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2006-05-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
President says his letter to President Bush was invitation to Islam
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Posted by Steve 2006-05-11 16:35|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Lemme see if I can say this delicately:

PISS ON MOHAMMED AND ALLAN
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2006-05-11 16:46||   2006-05-11 16:46|| Front Page Top

#2 "Both bolded statements suggest that the letter was indeed the call to Islam that must precede any attack, in accord with Muhammad's words (in Sahih Muslim 4294) about inviting the unbelievers to accept Islam or dhimmitude and fighting him only if he refuses both. We shall see."

That was one of the first things I thought of after reading parts of the letter. Learning about OBL's past messages were very instructive in that regard.

Do they have Shia tent revivals?
Posted by Xbalanke 2006-05-11 16:51||   2006-05-11 16:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Pigs poop on Mohammad (May Bees Pee Upon Him)

And watch it, laughing boy. We got an itchy trigger finger over in these parts.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-11 16:59||   2006-05-11 16:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Lots of western commentators were saying that Ahmadiwhatever was instructing GWB to become more observant in his Xtian faith...
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-05-11 17:05||   2006-05-11 17:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I may be wrong, but I still think deep inside Ahmadinejuuuud is an aspiring Watchtower columnist.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-11 17:08||   2006-05-11 17:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Response should be from above....KABOOM
Posted by Captain America 2006-05-11 17:18||   2006-05-11 17:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Any terrorist attack on the US or its interests worldwide can now be pinned directly on Iran. Thanks for the causus belli, Ahmedineedablowjob.
Posted by eLarson 2006-05-11 17:36|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-05-11 17:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Should'nt we invite him to Christianity? It's only polite.
Posted by plainslow 2006-05-11 18:20||   2006-05-11 18:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Allah hu fu@#bar
Posted by Oztralian 2006-05-11 18:28||   2006-05-11 18:28|| Front Page Top

#10 INVITE HIM TO THE CHURCH OF BOB!
church of bob here

Since it is not one of the "three great traditions" it should generate an interesting response.

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-11 18:33||   2006-05-11 18:33|| Front Page Top

#11 "invitation to monotheism"? Gee that's interesting, since Both Judaism and Christianity are MONOTHEISTIC repligions which predate Islam by hundreds if not thousands of years. What a f*cking idiot.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-11 18:34||   2006-05-11 18:34|| Front Page Top

#12 BTW, anymounse, I think you were most eloquent.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-11 18:35||   2006-05-11 18:35|| Front Page Top

#13 My take on the letter was that Mahmoud seemed to insist that Christians, as followers of Jesus are actually muslims anyway because Jesus is a prophet of Allan. So we're all muslims anyway and just haven't accepted that. This whole democracy thing is a the result of denying our true religion. And the sooner we realize we are muslims and embrace islam, the sooner Mahmoud's Mahdi pops out of his well.

I did read it as a demand to accept Islam.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-05-11 19:09||   2006-05-11 19:09|| Front Page Top

#14 I wonder if his psychology is that he has to offer conversion before killing someone? If so, his letter might represent a death threat before an actual attempt.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-11 19:15||   2006-05-11 19:15|| Front Page Top

#15 From the Prophet's mouth to your ears 'Moose. Mohammad offered his enemies conversion just before the slaughter. To say no is to die.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-05-11 19:21||   2006-05-11 19:21|| Front Page Top

#16  I wonder if his psychology is that he has to offer conversion before killing someone? If so, his letter might represent a death threat before an actual attempt.

That's all it is, 'moose. This sick fu&k is out to kill us and is merely following the prescribed protocols. We need to snuff this wingnut's @ss ASAP. This is no lauging matter. Ahmadinejad is almost a greater threat than Osama bin Laden. After all, which one is serious about getting some nukes?
Posted by Zenster 2006-05-11 19:55||   2006-05-11 19:55|| Front Page Top

#17 I was just another delecration of a 30 year old war that may hot up soon, or not.
Posted by SPoD 2006-05-11 20:12|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]  2006-05-11 20:12|| Front Page Top

#18 "invitation to monotheism"? Gee that's interesting, since Both Judaism and Christianity are MONOTHEISTIC repligions which predate Islam by hundreds if not thousands of years. What a f*cking idiot.

Nope. As far as mainstream Islam is concerned, Christianity is not a monotheistic faith. Oh, it WAS, in its original form, which was indistinguishable from Islam. But once people started buying into that whole "Son of God" and "Resurrection" stuff, it stopped being the True Faith and became a big ass lie. Let's not even go into the whole Trinity...

I did read it as a demand to accept Islam.

That's what it was. Dawaa; the call to Islam. It's required before you can attack.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-05-11 20:30|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-05-11 20:30|| Front Page Top

#19 My thought too, RC.
Posted by lotp 2006-05-11 20:55||   2006-05-11 20:55|| Front Page Top

#20 I believe that the classic response to this is 'Nuts'.
Posted by DMFD 2006-05-11 21:08||   2006-05-11 21:08|| Front Page Top

#21 My point is, what if he meant that letter to be a personal threat to Bush? As in, prior to an assassination attempt.

Come to think of it, a multi-person, 9-11 style, violent and destructive, if unsuccessful assassination attempt would really open some doors for the US internationally, as far as causus belli are concerned.

Russia and China would be politely told to STFU if the Iranians tried to kill Bush, and it would be Wang Chung tonight as far as our fleet was concerned.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-11 21:26||   2006-05-11 21:26|| Front Page Top

#22 Dawaa it could be.

From the New York Sun: Iran Declares War
President Ahmadinejad's letter to President Bush, widely interpreted as a peaceful overture, is in fact a declaration of war. The key sentence in the letter is the closing salutation. In an eight-page text of the letter being circulated by the Council on Foreign Relations, it is left untranslated and rendered as "Vasalam Ala Man Ataba'al hoda." What this means is "Peace only unto those who follow the true path."

It is a phrase with historical significance in Islam, for, according to Islamic tradition, in year six of the Hejira - the late 620s - the prophet Mohammad sent letters to the Byzantine emperor and the Sassanid emperor telling them to convert to the true faith of Islam or be conquered. The letters included the same phrase that President Ahmadinejad used to conclude his letter to Mr. Bush. For Mohammad, the letters were a prelude to a Muslim offensive, a war launched for the purpose of imposing Islamic rule over infidels.
Sobering.

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Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2006-05-11 21:43||   2006-05-11 21:43|| Front Page Top

#23 That's right. Since the mohamedans can't do anything original, this is just Ahmadinejad's letter to Heraclitus with Geo Bush starring as Heraclitus.
Posted by 11A5S 2006-05-11 23:32||   2006-05-11 23:32|| Front Page Top

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