Posted on 11/03/2008 8:34:54 PM PST by Ooh-Ah
Allowing the fanatics who've ravaged Islam (and who've slaughtered countless Muslims) to speak for themselves, author Laurent Murawiec quotes the late Ayatollah Khomeini: "Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war . . . I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim . . . A religion without war is a crippled religion. It is war that purifies the earth."
A notorious ally of Khomeini's, Ayatollah Khalkali, put it even more bluntly: "Those who are against killing have no place in Islam."
Those are but two of the hundreds of chilling citations in "The Mind Of Jihad" - a work that needs to be widely read in Washington, where key government organizations forbid the use of the term "Islamist terrorist" to avoid offending our enemies.
Murawiec painstakingly dissects the roots of the current Islamist jihad against our civilization. He employs the extensive Muslim literature on the subject to explode the nonsensical claim that "true jihad" is an innocent personal struggle, rather than a theology of conquest.
The author makes it abundantly clear that, for all the complex factors at play in human behavior, the essence of the threat we face is "a toxic combination of jihad and totalitarianism . . . expressed in and symbolized by the jihadis' worship of violence, their predilection for blood and their cult of death. [Theirs is] a society going terminal and descending into a nihilistic frenzy of destruction."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
You can watch the Hudson Institute panel discussion on the book at URL:
http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=hudson_upcoming_events&id=597
The book itself is available at:
http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Jihad-Laurent-Murawiec/dp/0521730635/ref=ed_oe_p
They’re working on the Pope, too. If they can silence the Catholic Church, they’re halfway home.
Thanks.
pingaroo!
I spit upon those foolish jihadis who believe such a claim . . . An Islamic religion with war will result in a crippled Islamic religion. It is a war that purifies the earth of jihadis.”
I just had to paraphrase that 1st class pig’s a$$hole.
And the Earth needs some good purification even more than it needs to stop Global warming....
Besides the jihads started it.....
The cult was sustained through conquest. Otherwise it would have been stamped out fifteen hundred years ago.
Ayatollah Khomeini: "Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war . . . I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim . . . A religion without war is a crippled religion. It is war that purifies the earth."Thanks Ernest.
A notorious ally of Khomeini's, Ayatollah Khalkali, put it even more bluntly: "Those who are against killing have no place in Islam."
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