Daniel Pipes: Al-Qaeda Invites Me to Join Its Ranks

Daniel Pipes ^ | September 02 2006 | Daniel Pipes

[El Gato]

I would not take this "invitation" lightly. In Islam, you can't just start waging jihad. First you have to invite the people to Islam, if they refuse then the head rolls.

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."

[El Gato]

Oh, by the way, there aren't ANY virgins down here, and if you want any sex, you have a choice between sheep, goats, camels or pigs. Ha! Ha!

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.

[mosquewatch.com]

BINGO!

[El Gato]

23.26 degrees (approximately North Northwest)

Dang, I'm always doing that. Should have been North Northeast. Similarly 39.18 degrees (not quite NorthwestEast)

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Thanks for the links. Still in CA for 4 more days then TX will be home.

[SlowBoat407]

(Some historians say that plague had swept through the area prior to the Arab advance and thus contributed to the sense of exhaustion & low morale.)

Was that not the plague spread by the mohemmedans launching the heads of murdered victims into the city?

[Reily]

The plague those historians were talking about was
pre-Arab conquest. It was probably was enabled by a breakdown in civil order due to:

1) The seemingly endless war between the Sassanid (Persian but not Muslim, Zoroastrianism) Empire & Roman(later the Byzantines),

2) The disorder caused by the Muslim conquest of the Sassanids. Another interesting point to remember when you here about the "Islamic Cultural Glory" is the fact that much of what later became known as Islamic culture, architecture, writing and other skills, were taken mainly from the Sassanid Persians into the broader Muslim world. Also much of the Mediterranean world they seized already had a cultural & technological foundation based on the Greek & Roman principles.

As far as heads being shot over the walls well maybe but I have never read anything connected to this "plague" & this terror tactic. The Persians are a fascinating people it would be wonderful if some day they could recover their ancient legacy.

[Reily]

"The plague those historians were talking about was
pre-Arab conquest. It was probably was enabled by a breakdown in civil order due to:
"
Should be:

The plague those historians were talking about was
pre-Arab conquest. It was probably enabled by a breakdown in civil order due to:

[The_Reader_David]

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.