"Who did it?"
"what do they want?!?"
London Times Online, Amir Taheri:
The ideological soil in which alQaeda, and the many groups using its brand name, grow was described by one of its original masterminds, the Pakistani Abul-Ala al-Maudoodi more than 40 years ago. It goes something like this: when God created mankind He made all their bodily needs and movements subject to inescapable biological rules but decided to leave their spiritual, social and political needs and movements largely subject to their will. Soon, however, it became clear that Man cannot run his affairs the way God wants. So God started sending prophets to warn man and try to goad him on to the right path. A total of 128,000 prophets were sent, including Moses and Jesus. They all failed. Finally, God sent Muhammad as the last of His prophets and the bearer of His ultimate message, Islam. With the advent of Islam all previous religions were “abrogated” ( mansukh ), and their followers regarded as “infidel” ( kuffar ). The aim of all good Muslims, therefore, is to convert humanity to Islam, which regulates Man’s spiritual, economic, political and social moves to the last detail.
But what if non-Muslims refuse to take the right path? Here answers diverge. Some believe that the answer is dialogue and argument until followers of the “abrogated faiths” recognise their error and agree to be saved by converting to Islam. This is the view of most of the imams preaching in the mosques in the West. But others, including Osama bin Laden, a disciple of al-Maudoodi, believe that the Western-dominated world is too mired in corruption to hear any argument, and must be shocked into conversion through spectacular ghazavat (raids) of the kind we saw in New York and Washington in 2001, in Madrid last year, and now in London.
...this enemy does want something specific: to take full control of your lives, dictate every single move you make round the clock and, if you dare resist, he will feel it his divine duty to kill you.
One could say that most, if not all, modern Muslims are the descendants of such people. Some time in the past a Christian or a Jewish ancestor decided the fight wasn’t worth it anymore, capitulated, and that was that. All his or her descendants from that time to this became Muslim. None could leave the new faith without risking death. Those are the rules of Islam. We would be wise to understand them.
Any questions?
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No questions from this quarter. Just unmitigated rage.
Posted by pam on 07/09/05 at 11:33 AMI have a question. Can we nuke them yet?
[PS: The keyword for this post was “french”. Can we nuke them too?]
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