide bombers and Japanese kamikazes that I t ake pains to delineate and emphasize in my book , I do also think that there are crucial parallels between the Japanese and current Al Qaeda (et al) programs. Clearly, the Achilles heel of the suicide bomber lies somewhere in this overall picture. History has shown us -- through the example of the kamikaze -- that causing the collapse of factor four (the spiritual/ideological foundation) is the most effective way to bring the whole system crashing down. In the case of Japan, this was done with a single radio broadcast from Emperor Hirohito that destroyed forever the myth of his own divinity and of Japan's invincibility, and in so doing, caused utter and complete motivational collapse in the Japanese fighting machine, Kamikaze personnel included."

We are today at step number three within radical Islam, and we will remain at step number three until the mullahs and teachers at the Madrasahs cease preaching the glory of suicide and start preaching the glory of acceptance. Those that don't must be treated as an equal to the suicide fanatics worshipping an evil form of Islam glorifying murder of innocent men, women, and children.


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