Now wait a minute. It is an unquestionable dogma in the mainstream media in the West, even in “conservative” circles, that Osama bin Laden was a misunderstander of Islam — indeed, the world’s foremost misunderstander of Islam, a twister and hijacker of the Religion of Peace who actually misunderstood it in a way that led him to think that it mandated warfare against Infidels. So entrenched is the dogma that in 2007 I was in Berlin, speaking at a conference sponsored by the U.S. State Department and German Foreign Ministry, and got into a conversation with a State Department official who referred in passing to the jihad terrorists as “Muslims.” Then, embarrassed, he stopped himself and said, “Well, I shouldn’t call them ‘Muslims’…”
And his embarrassment and self-correction is shared by virtually all of American officialdom; if anything, it is even more entrenched now than it was in 2007. But in Pakistan, our friend and ally, not only is bin Laden not regarded as a misunderstander of Islam, but so revered is he in Islamic circles that now a library consisting entirely of Islamic books has been named after him.
American officials, however, are certain not to ponder the implications of this. Instead, they will continue to cling to their dogma, no matter how disconfirmed by the facts it becomes.
“Pakistan library named ‘Bin Laden’ in Islamic school,” BBC, April 18 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
An Islamic seminary for women in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad has renamed its library after Osama Bin Laden, the former al-Qaeda chief.
The Jamia Hafsa Madrassa is linked to the Red Mosque, known for its alleged links with militants.
A paper sign on one of the doors proclaims Bin Laden a “Shahid” (martyr). Bin Laden was killed in a raid by US commandos in 2011.
Pakistani troops raided the mosque in 2007. Dozens died later in clashes.
The BBC’s Shumaila Jaffrey in Islamabad says there are no chairs or any table in the library – just two computers on the floor.
The library is in a huge complex in the heart of Islamabad, part of which is still being built.
A spokesman for the madrassa said the new name was a tribute to Bin Laden, who was “a hero”.
The chief cleric there is Maulana Abdul Aziz. He warned that “if the government makes madrassas and mosques its target then Sharia (Islamic law) allows us to retaliate – if anyone will be harsh with us, they should not expect flowers in return”.
He also uses the library as his office. It has about 2,000 books – all of them related to Islam.
There are books about Sharia, Jihad and interpretations of the Koran in Arabic, Urdu and English, our correspondent reports.
Salah says
“He also uses the library as his office. It has about 2,000 books – all of them related to Islam.”
Good. So Muslims will have access to some great islamic books. I hope they read this one: Al-Sunan al-Kubra by Al-Bayhaqi.
Muslims should read this book, especially volume 1, page 137 where we read:
“We were at the Prophet’s (house) then came al-Hasan wallowing on him, so he (the prophet) lift up al-Hasan’s shirt and kissed his (little) penis.”
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2012/03/grandpa-muhammad.html
Kalliope says
Why, Salah!
No Muslim has contradicted you!
Could it be that Muslims are ashamed of their exemplary man?
Salah says
Indeed they are. And *that* is good.
As I always say to our Muslim friends:
Keep your heads down, the world has read your books and history. There’s no place for fairy tales or lies.
Now, please READ your books and feel the shame!
Kalliope says
And Salah, may you and everyone here at Jihad Watch have a blessed Pascha/Easter.
Salah says
Thank you, Kalliope. Same to you.
May God bless you and bless the memory of your late husband.
Kalliope says
Thank you, Salah.
CWR says
This is inconsequential. Islamophobia is the greatest threat to the known universe.
Strop says
No other books needed ! 🙂
BlueRaven says
This will not be the last library with the name of OBL. In about ten to twenty years, there will be OBL libs all over the world. My guess, the first one in Europe will be in GB – the most Muslim respecting country outside the Islamic States.
mariam rove says
Yes. And after GB it will be Sweden. M
Walter Sieruk says
Library or no library. It still stands that when the heroic Navy Seals were successful in the elimination of the heinous murderous fiend Osama bin Laden the people of Washington DC came out on the streets with great joy. To put this in another way, as for the extermination of the villain bin laden by the good people who are that navy SEAL’s. The people of Washington DC felt joy that bin Laden was destroyed. This type of thing is described in the Bible. For Proverbs 11:10 reads “When good people are successful, the whole city is happy, and they all shout for joy when evil people are destroyed.” [E.R.V.]
Defcon 4 says
I’d only quote Isaiah in response:
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
How many people — even right here on JW — call muslimes “good”?
Jay Boo says
Better to focus on the behavior then get caught up in self-righteous Old testament anger.
CogitoErgoSum says
The only books in the library are about Islam? No other books are allowed containing the knowledge and wisdom that mankind has come to discover through the centuries….outside of Islam? Not even “Computers for Dummies”….??? Actually I am surprised there are any books at all in this library …..much less computers. That’s because, of course, everything anyone ever needs to know in life is contained within the pages of the Quran…right? So this library should actually contain only one book to serve in the memory of Osama bin Laden. I am reminded of what the Caliph Omar is reported to have said before the final destruction of the Library at Alexandria, “If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them.”
Here’s an interesting discussion that I found on the burning of the Library at Alexandria. It may not be available for reading at the Osama bin Laden library…..and it may be more than you really wanted to know on the subject …….but here’s a link anyway:
http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2010/09/11/bar-hebraeus-abd-al-latif-and-the-destruction-of-the-library-of-alexandria/
If there ever is another Caliph, what do you suppose he will think of the Osama bin Laden library?
gravenimage says
I was going to cite that quote attributed to Caliph Omar as well, CogitoErgoSum.
Even if it is apocryphal, it tells you a great deal about Islam and its appalling values.
Aardvark says
Ha! Me too! You both beat me to it.
I like the quote from Khaldoun in one of the comments to the article linked to by CogitoErgoSum:
“Whenever the Arabs overcome a country desolation and destruction are quick to set foot in it since they are a savage and uncivilised nation by reason of the savage conditions in which they live, which made savagery in them like a second nature.”
This is as true of mohammedans today as it was in the middle ages. The savagery is not due to the conditions they live in, though, it is due to Islam.
Veracious_one says
Yet more proof that Pakistan had been hiding and supporting Osama all the time…just as we suspected…
Walter Sieruk says
It makes no sense for those Muslims to name a library after Osama bin Laden or to praise him by calling him a “hero of Islam” This is because after September 11, 2001 many Muslim “scholars” in America made the claim that bin Laden wasn’t real Muslim and that he was just a “criminal who hijacked Islam for politics.” So why should they name a library after him or praise him ?
Could it have been the those American Muslim “scholars” were lying or at least being very disingenuous when they made that claim ? Nevertheless, they really made a large flip-flop when it come to this subject.
Peter Dow says
“seminary”? Terrorism indoctrination camp wanted by the Pakistan military to recruit from into the Taliban & Al Qaeda, more like.
Pakistan is secretly at war with us. Pakistan denies it. We are in denial.
For years, the President and Congress have been spending American taxpayers’ money to aid Pakistan.
All this time, Pakistan has funded terrorists and built nuclear weapons and perhaps this is why the American taxpayer money spent on Pakistan did not feature in President Obama’s State of the Union speech.
Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan where he and the terrorist group he founded, Al-Qaeda, which attacked the US on 9/11, was hosted and sponsored by the Pakistani military.
The same Pakistani military given $10 billion in military aid (and $ billions more in civil aid) by the US since 2001 is actually SUPPORTING, RECRUITING, TRAINING, SUPPLYING AND DIRECTING THE TALIBAN against our forces.
The Taliban and other terrorist groups based in Pakistani territory are secret agents, proxies, irregular forces of the Pakistani military.
The Taliban don’t wear Pakistani military uniform of course, because that would give the game away, even to the fools who run NATO, the Pentagon, the MOD etc.
The evidence for Pakistan’s secret terrorist war against the West can be viewed in the BBC’s “SECRET PAKISTAN” videos.
Part 1. Double Cross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSinK-dVrig
Part 2. Backlash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5-lSSC9dSE
We need a new strategy which defeats the Taliban (and Al Qaeda) by applying the Bush Doctrine versus those states which sponsor those terrorists – Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Applying the Bush Doctrine versus Afghanistan alone makes as little strategic sense as it would have if we’d applied Cold War doctrine to say Cuba alone but not against the Soviet Union and its Eastern European client communists states!
It is a military fundamental that you don’t win a war by funding your enemy but rather you win a war by bankrupting your enemy, cutting off the resources the enemy needs to sustain its army.
The correct, non-foolish war strategy, knowing what we know about Pakistan now, to fight this war is that our governments and military should change their policies in dealings with Pakistan
– from a non-ingenious, self-defeating policy of diplomacy and aid, combined with a limited drone campaign against Al-Qaeda and now fewer Taliban targets
– to a much more confrontational policy of ultimatums, sanctions and war against the Pakistani military and especially the Pakistani generals and former generals who dictate military policy to use the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (“the ISI”, a state within a state) to sponsor terrorism behind the window dressing of an elected but relatively powerless government of Pakistan.
It may be Christian in some ways to turn the other cheek to the ISI as it kills our soldiers, but it isn’t waging war in a common sense fashion. It’s more akin to appeasement than war-fighting.
It’s like when a neighbour sets his savage dog to kill your child you only blame the dog and not the neighbour and you pay him money to keep him happy and to buy a new dog because the one he had got put down because it killed your child. That would be weak, stupid, lame and pathetic and no way to care for your children!
The US and NATO allies have the most powerful military alliance in world history and we are being made fools of on the battlefield by Pakistan – a military power which our taxpayers are paying money to!
This is really an absurd way to fight our war, with a blind eye as to who the enemy is.
We must end the farcical tragedy of our very stupid political and military leadership of this war!
We should apply massive pressure to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, up to and including war if necessary. Something fairly dramatic is needed to show the state sponsors of terrorism that their plan for a secret war against us with no chance of any blow-back has utterly failed and they are looking down the barrel of a real war with us or indeed are hearing the opening shots of that war in a way that is rather too close for comfort!
The AfPak Mission links
Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/AfpakMission
Forum http://scot.tk/forum/viewforum.php?f=26
Twitter http://twitter.com/AfPakMission
Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/afpakmission/
Blog http://afpakmission.wordpress.com/
Tee 'n' the Wildlife says
WOW! 2,000 whole books! That’s quite a library! (Not.) I have more that that many books in my home library.
gravenimage says
As do I, Tee—and probably most other posters here.
Pretty pathetic—but what else would we expect of a creed founded by an illiterate, which sneers at and denigrates rational thought?
Aardvark says
Well, yes, I have more books than that, too. I’ve been collecting SF books, mainly paperbacks, for the last half-century, and I now have over three thousand.
But I’m still amazed that the mohammedans can find two thousand books (presumably supportive) about Islam! They must have lots of duplicates.