Murder By Fitna

By Major Van Harl USAF Ret

Wisconsin --(Ammoland.com)-  Fitna is not a word you most likely have heard or used before, but in the Arab-Muslim world they most assuredly know what fitna means.

It is an Arabic word that can mean civil war. It can describe a disagreement or division within Islam. A trial of faith, secession, upheaval and anarchy can all be types of fitna.

If you take these definitions of fitna and then watch the evening news dealing with the middle-east, you will observe many great examples. When there is perceived extreme moral stress that would force a Muslim to compromise an element of their faith (such as letting women drive a car or not physically assaulting women for expressing an opinion) this can cause fitna. When a Muslim community is fragmented such as when Shiite Muslims are out blowing up Sunni Muslims this might be considered fitna.

The problem with fitna is a person can drop all pretenses of rational thought and action, and just go ballistic in speech and deed. Fitna creates an excuse to take whatever hostile action against friend or enemy, blame it on Allah’s will and claim it to be a test of faith.

We see so many examples of this in the TV media almost every day, we just think it is normal in the Muslim world. One description of fitna is it is the jihad (holy war) which returns as a boomerang inside and weakens the (Muslim) community. Fitna is constantly driven by irrational behavior. Behavior, that allows Muslims to vent their anger with what appears to us in the “west” to be done without guilt or responsibility.

Fitna is described as obsessive fear (in the Muslim community) since Islam (first) existed. It is the irrational part that is maddening to the “west.”

We know when our sons and daughters put on the uniform of the military that their lives are now on the line. They may have a successful career defending our nation and retire at a ripe old age. But we also know they could be killed in the process. The process for us is however rational. The defenders go to school and get educated. They join their branch of service and are given some of the best military training in the world. They are outfitted with the latest state-of-the-art equipment. The leaders appointed above them make rational decisions about how these troops will be deployed.

Are mistakes made? Do our leaders mess up on occasions and get troops hurt or even killed? Yes they do, but these unfortunate situations are not the norm.

When it comes to the Muslim world we in the west do not get it. In the Muslim Koran (8:39) it states “And fight with them until there is no more persecution (fitna) and religion should be only for Allah (Islam)”. What this means is in the Muslim world Allah (God) has directed them to continue the destructive fight with non-Muslim religions until they are destroyed or subjugated. Muslim prisoners in Afghanistan held by the US Military are using their prison issued Korans to pass messages and anti US rhetoric. So the Korans are removed and ordered destroyed. Another chance for fitna has kicked in and allows Muslims to blindly strike out at the West. American military members are murdered and local Muslims are killed in fitna’s rage.

But the west and specifically the US is always expected to be rational. We are not going to allow an American style fitna to disrupt and perpetually disrupt our “normal” society. There is the problem. The Muslim world and not just the extremist Muslim world, always rely on the US to be the rational one—“the trusted player.” We are the constant they can depend on in their world of irrational behavior.

Recently we have the American version of fitna. A US Army Soldier has allegedly gone into an Afghan village and killed sixteen civilians. Reverse-fitna, the Muslim world is so shocked. Remember under the Koran you fight and destroy all that does not bow to Allah. What happens when the Judeo / Christian world gets tired of the unending slaughter of it’s’ children? American soldiers committing murder can never be legally justified. Demonstrated bad behavior on one side is no reason for the other side to demonstrate bad behavior. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but how many wrongs do you have to suffer before you set things right?

Fitna will be used as an excuse for the organized and well planned out killing of our US Ambassador in Benghazi, Libya. The non-Muslim world is expected to understand that the Muslims who attacked our consulate and killed four Americans just could not help themselves. The craze of fitna guided them to kill in the name of their prophet and we in the West better just accept it and get over ourselves.

Think of the fitna they can create with an Islamic nuclear bomb. America must always be rational until the day; we lose a US city to a nuke strike, then, watch reverse-fitna.

Major Van Harl USAF Ret.
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About Major Van Harl USAF Ret.:
Major Van E. Harl USAF Ret. , is a career Police Officer in the U.S. Air Force was born in Burlington, Iowa, USA, in 1955. He was the Deputy Chief of police at two Air Force Bases and the Commander of Law Enforcement Operations at another. Now retired, these days he enjoys camping, traveling, volunteering with the Girl Scouts and writing. [email protected]

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