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| Ex-jihadi explains the cause, advises the west in "Hot for Martyrdom" |
| 2006-11-05 |
But I can tell you what it is not about. Not about Israel, not about Iraq, not about Afghanistan. They are mere excuses. Algerian Muslim fundamentalists murdered 150,000 other Algerian Muslims, sometimes slitting the throats of children in front of their parents. Are you seriously telling me that this was because of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians or American foreign policy?" |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #2 Here's the money lines from the article: "The first thing you have to understand is that it has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with poverty or lack of education," he says. "I was from a middle-class family and my parents were not religious. Hardly anyone in the movement at university came from a background that was different from mine. "I've heard this poverty nonsense time and time again from Western apologists for Islam, most of them not Muslim by the way. There are millions of passive supporters of terror who may be poor and needy but most of those who do the killing are wealthy, privileged, educated and free. If it were about poverty, ask yourself why it is middle-class Muslims -- and never poor Christians -- who become suicide bombers in Palestine." "We're not talking about a fringe cult here," he tells me. "Salafist [fundamentalist] Islam is the dominant version of the religion and is taught in almost every Islamic university in the world. It is puritanical, extreme and does, yes, mean that women can be beaten, apostates killed and Jews called pigs and monkeys." But I can tell you what it is not about. Not about Israel, not about Iraq, not about Afghanistan. They are mere excuses. Algerian Muslim fundamentalists murdered 150,000 other Algerian Muslims, sometimes slitting the throats of children in front of their parents. Are you seriously telling me that this was because of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians or American foreign policy?" "Stop asking what you have done wrong. Stop it! They're slaughtering you like sheep and you still look within. You criticize your history, your institutions, your churches. Why can't you realize that it has nothing to do with what you have done but with what they want." This is from someone who "trained under Ayman al-Zawahiri", al-Qaeda's second in command, subordinate only to bin Laden himself. You can trust this guy. Notice the almost complete and total absence of any anti-Western diatribes in his statements? He is telling us infidels how to survive, and it has nothing to do with negotiations, appeasement or accomodation. If we do not begin killing huge numbers of jihadis and their supporters (no matter how passive), in the very near future, we can all kiss our collective asses goodbye. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-05 20:16 |
| #1 This is one ex-jihadi that has no chance of ever getting face time on any CNN, MSNBC,CBS, NBC, ABC tv program (with the possible exception of the FNC), nor should he expect to be interviewed by the NYT or WaPo. The sexual aspect of suicide bombing is interesting. I recall shortly after 9-11 in a chatroom on AOL a (self-reported) young muslim woman commenting that it was well known among muslim women that muslim men are unable to satisfy their partners. She came in for a lot of grief from the muslim "men" on the site. Whether she was really who she said she was or whether she was an infidel female just baiting the muslim boys on the site is not known but it most certainly provoked a violently verbal response from the muslim boys. No shock there, huh? Several people have written on this site that reform or salvation for islam will come from the women. There may be truth in that statment. |
| Posted by: Mark Z 2006-11-05 19:43 |