How to deal with Islamic Extremism?

Cancer spreads on human body when protein tissues overgrowth. Effected cancer cells start to destroy healthy cells and make a disorder in human body. Ironically, guest (cancer) destroys its host (human body.)

Cancers can be categorized in two types. One is benign and the other is malignant. In benign cancer, body cells are not destroyed totally, so we can cautiously say that it is not fatal. This type of cancer is treatable if it is diagnosed early. On the other hand, malignant cancer does not have any mercy to body cells and destroy them all to the last point. No treatment has found for this type of cancer yet.

Now, the world is facing with new kind of cancer, Islamic Fundamentalism. It comes up with different names and tags; ISIS, Taliban, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, Hezbollah, Shia militias or so on.  These are all replacements for terrorism under cover of Islamic extremism.

In Afghanistan, when Taliban came to power, it had enough resources to feed a terrorist attack of September 11 which led to death of many innocent civilians. Al-Qaeda legitimized this attack on the base of their sectarian ideology as a holy war against the West. 

In Nigeria, Boko Haram kidnapped around 300 female students for slavery, because in their fanatic ideology girls should not study. Study for women is considered a sin in Boko Haram thoughts.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah makes deadly attacks against civilians. They are also backing criminal Assad in Syria by killing Syrian freedom fighters.

In Iraq and Syria, ISIS is committing unimaginable atrocities. They spread out in these two countries. Their acts are stigma on the history of human kind.

In this article, I am not going to focus on the reasons that led to rise of the fundamentalism in our current time. But with a simple review of our history we note that Islamic fundamentalism emerged after 1979 when Mullahs in Iran came to power. They based their government on rules of fanatic ideology of velayat-e faqih which is the same as what ISIS is calling Caliphate. According to velayat-e faqih, people of the world are ships and the Valie (i.e. Caliphate,ruler) is a shepherded who owns bodies and spirits of the people. There is no border for Valie’s dominance. It covers the whole world.

Since 1979, the world ignored this threat. International community did not have proper reaction against Mullahs in spreading their ideology all over the Middle East. President Obama did not stop Assad in Syria which led to emerge of ISIS. Now this threat is not limited to the Middle East any more. ISIS committed horrific crime in the middle of Paris. The threat is knocking the West’s door. We read on the news that ISIS recruits its terrorists from Europe, U.S., and Australia.

Those shocking news made the international community to wake up. Finally, 60 countries formed a coalition against ISIS to defeat this newly emerged global threat.  This was a good start but it is not enough. To wipe out the world from Islamic extremists, we should remove its roots. Pruning the tree is good, but the ultimate solution is uprooting godfather of all these thugs.

The godfather is Mullahs regime. Mullahs are being tagged axis of evil, banker of terrorism, godfather of ISIS, and …. They are the heart of the problem.  If international community is serious about fighting against terrorism, it should focus on Iran. The only solution to eliminate this global threat is regime change in Iran. 

As Maryam Rajavi, president elect of National Council of Resistance said, 'Terrorism and fundamentalism under the name of Islam came to the world as seen by the mullahs’ regime in Iran, and when this regime is overthrown, that will be limited or destroyed.'