This is a fascinating dissection of only part of the story; what about intent as a driving force in “creating” terror outfits? Before grievance comes a goal. We’ve repeatedly seen how hollow many Muslim grievances actually are; Motoons, “Palestinian” suffering, insults to Islam, the “grievance” theater of C.A.I.R. Mr. Bay’s first category may more accurately be labelled “pretext”, when it comes to Islamic terrorism. So while “grievance” might be an effective management tool to keep a motivating hatred alive, grievance itself is not sufficient to “create” a terrorist organization, so something more substantive must come first, and that something is doctrine.
In the case of Islam, in the case of “creating and maintaining” Islamic terror organizations, the doctrinal intent of Islam is not to foster grievance, per se, but to spread Islam, and then to assert and maintain Islam’s primacy over conquered territories and minions. Grievance can then serve in maintaining the hatred necessary to sustain all the rest.
The answer to the question must include intent, and the intentions of Muslims along with the tenets of Islam which make Muslims search for and create pretexts and grievances to accomplish all the rest.
Islam is the unifying thread which runs through all varieties of the myriad octopus arms of Islamic terrorism and Islamic totalitarianism. Those other management aspects which are enumerated above serve only as generic markers within the framework of any well run supremacist fascist nightmare; Nazi, Communist, Imperial Japanese, etc. As such, the list above hardly explains why Islamic terrorism is so ubiquitous, or why it poses so much more of a threat than Nazism, Communism, or Japanese Imperialism ever did. Islam is much more widespread — it hides under the repectable cloak of “religion”; there are more than a billion practitioners; Muslims are here in their millions, protected by our hard won civil rights to practice their “religion” of war, terror, and conquest and we are hamstrung to stop them. Do you think they aren’t aware of all of this? It’s a fatal error to attempt to depict Islamic terror as being akin to any run-of-the-mill terror group. It is a conglomeration. A syndicate with thousands upon thousands of outlets. Virtually any Muslim at any time is a franchisee if he or she follows the tenets of Islam and spreads Islam or “defends” Islam. And it all begins with intent to spread Islam with the purpose of eventually seeing Islam Uber Alles.
