Israel is the last bastion of democracy in the Middle East.
Once when I was going to Chechnya to interview the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, I traveled from Baku along with two Jordanians and one Saudi Arabian.
The Jordanians were young mujahideen who wanted to join the jihad.
They believed that it was the duty of every Muslim to take part in jihad that would liberate the world from the Zionists and infidels. It was two guys, but many before and after them were attending military training camps and were sent to practice in areas where Muslims were waging jihad against the infidels.
They are very bad at speaking Russian, but I learned that they had been sent to Chechnya by one of the very wealthy sponsors of jihad, an old Sheikh who was confined to a wheelchair.
The Sheikh himself could not take part in a "holy war," and so his relatives and friends recruited younger "warriors of Allah" to become mujahideen. The Sheikh prepared them for a "meeting with Allah."
I personally knew one of those people. The Chechen national Vakha Ibragimov engaged in recruiting and transportation of Mujahideen from the Middle East, Iran, and Turkey to the North Caucasus and back.
It was his business. He gathered a group of several dozen people. He arranged for their transportation with a rich Sheikh.
He took 10,000 in U.S. dollars in cash for every Mujahid, and sent them to the North Caucasus.
The Mujahideen who accept participation in jihad until death receive a stipend from the Sheikh. If anyone ever died in battle, they took care of his family.
Vakha Ibragimov certainly made a good living, as the real price of delivery to the destination for each Mujahid was five to seven times less than the amount he took from the sponsor of jihad.
The corrupt power structures of the Caucasian states and Russia let the Mujahideen enter the region without any difficulty. They were not thinking about the consequences: that they themselves could become victims of these jihadists.
As for my third traveling companion, Abdul-Walid, from even a cursory glance you could see that he was a mujahid with experience. He was well versed in all kinds of weapons and explosives. He spoke Russian, English and French fluently. He wore a satellite phone, but never spoke to anyone for more than a minute, and spaced his calls four to five hours apart. He explained to me that if he spoke on the phone for a long time or frequently, the Zionists would discover his location and kill him. He said he did not fear death for the sake of Allah, but he still had unfinished business on earth.
In the woods a few miles from the entrance to a small town in Dagestan, Abdul-Walid and I struck up a conversation about Islam, during which the Arab persistently pressured me to become a Muslim. He said:
"We have not yet finished off the Zionists and their allies. Soon the whole world will see what is the reward of Allah."
"They (the Jews) think that money can buy everything, but the Muslims will prove to them that their money is powerless before the retribution of Allah. Money is not protection against suicide bombers, bombs and missiles."
"Jerusalem belongs to the Muslims. And it will be ours even if the whole world will burn in the fire," said Abdul-Walid.
He showed me two large boxes which were labeled "Koran." He said:
"We have the Koran that tells us what to do. We will restore the Sharia. Allah gave us oil and martyrs. We cannot stop. Soon the whole world will recognize our strength and become Muslim. The only ones will will not convert to Islam will be the Jews, and we will destroy them."
I thought that the Mujahid said that in order to persuade me to accept Islam, but by analyzing his speech today, knowing what is happening NOW in the world, I know that he did not lie.
With well-established channels for the transport of weapons, the Mujahideen, Sharia finance, high oil prices, and the economic expansion of Islam in promoting political tolerance of the jihadists, as well as a massive assault on the people who are critical of the Islamic supremacists, I see that Abdul-Walid was right.
The balance shifted in their direction and the jihadists and their allies began to attack and criticize Israel, the only democratic state constraining Jihad in the Middle East.
Joseph:
Mathematical mistake:
You should have said, "... for each Mujahid was only a fifth to a seventh of the amount he took...".
Say the "amount he took" was $1000. What you wrote means that the "real price of delivery" is from -$4000 to $-6000.
Blaine
I was about to fix this for Joseph but he does have it "five to seven times less." So isn't that correct?
Pardon me if I am missing something elementary here.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
Obama my brother, said "Salam'alekum" to Muslims in his famous Cairo Speach.
Since then, I have not recovered from the shame contained in such unimaginable lack of Islamic knowledge.
A very big thank you - to Joseph Zaalishvili and to "Our God-sent" Robert Spencer for this exposé
Yes, for some of you from wherever - I don't know - it is continues to be a new kind of information each time you listen to the tale of this special sweet dream of every living dead Muslim.
Well, I am from the part of the World where this dream is written every and on everything that even blind or deaf and dumb people don't find it difficult to see and understand.
I thank you because, we need more people like you to help wake up the kind of people like your people who believe in nothing, know nothing, but behave and act as if they are in custody of what God forgot to tell Adam and Eve. – Please, tell them from me, especially your fellow Journalists that science and technology is not the way out.
And that – he whose house is on fire, should stop going after rats.
There is a bit kind of relief we feel when we see people like you writing or speaking out to the World about the enigmatic puzzle called Islam.
The war prepared by Islam and Mohammed for the whole World is ragging and has already gone bad. And so-many are in the middle of it but careless than the smell of Arabic oil.
More people like you are needed. In all available editorial or reporting style necessary. Yes! We need to sensitize millions of ignorant people around the World; more so in the West where people have resorted to movies and shopping and as a way of worshiping the god of self.
Muslims and Islam are taking advantage of this dangerous divergence from Religion in the West and now feel that time is ripe for Mohammed’s dream come-true.
Let's talk less of the Jews. The Jews are just their closest neighbor. Their aim and the sword of Islam point at any one who does not raise his or her back-side in worship to Allah.
We are the original preys and the real victims.
LET' GO.
FREE PEOPLE.
LET'S GO!!
Well, in addition to the Jews, there are a lot of other people who, contrary to those Muslim delusions, would never submit to, much less embrace, Islam!
Muslims are delusional to say the least. One has to laugh at their fantasies which will never ever come true.
I know an unsuspecting world is in danger of the supremist side of Islam. But as far as Israel is concerned, so much has been wrongly done by the US and the world to our greatest of allies, Israel, especially under the US's current administration. Coming from all different directions in the world Israel is sufferring a great resurgence of anti-semitizm. The US has been on this bandwagon as well, makes me sick to my stomach. The tiny nation of Israel is the ONLY shining jewel of Democracy and a free people in that huge portation of the world we call the Middle East. Israel is surrouded by nations who want nothing more than to see her gone and I mean gone! And those that want to see Israel gone are on a rise to the power with the fanatical side of Islam, while the US, the UN and the rest of the world reamain either silent or speak up condemming her for her right to survive. In either case, both are harmful to Israel's survival. I grew up in the US and have lived here for 55 years. I will not forget Israel as I have been taught by my family and country of old. When the rest of the world turns their backs fully on Israel, when the bombs come crashing down onto her (God Forbid), though I am older and disbled (not fully), I will beg or borrow to get the money for a plane to Israel to fight with her. She is a nation that shows and gives so much towards toleration, that, even the US could learn from her. No! I will never be forced to become an Islamic follower nor will I ever forget Israel.
We have the Ko-Ran that tells us what to do.
Thank you, O Moslem, for the refreshing burst of honesty. Maybe you can use that satellite phone to make two calls, five hours apart, of course, to Esposito at the prestigious Ivy League seat of higher learning Georgetown and then to that chirpy ex-nun at the prestigious Ivy League seat of highier learning Columbia to let them in on this?
We will restore the Sharia.
Restore? Ain't the Sharia just getting started in Dar al-Harb?
Allah gave us oil and martyrs. We cannot stop.
Like any junkie, hate junkies also suffer cessation problems.
Soon the whole world will recognize our strength and become Muslim.
It worked during the Wars of Compulsion. It worked during the Moghul. Tim Russert's Holy Prophet Mohammed was a genius. The recruiting component of Moslemism exhibits a nearly flawless design. Just axe the Hoop or the weepy Rep. Keith Ellision, Socialist-Minn.
Count me in with the Jews.You will have to destroy me.Give me JESUS or give me death.True Christians will never submit to islam.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/25/2374397/china-says-it-supports-palestinians.html
China says it supports Palestinians' statehood bid
What makes the Chinese so sure that they can stop Sharia from controlling their land someday?
""Soon the whole world will recognize our strength... "
What strength? The Muslim world on the whole looks shabby, poverty stricken and full of losers - which is why so many Muslims are trying to get into Europe, like the pathetic, unwashed stinking boat people trying to make it to Lampedusa.
But many infidels like myself will convert to Islam, just as soon as the muftis supply convincing evidence of the Koran's wisdom to the effect that:
the sun, like the moon, orbits the earth! (Q 21:33 and Q 36:40)
That the earth is flat with mountains simply placed on it like mash potatoes on a plate (Q 15:19)!
That the sun goes down in a muddy lake surrounded by a mystery population (muddy sun worshipers?) Q 18:83-86
That the stars are missiles firing at devils to keep them away (from heaven?) Q 67:5
And as soon as the Koran makes up its mind on how man was created: it says man was created from clay (6:1, 15:26, 23:12) and in other verses from water (21:30, 25:54), from dust (3:59, 30:20, 35:11), from the earth (11:61), from wet earth from a germ (16:4), from nothing (19:67), from a drop of ejaculated semen (75:37) that originates between the back and the ribs (Q 86:6-7), not the testis , from clots of blood (96:1), from dust and germ (18:37), dust, germ, then clot of blood (22:5), (40:67). Wisdom? What a joke.
In short, we'll convert only after suffering severe brain damage.
No. The confusion is understandable because saying "less than... times" silenty implies the unstated term if you don't specify times what. Times is a binary operation and therefore requires two items to multiply together. (Quotation marks in first 2 steps are used to specify precedence that is communicated by voice tone in speech). When one says X is (3 times 4) less than 10, that means
If one says X is (30% of 4) less than 10, that means
If the 2nd parameter of the "times" or "of" operation is not specified, there must still be an implied parameter and we know the implicit value by the principle of exclusion (i.e. no other value that is present would make sense). We have: X is 30% less than 10 means
And finally, X is 2 times less than 10 means
So, doing an algebra word problem to Joseph's text using my stipulative amount he took of $1000, we have
Re: the foregoing
Let's get to and answer the truly important to axe: how many angels can dance on the haid of a pin?
*** 33:21 ***
Secondary question: does this include the big angel, that big Kahuna, the Mohammed co-conspirator, the Archangel Gabriel on the haid of that pin?
You need elbow room to dance, you know. Properly, at least.
*** 33:21 ***
Tertiary question: is dancing even legal in Islam?
Count me in on this, too. Some of us Evangelicals (especially of the Calvinistic variety) are just too stubborn in our loyalty to Jesus.
Beijing takes the "anti-colonialist" narrative very seriously, and views Israel as a Western colony in the Middle East. Further, in Beijing's eyes, Jews and Arabs alike are only so many outer barbarians.
brian888, yes I was boiling mad at reading that information on Fox News. I firmly believe that neither Sharia nor Stealth Jihad will take root in the PRC. Why? Because of their system of laws governing their country. Unlike here in the US, whare a theif often gets away with a spanking, in China the officials will cut off the theifs hand. A whole different set of rules than in a free sociaty. In what has been allowed by our govenment policy makers, China has the only superpower left on the planet by the head and leads it where ever China wills. China has stole our technology for decades. A recent occurence of this is when the US raided the Obama camp in Pakistan. Though, the Paksistani government denies having allowed it, China has the pictures taken in Pak. at the time of the raid of a highly classified US military helicopter. We owe so much money to China, that they control the reigns of the huge horse to go where it wants. Makes me grit my teeth as more of my American pride gets slapped by my own government and the US people seem to be in a pre-WW2 state just before Pearl Harbor was slammed with bombs. Pres. Reagan had it right when he told America, "Peace through power". We gave our freedom and powe away. Our future looks somewhat dark unless we wake up and do it quickly. The world is indeed a dangerous place for freedom loving people all over.
I enjoyed reading your comment. Thank you.
Pretty funny.
Come try and convert me, muslim.
"Muslims are delusional to say the least. One has to laugh at their fantasies which will never ever come true."
I wouldn't laugh too loud if I were you. They kill and die for their fantasies, don't they?
What are you prepared to do for yours?
But go where? Let your people go!
Who's leading them? Obama--with a staff or a sword ?
Ah, I'm not Jewish, but count me in on not ever converting to islam.
Nice article. I couldn't resist commenting on a couple of things.
The opening statement:
"Israel is the last bastion of democracy in the Middle East."
Er...so what were the previous bastions of democracy in the Middle East that enable Israel to be the last?
Just wondering about that.
This was entertaining also:
"Money is not protection against suicide bombers, bombs and missiles."
Well, actually it is. The whole Muslim fascination with death is likely to be the death of them (pun intended) because it permits us to bring death to them in greater numbers than they are able to bring death to us, which is sadly what it may come to.
I don't think they've quite got that yet.
Allah knows where I live and so does his homophobic/misogynistic/pedophile buddy Muhammed , so let them come to my palce and try to get me to endorse murdering gays or the rape of 9 year old girls like muhammed did when he was 54.
The West is slowly waking up to the Suedo/Pedo-prophet that CAIR has tried to hide, but the Saudi's still behead people while Iran murders gays as hamas does in gaza.
I still don't get it for why some canadian Corporations endorse pro-hamas groups and they will now denouce pedophiles when they abusers are muslims or a same-gender rape. Pretty sad that the world lowers the bar for muslims and now expect riots and murders as the norm , Hooper can deny it but 1.6 billion muslims live outside of the USA and i doubt Dougie has met everyone of them to know they are the moderate peaceful muslims.
Scratch a moderate and you'll find a jihadist jew-hater.
Robert isn't Typepad looking a bit tired?
'Jerusalem belongs to Muslims'
Is that because Mohamed dreamt he had a 'night flight' to that city on the back of an angel? Did he also come to London by any chance?
the catholics would too join the jews in never submitting. i think this fool forgets tours, reconquista, vienna, crusades, heck, pretty much saving all of europe by kickin muslim butt back across the bosphorus! cant forget our orthodox friends too:)
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We hear this Muslim "dream" time and time again; maybe we should impose some psycology : can people become mighty and victorious because they believe they can ? Some science-of-the-mind professionals say absolutely .
I think few of us really believe the Islamists will suceed in becoming dominating, yet it isn't that we have to worry about. It's what will transpire in the act of their struggle for what they want. There is no greater inspirer and motivator than religion. Their cup runneth over with conviction. At some point their agression has to be confronted and something has to give - it's only a matter of time . Is their anyone here who can say it won't happen ?
There has always been radicals following one religion or the other, but Muslims are not just extreme-they are truly insane in regard to their "faith". They really, really believe God wills Islam to control life on earth.
Laugh at them ? They are nuts, of course, but never underestimate the will of one who believes killing is the way to paradise.
Correction : make that "psychology", not "psycology". Sorry.
Well, since I believe that YHWH gets the last word, I refuse to despair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5sjqoYCm10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQNOCeJIC8M&feature=related