BAGHDAD – Al-Qaeda is using children as suicide bombers in Iraq, with at least two attacks in the past week committed by 15-year-olds, a US military commander claimed on Sunday. — from this news article
As always, the PLO — which is merely the earlier name of the “Palestinian Authority” — has been there first. For there is hardly a method used by Al Qaeda in the Greater Jihad, that has not been used before by the shock troops of the Lesser Jihad, the one against Israel, which is not to be confused with the Lesser Jihad against Christians in Nigeria, or the one in the Sudan, or the Lesser Jihad against Hindus in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indian-possessed parts of Kashmir, and India itself, or any of the other subsets of the Greater Jihad that can be called Lesser Jihads.
For the “Palestinians” have long been using women, young boys, even mental defectives, as their human deliverers of explosives. When Al Qaeda, or the Taliban, employs such methods in Iraq or Afghanistan or, soon, in countries that are seen as within the Lands of the Infidels (Bilad al-Kufr), they are merely following the methods first copyrighted by the Arab Muslim terrorists who function as part of the “Palestinian” movement.
Whether that group has a real or a phony name, whether it is called Hamas or Islamic Jihad (surely a redundancy), or the made-up “Black September” (a name given to a fake group of Arafat’s men, and of his henchmen such as Mahmoud Abbas, one of whose feats was the murder of two American diplomats in Khartoum), the goals and methods of these groups are the same. Their differences amounted to little more than the different warlords, with different levels of loot, who ran them and “took responsibility” (or disguised it, as in the case of “Black September”) for these acts.
Nothing new about the modus operandi of Al Qaeda. The PLO has been there before. It was the test case: could terrorism work? Could it accomplish certain goals? The reaction of the Western world, in failing to stand by Israel, and urging it to crush, by all means, terrorists and their supporters, and not to give an inch in any “peace-processing,” showed that terrorism can work.
It is working, still. And it will work as long as the Western world continues to “fight terrorism” by ignoring the malign source of that terrorism in the promptings of Islam itself, in the Qur’an, Hadith, and Sira. And that willful refusal to consider the meaning, and menace, of Islamic Jihad, means that the head of NATO, the United States, cannot allow itself to consider the internal threat within the NATO countries, within the larger Western alliance, within the West itself, of a growing, aggressive, and permanently worrisome Muslim population.
Instead, we rely on the least effective, and most depleting of tools of policy: bribery. And it is ineffective, these bribes of foreign aid. In essence, given the attitudes of both the Infidel givers and of the Muslim recipients, it is nothing but a disguised form of Jizyah. Instead of attempting to buy off certain states and peoples — the fantastic sums being squandered by the American government in Iraq, Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Egypt and Yemen, in Jordan and the so-called “Palestinian” territories (given to the Slow Jihadists of Fatah, who still control the Arab-occupied parts of Judea and Samaria, who may or may not share it with Gaza) — that money should be denied all Muslim states. They should be required to ask for such help from Saudi Arabia, and the U.A.E. and Kuwait, and other fellow members of the Umma, the Community of Believers. Every dollar that the Saudis give Egypt for bread (to keep the fellahin from rioting) is a dollar not available, as part of the Money Weapon of the Jihad, to pay for mosques, madrasas, campaigns of Da’wa, and armies of Western hirelings all over the Infidel lands.
Diminishing oil revenues, and finding ways to use up as much of the reserves that the Saudis possess as possible, and to do so in a way that creates constant friction and resentment (on the part of both donor and donee) within the Camp of Islam, should be an obvious goal of Western policy to defend itself against the Jihad. So far, however, it has not been. Indeed, American policymakers continue to believe in the efficacy of the Jizyah, the continued, never-to-be-examined-or-analyzed, large-scale bribing of Muslims as a tool of policy — a tool of policy that is not merely ineffective, but is positively damaging to the real understanding of Islam, and of how to weaken the Camp of Islam and Jihad.