The media reports that the FBI is investigating if the Orlando terrorist belonged to ISIS. But they also reported that minutes before the massacre, the American Islamist terrorist called the police station and pledged his allegiance to ISIS. So what exactly is the question? If he was sent by ISIS or not?
Apparently, ISIS did not directly send him. If he had been sent, he would not have felt the need to pledge his allegiance before he perpetrated his murderous attack.
The entire question, however, is meaningless. It once again highlights the weakness of the West in the face of a war that is not nationalist/territorial, but rather, religious/cultural. After all, the entire essence of the American and French revolutions was the removal of G-d from the political plane. The modern nation states arose on the basis of national – not religious – identity. When the Twin Towers fell in the name of Allah, President Bush sought a return address that was a nation state. What was he supposed to do? Destroy all the mosques in the world? And so, the US army conquered Iraq within a week – but lost the war… The US is incapable of going to war against a religion. Even after 9/11, a man named Hussein was enthusiastically elected as President.
So now, they are investigating whether he was sent by ISIS. Or maybe he wasn’t really sent by them? Who exactly is the enemy? Perhaps they can still find an address that is not blatantly religious? And if not, who can they blame? Maybe the person who gave him his weapon? But he was a security guard. And they knew he was a Moslem. So maybe now they should confiscate weapons from all Moslems in the US? Or from all the police? Or from all the security guards?
Paradoxically, only Israel has the ability to subdue Islam and live with it in peace. Israel, of course, has not actualized this potential because it is attempting to adopt the values that are currently defeating the West. But the potential exists.
Islam is involved in almost all the blood conflicts in the world. What is the essence of Islam? “Allah is great”. Islam puts G-d at the focal point and demands total obedience. Allah condemns those who do not follow suit to death. It is all very simple.
The West, on the other hand, was born of Christianity, which separates G-d from man. The West puts man at the focal point. This threatens Islam and provokes war. It is like the Law of Communicating Vessels: On one side is G-d. On the other side – a vacuum. When that is the case, Moslem expansionism and bloodshed are simply inescapable.
Moslem prayer looks like a military roll call. Rows of orderly worshippers who bow down simultaneously when the directive is given. Their prayer demonstrates total submission and obedience. Prayer in a church? Like watching an opera. All are dressed in their Sunday best, almost completely incidental to the ceremony conducted by the priest, who has forgone the pleasures of this world and with his religion in tow, remains aloof to worldly matters.
And what does Jewish prayer in a synagogue look like? Everyone does more or less what he likes. One sways in fervent prayer, another dozes, a third reads the Sabbath newsletters, a fourth prays at ease and many do not even attend…In Judaism, man is not the focal point and neither is G-d. For the Jews, the dialogue between man and G-d is the center of attention (I heard that from Rabbi Uri Cherki).
As such, the State of the Jews is the only state that is capable of living in peace in the two worlds. “With you I will manage,” an Arab MK said to me after I outlined the Biblical borders of the Land of Israel. “But with the ‘blasphemous Zionists? Never.” “It is not a territorial dispute,” he added. “It is a cultural war.”
Western, Christianity-based civilization is rapidly collapsing before our eyes – just like the Twin Towers. Donald Trump will not be able to stop this process, nor will the extreme Right gaining strength in Europe. Only Israel has the keys for dealing with the new world ISISorder. All it needs is to connect to its Jewish identity.