Ping - for an intellectually scintillating article, my friends.
Fundamentalist Islamic leaders in Saudi Arabia are telling militants intent on fighting "infidels" to join the insurgency in Iraq (news - web sites) instead of taking up Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s call to oust the Saudi royal family at home, say Saudi dissidents who monitor theological edicts coming out of the kingdom.Iraq as a battleground offers the solution to a quandary facing the Saudi clerics who have to both placate the kingdom's rulers and keep their radical base happy.
"If they preach that there ought to be absolutely no jihad, they would lose credibility and support among their followers. So what they do is preach jihad — not in Saudi Arabia, but in Iraq," said Abdul-Aziz Khamis, a Saudi human rights activist in London.
"To them, Iraq is the answer to their dilemma."
Force is what the jihad filth understands. I guess they learned a few things.
Don't most of us know something about the lives, the motives and character of the people who began 'great' movements throughout history?
Even those who have read little, understand Stalin was paranoid. Hitler was a rabid Jew-hater and has been described by various biographers as a necrophiliac. Marx, the 'philospher' was unable to support his family, his children suffered from starvation and neglect. Freud, who contributed much to the understanding of the psyche, has been exposed as a cocaine addict.
The list is long, even Alexander the Great, it has been written, suffered from epilepsy. The ancient Greeks described mental illness as being 'touched by the gods.'
We investigate, we look back upon the lives of men who have influenced our history and culture. Nothing known is hidden from us. Albert Schweitzer spent some 25 years studying the life of Jesus before he established his hospital in the Congo, he wrote 'In Search of the Historical Jesus'.
What am I getting at?
It bothers me no end, that people will argue islam is this or that...we waste so much energy and time discussing what is in fact, superficial. Neither the koran nor the thousands of hadith, even if we read them all over and over again, provide us with an understanding of the man who gave birth to this 'religion' nor the culture from which it sprang.
Ask yourselves, why does islam deter its followers from reading biographies of the 'prophet'?
The answer to that question is within the pages of a book, written by Edward, Canon Sell, published in 1913, complete with the ancient arabic & greek sources.
IMO No one can understand islam, neither defend nor defeat it, without knowledge of the motives, the character of mohammad. Please, please read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD. Link on my Page. Free pdf download.