American jihadist misunderstands Islam, says: "I hope that Muslims around the world also take my life as an example"

"One could also pray that he become a follower of Christ."

Or hope that he becomes an atheist, with no reason to kill others for not believing in the "One True" imaginary Sky Fairy.

True. He should return to his roots. Maybe even return to "Danphe, Alamaba."

Well, more people have been killed in the name of the goddesses Historical Necessity and Scientific Socialism in the 20th century alone than were killed in the name of the Gof of Abraham between the conversion of Constantine and the present day.

"One could also pray that he become a follower of Christ."

Hear, hear, Michael! ...Jesus is our only true hope.

Did Mitt Romney's Jesus inspire him to say the following? Or is Romney's Jesus another Jesus? Maybe a Muslim Jesus?

Asked by Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News & World Report if his repeated references to "jihad" in a speech at the Heritage Foundation characterized Islam in sinister terms, Mitt Romney surprised Gilgoff with this reply:

I didn't refer to Islam at all, or to any other religion for that matter. I spoke about three major threats America faces on a long term basis. Jihadism is one of them, and that is not Islam. If you want my views on Islam, it's quite straightforward. Islam is one of the world's great religions and the great majority of people in Islam want peace for themselves and peace with their maker. They want to raise families and have a bright future.

There is, however, a movement in the world known as jihadism. They call themselves jihadists and I use the same term.... It's by no means a branch of Islam. It is instead an entirely different entity. In no way do I suggest it is a part of Islam.

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/013343.html

Gaydar? I'm sceptical of the whole thing. Back in my day, if you were a healthy male, you were "queer" (we didn't say "gay" back then) if you preferred art to sports; but a lot of guys like that were thoroughly heterosexual in both sinful and sanctified behavior.

I'm satisfied that this creep described in the article is just one more willing victim of the post-modern American cult of the "rebel", whether with or without a cause. The guy wanted to flip the bird at the culture of his birth and upbringing, and probably now finds being under the authority of a violent, bigoted, and yokelish warlord may not really be worth it, so he tries to re-convince himself.

And I predict that Somalia will sink back into its traditional isolation, bloody feuds, and poverty as it becomes more Islamic.

Bless you, Wellington, for your excellent and (we may hope) contagious optimism. May you live 300 years, and may you be right.

Ave Maria.

You're oh-so-correct, my dear Wellington, and most people have no idea of the behind-the-scenes machinations that are working daily to bring about the exact scenario that you portray. Most will never know, and that is a good thing, for they might feel themselves complicit in questionable activities just by having knowledge of them.

The outcome is never in doubt. The West may seem foolish at times, and rightfully so, but at its core it has the will and the means to survive and prosper.

There are those among us who are determined to make it so.

We here do have faith that "conquer we must, when our cause it is just"; we know that this traitor will be killed or captured some day, if he isn't killed by his own "brothers." And some day soon, we'll regain the fortitude and rectitude to bring Hammami to justice.

Amriki, whose closing remarks in the book are "viva la revolucion", ......

Maybe he'll change his name from Amriki to Gay Chevara!

Agreed.

If only.

Here's an Intellectually challenged jihad tourist, a Jamaican born Brit who chose Somalia.

Dag

you don't know *who* reads here, learns, marks, inwardly digests, and then, having learnt as much as they judge sufficient, moves on...That has been happening all along and is still happening.

You have no way of knowing what they go on to do with what they've learned, after they leave. Many may not want to say at all. After all: in here, the walls have ears. The Enemy is listening in.

I want the Enemy to know three things: that people in the West - and the wider Infidel world; after all, we have had people visiting and posting here, sometimes, from Africa, the Philippines, Russia, Latin America - are NOT giving up or giving in; that we KNOW what the Ummah is up to, and why; and that we *are* going to resist. They don't need to know exactly *how* that resistance will take shape in any given case; let it be a surprise!

I think of this place as a 'hedge school', with Mr Spencer the head teacher and some of the rest of us the 'classroom monitors' who have learned enough to be able to assist with the teaching.

Most readers don't comment. The *majority* don't comment.

It may be that most of us who post regularly are, like me, the people who have the time and the inclination (that is, they are people whose gift is primarily with words, but who are also aware that words have weight and can, in other minds, inspire action).

I think this forum at its best serves both to build morale and to teach. Some of us regulars cannot just get up and buy a gun and go fight like you seem to be proposing to do. We are too old and/or are inextricably bound by work and family commitments that we *cannot* shuck off just like that. Example: Always On Watch has a husband immobilised by stroke; I am a matron in my late forties, *married*, in a traditional one-income family, with four children, the youngest of whom are still at school. So we contribute primarily by using the time we have, to keep on grimly commenting on the shenanigans of Islam, so as to allow all the unseen and non-posting visitors to learn.

Ask yourself just how many returned or 'on leave' soldiers, from Iraq or Afghanistan - or their mums, dads, wives, other family, and friends - have lobbed in here from time to time, do you think, and through eavesdropping on the conversation and reading the articles have acquired a much clearer sense of what was going on over there in the battleground, and where the *real* battleground is, and what this war is all about? We haven't the faintest idea, because most of them just lurk quietly without posting. And once they feel they've learned enough to be going on with, off they go. Who knows what they will go on to do? For one thing, they will cast their vote differently. They will look at their political candidates differently. They may well join ACT for America - who DO seem to be doing quite a bit - or donate something to Congressman Allen West's campaign chest.

You may, however, like to know that I just got roped in to be a Synod representative for my Parish church - the one where I show up every Sunday. That means that when my particular diocese of the Anglican church holds its next Synod, I will be present; at every session; which means that at least *one* person in that Synod will be a person pretty fully informed about Islam and the Ummah and the Global Jihad. I will be able, if I am careful, to find out whether there are other Islamosavvy persons in other parishes and church organisations. If the subject of Islam comes up in casual morning-tea and afternoon-tea chitchat among the attendees, I will be there to offer hard information and refer people to Mark Durie's work for more.

Not much. But something.

I always enjoy reading posts here from our favorite [sic] Aussie Contra.

"Not that I'm extremely special, but then again I haven't seen too many middle class 'white guys' from Alabama in jihad these days. Hopefully others will say to themselves: I can do that too!"
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And there you have it—the brutality and nihilism of Jihad grafted, Frankenstein's monster-style, to the "Can Do" American spirit. Loathsome and bizarre.

Son of Walker wrote:

DDA, I am surprised and diwappointed in the level of your rresponse. It´s unworthy of you, and I won´t comment on it further.
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I'm not sure what disappointed you in DDA's reply, Dag. I believe the very worst thing savvy Anti-Jihadists can do is despair or become cynical in the face of the threat of Jihad—or even in the face of the continued cluelessness of the West.

In fact, I *do* believe we are making progress on this last.

Even of left-wing sites like The Huffington Post and Care2, many posters seem to have woken up to at least a general sense of the malevolence of Islam. This was not true just a few years ago.

Certainly, Wellington was not recommending that we 'just sit around' for the next 200 years—just noting that civilization will not be defeated by savagery—at least not unless we let it happen.

And most of us here *don't* intend to let it happen.