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Man with a solution
Al-Zawahiri invites us to accept Islam, which Muhammad the prophet of Islam stipulates as the first step when meeting the unbelievers, before going to war with them (cf. Sahih Muslim 4294). But of course, he and his ilk are already at war with us; his statement here merely reveals yet again the goal for which he and the jihadists are fighting: to extend Islamic law over the world.
It is noteworthy also that the Telegraph article about which Raymond commented here has no mention of this invitation to Islam. Why would the Telegraph not consider that fit to print? Do they think it's meaningless religious boilerplate? Irrelevant? Or that it would offend Muslims in Britain if they called attention to it?
"Al-Qaida No. 2 to US: Overcome meltdown with Islam," from AP, November 28 (thanks to Mackie):
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader appeared in a new video posted Friday calling on Americans to embrace Islam to overcome the financial meltdown, which he said was a consequence of the Sept. 11 attacks and militant strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan.Ayman al-Zawahri, whose 80-minute recording touched on a number of subjects, also lashed out at Afghanistan's government and said any U.S. gains in Iraq will be temporary.
Zawahri's new recording came in the form of a question-and-answer session with an off-camera interviewer.
Appearing in a white turban and robe, Zawahri discussed the roots of the U.S. economic crisis. He said it was a repercussion of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, and that the crisis would continue "as long as the foolish American policy of wading in Muslim blood continues."
Yeah, I know I should cut down on doing that. It's a bad habit.
"The American economy was afflicted by a downturn and loss of investor confidence in the market following the events of Sept. 11," he said."The modern economy has been destroyed by the strikes of the mujahedeen (in Iraq and Afghanistan) and usury," he said, using the Arabic term for holy warriors.
Under Islamic Sharia law, usury, like drinking alcohol, is among the grand sins.
Zawahri then called on the American people to "embrace Islam to live a life free of greed, exploitation and forbidden wealth."...
Posted by Robert at November 28, 2008 2:24 PM
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Lan astaslem! Never shall we sumit to such tyranny, hypocrisy, and blindness!
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at November 28, 2008 2:38 PM
"embrace Islam to live a life free of greed, exploitation and forbidden wealth."...
-- from Al-Zawarhiri's Tips For Living Well (book and tapes available for a mere $39.95, if you order now -- operators are standing by).
Yes, of course. A "life free of greed, exploitatin, and forbidden wealth." As in the fabulous luxury of the Islamic Mughal court, where the luxe of the Muslim masters depended on the work of Hindu slaves. As in the Islamic countries that depended for so long on the Jizyah tax paid by non-Muslims, until the numbers of those non-Muslims so declined, as more and more, finding the status of dhimmi nearly unbearable, converted to Islam or went into physical exile. AS in the Sudan today, where the oil wealth of the south goes to build villas for Muslim Arab rulers in the north, while those northern Arab Muslims have followed two decades and more of killing and starving to death of non-Muslim black Africans in the south (nearly two million of them), with adding several hundred thousand more victims -- these Muslim but non-Arab -- in Darfur. As in Mali and Mauritania, where Arab Mulisms continue -- as all Muslims must, as the imams and muftis agree -- to treat slavery as licit, and indeed there never has been, and never can be, a Muslim William Wilberforce, and when, for more than a thousand years, Muslims could practice slavery, they enslaved far more blacks than were enslaved in the Atlantic slave trade, and also enslaved whites -- from Western Europe and from Eastern Europe, with some being allowed to escape bondage if they converted to Islam. It was the European Chrstian powers, chiefly Great Britain and France, that managed to stamp out slavery, where they did, in the Muslim lands. In Saudi Arabia, as Al-Zawahiri knows perfectly, hundreds of thousands of black slaves were to be found as late as 1962, when under pressure from the advanced non-Muslim world, Saudi Arabia finally, and most reluctantly, outlawed slavery at least formally -- but that there are people working as slaves, being treated as slaves were treaed, all over Saudi Arabia, few foreign workers would deny. The Islamic state was based on slavery: slave-soldiers, slave-receipts from the non-Muslims. It is a culture of exploitation --first, and mainly, exploitation of non-Muslims by Muslims. Nothing changed, as far as doctrine went. What has changed is the relative strength of the non-Muslims which, in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, allowed them to not be enslaved. And now there is, with the OPEC trillions, and with millions of Muslims now living in the West (behind enemy lines), a new atmosphere, in which Muslims feel that they can push and push their goal of removing all obstacles to the spread, and dominance, of Islam. What makes Al-Zawahiri and Bin Laden different is not the goal, but the means they have chosen, and the candor with which they express their intentions -- no taqiyya, no kitman, no sly dissimulation of any sort. They at least give it to you straight.
Posted by: Hugh at November 28, 2008 2:39 PM
Lan astaslem! Never shall we submit to such tyranny, hypocrisy, and blindness!
Posted by: John C at November 28, 2008 2:39 PM
Yeah, I've been so miserable with my "forbidden wealth." I'd much rather trade that in for a life of totalitarian repression. . .
Posted by: Bigshaker at November 28, 2008 2:40 PM
Lan astaslem! Never shall we submit to such tyranny, hypocrisy, and blindness!
Posted by: John C at November 28, 2008 2:40 PM
It is noteworthy also that the Telegraph article about which Raymond commented here has no mention of this invitation to Islam. Why would the Telegraph not consider that fit to print? Do they think it's meaningless religious boilerplate? Irrelevant? Or that it would offend Muslims in Britain if they called attention to it?
It's called a 'blackout' on anything Anti Islamic by the Media. I noticed the deterioration of the Telegraph from a paper of free speech to Governmental control around four or so months back. Almost every main Newspaper article on the Telegraph used to have a comment section, where unlike the Times, people could post large replies on their thoughts. This has now gone and I noticed on one post towards the end, all the comments that were against the government were deleted and the comment section on that article started again. The Libertarian Blog in fact posted about this.
NuLabour are a Fascist Political party. They are turning Stalinist on us. They are controlling every aspect of our lives, we are losing our freedoms daily and our enemies are not only being welcomed into the UK to be supported by British tax Payers' hard earned money, but protected when they speak of treason and support death of British subjects.
The Telegraph and every other paper in the UK is being controlled by the Government and more importantly the Left Wing.
Posted by: Richard the Lionheart at November 28, 2008 3:04 PM
He must have had a brain meltdown.
Posted by: FreeSpeech at November 28, 2008 3:51 PM
richard in an ideal we would start a "reconquista" , but this is not an ideal world, and i fear europe is doomed
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
Posted by: Péguy at November 28, 2008 4:01 PM
He has a big dent on his forehead - the hardest and thickest part of the skull.
He must have been really having to bang his head into something hard to cause that.
It has obviously caused brain damage so these outbursts could be considered normal for such a case as this.
Unfortunately, there are people in the muslim world who for some reason listen to him.
at November 28, 2008 4:11 PM
Ken, it's his zebiba. It also makes a handy dandy bullseye.
Posted by: KrazyKafir at November 28, 2008 4:28 PM
You mean I can't wade in Muslim blood anymore? Damn! And I just bought these nic.e new Wellies
Posted by: jewcat at November 28, 2008 4:43 PM
Powder is not quite as scarce as it was at Bunker Hill, but a poster above invites a re-working of the famous remark (attributed to both Israel Putnam and William Prescott):
Don't fire until you see the height of their zebibahs.
It might make a T-shirt. If so, I hereby copyright the sentence and I will of course be requesting, from any t-shirt company head who reads this and runs, appropriate royalties. My lawyer -- and he's a real operator -- is standing by.
at November 28, 2008 4:46 PM
Gee, after Mombai, you got the nerve to say WE wade through blood.........
Posted by: tanstaafl at November 28, 2008 7:15 PM
No F**KIN' way.
Posted by: Mustang105 at November 28, 2008 9:46 PM
Al-Qaeda top dog to U.S.: Avoid financial meltdown by converting to Islam
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Zawahri then called on the American people to "embrace Islam to live a life free of greed, exploitation and forbidden wealth."...
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Well, converting to Islam can't be any worse that these crazy bail-out plans, can it? Uh, maybe so.
"Forbidden wealth"--yes, wealth earned through hard work and reasonable principle on loans--how immoral!
Whereas wealth gotten by extorting protection money--the Jizya--is just fine. Treating your wife--or wives--as servants is allowed. Piracy and theft from Infidels is halal. Wealth gotten through enslaving non-Muslims is in no way haram.
This is what happens when you embrace a dark-ages desert caravan-raider as your model of "the perfect man".
As well as representing the very depth of immorality, this sort of "society" is not sustainable. Such a society, without oil to sell to industrious Infidel lands, or local hard-working Dhimmis to exploit, or non-Muslims misguidedly offering "foreign aid", can barely feed itself--just look at some of the worst of the Islamic paradises in the world today. In such a world, attaining such "forbidden wealth" is indeed unlikely.
Posted by: gravenimage
at November 28, 2008 10:38 PM
A reality check on the effects of Islam, Islam, Islam, as catalogued by James Parkes in his 'A History of Palestine from 135 AD to Modern Times' (1949).
First, from page 83-84:
"Those who [in 1949] find it a subject of congratulation that among the Arab peasants of today [i.e. 1949] are to be found unchanged the economy and conditions of the Bible,
'ignore the fact that this is only possible because of the regression which has resulted from centuries of Muslim rule.
"It is only the most backward and impoverished parts of the Holy Land of Jesus and the Apostles that are recalled by the fellahin of today.
"The busy cities, the caravans of merchants, the thriving forests, the prosperous estates and the rural industries
'with which Jesus or the apostles would have been familiar
have perished beneath the assaults of the bedouin, the goat and the tax collector".
Now, page 102: "It is during the two centuries that preceded the Crusade that the main emphasis of Palestinian history passes from the Christian and Jewish communities to the Muslims, though it must be said of them also that they passed into ever increasing obscurity, poverty and decline.
'This decline only showed its full effects in the period following the Crusades, but it was *the failure of the Caliphate to build up any kind of continuous security or competent public administration* {my emphasis added - dda} that ultimately led to it.'
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at November 28, 2008 11:02 PM
And here is James Parkes again, comparing the common practice of Islam with the practices of the medieval West (this time from the revised edition of his book, which appeared in 1970. pp. 101-102)
"Turk, Mongol and Mamluk showed no greater capacity to organise and administer their territories, than Arab and Seljuk.
"... while Europe learnt much from her contact with the Arab world in fields where the latter had pre-eminence, the reverse is not true.
"In spite of the constant warfare of the Latin [Crusader] states, commerce and agriculture flourished, justice was administered in a hundred baronial and commercial courts, Syrian Christians, and Jewish and Muslim peasants, went about their business in safety.
'All this decayed when the Franks were expelled.
'Its disappearance is all the more curious in that there is no lack of noble figures among the Mongol, Turkish and other rulers of Islam.
'There are many of whom it is recorded that they built and endowed schools and hospitals, that they made roads, irrigated land and provided water supplies for cities, that they favoured scholars and artists and ruled justly and wisely.
'*BUT that ever-widening decentralization of culture and responsibility that is the hallmark of a creative society, they never achieved* {my emphasis added - NOTA BENE - this is the key - this is what 'tawheed' means in practice - dda}.
"While a sultan or an amir might by his own interests and efforts create and endow great public works,
'in Europe such work was being done by 1000 nameless churchmen and barons, guilds and communities, so that, whereas in Muslim lands it is necessary to go the capital cities and religious centres to see their architecture, their buildings and their planning
'in Europe churches and schools and hospitals, as splendid as those of the cities of the princes, are to be found scattered throughout innumerable medieval towns and villages, while among the hills and dales, the forests and swamps which had covered the greater part of Northern Europe at the time when Arab civilisation was at its highest,
now ten thousand monasteries and even manors were not only diffusing religion and education
but were draining and clearing, planting and tilling,
and building up the agricultural riches of innumerable peasant communities."
Read Parkes' book; then read Lowdermilk's 'Palestine: Land of Promise" on what archaeology reveals of what happened to the soil, agriculture and population of the land of Israel, during the centuries of ruinous and chaotic Muslim misrule.
Then reflect that what Parkes and Lowdermilk describe is not unique. It is just one wholly typical example of what happens wherever Islam conquers, and dominates, and rules, and - steadily, systematically, obsessively - ruins.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at November 28, 2008 11:16 PM
Zawahri then called on the American people to "embrace Islam to live a life free of greed, exploitation and forbidden wealth."...
he seems to have forgotten to mention the greed of those oil rich arabs fluanting their golden cars, palaces, while their brothers live in mud huts among camels.
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at November 29, 2008 7:25 AM
The mind set of most Brits now...and I've heard this said often. If we ignore it and get on with it...they don't have the power to scare us, therefore the terrorists have not succeeded in their goal.
In that sense of not being scared is fine...but then we are not well informed if they don't give us the full news.
I think too, they are afraid of Muslim and non-Muslim response...It doesn't take much for Muslims to set off a fire whilst having them spout off their nonsense to any news media that will cover it. Always playing the victim...poor me. ughhh
Posted by: herself at November 29, 2008 9:57 AM
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