Posted on 05/15/2005 2:08:19 PM PDT by jb6
A group of Afghan Muslim clerics threatened on Sunday to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it hands over military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Koran. The warning 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.
The statement was read out by Abdul Fatah Fayeq, the top judicial official in the mountainous, conservative province near the borders of Tajikistan and China. Muslim clerics have traditionally been teachers and leaders in Afghan society and throughout its history they have rallied public opinion and sometimes led uprisings against unpopular rulers and foreign occupiers. Newsweek magazine said in its May 9 edition investigators probing abuses at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay found that interrogators "had placed Korans on toilets, and in at least one case flushed a holy book down the toilet". Muslims consider the Koran the literal word of God and treat each book with deep reverence. The United States has tried to calm global Muslim outrage over the incident, saying disrespect for the Koran was abhorrent and would not be tolerated, and military authorities were investigating the allegation.
It seems that Newsweek has done its deed. No real point in a retraction, these folks will only get angrier. The joy of outrage!
It's become quite blatant, but now it is getting people killed.
What mullahs haven't declared a holy war against us?
Seriously; our Predators are running out of high-value targets. We'd be happy to put a few more mullahs on the Hellfire waiting list.
Professionalism? Honesty? Where? Where?
Religion of peace my hind foot. Those savages are all like fire ants, and we all know how to exterminate fire ants.
Could we just hand over Newsweak's Michael Isikoff and some other infidel journalists? Let's let some of the news media experience first-hand what the jihadists are really all about! Powerline has some good things to say about Newsweak's role in this matter:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
Those clerics may call for a holy war, but you can bet they will not actively participate in it. Instead, they will rally their minions of fools to bleed and die and blow themselves up for pages of words -- and, naturally, for the greater glory of the mullahs.
P*ss on the clerics & their Koran. Everyone should have the Koran to wipe their butts & feet on.
We'll loose this and we'll loose it because we're putting a tux on a pig, won't work. We have to transform the pigs into humans and only Christ can do that.
Until we equate wahabiism with naziisim, the survival of Western Civilization becomes increasingly precarious, and its decline will be as though caught in a whirlpool...a slow gentle spin around the outside edges at first, gathering speed as it sinks deeper and deeper and becomes increasingly difficult to rescue.
Do you think our leaders should actively participate in wars they promote?
Yeah, like they already didn't have one against us. I think we should nuke one Muslim country as a warning to the others that we're not going to screw around with them. Preferably Iran, since they are close to a nuclear bomb. Give them what they are trying to do to us.
We need to tell the Iranian people that they have 3 days to overthrow the Mullahs, flee Iran, or we are going to attack. IF they don't, We need to bring all of our Military back to the USA and put them on the borders. No doubt, they will be engaging them right there.
Yeah, yeah. A group of Muslim clerics somewhere is ALWAYS threatening to call for a holy war against the United States for something. First it was our support of Israel, then it was our having troops in the Holy Land, then it was the character of Jar Jar Binks in Episode One ...
Take this Jihad and shove it
It aint working anymore.
You people dont want peace
, it aint worth workin for anymore.
Dont you try to stand in our way
when we come knockin on your door
So take your Jihad and shove it
it aint workin anymore.
A jihad against the U. S.? Based on the results in Afghanistan and Iraq, they'll go from jihad to jihasbeen in a hurry.
To the editing and writing staff of Newsweek,
Congratulations on your publication in Periscope concerning Korans being flushed down toilets by U.S. interrogators and your subsequent apology, stating that this story may have not been supported by fact. Congratulations again, for the deaths and rioting resulting from your due diligence and journalistic integrity in reporting this story. Congratulations for providing the Moslem world with more fodder, which will be used to recruit more jihadists to kill the infidels. Congratulations for any future deaths of Americans and others in the world that will result from your loose-lipped arrows of truth. Congratulations on your apology, which comes after arrow has left bow and the damage that results cannot be undone. Thank you so much for being sorry. You, of all people should know that words are a powerful weapon, and once they have been unleashed, they cannot be called back no matter how sorry you claim to be. Aside from the deaths and riots your journalistic work has already accomplished, congratulations also for this:
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.
It’s fun to play God. Don’t you agree?
Jonh Major
El Dorado, CA
Holy shiite, here we go again.
Donning flameproof suit.
Adding hazmat protetion suit.
I'm glad Newsweek made this mistake.
If the Muslims declare war (jihad) we get to retaliate...and retaliate...and retaliate.
Maybe, just maybe, they'll get the idea that it's not such a good idea to pick on the USA.
We need a new law passed, though. We're all set up for if a government declares war. We need one for if a religion declares war.
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