A shocking decision made by the secretary of the Army last month in the case of an U.S. Army soldier with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell who refused to deploy to Afghanistan claiming that Islamic law prevented him from killing other Muslims vindicates Fort Hood killer Major Nidal Hasan. He made identical claims and threatened that adverse events would occur if military officials didnt accede to Shariah law principles.
In Major Hasans case, he had warned his Army colleagues and supervisor at Walter Reed of adverse events if Muslims were not granted conscientious objector status. The warning occurred during a June 2007 Power Point presentation that was part of his psychiatric residency program.
Major Hasan cited previous cases of Muslims murdering their fellow soldiers, spying against the U.S., deserting their units, and refusing to deploy as examples of the kinds of adverse events that would follow if the Army didnt bow to the precepts of Islamic law.
By granting PFC Abdos conscientious objector claim, the Army may have created trouble for themselves in the court martial of Major Hasan for the murder of his thirteen fellow soldiers at Fort Hood.
Hasans attorney can now claim that by refusing to acknowledge Major Hasans claims under Islamic law as a conscientious objector and granting him an honorable discharge, the Army created irreconcilable conflict that prompted the Fort Hood massacre. And they can use the secretary of the Armys decision in the Abdo case as proof.
Despite years of protestation by the U.S. government to the contrary, this decision vindicates all of these who have claimed that America is engaged in a war against Islam.
The position that the Army now takes would also appear to acknowledge the classic Islamic doctrine of jihad that states that any incursion by non-Muslims into the lands of Dar al-Islam makes it an incumbent duty upon all Muslims everywhere to resist the occupiers the position taken by al-Qaeda and every Islamic terrorist group on the planet. This works both ways, however. If the Pentagon accepts that Muslim soldiers cannot fight against Muslims, or belong to a military fighting Muslims, because of Sharia law, then all Muslims currently in the military must be discharged, and may no longer serve.
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Inbreeding problems can be changed greatly in just a single generation.
Hence the importance of raiding Dar al Harb and the taking of female slaves from beyond the borders. This little Muslim problem would go away if we would all just do our duty and submit.
They can try. It doesn't seem to me they are capable of succeeding. Back in the day they were the only one with an army, for one thing...and that army was loyal.
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This is the same diplomatic powerhouse which can't find any Farsi speakers to send to Iran, the military colossus who cringed from the Russian invasion of Georgia on its northern border in 2008 and is now quailing in the face of a small humanitarian crisis on its southern border?
Ferguson should talk to somebody other than the apparent coven of Erdogan drones blustering in his ear. That article reads like an AKP press release generously adorned with the spoils of a cursory raid on the Balkan history pages of Wikipedia.
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Back in the mid90s I had a chance encounter with a man who had recently left a senior government position. His comment was that Turkish power in the middle east would flow from, among other things, their potential control over rivers that bring badly needed water to several neighboring countries. They're not likely to use that overtly, but it is an added incentive to fellow Muslims to accept Turkish leadership as NATO completes its atrophy and the EU has clearly rejected Turkish membership.
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"the EU has clearly rejected Turkish membership"
Which is about the only smart thing they've done lately.
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See also WAFF > A TWO-STATE SOLUTION FOR TURKEY?, vee the Kurds.
As for EU, ABOVE ARTIC = denotes that Turkey W-I-L-L have to chose between granting KURDISH AUTONOMY = POSSIBLE INDEPENDENCE?; or else make some kind of peaceful accomodation wid the Kurds while WITHDRAWING ITS MILFORS FROM CYPRUS. THERE IS NO THIRD OPTION [interim] FOR TURKEY???
Pakistanis have long revered their Army as heroic and pure. Now, they're coming to terms with the fact that it might not be as awesome as they thought. Denial is a natural reaction.
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VARIOUS NET POSTERS = opine that iff PAK can hide Osama from the US it most certainly can hide AYMAN ZAWAHIRI, etal.
Speaking of AYMAN ...
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > INDIA COULD BE KEY TARGET FOR NEW AL-QAEDA CHIEF | AL-ZAWAHIRI UNDER PRESSURE TO ESTABLISH POWER OVER JIHADISTS.
ARTIC = due to long-standing ideo feuds, differences between Egyptian, Yemeni, + Saudi Arabian Islamists + MilTerr Groups, ZAWAHIRI AS OBL'S CHOSEN SUCCESSOR MAY BE FORCED TO MAKE RAPPROCHEMENT WID INDIA-HATING PAKISTANI = AFPAK MILTERRS TO CONTINUE WID AL-QAEDA'S AGENDA, an act or decision which could see Zawahiri-led AQ supporting violent Jihad agz India [South, SE Asia]???
* NEWS KERALA > MILITARY TACTICS OF AYMAN ZAWAHIRI SHOULD NOT BE DISCOUNTED: EXPERTS.
Don't underestimate the A-Man = Z-Man in anything.
versus
* NEWSMAX > {Ronald Kessler] AL-QAEDA BECOMING MORE DESPERATE, hence more likely to commit to the launching of deadly Terrstrikes agz Americans + CONUS per se.
In any case, most Perts anticipate AYMAN TO CONTINUE WID JIHAD AGZ AMERICA + AMER INTERESTS.
* TIMES OF INDIA > [PAK COAS]KAYANI FACES NO [PAK Army-led = Colonels]COUP THREAT OVER OSAMA RAID, SAYS US.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US NEEDS PAKISTAN MORE THAN PAKISTAN NEEDS US. Post-Osama.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > INDIA "COLD START" NUKED BY PAKISTAN?
ARTIC = ...
> PAK new NASER, HATIF-9 nuke-capable Tactical BMS is supplied by CHINA, strongly inferring that Beijing has accepted LINEAL, PROXY TACTICAL NUCLEAR WARFARE AS "REALISTIC/FEASIBLE" AGZ INDIA IN SOUTH ASIA.
> PAK may be too willing to resort to TacNucWar agz India - situation could easily devol into PAK-UNCONTROLLABLE STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WARFARE [Indo-Pak, Indo-Pak-China, Global], espec given Pak's belief that anti-Cold Start TacNucWar could deter any Indian mil retaliation for new Mumbai-style/26-11 terror attacks.
IOW, INDJUH BELIEVES THAT PAK BELIEVES THAT PAK TERROR PROXIES COULD STRIKE INDIA WID MAJOR ATTACK(S) WHILE ALSO BELIEVING THAT PAK'S NUKE ARSENAL WILL DETER INDIA FROM ANY MIL COUNTERRESPONSE. Sub-IOW, Pak can unilater attack India via terror, but India can't attack Pak back unless India is willing to risk major war agz Pak "Big Brother" + BFF China.
> Author believes India = Indian Navy should dev, deploy 3-4 FBM Subs in the Arabian Sea to counter Pak's anti-Cold Start efforts.
> Author believes that India = Indian Army should undergo Total Mechanization + modernization, espec its Cold Start "Battle Groups", as the only solution to Pak anti-Cold Start Tacnukes.
> India must give new consideration to any + all NON-TRADITIONAL, PREFERABLY NON-MIL DIPLOMATIC SOLUTIONS/ALTERNATIVES TO "NEUTRALIZE", BUT NOT DESTROY, PAKISTAN.
Sub-Sub-IOW, INDJUH MUST DEV + EXPAND ITS GLOBAL/STRATEGIC NUCLEAR, CONVENTIONAL REACH, NO LONGER JUST "REGIONAL"???
[Dawn] Circumvention, hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness describe best the behaviour of clergy and politicians when it comes to condemning faceless myrmidons and extremism. Fearing electoral losses, the politicians and Learned Elders of Islam have chosen to either remain mum or side with the rising tide of bigotry and fanaticism.
Speaking out against it can result in death, as has recently been demonstrated. This tends to blunt the impulse to criticism.
The Sharifs of Punjab are playing the most dangerous game with the fate of Punjab vis-à-vis terrorism which has become entrenched in the province due to denial of the threat's existence. There have been allegations of them being in arms with various jihad boy elements for petty political gains. Earlier, Punjab's senior minister Rana Sanaullah was photographed with the chief of defunct Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain during the by elections in south Punjab. Following this, Shahbaz Sharif and Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. exchanged endless salvos of claims for and against the existence of Punjabi Taliban.
And yet it exists.
Imran Khan ... who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... is another politician of the same ilk who wants us to think that faceless myrmidons are only after Pakistain because we are fighting a "US war" and not a war for our own survival. He conveniently ignores the terrorists' proclamation of "fighting to create an Islamic system in Pakistain". However, we can't all be heroes Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... ANP is an exception which bravely and boldly took the case of the cut-throats on, wrestled free Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... and South Wazoo and suffered several casualties in its ranks and file.
Shrinking from its duty, the Parliament has failed to take ownership of the counter terrorism action. They have not amended the 1997 Anti Terrorism Ordinance which lapsed and has not been re-promulgated ever since.
The politicians share the mindset with the clergy who otherwise issue infidelity verdicts at the drop of hat, like their cousins in the pre-Protestant Movement's clergy, but refuse to educate people to exorcise the genie. Most share the perverted 'jihad' mindset of imposing a system based on blood and gore.
One would question their quest for Islamising Pakistain. The preamble to our Constitution says no unIslamic law can be passed in the country. A republic with majority Mohammedans has never passed anything even remotely unIslamic. But constitution matters little to them which they consider based on "munkirat".
Barring the argument, the roots of intolerance go back to the '50s at times of movement against the Ahmadis. Later, the country bore witness to the blood curdling Shia -Sunni violence at the behest of the Saudis and the Iranians. This progressed into internecine intra-sunni conflict. And now fundamentalist insurgency. They are waging their "jihad" in clear violation of the Holy Koran and Hadith. As Javed Ahmad Ghamdi points out "Jihad can only be launched by the state and not independent actors otherwise it turns into chaos."
Unfortunately, all the followers of Pakistain's chapter of Deoband school approve of terrorism, whereas scholars running the Deoband Institution in India have rejected and denounced terrorism as unIslamic.
Qazi Hussain Ahmad of Jamaat-e-Islami refuses to denounce the Taliban offensive and terms it justified. His party, now led by Munawwar Hassan, is up in arms over action against feared terrorist and criminal mastermind Ilyas Kashmiri. Jamaat-e-Isami's Bloody Karachi chief Merajul Huda Siddiqui says Kashmiri's death is being celebrated by India.
A departure from this trend is Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... Albeit too little too late, Fazl's reaction coincided after two life attempts on him. Stopping short of categorical rejection, he criticised terrorism, saying "violence has no parallel in Islam."
But there were some religious luminaries who acted like "light at the end of the tunnel".
They bit the dust in opposing Taliban and al Qaeda's brand of Islam. Foremost among them was Maulana Hassan Jan who was a Taliban ideologue and tried to convince the latter of the wrongdoing. He received several warnings but he didn't budge from opposing the macabre deeds and was bumped off.
Dr Ghulam Murtaza, Dr M Farooq, vice chancellor of International Islamic University, Swat, Mufti Naeemi, and Maulana Hassan Turabi slammed the violence perpetrated by the fringe elements openly and boldly but had to pay with their blood for sticking to their conviction. Another critic, noted scholar Javed Ahmad Ghamdi has to leave the country following persistent life threats.
The Learned Elders of Islam as a whole should have taken the lead role in explaining and defining terrorism as a vice which only sows more confusion and chaos. Their effort should have been directed at reformation and education. Let's see how long it takes for sanity to prevail.
Pakistani society has been engaged in driving out or killing the moderates for two generations. Who remains who is both courageous and sane, around which those who would retake their society can crystallize?
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