"Our daggers and rifles will pursue them until the extraction of the last Jew from our land." Rumpled Academic update from the Tampa Trib, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
TAMPA - -- A series of Palestinian Islamic Jihad communiqués posted on the Internet was shown to jurors Tuesday in the terror-support trial of Sami Al-Arian and three other men.Prosecutors used them to bolster their claim that Islamic Jihad attacks are a form of extortion intended to drive Jews out of Israel.
"Either they leave Palestine or we will make it a graveyard for all of them," stated one Web posting, which listed 196 attacks the group claimed between 1984 and 1999.
They were sorted by year and included the nature of each attack: stabbings, bombings, grenades and others.
"Our daggers and rifles will pursue them until the extraction of the last Jew from our land," was one comment from a 1990 attack.
Al-Arian, Ghassan Ballut, Hatem Fariz and Sameeh Hammoudeh are charged with four conspiracy counts, including racketeering, providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to commit murder abroad.
In cross-examination, defense attorney Linda Moreno pointed to other passages that said the attacks were in response to Israeli violence.
Oh, that makes it ok, eh? Even if that were true, it would not justify calls for mass genocide.
It's always in response to Isreali violence.
Page 13 in the islamic playbook;
1. blow up a bus full of women and children, glorifying the bomb-carrying tumor as a brave hero. (a REAL man)
2. Scream revenge on the murderous Joooos for the "unprovoked" surgical strike on purely military targets that follows.
3. Send more craven cowards to kill more innocent women and children, since head-on attacks against MEN is just too scary to contemplate, and it's difficult to strike a believably brave pose when you just crapped in your pants.
Is this, per chance, the same religion that Dubya calls the "religion of peace", the "religion of tolerance"?
>...he same religion that Dubya calls the "religion of peace"
He also, unless my memory has developed a glitch, referred to it as a "noble religion".
Buffoon.
This is similar to the same tune the Iranian was singing yesterday on a Jihad Watch post...what will it take for us to get serious?
Gates of Vienna has a similar take this morning--
Confronting The Enemy
-- asking questions about President Bush's speech re "true" Islam as the ROP, the Baron says:
Any other ideas out there? This is an open forum. Somewhere between the extremes of “Islam is a religion of peace” and “nuke the ragheads” is a course of action which will protect American citizens and also secure their liberties. I invite you to help me find it.
On our blog we have been exploring what it means to live so close to one of those Jihadi compounds in this country. How safe are we? This compound is probably where the Beltway Sniper went to ground between attacks. These people are devoted to a "cleansing jihad," and not to living among the rest of us. Unfortunately, most of them are Americans, not immigrants. They've been recruited from prisons by their immam (with a little Saudi seed money). They launder money, have a few legitimate businesses, and are but one in a complex of these places all over the country...btw, their girls don't go to school.
"Somewhere between the extremes of 'Islam is a religion of peace' and 'nuke the ragheads' is a course of action which will protect American citizens and also secure their liberties."
I completely disagree. The goal of Islamism is nothing less than the establishment of a global caliphate. It is they who are not interested in seeking a middle course, and our response will determine whether they are successful or not.
Any response not based on the ridiculous assumption that 'Islam is a religion of peace' will "provoke" the jihadists, and justify -- in their sick minds, at least -- further acts of terror, as t-ham noted previously.
If your enemy is not open to reason, dealing with them in a reasonable fashion is self-defeating. Is this not self-evident?
The path to security is:
1. Revoke all muslims' US citizenship
2. Deport all resident muslims
3. Demolish all mosques on US soil
4. Outlaw islam (a terrorist organization)
We don't really need to destroy islam, we just need to destroy it, here.