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Jihad group issues apology for jihad/martyrdom suicide bombing

Mar 8, 2014 1:25 pm By Robert Spencer

beirut-bombing_2827165b“We affirm, always to our suicide bombers, to be cautious, and to abort any operation if they believe it will hit others but the targeted.” But in this case, the death-loving chap was careless — and of course, by the very nature of things, he can’t be now be fired or even issued a reprimand.

But to be consistent, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades shouldn’t be issuing an apology. It should issue a statement saying, “You shouldn’t be angry about this. You should be thanking us.” Why? Because they are supposed to love death. The Qur’an says that those who are favored of Allah should long for death: “Say (O Muhammad): O ye who are Jews! If ye claim that ye are favoured of Allah apart from (all) mankind, then long for death if ye are truthful.” — Qur’an 62:6

Accordingly, Islamic supremacists frequently affirm how much they love death. A Muslim child preacher recently taunted those he has been taught to hate most: “Oh Zionists, we love death for the sake of Allah, just as much as you love life for the sake of Satan.” Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah said that he “loved death more than they loved life.” Nigerian jihadist Abubakar Shekau said: “I’m even longing for death, you vagabond.”

Ayman al-Zawahiri’s wife advised Muslim women: “I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death.” And as one jihadist put it, “We love death. You love your life!” And another: “The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.” That was from Afghan jihadist Maulana Inyadullah.

So why the apology in this case?

“Al-Qaeda-linked group issue rare apology for suicide bombing,” from the Associated Press, March 8 (thanks to Twostellas):

A militant group has issued a rare apology for a twin suicide bombing in Beirut that killed eight people and wounded dozens, including children from a nearby orphanage.

The al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades issued a statement on militant websites apologizing for civilian deaths.

It said a “technical fault” affected the second of two Feb. 19 suicide bombings targeting an Iranian cultural center in Beirut, but didn’t specify what it was. The group insisted its suicide bombers were trained to not target civilians.

“We affirm, always to our suicide bombers, to be cautious, and to abort any operation if they believe it will hit others but the targeted,” it said.

More than a dozen bombings have targeted Shiite-dominated areas of Lebanon in recent months.

Many have been claimed by the hard-line Sunni Nusra Front in Lebanon. They have said they are seeking revenge against Lebanon’s Iran-backed Shiite Hezbollah group for supporting President Bashar Assad. The bulk of the casualties are usually civilians. The claims of responsibility usually name Shiite neighborhoods that are traditionally supportive of Hezbollah as the targets, as opposed to the group’s fighters or offices.

Lebanon is deeply split over Syria’s civil war, which has become increasingly sectarian. Assad comes from a Shiite offshoot sect and the rebels fighting him are dominated by Sunnis.

The Brigades said their target was Hezbollah and Iranian interests in Lebanon. Unusually, it said explicitly it was not attacking Shiites in general.

“The two bombs were meant to be in a place where the shrapnel of the explosion would not reach the main road,” the statement said. “The Azzam (bombing) operations do not target Shiites in general, nor other sects.”

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for two of those attacks: a twin suicide bombing attack outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut on Nov. 19 that killed at least 23 people – mostly civilians. The other was the Feb. 19 attack.

The apology was a rare instance of contrition by an al-Qaida group. While militant Sunni groups across the Mideast differ in how extreme they are, most celebrate high death tolls.

Some use language implying the civilian dead are enemy fighters or agents, others use language implying they are heretics, and some justify civilian deaths by saying the innocent are “human shields” whom God will nonetheless reward in Paradise.

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  1. Ellen Mcknight says

    Mar 8, 2014 at 1:46 pm

    Are they ever going to run out of people willing to blow themselves up? My God, the supply of “martyrs” appears to be endless.

    • veggiedog says

      Mar 8, 2014 at 1:57 pm

      I don’t think so. They have many wives for this purpose.

  2. Joel says

    Mar 8, 2014 at 1:54 pm

    If these —- —– love death so much, WHY THE HELL DON’T THEY ALL KILL THEMSELVES?

    The more, the better.

    Or, others with their same views?

    And, leave the rest of us alone?

  3. veggiedog says

    Mar 8, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    Oh , OK then, this makes it ok I guess?????????????????????????????

    • veggiedog says

      Mar 8, 2014 at 1:56 pm

      Seems they reproduced at an unheard of rate, and then it is ok to have many wives (probably for this reason) and to rape, pillage and plunder…… This is not a religion as much as a sickness.

  4. duh_swami says

    Mar 8, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    These jokers do not love death at all. If they did they would run enmass to the nearest cliff and jump off. What they love is the ‘idea’ of Paradise and the lush 72. That they hate this life does not mean they love death.
    It’s not possible to love death anyway. Allah has really messed with these peoples heads.

    • Brian says

      Mar 8, 2014 at 2:23 pm

      He didn’t mess with their heads: He doesn’t exist.

      But you’re right: These brilliant people don’t realize is that the only reason why Mohamed told them about those stupid houris is because he couldn’t deliver them on Earth, and ironically, the way that they make women dress and the gender segregation (anti-free mixing) is rather hypocritical; you avoid mingling with women and make them cover up to the max, and expect to able to have some sexual superhuman versatility when you die.

      These suicide bombers are in desperate need of a heavy dose of logic. And that basically sums up why this “Ghost of 7th century Arabia” needs to be put to rest already.

  5. Brian says

    Mar 8, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    1. Lebanon can burn in hell..

    2. This suicide bombing crap is getting way out of hand.

    Ironic how a religion that “forbids suicide” is prompting people to do just that. What’s these people’s damage?

  6. duh_swami says

    Mar 8, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    2. This suicide bombing crap is getting way out of hand.

    Officially suicide is haram, so they call it martyrdom, a holy act that they will be well rewarded for. It’s kind of unusual to hear a jihadist calling it suicide.

  7. duh_swami says

    Mar 8, 2014 at 2:54 pm

    He didn’t mess with their heads: He doesn’t exist.

    Well, he does exist, but you are right that Allah does not exist as God.
    Allah exists as a powerful meme, and a whole lot of sub memes related to the first. Allah then resides in the minds of gullible men and ‘messes; with them constantly. His book and praying five times a day keeps those memes going. So Allah is a hallucination that is not real, still, hallucinations happen.

  8. mortimer says

    Mar 8, 2014 at 4:32 pm

    Islamic Fatalism means never having to say you’re sorry…for anything! Allah makes everything happen. No one has a choice! Wahoo. Muslim terrorists are just tools being used by Allah! They slay, but not they! ALLAH IS SLAYING whomever he chooses, using these human murderers as his willing instruments!

    They must really be at risk of being killed by the local people for them to apologize. Sounds like the locals are getting ready to counterattack. Good luck.

  9. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 8, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    We affirm, always to our suicide bombers, to be cautious…

    These ten words tell ya all you’ll ever need to know about Islam – in other words, Moslems. They affirm an openly evil belief system, they’re armed with suicide bomber mujahadin… and they’re cautious. Cautious about what, collateral damage? They’ve never worried much about that in the past, not in Malaysia, not anywhere in Dar al-Islam.

    They could be worrying about being stormed by a herd of angry Unicorns. But, as Alfred E. New said: why worry?

    The Global Jihad needs to get out of its own neighborhoods and get bigger. That means kidnapping and killing Infidel celebries in Dar al-Islam, or even over here, attacking military bases, and disabling infrastructure systems such as the electrical grid, pipelines, and even the transportation network, say by blowing up a key exit ramp in LA, fun stuff like that. Now that the Persians are brewing plutonium, the chances for nuclear weapons, less powerful than a big ICBM-born weapons, but small and agile ones that can do significant and disabling damage.

    The Islam business is like any other business: it must continually improve its game just to keep up with the Joneses, or at least destroy their belief systems.

  10. RodSerling says

    Mar 8, 2014 at 7:22 pm

    Robert asks, perhaps rhetorically: “So why the apology in this case?”

    Image management. Jihadists are all about the propaganda, and they do care about support from Muslim audiences, as well as how they are seen and portrayed by non-Muslims (especially those in the media).

    Another question: Why are we, in the West, hearing about this “apology” issued from a jihadist group?

  11. RodSerling says

    Mar 8, 2014 at 8:01 pm

    “Say (O Muhammad): O ye who are Jews! If ye claim that ye are favoured of Allah apart from (all) mankind, then long for death if ye are truthful.” — Qur’an 62:6

    Indeed, “Allah” refers approvingly to Muslims striving in the way of Allah who were “longing for death” (3:143).

    Also, interesting, in light of apologetic claims that suicidal attacks are not permitted in Islam, is a comparison of Qur’an 4:29 and 4:66.

    4:29. “O believers, consume not your goods between you in vanity, except there be trading, by your agreeing together. And kill** not one another.* Surely God is compassionate to you.”

    *Often translated as “yourselves,” i.e., don’t kill yourselves or your people. The word is transliterated as anfusakum.

    **q-t-l = kill

    4:66. “But had We prescribed for them, saying, ‘Slay** yourselves’* or ‘Leave your habitations,’ they would not have done it, save a few of them; yet if they had done as they were admonished it would have been better for them, and stronger confirming them,”

    *Again, exact same word: anfusakum. Yourselves, your people.

    **q-t-l = kill

    So apologists who argue that 4:29 forbids suicide must also admit that Allah thinks suicide is “better” for Muslims and confirming of their faith, if he commands it of them (see 9:111, in light of 4:66).

    If you read along the passage, the discussion of this topic continues, stating that those who obey Allah and the messenger will be guided on the straight path and will receive a vast reward (4:67-69; 4:70-77). Also see 4:65, which sets up 4:66 by identifying that the key principle is to follow and obey Muhammad’s and Allah’s orders (also see 4:80).

  12. Salah says

    Mar 9, 2014 at 12:55 am

    “We affirm, always to our suicide bombers, to be cautious, and to abort any operation if they believe it will hit others but the targeted,”

    Sometimes it’s too late to abort the operation!!!

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/02/72-virgins-express.html

  13. Carmen Sporidis says

    Mar 9, 2014 at 3:53 am

    I see a cartoon showing a suicide bomber preparing himself, praying for success, when from heaven comes a voice “Stop this bullshit, we are running out of Virgins”. What the Modern Martyr Should Know: 72 Grapes and not a single virgin. Norbert G. Pressburg uses latest researches to show how the Qur’an was misinterpreted through history by those in power, and for their own nefarious needs. Over the centuries errors, mistakes and forgeries have changed the original content, the real message of this holy book has been subverted. Many people know that terrorists expect to be greeted by virgins in Paradise when they die, but Pressburg shows that a truer translation says nothing about virgins at all. He also points out that the supposed admonition for women to wear veils is not God’s word at all, but the private opinion of a later interpreter.

    • Angemon says

      Mar 9, 2014 at 5:11 am

      The “oh, it’s not virgins, it’s raisins” thing is a myth. The quran describes the physical characteristics of the “raisins” in several places. They have wide, lovely eyes (quran 52:20) and swelling breasts (quran 78:31-34). BTW, 52:20 says the “martyrs” will marry the “raisins”.

      • RodSerling says

        Mar 9, 2014 at 3:12 pm

        Angemon,

        That’s what I thought too when I first heard of Luxenberg’s thesis, which Hugh used to mention from time to time here. Prompted by Hugh’s mentioning of it, I eventually read Luxenberg’s paper, and saw that he explains all of that. I’m still not sure what to conclude, but I no longer dismiss it. Luxenberg (a pen name) knows what he’s talking about.

        Of course, the Hadith and Sira are clear that there literally are supposed to be females in paradise for the sexual pleasure of true pious Muslim males.

  14. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 4:14 pm

    That such a “martyrdom” bombing happen is the first place only shows the extreme deception of the Quran in its falsehood of a claim of of a paradise with many virgins in it for the jihadist who dies in the jihad for Islam, 44;54. 55:56. 78:31. It has been exposed on other sites and well as a posting I had earlier made on this site which has shown the Quran to be a hoax. To put this in another way, the Quran is a deceptive work of “the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.” Ephesians 4:14. [N.I.V.] The false teachers, being the imams and mullahs will have to answer to the God of the Bible for brainwashing other people into believing the lies and falsehoods of Islam, Romans 14:12.

  15. gravenimage says

    Mar 11, 2014 at 5:01 am

    So why the apology in this case?
    ……………………………………

    Just killing a few too many of the “wrong” people—i.e., other pious Muslims.

    If the Jihadists just murder a stray few of their devout coreligionists, most of them will just chalk it up to Insh’allah fatalism.

    If they wipe out too many of them, though, the Jihadists may start to lose the support of the otherwise bloody-minded Muslim Ummah—can’t have that.

    All they are really saying with this “apology” is that they will try to focus more on butchering Infidels, the “insufficiently Islamic”, and other-sect Muslims.

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