The Islamic Republic of Iran’s attacks on British shipping could easily be written off as nationalistic or strategic. But, as this video from Memri shows, the Shiite Jihadist state made a point of playing the Islamic call to prayer, counting coup on the captured infidel tanker.
The video positions Iran’s attacks on shipping as an explicitly Islamic Jihad, and that is indeed what any military action by it must be seen as.
Iran’s Jihadist principles are embodied in its constitution, just as our own principles of freedom and independence are in our own.
In the formation and equipping of the country’s defence forces, due attention must be paid to faith and ideology as the basic criteria. Accordingly, the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps are to be organized in conformity with this goal, and they will be responsible not only for guarding and preserving the frontiers of the country, but also for fulfilling the ideological mission of jihad in Allah’s way; that is, extending the sovereignty of Allah’s law throughout the world (this is in accordance with the Qur’anic verse “Prepare against them whatever force you are able to muster, and strings of horses, striking fear into the enemy of God and your enemy, and others besides them ” [8:60] ).
Note the “world” part.
Iran’s Jihadist agenda isn’t limited to the region, no matter what some lefties and some “conservatives” think.
ntesdorf says
The Muslims play those Dhimmis like a fiddle!
J D S says
Hmmmmmm…BRITTON should be playing their national anthem and flying their flag in Tehran ….Well Maybe the many FLAGS of a coalition should be flying there…..What coalitions? The free world should be standing as one against the EVILS of islam.
Peter Buckley says
No doubt this will be passed onto Dominic Raab. Don’t you just love it when the idiots’ supremacism exposes their taqiyya…..
James says
In this case it has something to do with Islam.
David Grisez says
The United Kingdom today is nothing like the British Empire of the nineteenth century. If this type of event had happened in the past the British Empire would have delivered an ultimatum to Iran to release the ship and its crew or there would be war. It appears today like many western nations are way too much into appeasement of these Muslim Nations, rather than firmly dealing with acts jihad and piracy.
Keys says
From the Iranian Constitution:
“…the Qur’anic verse “Prepare against them whatever force you are able to muster…”
This would include and justify nuclear weapons, and Khamenei’s “ruling” as Supreme Poobah that they are forbidden by Islam is a lie, just like Zia lied to the US when Pakistan got them.
Keys says
If the Brits make an even “my-captured-ship-for-your-captured-ship” deal, my guess is the generous Iranians will have a few hidden extras on the returned ship.
Not a bloody nuclear bomb yet, though, right. That would be unIslamic for now.
Angemon says
Indeed.
gravenimage says
Yes–this is all about Jihad.
CRUSADER says
As they say (or shout!):
“death to america…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz7b3igb4yM
Relic says
islamic call to prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eMvryXDHWQ
John G Adderley says
isnt that picture on title old?
rociomatamoros says
The world would be much worse off. Our argument is with the Iranian leadership, or more broadly with Islam. Our argument is not with the people of Iran, many of whom have demonstrated their opposition to the regime in the past. Iran, it should be remembered that Iran was a friend to Israel for decades (before the Western powers withdrew all support from the Shah and sent in Khomeini).
Ultimately, though, it wouldn’t even matter if every citizen was delighted to live in the Islamic Republic, the action would still be wrong. If we live in a lawless, G_dless world where dropping a nuclear bomb on non-combatants (including children) is fine just because it removes a problem, then we have no civilization of our own to defend, no values that the rest of the world can recognise as worth aspiring to.
Menachem Begin was no pacifist. Here’s what he had to say to a U.S. congressman who gave a kill-em-all speech (explicity saying that women and children could be killed freely):
“according to our values, it is forbidden to hurt women and children, even in war…We did not want to hurt civilians under any circumstances…we never approved a plan knowing that civilians would be hurt directly or on purpose. Unintentionally, that can happen, it must not be denied.”
The congressman was the young Joe Biden, trying to humour Begin with a cynical utilitarian speech, supposedly in support of Israel. But cynical utilitarians, by definition, have no higher values, and so when young Joe saw that outspoken support of Israel was no longer useful to his career, he switched sides.
Who do you think was right, Vicky, Biden or Begin?
Angemon says
“ (before the Western powers withdrew all support from the Shah and sent in Khomeini).”
I’m pretty sure that the Shah played a role in his downfall. Friendly to the West as he may have been, he was still a brutal dictator that, for an untold number of Iranians, was a non-muslim US puppet.
Abraham says
If we attack Iran which they want us to do, the West will receive millions more of Muslims as supposed refugees. No more refugees, sink the boats, let Iran fall bc no country can last long under the current sanctions. If not for Obumer, Iran would have already fallen.
Sanctions are working and the people of Iran will eventually take back their country from the hateful religious fanatics. Give it time. Britian and the US can afford to lose a few tankers. What we don’t need is to displace more Islamists.
Here in the US, we need to unite against this Evil and let them go home if they want but we cannot give them an inch, they will take the country if given the chance.
Arm yourself for the battle ahead.