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October 24, 2006
Jihadist Holiday Video Calls For Jihad And Slaughter Of "Crusaders"
Topics: Understanding IslamAs Ramadan comes to its conclusion, the mujahideen send a holiday message to the Muslim world (HT - LGF).
The video then shows a scene in which a man is beheaded. This is followed by another beheading, even more grisly, in which the severed head is waved in the air.[Ed: These are indeed very sick, evil people, and are truly the enemy of mankind]In our previous post we referred to a MEMRI article that includes the statement that "terrorists increase poverty, spread terror, hamper development, destroy infrastructure, while Noble Laureate Yunus's Nobel Prize confirms that Islam is a religion of peace and security," of which we said that such a statement is a leap of logic since the actions of Muslims such as Yunus and Muhammad Abdul Latif Jameel prove that Islam can be interpreted and applied in and for peaceful purposes, as it indeed should be. However, Muslims such as Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahirl prove that it can just as easily be misinterpreted and misapplied to conduct acts of terror in the name of the religion - albeit such is the case with any religion, and it is up to the mainstream faithful to provide the structure, hierarchy, and traditions that the ideological interlopers distort for their own sick purposes.
As though my point that Islam can so easily be misinterpreted and misapplied to conduct acts of terror (owing to the need for substantial reforms related to structure, hierarchy, and traditions in order to prevent ideological-interloping terrorists from distorting the religion for their own sick purposes) needed further proof, along comes yet another example to make the point even clearer, in "Eid Mubarak from Al-Qaeda! 'Islamist Holiday Video Calls for Jihad and Slaughter of 'Crusaders'":
This ten-minute video, titled "Rise Up," was posted on Islamist websites on October 22, 2006, and was described as "a gift for 'Eid Al-Fitr." Produced by an individual identified as "Abu Osama" (whose real identity is unknown), it calls on the Muslims to wage jihad against the "Crusaders." A caption in the film explains that Abu Osama produced the film on the occasion of the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq.The film begins with footage of horsemen under the caption: "O ye who believe! What is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter" (Koran 9:38).
Next, several Al-Qaeda leaders and commanders, including bin Laden, Al-Zawahiri, Al-Zarqawi and a number of unidentified young men (who may be field commanders or intended suicide bombers) call upon the Muslims to join the jihad. The following are excerpts:
Again, as we also mentioned in the previous post and which is made more clear in the production of this video, so far, Islam is yet to implement such reforms as are necessary for change within Islam to occur, as it has been done long ago in Judaism and Christianity. Serious impediments include the hesitancy of moderate Muslims to speak out against fundamentalists like bin Laden and his ilk and label their fundamentalists' political, social, and ideological agenda and practice as a sick pervertion and misrepresentation of Islam. Unless and until this happens, many if not most non-Muslims throughout the world will continue to wonder which Islam is the real Islam, and can Islam be reformed as other religions have done throughout history. Many of us non-Muslims have Muslim friends and know them to follow an ideology represented by Muhammed Yunis, Muhammad Abdul Latif Jameel, and so many other peace-loving, tolerant, modern world Muslims, and I'm certain that they share the same bewilderment as the rest of us in wondering just when the real Islam will rise up and put down the Islam of bin Laden and his fellow terrorists.Al-Zawahiri says: "I urge you, in [the name of] the duty of jihad, which is incumbent upon every Muslim, to hurry and pursue martyrdom in order to kill the Crusaders and the Zionists." An armed individual calls: "[Oh] defenders of the faith, hurry and prepare [for jihad], this is no time for [internal] disagreement." Another individual, sitting under a banner that reads, "Expel the polytheists from the Arabian Peninsula," asks: "Are there no men in this nation?" and a masked individual declares: "Jihad is ancient, and the fate of [all] infidel leaders is one and the same: to be slaughtered."The video then shows a scene in which a man is beheaded. This is followed by another beheading, even more grisly, in which the severed head is waved in the air.
Hat tip - Jihad Watch
Posted by Richard at October 24, 2006 8:27 AM
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