Know Your Enemy

Torah provides a description of Yishmael (Gen. 16, 12), a trait his descendants inherit.

The Torah's wording, however, seems strange: Instead of saying, "He will be a wild human", it reads, "He will be a humanoid wildness". Proper Hebrew grammar dictates that the noun always precede its adjective. Yet here, the one place in the whole Torah (as far as I know), the positions of noun and adjective are switched.

But G-d makes no mistakes. Reversal of grammatical syntax here is surprisingly enlightening. It indicates the essence of this creature's character. First and foremost, Yishmael is a "wildness". This is his core. Wildness is in his marrow. This is why the noun is - "wildness". And to describe this wildness G-d applies the adjective‚ "human-like", that is to say, like a man.

Let not the reverse-grammar lesson escape you. It tells us Yishmael looks like a man and behaves like a man. That is, he talks like a man, smiles like a man and reasons like a man. But don't be fooled, because - he is not a man. He is a perfect copy of a man; A unique species of wildness that resembles man.

He may behave appropriately and pretend to be your friend, even for many years at a time, but at an opportune time he can comfortably stab you in the back. Such is the essence of Yishmael‚ the wildness. Take G-d for His word.

How do these wild creatures behave? Torah tells us in the very same verse: "And his hand will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him". In other words, Yishmael's breed plunders and kills, spurring victims and potential victims to rise against him in revenge or self-preservation. His aggression is against everyone, including his own kind.

We've all heard of murders committed in "cold blood". But now, more and more, we tend to hear about murders committed in "hot blood". This is the work of these wild ancestors. What difference is there between cold-blooded and hot-blooded murders? He who kills in "hot blood" first tortures his victim. The more agony he renders the more pleasure he gets. Does his victim's death satisfy his passion? No. Murder for him is foreplay. He might proceed to beat the corpse, disembowel it, burn it or drag the body around, even remove a juicy piece of liver to kneed his fingers or sink his teeth into. One bullet to the head or a stab through the heart is never enough for his pleasure. Necrophiliac exultation and indulgence finally brings him relief.

Only the Yishmaelite behaves like this. This ancestor, wherever and whoever he is (for not all Islamists stem from Yishmael), can thus be identified.

Islam is a religion of death. Yishmael's is a morbid culture. On their holiest day they unsheathe their blades and whips - to draw blood. The more blood, the more gory the spectacle, the holier they feel. Their priests and sanctuaries are the primary agents that breed terror. There is no such thing as a "moderate" Yishmaelite.

Their lust for blood generalizes to other wild desires. One virgin's blood is not enough. He lusts for 72 of them. He wants to bathe in blood. This insane passion can drive him even to self-explode in the belief he'll satisfy his foul lust.

Look around, do they have a sense of nobility? Have they any paragons of virtue to emulate? They're a high-strung people who know no serenity. They inculcate their children to hate, kill and die for Allah.

Their politics follow suit. They naturally lie and cheat - with a smile; Inside they seethe to rob or destroy. This is an enemy you overcome only by obliterating or overwhelming him. As an underdog, he cowers in compliance. We must not allow his brow to rise, for the more it does the more he inflates with craze to dominate and violate. Pacify him and he will take you for a fool.

------  QUIZ: GUESS THE ANCESTRY OF THIS MAN ------
Woman who wed without permission killed

A MAN has been charged with shooting dead his pregnant sister for marrying without family permission, after luring her to another brother's wedding in a conspiracy with him, police say.

"The 30-year-old suspect shot his 23-year-old pregnant sister, who worked as a nurse, four times in the head and other parts of her body on Wednesday, while she was attending the wedding of another brother," a police spokesman said today.

Rest of August 14, 2009 story here
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A follow-up on this subject in this blog is here.