Posted on 05/15/2005 7:50:47 AM PDT by jmc1969
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) -- A group of Afghan Muslim clerics have threatened to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it hands over military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Quran.
The warning on Sunday came after 16 Afghans were killed and more than 100 hurt last week in the worst anti-U.S. protests across the country since U.S. forces invaded in 2001 to oust the Taliban for sheltering Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.
The clerics in the northeastern province of Badakhshan said they wanted U.S. President George W. Bush to handle the matter honestly "and hand the culprits over to an Islamic country for punishment."
"If that does not happen within three days, we will launch a jihad against America," said a statement issued by about 300 clerics, referring to Muslim holy war, after meeting in the main mosque in the provincial capital, Faizabad.
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LOL! Buttplugs with a fanbelt wrapped around it.
They have already declared jihad on us. Then we go and give them hundreds of billions of our dollars so they can be better equipped to kill us later on.
Isn't this like yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre when there is really no fire?
You can't yell "fire" but you can light one to burn an American flag, that's free speech? Arson in public has become free speech and inciting a riot is no longer applicable to journalists?
Making things more difficult for our forces abroad has gotten a bit out of hand with the media. Time to invoke the Sedition Act?
I think that the BIG controversy here is that the inmates in Gitmo have toilet paper at all...
http://www.islam.tc/ask-imam/view.php?q=7745
Providing aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war is treason. Axis Sally and Lord Haw Haw were American born Nazi propagandists and they were convicted for their crimes.
The so-called clerics are more Mafia dons. Enforcers of the death cult.
"A group of Afghan Muslim clerics have threatened to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it hands over military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Quran."
And some thought hanging around in Afghanistan trying to help them build a modern state with conditions at least tolerable for a human being was a good idea.
At the end of the day the Afghan people are going to turn on us. It may not happen tomorrow, or next week, but it is going to happen. There is no such thing as "moderate" Islam. These people may have been war ravaged enough to tolerate us for awhile, but they will in short order heed the call of their radical religion which forbids friendship or cooperation with Christians and Jews. We are not going to be able to continue paying off their warlords forever. The very people we liberated from horrific conditions will soon thank us for it will bullets in the heads of our service people.
If we feel we must retain a footprint (occupation) in Afghanistan, we must be willing to take decisive action when this sort of nonsense comes up. If after 3 days these nuts declare holy war on the US, we should simply classify them as enemies to the coalition and arrest or kill all of them and any followers they may have. The way to successfully win and/or occupy nations is to make sure the populace knows that if they rise against you, they and all the things they care about will be annhilated. We apparently don't have the stomach for that sort of thing in this polically correct media age, and until we do we should avoid hanging around in these Islamic countries.
Longbow
The koran was plagarized from ancient jewish texts, so it's proper to blame the jews!!!
Don't bother. It makes lousy TP. I used it once and I came up one fatwah short of a clean wipe, along with a nasty rash that took and application of bacon grease to extinguish.
oh but you know he will...since they are the religion of peace.......all they need is a few million illegal mexicans to do the jihading that regular muslims don't want to do.
Bring it on.
Newsweek and the MSm deal in lies. They first decide what the outcome should be and then tailor their stories to make it come out that way.
Isikoff should be hung.
The clerics act the same as Damolrats.
The Washington Post knew that it was Saudis who are the suicide bombers in Iraq. I'm wondering if Newsweak is not trying to recruit more fanatics with this phony article ?
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