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“Back then, jihad was very clean and beautiful”

Aug 28, 2016 7:07 pm By Robert Spencer

“When Mr Abdul Manaf Kasmuri, 61, pledged his allegiance to Al-Qaeda, he planned to help fellow Muslims who were being oppressed in conflict zones around the world….’Back then, jihad was very clean and beautiful. Jihad was only about helping fellow Muslims without resorting to violence.'”

When was jihad ever clean and beautiful for its non-Muslim victims? When was al-Qaeda’s jihad ever non-violent? It looks as if Abdul Manaf Kasmuri is doing his best to avoid being prosecuted. As Muhammad said, “War is deceit.”

Abdul Manaf

“Al-Qaeda’s idea of violent jihad twisted, says ex-detainee,” Straits Times, August 28, 2016:

PUTRAJAYA • A man who was once held under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act (ISA) has learnt the hard way that war fought by terror groups is not the jihad he had in mind.

When Mr Abdul Manaf Kasmuri, 61, pledged his allegiance to Al-Qaeda, he planned to help fellow Muslims who were being oppressed in conflict zones around the world.

However, the terror group’s actions – escalating and senseless violence – forced the former army colonel to withdraw his support.

“Back then, jihad was very clean and beautiful. Jihad was only about helping fellow Muslims without resorting to violence,” he said.

Jihad is an Islamic term that means “struggle” but can also be used to refer to a “holy war”.

Mr Abdul Manaf, speaking to the press about the dangers of extremist ideology on Saturday, said: “Initially, they had my support. But their ideology changed and became twisted.”…

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  1. will Rodgers says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 7:56 pm

    islam is a cult of inbred sociopaths. Nothing beautiful ever will or ever did come from thie hatefilled evil clt

  2. Wellington says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 8:36 pm

    Jihad was NEVER beautiful. It has, from its inception, been a burden to mankind. Always will be. One knows this or should know it.

    And I for one am getting exceedingly tired of non-Muslims who refuse, for whatever lazy or stupid reason, to see this oh-so-blatant truth.

    • Shane says

      Aug 29, 2016 at 10:21 am

      Mo led his fanatical warriors in over 20 Jihads and he ordered many more. After winning, the men would be beheaded, and the women raped; the survivors would be sold into slavery. Mo was a Warlord, rapist, murderer, and a pedophile, while Jesus was a man of peace who taught a peaceful message.

      Comparing Jesus and Muhammad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNduw1qlJgI

    • Mong says

      Aug 29, 2016 at 3:10 pm

      Yeah but the CNN crowd won’t ever accept reality. Why would they when fantasy is so much nicer?
      It’s been obvious for about 1,400 years what Isalm is about but we haven’t quite got it yet. Watching CNN talk about the current troubles in the Middle East is absurd in the extreme. Even Orwells head would be spinning. The fact is that when I was a child many years ago, the Middle East was burning. Now I’m middle aged, the Middle East is still burning. When I die, the middle east will still be burning. All the while, media outlets like CNN want to swim around in the details, obfuscating the situation beyond all comprehension and never once honestly addressing why this mayhem is happening. Let me do the medias job for them; it’s happening because they’re all motivated by a religion which is inherently combative. It’s about subjugating the other, but we’re just going to keep pretending otherwise while this thing not only continues to wreck havok in the Middle East but also starts to encroach on the west. Good luck everybody.

  3. john spielman says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 8:37 pm

    because allah of islam IS Satan of the Bible and since Satan IS a liar deceiver and murderer from the beginning as Jesus (who is God incarnate) has testified, it stands to reason that muslims will lie to us about the nature of jihad !
    jihad is war against everything and everyone who is NOT of the house of islam hence dar al harb – the house of WAR as opposed to dar al islam- the house of SUBMISSION.
    but just as evil is not united, so the house of islam (submission ) is not united and in eternal warfare against itself (shia vs sunni )!
    Jesus has said that a house divided cannot stand; so islam, despite it’s seeming ascendance in the world today, is DOOMED to fall

    • VampireJack says

      Aug 29, 2016 at 4:40 am

      It really does seem though that the non muslim world is divided.
      Our politicians and media keep espousing the view that “islam is peace” and people still believe it. There is no doubt that the vast majority of muslims do want peace (but also want a global shariah), but let us not forget that not all Germans supported the Nazi party, but ENOUGH did. Look how well that ended.

      • Mirren10 says

        Aug 29, 2016 at 6:57 am

        ”There is no doubt that the vast majority of muslims do want peace … ”

        Evidence ?

        So, if the vast majority of muslims want to impose a global sharia, (which we know they do ) how are they going to do that, without war and bloodshed ? They must know they can’t.

        ” … not all Germans supported the Nazi party, but ENOUGH did. Look how well that ended.”

        Very true.

  4. gravenimage says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    “Back then, jihad was very clean and beautiful”
    …………………..

    When was Al Qaeda ever peaceful? This isn’t even good Taqiyya…

  5. Janeatte says

    Aug 29, 2016 at 12:23 am

    To them is beautiful because it a pleasure to kill non Muslims.
    One time there was a Muslim preaching how to kill kafer ,one of the Muslims there said the wish of my life to kill Christians,if I do that I go directly to heaven with Virgins

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Aug 30, 2016 at 1:34 am

      And then they wail like babies on TV when the tables get turned and they come off worst, especially when the Israeli response to a terrorist atrocity takes out scores of terrorists. Worse still, the West falls for it.

  6. Angemon says

    Aug 29, 2016 at 5:20 am

    Mr Abdul Manaf, speaking to the press about the dangers of extremist ideology on Saturday, said: “Initially, they had my support. But their ideology changed and became twisted.”…

    Just how gullible are Malaysian authorities?

  7. El Cid says

    Aug 29, 2016 at 12:28 pm

    This strikes me as a familiar story of a useful idiot who confuses his ideals with a message from a group bent on tyranny, e.g. the Nazis, the Marxists, the Maoists, etc.

    After he joins, he sees what he’s into and sees he cannot escape and it is not at all what he thought it was.

  8. SpiritOf1683 says

    Aug 30, 2016 at 1:30 am

    The souls of 350 million people murdered in cold blood in the name of Jihad would care to disagree.

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