Posted on 09/03/2006 2:23:22 PM PDT by knighthawk
In a statement today, Al-Qaeda's American rep, Adam Gadahn (né Adam Perlman, whom the FBI seeks "in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States"), has this to say:
If the Zionist crusader missionaries of hate and counter-Islam consultants like Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, Michael Scheuer, Steven Emerson, and yes, even the crusader-in-chief George W. Bush were to abandon their unbelief and repent and enter into the light of Islam and turn their swords against the enemies of God, it would be accepted of them and they would be our brothers in Islam."
So, Al-Qaeda wants me and my "sword" (a reference, presumably, to my computer keyboard) to join its efforts. My response to Gadahn:
I note your offer for me to change sides in the current war. But I am faithful to my own religion, to my own country, and to my civilization. I will do my part to defeat radical, totalitarian Islam and to usher in the emergence of a modern, moderate, and good-neighborly Islam in its place.
By way of postscript, Gadahn praises three Westerners: Seymour Hersh, George Galloway, and Robert Fisk. This is in keeping with Osama bin Laden's praising William Blum.
Indeed, here's a quote from one of the Jihadies on our own soil:
Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman:(The Blind Sheik, currently residing int the Federal Administrative Maximum Penitentiary hospital in Florence, Colorado.)
"The obligation of Allah is upon us to wage Jihad for the sake of Allah. It is one of the obligations which we must undoubtedly fulfill. And we conquer the land of the infidels, and we spread Islam, by calling the infidels to Allah. And if they stand in our way, then we wage Jihad for the sake of Allah."
Heck that's what many of them are used to anyway. The rich and powerful guys get all the women, between their four wives, and numbers of concubines limited only by their ability to keep them, and to "service" them.
BINGO!
Dang, I'm always doing that. Should have been North Northeast. Similarly 39.18 degrees (not quite NorthwestEast)
Thanks for the links. Still in CA for 4 more days then TX will be home.
Was that not the plague spread by the mohemmedans launching the heads of murdered victims into the city?
I was questioning the existence of 'good neighborly' Islam: at present, everywhere where Muslims live in close proximity with other religions there is conflict between the Muslims and their neighbors:
Muslims v. Jews in Palestine; Muslims v. Hindus in the Indian subcontinent; Muslims v. Orthodox Christians in the Balkans and Chechenya; Muslims v. Latin Christians in the Philippines; Muslims v. monophysite Christians and animists (and other Muslims) in the Sudan; Muslims v. Christians of various confessions in Nigeria; Muslims v. Christians of various confessions in Indonesia; Muslims v. Buddhists in Thailand; Muslims v. post-Christian secularists in various places in Western Europe and Scandinavia; Muslims v. state-atheists, Taoists, Buddhists and Confucianists in Western China.
Given the example of how official Shinto was transformed by the Japanese defeat, I do not, as many on this board do, despair of the possibility of Islam being transformed into a pacific, if still proselytizing, faith, but fear it may take a defeat as horrific as that inflicted on Imperial Japan.
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