Posted on 09/27/2006 8:27:45 PM PDT by freeper_peeper
Suicide bombers follow Quran, concludes Pentagon briefing Tasked with pinpointing motivation, analysts find terrorists 'rational actors' following 'holy book' Posted: September 27, 2006
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
With suicide bombings spreading from Iraq to Afghanistan, the Pentagon has tasked intelligence analysts to pinpoint what's driving Muslim after Muslim to do the unthinkable.
Their preliminary finding is politically explosive: it's their "holy book" the Quran after all, according to intelligence briefings obtained by WND.
In public, the U.S. government has made an effort to avoid linking the terrorist threat to Islam and the Quran while dismissing suicide terrorists as crazed heretics who pervert Islamic teachings.
"The terrorists distort the idea of jihad into a call for violence and murder," the White House maintains in its recently released "National Strategy for Combating Terrorism" report.
But internal Pentagon briefings show intelligence analysts have reached a wholly different conclusion after studying Islamic scripture and the backgrounds of suicide terrorists. They've found that most Muslim suicide bombers are in fact students of the Quran who are motivated by its violent commands – making them, as strange as it sounds to the West, "rational actors" on the Islamic stage.
Palestinian child pretends he's a suicide bomber
In Islam, it is not how one lives one's life that guarantees spiritual salvation, but how one dies, according to the briefings. There are great advantages to becoming a martyr. Dying while fighting the infidels in the cause of Allah reserves a special place and honor in Paradise. And it earns special favor with Allah.
"Suicide in defense of Islam is permitted, and the Islamic suicide bomber is, in the main, a rational actor," concludes a recent Pentagon briefing paper titled, "Motivations of Muslim Suicide Bombers."
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I wonder if the DC bureaucrats are finally getting around to admitting what the average American already knows about Islam. Religion of Peace, Mr. President? We don't buy it, and we never have.
LOL I'm sure there will be rioting in the muzzie streets after hearing this.
Now I'm wondering not only what sort of an impact a briefing like this would have, but how long it would take to become effective.
There are many good folks out there in the field who could have told them this years ago, but know this is not the kind of reporting back to Washington that gets them moving forward in their careers...
This article is well-worth reading. It may be perceived as a "duh" situation by some, but it provides useful factual info.
And it also raises the question: okay, now that "research" has shown that suicide bombings are religiously motivated (as opposed to the alleged "knee-jerk reaction" of linking suicide bombings and Islam), what are we going to do about it? How do you eradicate a religiously motivated action? How do you counter a national security threat that springs from a religion?
All along, most of us knew this is what we're about here. But the discussion needs to come out into the open, even if our leaders must publically maintain a more PC stance.
Many scholars and media pundits, however, insist Muslim suicide bombers are not driven by religion.
"Beneath the religious rhetoric with which [such terror] is perpetrated, it occurs largely in the service of secular aims," claims Professor Robert A. Pape of the University of Chicago. "Suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation rather than a product of Islamic fundamentalism."
He says U.S. foreign policy is more a factor than faith.
World Nut Daily is a freak show and has about as much credibility as Jerry Springer.
you sure got that right.
it not so much what is said but who said it that counts
>>There are great advantages to becoming a martyr.<<
Problem is, they are stretching the meaning of the word. A martyr is someone who is killed by SOMEBODY ELSE. One cannot martyr themself.
Islam/Jihad PING !
I've been saying this for years... glad to see someone else can read...
Islam is EVIL.. there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that it is indeed the world religion of Satan.
It is the embodiment of Satan's greatest trick... not convincing man that he doesn't exist as some claim.. but convincing man that he is God. Islam is the execution of this trick, no if ands or buts about it.
You can figure this out by just reading the first 10 books of the Koran. They are complete lunatics following a moon demon.
Islamics = the original Lunatics
You got that right.
But they work for the Infidel Commander in Chief who said Islam was a religion of peace and that we all worship the same God.
When the boss makes stupid statements like that, and you depend on a job and a paycheck, and retirement benefits, it just isn't prudent to contradict him.
You have to wait until the numbskull "gets it" and then agree with his new found opinion. - tom
That's extremely interesting, because the Israelis--who have been much closer to this problem than we have, for a much longer time--have concluded exactly the opposite: that the typical terrorist actually knows far less about Islam in general and the Quran in particular (aside from a few verses about the houris of paradise drilled into their heads over and over again). (Gayle Rivers discusses it in his book The Specialist.)
A lawyer defending al Qaida-linked suspects standing trial for the 2003 suicide bombings in Istanbul told a court that jihad, or holy war, was an obligation for Muslims and his clients should not be prosecuted.
"If you punish them for this, tomorrow, will you punish them for fasting or for praying?" Osman Karahan -- a lawyer representing 14 of the 72 suspects -- asked during a nearly four-hour speech in which he read religious texts from an encyclopedia of Islam.
The November 2003 blasts targeted two synagogues, the British Consulate and the local headquarters of the London-based HSBC bank, killing 58 people.
The Arabic word jihad can mean holy war among extremists in addition to its definition as the Islamic concept of the struggle to do good.
Karahan spoke for three hours at the court in Istanbul.
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Nail hit squarely on the head my friend,
their eternal reward is carnal by nature,
So, if WND got a copy of the report, where can I get my copy?
It does not seem to be a rare or one off sentiment.
I recall the discussions on islamic forums over that... threads such as "war against islam" and "religious persecution" to which a couple of their regular bright sparks commented along the lines of "if I was arrested I would tell the kafir I was following Islam... it's my religion! What can they do?" invoking the old misguided "freedom of religion" argument.
Think I'll write a terror-manual. Call it a religion...then, when I'm charged with terrorism, I can use the manual in my defence.
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