You could kill all Muslims, and it would be about wiping out an ideology, not destroying a race.
No, it would be wiping out a religion, plus almost the entirety of multiple "races", whatever that word means to you. Why the fuck are you fantasizing about genocide you weirdo?
Genocide? Whoever said anything about genocide?
Can you live with 0.06-0.09% of the population being arrested or killed? I can.
Let's do a thought experiment here. Let's apply the same mindset as Muslim apocalypse.
Isa will come and break the cross, kill all pigs, and the jihyza will be no more.
In their fantasy, they also want to completely destroy Christianity, genocide an entire animal species, and the do away with the tax on non-Muslims. That's good though, right? Wrong. No tax means you're back to the "convert or die" model, as you would be if they did not (temporarily) consider you people of the book. This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much harsher than my fantasy.
Let's imagine all of the imams die in the same night Death Note style of some mysterious cause, what would the effect be? Well according to the internet, it would completely destabilize the power base of Muslim countries, leading to infighting that is supposedly stopped by the peaceful presence of imams. Supposing the next night, all Arab madrassas abruptly run short of funds, and are forced to close immediately. And the next night, a fire catches in a library that holds 5/6 of all published Qurans, and only the Qurans are destroyed, with all other books merely charred at the edges. And the next night, the US or Israel is bombing Muslim military targets at night finds a strong wind redirects them to mosques. And every single mosque in the world is destroyed, no matter have far away it is from the Middle East.
The first day, there is no call to worship. The people all think they overslept. Second day, they see it as coincidence. The third day, they think something is weird, but when they go to consult their Quran, they suddenly find they have misplaced it. They ask their friends, and they all misplaced their Qurans. And the fourth day, they go to mosque, and find it is rubble. And the fifth morning? Seeking answers, they will be struck by a general understanding that Allah had
no protection over any of these things.
In the same way, God does not keep priests immortal, nor Bibles from decaying, nor churches from falling apart. The Word of God is Jesus, and Jesus alone is eternal. Not the priests, not the teachings, not the temples, God only. If you have your ultimate faith in a square block holding a meteorite, you can expect no protection if God has enough of your crap.
The thing is, "Muslim" countries are realizing this without a single imam being shot. They are seeing how the system is failing them.
Why do the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
3 Our God is in heaven;
he does whatever pleases him.
4 But their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.
5 They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see.
6 They have ears, but cannot hear,
noses, but cannot smell.
7 They have hands, but cannot feel,
feet, but cannot walk,
nor can they utter a sound with their throats.
8 Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them.
These are not sacred people, these are not sacred buildings, and this is definitely not a sacred book. This is a state cult (similar to worship of North Korean leaders) using the term "religion" to hide behind. Supposedly it is a war crime to kill imams and to burn down mosques. Is it a religious crime if we carpet bomb Lil' Kim's house because we finally have enough of his posturing? Don't be absurd. Nobody takes this seriously as a religion. It's a state cult. A belief system for asserting political control over others. Not a means of seeking spiritual growth (which is what religion is for).
You think I relish genocide, but I do not. We are in war with Iran, as part of a far large war with Islam. In war, you can attack every last Muslim, but that is actually the opposite of what is good warfare. Good warfare charges straight to the generals, ends the battle, and takes all of the previous soldiers (except the loyalists) as your troops. This is because warfare that doesn't make you hated as a nation only targets the generals. The generals in this case are not the military leaders (we are thinking about this wrong if we come to that assumption), they are the religious gurus that nurse this warring madness. Russia can do that with Ukraine, but with Islam, exactly targeting these mosques, so-called holy objects, and so-called holy men is the only way to stop this. We have tried for years to attack their military, and it doesn't work.
You can compare the loss of life, and the one more approaching genocide by a fact of about 2000 is attacking regular Iranians. Or do you believe the lives of the imams are worth more than the 2000+ followers each has in a particular mosque?
Kill 2000 people in a single zone in war? Or get 2000 people to surrender because their leader is gone? Which is preferable?
The remaining Iranians, if they aren't too resentful, will instead go worship something else.
Most Iranians are Muslim and will not just decide to stop being Muslim because you for some reason decided to burn down all their mosques and kill their priests, what's wrong with you?
Most Iranians are NOT Muslim. If I was told, "Be a Christian, or you are going to hell," am I not converting to Christianity under duress? Anyone who is Christian because of fear of death does not have their heart in Christ. They are doing what they can to survive.
These are a nation of people who a minority of people has come to them with guns or swords and said "convert or die." They are a nation of people that admits they want the clerics gone. If offered an ultimatum to turn their clerics in, many of them would take the US up on it.
The only difference between imams and Adolf Hitler's generals is that the former are wearing fancy robes, and nobody dares to say "These guys should be tried under international law for crimes against the West and their own country!" But I do. I see them for what they are. Generals in a state cult hiding behind fancy robes to pretend to be religious.
This is a weird sort of genocide, when you don't wipe out any race. When you try to kill 0.09% of a Muslim population. When your target is a specific religious book and specific buildings, not people. When your goal is to dispirit and demoralize living people, not to kill them.
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