These rats don't love death like they claim they do.

Posted by: DCWatson at September 9, 2005 8:35 AM

on a related note, my DEFEAT JIHAD stickers arrived in fine shape yesterday. For those of you who, like me, work in the trades and drive a van, I highly recommend placing the sticker under the rear window or, if no window, about half-way up the door. Don't let it get lost down on the bumper. The placement should be at EYE-LEVEL in relation to the car behind you. That way, even if the guy behind you is in a commute-induced hypnotic state, sooner or later it will register when sitting at a red light, traffic-jam, etc.

Posted by: t-ham at September 9, 2005 8:59 AM

Todays's to do list...

Wash dishes
Take out trash
Kill an infidel

"We simply love jihad and its path"

The first time I've seen the word "love" used by a Muslim of any stripe.

Posted by: kojak at September 9, 2005 10:14 AM

The Arab war against Israel is a classic Jihad. It can be called the Lesser Jihad, and bega before the OPEC oil money, and the mass migration of Muslims behind Infidel (enemy) lines, and because Israel is in the midst of the dar al-Islam, and besides is an Infidel state run by the heretofore despised Jews, a particularly intolerable affront.

But the Lesser Jihad against Israel is merely a subset of, and not (as appeasers of the Throw-Israel-to-the-Wolves variety argue) a substitute for it. The larger Infidel world is now subject to what can no longer be hidden: the Greater Jihad, the classic Jihad to spread Islam until it covers the globe, and Islam, and Muslims, everywhere dominate. To many non-Muslims, this seems to be a fantastic dream. But it is not. Do the demographic math. In Holland, thirty years ago, there were 15,000 Muslims. Today, 1 million -- and the country is a much more unpleasant, expensive, and dangerous place as a result, and the Dutch do not know what to do. In France, there are 5-7 million Muslims. Some "integrate." Some (especially Berbers) even leave Islam. But most do not, and there is always the possibility that the seemingly well-integrated may, for obscure as well as obvious reasons, for personal as well as larger political reasons, "revert" to "immoderate" Islam. The same is true in Great Britain, in Spain, in Germany, in Belgium. Italy seems, for various peculiar reasons, the least likely to exhibit appeasement. Andreotti, that famous crook, was pro-Arab and anti-Israel merely out of the usual financial considerations, and not, one suspects, out of some failure to understand Islam (he was too intelligent for that, but may have suppressed his understanding because he felt the Arabs were too rich to offend, and he could not conceive that Islam was a civlizational threat, possibly out of contempt for Islam).

Though very few would recognize it, the Infidels of Europe in fact owe the Israelis a debt. For it is they who, like a lightning rod, have until recently borne the brunt of Arab and Muslim hatred and attention. Only now, with the first feeble moves to constrain Islam and Muslm power in Europe (and the word "feeble" fits), are some in Europe beginning to look at the history of Jihad, to read Bat Ye'or on the treatment of non-Muslims, and to rediscover the texts (some of which have been usefully compiled and reprinted in the forthcoming "The Legacy of Jihad" by Andrew Bostom) that show Jihad is not an intermittent but a constant, not tangential but central, and that whenever Jihad seemed to disappear as a motivating force, it was only because Muslims were in a state either of contented ignorance about the outside world (as in a village under Ottoman rule), or were too obviouisly lacking in the wherewithal to conduct Jihad. But neither of those conditions, which alone explain the absence of the call to Jihad, any longer obtains. Now the wherewithal exists; it is the reveneus from an accdient of geology. The knowledge of the non-Muslim world also exists, and indeed Muslims were permitted by non-Muslims to move en masse behind what the Muslims at least (or most of them) can only regard as enemy lines -- without that enemy comprehending what it has done to itself.

The Lesser Jihad against Israel is simply part of the Greater Jihad against all non-Muslims. And so are those other Lesser Jihads, such as that carried on against Hindus (in Pakistan, where they have been persecuted and driven out, in Bangladesh -- ditto; in the Indian-controlled parts of Kashmir, and in India itself). Muslims view these various local jihads as related; they have no hesitation in mouthing over and over again the list: Palestine, Iraq, Kashmir, Bosnia, and so on. These are the places where the Infidels are militarily superior. But there are other Jihads within countries, where the Muslims have been and remain superior. Such for example is the campaign of murder against Christians in the Sudan, or the persecution and smaller-scale massacres in Nigeria (the "Jihad" against the Ibos and other Christians led to the declaration by the latter of their independence), with the Biafran War leading to a million Ibo deaths; in Indonesia, where the war against the Christians first in East Timor -- illegally seized by Indonesia -- and then in the Moluccas and in other islands, continues wherever and whenever it can.

This is exactly what Arabs and Muslism, though they see the connections, do not wish the Infidels to see. They do not want us to read what is stated in Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira about Infidels, and what is to be done, or what in fact was done, to them. They do not want you to read about the real (as opposed to the falsified) history of the treatment of all non-Muslims -- Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, Buddhists, Confucians, under Muslim rule.

When a sufficient number of people in the Western world, in the press and television, and in governments, begin to fully grasp that Islam is not merely a religion but a geopolitical program for conquest. Western students of the origins of Islam have no difficulty showing that the belief-system is a mixture of pre-Islamic Arab pagan lore, with stories and figures appropriated, often in distorted fashion, from both Judaism and Christianity. It was the perfect vehicle for justifying Arab conquest, and promoting further conquest -- something that "looked familiar" to those who were richer, culturally more advanced, but militarily less organized and powerful, and some of whom could be convinced, over time, that this uncreated and eternal belief-system was the true version of the inferior, distorted versions (Judaism, Christianity) and this view, combined with the steady pressure of the cruel status of dhimmi, inevitably led over time to a falling-away from the original beliefs, and an acceptance of Islam -- not by all, not even by most, but steadily, a little all the time. And when one combines the grim legal status of non-Muslims with the physical insecurity, the mass killings that could occur whenever a local Muslim population was whipped up (as with the massacre of all the Jews of Granada in 1066), whenevever it could be claimed that this or that non-Muslim was not complying with the rules that governed the "protected peoples," the entire non-Muslim community to which such an individual belonged could be made to pay the price.

Posted by: Hugh at September 9, 2005 10:32 AM

By coincidence, in today's FrontPageMag.com, a symposium on the female bombers:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19432

and continued here:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=19435&p=1

I remember when the story first broke about the first female Palestinian suicide bomber, a sixteen year old. First reports suggested that her martyrdom came as a surprise as her father did business with the Israelis. If so, what this may actually suggest is that she was selected and cultivated deliberately as a means of punishing the father. Naturally, the media would never have made such a connection, and later, stories emerged of her family being proud of her martyrdom, etc., etc.

Posted by: waterdragon52 at September 9, 2005 12:21 PM

It must be what smoking camel poop does to a body...

(apparently it makes them believe in idiotic things like Islam's version of heaven!).

Posted by: pythagoras at September 9, 2005 1:23 PM

Hugh wrote: "The Lesser Jihad against Israel is simply part of the Greater Jihad against all non-Muslims." He is correct. Indeed what is new in this statement is: "jihad and resistance until THE LANDS are liberated." The truth be told it is not just about Palestine any more.

Posted by: David England at September 9, 2005 1:59 PM

Hamas is financed by Iran. And David England, it never was just about Palestine. It's about Islam conquering the whole world.

Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at September 9, 2005 3:10 PM

David England:

Truth be told it [jihad] was never just about Israel, and never was. The creation of the Jewish state was just a coindental bit of fall-out arising from the demise of the last caliphate and sentiments following the Holocaust. After all, the Crimean War was not fought on behalf of the Jews of Eastern Europe.

The focus on Israel has been a convenient one. Rousing anti-Jewish sentiment is easy enough. Play it up as an attack on poor Muslims by wealthy Jews and their wealthier Christian state patron and you've got it made.

Posted by: waterdragon52 at September 9, 2005 3:23 PM

If the muslim male " martyrs " himself he supposedly receives 72 virgins. If the muslim female " martyrs " herself she gets ??? Does that make her a whore?

Posted by: uradumone at September 9, 2005 8:43 PM

"uradumone", could that be how Muslim lesbians get their rewards in the afterlife?

Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at September 9, 2005 9:27 PM

T-ham:

More bumper stickers:

Want martyrdom? We'll give it.

Choke Bin Laden with pork fat

I remember 9/11 even if you don't.

I DON'T brake for small jihadis.

Posted by: Kepha at September 9, 2005 10:15 PM

Uradumone wrote: If the muslim male " martyrs " himself he supposedly receives 72 virgins. If the muslim female " martyrs " herself she gets ??? I have researched this point specifically. I believe I found from Mufti Ebrahim Desai at http://islam.tc/ask-imam/index.php that the female martyr gets back her husband, if he was good! If he was not good, she gets one new male stud.

Posted by: David England at September 10, 2005 6:29 AM

A female murderess receives the same fate as a male murderer. She receives a chance to explain why she thought murder was going to please G-d, then on to her eternal position..such as it is.

Posted by: pismopal at September 10, 2005 9:15 AM

I know that both husband and wife " martyrs " will be united in the after life... eternally in hell.

Posted by: uradumone at September 10, 2005 6:53 PM