This is nothing new. Long before the advent of the so-called 'Palestinian nationalism' (which came along when the arabs realized that they can only defeat Israel through getting the 'progressive' world on their side), the de facto leader of the Palestinian arabs said "Palestine is nothing but a Zionist invention. There has never been a Palestine. We have always been a part of greater Syria."

//dolphin,
CAGE co-founder.
http://www.acage.org/

Posted by: dolphin at May 27, 2007 8:49 AM

Let them cause as much trouble for Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries, that will then deal with them in a Muslim, rather than Infidel, manner -- possibly a lesson for those watching Infidels as to the real nature of Muslim regimes. But no one should be fooled into calling the regimes that are threatened as being, therefore, our "allies or "staunch allies." Muslims who wish to refrain at this point from active participation in the violent Jihad, but have shown themselves willing to support with money and in other ways those who do so, and who celebrate this or that terrorist group, are not our friends nor our allies. We want to keep them busy, with as many internal threats as may develop -- busy, and using up their own, not our, resources.

The Bush Adminstration's fixation on Al Qaeda, and refusal to name, as groups identical in their promptings with Al Qaeda but differing only in the fact that for the moment most of these other groups are identified with local or Lesser Jihads -- Lashkar-e-Toiba, say, or Lashkar Jihad, or Jemaa Islamiya, or Hamas, or Hezbollah -- and the dreamy vision of the "good Muslims" threatened by the "bad Muslims" of Al Qaeda, is not the least of its many misconceptions. And these misconceptions, if they persist in the general population, lead inexorably to a failure to properly guard against the menace not of Al Qaeda, but the menace presented by the natural and reasonable understanding of Qur'an, Hadith, and sira, that many, even most, Muslims would or could arrive at -- as 1350 years of Muslim history suggest.

Posted by: Hugh at May 27, 2007 10:19 AM

Wherever there are Islamics, there is jihad. We here know that. If it is difficult for our leaders to understand that, we will be fighting brush-fires here and there, wherever they pop up, or think of a dam with leaks springing up one place then another, and our leadership rushing about trying to stem the spouts of water.

Taking the dam analogy a step further, it is the (poisoned) water behind the dam that must be drained and reduced to a puddle.

The water behind the dam is spring-fed. The location of the springs is known. They have names: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan.

The poison lake behind the dam can only be drained if the springs are stopped up. Otherwise they will keep filling the poison lake faster than we can drain it.

Difficult to understand? Yes, if you have little imagination and less insight. It also takes a modicum of intelligence and common sense--not necessarily a superior IQ. To a mind operating like an old 78 rpm record stuck on the same track, it is incomprehensible.

Posted by: unicorns62000 at May 27, 2007 5:04 PM

Yes well Iraq does need to come up with Exports but maybe Jihad wouldn't be the most profitable for them.

Posted by: payingattention at May 28, 2007 7:01 AM

Wait until Jihad gets a return on their investment....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at May 29, 2007 1:28 PM

lmao @ "export jihad"...as if they all haven't been for centuries already...lmao

Posted by: jcom972 at May 29, 2007 11:21 PM

I say export porno....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at May 30, 2007 9:19 AM