‘Climate Change’ Totally Strengthens ISIS Or Something

December 6, 2015 – 4:44 pm

This is a recurring meme from the Cult of Climastrology. If they can’t directly Blame something on Hotcoldwetdry, they say that ‘climate change’ is making it worse. Or, heck, sometimes do both. In this case, Time writer Eugene Jarecki (repeated at the Huff Post) goes withe the latter

Don’t Forget That Climate Change Strengthens ISIS

This week’s climate-change conference in Paris offers an opportunity to reflect on the world’s reactions to the tragedy committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria there last month.Will any constructive connection be drawn between the impact of man-made climate change and the social, economic, and political instability on which ISIS recruitment depends? Can we learn to address the source—not the symptoms—of a global problem? (snip)

…Now let’s also imagine that what is enabling ISIS to recruit young operatives is a range of global conditions so denigrating to them that the promise of the future seems inferior to that which, after committing murder, might await them in the afterlife.

And……that’s about it. That’s the sum total of the argument as mentioned in the headline. The rest is about how we shouldn’t go all macho and fight back and that the United States and the Western world are totally at fault. Because, something something and climate change. But, let’s consider something else, as Christopher J. Green covers at Flopping Aces

5 Awkward Questions About Islam Barack Obama Doesn’t Want You To Ask

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1. Many Muslims claim to be opposed to the barbaric acts of terror committed by jihadists in the name of Islam. Additionally, liberals and leftists will assert that most Muslims are opposed to Islamic State. However, there’s a glaring contradiction, an elephant in the room these apologists are desperate to avoid.

Muhammad, the revered prophet of Islam stated:

“I have been sent with a sword to fight people until they say there is no God but Allah.” Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 8, Number 387.

In Islam Muhammad is regarded as “the ideal man, the perfect model of conduct.” This prophet and his army of devout Muslims waged jihad against infidels and he PERSONALLY spread Islam by the sword. He and his band of brigands did not distort, twist or misunderstand Islam as they waged war against Jewish tribes in the Middle East, beheading their enemies and raping their women. So let’s ask our first uncomfortable question:

To those Muslims who say violence is against Islam: If ISIS truly is “nothing to do with Islam” then is Muhammad also unIslamic and do you condemn and reject his violent “perfect example”?

Liberals and leftists can make as many excuses for jihad as they like but the fact will remain: The mujahideen of ISIS are emulating the “perfect example” set by Muhammad described in the holy texts of Islam, the Sunnah and hadith, and are also obeying the numerous commands in the Quran to wage war on infidels until the world belongs solely to Allah.

I don’t want to take anything away from the great research that Christopher did, and excerpt more than I usually would. Please read the entire post for the rest of the details, and consider, as I once wrote before, that the real radical Muslims are those that are not practicing Islam as laid down by Muhammad. They aren’t upset about ‘climate change’. A tiny 1.4F increase in global temperatures in 165 years is not strengthening ISIS or any other Islamic fundamentalists. They’ve been doing this since the 600’s. To link ‘climate change’ as a major factor, heck, they seem to be saying it is a primary factor, is the height of absurdity, and highlights the un-scientific, and wholly political, nature of the arguments from the Cult of Climastrology.

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5 Responses to “‘Climate Change’ Totally Strengthens ISIS Or Something”

  1. jl says:
    December 6, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    So if it’s natural climate change they somehow know this and it wouldn’t affect them like man-made climate change? Sure. But I like the authors line: “don’t forget climate change strengthens ISIS.” Well, don’t forget you have absolutely zero proof of any of this. And why would a tiny temp increase only affect one terrorist group? Are they pussies?

    • John says:
      December 7, 2015 at 8:24 am

      Syria has a climatic drought going on for perhaps 5 years
      This forced the agrarian rural population off their land and into the cities
      This created major population stresses which certainly helped ISIS

  2. John says:
    December 7, 2015 at 8:21 am

    Teach they only seem to say is a “primary factor” to those who are obsessed with denying that age is happening
    What do you believe is the primary cause of the birth of ISIS ?
    The Iraq debacle?
    Perhaps it is just a typical natural occurrence of the 21st century and not man made at all?

  3. gitarcarver says:
    December 7, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    What do you believe is the primary cause of the birth of ISIS ?

    Maybe you should read Graeme Wood’s article in the Atlantic called “What ISIS Really Wants.”

    In November, the Islamic State released an infomercial-like video tracing its origins to bin Laden.

    Note that ISIS doesn’t claim the US in Iraq was it’s birth, but the terrorist bin Laden. It also appears that when al‑Qaeda wasn’t violent enough and didn’t want to follow the Koran as the group wanted, they split from al-Qaeda.

    The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.

    Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and pronouncements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationery, and coins, “the Prophetic methodology,” which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail. Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. But pretending that it isn’t actually a religious, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combatted, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it. We’ll need to get acquainted with the Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy if we are to react in a way that will not strengthen it, but instead help it self-immolate in its own excessive zeal.

    Many mainstream Muslim organizations have gone so far as to say the Islamic State is, in fact, un-Islamic. It is, of course, reassuring to know that the vast majority of Muslims have zero interest in replacing Hollywood movies with public executions as evening entertainment. But Muslims who call the Islamic State un-Islamic are typically, as the Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, the leading expert on the group’s theology, told me, “embarrassed and politically correct, with a cotton-candy view of their own religion” that neglects “what their religion has historically and legally required.” Many denials of the Islamic State’s religious nature, he said, are rooted in an “interfaith-Christian-nonsense tradition.”

    Every academic I asked about the Islamic State’s ideology sent me to Haykel. Of partial Lebanese descent, Haykel grew up in Lebanon and the United States, and when he talks through his Mephistophelian goatee, there is a hint of an unplaceable foreign accent.

    According to Haykel, the ranks of the Islamic State are deeply infused with religious vigor. Koranic quotations are ubiquitous. “Even the foot soldiers spout this stuff constantly,” Haykel said. “They mug for their cameras and repeat their basic doctrines in formulaic fashion, and they do it all the time.” He regards the claim that the Islamic State has distorted the texts of Islam as preposterous, sustainable only through willful ignorance. “People want to absolve Islam,” he said. “It’s this ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ mantra. As if there is such a thing as ‘Islam’! It’s what Muslims do, and how they interpret their texts.” Those texts are shared by all Sunni Muslims, not just the Islamic State. “And these guys have just as much legitimacy as anyone else.”

    The birth and rise of ISIS is clearly based not on climate change, but on Islam and the Koran.

  4. jl says:
    December 7, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    “5 year drought caused population stresses that helped ISIS.” Sorry John, but you’re an idiot. What are population stresses? Is this the first drought in Syria? Why doesn’t drought cause similar problems elsewhere? What’s the definition of drought in an arid country like Syria? Why this drought and not other droughts? Who, and how do they know, what length of drought would cause your stupid “population stresses”? 3years? 4 years? Only happen at 5 years? A drought is a drought, so why would your cult only indict alleged man-caused droughts as causing these problems? How do they know what are the processes behind this one? Most intelligent people would have the answers to these questions before posting something so outrageous. You have a lot of work to do, so good luck.

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