Whenever Muslim states war with each other, the most sensible reaction by non-Muslims is to wish that that war would go on for as long as possible, using up men, materiel, and morale on both sides. The aggression that otherwise would be visited on non-Muslims is instead expended on warfare with fellow members of the umma. The Iran-Iraq war lasted for eight years, from 1980 to 1988, and caused more than a million casualties on both sides. In addition, both parties spent a total of one trillion dollars. At the end of the war, the militaries of both Iran and Iraq were exhausted. It was a time when non-Muslims should have been heartened at such losses. They did not have a dog in that fight; it was the fight itself that benefited the West.
There have been other intra-Muslim fights: the war of West Pakistan on East Pakistan in 1971, with East Pakistan successfully resisting the West Pakistani troops who engaged in genocide as they murdered 3,000,000 Bengalis; the continuing war in Yemen between the Shia Houthis, backed by Iran, and the Sunnis of the National Government, backed by Saudi Arabia, that so far have resulted in 377,000 deaths; the current war in Libya between the rival forces based in Tripoli and Tobruk; the war, now subsided, between Morocco and Algeria over control of the Western Sahara; the genocidal war in Sudan between Muslim Arabs and black, mostly Muslim, Africans, leading to the breakup of Sudan into two states — Sudan and South Sudan; the war unleashed on Kuwait by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, who briefly annexed it as the “19th province of Iraq”; the war of Arabs against Kurds in Operation Al-Anfal, in Iraq, and now, we can add another war, still small but likely to grow bigger, between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Pakistan has been engaged in a campaign of rounding up and forcibly expelling three million Afghans — including some who were born and raised in Pakistan — back to Afghanistan. In the meantime, as a response to what is seen as Pakistan’s hostility, the Taliban (who long ago sought refuge in Pakistan when the Soviet Union was fighting them in Afghanistan) have been conducting terror attacks in Pakistan, then hastening back to Afghanistan. Now the Pakistanis are fed up, and have started attacking the Taliban inside Afghanistan. More on this latest example of Muslim-Muslim violence can be found here: “Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban says Pakistan strikes kill, injure dozens,” Reuters, February 21, 2026:
Pakistan said it launched strikes on militant targets in Afghanistan after blaming recent suicide bombings – including assaults during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan – on fighters it said were operating from its neighbour’s territory.Women and children were among the dozens killed and injured in Saturday’s attacks, Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban said, in remarks Reuters could not verify. Its defence ministry vowed to respond.The strikes mark a sharp escalation in tensions just days after Kabul released three Pakistani soldiers in a Saudi-mediated effort to calm relations following months of clashes along the rugged frontier.Pakistan’s information ministry on Sunday said the strikes involved “intelligence-based selective targeting of seven terrorist camps and hideouts” along the Afghan border belonging to the Pakistani Taliban and Islamic State Khorasan Province….Kabul has repeatedly denied allowing militants to use Afghan territory to launch attacks in Pakistan….
Tit-for-tat attacks — Pakistani planes striking the Taliban in Afghanistan, Afghani Taliban setting off bombs inside Pakistan — have been going on for months. Now they seem to becoming more frequent, and more deadly. Pakistan has just announced that in a cross-border strike it killed 80 people in an attack on Taliban outposts in Afghanistan. And the Taliban have announced that they will soon launch an “appropriate response.” Don’t be alarmed. Just pull up a chair, and root for both sides.
somehistory says
The muzzie month of extra concentrated war….nothing about islime is “holy.” It’s all demonic evil. And muzzies can’t get along with anyone, not even those just like themselves.
Wellington says
Muslims killing other Muslims. Nothing new here, eh? Well, fools that all Muslims are (yes, even the “nice ones”), better they go after each other than us dhimmis who, per Islamthink, are the equivalent of human waste (the graciousness of Mo’s creed never ends, now does it?).
Guess it was probable, not a given but probable, that mankind would get a major religion which is completely screwed up and a menace to humanity. Well, mankind “got it.” Yes it did. Time for a beer.
crown says
“ Whenever Muslim states war with each other, the most sensible reaction by non-Muslims is to wish that that war would go on for as long as possible, using up men, materiel, and morale on both sides.”
An excellent summary of my feelings during the Iran-Iraq war. For years after that war ended, I used to wistfully say “Ah… I remember the good old days of the Iran-Iraq war!”
The only other context in which I feel the same, is in thinking about the Nazi-Soviet war.
The phrase that comes to mind is from The Brothers Karamozov: “ Let the serpents devour each other!”
What a misfortune for the world that any of the above totalitarianisms – Naziism, Communism or Islam – exists!
Kepha says
It’s why I was PO’c as the day is long at Hill Clinton’s and Sammie Powers’ backing the Syrian rebels. We didn’t have a dog in that fight.
Taffy says
The Iran-Iraq war was the “Splendid Little War” while it lasted. It kept both countries busy for 8 years while they fought to s a draw.
James Lincoln says
Taffy,
Yes, ordinarily I would say “what a waste”, but not this time:
Like you said, it kept both sides busy.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I always love this internecine muslim wars, sometimes known as “taqfiri jihad”, which is an islamic way of saying “Alien vs Predator”. Whether it was the Iran-Iraq war of the 80s, the Iraq-Syria standoffs b/w Saddam and Hafez al Assad back in the day or more recently the flareup b/w Saudi Arabia and Qatar some 7 years ago
The best thing about this 🇵🇰🇦🇫 faceoff is that the Taliban is no longer the stooge of Pakistan that it was pre-9/11. If one remembers, in 1999, a Kashmiri jihadist group hijacked a Air India flight that was going from Kathmandu to Delhi, and took it not to Pakistan, but to Kandahar, which would give Pakistan plausible deniability while giving the hijackers what they wanted. It was a fiasco, and one of India’s worst foreign policy moments. Contrast that to today: the Taliban may be every bit as islamic now as it was then, but its attitude towards Islamabad is completely different. While some of that can be attributed to Machiavellian moves by Delhi in getting the Taliban to oppose, rather than serve as a deeper hinterland of Pakistan, the fact that the Taliban has its own reasons to oppose the current regime in Islamabad helps a lot, and in the process, has contributed in making Pakistan a basketcase. Now all India needs to do is focus on Bangladesh
Like Hugh said, may the Pakis kill more Afghans, and may the Taliban kill more Pakis! As they say in islam, alhamdulillah, or praise be to allah!
nicholas tesdorf says
Assisting Muslim countries to fight each other will save valuable lives in the long run.
John1 says
They’re never content unless they’re jihadiing against somebody. Once they’ve killed all the Jews, Christians Buddhist and Hindus, the Shiites and Sunni’s will battle it out. It’s all in their book.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Even sunnis vs sunnis, like in this case. Unless one wants to drill down into even more minute differences like Deobandi vs Barelvis
David Everitt says
I’m just waiting for the overspill, and hopefully the overkill, to occur here in the UKs northern towns, let’s just wait and see, and how the left will explain it, with much difficulty.
OLD GUY says
War, the Gospel of Islam. With out a fight Islam is meaningless. The sole purpose of Islam is to dominate others through violence, rape and murder. Under Islamic dominance SLAVERY will become common day life for millions of people like never seen before.
gravenimage says
Pakistan and Afghanistan: A Splendid Little War
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Neither side is Islamic enough…
Gandalfs Trouserpress says
I once read that if you put two moles on a table, they will fight to the death. Apparently it’s more or less true. Muslims just live for conquest and holy war, although a break now and again is needed for further indoctrination. When I watch imans speaking about the truths they must follow it’s no surprise that their brains are fried. Perpetual violence and robotic submission to a fairytale ideology seems to be the way the future will progress and I wouldn’t bet on any relief.
John Pepple says
I was very disappointed when the Iran-Iraq war ended, because it kept them busy bothering each other and not us. And sure enough, a few months after it ended came the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. That should have alerted elites here in the West that Muslims could not be trusted to assimilate and that in fact they wanted to take over. But no, none of them seemed to figure it out. And here we are as the day when they do in fact take over gets closer and closer.
Luchtpint says
Pakistan has backed the Taliban for decades. The old “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” adage.
Of course, such a thing lasts as long as circumstances will allow it. And now they are reaping the whirlwind.
No need to feel sorry for any of them. Fuck each other up some more. Be my guest !
Kuffar says
Break out the popcorn. This will be good.