Jihad recruiters appeal to core Islamic religious texts to compel people to fight the jihad. Now Zarqawi is making a similar religious appeal to the ulama, and simultaneously over their heads to the people. From AP:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An audiotape purportedly made by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi lashed out Wednesday at Muslim scholars for not speaking out against U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying they have "let us down in the darkest circumstances."It was unclear whether the tape posted on the Internet Wednesday was intended as a direct threat against Iraq's Sunni religious establishment, who have come under attack recently with the slaying this week of two Sunni clerics by gunmen.
"You have let us down in the darkest circumstances and handed us over to the enemy... You have quit supporting the mujahedeen," al-Zarqawi purportedly said on the tape. "Hundreds of thousands of the nation's sons are being slaughtered at the hands of the infidels because of your silence."
On the tape, whose authenticity could not be confirmed, al-Zarqawi addressed his comments to the "ulama" — senior Muslim religious clerics.
Al-Zarqawi, who leads the terror group known as al-Qaida in Iraq, is believed to have escaped from his headquarters in the insurgent-held stronghold of Fallujah during the massive U.S.-led assault earlier this month.
"You made peace with the tyranny and handed over the countries and the people to the Jews and Crusaders. ... when you resort to silence on their crimes, when you refused to hold the banners of Jihad and Tawhid, and when you prevented youth from heading to the battlefields in order to defend the religion," he said.
"Instead of implementing God's orders, you chose your safety and preferred your money and sons. You left the mujahadeen facing the strongest power in the world," he said. "Are not your hearts shaken by the scenes of your brothers being surrounded and hurt by your enemy?"
Note how he acknowledges that WE, the U.S. - not "allah" - is " the strongest power in the world".
Sounds like sour grapes to me. This insect is in trouble and he just told the world that he knows it.
He can't be allowed to escape, he has some beheadings to answer for. You lose, Mr. Zarqueeri.
Why doesn't this SOB go and fight. I thought if he is killed during jihad he will be a martyr. He wants to live, because he knows there's nothing after death. Instead he wants others to do his bidding. What a yellow bellied cowardly sack of shit.
Why doesn't this SOB go and fight. I thought if he is killed during jihad he will be a martyr. He wants to live, because he knows there's nothing after death. Instead he wants others to do his bidding. What a yellow bellied cowardly sack of shit.
Posted by: hindu
And this surprises you? The entire freakin Muslim world is full of these double talking bullshit artists. Just watch MemriTV.
Every one of those cloth wearin' clerics is a coward. What fools these Muslims be to follow such assholes.
Up all their jihad asses!
Hindu's astute observation:
"He wants to live, because he knows there's nothing after death."
Like all wannabee "caretakers" of mankind, Muhammad, Marx, Lenin and the list goes on and on, this al-Zarqawi character guarantees his self-appointed role as caretaker as long as the rest of his followers fall in line and serve him.
He lives so that others may die. His existence is symbiotic; one of feeding on the host, causing its certain destruction, only to prolong his miserable and parasitic life.
Typical of Zarqueeri and Arabfats and the like - sit back and preach hatred and murder to all the servants of Allah to make sure they continue their murdering. In the past weeks these servants are on the verge of being totally eliminated and they have no one left to send out in front of them for protection. Sounds like a desperate plea to anyone who is left to do something to save Zarqueeri’s devious hide.
Qur’an 74:31 “We have appointed nineteen angels to be the wardens of the Hell Fire. We made a stumbling-block for those who disbelieve and We have fixed their number as a trial for unbelievers in order that the people of the Book may arrive with certainty, and that no doubts may be left for the people of the Book, those in whose hearts is a disease. And for those to whom the Scripture Book has been given, and the believers, there should be no doubt. The unbelievers may say, ‘What does the Lord intend by this?’ The Lord will lead astray whomever He pleases, and He will guide whomever He pleases: and none can know the armies of your Lord except He, and this is no other than a warning to mankind.”
This can be broken by Yes it is the Army of the people of the Book who he has chosen to Free [USA] the Iraqi people as it says
He will guide whomever He pleases: and none can know the armies of your Lord except He, and this is no other than a warning to mankind.”
Yes he has chosen the USA!!
TO FREE THE IRAQI PEOPLE FROM THE MONSTER saddam [FOUND IN A HOLE DON’T SHOOT I’M A YELLOW COWARD]
And let’s look at another part?
The Lord will lead astray whomever He pleases,
Ubl,saddam,zawari,all who Kill and destroy mankind?
There will be no more warnings?
Earthquake in Iran kills 30,000 who harbors ubls son and wife’s??
And now Locus in Egypt
NOW IF THAT IS NOT TELLING YOU ARE ON THE WRONG PATH NOTHING WILL??
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200411240704.asp
November 24, 2004, 7:04 a.m.
Misplaced Metaphors
The conventional wisdom reveals more about us than about Iraq.
One of the more curious aspects of the commentary on this war has not been the bias of the mainstream media but the cynical punditry that somehow ends up as the conventional wisdom among our New York and Washington elites. Here is a small sample of misplaced metaphors, allusions, and conventional wisdom of the last three years.
THE POTTERY BARN RULE
"You break it, you bought it" — so we were told ad nauseam throughout the war in Iraq. Bush and his Team America posse supposedly barged into an upscale store, rashly knocked over items, and now, quite startled, must stay on and pay the tab for the mess they made. How deep.
In truth, it was the wrong metaphor even before becoming hackneyed. The Pottery Barn image doesn't work for a variety of reasons. First, Saddam's Iraq was not a pristine, upscale shop. It was, rather, a trash heap of broken shards — its power, water, sewage, and garbage all fractured and scattered in pieces; its people both brutalized and often brutalizers as a result of three decades of institutionalized mass murder; its leadership a choice between Soviet-era killers and Dark Age jihadists.
Second, unlike the naïve buyer who takes umbrage that he must pay for something he inadvertently knocked over, we went into Iraq with the explicit intention of fixing things. Indeed, we announced quite openly that we did not want a repeat of Lebanon, Afghanistan of the 1980s, Mogadishu, or the first Gulf War, when we let the locals murder and bomb after we pulled out.
Third, the peeved naïf of the metaphor is left shelling out money for something that is permanently ruined. But we are mending the ware that others smashed, hoping to ensure that what we leave behind is far better than what was there when we arrived.
A final, darker thought: I don't think when Sherman went into Georgia, or Patton crossed the Rhine, or the Marines hit the caves of Okinawa, our elites warned them — or they would have much cared to hear — "Be careful folks: You break Georgia, Germany, or Japan, you buy it."
"WE HAD TO DESTROY A VILLAGE TO SAVE IT"
Reporters always allude to this nugget as they beam back video footage of street fighting from Iraq. Still, our talking heads seem not quite bold enough to repeat the aphorism explicitly in connection with Fallujah or Sadr City, since they have a vague notion that there is something quite wrong about this urban myth of Vietnam lineage.
And, of course, there is something quite wrong with it. Peter Arnett once claimed that a U.S. army major had told him Americans had to destroy the village of Ben Tre to save it from the Viet Cong during the Tet offensive. But Arnett never verified, much less produced, his source — and the town was mostly shelled by the Communists anyway. An exhaustive investigation by the Pentagon never found any such official who said anything such thing.
Given Arnett's later "scoops" about the purported American use of Sarin gas in Southeast Asia and his more recent versions of the truth beamed back from Baghdad Bob's Iraq, we can rightly question whether the adage more likely reflected the cynicism of a jaded reporter than the doctrine of a soldier on the ground. A good rule is, when you hear Arnett's fabrication promulgated on the news, assume that it is once again being used for its original purposes of distortion — like the example of Jenin when it was still neat to say that the Israelis had unleashed a Leningrad to save the city from terrorists.
Nevertheless, the quip has entered the popular culture, and it supposedly illustrates how sophisticated journalists alone can stand back and "really see" what is going on in places like Fallujah: Our clueless Marines blow apart good houses one week, only to spread cash around the next to rebuild them. What a senseless cycle of destruction and creation we have wrought, so typical of a wild America that even at home destroys and rebuilds itself without thinking! Can't we sit down with the black-masked snipers, adjudicate our differences, and then agree that it makes no sense to fight among the homes and businesses of the innocents?
Not until the nature of man changes. There is a reason, after all, why Zarqawi's killers are in Fallujah and not out in tents in the deserts of Iraq, and why his arms caches and depots are in mosques and his machine-gunners in minarets. That logic transcends terrorists themselves, being age-old and often the same for a weaker, morally bankrupt power that is losing a war.
Look to historical precedents: As the conflict worsened in Japan, Japanese industry often dispersed itself among the suburbs of Tokyo in hopes that a forbearing United States could not distinguish propeller factories from neighborhood shrines and would thus pass on bombing urban centers. Milosevic chose to stay in the heart of Belgrade to direct his genocide rather than to supervise the machine-gunning from the killing fields of Bosnia. And, of course, Saddam's bunkers were spread throughout the suburbs of Baghdad to ensure women and children served as suitable "shields."
Such evil folk count on their Western enemies to not resort to their own level of barbarity by simply carpet bombing the sanctuaries they inhabit — as if Western democracies over Dresden or Hiroshima were overly picky about who worked at a war plant or troop-train depot and who did not.
So the Islamic fascists also hope to operate with impunity from the firepower that would otherwise, on the battlefield, obliterate them in short order. And they assume that if the war really does intrude on the civilian infrastructure, the subsequent carnage will be such that surviving civilians will be more likely to blame the attackers or perhaps the war itself than the killers in their midst who brought such destruction home.
Sometimes such logic works, as we saw in the debacle at Fallujah last April. But I wouldn't bet too often on either the restraint or the weakness of the West when it goes to war. Despite a postmodern morality that cannot distinguish Islamic fascists from the work of Western democratic soldiers, most Americans grasp not only that an enemy must be defeated at all costs, but also that the United States has the ability through GPS bombs and laser-guided munitions to kill lots of the bad and save most of the good. And that is the awful calculus in war, where forbearance in slavish insistence on perfection is the enemy of the achievable good.
Second, we are starting to see that this war was never just a question of firepower or the "right" tactics — or even perhaps of "hearts and minds" in the sense of spreading around cash and building good feeling. Equally important was sheer will. If the United States proves militarily adept, terrifyingly unpredictable, and singularly magnanimous to a defeated and humiliated enemy, we will prevail and have Iraqis smiling as they build a Fallujah free of murderous imams and Baathists. But should we abandon it to such folk, then all the untouched mosques and nicely preserved houses will not hide the mayhem that will go on behind those walls for decades to come.
THE MERCURY METAPHOR
Military pros like this one. We supposedly broke the thermometer of Iraq during the invasion. Thus we are now faced with droplets of leaky mercury that split apart as quickly as we try to corral them — in an endless and futile exercise of trying to capture what cannot even be grasped. Thus, Fallujah is subdued, only to see Mosul erupt in some perpetual succession of violence, the terrorists nearly elemental in their uncanny ability to resist being collected and disposed of.
Two things are wrong with this smug metaphor. First, once mercury is out of its container, its original utility vanishes. One cannot take one's temperature with mercury beads that have scattered all over the floor — anymore than terrorist pockets can reform into some central command to recreate Saddam's reign of terror. The likes of Zarqawi really do have computers, written orders, ATM cards, safe houses, and weapons depots; they don't float on carpets above the sands of Iraq. Thus, the cleansing of Fallujah was a terrible setback for them all.
Second, scattered mercury bits soon become so small that they literally separate into oblivion and are forgotten about. So too with the terrorists: Crush their nests in Fallujah, shut down the borders, raid the mosques, warn Syria and Iran of a reckoning to come for their export of terrorism, hit outbreaks hard elsewhere, and by the January elections once-emboldened Wahhabi and Baathist killers will reluctantly join a Kurdish and Shiite government rather than be crushed between the hammer of Iraqi democratic militias and American air and ground power.
For all the talks of virgins, paradise, and beautiful suicides, most of those who survived American firepower in Fallujah chose to run, hide, or be captured. After all, suicide is for young zealots, not pudgy men to whom life has become altogether too dear with its money, fame, and women in the here and now. In short, far from "there is no military solution," the truth in Iraq is rather that there is no political solution without a military victory and humiliation of the terrorists.
Why do we readily embrace such false wisdom? Reasons abound, from our own lack of confidence in American competence and morality to the creepy methods of the Islamic fascists that strike fear into a leisured and prosperous Western citizenry. But for now it is enough to realize that retail metaphors, stale Vietnam-era myths, and pessimism passed off as chemistry tell us far more about ourselves than they do of Iraq — which somehow, like Afghanistan, just zigs and zags forward toward a democratic future.
Finally, on this Thanksgiving let us remember that, for all their snarls and snipes, the now-freed peoples of France, Germany, Japan, Eastern Europe, Korea, the Balkans, Panama, Grenada, Afghanistan, and Iraq owe a great deal to thousands of dead Americans, too often forgotten, who in awful places like the Hürtgen Forest, Tarawa, Monte Casino, Chosun, Hue, Panama City, Mazar-e-Sharif — and Fallujah — battled and defeated Nazis, militarists, Fascists, Communists, and Dark-Age Islamists so that millions of others might have the freedom that the rest of us lesser folk too often take for granted as our birthright.
— Victor Davis Hanson
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This comment may not be tolerated by Robert and scores of others on this site,but I strongly feel that I should post it any-way,I hope they capture Zarqawi and his gang alive They be given a fair trail.The chances are they will be found guilty.This being the case they should be sentenced to death by be-heading,and the sentence should be carried out one week after the verdict has been passed.This execution should be broadcasted world wide live,this is a pretty gruesome act,but this seems like the only way to get the message across to these savages.The heads should be dipped into a tank of pigs urine,We should send a strong message out. If the liberals or weak-hearted do not like it ,they do have an on/off switch on their TV,s. Our tolerance is our weakness.I would like to think we are more civilized than these savages,but some-times we must take one step back-wards to be able to go ten steps forwards
This comment may not be tolerated by Robert and scores of others on this site,but I strongly feel that I should post it any-way,I hope they capture Zarqawi and his gang alive They be given a fair trail.The chances are they will be found guilty.This being the case they should be sentenced to death by be-heading,and the sentence should be carried out one week after the verdict has been passed.This execution should be broadcasted world wide live,this is a pretty gruesome act,but this seems like the only way to get the message across to these savages.The heads should be dipped into a tank of pigs urine,We should send a strong message out. If the liberals or weak-hearted do not like it ,they do have an on/off switch on their TV,s. Our tolerance is our weakness.I would like to think we are more civilized than these savages,but some-times we must take one step back-wards to be able to go ten steps forwards
Al-Zarqawi: Instead of implementing God's orders, you chose your safety and preferred your money and sons.
But when the marines attacked Fallujah, didn't he run for safety? If he's complaining about money, does that mean he's run out?
And... where are his own sons? Are they on the front lines, or has he "run out" of those too?
Al-Zarqawi: You left the mujahadeen facing the strongest power in the world. Are not your hearts shaken by the scenes of your brothers being surrounded and hurt by your enemy?
*shrug* Maybe Allah left the mujahadeen. Perhaps Al-Zarqawi's demise is all just the will of Allah.
The Spider Killers [Marines and the New Iraqi Army] came to Destory the Spiders that kept the People Prisnor and they have killed many Spiders
some got away and need to be hunted down so they too can be Destoryed!! The Iaqi People must gain courage to help Find these Monsters so they can Be FREE!!
the Z Monster is [A YELLOW COWARD WHO RUNS AWAY] has he run to be with ubl[YELLOW COWARD WHO RUNS AWAY] to Iran[WHO SENDS MONSTERS TO KILL THE IRAQI PEOPLE]
The Spider Killers need to Know??
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God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Sight,Wisdom, and Courage to stay the course to Victory [FREEDOM] to Destory ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat and give them Courage to Stand and Fight them Amen
He doesn't want to martyr himself because he isn't in a hurry to meet up with that murdering homosexual pedophile, Yasser Arafat -- ole "Easy."
http://www.masada2000.org/Arafat-Hell.html
Let's help THEM ALL find martyrdom, swiftly and in our day...
looks like nasseem has shot her self in the foot
I love Catherine (STRONG AMERICAN WOMAN WHO OWNS A GUN) and her posts!
hawkwind - I like it !!!!
Hawkwind states:
"The heads should be dipped into a tank of pigs urine"
Not only should they behead them, they should peel the skin off a hogs head and place it on the head of the SOB's as a permanant burial shroud.
Or would that be too demeaning for the pig?
at least this zarqawi rant explains why the anti-democratic sunni cleric was gunned down -- just wasn't jihad enuf
yes it would be too demeaning for the pig. I like pigs,I would get pretty pissed off if some-one killed a pig for the sake of a muslim.pigs piss would do the job just as good.HO! HO! may-be
we could dip naseem as well
may-be they aint so keen to catch a dose of what
Afatrat is passing around
Hindu's astute observation:
"He wants to live, because he knows there's nothing after death."
raises interesting questions. None of the abrahamic religions sanction reincarnation, cycle of birth-and-death etc - this is purely an oriental (specifically Hindu) copncept.
SO what is the moslem's version of afterlife? Even 72 virgins forever will begin to boring after a while. What is the perfection, the highest ideal to be attaioned? In Hinduism its moksha, in Buddhism its Nirvana? What is it in islam?
As long as he was at large,he was beheading infidels,guarded by his henchmen,arms tied behind their backs,on their knees.....and bragging about it on video tapes.
As soon as he gets caught,he will deny it was him who did the beheadings,he will say someone else was just using his name and that`s the reason for the ski masks.
And i bet you ,there will be an opportunistic lawyer to take his case,probably one that works for the ACLU.
Zarqawi is in trouble and he knows it. Problem is, his ego and pride will not allow the possibility of defeat. While the Iraqis are rebuilding their country with American help and while women in Afghanistan cast votes, this man's mind is stuck in 7th century Arabia. It's sort of like That 70's Show except there is no applause or laughter. Islam will be gone in 25 years. Why do you ask? It is very simple my friend. Islam will disappear because it is morally wicked. A very Reaganesque critique, but remember, when Ronnie said the Soviet system was on it's way out because of it's wickedness, the so-called elites and muckity-mucks laughed at him too. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Hawkwind is on to something here. I have always had in mind tying them to a stake and turning wild boars on them to eat them alive. You want to hear a jihadist scream? That would do the trick.
As for the Holy Jackass Zarqawi, remember he is the one who urged his followers to fight to the death in Fallujah ( as over a thousand did ) while he slipped out of the city!
I do believe the Shittes are behind the killing of the Sunni Clerics. The Shittes want a civil war, one that they will win with their greater numbers and backing from Iran. Derailing democracy is in the interest of a Muslim fanatic.
Nossy
Hawkwind: I approve, too. Only I recommend that if Zarqawi is executed, her is forced to swallow pork fat a minute before the lever is pulled.
And, yes, Zarqawi, brave jihadi he, did cut and run when he faced armed men rather than hostages.