What Exactly Do Jihadists Want?

Human beings are those creatures that ask questions. In that light let me ask: what exactly do Islamic jihadists want to accomplish with their current spate of violence all over the world. What is their end goal? They transform wherever they are to chaos, a state of total anarchy (Afghanistan was returned to seventh century state of being; the areas of Iraq they control is reduced to chaos; Syria is in a state of anarchy; Yemen is what Thomas Hobbes called state of nature where each person looks after his interests and fights others . In Northeastern Nigeria life is now pointless for the Jihadists kill people at will.

All economic development comes to a halt wherever the jihadists take over. I would say that Arabs worst enemies would not do to them what Jihadists do to them. It is as if Muslim Arabs enemies planned to retard the progress of the Muslim world, to get them to kill each other and create chaos in their world. Is economic development taking place in the Muslim world where Jihadists took over? Point to one such place?

Most of us buy stuff to live with. Other than oil which is nature’s gift to the Arab world I do not recall buying anything that is made in the Muslim Arab world. Car, computer, Internet, CD player, radio, television, microwave oven, cell phone, clothes, shoes… as I look around my house I do not see anything in it that is made in the Arab world. Is this good? Is this really what jihadists want? These jihadists have returned their people to seventh century mode of primitive existence. I bet you that the gun manufacturers are glad to sell it to them, to kill off their people and while making some monetary profit. So, what exactly are these Muslim folks aiming at achieving? Convert the world to Islam? What worlds are they trying to convert to Islam; a world that sees them as murderers and sociopaths?

Would you really want to join a religion that preaches hatred and violence? Would you like to join Boko Haram, a bunch of murderers that look like people from medieval times? We are now in the age of science and technology and folks are not motivated to fill their heads with superstitions. In the age of science folks are supposed to test all hypotheses that come their way and accept only those they can verify and discard unverifiable ones.

We all know what terrorism is. It is using terror to control people. The terrorist randomly kills some people and hope to convince the rest to see him as a potential killer who means business and does not hesitate in killing. He hopes to make the people afraid of him. He wants to make people fearful and out of fear do whatever he wants them to do. Terrorists rule people through the auspices of fear, not through reason and persuasion.

It is now time we told these folks that they are insane and ought to go learn what living in reality is. Seeking to return to a past that is merely remembered but is not known as it was is foolishness. Sanity consists of behaviours that love all people; any unloving behavior is symptomatic of insanity. Those who kill human beings are insane. They need to be healed instead of tolerated.