The Afghan killer — murder without motive in DC? Not likely

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author.

What drove the Afghan shooter? Can’t find a motive? The authorities don’t want to find one because that motive is Islam, whose “true” disciples must subjugate or kill the infidel. Allied soldiers saw that in Afghanistan when Afghan police trainees fired on their ISAF instructors.

DHS Sec. Christie Noem blames the attack on “poor vetting.” It’s more than that; it’s a failure to even begin to understand Islam and Afghanistan. The complexities of this “land that time forgot” are set forth in Night Letters: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Afghan Islamists Who Changed the World (Chris Sands, Fazelminallah Qazizai) and the recent How To Lose a War (Amin Saikal).

Afghanistan is more of a place than a nation. Its outlook is more tribal than philosophical or national. Even when under the communists, Babark Karmel or Najibullah, tribal undercurrents were more important than Marxism. The Taliban, who came to dominate, and now dominate again, were a creation of Pakistan’s ISI to serve Pakistan’s national interests and in so doing offered the most retrograde version of Islam on the market — Deobandi Sunni Salafism.

John Masters, a British officer in the Indian Army until 1947, wrote of his experiences in Bugles and a Tiger. One of his recollections was of the murder of a British officer by his Moslem servant. The questioning went something like this:

Police: Was Sahib mean to you?

Servant: No, Sahib was good to me.

Police: Was Sahib mean to your family?

Servant: No, Sahib was generous to my family.

Police: Then why did you kill Sahib

Servant: Sahib moved his cot, and his feet were pointing at Mecca, so I had to kill him.

There you have it. You cannot reason with a people whose religious bent has eschewed logic since the 12^th Century when whim defeated reason in a battle for the Moslem soul.

Islam has been a threat to the West since it erupted out of the Arabian Peninsula in the 7^th Century, sweeping all before it until stopped by Charles Martel at Tours in AD 732. Although halted, it controlled most of Spain (until the Reconquista by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492), all of North Africa, and the Middle East to India, finally crushing the remnants of Byzantium with the taking of Constantinople in 1453. Secure in its conquests, Islam would terrorize the Mediterranean until the 19^th Century when Europe became strong enough to turn the tables, and Islam lapsed into a long slumber. With the end of World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, French and British colonies and protectorates dominated the region. Islam looked to all, including Muslims, as a thing of the past.

Hillarie Belloc, British writer and member of Parliament, warned, however, that one day Islam would awake, rub its eyes, and resume its march into Europe. Today, the enemy is within the gates, welcomed into America and the West as “oppressed” people, victims who must be admitted to atone for “imperialism” and “exploitation.” Those who sounded the alarm were to be silenced as “xenophobes” and “racists.” Muslim criminality was excused as a product of white racist oppression; that moderate Muslims could also be victims was irrelevant.

What is to be done? The shooting of the Guardsmen is the latest terrorist attack on Americans by Muslims who see a duty to wreak vengeance on unbelievers. President Trump’s suspension of asylum claims is a necessary first step in foiling them.

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William Layer

Lt. Colonel Civil Affairs, USAR (ret) served twenty-six years in the regular and reserve components of the US Army. He was civil military liaison for the 260th Military Police, DC National Guard, State Public Affairs Officer, Commander of the Public Affairs unit and a counter-drug intelligence analyst. Transferring to the 352 Civil Affairs Command as monuments and archives officer, he became the Command Public Affairs Officer in Iraq as well as liaison to local Iraqi leaders and acting Secretary to the General Staff. He was instrumental in recovering photographic artifacts of the Iraqi Royal family while in Baghdad. He was wounded in action in an ambush in Feb. 2004 for which he was awarded the Purple Heart.
In his civilian career he worked primarily in Army Public Affairs and for the Air Force as historian to the presidential wing in the early Reagan administration and later for Air Force Legislative Liaison covering congressional hearings and assisting in preparing testimony for senior leaders.
His essays and reviews have appeared in the scholarly and popular press including Asian Affairs and the Washington Times. He is co-author, with Ali Wahab, of The Iraqi Royal Family, a Collection of Photographs Recovered from The Ruins of the Zuhur Palace, 2004.
A native New Yorker, he holds a BA with honors in history from Findlay College (Ohio) and an MA in history from The Ohio State University. He is a graduate of the US Army Command & General Staff College and was graduated with distinction US Naval War College with a MA in National Security and Strategic Studies.