For centuries -- notably, although not universally, in central Asia, Eastern Europe, and West Africa -- jihad supremacism for many Muslims lay dormant and even dropped out of the Muslim consciousness. But now jihadists are using chapter and verse of Qur'an and Sunnah to teach their vision of Islam to cultural Muslims. And they are doing so quite often through the Internet.
From MEMRI:
In an article in the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh, columnist Fares bin Hazam reports that both preachers in mosques and online propaganda are inciting young Muslims to wage jihad. [1] An interview with a young Muslim who went to fight in Afghanistan, also in Al-Riyadh, provides first-hand testimony confirming this claim.The following are excerpts from the article and the interview:
Saudi Columnist: Preachers in Mosques Urge Worshipers to Join the Jihad in Iraq and AfghanistanBin Hazam writes in his article: "The business with Afghanistan will never end as long as the 'duty of jihad' continues to live in [our] society, in mosques, in Friday [sermons], and on the Internet...
"After the fall of the Taliban and the subsequent Guantanamo crisis... there was increasing talk about the need to investigate our youth's growing [inclination] towards jihad, and about the need to search for the reasons that motivate them to go to Afghanistan and to other countries...
"The call to investigate these reasons is despicable; it is a tasteless joke. [One might think] that the reasons are unknown, that we are not aware of our situation [and need to conduct an] investigation in order to discover why [our young people] went forth and are still going forth [to wage jihad]... The reasons are obvious. Many of us know them, and there is no need for a scientific study or for any other [kind of study] to reveal them...
"Since the causes are known, do we lack courage to deal with [this problem]? [I believe that] we do. Our lack of courage has been apparent ever since we invented the excuse of 'external [influences],' and began to toy with it and wave it at every opportunity. I do not know where these [external influences] come from, since it was we who sent our young men [to Afghanistan] in the first place, before we ever heard of [these influences] that allegedly come [from outside].
"Some preachers, [namely] those who fear the censor, deceive him by being implicit in their incitement to [wage] jihad in Iraq or Afghanistan. They speak in their sermons about the merits of jihad without mentioning a particular region. They speak in general terms that can be applied to any location, even to our [own] country. During the prayer, the details start to pour in thick and fast: first, [a call to wage jihad] in Palestine, [which serve as] a smokescreen, and then [calls for jihad] in Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya, and finally... the call 'oh Allah, grant them victory everywhere!' 'Everywhere' includes our [own] country... and we say 'amen' after the preacher calls [upon Allah] to help the mujahideen in our [own] country..."
Read it all.
Cant anybody find anything in the qu'ran about allah being mighty miffed with computers? Mohammad decrys bandwith, blames jews/the west or something
that way we'd see muslim puter rage hit the streets and the message would be lost in the religion of peace's bid to burn the technology and i'm sure nobody would object to a fatwa of death being placed on B Gates emporium of greed...;-D
WEST **invents** computer and internet.. THEY use it for EVIL.
They are the Salieris of the World.. Obviously their 'god' didn't gift them in the way ours gifted US.
West = Mozart islam = Salieri
Ah, there's the "beauty" of Islam. It appeals to the yoots because it promises glory through man's most base instincts- killing, raping, looting,destroying. Mo knew this back in his day-using the name of his god was a convenient cover for all this in case someone had a few misgivings about doing these things. That's why those old mule-ahs keep finding all these younger fools to kill for them. That shiftless youth needs something to do so you might as well send him to act out all his aggression. It's OK-Mo and Allah said so. Besides, what yoot wouldn't want those 72 virgins after becoming a "martyr"?
You can say it til the earth quits rotating on its axis-Islam is insane and it's for losers.
Bush:
islam - What?! Me worry?
You know this new movie ... Borat? I'm wondering if he represents the 'moderate Muslims'. After all, he does smile. Still hates Jews, though.
Islamsforlosers,
Hasn't Heaven run out of Virgins, yet?
Maybe they'll have to start using Virginians...
I can just see it now, 72 Virginians lined up... Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry...
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com
Good Idea Doc. Except that Patrick Henry was from Vermont. I suppose Robert E. Lee could subsitute.
ALRIGHT YOU LOVERS OF FREEDOM...TRUTH JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY...
I propose we adopt a policy of popping these pimps--let's assassinate the clerics and officials who are calling for our deaths.
In law, I'm not a lawyer, but I believe there is a leagal principle that INCITEMENT to treason and murder and mayhem rates nearly as high as executing the crime. Help me you legals and would-be legals.....
CAN WE FIND THE LEGAL MEANS TO ASSASINATE THESE BASTARDS WHO ARE CALLING FOR OUR DEATHS AND ENSLAVEMENT?
I bet that if we set up the jihad assasination corp, it would be a highly sought prize.
That is one thing I ADORE about the Israelis--when they send a calling card bomb to blow up a Hamas murderer--all with kosher TLC.
Dood!!
Love your website!! Read the hatemail.. kinda redundant. They not only hate non-muftis but white folk in general. Looks like over 90% of them live in Jolly ol' England. Have you forwarded some of these emails to the British Authorities..? MI-5 perhaps? Maybe they can find who's behind some of these emails and determine what further actions they may think good to take ;-)
Keep up the great work!
Hasn't Heaven run out of Virgins, yet?
Posted by: Doctor Bulldog at October 25, 2006 06:41 PM
Silly doc-don't you know Allah provides all? If the virgins run out Allah will provide androids.
Thing is, they might look like Lynne Stewart.
OT
brazen infidel hussies alert: "The uncovered meat is the problem."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Cleric-blames-womens-attire-for-attacks/2006/10/26/1161749216145.html
So who'll set up a "Dr. Fatwa" website to encourage more of this madness?
CAN WE FIND THE LEGAL MEANS TO ASSASINATE THESE BASTARDS WHO ARE CALLING FOR OUR DEATHS AND ENSLAVEMENT?
Sure. Enforce the RICO statute. Be tough, though, cuz doing that would require a refreshing burst of honesty in our laywerly elite whereby Islam would be redefined from a religion to an organized crime ring.
Having studied neither history or culture, the lawyers are a half-century away from being able to do that.
Fares bin Hazam is honest in tracking the root of the evil. As always in Islam it is a refusal to acknowledge guilt by hiding the hand that threw the stone.
"But now jihadists are using chapter and verse of Qur'an and Sunnah to teach their vision of Islam to cultural Muslims. And they are doing so quite often through the Internet."
True, but the internet also allows - at least at the moment - for us to reply and to argue with the jihadist propaganda. The internet is not, thank Heaven, a one way street where the barbarian moslem horde controls all of the debate. We still control the debate to some degree.
I get the impression that Fares bin Hazam is not in favour of the violent jihad and that he is also not in favour of the involvement of Saudi Arabian youngsters in it. Our problem is: can we verify that the Al-Bidna person mentioned in his article is a real person and not a moslem journalist's (Fares bin Hazam's) construct? Can we trust Fares bin Hazam not to have made the whole thing up (perhaps out of the best of motives, but a fiction will not serve - truth is needed).
Let us look at Fares ibn Hazem, to give him his correct name. He writes for the arabic daily Al-Riyadh and he has consistently posted stories like this - please see
http://arabnews.com/?page=13§ion=0&article=76617&d=23&m=1&y=2006
for an example of another one. That he is a stooge of the government of Saudi Arabia is beyond question. That he represents the viewpoint of the SA government is also beyond question - or he would never be published in SA. So, what we have to ask is whether or not what he presents in his articles is encouraging for us or not. I think that it might be. I think that some mature minds, moslem though they might be, are waking up to the threat of fundamentalist jihad. Saudi Arabia may be wahabi but it currently ruled by a King and Princes who know which side their bread is buttered. Or perhaps this entire story is just more moslem deception - more sand thrown in our eyes by yet another barbarian moslem.
Who knows? After centuries of their lies how can anyone (including their own populations) be expected to know when they are telling the truth - if they ever do.
Dominic.
As a Macintosh computer fan, if the jihadis do not go after Bill G., then they will go after Apple because the giant cube.
Thank you Dominic for throwing light on Fares Bin Hazam.
Great research work you did there.
rocky/
You're welcome. I've run up against this so-called journalist before in London (England) at a Diplomatic Corps party where he was holding forth about islam being a religion of peace - with a whore on his arm and a drink in his hand. I have no respect for the man - but every respect for the whore who, I hope, took him to the cleaners.
Dominic.
Dominic.
Slightly less OT (now anyway)
Brazen hussies update:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/sheik-says-sorry-for-sex-sermon/2006/10/26/1161749218913.html
"Prime Minister John Howard said the sheik's remarks were "appalling and reprehensible" - "I not only reject the comments, I condemn them unconditionally".
Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali - "I unreservedly apologise to any woman who is offended by my comments"...
The article is deception. Reading the interview with the young man you realize his mistake was going to the wrong jiihad, where Muslims fight Muslims.
Jihad a such is ok to him.
Futhermore he made the mistake of not consultig whether the fatwa was an acknowleged one. Which means if a certified fatwa says jihad, that is ok.
He never ever thinks of consulting his own conscience.
also form MEMRI: (6 days ago)
incitement to murder operators of 10 german islam-critical websites:
" Where are you, the lions of jihad [in] the media? Who is going to put this dog [i.e. the individual behind these websites] in his place? Who will destroy his website and [the other] websites through which he disseminates his filth?… Isn't there an Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi [to take care of] this dog? Isn't there a killer [who will kill] him, like the one who murdered the Dutch director [Theo Van Gogh]?... If you can't slaughter him and kill him, at least destroy these websites…"
..then listing the 10 websites...
see 4 yourself: http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD133006
I'll try to contain myself, but if I sniff a flower, will this cause young muslims to jihad? Push a child on a swing, Watch a bird flying by, watch a football game, have a picnic? Now pardon.