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This article from The Jerusalem Post (thanks to Sr. Soph) reports Palestinian support and opposition to an al-Qaeda presence in the Gaza strip. Whatever the mood of the average Gazan and whether or not al-Qaeda is using Hamas as a proxy, there can be no doubt that the volatile situation in the region will only result in more jihad.
Has al-Qaida started operating in the Gaza Strip? A leaflet distributed in Khan Yunis over the weekend by al-Qaida's "Palestine branch" announced that the terrorist group has begun working towards uniting the Muslims under one Islamic state."The Muslim nation has been subjected, through various periods, to conspiracies by the infidels," the leaflet said. "[The infidels] have brought down the Islamic Caliphate, dividing the nation into small and weak states. They also managed to dilute the Islamic and character of the nation."
The leaflet said unity was the only way for Muslims to achieve victory over their enemies, adding that the terrorist group's chief goal was to enforce Islamic law in the entire world.
"Our efforts are now focused on establishing a strong and unified Muslim nation where love prevails among all its members," it added.
The utopian ideal is reiterated. Islam will reign supreme; the ummah will control every aspect of society and the infidel will pay the jizya to finance the earthly bliss.
Palestinians reacted with mixed feelings to reports that al-Qaida had begun operating in the Gaza Strip."The Palestinian Authority is responsible for this new phenomenon," said a resident of Gaza City named Nizar. "Extremist rhetoric in some areas, especially in mosques, produces such cases. The Palestinian Authority is to blame because it is preventing economic development and prosperity, particularly in the refugee camps, where it is easy to recruit unemployed and frustrated young men."
According to Nizar, some areas in the southern Gaza Strip are already beginning to resemble Afghanistan when it was ruled by the Taliban. "This is very disturbing," he remarked. "You see more and more women covering their faces and in the mosques you hear extremely radical sermons. The people there are behaving as if they were members of a tribe in Afghanistan."
Another Gaza City resident, Fadel, urged al-Qaida to stop tampering with the future of the Palestinians. "They're not welcome here," he said. "Their presence will only destroy our lives."
However, some Palestinians welcomed the news about al-Qaida's presence in Gaza. "This is good news and we welcome al-Qaida in Palestine – from the sea to the river," said a Khan Yunis resident named Ayman.
Last week al-Qaida's new on-line television channel branded PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas a "collaborator with the Jews," accusing him of assisting Israel in its war on Hamas.
The restored Caliphate will have no tolerance for those who have "collaborated" with the Jews.
Posted by at October 10, 2005 5:54 AM
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"Last week al-Qaida's new on-line television channel branded PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas a "collaborator with the Jews," accusing him of assisting Israel in its war on Hamas."
--- from the article above
Mahmoud Abbas was for more than three decades the loyal collaborator and confidant, corrupt but not the most corrupt (that was the Big Boss himself - no one could outdo him) of Arafat. He knew of, and never was on record as disapproving of, all sorts of acts of terror (see, for example, the murder of the American ambassador Cleo Noel in Khartoum).
But his shtick as soft-spoken accountant has worked for those desperate for, and therefore allowing themselves to believe in, a "solution" to the relentless Arab Muslim Jihad on Israel. The Big Boss would put on that guerrilla uniform (he was near at most one battle in his entire life, that at Karameh, and even in that, it was the Jordanians, not the "Palestinians," who did the fighting, and took the casualties inflicted by the Israelis who, as soon as they had made their point, did not "retreat" but simply withdrew) and of course that keffiyah, so carefully draped each morning so that it would offer an outline of "Palestine" was part of getting ready for his close-up by the Big Boss, who could do nothing about the spittle that so often drooled from his rubbery lips; as a physical specimen he was surely one of the most repulsive in world history.
Not Abbas. He's the Quiet Man, the Accountant, Double-Entry Bookkeeping, all that. He wears a Western suit, and that un-Islamic tie. He speaks softly. He lies, and tricks, and attempts to fool; he is hardly a model of self-abnegation and enjoys the general corruption and cronyism that eveyrone around Arafat took as a matter of course. But his outward aspect, and his strategy, is different.
He believes, rightly, that Al-Qaeda has made the world more wary of Islam, and of Muslim terrorism. He knows that his most intelligent strategy is the salami-one, Israel slice by slice. Egypt did its part, with a hysterically grateful Israel (also forced, of course, by malelent Carter and equally malevolent Brzezinski, neither one of whom to this day would ever admit that there were better things that might have been done with the Sinai -- permnanent American bases, and the whole area on long-term American lease, for one such possibliity, and neither of whom then or now gave any sign of understanding, or beginning to understand, Islam). That was 96% of the area that Israel won in the Six-Day War.
Now it is time for the "Palestinian" people to do their part, to cut into Israel. First, the classic invasion route from Gaza must be fully under Arab -- i.e. "Palestinian" -- control. Then it is on to the "West Bank" (a name dreamed up after the first Arab war on Israel, in order to sever the connection between the area and Jews, in the smae spirit, for the same aims, asthe Romans when they about 1800 years ago renamed Judea "Palestine" and Jerusalem "Aelia Capitolina").
And Abbas is the leader of the Slow Jihad. Take it slow. Demoralize and confuse the Israelis. With each new offer, pocket it, then go on and on -- until finally the obvious sticking point is reached (Jerusalem). The Israelis will keep thinking, and the Americans will keep acting, as if in the end mere economic support, "prosperity" (which is not possible, given the nature of the land, and the inshallah-fatalism of its self-primitivized population, consumed with hate that cannot be bought off) will end the belief-system that impels the Arabs, in this case the "Palestinian" Arabs, to live lives that will always remained unfulufilled and unhappy as long as Infidels, Jews, possess a sliver of land within Dar al-Islam. For that is against everything Right and Just and Proper. Non-Muslims do not have rights to land. Why, what would that make Islam? Just another religion, supposed to co-exist as an equal with Unbelievers?
Are you kidding?
What must frustrate Abbas is that he has in a thousand ways indicated that he wants exactly what Arafat, or Shukairy before him, or Hamas or Hezbollah or Islamic Jihad, or for that matter Al-Qaeda, all want -- he wants to see Israel disappear.
It's just that he is more clever, and more realistic. And more effective.
Why can't they understand, and give a Slow Jihadist like Abbas (or for that matter, like Erdogan, or Tariq Ramadan) a chance?
Life is so unfair.
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at October 10, 2005 9:16 AM
Welcome to Gazastan, in the throes of becoming a peaceful Muslim nation on the Mediterranean.
As the curtain of Jihad descends on this swamp, see how many Christians still there survive the religion of peace and tolerance.
at October 10, 2005 9:16 AM
Abu Abbas a collaborator? 'Friends' like that we can do without.
at October 10, 2005 11:18 AM
Some people simply do deserve a good long dose of extreme Shariah. Gaza can provide the world with a perfect showcase for the full measure of Islamic perfection in a society. It is still small and most of it is easily contained by the existing fortified border infrastructure with Israel. We could think of it as being a sort of Islamic ant farm.
So here is the Islamic world's chance to show the rest of us what glorious achievements their ideology can manifest in a society given the opportunity. So to the Islamic world I say, here's your chance, show us why the Islamic ideology is the perfect solution to all the world's problems. Money should be no problem as I'm sure all of your oil-rich brothers in the ummah will generously share the wealth in sufficient quantities to build a firm economic foundation for a new golden Islamic Palestinian society.
Go ahead. Show us. We dare you.
Posted by: Hulegu Khan at October 10, 2005 1:58 PM
"Our efforts are now focused on establishing a strong and unified Muslim nation where love prevails among all its members"
Sorry, we've seen your version of "love" among Muslims in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan, and we're really not impressed. The Iran-Iraq war was a particularly spectacular display of intra-Islam love.
Posted by: special_guest at October 10, 2005 2:29 PM
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Posted by: otterfisher at October 14, 2005 3:01 PM
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