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Speaking of that law-abiding majority: "Great Britain: Radical Preacher Incites Muslims to Rob Banks," from AKI, with thanks to Twostellas:
London - A Jamaican-born militant Islamic preacher has been giving 'jihad' or holy war a new meaning, by reportedly urging impoverished Muslims to take matters into their own hands and wage war on infidel institutions such as banks - by robbing them. "Are you poor? Don't cry about it, but wage jihad, also by holding up banks," London-based Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, a well-known supporter of al-Qaeda, urged the faithful in a sermon. A report on the sermon was published by website globalterroralert.com"Let's speak about jihad and how to obtain the spoils. Many Muslims complain about not having the financial means to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca," said al-Faysal. "Many are also sad because the women they want to marry rejects them because they are not wealthy enough," he added.
"Do you, like many, cry because you are poor? If so, wage jihad! Look at all the money stashed away in Swiss banks. There's bank in Brunei where King Fahd has deposited 30 million dollars," al-Faysal continued.
"If you are suffering from poverty, wage jihad and see the money pour into your hands," he exhorted.
Al-Faysal, who studied Sharia law in Saudi Arabia, has preached a number of sermons considered to have incited Muslim hatred towards Jews and Christians. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has asked Britain to expel him on the grounds that his presence in Britain is a threat to public order.
This is not really a new interpretation of jihad. Plundering the infidels has been part of jihad from the beginning.
Posted by Robert at April 14, 2005 7:47 AM
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Hard to decide whether this buffoonery is more pathetic than it is laughable or the other way round....
Can we pls have fawning interviews with these jokers splashed across every channel and magazine? let ppl see and decide for themselves what the self-certified 'religion of peace' promotes within its folds...
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at April 14, 2005 7:56 AM
British Muslims do not need to resort to robbing banks; they are supported quite handsomely by the benefits system in the UK.
Jizya by any other name.
http://www.islamic.co.uk/statistics/disadvantage.asp
Posted by: Charles Martel at April 14, 2005 8:14 AM
"Do you, like many, cry because you are poor? If so, wage jihad! Look at all the money stashed away in Swiss banks. There's bank in Brunei where King Fahd has deposited 30 million dollars," al-Faysal continued.
Al-Faysal, note, seems to be dimly aware that there are vast riches (which he vastly underestimates) held by Arabs. It is not "30 millon dollars" that King Fahd has on deposit in Brunei. Most likely it is 30 billion dollars, and how many hundreds of billions do the Saudis have in bank deposits all over the world, not to mention Prince Bandar's Aspen estate or Plantagenet hunting-lodge, the estates all over Virginia (but no riding to hounds, one suspects, in Upperville -- those horrible, un-Islamic doggish dogs get in the way).
Having studied in Saudi Arabia, this al-Faysal knows perfectly well how the rich Arabs live, with all their fantastic palaces (some with five or sex separate restaurants, fully-staffed, so that the owner may choose to attend a different restaurant, all within his own house, every night). But he cannot possibly argue for a redistribution of Muslim wealth. No, that is not possible. No Muslim may take from another Muslim, even if the Muslim who has the money stole it in the first place by appropriating the nation's wealth.
No, Islam is the perfect vehicle for diverting resentment of the poor Muslims -- to the Infidels. And the property of Infidels is really not their property, and their women not their women (the very idea of "their women" is a tellingly primitive phrase, fit for the 8th or 8th century -- but now?), and even their lives not their lives (their lives depend on whether or not they conform, when Muslims prevail, to the demands of the sharia upon all those lucky enough to be considered dhimmis and not killed at once). So rob those banks, burglarize those homes, take money from those non-Muslm French students protesting in Paris, ripping their jewelry from their vulnerable, NafNaf-clothed and softly soigne bodies.
Much better to steal, loot, destroy the Infidels. The world is ours. It belongs to us. We can do what we want to those who, by dint of being Infidels, deserve to possess nothing, deserve to be our prey.
Al-Faisal is only a specific example of a general attitude. It is not always shouted to followers. But all of Islam is instinct with the very idea: you can take what you want, you can treat as you want, the Infidels -- keeping in mind, of course, that where the Infidels prove too resistant, and Muslims do not yet dominate (which does not require a majority of the population, just a cohesive and powerful miniority), then one's outward and visible behavior must, for the moment, be quite different, full of sweetness and seeming light --treacly sweetness, lambent light.
Posted by: Hugh at April 14, 2005 8:37 AM
I suppose Red Ken Livingstone will come leaping to Al-Faysal's defence as he has Al-Qaradhawi's, saying that he was misquoted, taken out of context, etc., etc.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at April 14, 2005 8:47 AM
Robbing banks to end poverty. What a novel idea.
Al-Faisal must have been reading Mohammads book on bank robbery. It was required reading for all Mohammads early companions. Al Capone's mob also studied Mohammads heist methods. Machine gun Kelly and Babyface Nelson were among the converts, as were the famous "Bonnie and Clyde". Bonnie was the first female bank robbing jihadist...But like most of Mohammads schemes, there is a fatal flaw in the ointment...Getting shot and going to the slammer...Bank-robbing jihad can be fatal. I offer as proof that none of the above bank robbing jihadists are still alive. Even the most daring bank-robbing jihadists of all, John Dillinger, is dead. Killed in his prime by a law enforcement jihadist. So in spite of the good clerics opinion, bank-robbing jihad is probably not a good way to suppliment your welfare check. Better muslims stick with time honored, "safe", thievery. Like snatching purses from old women and extorting "milk" money from school children.
If you are a muslim reading this, consider these words before robbing any banks, you will thank me in the long run...swami..
at April 14, 2005 11:10 AM
And this guy comes from Jamaica?
He leaves a tropical paradise to go to drizzly old England to yell at people?
That alone should get him committed.
I guess Cat ("Off the Peace Train and onto the Jihad Juggernaut") Stevens got to this guy.
I'll take Bob Marley. And Reggae.
Where the women can dance freely and the world doesn't head for Hadithic headlock.
Deport him to Saudi Arabia, and let him yell about their wealth to their faces.
at April 14, 2005 11:10 AM
"Are you poor? Don't cry about it, but wage jihad, also by holding up banks," London-based Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, a well-known supporter of al-Qaeda, urged the faithful in a sermon.
Theft [and murder] has always been acceptable in Islam:
008.067 It is not fitting for a prophet that he should have prisoners of war [slay them] until he hath thoroughly subdued the land.
The Koran teaches its followers to disrespect authorities in non-Muslim lands:
005.051 O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors {authorities]: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them for friendship is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.
allah guides all who murder others who don't bow to allah.
So why should robbing the 'unbelievers' banks be such a horrible thing?
Shame on the authorities who support Islam.
Double shame on the self-professing 'Christian' leaders [who have a voice in this world] for not speaking the truth about Islam.
Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God [The God of the Word] is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
The same goes for nations
I believe we are only beginning to see - the results of the teachings of the Koran
All because the leaders refuse to speak the Truth
at April 14, 2005 11:49 AM
He must be the Islamic counterpart to Christian Health and Prosperity teachers. Where Tilton or Hinn would just fleece the flock and promise them god's blessing, this guy would have them rob someone else for god's blessing. Is that funny or what?
We live on a bizarre planet in wild times.
f.g.
at April 14, 2005 1:38 PM
This guy has been in jail since 2003 because of his inflammatory speeches. He got 9 years, and people don't get early release that early. How is it that this organisation has only got hold of the story now? It's old news.
Posted by: Yusuf Smith at April 14, 2005 7:24 PM
No one should be surprised. The mandate to steal from non-Muslims in the Koran and reinforced in the ahadiths and the sira, all books that non-Muslims should not permitted to read until they have subdued or "reverted" to Islam. At that time clerics will tell them what the passages really mean for Muslims are not allowed to think for themselves. Thus, telling them to rob banks is a natural outcome of participating in a religion created by a brigand.
Posted by: epg at April 14, 2005 9:07 PM
This fellow must have just finished reading Bat Ye'or's "The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam."
Posted by: Dilophos at April 14, 2005 10:08 PM
In jail - bloody hope so, but that doesn't stop him writing his bs.
All this the result of the menepausal marauderings of the walter mitty gofor who got his hands on his hard working wife's money to finance his banditry, whoring, murderous ways.
No woman was ever going to tell him, or any man, what to do anymore.
What a jerk.
Great choice of a mentor yusuf, not. - don't you think you could have done a little better ?
at April 15, 2005 2:12 AM
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