Once again, one may note the striking uniformity of Islamic antisemitism in places far removed from one another. So, did these guys call each other? "Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel," by Reza Khalili for World Net Daily February 5:
The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people.The doctrine includes wiping out Israeli assets and Jewish people worldwide.
Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove “this corrupting material. It is a ‘jurisprudential justification” to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”
The article, written by Alireza Forghani, a conservative analyst and a strategy specialist in Khamenei’s camp, now is being run on most state-owned conservative sites, including the Revolutionary Guards’ Fars News Agency, showing that the regime endorses this doctrine.
Because Israel is going to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, Iran is justified in launching a pre-emptive, cataclysmic attack against the Jewish state, the doctrine argues. [...]
On Friday, in a major speech at prayers, Khamenei announced that Iran will support any nation or group that attacks the “cancerous tumor” of Israel. Though his statement was seen by some in the West as fluff, there is substance behind it. [...]
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Brig. Gen. Seyyed Mehdi Farahi, stated in August that the Safir missile, which is capable of transporting a satellite into space, can easily be launched parallel to the earth’s orbit, which will transform it into an intercontinental ballistic missile. Western analysts didn’t believe this would happen until 2015. Historically, orbiting a satellite is the criterion for crediting a nation with ICBM capability.
Forghani details the Islamic duty of jihad as laid out in the Quran for the sake of Allah and states that “primary jihad,” according to some Shiite jurists, can only occur when the Hidden Imam, the Shiites’ 12th Imam Mahdi, returns. Shiites believe Mahdi’’s return will usher in Armageddon.
In the absence of the hidden Imam, Forghani says, “defensive jihad” could certainly take place when Islam is threatened, and Muslims must defend Islam and kill their enemies. To justify such action, Alef quotes the Shiites’ first imam, Ali, who stated “Waging war against the enemies with whom war is inevitable and there is a strong possibility that in near future they will attack Muslims is a must and the duty of Muslims.”
The article then quotes the Quran (Albaghara 2:191-193): “And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution [of Muslims] is worse than slaughter [of non-believers] … and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah.”
It is the duty for all Muslims to participate in this defensive jihad, Forghani says. A fatwa by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made it clear that any political domination by infidels over Muslims authorizes Muslims to defend Islam by all means. Iran now has the ICBM means to deliver destruction on Israel and soon will have nuclear warheads for those missiles. [...]
Under this pre-emptive defensive doctrine, several Ground Zero points of Israel must be destroyed and its people annihilated. Forghani cites the last census by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics that shows Israel has a population of 7.5 million citizens of which a majority of 5.7 million are Jewish. Then it breaks down the districts with the highest concentration of Jewish people, indicating that three cities, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, contain over 60 percent of the Jewish population that Iran could target with its Shahab 3 ballistic missiles, killing all its inhabitants....
Top Islamic authority tells main qualities of Jews according to the Qur'an
The following article used to be posted at IslamOnline.net, but the scandal of it (at least among those non-Muslims who hadn't known about the Quran's hatred of Jews) apparently made Islam Online decide it prudent to remove the article for the time being. But it can still be found at numerous other sites on the web by pasting some of the below text into Google. In the article, Sheikh 'Atiyyah Saqr (died 2006), the Head of the Fatwa Committee at Al-Azhar University, the chief center of Islamic and Arabic learning in the world, cites numerous Qur'an verses about Jews:
End of the Al-Azhar Sheikh's Qur'an citations about Jews.
There's going to be one hell of a pile of glowing cinders in Tehran if they persist. Accursed of the nations.
May the God of Israel protect and defend Israel against ALL her enemies, and let the wickedness and the evil, they have planned for Israel and God's people, fall upon THEM; because they in their arrogrance choose to touch God's annointed, may they be thourghly disgraced and put to shame.
The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; God, himself gave this land to the jews, ... God gave them the deed. God and God alone will protect, defend and provide the victory.
I will pray for the protection and defense of Israel and her people. I humblely ask God that America has no part against Israel in this coming war.
So says His Malevolence, Iran's supremo. Sow the wind; reap the WHIRLWIND. . . . These pious lunatics have an appointment with Nemesis.
Unfortunately it's going to drag the whole world in. Islam will be henceforth reviled amongst all civilised nations.
"a pre-emptive, cataclysmic attack"
Hmmm...sounds like a good idea to me!
Go Israel Go. Go NOW!
"Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, contain over 60 percent of the Jewish population that Iran could target with its Shahab 3 ballistic missiles, killing all its inhabitants...."
Wonder who is going to break the news to the other 40% of the population........
"Britain's agenda of anti-Israeli hate and the deadly new triangle in the MidEast"
(by Robin Shepherd)
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/869/britain_s_agenda_of_anti_israeli_hate_and_the_deadly_new_triangle_in_the_mideast
"There are plenty of arguments against an Israeli attack on Iran.
And all of them are bad."
(by Niall FERGUSON)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/02/05/israel-and-iran-on-the-eve-of-destruction-in-a-new-six-day-war.html
Never mind a direct attack on Israel or the USA (through proxies such as hezbollah-hamas-tailban-iraqis etc, the islamic republic of iran has been attacking since 1978) This latest published threat of genocide alone is sufficient to warrant the prosecution and elimination of these criminals.
The increasing belligerence of irans posture and actions is gaining strength and encouragement commensurate to their anticipated capacity to back up their words with the power to kill and destroy entire populations.
The catastrophically foolish and naive notion obozo peddled and the gullible masses swallowed, the belief and hope that an "open hand" and a dialogue with the iranians would yield understanding and peace has predictably failed.
This failure and its consequences are of a magnitude and scale surpassing Chamberlains tragic error of observing the numerable and overwhelming evidence indicating hitlers intent and then ignoring it with a policy of appeasement towards the nazis.
Defending the world and dealing with the monstrous nazi wehrmacht and dealing with a middle east and the proliferation of WMD factories can easily be predicted to involve sacrifices and challenges exceeding those during WWII and will create a paradigm shift in all the ways we carry about in our daily lives and the prospect of peace and security. This events show that obama indeed has usherd in a new dark and apocalyptic era.
Well, this ought to convince us all of the Iranians' intentions.
If they let missiles fly at Israel, however, they must know that within days, the city of Tehran will lie in rubble, as well, and Iran will be no more.
I saw that article by Niall Ferguson. It was featured over at New English Review.
Pulling no punches. Mr Ferguson has been taking accelerated lessons on what Islam is *really* all about, from his new wife, ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Pillow talk with a difference. He appears to have been a quick study; and from the impressive platform he already occupies he is setting out to ommunicate what he's learned. This is going to be fascinating to watch.
One may add that with three 'hostages to fortune' already (the kids from his previous marriage) he has got himself yet another - his and Ayaan's new baby, born in early December last year.
He and Ayaan are standing side by side in front of a cradle and I think they are gearing up to fight like tigers. They want Western Civilisation to survive so that their little Scottish-Somali baby can grow up as a free man.
Is this story true? Was this reported on Jihad Watch today? Isn't this outrageous if it is the case? Where is Michele Bachmann? She serves on this committee:
"The past week brought heightened discussion of a potential Israeli unilateral attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. But House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley this morning, agreed that an Israeli attack would “light the Middle East on Fire” and could be “a real problem for the national security interests of the United States.”
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/02/05/419069/mike-rogers-iran-attack-lights-middle-east-on-fire/
Two words: nuclear submarines. Iran can't take them out, any attack on Israelb & the nukes from the Dolphin submarines start flying towards the mad mullas in Tehran.
http://www.google.com.au/url?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_class_submarine&rct=j&sa=U&ei=7fkwT-WnNu2hiAfb1YyCBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CD0QFjAD&q=israel%27s+nuclear+submarines&usg=AFQjCNFjLmezWRxEN4WOT777oEyrvTOPbQ
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The Ariel Sharon Anniversary:
Exactly 10 years ago today, on February 7, 2002, Ariel Sharon flew to the US with a passionate plea to George W. Bush: "Please do not go to Iraq! Please bomb Iran from the air instead!". To no avail. Bush, his cabinet, his Chiefs of Staff, his State Dept., his CIA, and all his neocons presented a united front, determined to oppose anything Sharon says. One opposes Sharon at his peril.
Ironically, if those pygmeys in charge of our United States of America listened to the old Zion Lion and bombed Iran instead of invading Iraq, the cost in both life and treasure would be much lower, because the mission would be more clear-cut, and the worst jihad nation on Earth would be neutralized. Instead, the US got itself into 8 years of quigmire in Iraq, achieving absolutely nothing, and now has retreated in defeat, leaving a pro-Iranian government in charge of Iraq. And in Afghanistan, the US is now negotiating the terms of surrender to the Taliban. In the 2 countries, we have lost the lives of more than 6,000 of our American soldiers and more than 3,000 of civilian contractors, and the horrendous 4 TRILLION (! ! ! ) of our tax dollars. All for nothing. Meanwhile, the threat from Iran is growing by the hour, but the US has wasted all its militancy on those 2 losing wars, and has no guts left to take on Iran. Worse, our cowardly ruling pygmeys are so pathologically afraid of Iran, that they panickily and frantically restrain Israel from bombing Iran's nuclear installations. Our United States of America is afflicted with a chronic disease of BL: Bad Leadership. Our American people are incapable of electing a man to the White House. Instead, they keep electing cowardly no-goods, Republican and Democrat. It has always been this way. EXAMPLE:
ATTENTION: WELL OVER 99% OF AMERICANS STILL DON'T KNOW THIS:
In 1954, 1955 and 1956, America's beloved "Ike" (the so-called "war hero president"), Ike's beloved CIA agent Edward Landsdale, and their ludicrous puppet Ngho Dinh Diem massacred all the 3 main anti-Communist movements of South Vietnam: Dao Cai, Hoa Hao, and Binh Xuyen. Yes, "Ike"s imbecility was this severe, rivaled only by his total immorality, that led him to mass-murder loyal and sincere allies. We know what happened next, don't we? But great men such as Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson and Rudy Giuliani had been swiftly rejected by our American voters who keep failing their duty horrendously.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
"Ayatollah Khamenei: 'Now I'm Really Angry'"
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/ayatollah-khamenei-now-im-really-angry/252659/
Amen!
What should have been done?
The answer is astonishingly simple.
When an individual, group or nation declares the intent to harm or kill Americans or attack their interests and especially after actually doing so it should be understood that the policy of the USA government backed up by action will be a swift and certain kinematic prosecution of the entity involved on the assault.
When and if the left in the USA are disabled from weakening our capacity to respond as outlined, much, very ,much unnecessary conflicts will be prevented.
kinetic not kinematic,
Thomas Pellow wrote:
"There are plenty of arguments against an Israeli attack on Iran.
And all of them are bad."
(by Niall FERGUSON)
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Excellent article by Niall Ferguson, Thomas. Thanks for posting it. I'm also amazed that this piece appeared in the usually predictably dhimmi Newsweek.