Rape allegations against Iraqi police are nothing unusual. Police in many countries, including Western Europe, employed that method to terrify insurgents. Rape, however, is absolutely inconsistent with Islam. No cleric ever justified rape, and unregulated rape is prohibited in regard to enemies.
Forget Iraqi Shiite police of dubious religious credentials; Afghani mujahedeen of fundamentalist factions, such as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s made rape into tactics and sort of wage benefit. Staunch Islamic fighters want indulgence. That’s the West’s chance. No amount of rational discourse would discredit Islam in fanatics’ eyes. They don’t distinguish Islam from AK-47: both form the one source of their power, strength in the crumbling paternalistic order and hopeless economy. Coca-cola and jeans did a tremendous job of destroying the communist empire whose economic deficiency failed to meet consumerist demands. In Islamic societies which depend on imports, Coke and jeans are not symbolic of the free world. Porn is.
There is two forces able to destroy any religion or ideology in the short run, fission and fusion weapons of ideological war: money and sex. Muslim fanatics cannot get money because they utterly lack economic skills. But sex – they could have an illusion of it. Instead of the bombs and food packages, drop porn magazines and DVD’s on Afghanistan. Broadcast porn from satellites and distribute free satellite dishes. Open adult shops in prominent locations, even if guarded by US Army platoons. The war with Islamic insurgents is not decided by weapons. Rather, the West must deprive Muslims of their best weapon: a soldier who isn’t afraid to die, a supporter who wants to die a suicide bomber. Fighting the Muslims’ bodies doesn’t help: unless beaten into panic, they do want to die, and with one and a half billion Muslims around, enough recruits would flow to insurgents. Fight their souls, destroy their commitment, offer them the pleasures of paradise – here and now. Take a free porn magazine, pal, and enjoy it without waiting for heavenly houri. Hollywood is better than heavens. Muslims would prefer Hollywood.