More embarrassing revelations for the Rumpled Academic Mujahid. Al-Arian update from the Tampa Tribune, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
TAMPA - The same day a 20-year-old American and seven Israelis were killed in a terrorist attack, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad faxed a ``cheerful'' announcement to Tampa, according to evidence presented Wednesday morning in the trial of Sami Al-Arian.``The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine announces the death of its martyr hero Khaled Al-Khatib, hero of the martyrdom operation of Kfar Darom,'' the announcement said. ``The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, while cheerfully announcing the news of the martyrdom of its righteous son, the Mujahid Khaled Al- Khatib, warns the occupying authority against harming our people and carrying out any retribution against our kinsmen in retaliation to the jihad operations.''
The announcement was faxed from Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus, Syria, to the home of Ramadan Shallah, who was then working at Al- Arian's think tank, the World and Islam Studies Enterprise. Shallah then faxed the announcement to the think tank's offices, according to an FBI witness.
"The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, while cheerfully announcing the news of the martyrdom of its righteous son, the Mujahid Khaled Al- Khatib, warns the occupying authority against harming our people and carrying out any retribution against our kinsmen in retaliation to the jihad operations.,,"
-- from a posting above
If it is simply wonderful to be a "martyr" dying while performing violent Jihad, surely those who subsequently killed by the enemy are equally martyrs in the cause of Jihad, and news of their deaths, which insures an all-expenses paid trip to Paradise, should be equally cheerfully received. Why then "warn the occupying [sic] authority against harming our people" of that "harm" can only bring good? Why war against "carrying out any retribution" when those who suffer from that "retribution" will be warmly received in Paradise?
What is the reasoning here? Is there reasoning -- here?
Special Guest:
I am depressed today, as I see few hopeful signs.
This poem pretty well sums up how I feel:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
-- William Butler Yeats
OT
Visit Johnathan Galt's site, it has a lot of jihad videos.
http://johnathangaltfilms.com/movie.html
Scroll down and watch this video. It is a short one.
Video Clip Allah Happy
Description: Abu Hamza says: Allah Happy when Kaafir get killed!