Understanding the Jihad Against Israel and America

The late Southern Sudanese leader John Garang, in 1999, posed the following dual-part existential question for our era:

Is the call for jihad against a particular people a religious right of those calling for it, or is it a human rights violation against the people upon whom jihad is declared and waged?

As I hope to make plain, the answer to both parts of John Garang’s query is “Yes!”

Hamas cleric Muhsen Abu ‘Ita was interviewed July 13, 2008, on Al-Aqsa TV. After reminding listeners that the Koran’s opening prayer itself, the Fatiha, which pious Muslims repeat 17 times daily, declares that the Jews are “those who incur Allah’s wrath,” specifically in the 7th verse of the Fatiha, re-affirming the verse’s standard exegesis, or interpretation, for over 13 centuries, he declared:

The annihilation of the Jews here in Palestine is one of the most splendid blessings for Palestine. This will be followed by a greater blessing, Allah be praised, with the establishment of a Caliphate that will rule the land and will be pleasing to men and God.

Three months earlier Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal had made these more elaborate remarks during a speech which aired on Palestinian Al-Aqsa TV April 11, 2008:

Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was, as was prophesized by our prophet Muhammad. Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs [i.e., Jews, Koran 2:65, 5:60, and 7:166, and other foundational Muslim texts] in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam

Allen West Tells Muslim at a Town Hall Event: “You Attacked Us”

At a town hall meeting last night in Pompano, Allen West briefly sparred with a Qur’an-wielding supplicant who was there, in West’s words, to “blow sunshine up his butt.” (West always thinks Muslims want to blow something up.)

“You recently told a marine that the terrorists that attacked the United States, the people that are attacking America, are following Islam...” said the Muslim. “Can
you show me one verse in this Qur’an where it said to attack America, attack Americans, or attack innocent people?”

“Of course it doesn’t say attack America!” said West. “The book was written back in the eighth, ninth century. America wasn’t even around!” West then said something that was lost beneath the crowd’s noisy consternation and pointed out that the Qur’an, while devoid of explicit anti-Americanism, does advocate the killing of infidels. Which is true.

The Muslim supplicant tried to have a debate on the subject, but the assembled Floridians wouldn’t let him talk. They barely let Allen West talk. The congressman draws an excitable crowd.

West, unlike his supplicant, bulldozed right through the noise, doing his usual parlor trick of naming dates of alleged Muslim attacks upon peaceable, Christian Europeans. (We’ve debunked that trick here, but apparently to no good end.) When his supplicant finally found an opening in the surrounding roar and mentioned that West has “attacked Islam” (where he was going with that line of thought is anyone’s guess, cuz he didn’t get to finish), West said: “You attacked us!”

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2011/02/allen_west_vs_a_muslim.php

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