Just in case the correlation between Ramadan and jihad wasn’t already clear. By Aaron Klein, for World Net Daily:
With October becoming the most deadly month for US troops in Iraq in nearly two years, Palestinian preachers in several major mosques in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are celebrating the anti-American violence as a gift from Allah bestowed upon Muslims through
prayer during the holy month of Ramadan, according to congregants.
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Abu Ayman, a leader of the Islamic Jihad terror group in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, told WND, “We saw in Iraq this month how Allah helped the mujahedeen fighters to mark a great victory, a victory that brought the Americans to speak for the first time seriously and sincerely that Iraq is becoming a new Vietnam and that they should fix a schedule for their withdrawal from Iraq.”
Continued the terror leader: “During Ramadan (which ended last week), it is known that the motivation of the Muslims and of the mujahedeen in particular is higher than in any other period of the year. The good acts of the Muslims and the mujahedeen are better
paid in this month in which the gates of paradise are open and those of hell are closed.”
One preacher in the West Bank city of Hebron told WND the death of American troops is “promised by Allah in the holy Quran.”
“It is the realization of the verse of El Phil (the elephant) where Allah hit the Prophet’s enemies with special and very warm Sejeel stones. The rockets and mortars of the Mujahedeen in Iraq are the Sejeel stones of our days.”
The preacher was referring to the Quranic story of “unbelievers” advancing on an elephant to kill Muhammad. According to the Quran, birds from heaven lobbed “Sejeel stones” at the elephant, scaring the animal away and thwarting the attack.
Also in Hebron this past weekend, Hizb A-Tahrir, a popular Palestinian Islamist political party, distributed a pamphlet stating the holiness of Ramadan, which ended last week, was responsible for the large number of American casualties in Iraq.
The pamphlet went on to claim the popular Muslim phrase “Allah Hu Akbar” (Allah is the greatest) has “huge significance in the world.”
“The Arab traitor leaders think that America is the Akbar, is the greatest, but the deaths in Iraq this month proves what we knew all along that Allah is the greatest and no power is stronger than Allah. May Allah keep cooling our hearts and souls with more and
more American soldiers killed,” stated the pamphlet.