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2007-07-27 Africa North

Egyptian big time Iman revising Jihad theology

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Posted by mhw 2007-07-27 13:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Egyptian Islamic Jihad

#1 Past "revisions" have included apologies to the victims of terror attacks, recognition of them as "martyrs", and the annulment of fatwas as misguided. But these are not an Islamist version of The God That Failed - the 1949 anthology written by disillusioned communists - but rather a reasoned rejection of theological misinterpretations. Their authors are neither secular nor liberal: their self-criticism includes observations that the wrong path to jihad benefits only the Jews, the US and Egypt's Christian minority. "The Egyptian state is holding all this out as a huge triumph," says a foreign diplomat. "But the views these people preach are still pretty sinister. The state has to some extent accommodated itself to the Islamists."

The goal, establishing the Caliphate, remains the same, but the preferred method is now ballots rather than bullets? "One man, one vote, one time"

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-27 13:59|| 2007-07-27 13:59|| Front Page Top

#2 In a prison cell south of Cairo...

Well take your time, Sayid. Do it right...

Posted by tu3031 2007-07-27 14:04|| 2007-07-27 14:04|| Front Page Top

#3 I would give high odds that the eventual book will be hard on muslims who kill muslim civilians but somewhere between enthusiasically praising and equivocal about muslims killing infidels.

Would someone please give mhw a Kewpie doll!

All of this is utterly meaningless until all Muslims genuinely and thoroughly renounce taqiyya. Until then, we are absolute morons to believe a single thing ~~issued~~ spewed forth from the ideological sewer pipe otherwise known as Islam.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-27 15:18|| 2007-07-27 15:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Zenster, I think you focus too much on Islam as ideology and forget that it's also an experiment in selective breeding---might as well ask Swedes to give up blond hair & blue eyes.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-07-27 15:21|| 2007-07-27 15:21|| Front Page Top

Posted by doc 2007-07-27 15:28|| 2007-07-27 15:28|| Front Page Top

#6 it's also an experiment in selective inbreeding

There, fixed that for ya, gg. Otherwise, you're most likely right.

PS: Spot on graphic, doc!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-27 15:34|| 2007-07-27 15:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Zawahiri, evidently rattled, rounded sarcastically on him in a video message broadcast after Sharif's statement-faxed from Torah prison to an Arabic newspaper
sure doesn't sound like Zawahiri is in the remote provinces in NW Pakistan to have such access to current news to me

Posted by Danielle 2007-07-27 16:07|| 2007-07-27 16:07|| Front Page Top

#8 I think he's Olmert's house guest for the summer.

Posted by wxjames 2007-07-27 16:18|| 2007-07-27 16:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, confusion to the Islamist enemy then... maybe they'll get so rattled over this, they'll turn to killing each other, rather than non-Muslims.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-07-27 17:26|| www.celiahayes.com]">[www.celiahayes.com] 2007-07-27 17:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Sgt. Mom, actually, they very much always did kill each other in larger quantities, but as they say... faster! ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2007-07-27 17:46|| 2007-07-27 17:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Then, "faster, please!"
As Winston Churchill said...if you're going to kill someone, it costs nothing to be polite....
;-)

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-07-27 18:19|| www.celiahayes.com]">[www.celiahayes.com] 2007-07-27 18:19|| Front Page Top

#12 As Winston Churchill said...if you're going to kill someone, it costs nothing to be polite....

Dayuum, how'd I miss that one? Winnie rulz! Great cite, Sgt. Mom.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-27 19:00|| 2007-07-27 19:00|| Front Page Top

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