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[Muslim] Speaker: All Muslims could take up arms if U.S. aggressor [Bring it, Mohammed]
Greely Tribune ^ | 11/14/02 | Julio Ochoa

Posted on 11/14/2002 7:56:05 AM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: america; muslims
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To: ApesForEvolution
They are not poor oppressed Muslims or they can't find a way to milk money out of the US. Also, Qaeddafi(sp) has sent regular troops to aid the North. Also, Islamic volunteers from all over the Islamic world, ChiCom, North Korean, and Iraqi mercenaries have been captured with the Northern Sudanese Armies.
61 posted on 11/14/2002 2:51:18 PM PST by Sparta
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To: 1bigdictator
“In the Islamic faith, the Muslim people are one nation, regardless of nationality,”

Isn't that sweet?
62 posted on 11/14/2002 2:54:38 PM PST by philetus
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To: wideawake
Bring it on. An all-out war with Islam would be the best possible outcome.

I am not in favor of an all out rush to war with these clowns, but I just do not see this going on and on and on without it happening. I do not think Islam is ever going to stop trying to move on the west, till it is defeated militarily.

63 posted on 11/14/2002 3:00:26 PM PST by Mark17
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To: Mark17
In the end there will be a outright war between Islam and the West. It's inevitable.
64 posted on 11/14/2002 3:03:05 PM PST by ZeitgeistSurfer
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To: philetus
“In the Islamic faith, the Muslim people are one nation, regardless of nationality,”

In the United States of America the people are one nation
regardless of religion.

Poor Ba*tards, I almost feel sorry for what they are going to receive.
65 posted on 11/14/2002 3:05:39 PM PST by tet68
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To: Sparta
Whom, besides Franklin Graham's ministry giving civil aid, would one contribute to in order to help take the battle for the south?

Precisely, I mean, buying firearms, ammunition, etc.
66 posted on 11/14/2002 3:09:20 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: ZeitgeistSurfer
I'm finding it harder and harder to discern between islamotrash and any borders, which is another reason to BLOAT...
67 posted on 11/14/2002 3:10:28 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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