At last, details of the latest chart-topper, featuring more railing against "Crusaders" and Jews, from Zawahri. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
CAIRO, JUNE 17 (AP) Al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, released a new video, aired on Al-Jazeera television today, denouncing the U.S. Concept of reform and saying armed jihad is the only way to bring change in the Arab world.The message _ al-Zawahri's first video since February _ appeared to be an attempt by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida to coopt the rising wave of reform movements in the Middle East....
``The removal of the Crusader and Jewish invaders from the Islamic countries won't occur only by peaceful demonstrations,'' he said in a brief clip aired on the pan-Arab network. ``Reform and expelling the invaders from the countries of Islam won't happen except through fighting for God's sake.'' Instead, he outlined what he called a true program for reform _ based on the rule of Islamic law and the end of U.S. And Western domination.
``We cannot imagine any reform while our countries are occupied by the Crusader forces,'' he said. ``We cannot imagine any reform while our governments are being ruled from the American embassies in our countries.'' He said the Islamic world must be allowed to run its own affairs with ``the freedom of a legitimate and independent judiciary'' and the power to ``propagate virtue and prevent vice'' _ an injunction to implement Islamic law.
Don't worry, even though AQ's second in command comes out and SAYS what he wants and why, explaining all the deaths, 9/11's, murders, stonings, honor killings and suicide bombings around the world in the last 4 years...Most people will not get what the world is facing.
Moose
What more will it take for Americans to recognize that, contrary to what we've been repeatedly told, Islam has not been hijacked by fanatics.
Al Zawahari is a physician, and a man whom I assume is of above average intelligence, and one quite capable of reading the original Arabic version of the Quran.
He's not hijacking Islam, and neither is bin Laden. They've read the Quran, they know what it says, they beleive what it says, and they intend to implement sharia law, at least in the Middle East.
What's been hijacked? The critical thinking skills of journalists, politicians, and educators.
It is mind-boggling how journalists, politicians, and educators have developed a tunnel-vision, disregarding the worlds of 'Dar-Al-Islam (world of Islam) ' and 'Dar-al-Harb (world of war)', which explain the constant state of war, 'Dar-Al-Islam' is with 'Dar-Al-Harb'.
There has certainly been a lot of "virtue propagated in Pakistan lately.
jay
The only answer to this maniac is a predator drone with a hellfire missile.
And for all who follow his unorthodox (according to the apologists from Bush and Rice on down) understanding of "jihad", the same.
Lock and load. Fry the toad.
And then back to the real work of Civlization.
'' He said the Islamic world must be allowed to run its own affairs with ``the freedom of a legitimate and independent judiciary'' and the power to ``propagate virtue and prevent vice'' _ an injunction to implement Islamic law. " And that means anywhere in the world. Don't oppose islam is what this fanatic is saying. He is the one with the big goose-egg on his forehead from beating his head on the ground 5 times a day.
Al Zawahari could be considered a fanatic if his belief in the Quran, and his willingness to act upon such belief, was unreasonably zealous.
Gathering from many posts here, it would seem that quite a few other Muslims think the same way.
So, is he a fanatic? Or is he just a good and dedicated Muslim?
Al Zawahari could be considered a fanatic if his belief in the Quran, and his willingness to act upon such belief, was unreasonably zealous.
Gathering from many posts here, it would seem that quite a few other Muslims think the same way.
So, is he a fanatic? Or is he just a good and dedicated Muslim?
Gee.
Who's face would you put on the first, and bound to be a collector's item, box?