[Muslim] Speaker: All Muslims could take up arms if U.S. aggressor [Bring it, Mohammed]

Greely Tribune ^ | 11/14/02 | Julio Ochoa

[1bigdictator]

Speaker: All Muslims could take up arms if U.S. aggressor Story By Julio Ochoa Posted on Thursday, November 14 @ 02:50:26 EST (54 reads)

If the United States starts a war with Iraq as an aggressor, it may end up fighting a war with Muslims from many other countries, an Islamic speaker said Wednesday. Mohammed Jodah, a board member of the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado and an authority on Islam, spoke to a group of University of Northern Colorado students at the Monfort College of Business.

The students asked Jodah to lecture for their Life of the Mind class, which studies violence in all major religions.

Jodah told the class there are three circumstances in which believers of Islam can bear arms and fight: self-defense, to help another nation to remove an aggressor or if it is declared by the head of the state.

“If Iraq comes under American attack and Iraq makes a call for Muslim people, no governments of other countries will go, but Muslim people may go to help other Muslims,” Jodah said. “This is part of the faith and belief to go and help other Muslims if they come under aggression.”

During the Persian Gulf War, when Kuwait came under attack from Iraq, Muslims from Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Morocco went and fought on behalf of Kuwait because Iraq was an aggressor, he said.

“In the Islamic faith, the Muslim people are one nation, regardless of nationality,” Jodah said.

Jodah visited Iraq in January 2000 on an American diplomatic mission and saw Iraqi citizens living in misery.

“Here is a country that is under economic embargo for 11 or 12 years,” he said. “The people are suffering.”

For the United States to attack without knowing whether Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction would be wrong, Jodah said.

“There would be no justification for war and it would make the suffering of Iraqi people even worse,” he said.

He would rather see the United States give the full time and confidence to weapons inspectors to do their work, without the looming threat of war.

The class’s professor, Thomas Simon, gave the class a challenge of how to best present Islam in a public setting.

“They had many ideas, but this is what they settled on and it seemed to work the best,” Simon said.

Jodah spent most of the lecture giving the students an understanding of Islam and devoted the end of the lecture to terrorism and questions from the crowd.

Students, such as Pierre Houssney, a 20-year-old junior, questioned the promotion of violence in Islamic religion.

“Muslims are only allowed to kill in self-defense, yet look how far the Islamic world reaches,” Houssney said. “How did it reach there? Historically the answer is by the sword.”

What’s next

University of Northern Colorado Professor Thomas Simon will give a speech titled “Terrorism, Fear and Morality” at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the college’s University Center, 10th Avenue and 20th Street, Greeley.

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Don't get "banded" -- next thing you know, they'll make you fly away.... 8~)

[Sparta]

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[Stavka2]

No it's not, but it's still on the government's monitored publications list.

[walkingdead]

--Students, such as Pierre Houssney, a 20-year-old junior, questioned the promotion of violence in
Islamic religion.

“Muslims are only allowed to kill in self-defense, yet look how far the Islamic world reaches,”
Houssney said. “How did it reach there? Historically the answer is by the sword.”--

Ah, it's quite nice to know that alot of our young people still have a good head on their shoulders... Good comment for this topic. My hat's off to Houssney.

[Sparta]

Yeah, because their editorial writers love attacking FBI, ATF,and CIA screw ups. They also publish colunms from Col. Hackworth and advertise for security equipment. A publication that is a threat to national security. (Been on an Islamic website, lately)

[Republic of Texas]

This is just like pre-WWII. We are going to have to exterminate this evil sooner or later, or they will exterminate us. The longer we wait, the stronger they get.

[GeekDejure]

All Muslims could take up arms if U.S. aggressor [Bring it, Mohammed]

Ummm . . . aren't they supposed to take up heads ???

[Dialup Llama]

>The class’s professor, Thomas Simon, gave the class a challenge of how to best present Islam in a public setting.

Lie?

[mafree]

Go ahead Abu..make my day

[paul51]

I get it. No speaka the eng

[Van Jenerette]

...another excellent read for class.

[fella]

Hot dang! .......... My case of 30-06 arrived just in time.

[LaGrone]

Pat Robertson must have been right when he said Islam is a religion of hate. Muhammed said the infidels would have to convert to Islam or be killed according to Pat.

This could turn into a battle of civilizations. We might have to kill all of them in order to be safe.

[Republic of Texas]

No might about it.

[o_zarkman44]

hehehe cowboys and muslims!!!! Why the muslims are afraid to fight us face to face. they prefer sending out children to do a mans dirty work.

Bring IT on Islam. then we can run them out of America for GOOD! Lock and load. Lets fight the battle of Abdul Run.

[ClearBlueSky]

Islam= A suicidal, self-destructive cult that senses it has no place in the civilized world, so it goes around the planet antagonizing humanity and making itself more and more hated. Like a serial killer, who leaves notes at the scene of his crimes saying 'STOP ME', Islam is begging humanity to erase it.
It would be terrible to refuse.

[Destructor]

Hell Yeah!

[ApesForEvolution]

Is the American government lifting a finger to help these Christian freedom fighters defend themselves?

[Sparta]

No! Bush has all but abondoned the Southern Sudanese to gain Sudan's "cooperation" in the War on Terror.

[ApesForEvolution]

Then our President should be ashamed of himself. Truly.

Interesting how the 'international champions' of 'human rights' (excuse, I got nauseous typing it) UN doesn't end the plight of the murdered Southern Sudanese.