The date 13 November should signal the start of a revolution: a new type, with a global perspective, against global terrorism that murders the innocent. Liberty, equality, fraternity! All of these should be reborn out of the martyrdom of more than 120 human beings. They died in Paris but will be reborn in our world action that strikes without mercy, without respite. To call this despicable tragedy “jihadism” is to elevate the humanly deviant to the level of normalcy. If terrorism knows no bounds, neither should the global pre-emptive response. No bounds, no mercy. No shedding of crocodile tears by the so-called “human rights” organisations, reminding us of due process. France has, in the immediate aftermath, closed its borders. Like in Sinai, there cannot be freedom of movement to allow assassins the freedom to kill. (How laughable to hear Hamas leaders call the Rafah Crossing “Gaza's lungs.” Resuscitating Gaza is in the hands of Hamas, not in the hands of Egypt). From France, the land of “the social contract” should emerge a new contract: A new global world war council to coordinate global moves against all and every terrorist outfit and a new system of intelligence sharing to help that “world defence council” to strike pre-emptively, not to wait and respond reactively. There should be a global “situation room” that oversees the 24/7 pounding of the nests of evil, regardless of what the terrorists call themselves and a massive world information system to inform the world's citizenry of the progress of that “war without borders.” To the maximum extent possible, there should be a protective shield against “collateral damage”, so that the innocent do not perish as the wicked are attacked. We need constant interpretation of terrorist chatter across the globe to be fed to those who, in the war on terror, are flying planes, staffing war ships, parachuting in on the dens of evil and rescuing hostages. There should be screening by modern technology attendance at mass events, whether sporting or artistic. Replace international codes of civil and political rights, such as those of the 1960s bred in the moribund UN, and assist those who are fighting to secure a viable life of independence in geographic areas that they can call “a homeland”, such as in the Middle East. From the Russian plane crash in Sinai to the murder of innocent civilians by hooded criminals in El-Arish (Egypt), to the bombing of Syrian civilians by a murderous Al-Assad regime, to the attacks in Kenya and Somalia against hotels, to the stoning of women for alleged adultery, to the kidnappings by Boko Haram, to the assistance extended to the Muslim Brotherhood, to the claims that the new Egypt is smothering dissent — all the above are symptoms of the new Ebola of global terror. That world terror has no faith; knows no mercy; has no plan for an orderly society; bears no resemblance to the ordinary human being; and respects no charter, no reconciliation, no orderly progression towards integration within global society. It uses open borders and freedom of movement as a means to reach nameless and unsuspecting victims and hides behind veils of secrecy and shields of trumped up interpretations of faith to satisfy its appetite for human chaos. We need war stratagems, globally coordinated, with each nation doing its part, especially the member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. After 13 November 2015, our world has become one, a unity for survival. There is no more need for empty denunciations à la Ban Ki-moon, the UN's sermonising secretary-general who, from the 38th floor of his glasshouse on the East River in New York City, does not see the real world. It is time for action, for however much time it takes on all fronts and by all means. Those who gloated on social media that “Paris is burning” should be made to count their days. That cry of satisfaction at mass slaughter should now be dealt with through a globalised war command and control. Evil is everywhere the same. Even when it uses “God” as a part of its odious name! The Islamic State (IS) group pompously declares “responsibility” for killing in cold blood 129 and injuring many more in Paris. “Responsibility”? This is a word denoting high morality. “Responsibility” refers to values that Al-Baghdadi, the thug from Anbar, has never known. President Francois Hollande of France got it right. “An act of war” was how he described the dastardly attacks of 13 November in the City of Light, Paris. So did Hillary Clinton, who is expected to be the first female president of the United States as of January 2017. She said: “IS should not only be contained. It should be defeated.” The martyrs (shaheeds) of Paris are not the eight stealth killers who perished to hell wrapped in their explosive belts. The martyrs are those who perished as they watched a soccer game, a concert or sat peacefully for a pleasant dinner. This is what Islamic law calls them — shaheeds. Yes, Al-Baghdadi. It was a Friday, the Muslim day of prayers, reflection, and constructive interaction with all other human beings. Thus, calling you a “Muslim” is like calling a poisonous snake a “bird of paradise.” May you and your gangs perish in hell. Wrapped in your black turbans and your other garments whose blackness points directly to the true colour of your heart. Paris shall always be full of light. Al-Raqqa, in Syria, now under daily bombardment by France's Air Force, shall, in time, become the mass grave for the worst perpetrators of criminality against Islam. The global menace of IS has an ideological side on which it feeds. IS is enabled, though unwittingly, by Islamophobes. You can find them, especially among those who speak or write about that faith without ever having studied it, or even understood it. A prime example of such IS-enablers can be found in a book recently published by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali woman with terrible tribal experiences, including genital mutilation and a forced arranged marriage — issues whose only link to Islam is that they were visited upon Hirsi Ali in a country that, though Islamic, is socially dysfunctional: the country of the murderous Al-Shabab. Hirsi Ali's ignorance of Islam, a faith that she has renounced, became, for her, a substantial source of undeserved fame and an ill-gotten fortune, in both Europe, in the Netherlands where she was made a parliamentarian, and now in the US, as a guest “scholar” at Harvard University and in Washington, DC. Hirsi Ali, out of deep ignorance, has previously, in an article, called for “the rewriting of the Qu'ran”, as if the Qu'ran is another terrorism manifesto, not, as per Islamic dogma, the word of God revealed to the Prophet Mohamed. Her latest book is titled, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Revolution Now. Published by Harper, the book boldly declares her intention in the introduction: “To make many people — not only Muslims but also Western apologists for Islam — uncomfortable.” Her conclusion is that “Islam is not a religion of peace.” With such a conclusion, repeated also in her three previous books, IS draws the oxygen of its barbarity under the pretext that Islam is under attack. Under attack not only by you, Hirsi Ali, but by the West, whose circles are providing you with encouragement, an encouragement to propagate hate and contempt for the faith of 1.5 billion Muslims. So when “Paris” happens, you and your entourage of hate-mongers find justification for the lies that gush constantly from the deep well of your ignorance. In essence, Hirsi Ali, you and IS feed on one another. You need IS's criminality to sell your books of Islamophobia. And Al-Baghdadi, the thug from Anbar, needs Hirsi Ali as an unwitting enabler, to recruit and bolster his nihilistic ideology. It was your tribe, Hirsi Ali, which attacked you. Islam did not. When you opted out of Islam, that faith looked the other way, under its humane principle that “in matters of faith, there is no compulsion.” Perceiving yourself as a scholar, especially as concerns Islam, has been devastatingly rebutted by Max Rodenbeck, the Middle East bureau chief of The Economist. In his review of your book Heretic in The New York Review of Books, to be published on 3 December 2015, he poses a central question on the cover of the forthcoming issue: “Can Ayaan Hirsi Ali change Islam?” His resounding response was a big “No!” Here is a quote from his review: “But there are several problems with her approach. These include such troubling aspects as her use of unsound terminology, a surprisingly shaky grasp of how Muslims actually practice their faith, and a questionable understanding of the history and political background not only of Islam, but of the world at large.” So Ayaan, go find a respectable way to make your living. Your barrage of rants against Islam have the effects of a large horned ram repeatedly attacking a mountain. That mountain will not move. The ram will soon lose its horns. One of the tragic aspects of the Paris massacres is that similar outrageous calamities in southern Beirut do not get the same world attention. Call it “citizen's fatigue,” or “differentiated treatment” — it is both. When we have a quarter of a million Syrians killed in four years of civil war, overall numbness takes over. Paris, by comparison, is expected to be safe, safe enough for one million aspiring migrants to head toward it. In this regard, the IS Satan has proved capable, at least for now, of forcing us to think differently about the same human tragedies: a global focus is on Paris, as it should be; less attention to southern Beirut is not how it should be. Beirut is entitled to feel, by comparison, forgotten. Summing up the moral depravity of the eight suicide bombers who attacked Paris, I would say to their IS masters, your ideology is nihilistic, a burning wish to die. Your desire to kill and your desire to die are the clearest indication of your futile search for clarity. Your search for violence as an end in itself is doomed and a dead-end. Your programme, if one may charitably call it that, is based on a faulty premise: divide our world into Muslims and non-Muslims; between Muslim Sunnis and Muslim Shias, and between Muslim Sunnis who submit to your enslavement and Muslim Sunnis who are yearning to leave your hell hole. Your riding of the migration wave, which you have caused, is sure to close that escape hatch, but will surely serve the ranks of those who want you dead. Your genocidal ideology will boomerang and justifiably turn into a sword for your eventual annihilation. Your targeting of the arena where a soccer match between France and Germany, attended by President Hollande, was underway found a response of defiance: a musician playing a piano, moving his fingers deftly and sounding out music about peace. That song was by John Lennon. It begins with the word “Imagine all the people ” — an apt response of resilience in the face of barbarity. All within an unshakable refrain: Vive La France! The Arab and Muslim star is composed of eight angles: angles of light, referring to all kinds of learning. The savage executioners in Paris were eight, each angle pointing to all kinds of evil for which they, and their so-called emirs, stand clothed in infamy. And here is another clear indicator of the gulf in values between the wicked (the Paris terrorists), and the good (the innocent Parisians): the mastermind of the Paris attacks of 13 November, Abaaoud, gloated about how easy it was for him to travel from Syria to Paris to plan that massacre. That was before he perished a few days later, north of Paris, at the hands of the French police. Scum like Abaaoud will never know that their ease at inflicting harm on humanity is rooted in a higher value: the openness of borders, freedom of movement and trust in the decency of other humans not to use these universal values for subversion and criminality. The gulf in values can now only be bridged by a globalised effort, led perhaps by boots on the ground, through the creation of an Arab/Muslim “NATO” that will erase the so-called Islamic Caliphate from the face of the earth. They do not belong with other humans as sharers of this planet because they have come from Hell, to which they are surely returning. Their presumed express passports, giving them passage to an imagined paradise via martyrdom have, since 9/11, been stamped “CANCELLED.” The writer is an attorney and professor of law at New York University.
