The literature taught violent jihad. Why is it that so many Muslims around the world keep misunderstanding Islam in the same way?
"Papers praising violent jihad 'found with terror accused,'" from AAP, November 12 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Extremist literature found in the homes of five Sydney men accused of a terror plot described jihad as a Muslim obligation and said one hour in battle was worth 70 years of prayer, a court has been told.Khaled Cheikho, Moustafa Cheikho, Mohamed Ali Elomar, Abdul Rakib Hasan and Mohammed Omar Jamal have all pleaded not guilty in the NSW Supreme Court to conspiring to commit an act or acts in preparation of a terrorist act.
They are accused of plotting with at least four other Sydney men between July 2004 and November 2005, to obtain chemicals and firearms capable of being used in a terrorist strike in Australia.
Prosecutor Richard Maidment SC today presented to the jury a selection of extremist literature recovered from the men's homes....
One document, titled "Fundamental concepts of essential jihad", said Islam was "first and foremost a mujahid nation", or country of warriors.
"Nothing prevents the Muslim from jihad, except for inability, and preparation becomes obligatory at that point," the document said.
It went on to claim that military training was therefore compulsory for Muslims.
"One can begin to see how material of this nature sows seeds in the minds of people who have an inclination and who regard themselves as being devout Muslims ... and develops into a desire or feeling of obligation to pursue violent jihad," Mr Maidment said....
"It is the fact that that material was found alongside images on computer or on CD which were, some of them, of graphic, quite gruesome kind ... which the crown says were designed to support the notion of violent jihad," Mr Maidment said.
"(The material was) also accompanied by videos of beheadings, of killings, of executions of a ritual nature, apparently in the pursuit of violent jihad and seeking to glorify those persons involved."
Mr Maidment said all the men except Jamal had had in their possession, writings by Dr Sheikh Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, who was credited by Time magazine as responsible for reviving the concept of violent jihad for the 20th century.
Dr Azzam had taken up arms with the mujihadeen in Afghanistan and there had found unprecedented "satisfaction of his longing and untold love" for fighting in the name of Allah, Mr Maidment said.
"One hour fighting in the path of Allah is worth more then 70 years of praying at home," Dr Azzam had written.
He had also written that jihad "must not be abandoned until Allah alone is worshipped" and Muslims ought to fight "in a manner that will strike terror in the hearts of the enemy".
"This material is designed to inspire others to follow the path of violent jihad," Mr Maidment said.
Much of the literature venerated martyrdom [that is, killing while being killed -- RS] and one document explained that "in certain circumstances it's permissible to kill children ... essentially because they are in the way, one way or another, of the pursuit of violent jihad", he said....
This one is hilarious: more misunderstanding due to government induced PC-speak:
Confusing PC language 'hampering' anti-terror fight, government watchdog says
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084977/Confusing-PC-language-hampering-anti-terror-fight-government-watchdog-says.html
Mambou Habib and other surly jerks stood outside the courtroom protesting the 'racist' anti-terrorism legislation under which these Misunderstanders of Jihad were being prosecuted. How come they never protest the mass murder of jihad?
Another report on this case was in the International Herald Tribune bylined Mariaah Foley, which quoted the judge in the case saying "It's an obvious truism for me to tell you [the Jury] that the Muslim religion is not on trial here".
To which, says I, "whyever not.... surely, your honour, it goes to motive" (as they say). Given that they were described as "Islamic radicals" and motivated by "violent Jihad", how can the Islam -- its motivating force in their actions and the source of Jihad -- not come into it?
IHT article at........
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/11/asia/terror.php
"Another report...quoted the judge in the case saying "It's an obvious truism for me to tell you [the Jury] that the Muslim religion is not on trial here".
The learned judge is correct. Islam is not on trial, only Islam's practioners are on trial!
At some point the infidel world is going to be at the breaking point over all these atrocities committed by islam's practioners.
Of course they did but you never hear of Christian misunderstanders of Christian literature or Hindu misunderstanders of Hindu scriptures or Buddhist or Jain or Sikh or Jews but always you here Muslim misunderstanders of Islamic literature. Now the question is why is that? Why is that there is always that misunderstanding of Islamic literature?
As far as I am concerned there is none, Muslims are carrying out the precepts that are in Islam to the letter. This is just another attempt at fooling the infidels.