I'm conflicted - and not the snarky conflicted that I live with day to day - seriously conflicted.
You cannot kill an idea - but you can definitely kill enough believers to convince them that trying to force their ideas on others carries an astronomical fee.
Does violence beget violence?
Sure it does - and so what - because those who refuse to defend an ideology will be killed off by those that are not afraid to proliferate their own ideas.
Is Hamas a death cult?
Of course they are - so give them what they want.
ERADICATE THEM.
If the rest of the 1.6 billion Muslims around the world see this as an affront - then perhaps they don't see current events as they should. Any percentage of that 1.6 billion that see current events as 'due process' for some perceived slight that is worthy of raping, torturing, and murdering innocent men, women, and children - just to make a point - well, then fuck 'em.
I consider ANY percentage that would defend what happened as at best apologists and supporters - at worst, radical islamofascists, worthy of nothing more than the martyrdom they seek.
Keep your views and ideas - to yourself - but this jihad you seek is a two way street - and I would posit that even though we can't kill the idea of radical islamofascism - those who espouse it can certainly be killed off by the bushel basket until the rest of them decide to calm the fuck down.
Allied forces during World War 2 killed the living shit out of a few ideas.
Nazi ideology was pretty comfortable in their position that their so called “Aryan Race" was the superior strain of the human race.
Then one day, way back in 1936, a young black man from Oakville Alabama destroyed that myth.
Cleanly.
Effortlessly.
And he did it with out violence.
Unfortunately, those who continued to propagate that myth had to be dealt with violently because sometimes, you have to forego the effort to "kill an idea" and replace it with the action of killing everyone that continues to advance that idea. Many of the twisted and misguided ideas still exist today. The difference is, those ideas are now tamed and quiet in comparison. A generation made it clear to the entire world - continue to behave like this - and we are going to level your fucking cities. Continue down this path, and we will firebomb the very fucking home where you raise your children. Resist, and we will turn the landscape red with the blood of your fathers, sons, brothers, and children.
And then we went right out and did that very thing to prove that we were not fucking around.
We didn't just rattle sabres.
We didn't look for a camera lens to talk into.
We didn't virtue signal on Twitter.
We didn't add caveats to our condemnation.
We didn't hire a bunch of washed up retirees to be news contributors.
We passed judgment.
We prosecuted our tormentors without mercy.
We went out and clubbed mother fuckers to death with a rifle butt.
We went out and set mother fuckers on fire.
...and then when that wasn't enough, we went out and firebombed their fucking cities.
We absolutely refused to apologize for our fury - we demanded an unconditional surrender.
Then, 'we the people' turned our fucking descendants into a generation of dope smoking hippy peaceniks.
We the people have become nation of citizens with a national stomach too sensitive to digest the amount of hot sauce it takes to grind evil back into the mud when it surfaces - and make no mistake - radical islamofascism is NOT a religious belief - it is an evil that needs to be mercilessly ground back into the mud before it spreads and poisons others.
Sure - the idea may not die - but those would would use that idea to torture, rape, and murder innocent men, women, and children because they believe in a different version of God - should live in the very terror that they seek to visit on others.
Just my two cents.
