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Saturday, November 30, 2019

How dumb has the West become?





From  The Telegraph:  

“At the time of his sentencing, the judge warned that he was a "serious jihadist" who should not be released while he remained a threat to the public.

But police confirmed last night that Khan, 28, from Staffordshire, had been freed from prison on an electronic tag.

Khan was wearing a fake suicide vest when he attended the Learning Together criminal justice conference at Fishmongers’ Hall on London Bridge. He then began stabbing fellow delegates with two large knives.”

My comment:

How dumb these people from Cambridge University could have been? They might have as well invited the Alien Queen Mother to the Learning Together conference!



Monday, November 25, 2019

Are we in Israel aware that, in Islam, Jihad is a defensive war?





Started reading Raphael Israeli's new book Suicidal Democracy: Israel's Future in the Arab Environment  and I am already surprised by my ignorance.

'The classical Muslim war and peace strategy assumes that Jihad against infidels is certainly a defensive war, because even when pursued for the sake of expansion and military conquest in the Path of Allah, it requires launching a warning/ultimatum first to the target nation, asking it to surrender peacefully, failing which it bears the responsibility of its refusal to submit to the "Will of Allah", therefore its takeover by force can never be regarded by Islam as aggressive. The aggressors are those who foolishly refuse to surrender "peacefully" '.  (page 8) 

Thursday, November 21, 2019

The letter Jerusalem Post did not publish


(Sent Nov 15, 2019) 

[Regarding all the articles on the two no-work, no-school days in the south.]

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) launched 450 rockets in two days at Israeli civilians as a reaction to Israel assassinating their leader Bahaa Abu Al-Ata. Palestinian Islamic Jihad was mentioned hundreds of times in the media and the Jerusalem Post, yet not a single journalist found it necessary to write about what the word Jihad in the organization’s name, which advertises its motives, actually meant.

In the Dictionary of Islam (1885), Thomas Patrick Hughes, offers this definition of Jihad:  “Lit. “An effort, or a striving”. A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of Muhammad. It is an incumbent religious duty established in the Qur’an and in the Traditions as a divine institution, and enjoined specially for the purpose of advancing Islam and of repelling evil from Muslims”.  

Mladen Andrijasevic
Be’er Sheva

https://www.answering-islam.org/Books/Hughes/j.htm

Friday, November 15, 2019

The Jihad in Palestinian Islamic Jihad


I would have hoped that after Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) launched 450 rockets at Israeli civilians in two days as a reaction to Israel assassinating their leader Bahaa Abu Al-Ata, at least some in the media would have explained what does this term Jihad in the organization’s name actually mean. Of course, that never happened.


So if I were a journalist, what would I have done? 

I would have said the Islamic Jihad is advertising its motives by the very name it has given itself.  Let’s find out what jihad actually means. How?  By reading Ibn Warraq’s The Islam in Islamic Terrorism: The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology




   
Here is Robert Spencer’s review of the book:

It is a symptom of the denial and willful ignorance that blankets the present age that this book even had to be written, and that Ibn Warraq, a historian and social theorist of preeminent insight and wisdom, should have had to devote his considerable talents to it.

Nonetheless, we can be grateful that he has given us The Islam in Islamic Terrorism: The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology, as this book is breathtakingly comprehensive despite its quite manageable length, and is, quite simply, irrefutable. If there remains in the world anyone who holds that Islam is a Religion of Peace and yet has sufficient intellectual honesty and acumen to consider these arguments on their merits, this is the book to give.

First there is the necessary work of clearing away the nonsense. Ibn Warraq takes up each of the major excuses that are commonly given for Islamic jihad violence -- that it is all about Israel, or all about U.S. foreign policy, or all about poverty and lack of opportunity -- and shows why each does not and cannot sufficiently explain the phenomenon at hand.

Then he treads ground that has been much-tilled before: the exhortations to jihad violence in the Qur’an and Sunnah. But here, even the most well-informed reader will find much that is new, especially the detailed description of the Islamic concept of al-walaa wal baraa, commanding the right and forbidding the wrong, and how it leads to jihad attacks against unbelievers.

Also highly rewarding is Warraq’s examination of a subject that receives insufficient attention: the goals of jihad. Authorities in Europe and North America continue to treat jihad attacks as discrete criminal acts that have no necessary connection to any wider movement or imperative. Ibn Warraq shows here, with copious references to Islamic scholars ancient and modern, that jihad is a means of spreading Islam, and that the “greater jihad” -- the spiritualized idea so beloved of Western apologists -- actually has quite slim foundation in the Islamic sources, and is given scant attention throughout Islamic history by the religion’s foremost theologians.

The most rewarding sections of this amply rewarding book are Ibn Warraq’s surveys of jihad in theory and practice from the death of Muhammad up to the present day.

This includes a look at the Kharijites, who are often invoked by contemporary Islamic apologists as the precursors of modern terrorists and the archetypal Islamic heretics. Ibn Warraq, by contrast, demonstrates that “the fundamental principle for the Kharijites was that the Islamic community must be based on the Koran.” Those who claim the Kharijites were twisting and hijacking Islam say the same thing about contemporary jihadis, with just as little justification.

The historical survey that makes up the balance of the book is its most illuminating and valuable material. While many informed readers will know that the Qur’an exhorts jihad and that Muhammad preached and practiced it, few will be familiar with the history of jihad violence in ninth and tenth century Baghdad, or with the Qadizadeli movement in 17th century Constantinople, or with the career of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (of Wahhabi fame) and his movement.

This is jihad doctrine as applied by Muslims throughout history. Readers will see immediately that Muslim obedience to the exhortations to jihad warfare in the Qur’an and Sunnah has been remarkably consistent in form since the beginnings of Islam.

Those who would peruse this material and then still insist that Ibn Warraq is “cherry picking” from both Islamic scripture and history, leaving out both the peaceful exhortations and the fabled eras of peace and tolerance, would be willfully and incurably blind. There are no such exhortations of any force, and no such eras, as any serious student of renowned al-Andalus will know.

The facts are, in the final analysis, quite simple: the Qur’an teaches jihad warfare. So does Muhammad. So do the mainstream Islamic theologians and jurists. And Muslims have consequently waged jihad warfare throughout history.

The Islam in Islamic Terrorism offers facts that ought to be taught in every high school and college history class; a saner age than ours would not find this book remotely controversial. It may indeed have mandated that it be put to exactly that kind of use in academic institutions.

As it is, this book will most likely not be used in schools, which will continue to purvey the half-truths and outright lies that pass for scholarly exposition of Islam these days. The students will not be the only ones who lose out. Among the losers also will be those whose lives will be taken when they otherwise could have been spared were it not for all the willful ignorance that prevents an honest evaluation of the threat we face.

Ibn Warraq has performed an immense service in The Islam in Islamic Terrorism. Anyone who wonders, and has the courage to brave the opprobrium of our self-appointed moral superiors to find out, will get the truth in this invaluable and deftly executed book.



Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Playing Islamic Jihad roulette


 
 Shtulim intersection east of Ashdod this morning 


The Islamic Jihad guys are saying - our organization is called Islamic Jihad and that means we are waging jihad!  What the Israeli government is not doing is educating the public by pointing to the very name of the organization which says it all.

Saturday, November 9, 2019

What’s going on in Britain?




Let’s hope once Boris Johnson gets a majority on Dec 12, he will be able to change the spirit of the country. After all, appeasement did not work in the 1930s.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Pompeo calls for more pressure on Iran, fears ‘nuclear breakout’




In this photo released on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019 by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, a truck containing cylinder of uranium hexafluoride gas leaves Ahmadi Roshan uranium enrichment facility in Natanz to Fordow nuclear facility in the early morning on Wednesday, for the purpose of injecting the gas into Fordo centrifuges. (AP)





ISTANBUL — Iran’s recent steps away from the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with world powers should compel the international community to intensify pressure on Tehran, Secretary of State Mike Pomepo said in a statement Thursday.

The top U.S. diplomat said that Iran’s “nuclear escalations” are aimed at extorting the international community and that the United States “will never allow this to happen.”

He said that Iran’s latest nuclear-related actions raise concerns that Tehran “is positioning itself to have the option of a rapid nuclear breakout.”

Iran this week began injecting uranium gas into centrifuges at the Fordow enrichment facility near the city of Qom. It was revealed as a covert site for Iranian nuclear activities in 2009 and the nuclear deal prohibited Iran from enriching uranium or even bringing fissile material onto the premises.

“It is now time for all nations to reject this regime’s nuclear extortion and take serious steps to increase pressure. Iran’s continued and numerous nuclear provocations demand such action,” Pompeo said.

President Trump withdrew from the multilateral agreement that restricted Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief and reimposed a harsh embargo on the Iranian economy a year ago.

Since then, Iran has breached several of the accord’s restrictions, including caps on the size and purity of its enriched uranium stockpile