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Middle East
Oh, Brothers in Jihad!
2003-12-23
This is an extract from an interesting commentary by Joseph Berger in the Washington Times, titled "Three worlds and the price of paradise." I quote only the first world, due to its direct bearing on WoT. The entire piece is well worth reading, however, for its insight into the mindset that WoT is based upon.
In a Friday sermon broadcast on Palestinian television, Sheik Ismail Aal Ghadwan calls for Jihad and Martyrdom:
Not for himself, of course...
"It is the duty of the Islamic nation to open the gates of Jihad, where its strength and honor lie.
Strength and honor don't lie in accomplishments, in building for the future, in providing for one's family and society as a whole...
We are a nation that was given Islam and Jihad by Allah. ..." And of the enemies of Allah, he adds, "When the enemies of Allah, the Jews, may Allah curse them, mutilate [the bodies], chop off organs, these organs will serve as evidence for our sons and brothers for whom Paradise in the high heavens is a place of refuge."
Killing and mutilation have become a bedrock of Olde Tyme Religion™ somehow...
What awaits the martyr? "Oh believing brothers, we do not feel a loss. ... The martyr, if he meets Allah, is forgiven with the first drop of blood; he is saved from the torments of the grave; he sees his place in Paradise; he is saved from the Great Horror [of the day of judgment]; he is given 72 black-eyed women; he vouches for 70 of his family to be accepted to Paradise; he is crowned with the Crown of glory, whose precious stone is better than all of this world and what is in it. ... "
On the other hand, if he doesn't succeed in blowing himself through the Pearly Gates, if he only succeeds in hideously maiming himself, there aren't any black-eyed women waiting to attend him — no one to feed the man with no arms, no one to change his colostomy bag, no one to wheel him to the bathroom. Guess he'll have to go back and try again, assuming he's got enough left of himself to detonate.

I think I've come to the conclusion that the way to win the WoT is to kill all the holy men we can lay hands on.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#3  "I think I've come to the conclusion that the way to win the WoT is to kill all the holy men we can lay hands on."
Agreed.

"Let's put the "holes" back in "holy men"...and let's start doing it soon."
Agreed.

"We need to do something about the 'root causes'."
Agreed.

Since everyone's so agreeable... there's this stolen 40km wide strip along the Eastern coast of Saudi Arabia that provides the funding for the vast majority of the terror in the world and removing it from the hands of turbans of any stripe would stop the insanity dead in its tracks in 90 days...
Posted by: .com   2003-12-23 9:04:04 PM  

#2  Also agreed. We need to do something about the 'root causes'.
Posted by: Kathy K   2003-12-23 6:53:40 PM  

#1  Agreed. Let's put the "holes" back in "holy men"...and let's start doing it soon.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-12-23 3:45:41 PM  

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