Comment at Tigerhawk's Brothel Post

Rulers in both Saudi Arabia and Iran use their unearned oil wealth to export radical Islam. The protesters (who presumably violate German law and subject themselves to arrest and prosecution by appearing in public wearing masks and bearing arms) are "protecting" their financiers. Those financiers will certainly use that unearned wealth to attend the World Cup and make new girlfriends (unless they behave way out of character), but they'll do so hypocritically -- do as we say, not as we do.

We can protecting Western free speech from radical Islam most directly by defunding Islamic radicals. Both Saudi Arabia and Iran are empires, with many disparate communities ruled from imperial capitals. The unearned oil wealth of Riyadh and Tehran is concentrated in provinces with Shiite Arab majorities, oppressed in their homes by small numbers of Wahabbi Arabs from Riyadh and Revolutionary Guard Persians from Tehran. With help from our Anglosphere allies (principally the UK, Canada, Australia, and India), from Japan, and from our new Shiite Arab allies in Iraq, the USA could make very short work of those Wahhabis and Revolutionary Guards, and administer that oil wealth to create infrastructure and democracy in the Middle East rather than exporting radical Islam to the rest of the world.

Confronting those masked protesters with the challenges of making a living will soon turn their energies to other, less noxious, pursuits.