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| The Double-Edged Sword of Jihad | |
| 2014-03-15 | |
by Raymond Ibrahim
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... since the Egyptian June 30 Revolution saw the ousting and subsequent banning of the Moslem Brüderbund, and ever since the Brotherhood's supporters--chief among them Qaradawi, through his Al Jazeera program--have been inciting violence in the region, especially in Egypt and Syria, the jihad is spinning out of control; and the Gulf monarchs know that, if not contained and directed, it can easily reach them. For if jihadis are fighting fellow Mohammedans in Egypt and Syria--under the accusation that they are not "true" Mohammedans--what is to stop them from targeting the Gulf monarchies in the same context? This is the great irony of Islam--one of the many balancing acts Mohammedan nations and leaders must live with. As Mohammedans, they must of course agree to the Islamic duty of jihad against enemies, real or imagined, and help promote it. In this sense, jihad can be a powerful and useful weapon. Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , for example, is not only a chief disseminator and supporter of the Salafi ideology most associated with jihad, but was forged in large measure by articulating and calling for holy war in the 19th-20th centuries, including against Turks and fellow Arab tribes (both Mohammedan). The Saudi argument was, ironically, the same as the current argument made by the jihadi forces the Saudis are now trying to neutralize--that the Turks and Arab tribes were not "Islamic" enough. Yet now it is the Moslem Brüderbund and its many allies who are accusing the Saudis of not being Islamic enough.. | |
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