Posted on 12/08/2010 7:50:08 PM PST by Righting
Infiltration: how Muslim spies and subversives have penetrated Washington (Google eBook) - Pages 45-46
Paul E. Sperry - [Thomas Nelson Inc] 2005 - 360 pages - Preview Islam's apologists allege that Muslims are baffled by Bin Laden's holy war, He is a man, who to the dismay of millions of Muslims around the world, uses the Quran to justify his call to arms against the United States, claims CNN's Amanpour.
In fact, devout Muslims around the world the world who have dutifully read their Quran know bin Laden is a lion of Allah, as they say. That is why so many of them in Pakistan and throughout Asia and the Middle East have named their newborn boys after Osamathe warrior. Like it or not, many Muslims look upon 9/11 as a miracle of faith and bin Laden as a blessed servant with divine protection. Calling on Allah, he was able to hobble the Great Satan in the course of breakfastand live to brag about it, going on four years now, while threatening to do it again! We see a murderer, while they see a holy manand a hero.
They call him a terrorist, but in reality he is a true Muslim hero who deserves [P. 46] to be backed by all Muslims throughout the world, says Saudi businessman Saad al-Shahrani. Prominent Saudi clerics like Suleiman Alwan praised bin Laden in sermons after 9/11, ssaying what he did was jihad, and that those killed were not innocent. Nearly two-thirds of Pakistanis, meanwhile, hold bin Laden in high regard, according to a Pew Research Center poll taken last year. And nearly half say suicide attacks against Americans and other Westerners are justified. He even has fans in South Africa. "Bin Laden is a hero," agrees Muslim activist Moain Achmad, who sells T-shirts in Cape Town glrifying the U.S. enemy No. 1. The front of his shirts read: Long Live Bin Laden.
The admiration is not limited to Muslims abroad or ultra-orthodox Muslims. Bin Laden represents what most devout Muslims stand for in their faith, say US intelligence officials, while not necessarily what they are willing to exercise. Even among the more moderate elements [of the Muslim community], I think you will find sympathy for what he stands for, and what he's trying to do. Maybe not his tactics, but certainly for his vision of unifying all Muslims under one caliphate, or global Islamic theocracy, says a CIA officer, who last year testified anonymously as Dr. K before the 9/11 Commission. "I think you probably have a great deal of support for that vision."
The reason so many Muslim leaders even in America have not done a better job of denouncing the distortions in bin Laden's interpretation of their shared faith is because they are not altogether distortions. And like bin Laden, they believe America is "on the side of injustice," as Siddiqi said before 9/11, and derseves Allah's "wrath."
And listen to the head of the National Association of Muslim Chaplains in America.
"Osama bin Laden probably will go down in history as a hero to Muslims," says Warith Deen Umar, former chief Muslim chaplain for New York state prisons.
You will probably find peoplenot just in prisonswho cheered the 9/11 attacks , says Deen, who himself defends the attacks as scriptural. You will find people all over the world who cheered at the black eye that America got."
Muslims who have read their Quran now that bin Laden has not strayed from its teaching but has fought in the path of Allah.
So many times I have been asked if Osama bin Laden is a Muslim, and I have refused to go for the easy option, says Farid Esack, author of Quran, Liberation and Pluralism. Appending a kaffir label to Osama will only allow me to walk away comfortable in my lies that there is nothing in my sacred text that inspires him, that my theology is not filled with well-documented argument for his terror, and that the vast majority of Muslims in the world do not support him and al-Qaida.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Dw1mHo6zjKwC&pg=PA45
I thought we’d be learning about Maine jihadis.
Code Pink admires UBL.
Heard J Rivera (today on Oreilly’s Factor) casting the latino-convert-jihadist as a “poor gullible victim lured by the feds?”
Yea, Sheehan called the terroriosts "freedom gighters," What does she think "pious" al-Qaeda has in store for liberals?
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