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Joseph C. Myers at The American Thinker eviscerates the surrender that the new DHS policy forbidding use of the word "jihad" represents:
[...] War is a complex endeavor, there are no silver-bullet weapons, theories, words or phrases that will disarm our enemies or shape the cultural attitudes of the jihadists or other fellow Muslims. Only how the Islamic world doctrinally perceives and receives the claims of legitimacy of al-Qaida and the rest of the global Islamic movement will determine that outcome -- not any mincing of words by the West.But it is important that we use the right words so that the West and the American people can understand the nature of our global challenge in this war as much as anyone else. [...]
Myers explains the traditional Islamic jihad doctrine -- involving, of course, warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers -- and then says:
That is why Brigadier S K Malik's Quranic Concept of War described jihad in terms of "grand strategy" and "total war" because it applies every element of force and suasion, every stratagem, every inducement and every coercion to submit the world to Islam. The "philosophy of war ... is an integral part of the total Quranic ideology" Malik stated. Note too, Malik was no Wahhabi or Salafist, he was a Pakistani general in 1979.Importantly, Khadduri before is not merely waxing historical platitudes because he follows by saying:
"Jurists who came afterward, up unto the very decline of Muslim power, merely introduced refinements and elaborations of these basic principals. No essential difference among the leading jurists is to be found on this fundamental duty [of jihad], whether in orthodox or heterodox doctrine."(p.58 and 16 )Do these wordsmiths understand the implication of what Khadduri is describing?
It means the jurists agree.
It means ulemic consensus.
It means al-ijma and that means that this legal obligation of jihad is "unquestionable truth" it cannot be ignored, abrogated, or contravened and for a Muslim to willingly deny the truth of jihad or of the religion "thereby becomes an unbeliever (kafir) and is executed for his unbelief. (Umdat al-Salik p. 109)
It means this applies today, now, tomorrow.
Do not doubt the jihadists of al-Qaida, and the al Qaida “movement” and the Muslim Brotherhood “movement” and Hizb ut-Tahrir, Lakshar e-Taiba, Jamaat-e-Islami,
and Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Salah Sultan and Abdurahman Alamoudi, Sami al-Arian, Esam Omeish and Niwad Awad and all the rest of the affiliated Ikhwan front groups in America and mujtahid of the “global Islamic movement” fully understand this. Do not doubt that any schooled Muslim does not understand these tenets of jihad as well whether they adhere to them or not.The Homeland Security policy stated:
U.S. officials may be "unintentionally portraying terrorists, who lack moral and religious legitimacy, as brave fighters, legitimate soldiers or spokesmen for ordinary Muslims," says a Homeland Security report.This cannot be documented as fact.
Can the drafter and the approval authority of that Homeland Security report cite where the terrorists "lack moral and religious legitimacy?" Can they cite their incontrovertible sourcing? If so I want to see it; I have searched for it.
So have I, and I haven't found it either.
Read it all, read it all.
Posted by Robert at May 4, 2008 7:19 AM
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This is one of the most important articles you have put up.
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at May 4, 2008 8:18 AM
And thus the Meccan Candidates for their party's nomination.
Posted by: emet-veritas at May 4, 2008 8:48 AM
I have just gone to the original and read it all. I agree with Hugh's assessment.
Paging those of us here who are not American, but Canadian, or Australian (especially we Australians, since the USA is our friend and ally and the folly that Mr Myers has described, is highly contagious), New Zealanders, Canadians, Filipinos, Israelis, British, Indian...
we should be printing off Mr Myers' article, and sending it, suitably highlighted, with a brief and pointed covering letter, to our Ministers of Defence, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, and Ministers of Immigration.
Enclose with it a copy of 'Islam: What the West Needs to Know'.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at May 4, 2008 8:52 AM
I agree with the posters above: indeed a most important article, which needs to be spread further than the shores of the USA.
There is one point the author briefly addresses, and which might be taken up here and in discussions elsewhere, and that is the question why those in power are not willing to treat Islam, and jihad as its most malevolent expression, in the same way as the Communist states and Communist parties were treated during the Cold War?
It bears repeating that Islam is an ideology, and that we are fighting an enemy whose belief system, cloaked as religion, is inimical to our values on all levels of life.
I'm more and more inclined to think that the label 'Religion' allows too many secular, atheist and agnostic people in the Western World to simply switch off. After all, to them all religions are useless fairy tales, so their believers don't need to be taken seriously as long as one acknowledges their 'cultural' differences.
That is precisely why such 'Wortregelungen' (a process much beloved by Goebbels and his Propaganda Ministry, btw! it means: regulation of expressions (words) ...) are made: one doesn't wish to 'hurt' the 'religious' feelings - and thus fails to recognise that the ideological enemy is within the gates.
Posted by: Calon Lan at May 4, 2008 9:25 AM
And this from Imam Bukhari: "Jihad is holy fighting in Allah's Cause with full force of numbers and weaponry. It is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars. By Jihad Islam is established, Allah's Word is made superior (which means only Allah has the right to be worshiped), and Islam is propagated. By abandoning Jihad Islam is destroyed and Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honor is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim. He who tries to escape from this duty, or does not fulfill this duty, dies as a hypocrite."
Well, that about sums it up. Send that to Homeland...
Posted by: duh_swami at May 4, 2008 10:36 AM
This sounds like more political correctness gone wild. We aren't allowed to name our enemy, since we might offend all those peaceful moderate muslims living in the west. You know, the ones who will reform islam, but are as silent as a herd of unicorns.
And by the way, don't the jihadists actually have religious legitimacy, since jihad is mandated in the koran?
It seems that either the DHS is in the hands of the jihadists, or they're simply stupid. Either way, we're screwed.
Posted by: s at May 4, 2008 11:02 AM
Public acknowledgment and acceptance from the administration of the Underlying Causes would fan the flames in Islamist presses for the minions of the Beast to become more active in jihad. I think I see what they are trying to do. I hope it works, and there will be less idiotic acts happening in the world because of it. Who will ever know if public acknowledgment of the truth is the best strategy at this time?
I read Turkey is offering a more moderate version of Islam to the hapless Pakistani's. This probably from some secret think tank George and Condi put together recently ... , ...
The jugular of the Beast is the belief that words and thoughts generated by the Qu'ran are inspired by the Creator. First one to get close enough to cut it is the dude of Dudes.
Posted by: k24anson at May 4, 2008 12:25 PM
The world needs to know, to openly acknowledge what we see and sense, to plainly describe this phenomenon, this engine of Islamic expansion and supremacism, to speak its name:
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at May 4, 2008 12:37 PM
Here's one for the fans of Western propaganda:
I would insert the gist of this article to be disseminated inside as many Islamist newspapers and magazines, and to be talked about in as many television and radio outlets as possible.
The common Islamist man is inside a culture where only putzy things happen. In comparison to Western civilization, the "men" of Islam are about nothing of importance, and this fact I would enjoy hitting them over their dumb heads, and shoving it down their dumb throats. This article is one way to do so.
And obviously someone other than myself should write the actual words to the scripts and dialogs to make the above media presentation message more palatable to the minds of the common knuckleheaded man, and to the nice, gullible, impressionable, manipulative little boys and girls inside Islamoland who know no better in life. We can hope the next generation will be more receptive to the better and more interesting things in life, yes?
Posted by: k24anson at May 4, 2008 1:47 PM
There is no real 'Islamic Witness' in the sense that a Christian can bear individual witness.
Jihad is Islamic witness - Muhammad/Quran were VERY clear on this, Islam triumphant is 'the witness' of the triumph of Islam.
Muslims who do not actively assist this triumph are HYPOCRITES and do not deserve the name of Muslims. Islam established is a pure and inhuman stasis; an absolute dictatorship of body, mind and soul.
Posted by: poetcomic1 at May 4, 2008 2:04 PM
duh_swami,
Not to be contentious, but can you directly attribute the quote to Bukhari? So far I've found:
The passage itself can be found in two places. It is on page 39 of the Noble Qur'an translation by Muhammad Khan and distributed by "King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an-The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. It is a footnote to Qur'an 2.190 and is designed to explain Jihad according to Allah as this is the first time the word is used.And it can be found on page 580 of the Islamic University of Medina's translation of Sahih al-Bukhari's Hadith. There it opens Bukhari's Book of Jihad.
Elsewhere, Bukhari does appear to define Jihad as holy (religious) fighting:
Bukhari:V1B2N25 "Allah's Apostle was asked, 'What is the best deed?' He replied, 'To believe in Allah and His Apostle Muhammad.' The questioner then asked, 'What is the next best in goodness?' He replied, 'To participate in Jihad, religious fighting in Allah's Cause.'"
Posted by: Concerned Citizen at May 4, 2008 3:32 PM
Concerned Citizen...On a dead hardrive I had that quote with acknowledgments. It was from Bukhari's Book of Jihad, and gave book and pg numbers etc.
I tried to remember just where I got that, but I read so much of this stuff, I forget locations of info.
You are right, this is a description, not a hadith, but it is a pretty good one. It is a footnote to Quran 2:190, I don't see who is the author. There must be one. Another mystery to look into, if Bukhari did not actually author it, who did?
Thanks for making me curious about something I said.
Now I have something to do... :)
at May 4, 2008 7:16 PM
The Roots of the Fourth Estate run deep and wide.
Posted by: flowerknife_us at May 4, 2008 8:14 PM
But the cowardly US government and EUrabia cowards never minced words demonizing the entire Serbian people, always using the frase "the Serbs" as they directed false accusations and vile insults at them.
In both cases, the motivation is the same: dhimmitude. They slander, scourge and crucify Serbia to please the Muslims, but avoid identifying the Islamic Jihadist enemy by name, because they are terrified of displeasing the Muslims.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Posted by: Enragedsince1999 at May 4, 2008 8:37 PM
This message is for Condi!
Jihadi Rats are Muslims!
Jihadi terrorists are Muslims
Jihadis are Islamodumbs
Jihadis are the lowest order of rats
Jihadis are traitors
Jihadis are filthy
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Finaly, Condi wakeup and smell the Jihadists!
Posted by: Lebanese at May 5, 2008 11:01 AM
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