This appears to be a forum for some extremist Islamic idealogy here in the U.S. If anyone has any interest or time to read through the messages since 9-11 there might be something worth adding to this thread.
As salaamualaikum mu'minun, can I get some opinions or feedback on this article? Also, in this article as in many others it seems to be the common opinion that the Muslims are the aggressors. Is all history past and present of America's and others aggression towards Muslims to be forgotten?
Bin Laden Stirs Struggle on Meaning of Jihad
By JOHN F. BURNS
January 27, 2002
AZHAKHEL BALA, Pakistan, Jan. 20 — Little in the manner of Ijaz Khan Hussein betrays the miseries he saw as a volunteer in the war in Afghanistan.
Mr. Khan, a college-trained pharmacist, joined the jihad, or holy war, like thousands of other Pakistanis who crossed over into Afghanistan. He worked as a medical orderly near Kabul, shuttling to the front lines, picking up bodies and parts of bodies. Of 43 men who traveled with him to Afghanistan by truck in October, he says, 41 were killed.
Now with the Taliban and Al Qaeda routed, have Mr. Khan and other militants finished with holy war? Mr. Khan, at least, said he had not. "We went to the jihad filled with joy, and I would go again tomorrow," he said. "If Allah had chosen me to die, I would have been in paradise, eating honey and watermelons and grapes, and resting with beautiful virgins, just as it is promised in the Koran. Instead, my fate was to remain amid the unhappiness here on earth."
This is one example of what is posted on the Memphis Dawah forum.