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“Our scholars have given a religious decree saying that things which are usually abominable in Islam are permitted to wage jihad against the enemies of Islam”

Oct 14, 2007 7:46 am By Robert Spencer

The Taliban uses South Korean hostage cash to buy weapons. What did the South Koreans think they would buy with it? Cotton candy? Should Western states really be handing jihadists “God-sent” opportunities?

“Taliban use hostage cash to fund UK blitz,” by Massoud Ansari in the Telegraph (thanks to Sr.Soph):

Millions of dollars handed over to secure the release of South Korean hostages in Afghanistan have been used to buy weapons deployed against British and American forces in the country, the Taliban claims….

According to Taliban fighters interviewed by The Sunday Telegraph, the money has also been used to train recruits to carry out terrorist attacks in Britain and America.

South Korea has repeatedly denied claims by Afghan officials that it paid cash to secure the release in August of 21 Christian volunteers who were held for nearly six weeks. But in a recent meeting, three Taliban fighters involved in the conflict with the British in Helmand province said that $10 million cash handed over in two instalments had been used to boost operations in Afghanistan and abroad.

“It was a God-sent opportunity,” said Mullah Hezbollah, 30. “It has helped us to multiply our stockpile of weapons and explosives to wage battle for at least a year or so.”

He said the money had been paid in August, shortly before the Taliban’s fugitive spiritual leader, Mullah Omar, ordered Operation Nusrat (victory), an offensive against coalition troops which ran throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which finished last week. During the operation, four British soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan, including Major Roberts.

“We were really concerned when we received orders to launch Operation Nusrat, because we had hardly any funds to buy weapons to carry out such a major offence,” said Mullah Hezbollah. Thanks to the ransom payments, however, the operation proceeded with “full vigour”….

Hezbollah, however, gave what appeared to be precise details of the transactions. “They gave us $7 million as a first instalment the day we released 12 hostages, and the remaining money was paid soon after we released the remaining hostages on August 31,” he said.

He added that another main source of income was opium produced by poppy farmers in Helmand, thanks to a Taliban fatwa, or holy order. “Our scholars have given a religious decree saying that things which are usually abominable in Islam are permitted to wage jihad against the enemies of Islam,” he said.

Funny thing. I have pointed out exactly that. In The Truth About Muhammad, I discuss the phrase “persecution is worse than slaughter” (Qur’an 2:191, 2:217) in historical context (yeah, yeah, I know I’m never supposed to read Qur’an verses in context, but I just can’t help myself) as referring to the permissibility of a raid carried out by the Muslims against their enemies during one of the sacred months of the pagan Arab calendar, when fighting was forbidden. The phrase enunciates the principle than since the Muslims were being persecuted, or thought they were, it was all right for them to slaughter the pagans even during the sacred month. Thus a moral principle could be set aside in the interests of jihad.

Of course, this is one of the things that gets me and the book labeled “Islamophobic,” but if I’m forcing the interpretation, or making it up out of whole cloth, then where do you think Mullah Hezbollah got this idea? When guys like him and Sheikh Ali Bapir study the Qur’an, don’t you think they find in it what you or I or anyone else would also find in it, if we actually read it? Of course there are differing interpretations. There are differing interpretations of any book. But as long as both liberal and conservative analysts persist in ignoring or downplaying the fact that Mullah Hezbollah and Sheikh Ali Bapir and innumerable others who think like them make their case on the basis of the Qur’an and Sunnah, we will be both misdiagnosing the problem and offering the wrong remedies. We need to be calling upon Muslim groups in America to renounce the jihadist interpretations of the Qur’an and Sunnah and to institute comprehensive and transparent programs in American mosques and Islamic schools to teach against those interpretations, even if it means rejecting Qur’anic literalism and the example of Muhammad as normative in certain particulars. And if they refuse, we should evaluate the political aspects of Islam and regard these groups as political organizations, with full and open recognition of their plans for American society.

Instead, we’re pretending that this isn’t even a problem, and if you think it is, you’re a “bigot” and an “Islamophobe.” While Mullah Hezbollah goes on his merry way.

His comrade, Mullah Mohibullah, 32, disclosed that some of the ransom funds were being used to train volunteers from Britain and America to carry out attacks in their homelands. “We want to destroy them, the way they have destroyed our country,” he said. “Most of these youths are suicide bombers.”

The group said that suicide bombers, either in vehicles or wearing explosive-laden vests, were also becoming the Taliban’s main weapon against occupying forces in Afghanistan. Up to 3,000 volunteers, they claimed, had signed up for the religious training necessary for martyrdom operations.

“We do not have gunship helicopters, nor do we have B-52s,” said Mullah Hameedullah, 48. “We will carry out suicide attacks everywhere in the country, be it by waistcoats, cars or other ways.”

Wait a minute, Hameedullah. Sean and Alan will tell you that Islam forbids suicide. Get with the program, man. It’s a Religion of Peace.

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