Wage jihad against Jews and Christians? Doesn't he know it's a Religion of Peace™?
"Yemen's al-Qaeda calls for jihad against Jews, Christians," from Reuters, February 8 (thanks to all who sent this in):
The Yemen-based wing of al-Qaeda called on Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula to wage jihad, or holy war, against Christians and Jews in the region."The Christians, the Jews, and the treacherous apostate rulers have pounced on you...you have no other way out from this plight other than to wage jihad," the wing's deputy leader, Saeed al-Shehri, a former Saudi inmate at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, said in an audio tape posted on a website often used by Islamist groups.
Shehri was one of 30 al-Qaeda members that Yemen claimed to have killed in an air strike in December but this was later denied by the global militant network.
"We advise you, our people in the Peninsula, to prepare and carry your weapons and to defend your religion and yourselves and to join your mujahideen brothers," he said.
'US forces killed Yemeni women, children'
Shehri said the Yemen-based wing's failed bomb attack on a US bound plane in December had been carried out in coordination with network leader Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the attack in January, weeks after the al-Qaeda in Yemen first said it was behind the operation.
Shehri said a conference convened in London last month where high-level officials discussed how to stabilize Yemen showed there was an ideological war being waged against Muslims in Yemen by the West.
There again, while Western nations do everything they can to avoid giving the impression that it is waging war against Muslims, jihadists continue to insist that they are waging war against Muslims. And of course the jihadis continue to wage war in the name of Islam against the West.
Shehri said US forces had killed Yemeni women and children with what he termed "espionage planes", an apparent reference to unmanned drones....Shehri also addressed his call for jihad to a number of Yemeni tribes, including to the sheikhs of the "Houtha", in what appeared to be a reference to the northern Shiite rebels known as the Houthis....
Yes quite right. I do not advocate declaring war against Muslims in general - yet - but I do advocate a formal declaration of war against Islamists. THEN we would be able to wage war under mormal rules - that is that those not in uniform could be shot and those in Uniform could be detained as POWs until the war is ended.
Then again i rather think that the Geneva Convention has now somewhat outlived its purpose given that our enemies pay no attention to it and the current war is not conventional.
For example I would be more than happy for Somali pirates and terroists not in uniform being shot on sight
Am I being too simplistic or just realistic?
"The Christians, the Jews, and the treacherous apostate rulers...
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Ah, yes—apostate. Through the handy doctrine of Takfir, any Muslim may declare any other Muslim to be "un-Islamic"—"apostate"—and thus fair game.
That is why, despite the long and bloody history of Muslim-on-Muslim violence, Muslims can continue to make the incredible claim that "Muslims are compassionate to one another"—because, you see, all the Muslims they weren't compassionate to are "apostates".
More Muslim "logic":
"We advise you, our people in the Peninsula, to prepare and carry your weapons and to defend your religion and yourselves and to join your mujahideen brothers," he said...
Shehri said US forces had killed Yemeni women and children with what he termed "espionage planes", an apparent reference to unmanned drones.
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So—they are fighting a "defensive" war, because Yemeni women and children were (supposedly) killed—and yet the drones weren't sent in until after the attempted Christmas plane bombing.
This is just like Jihadists saying that there was no Jihad violence against the West until after 9/11, in revenge for the supposedly poor treatment Muslims received in the West in the wake of those attacks.
This tells you two things—firstly, that the supposed grievances that cause Jihad terrorism are fluid and ever-shifting in the aftermath of this or that terror attack—unlike, of course, the true and fixed cause, which is to wage war on the Kuffers wherever they are found.
The second, of course, is that while you so often hear that—in the absence of a Caliphate—only defensive warfare is permitted, you soon come to realize that *any* act of Jihad terrorism can be so framed that it is considered "defensive", no matter how unprovoked.
That's crazy talk! Our new PC MC Commander in Chief believes that we must win their "hearts and minds" first!
"Our new PC MC Commander-in-Chief believes that we must win their "hearts and minds" first!"
Right. What "hearts and minds?" Islam doesn't allow those.
Are you reading, Idiot Eric Holder? You're a disgrace to our nation.