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This is actually not altogether surprising. Back in 1998, Bin Laden declared that “we find that the only age group capable of giving and waging jihad is the 15-25 age bracket” (The Al Qaeda Reader, 267). According to Ayman Zawahiri: “Let the Muslim youth not await anyone’s permission, for jihad against the Americans, Jews, and their alliance of hypocrites and apostates is an individual obligation, as we have demonstrated [based on an Ibn Taymiyya fatwa],” (Ibid, 114).
“Al Qaeda Expanding Recruitment of Children,” by Farhan Bokhari for CBS News, July 4:
Al Qaeda has successfully established a network for recruiting boys as young as 12 from across central Asia as it seeks new volunteers to enlarge its team of prospective suicide bombers and militants fighters, senior security officials from the Middle East have revealed to CBS News.News of al Qaeda venturing into the former Soviet central Asian republics with a population that has a largely Muslim heritage marks a significant addition to reports earlier this year that the hardline group had recruited young boys in the Pak-Afghan border region.
Last May, a senior Pakistani security official showed a rare video clip to CBS News documenting a boy, barely 12 years old, using a machete to severe the head of a middle-aged man whom militants probably suspected as being a spy for the U.S.
In an execution which typified the Taliban brand of quick justice, that boy severed the head of his victim who was completely tied up and thrown on the ground as a crowd of hundreds of spectators cheered.
The mountains visible in the background of the video suggest that it was carried out in the rugged terrain somewhere in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“The effort to recruit young boys for the cause has been extended to central Asia. We have reports that this effort may now be up to two years old,” said one senior Middle Eastern security official who spoke to CBS News on condition of anonymity.
He said al Qaeda appears to have had more success in central Asian countries such as Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - the two states at the center of Islamic militancy - compared to other central Asian republics.
Posted by Raymond at July 5, 2008 6:05 AM
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at July 5, 2008 6:27 AM
Why not? They've already been indoctrinated. No need to make them wait for their own glory. At least those young boys can make a decision.
Nothing is lower than using your own infant children to commit murder.
at July 5, 2008 6:55 AM
This is further proof, you are not required and indeed a prequisite that you need not have a mind of your own and reasoning to believe in this black death cult called islam.
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at July 5, 2008 7:29 AM
Towards the end of WWII the Japanese expanded their use of Kamikaze pilots against allied naval warships. It was a sign of their desperation and in sacraiicing many of their best pilots, they only hastened their own end. Could this be an indication of the jihadist's own desperation?
Posted by: George Mc. at July 5, 2008 8:24 AM
Once again these cowards show that there is no tactic that is too wicked or underhanded for them to use.
Posted by: The Cool Ghoul at July 5, 2008 8:25 AM
sacrificing, not sacraiicing. mea culpa.
Posted by: George Mc. at July 5, 2008 8:51 AM
Running low on zombies, hey?
Posted by: Hedgehog at July 5, 2008 9:12 AM
Will those underaged boys get underaged virgins too?
at July 5, 2008 9:27 AM
From the Waziristan Times:
"Dennis the Menace, having embraced Islam, finally lends credibility to his rakish nickname, as he becomes a martyr in eliminating the infidel Wilson household."
at July 5, 2008 9:28 AM
I'm not surprised.
1) Young boys are more likely to get through security measures
2) Jihadists have well-known sexual proclivities, which the MSM never talks about
at July 5, 2008 9:29 AM
Toward the end of World War II Hitler and his millions of willing collaborators put into service younger and younger members of the Hitler Youth, to man anti-aircraft stations and to be part of the last-ditch resistance. But no one should complacently assume that the similar use of such young boys -- sublunary "pearly boys" akin to those promised to shahids in the Muslim Paradise, with some of them no doubt having been put to other uses by their Al Qaeda or Talibanesque masters, as is so common a practice in that region, especially but not only in Afghanstinan -- spells an end to Jihad.
Jihad has no end. The Nazis could be defeated, so crushed that Nazism as a menace was ended. But there are still Nazis around, and endless vigilance must be taken, and is taken, quite rightly, in Germany to monitor them. Mussolini was crushed, but there are still Fascists. The Emperor-worship of Japanese militarists, the cult of Kodo, was crushed by American military victory in the Pacific, but there are still those in Japan, a very small group, who would if they could resurrect the dreams of the old militarists. Soviet Communism has lost its power, to be replaced not by democracy but by a parody of capitalism that exhibits all of that capitalism's worst features and none of its benefits (crony or state capitalism, whereby what had been owned by the state is un-nationalized, but essentially handed over, in the case of the largest businesses -- oil and other resources -- to a handful of the rulers and their well-connected courtiers). But Communism as an ideology is not dead.
And Islam has more than a billion Believers. Some are more dangerous than others, and that danger depends on the precise degree of belief in Islam. The greater that belief, the greater the willingness to participate in Jihad directly rather than merely indirectly, as part of the Umma, offering moral and perhaps financial support. And the greater the willingness to particpate directly not in other (possibly more effective) forms of Jihad, but in violent Jihad. Islam is forever. It can be contained. It can be weakened. Appeals can be made to the 80% of the world's Muslims who are non-Arabs to recognize Islam as a carrier or vehicle of Arab supremacism. The ethnic, sectarian, and economic fissures within the Camp of Islam can be exploited. Even, within the sub-camp of Arab Islam, the resentments that sometimes appear between the "Arabs of the North" (i.e., Syria, Lebanon, Iraq) who consider themselves civilizationallly superior to the infuriatingly much richer " Arabs of the South" (Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Kuwait, Qatar, etc.), and the resentment of the "Arabs of the South" for those who, while looking down upon them, also are keenly aware of the riches that some Arabs in the North naturally believe should be shared to a much greater extent by the rich "Arabs of the South" (and meanwhile, some of those "Arabs of the North" as in Syria seem willing to support Iran in its own territorial claims in the Gulf (as with the Tunb Islands) and in other claims to better represent the pan-Islamic cause.
These are all fissures to be identified, studied, and intelligent plans made to exploit them, by at the very least doing nothing to try, as in Iraq, to make those fissures less wide, to make Sunni and Shi'a, for example, compromise with each other, or to force the Kurds to give up their hopes for an independent Kurdistan, when such a chance, for them, may never come again.
But the use of child-martyrs means nothing to the Muslims. The PLO and its latest avatars -- Hamas among the Gazan Arabs, Islamic Jihad among the "West Bank" Arabs, and no doubt Hezbollah too, have all been willing to sacrifice not only the willing True Believer, but also the unwilling or unaware, such as those who are mentally retarded, or children too young to know what is going on.
What do you think was the final disposition of Mohammad al-Dura? Do you think he was allowed to live, so that he might someday be identified? Don't be silly.
Posted by: Hugh
at July 5, 2008 10:37 AM
Get em young while they are still dumb...
Posted by: duh_swami at July 5, 2008 10:38 AM
Posted by duh_swami:
Get em young while they are still dumb...
And so why the hurry? Seems the ones with the proclivity to blow themselves up pretty much remain dumb.
at July 5, 2008 10:54 AM
Africa also has "child soldiers" they are not recruited but pressed into service. Many think that the epidemic of aids that has left so many children parentless is a factor.
Criminal gangs also like to recruit youngsters.
Most militaries in the modern world try to rely on young men as soldiers, my inquiries after 911 showed me that the military does not want men whose service was back in the 60s or 70s.
War, except for the generals, usually is young men fighting other young men.
When recruitment starts going ever downward it is a sign of weakness, perhaps many Muslims do not see the advantage of giving their sons to psychotic murderers? In fact I have read of a few parents who sent their sons to a madrassa to learn their religion and were not happy at all when the madrassa sent their son to alkida to be used as disposable bombs.
Posted by: stickman at July 5, 2008 11:10 AM
And so why the hurry? Seems the ones with the proclivity to blow themselves up pretty much remain dumb.
Posted by: Richard
Some of them move away from the suicide side of things. You have to get them early before they learn too much of the outside world. The dumb ones will stay with you but the smart ones will say thank you, but no thank you.
Posted by: PMK at July 5, 2008 11:47 AM
The older men who are their instructors have to kill off large numbers of younger men and boys so that there will be a large excess of single young women and girls from which the instructors may take their 3rd and 4th wives. They're thinning out the competition.
Posted by: ebonystone at July 5, 2008 1:10 PM
As detestable and low all this is it is not anything new. I would contend that this is a form of sacrifice based upon their deluded belief. The leaders perpetuating this know the truth but also know and justify this because of the darkness of their hearts. Not letting the boys of the hook their guilt is not as great.
Offering and killing children is just another proof that this is not of God and is just the opposite no matter how it is perversely justified.
The context of the below verse is that the nation around Israel all had there own gods which they had made up.
2 Kings 17:31
The Avvites worshiped their gods Nibhaz and Tartak. And the people from Sepharvaim even burned their own children as sacrifices to Adrammelech and Anammelech.
2 ملوك 17:31
وقد avvites يعبد آلهة على nibhaz وtartak. والناس من sepharvaim أحرق حتى اطفالهم كما adrammelech والتضحيات لanammelech.
at July 5, 2008 5:50 PM
IRAN pioneered this practice in recent times during their War with IRAQ during the 1980's.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards/Basiji/Pasdaran,grabbed 9 yr old boys from the streets,took them to "The Front", gave them "Plastic Keys to Heaven", and used them to explode Iraqi landmines with their bodies.
at July 5, 2008 8:30 PM
[ This is further proof, you are not required and indeed a prequisite that you need not have a mind of your own and reasoning to believe in this black death cult called islam. ]
Oh thanks for your input jew... I know it's shocking that someone would see Allah subhanahu wa ta3ala as more deserving of worship than some subhuman yids and American redneck retards.
Posted by: jaguarbp at July 5, 2008 8:40 PM
Will those underaged boys get underaged virgins too?
No, they get models from Italy
Once again these cowards show that there is no tactic that is too wicked or underhanded for them to use.
A lot of the times the U.S. government is deliberately making stuff up, for example the Down Syndrome bombers in Iraq, but you just swallow it up.
Posted by: jaguarbp at July 5, 2008 8:59 PM
Troll alert. Anti-Semetic and anti-American "JaguarBP", above, refers to ZenaWarriorPrincess as "jew", and implies that Infidels worship "subhuman yids and American redneck retards" rather than rhe sublime "Allah subhanahu wa ta3ala".
Yes, the US government is just making stuff up--Ayman Zawahiri never said “Let the Muslim youth not await anyone’s permission, for jihad against the Americans, Jews, and their alliance of hypocrites and apostates . . ."
As for this item:
"Last May, a senior Pakistani security official showed a rare video clip to CBS News documenting a boy, barely 12 years old, using a machete to severe the head of a middle-aged man whom militants probably suspected as being a spy for the U.S."
Well, no doubt, this was created in the same Hollywood studio where the Moon landing and the planes hitting the World Trade Center were filmed.
No doubt all of the 1100-plus acts of Islamic terrorism around the world since 9/11 were actually plots by the CIA and Mossad, then pinned on peaceful Muslims.
No one here is going to swallow this garbage. You will have to peddle it to a less informed audience.
at July 5, 2008 9:21 PM
He has delighted us long enough; time to shut him down, and remove his posts. Although, I admit, those posts are revealing and, in their own way, useful.
Posted by: Hugh at July 5, 2008 10:41 PM
Poor jaguarbp. Having to deal with "subhuman yids" and "redneck retards" still ranking higher than he.
Posted by: flowerknife_us at July 6, 2008 9:00 AM
“we find that the only age group capable of giving and waging jihad is the 15-25 age bracket”
This is also the age approximately that Muslim youth are raped and abused by the rabid, buggering men in their lives.
The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D40CFECB-5B2A-400C-BC31-2E9522FDBB04
Posted by: Kemaste at July 6, 2008 1:20 PM
Bin Laden declared that “we find that the only age group capable of giving and waging jihad is the 15-25 age bracket”
Coincidentally yesterday I caught a few minutes of a documentary about gangs in the U.S. The police said that the gang-members whom the neighborhood fear the most are the 14-25 year olds. They are the ones just starting out in the gang, trying to prove their manhood, trying to earn their street creds. They have to show that they are willing to commit the most heinous acts of violence for the most trivial reason.
Mohammad understood it, Bin Laden understands it, the Crips and Bloods understand it. They know who their followers are, and what motivates them.
Posted by: special_guest at July 6, 2008 1:27 PM
Hugh said
What do you think was the final disposition of Mohammad al-Dura? Do you think he was allowed to live, so that he might someday be identified? Don't be silly.
That's what I thought too, until there was the recent report of his wedding, causing a rethinking.
The father is indisputably still alive. True, Muslim parents are more than willing to "sacrifice their children" for the cause, and maybe for a few bucks on the side. But if the PLO/PA convinced the father to let them kill his son, they have already left one loose end, uhh, loose. That means they have already made a mistake. The jihadis are not known for being particularly intelligent, or meticulous in their planning. I would not be surprised if they never considered the possibility that a journalist would actually question their claims, and start to verify or discredit them.
Maybe Mohammad al-Dura is still alive, maybe not. Is anybody really investigating? Did anyone ever investigate that question, since the incident occured, or didn't occur?
Posted by: special_guest at July 6, 2008 1:42 PM
No doubt all of the 1100-plus acts of Islamic terrorism around the world since 9/11 were actually plots by the CIA and Mossad
1100 sounds a little high, you appear to be counting Iraqi resistance acts as "terrorism"?
But some farmers defending their country from the Crusaders is definitely not the same as a terrorist attack along the lines of the 1998 Nairobi embassy bombing.
The word 'terrorism' has become just pure propaganda; did you know for example that Putin refers to some political groups and NGOs he doesn't like, as terrorists?
Maybe 10 years ago the word still had some meaning, but now saying "terrorist" is like saying "smurf forest."
If we used 'terrorism' to describe the killing of civilians by the U.S. in Iraq, you would easily pass 1100.
So your number is just meaningless
at July 6, 2008 8:01 PM
Jihad is not all these self-hating homosexual rapists are recruiting prepubescent boys for.
Posted by: Max Publius at July 6, 2008 9:51 PM
I assume jaguarbp regards as legitimate 'Iraqi resistance acts' such abominable deeds as female jihadi suicide-assassins blowing themselves up in the midst of crowds of their fellow Muslims - women and children - in a pet market in Iraq?
Or perhaps jaguarbp regards as legitimate 'resistance' the exaction of jizya, on pain of death, from the indigenous Christian dhimmi population of Iraq - and the abduction and rape of their women, the abduction and murder of their religious leaders, the crucifixion of a young Christian boy?
And I wonder if he regards as 'Iraqi resistance acts' the murder, by Muslim vigilante squads, of women - for the crime of wearing, in public, garb deemed insufficiently Islamic?
All those murders of Sunnis by Shiite and of Shiite by Sunni, and the blowing up of mosques...by Muslims; the murders of Kurdish Muslims by 'Arab' Muslims, and of course, the murders and torturings and robberies and rapes and extortions carried out upon the defenceless native Iraqi Christians (the remnant that remained after the orgy of Muslim mass murder of Christians in the 1930s, not to mention the pogroms and oppression recorded throughout preceding centuries) and upon the tiny, defenceless Mandaean community, by Muslims of every description.
Does jaguarbp classify the murder of an Iraqi Muslim girl, by her father, for the unpardonable sin of making eyes, from afar, at a nice young kafir British soldier who was helping distribute food aid or somesuch, as 'Iraqi resistance'?
I can assure jaguarbp that I would like nothing better than for every last non-Muslim soldier to quit wasting men, time, and money, and leave Iraq - taking with them, of course, anything and everything of value (especially weapons!) that they have brought with them.
Taking with them also every single indigenous Christian, both the native Assyrian/ Chaldean Christians (the only surviving remnant of the aboriginal pre-Islamic population of the region) and such 'Arabs' or Arabised Mesopotamians as have bravely apostasised from the death-cult of Islam and embraced, instead, the Way of Yeshua, which is Life (both Reason and Charity); together with such as have (like Ayaan Hirsi Ali or Ibn Warraq or Ali Sina) genuinely chosen the nonreligious path of pure Reason, Western Enlightenment. For such people, Muslim Mesopotamia is nothing but a hellhole, a deathtrap.
And then the Kilkenny cats of Mesopotamia, Shiite and Sunni, Arab Muslim and Kurdish Muslim, could murder each other en masse to their hearts' content, while also indulging in the usual common or garden 'honour' murders of wives, sisters, daughters and nieces; and the war-god of the Arabs, 'allah', would grow fat on many sacrificial meals of human blood.
at July 6, 2008 10:07 PM
OT (but not really)
AP Exclusive: US removes uranium from Iraq
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080706/D91O8E100.html
Anyone care for a piece of yellowcake?
Posted by: Drewbenstein at July 7, 2008 7:37 AM
I assume jaguarbp regards as legitimate 'Iraqi resistance acts' such abominable deeds as female jihadi suicide-assassins blowing themselves up in the midst of crowds of their fellow Muslims - women and children - in a pet market in Iraq?
You have different schools of thought:
1) targeting Coalition combatants only
2) targeting Iraqi puppet forces
3) targeting civilians
I personally believe that everyone who voted should be killed.
In my opinion, it makes no difference whether assistance to the Coalition takes place in a military or a civilian capacity.
at July 7, 2008 9:11 AM
Ladies and gentlemen
observe 'jaguarbp''s latest statement.
Either s/he is a troll simple, or perhaps an agent provocateur, trying to get a rise out of us by saying outrageous things.
Or else s/he is what s/he says s/he is: a jihadi.
If the latter, I do hope this person is not currently posting from within any non-Muslim country, because by the following statement
"I personally believe that everyone who voted should be killed.
In my opinion, it makes no difference whether assistance to the Coalition takes place in a military or a civilian capacity"
IF seriously meant, 'jaguarbp' has just said, openly and in cold blood, that they believe it is proper to *butcher* hundreds and thousands, if not millions, of human beings in Iraq, both Muslim and non-Muslim: men, women and children; old and young.
Vaste programme, monsieur.
'jaguarbp' - there are some five billion non-Muslims in the world, all of whom would much prefer to remain as practising Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, nonreligious, Jews, Zoroastrians , etc...ANYTHING rather than grovel to the Arab war-god 'allah'.
Do you, 'jaguarbp', propose to attempt to apply to FIVE BILLION HUMAN BEINGS the choice between: Islam (= no more music, no more art, wife-beating, harems, burqa and niqab, death for 'blasphemy', death for 'apostasy', despotism, slavery, chaos and poverty and perpetual fear); or expensive subjugation (as dhimmis) to the murderous caprice of Muslim despots and lynch mobs; or...death?
I say to you, 'jaguarbp', that IF you ARE 'for real' then the sentiments you have expressed are those of a common psychopath, assassin and thug, just such a one as was Ubul Kassim ha-Meshugga 'the madman', alias 'Mohammed'.
I shall pray for your miserable soul; I shall also pray that if you live in a western country (which YHWH forbid) the police may catch up with you, pronto, before you do harm to yourself and/or to others.
I commit you to the judgement and grace of Yeshua of Nazareth, son of Mary, son of the Living God.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at July 7, 2008 11:13 PM
there are some five billion non-Muslims in the world, all of whom would much prefer to remain as practising Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, nonreligious, Jews, Zoroastrians , etc...ANYTHING rather than grovel to the Arab war-god 'allah'.
Who cares, I'm not seeking to convert anyone, you are still stuck in Steve Emerson's combover reality, you should listen to Michael Scheuer.
Allah (glorious and exalted) is not an "Arab war-god," most muslims are not Arab to the tune of 80-85%. The first of the muslims was your father Adam (a.s.)
Posted by: jaguarbp at July 8, 2008 10:43 AM
'jaguarbp'
You dodged my question.
I wanted to know - seeing as you supported killing every Iraqi who voted in the last election - whether you ALSO agreed with the program for Muslim Total World Domination as laid out in Surah 9.
You did not answer. Well: perhaps you did. Since you said 'No' to converting us Infidels, but did NOT say 'no' to the prospect of killing us all, or subjugating us all as dhimmis...I must presume you would in fact like to give us the choice of death or dhimmitude. How nice...
I know very well that most Muslims today are not ethnically Arab...but Islam was invented by Arabs and may quite properly be called the Arab Imperial Religion, originally cooked up as an ideological vehicle for Arab linguistic and cultural imperialism of the most complete kind. It holds up the supposed words and deeds of a psychopathic 7th century Arab warlord/ sand pirate as *the* model to be followed in every detail by all Muslims for all time -'the excellent model of conduct'.
All the evidence of the texts and of the history show that Islam's 'allah' is a god of war, Islam is a religion of war, 'mohammed' ha-meshugga was a 'prophet' of war, and the Quran, Sira and Hadith are books of war. And since the religion is associated first and foremost with Arabia, and its focal sacred site is there, and the Arabs are called 'the best of people' and the Quran is recited in Arabic, I will call its 'allah' the war-god of the Arabs, even if he [it?] is bowed down to by conquered peoples who are not Arabs.
Adam was not a Muslim.
There were no Muslims anywhere on earth until the 7th or 8th century AD, that is, not until ha-Meshugga - or perhaps the first couple of caliphs, or whoever it was they hired to do it - cooked up the brew that is the Quran, Sira and Hadith.
The Quran is very plainly a mishmash, a weird stew concocted from bits and pieces of plagiarised Jewish and Christian lore (which materials were either misunderstood, or deliberately distorted with malice aforethought), mixed in with remnants of Arab paganism and superstition, and a soupcon of Zoroastrian ideas to boot.
Some of the poetry, I am told, is quite pretty...but then, strychnine served in a golden goblet remains strychnine, and arsenic mixed with honey is still arsenic.
I suggest you buy yourself a copy of Ali Sina's new book about Mohammed.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at July 8, 2008 10:31 PM
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