An Introduction to Real Islam and Jihad (Part 13/15)




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Chapter 20

Spin… The Art of Ignoring the Obvious:
In any debate, to confuse an opponent, one classical approach is by and
through obfuscation, tangential diatribes, and/or classic political spin.
The desired effect is to weaken an opponent’s resolve and momentum through
diversionary tactics. It is an age-old approach employed when ones own
arguments have weak moral or logical foundations. The tactic is often the
only option when tasked with presenting an inferior argument, which cannot
be promoted through persuasiveness based on reason, logic, or moral clarity.
This method becomes the only viable option because a more progressive
concept cannot be beaten by an inferior philosophy without those arguing in
behalf of the lower standard first concealing obvious truths in layers of
fogs. On hearing such rhetoric, a reasonable layperson may detect that there
is something wrong with either the message or the delivery, but sufficient
time for careful analysis and appropriate response is seldom available, as
expediency quickly sweeps both the obvious facts with the muck into the
past.

Once the audience has been so prepared, one can then make suggestions and
offer premises that would have otherwise been easily recognized as
irrational or unconscionable. When carefully prepared and delivered under
the axiom “the bigger the lie, the easier it is for people to swallow”,
otherwise outlandish suggestions can result in a mental shock effect, which
over time can break down resistance. To the masses for which the spin was
constructed, the net effect is confusion and the blunting of reasonable
responses and actions, as well as more of an inclination to accept the
unacceptable, or at least to tolerate the intolerable. Indeed, when not
properly recognized and challenged, there is the potential that otherwise
good people might eventually accept that good is evil, or that evil means
can be sanctified if associated with a seemingly good cause.

Take the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for example. Claiming that Israel
is the sole instigator and villain in this passionate and tragic play is a
tactic designed to hide many truths in plain sight. The weak-minded
demonstrate personal failure when they bury their heads in the sand, and are
akin to the Germans who “closed their drapes” as the Jews were rounded up.
We all see and hear about the things going on in the Middle East every day,
yet many continue to hide behind silly libels against the US and Israel to
either justify continued support for the Palestinian cause and methods, or
to remain silent.

In a population of 6.3 million, Israel has endured over a hundred suicide
bombings and other attacks. If the same proportion of attacks had occurred
in the USA (288 Million people), there would have been 4571 suicide bombings
with over 40,000 killed and hundreds of thousands wounded (often maimed for
life). The number killed would be the equivalent of twelve
‘Sept-11/Pear-Harbor’ type mega-attacks! Almost everyone would know more
than one victim. Pause … and think about it. The reaction of this nation
would likely be more severe and violent than the Palestinians have faced to
date from all Israeli actions. Without second thoughts or significant
dissention we would be sending our armies marching orders to destroy
everyone suspected of supporting the attacks in any way. Political
correctness would yield to the logic of survival and nearly every American
would support any and all means necessary to completely ruin individuals,
organizations, and governments deemed remotely culpable, with collateral
damage of much -much- less concern.

Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning. Spin may distract, but does not
diminish her. When “Old Europe” and our own schizophrenic State Department
say, “create a Palestinian state, coddle the Saudis, don’t offend anyone”,
it only serves to embolden despots and their terrorist foot soldiers. When
we respond to left-leaning media, our Arab “allies” and the Europeans, we
lose moral authority and give sanctuary and encouragement to despots and
terrorists alike. As with the Israelis, our survival and democracy depends
on us living with both eyes wide open, willing to do the hard things
necessary to protect our children’s future. Islamic extremists and
Palestinians in particular, continually debase themselves as they bask in
their hatreds, blood lust, and thirst for revenge. Ongoing anxiety and
suffering cries out for intelligent deliberation, judgment, and then
effective action.

The world should with unison loudly reject when terrorists weave pure spin
claiming violent murderous tactics are a legitimate option in pursuit of
freedom and self-determination. In fact they have had, and do have, control
of their future and superior options, but have chosen to surrender that
future by engaging in illegal and immoral activities. They have used up all
their green stamps pursuing these doomed options, and now claim to be
victims when facing the unavoidable consequences of their poor choices.
Obfuscation aside, no people have the right to exercise their right to
self-determination, if the path they choose in pursuit of the same involves
bombing café’s, night-clubs, busses, targeting women, children, students,
simple commuters and pedestrians, and families in their homes. It is the
opinion of this author that engaging and supporting such activities
disqualifies an individual, culture and even a whole people from normal
inherit rights to freedom of movement, association, assembly,
self-determination, and self-rule. Palestinian extremists, who appear to
enjoy support by the majority of locals, are simply not advanced, mature, or
grown-up enough to be trusted with certain freedoms. Current events and past
history has proven they will only exercise those freedoms to terrorize, kill
and maim. To propose otherwise is to essentially argue to immediately empty
all prisons worldwide and to abolish all laws and punishments based on
concepts of personal responsibility. And it follows that opposing the rule
of law is in fact a proposal for wholesale regression to principals akin to
middle-age tribal conquest and rule. While it is heart wrenching to see and
hear of the suffering of innocent Palestinian children in the current
conflict, yet we must not forget the culpability lies squarely on the
shoulders of the parents and leaders who have failed them. The only thing
we can do to help them take that necessary first step of real change
(accepting personal responsibility for their mistakes and failures), is to
expose and resolutely reject the spin they spew to deceive themselves and
others.
Chapter 21
The Gathering Storm:
To quote Edmund Burke – “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is
that good men do nothing.” Germany proved this true in 1942 when hundreds
of thousands of good, intelligent, educated men said and did little or
nothing, thus failing to slow down or stop the Nazi juggernaut. Today in
Islam, hundreds of millions stand silent, allowing men with irrational
prejudices and violent inclinations to hijack their cultures, peoples, and
children. History repeats itself.

Westerners are taught from birth to respect variety in religious beliefs,
racial backgrounds, and cultural differences. These same tolerant
principles, having led to peace and prosperity for us, are viewed with
contempt by many Arab and Asian Islamic tribal cultures. They are viewed as
conclusive evidence of Western corruption and weakness. Replacing these
concepts are core values where people are taught from birth that blind,
fanatical obedience to whatever their local clerics demand is required for
their eternal salvation, indeed for their temporal well being as well.

My family enjoyed the company of Muslim University students from Jordan
staying at our household for two years. We call them friends today. My
father, stepmother, and two siblings also spent 10 years living and working
in Saudi Arabia and have a unique perspective on the Sept 11 attack and
Islamic Arab culture. While living in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, he also
visited Afghanistan several times, traveled to Yemen, Iran, Abu Dhabi,
Bahrain, Quatar, Kuwait, Oman, Srinagar, India, Beirut, Damascus, Indonesia,
Sri Lanka, all over Saudi Arabia and had had many discussions with Muslims
about their perception of the US and the West. In all cases the young
(young men, that is, young women are unapproachable by edict and mandate),
although not expressing animosity toward any particular Westerner
personally, had problems with Western nations, peoples, and cultures in
general, and all had a deep irrational hatred of all Jews. My father tells
me that he learned there are many decent Muslims in the world including many
he now calls personal friends. But the historical and religious background
of Islam makes it all too easy for common Muslims to become transformed into
“terrorists”. It is the religion (by virtue of current popular
interpretations of its tenants and lack of a controlling governing body),
which renders many average worshipers susceptible to abhorrent suggestions.
Justifications for prejudices/intolerance, and demands for fanatical
obedience, up to and including the murder of non-Muslims by any means
possible, are common. Unless you have been intimately exposed to their
culture, one has absolutely no idea of the ferocity and total dedication of
the faithful, nor the depth of their hatreds. Most of the younger Muslims
my family came in contact with were resentful of the West and its freedoms
and seemed all too anxious to believe any religious leader who calls for
Jihad over any perceived insult to Islam.

Understanding fanatical Muslim reasoning requires thinking ‘outside of the
box’. One must be prepared to first accept the inconceivable. Tolerance,
to many devout Muslims means something quite different than to the rest of
us. Unfortunately, tolerance usually means accepting different degrees of
hatred and extremism within their own neighborhoods and amongst their Imams
and clerics. True tolerance toward non-Muslims or ‘Infidels’ is
unthinkable, except as required by political necessity, then temporarily
employed for appearance sake only (usually as part of a strategy of eventual
conquest). This judgment of Muslim culture and thinking seems harsh, but
before you call it bigoted to point out Islamic bigotry, examine the facts.
Aside from rare carefully crafted rebukes spoken only in English to Western
news organizations, ask yourself where are the ‘peace marches’ in Palestine
and protesters against Bin Laden, homicide bombers, and other terrorists the
non-Muslim world has to contend with. Is there no opposing political party,
no differing opinion, or ‘other side’ within Islamic countries in any
current or past Arab/Muslim conflicts with any other culture or people on
the planet? Surly there must be opposition to Islamic fanaticism,
terrorism, and ‘holy war’ solutions proffered in so many conflicts.
Pro-Palestinian and anti-Jew protests are present in Tel Aviv, New York,
Washington, London, and everywhere. But where are the anti-terrorism /
pro-peace protests or the smallest protest against Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or
the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades by moderate or left-wing Arabs in Lebanon,
Syria, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Turkey, Jordan, Indonesia, or Saudi Arabia? The
answer is simple; we do not see them, because they do not exist! They do
not exist, because their core religious values do not allow opposition.

The problem is certainly not for lack of sensitivity, passion, or the
inability to identify injustice, as history has clearly demonstrated the
willingness of all Muslims to rally around many causes they see as relevant.
Nor are they blind, uneducated, or unaware of the basic facts relating to
current and past terrorist events. The silence and inaction of ‘Moderate
Islam’ is due to an overall irreversible and intractable culture prejudiced
against non-brothers, and Westerners and Jews in particular. The root of
the problem, unfortunately, is because most do not interpret the violent
acts of extremist ‘brothers’ as too terribly serious problem since the
victims are, after all, only infidels.

The superiority many Muslims feel over non-brothers is enshrined in the
Koran, embedded in Islamic Law, and unquestionably enforced by
principalities and governments. Societies based on Islamic law can and do
discipline, up to death, anyone perceived violating their strict unbending
tenants. Your government, where Qur’anic Law is codified into law, will also
prosecute and pursue anyone who is perceived to gently or aggressively speak
out against Islamic rule, policy, or law. Justifications for
prejudices/intolerance, and demands for fanatical obedience are simply a
part of common every-day life. Blind acceptance, devout and passionate
adherence to every doctrine sanctioned by the local leaders is required.
Punishments for expressing or following any more tolerant doctrine are
extreme. The consequences are often severe, up to death. Conversion to any
other religious doctrine is also punishable by death. This extreme,
intolerant social code of right and wrong is normally enforced within the
home of simple Muslim families. Dissent is simply not an option within
families or neighborhoods. Opposition, critical thought, debate of any kind
is simply not allowed. It many ways, it is very much like Mafia or Gang
mentality in that once your in, … you can’t get out … your own family is
sometimes required to hunt you down and apply the required punishment.
Today and in recent and distant history, other examples of this type of
culture exist. What we are talking about is pure political totalitarianism,
unique only in the fact that today it hides behind the guise of, and seeks
the protection of, a religion.

Islam, by virtue of current popular interpretations of its tenants (and
lack of a controlling governing body) renders many average worshipers
susceptible to abhorrent suggestions, making it all too easy for common
Muslims to become transformed into “terrorists”. The ferocity and total
dedication of those transformed faithful and the depths of their hatreds are
insurmountable. Most young Muslims, moderate or not, are all too anxious to
believe any religious leader who calls for Jihad over any perceived insult
to Islam. It should be emphasized that virtually all Islamic institutions
of training propagate this kind of thinking and prejudice. It is either
forcefully taught or passively tolerated (with a wink) by the vast majority
of religious leaders, pounded in hour after hour, day after day, year after
year. As such the religious leaders (and therefore the religion) are the
impetus for the hatreds and its destructive results. It would be wrong to
say that Islamic militants have lost their way, as what we witness today -is
- their way. Further, the nature of Islam does not nurture men like Gandhi,
Lincoln, or Martin Luther King, …they kill them.

Violence has a mind all its own, and the effect of an individual or people
embracing its seductive venom is guaranteed to cause sickening internal
malformations and gross external manifestations. Islam amplifies (instead of
attenuating) its follower’s feelings of violence towards others. For decades
now, Yasser Arafat has brainwashed his people with primitive hatred
glorifying all its lethal consequences. Revenge and savagery has become
bread and butter to them. Palestinian TV, newspapers and books (all PA
controlled) have prepared the Palestinian people for nothing but murder,
revenge and graphic violence. Arab Media and leaders have stoked
Palestinians religious fervor and hatred (jihad) to such a degree, that it
has now reached an extreme fervent level sufficient to override normal
reasonable human reaction, reason, and feeling. The enemy fighting the US
today is similarly depraved. A spokesman for al-Qaeda cheerfully and
proudly promises the murder of millions, as quoted in the Arab Newsletter:
“America, with the collaboration of the Jews, is the leader of corruption
whether moral, ideological, political or economic corruption. We have the
right to kill 4 million Americans — 2 million of them children — and to
exile twice as many, and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands.”

Before the tide turned in WWII, Germans were united in their support of
“Total War” against non-Germanic peoples. The negative consequences of
adopting this philosophy against an adversary capable of waging war were
demonstrated to Germans when the Allies struck Hamburg. Casualties reached
42,000, exceeding all British civilian losses. The lesson to the people and
culture were painful, but effective. Japanese Imperialists learned the same
lesson about the same time. For 60 years, as a people, they have refused to
create an offensive military, least some politician be tempted and history
repeat itself. To their credit, their love for their own children and
aspirations for prosperity and happiness were strong enough for them to both
recognize the fallacy of earlier actions and beliefs, and to repent. It
would be tragic for Palestinians to be force-fed a diet of sorrow until
they, as a people, come to the same conclusion (the unproven premise being
that they love life and their children more than they hate the Jews and
crave death in pursuit of murderous acts against them).

Everyone calls their dead Martyrs, but does the God of us all really
welcome anyone into paradise who acts to kill in the name of revenge and
hatred? Doesn’t it occur to anyone that the guarantees of his/her Cleric
may not be recognized or respected by God? From normal human instincts for
self-preservation, most reasonable people hope there are no Martyrs in their
family, and many for the enemy who seeks our death. Reasonable people are
more than willing to postpone inclinations to prematurely leave this earth,
completely content to wait as long as possible to find out who is a Martyr,
and who is just some stupid dead guy. The fact that Palestinians find it
easy to convince their impressionable young to seek Death without question
is certainly no indication of a superior religion or philosophy, but rather
it is evidence of extreme error in both logic and reason. It speaks volumes
that the world has yet to see Arafat, other militant leaders, or the local
fire breathing Clerics, strap on an explosive belt, and trod the path they
so easily encourage the sons and daughters of their neighbour’s to tread.
The leaders of Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades sent
their sons overseas at the start of the Intifada, some to study in America
and England. To all those who have apparently lost the ability to think for
themselves, here is a clue… If someone tells your son or daughter to murder
themselves and other innocent men, women and children, … they are neither
your friend, nor particularly religious or ‘holy’. Find better friends. To
mothers who encourage their children to murder themselves and others,
wake-up! Do not disgrace the sacred institution and role of motherhood and
defile the human family. Shame! Neighbours, friends, and governments who
encourage and reward such sick degeneracy are not fit to call themselves
human, let alone religious. Such people should be sanctioned, not rewarded.
The whole-civilized world groans, turning away from the utter depravity of
any culture and/or religion engaging in innocent murder and violence for the
sake of terror. Islamic militants continually debase themselves as they
bask in their hatreds, blood- lust, and thirst for revenge. The time for
fence sitting is over, and it is indeed by their fruits that they should be
judged. Is not the chief export of Palestine terrorism? Are not the fruits
of radical Islam violence, prejudice, poverty, misery, and death? When they
weave pure spin to the world claiming violent murderous tactics are the only
option in their pursuit of freedom and prosperity is it not, on its face, a
lie?

The actions and inaction of Islam are making it increasingly difficult to
support unconditional religious tolerance. When the net result of tolerance
results in making a people more susceptible to murder, terror, sorrow, and
poverty, then a thinking man must replace passive tolerance with active
opposition. Religious tolerance should still be the rule of thumb, unless
the religion turns out, in the classical sense of the word, not to be an
actual real religion after all. If Islam has other-worldly political
aspirations that in reality disqualify it as an peaceful religious
organization (i.e. dedicated to improving her followers and harmless to
others), then Islam is not a religion, rather it’s just another political
theology similar to Communism, Fascism, Nazism, Imperialism, or any other
failed Totalitarian political ideal in the sad reality of human history. In
Berlin in 1939, you would be hard pressed to find a German who did not
sincerely believe in the superiority of Arian genetics. The Japanese
similarly all originally truly believed in the divinity of their emperor and
superior rights/standings of their native people, as did comrades following
Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, and Genghis Khan at the peak of their
influence. The common thread in these theologies was the fundamental belief
of the superiority of their system of living -and- their inherited right to
impose it on others by any means necessary. This thread is duplicated
perfectly in the fundamental practices and beliefs of all of Islam, moderate
and extremist. Such thinking errors are rampant, and unfortunately at this
stage in cultural development, probably completely intractable. These
prejudices corrupt the minds and spirits of her victims, and the dangerous
theology has infected almost the whole body of Islam. The patient is in a
very bad state, and there is hardly any reason to hope for any degree of
recovery. The prognosis, …sadly, … is eventual pain and passing, as the
world continues to refine her ability to identify the malady and apply the
necessary medicine to insure self-preservation, security, and prosperity.

Against the unthinkable the world is loath to admit, and understanding is
digested at a glacial pace. The problem of political Islam is likely a huge
future human tragedy currently in the making. The solution may be larger in
scale than any global social/political upheaval experienced to date. Islam,
as it is known today, will not disband nor experience some sort of
spontaneous intellectual and spiritual renaissance. The seeds of conflict
and war were planted a long time ago, have been maturing for centuries, and
are now nearly fully ripe. To date effective corrective activity has been
postponed as the weed deliberately deceives the world saying, “I am not a
weed, I am a beautiful peaceful branch of humanity, the victim of every
conflict and persecuted in all places”. The facts of history show that
Islam always acts in this way, until it achieves a demographic proportion
necessary to accomplish a military and/or political conquest of her tenders,
afterwards subjugating non-believers to pay tribute and remain second-class
citizens, if allowed to survive at all. But eventually the world will learn
that Islam has no intention of living peaceably with either Israel, nor the
rest of the world. All contract and treaties signed with Infidels will
continue to be broken, as they have in the past. In AD 628 – Muhammad’s
ongoing military conquests were not going well, and so for tactical purposes
he signed a treaty with the Quraish. (The Al-Hudaybiyya agreement in 628 AD,
between the Prophet and the Meccan tribe of Quraish, was signed for a period
of 10 years, which became, in Islamic tradition, the time limit for any
agreement with non-Muslims). The Al-Hudaybiyya agreement was broken after 18
months when Mohammed’s army conquered Mecca. Arafat’s signatures have all
had about the same value. But there has to be some degree of anonymity for
a deceptive entity to successfully operate. Islam’s size, her successes of
the past, and her current efforts, will eventually be the key to her demise,
just as Hitler’s overt ambitions finally woke the world up to the dangers of
Nazism. The prospects for Islam continuing her propaganda, deceit, and
conquests in the information age, where truths are broadcast from rooftops,
are near zero. Time and truth are both arrayed against radical, political
Islam. God will still be God, and is not threatened. There is no God, but
God! God is indeed greatest! He is also a God of Truth and cannot lie,
neither do they who truly know and represent Him.

Terrorist/expansionist Islam grossly underestimates the intelligence and
survival instincts of its declared enemies (i.e. the non-Muslim world). It
assumes that, through strategic use of patience and violence, the toad will
not notice nor react in time to the rising temperature of the water. In
doing so it insults the intelligence and foolishly ignores the destructive
capacity of a peaceful freedom-loving people. Someday it will find that the
toad did indeed jump out in time, and further will find that the toad is not
a toad at all, but rather a scorpion with a deadly sting. Those who survive
in the Muslim world will lament the foolishness and arrogance of their
former leaders, and abandon Islam in droves. There will still be isolated
pockets of extremists, just as today there are still ‘skin-heads’ who still
worship Nazi philosophy, but they will eventually be isolated, marginalized,
sanctioned, and censured, … finally recognized by all for who and what they
really are.

An Oct 21, 2002 30-page confidential Interpol report “Global Threat
Assessment” was distributed to top law-enforcement officials from 139
nations gathered in the West African nation of Cameroon. It states terror
groups may focus on less-deadly acts hoping to wait out the War on Terror.
Terrorists aim to sow large-scale destruction but may eye smaller targets
for a while, hoping the world will soon let down its guard. Given the scale
of the onslaught prompted by the Sept. 11 attacks, terrorists might, in the
short to medium term, go back to basics, choosing symbolic targets with
limited casualties in a long-lasting campaign of attrition. Terrorists
think over time the collective will of states to fight terrorism will wane.
Al-Qa’ida is likely reconstituting communications and support networks
smashed in the U.S.-led war against terror. In the meantime, local groups
associated with terror networks – like Jemaah Islamiyah, blamed in the
recent nightclub bombing in Bali that killed at least 200 people (or those
who carried out the recent Saudi Arabia bombing attacks), will continue. The
report draws on information provided by Interpol’s 181 member nations.

Yet, though the future looks strewn with trial and sacrifice, and until the
day the struggle begins on a large scale, opportunities abound to put our
arms around clear-thinking good-hearted Muslims to bring them out from the
frenzy. There are many very intelligent families in the Arab/Asian world
with good values that can recognize and reject political Islam and racism
when presented with the facts and given alternate opportunities to escape
and exist peacefully. They are those who will actually flinch when reading
the following publication:

The Importance of Jihad as a Means of Destroying ‘Infidel Countries’ August
24, 2002, www.jehad.net. Article in issue #16 of the online magazine
Al-Ansar (affiliated with Al-Qa’ida), a columnist identified as Seif Al-Din
Al-Ansari discussed the Koranic verse “Allah Will Torture Them [the
Infidels] At Your Hands”:
The Annihilation of the Infidels is a Divine Decree “Regardless of the
norms of ‘humanist’ belief, which sees destroying the infidel countries as a
tragedy requiring us to show some conscientious empathy and… an atmosphere
of sadness for the loss that is to be caused to human civilization – an
approach that does not distinguish between believer and infidel… - I would
like to stress that annihilating the infidels is an inarguable fact, as this
is the [divine] decree of fate…”
“When the Koran places these tortures [to be inflicted on the infidels] in
the solid framework of reward and punishment… it seeks to root this
predestined fact in the consciousness of the Muslim group, asserting that
the infidels will be annihilated, so as to open a window of hope to the
Muslim group…”
“Nevertheless, [this divine decree] has become, for some, a tranquilizing
pill… When the enemy launches operations of colonialism and destruction, we
find that a few [of the Muslims] refrain from entering the battlefield
claiming that the elements of the collapse of Western civilization are
proliferating [in any event].”
“Their conclusion is indeed true, but the way in which it is presented is
misleading, and it is aimed at removing responsibility [to fight the
infidels] from the Muslim, with the claim that Allah has already promised to
take care of the infidels’ annihilation.”
Muslims Must Not Wait Passively for the Divine Decree to Just Happen “…I
would like to point out the danger of this analysis, because it… [may] make
the Muslims passive and turn [them] into one who does not act to carry out
[the commandments] of the religion or to dispel falsehood, but lives always
in an atmosphere of passive waiting, that is cloaked – always – by a call to
trust in the ability of Allah!!”
“When Allah told us of the certainty of the annihilation of the infidels, He
did not do so using ambiguous concepts. He clarified that this would be
achieved in one of two ways: by means of a direct act of Allah… or by means
of the Muslim group, which would, in accordance with the Islamic
commandment, serve as an implement for carrying out [the divine decree], as
it is said: ‘…Allah will torture them [the infidels] Himself or at our hands
(Koran 9:52).’”
“Yes, perhaps it is predetermined that the infidel country will be
annihilated. But [if the believers do not act] this kind of annihilation
will never be in favour of the Islamic state. The infidel country will be
annihilated in favour of an infidel country like it or even worse than it…”
“Therefore, the belief in ‘annihilating the country of heresy’ [only] opens
up for us a window of hope, and sets for us a goal that is in the realm of
the possible – but it does not annihilate the infidel country for us, nor
does it even affect it!!”
“This is merely a belief, which, if unaccompanied by the words ‘at your
hands’ that appear in the Koranic verse [9:14, ‘Fight them and Allah will
torture them at your hands’] – it will remain in the wonderful realm of
ideas that float in the theoretical universe, and is like beautiful dreams
that arouse conscientious emotions – yet, when we awake, we find that the
infidel country still exists, falsehood is not destroyed [by itself] in
favour of the truth, [except when] the truth goes into action…”
“The importance of the human effort to annihilate the infidels… is what
Allah sought to teach the Muslims at the Battle of Uhud [625]. Then, there
were [Muslims] who thought that because they were right they would most
certainly defeat the enemy. The [Muslims] paid a high price for this…”
“By Means of Jihad – Allah Tortures [the Infidels] with Killing” “The
question now on the agenda is, how is the torture Allah wants done at our
hands to be carried out?… This torture will not, in any way, be carried out
by means of preaching [Da’wa], because preaching is activity of exposure,
aimed at clarifying the truth in a way that makes it more easily acceptable.
Preaching has nothing to do with torture; Jihad is the way of torturing [the
infidels] at our hands.” “By means of Jihad, Allah tortures them with
killing; by means of Jihad, Allah tortures them with injury; by means of
Jihad, Allah tortures them with loss of property; by means of Jihad, Allah
tortures them with loss of ruling. Allah tortures them by means of Jihad –
that is, with heated war that draws its fire from the military front…”
“The Tortures Will Bring the Infidels to the Path of Righteousness”
“Material power is [to be] confronted with material power, and ideological
power is [to be] confronted with ideological power… It would be idiocy to
rely on the power of the truth in the face of F-16s. Allah is capable of
destroying His enemy without anyone’s mediation and without anyone’s help,
as His capability is absolute and unsurpassed. In spite of all the
characteristics of power at their command, these infidel states are no more
than a handful of creatures on the speck of dust called Planet Earth… [But]
Jihad serves as a trial by suffering for the Muslims by means of the
infidels, and for the infidels by means of the Muslims.” “The Muslims’
trial by suffering is manifested in Jihad’s being the instrument by which it
is possible to differentiate between the believers and the hypocrites… The
infidels’ trial by suffering is manifested in Jihad being an exemplary
lesson in values, delivered by a group of the pioneers of the Islamic
nation, in a practical presentation”
“Many of the infidels will be shocked; their emotional entity will be
shaken; and perhaps some of them will repent and learn their lesson. In
addition, Jihad is a means of defeating them, and perhaps by means of this
victory… the tortures will bring them back to the path of righteousness…”



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