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Tired recycled hate mail

Feb 12, 2005 7:41 am By Robert Spencer

I have received thousands of variations of a hate email I received this morning, and that’s why I put it up: regular readers of Jihad Watch will be familiar with all the arguments here also, as they have been made so many, many times. These arguments are so often made that it is clear that they pour forth every day from a multitude of places, to be scooped up by the credulous and crafty alike; that underscores the need for little samizdat sources like Jihad Watch to continue to do all we can to counter them.

I have interspersed responses, which will likewise contain nothing new to regular readers of Jihad Watch, below:

Study Islam before you attack it.

I have written 4 books about Islam and studied it for 24 years.

Jihad does not mean “Holy War”.

I have stated this many times in my books and on this site. But this fact means less than you want it to mean.

There are many forms of Jihad, and fighting is the least important type of Jihad.

Then why, for instance, does Al-Azhar endorse a manual of Shafi’i jurisprudence that devotes 10 pages to fighting and 1 page to the other types of jihad?

Also, fighting is only obligated on Muslims if the faith and community is under attack, which is not something that any one could criticize.

Except that jihadists interpret the faith and community being under attack as meaning just about anything.

Any believers of any other religion would do the same to protect their religion against any aggression.

No they wouldn’t. Islam is the only religion that has a doctrine of warfare against unbelievers.

Terrorists use vague Jihad versus from the Quran to justify their actions; however, I have read the Quran and studied the religion for 5 years, and I know that killing innocent people is forbidden in Islam.

Indeed. But who is “innocent”? Osama doesn’t think any American is, and there is no Islamic argument against him.

However, the terrorists are using Islam the same way the crusaders used Christianity to kill thousands of non-Christians in the name of God!

This is historically false. This fall I will have a book out about the Crusades. But even if it were true, it is meaningless: there are no Crusaders today. Are you implying that we should not resist today’s global jihad because there were once Crusaders?

What is the difference between Al-Qaeda and the crusaders, or what is the difference between Timothy McVeigh and Osama bin Laden? Nothing!

Big differences. Even if McVeigh was a Christian, which is doubtful, he didn’t and couldn’t use Christian theology to justify his actions the way Osama uses Islamic theology.

In my opinion, you are as extreme as the terrorists. It’s websites like yours that give the US a negative image and undermine our sacrifice and efforts to spread freedom and “secular” democracy in the Muslim World.

Mm-hmm. Next time I behead someone, get back to me.

Meanwhile, while this fellow remonstrates with me for blackening the image of a peaceful religion, one of his coreligionists gets right to the point in another email:

I will see to it that pro-Nazi, Zionist, White supremacist, in short, right wing fascits like you pay.

It is a peculiar world when someone who is working to defend the equality of rights and dignity of all people can be called “pro-Nazi” and “Zionist” and threatened in the same breath, by someone who clearly doesn’t see the irony.

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