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It's amazing how in the US all this is against Islam, but so many Muslim leaders elsewhere don't seem to have gotten the message. From Aftenposten, with thanks to Ali Dashti:
The director of The Islamic Association in Norway has defended suicide bombing under certain circumstances in a question and answer page at the web site islam.no. Progress Party leader Carl I. Hagen said in a press release that the comment did not surprise him, and renewed his offensive against sectors of the Muslim community. "If the war is legal, seen from an Islamic viewpoint, and if one has does not have the possibility to harm the enemy with other means than offering one's own life, then this is legal," said Basim Ghozlan in reply to a young boy's question about suicide bombing, radio station Kanal 24 reports.Ghozlan also emphasized that such actions could not harm the innocent.
"The necessity of not harming innocents must not be forgotten. Unfortunately we see many places where suicide bombers hurt far more innocents than those they wish to harm. In Iraq innocent people are killed nearly every day by such blind bombs. This is not jihad. The prophet would never encourage such a thing," Ghozlan wrote.
The problem with this caveat, of course, is that Muslim leaders have shown again and again how elastic their idea of "innocent" is. Osama would not have brought down the Towers if he had thought the people in them were "innocent."
Posted by Robert at September 29, 2004 8:21 AM
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Posted by: Voltaire![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/nav-commenters.gif)
at September 29, 2004 9:00 AM
Ah, wise, liberal, and tolerant Scandinavia! There distant ancestors literally raped half of Europe; now they're making amends by letting themselves be raped. Basim Goose-brain defends suicide bombing; and Shahid Mehdi in Denmark defends assaults on women in shorts--which all goes to show that his people simply think with their scrota. Maybe the USA needs to enact a law making deportation mandatory in the cae of an alien inciting others to commit violent crimes against persons or property.
Posted by: Kepha1 at September 30, 2004 12:28 AM
And in the mind's eye of the Jihadist, before the moment of 'glory' for Allah, are Infidels 'people' at all? Or are they more like chaff ripe for the fires of hell?
The telltale sign of Jihadist violence for me is that the murderers demonstrate in the action that the number of 'people' killed is irrelevant. It doesn't matter if it is one hundred or one million; but they hope for one million...if it is Allah's will, since that would be a sign of the importance of their sacrifice for Allah.
The Infidels are chaff and chaff cannot even be 'guilty'. That would take judgment. And judgment has already been obliterated. All that remains is a conflagration for the glory of Allah, and how much chaff goes up in flames does not matter in the least, unless it is too little...
Posted by: JTF at September 30, 2004 2:30 AM
I mean to agree, of course: Infidels, simply in virtue of being Infidels, are not innocent (since they reject Allah and that is an offense in itself), and, in Jihad, where domination of Infidels is required, it is natural for muhajediin to utterly dehumanize the Infidel, whose very existence is an obstacle to the victory of Islam.
It is interesting he mentions Iraq. Obviously he is thinking of "Muslim" collateral damage.
Posted by: JTF at September 30, 2004 2:52 AM
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