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August 22 Does Iran have something in store?
Opinion Journal of Wall Street Journal ^ | August 8, 2006 | Bernard Lewis

Posted on 08/08/2006 11:44:49 AM PDT by BunnySlippers

August 22

By BERNARD LEWIS

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The phrase "Allah will know his own" is usually used to explain such apparently callous unconcern; it means that while infidel, i.e., non-Muslim, victims will go to a well-deserved punishment in hell, Muslims will be sent straight to heaven. According to this view, the bombers are in fact doing their Muslim victims a favor by giving them a quick pass to heaven and its delights -- the rewards without the struggles of martyrdom. School textbooks tell young Iranians to be ready for a final global struggle against an evil enemy, named as the U.S., and to prepare themselves for the privileges of martyrdom.

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A passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, is revealing. "I am decisively announcing to the whole world that if the world-devourers [i.e., the infidel powers] wish to stand against our religion, we will stand against their whole world and will not cease until the annihilation of all them. Either we all become free, or we will go to the greater freedom which is martyrdom. Either we shake one another's hands in joy at the victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours."

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(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; august22; clashofcivilizations; geopolitics; globaljihad; iran
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This is the ACTUAL article by Bernard Lewis that Drudge is commenting on this afternoon. So supplement this with Drudge's piece below:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679858/posts

Unfortunately the WSJ is subscription only.

1 posted on 08/08/2006 11:44:50 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers

This is just further proof that Islam's "leadership" is a ship of deluded ignorami.

Improvements in technology are putting the lie to much of the propaganda the terrorists have used against Israel and the West. Although this propaganda is most effective on self-loathing leftists and conspiracy kooks, the trouble is they run the MSM and vote.


2 posted on 08/08/2006 11:55:40 AM PDT by 308MBR ( "She pulled up her petticoat, and I pulled out for Tulsa!" Abstinence training from Bob Wills.)
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To: 308MBR
I thought it interesting that such an esteemed person as Bernard Lewis gives credence to the August 22nd theory. Actually, I read it here on FR first ... about a month ago.
3 posted on 08/08/2006 11:57:21 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers
Quit hiding behind words Iran. Please, PLEASE come onto the battle field. The result for your the Iranian Army will make the highway of death coming out of Kuwait City in 1991 look like a traffic accident
4 posted on 08/08/2006 11:59:07 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (A proportionate response would be the indiscriminate slaughter of Western journalists)
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To: BunnySlippers

FULL TEXT--->>>

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.quotations/browse_thread/thread/87d3e1c59d03db58/12fd5312b9f24d74?lnk=st&q=&rnum=2#12fd5312b9f24d74


5 posted on 08/08/2006 12:00:56 PM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: dennisw

Thank you but that is not the full text. The article is 4 or 5 times longer.

I really wish they had put it on Opinion Journal and not just on the paying website.

I have the paper in front of me now.


7 posted on 08/08/2006 12:03:42 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers

Thanks!


8 posted on 08/08/2006 12:04:37 PM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: BunnySlippers

What's the August 22nd theory?


9 posted on 08/08/2006 12:05:30 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: BunnySlippers

Prolly be on line tomorrow in Opinion Journal. Or the day after


10 posted on 08/08/2006 12:05:46 PM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Basically Armedgeddon ... an appropriate time for Ahmadinejad to escalate tensions into a full scale "end of the world" scenario.

Bernard Lewis talks about talks about how Muslims do not care about "MAD" mutually assured destruction" and feel that if both sides die that they have won.

Drudge has the actual backup here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679858/posts


11 posted on 08/08/2006 12:08:28 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers

Interesting that the paper copy included a picture of a drawing of Mohammed -- apparently drawn by a Muslim. WHere's the outrage?


12 posted on 08/08/2006 12:08:47 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi | Appeasement=Suicide | Hezbo rockets carry "peaceheads")
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To: dennisw

Yes, reposted on the free site a day or two later. That's the pattern.


13 posted on 08/08/2006 12:08:53 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: BunnySlippers

Albigensian heresy.

"Kill! Kill Them All! God Will Know His Own!" ... the Archbishop of Beziers who oversaw the annihilation of the Cathars. ...

Well, we can go back to that.


14 posted on 08/08/2006 12:09:41 PM PDT by OpusatFR ( ALEA IACTA EST. We have just crossed the Rubicon.)
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To: 308MBR

"ship of deluded ignorami" LOLOL


16 posted on 08/08/2006 12:10:31 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: sionnsar

Muhammad's Night Flight on Buraq!


17 posted on 08/08/2006 12:10:48 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers

Well, if this truly is their aim we are powerless. We still haven't taken the gloves off and I doubt we ever will.


18 posted on 08/08/2006 12:13:50 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: BunnySlippers

So the theory is that Israel will get nuked on 8/22?

Or that there will be multiple nukings, including here in the US?


19 posted on 08/08/2006 12:15:09 PM PDT by airborne (Satan's greatest trick was convincing people he doesn't exist.)
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To: dennisw

That doesn't look like the full text


20 posted on 08/08/2006 12:15:23 PM PDT by RDTF ("We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us two.” Osama Bin laden)
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