BREAKING THROUGH THE ISLAMIC CLOSED SYSTEM  

Communist societies used control mechanisms to maintain closed systems. But it collapsed under tremendous covert and overt pressure from democratic nations. They were forced to accept social evolution, democracy and individual freedom and the closed Communist system lost its equilibrium. But Islam, an imperialist dogma masked in religious phraseology is a hard nut to crack.  

Nations affected by Jihad terrorism have different agendas for countering terrorism. There is no coordinated program for information collection, sharing of intelligence, and understanding of program options and their application. If counter strategy is to maximize its effect there is a need to understand terrorist mindset, their ideology and their cognitive-behavior processes.  

Although most of the information from intelligence sources suggests that there are a variety of judicial and military approaches working to apprehend and contain terrorists. There is a fair amount of debate as to the effectiveness of these counter terrorism strategies. The challenge it seems is to look for the mindset and ideology that motivate, control and direct Jihad terrorists.  

Civilized world would pay a heavy price for not breaking through the defensive wall of denial, resistance, and defenses created by Islam to maintain its closed system. It is easy to believe in phony social cause theories or to provide religious status for dysfunctional, fundamentalist Islamic dogma that produce a steady stream of terrorists. We need to penetrate Islamic groups and utilize all means available including psychological warfare to introduce paradigm filters to open the closed system. Paradigm filters can be introduced through corporations, schools, universities, labor unions, and non-profit organizations. We need to introduce programs for Thinking For A Change and split terrorist gangs and cliques. Devise psychological techniques and emotional programs to induce fear, guilt, remorse and shame among Muslims. And eventually we have to give the ultimate ultimatum “you have to change or you will forced to be free”. Coercive or negative reinforcement techniques and effective paradigm breaking programming shall have positive effect on modifying cognitive and behavior processes.  

The cognitive programming, which disrupts criminal thinking, thinking errors, and dogmatic systems must by steadily reinforced through education, media and propaganda. The goal is to send a liberating message, mind altering ideas, not through appeasement, negotiation or discussion, but through overt and covert dialogue to strongly pursue an agenda to break through the closed, dogmatic mindset of jihad Muslims.   

Long-term strategies shall include restructuring or destroying the closed ideology of fundamentalist Islam, anti-social attitudes, values, and beliefs. We need an integrated approach to break pro-terrorist association, target criminogenic risk, crimnogenic logic using reward and punishment.  Jihad Muslims shall be changed and re-socialized with a forceful, balanced approach utilizing psychological warfare, social learning techniques and propaganda. The value of psycho, social, cognitive strategies extend well beyond the military methods and it can be applied successfully in several settings.  

Effective counter terrorism strategies based on reliable information is not an impossible dream, but it will take strong leadership, commitment, courage and hard work. The civilized world community and democratic nations should avoid and supporting state-initiated Islamization programs or activities of organizations that pose a direct threat to civilized nations.  

The challenge before us is to translate all available means, legal, military, economic, political, social and psychological strategies to eliminate terrorism once for all.

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