SHINTO AND ITS WARRIOR CODE -- BUSHIDO -- SPAWNED THE WAHHABI DEATH CULT.... From December 14, 1702, the extraordinary history and the legend of the "47 RONIN" of Lord Asano set the world's standard for honor among warriors. Absolute loyalty, selflessness, and use of all of one's resources reached perfection. These 47 samurai attacked the castle of a Lord Kira, took Kira's head to the tomb of Asano, and then accepted judgment and committed suicide as a group.
Islam had talked good game, but nothing like this. Shinto/Bushido attained the peak of self-sacrifice. Subsquently, the Wahhabi pressed doctrinal changes in the 1920s and 1930s. They even brought chanted martyr-prayers to the Ka'aba ceremony during the Hadj.
But back in Japan, August 15, 1945, Shinto was changed. Emperor Hirohito ordered the Japanese to "accept the unacceptable." He ended the plans of fanatics to fight on and to have the nation forced to die. In every case Hirohito ordered his advisors to live. So, today, who in Islam is going to match the courage of Emperor Showa; in life, Hirohito ? Who will end the Wahhabi and the copy-cat Persian's Death Cults ???
General MacArthur moved immediately to end starvation in Japan. "Mac" had known Japanese for many years. He had no animosity toward the non-samurai classes.
His staff estimated that another six months of war would have killed 20,000,000 people in and around the Japanese cities. They were already pretty much out of food.
The fanatics would not have given a fig for the suffering of commoners.
The attitutde of the fanatics running Iran these days looks to be on a par with the Japanese crazies in 1945. They have to know that trying to nuke Israel will bring something like 100 warheads down on their country.
They don't seem to care.
Islam's leaders do not understand Gandhi. How's about them learning a lesson from Emperor Showa ???