Listen and learn from our enemies. Highlights from interview with a terrorist
(1) that the goal of the jihadists is the restoration of the ancient caliphate ("The Koran is a constitution, a law to govern the world")
(7) that collateral damage was not always so collateral: "Once the Americans bombed a bus crossing to Syria. We made a big fuss and said it was full of merchants," Abu Ibrahim said. "But actually, they were fighters."
(9) that supporters in Saudi Arabia always played a key role: "Our brothers in Iraq are asking for Saudis. The Saudis go with enough money to support themselves and their Iraqi brothers. A week ago, we sent a Saudi to the jihad. He went with 100,000 Saudi riyals. There was celebration amongst his brothers there!"
We have been told that jihadists and secular Baathists have little in common, and that only our war brought them together. But like the Japanese and Nazis in World War II, autocrat and jihadist have shared interests in hating liberal democracies — and well before our response they were jointly fanning efforts against the United States.
In the United States, we are told that we have created terrorists. Saudi liberals would beg to differ. So the theologian Al-Maleky confesses, "If Wahhabism doesn't revise itself, it will produce more terrorism."
Free-thinking Arabs refute all the premises of Western Leftists who claim that colonialism, racism, and exploitation have created terrorists, hold back Arab development, and are the backdrops to this war.
Indeed, it is far worse than that: Our own fundamentalist Left is in lockstep with Wahhabist reductionism — in its similar instinctive distrust of Western culture. Both blame the United States and excuse culpability on the part of Islamists. The more left-wing the Westerner, the more tolerant he is of right-wing Islamic extremism; the more liberal the Arab, the more likely he is to agree with conservative Westerners about the real source of Middle Eastern pathology.
emphasis added by me. As they say, read the whole thing. You'll have plenty of stout cudgles to use on softeaded liberals who try to hide their anti-americanism behind the lies VDH exposes here.
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Interesting thing is that any true analysis (correspondence to reality) is always succint and to the point. The last paragraph tells it like it is.
[Sorry for my hiatus... Moved to OK (about 14 days ago), finally. Buh-bye Canuckistan {Image: Celebratory fireworks}. Have been busy and working my ass off, barely having enough time to read a few RB articles, let alone to comment. Probably more of the same for another two weeks, so if I am missing, ya'all can bet I am sleep deprived. ;-)]
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Congrats Sobiesky! I assume you moved from Shariaville to Jesusland. Did you ask for the complementary NRA rifle/pistol welcome basket at the border crossing?
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I assume you moved from Shariaville to Jesusland.
Heh.
Did you ask for the complementary NRA rifle/pistol welcome basket at the border crossing?
No, and you never know whom you talking to at the WA state border crossing. But I am filling in NRA application as we speak. My wife is already longtime member.
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Welcome home, Sobiesky!
Sounds like its been a long journey in more ways than one.
And don't forget I'm right "next door" in God's/Bush's Country: Texas!
Put up your feet and stay a spell - like forever. :-D
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Welcome home, Sobeisky.
;)
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OS - I vote for the "crush the cockroaches" campaign :-)
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I'm glad you finaly made it, Sobiesky. You would be an asset for your Latin knowledge alone, let alone your life experience and technical skills. Think six months to get the new job under control, a year for your new life... at least that's been my experience. In the meantime, sleep when you can, and try to be extra nice to your wife -- especially as she's the one with the guns! ;-)
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