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February 25, 2006
Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility For Saudi Attack
Topics: Understanding IslamReuters reports that Al Qaeda has posted on the Internet claiming responsibility for the attempt on the Saudi oil refinery.
If you want a motive for this attack then you only need to read what was posted to see that Al Qaeda is stepping up its attack on all Non-Muslims as well as Muslims who are dealing with non-Muslims.
It looks like we can expect more of these attacks in the near future as Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden continue to madly pursue their goal of re-establishing the caliphate (a single, global state, ruled by the Shari'a). Either the West realizes what's going on in the world of Islam, joins together and with one voice fights back, or the West looses both the right to even engage the battle and the battle itself. The war against radical Islam and jihadism is upon us, whether we realize it or not. We have no choice but to fight and win this war, that none of us either wanted or imagined.
Click to view English translation of statement c/o Globalterroralert (Hat tip - The CounterTerrorism Blog)
Related: Daniel Pipes - What Do the Terrorists Want?
Most anti-Western terrorist attacks these days are perpetrated without demands being enunciated. Bombs go off, planes get hijacked and crashed into buildings, hotels collapse. The dead are counted. Detectives trace back the perpetrators' identities. Shadowy websites make post-hoc unauthenticated claims.Read more...But the reasons for the violence go unexplained. Analysts, including myself, are left speculating about motives. These can relate to terrorists' personal grievances based in poverty, prejudice, or cultural alienation. Alternately, an intention to change international policy can be seen as a motive: pulling "a Madrid" and getting governments to withdraw their troops from Iraq; convincing Americans to leave Saudi Arabia; ending American support for Israel; pressuring New Delhi to cede control of all Kashmir.
Any of these motives could have contributed to the violence; as London's Daily Telegraph puts it, problems in Iraq and Afghanistan each added "a new pebble to the mountain of grievances that militant fanatics have erected." Yet neither is decisive to giving up one's life for the sake of killing others.
In nearly all cases, the jihadi terrorists have a patently self-evident ambition: to establish a world dominated by Muslims, Islam, and Islamic law, the Shari'a. Or, again to cite the Daily Telegraph, their "real project is the extension of the Islamic territory across the globe, and the establishment of a worldwide 'caliphate' founded on Shari'a law."
Terrorists openly declare this goal. The Islamists who assassinated Anwar el-Sadat in 1981 decorated their holding cages with banners proclaiming the "caliphate or death." A biography of one of the most influential Islamist thinkers of recent times and an influence on Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam declares that his life "revolved around a single goal, namely the establishment of Allah's Rule on earth" and restoring the caliphate.
Other related: Jihadist Strategies in the War on Terrorism
Posted by at February 25, 2006 2:48 AM
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