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What Americans Need To Know About Jihad
By Rober Spencer20 page PDF file. Download it and read it at your leisure. via Front Page Magazine Jihad is not, as some Western apologists claim, simply a striving for individual perfection. Nor is jihad merely a series of unrelated clashes involving groups of Islamists, each with their own limited objectives. Rather, jihad is a radical, expansionist, totalitarian ideology that seeks to establish a global Islamic state ruled by Islamic law, or sharia. The adherents of this ideology are willing and able to commit acts of violence to bring about their goals. They also use the democratic freedoms in Europe and the U.S. to advance their objectives by stealth meansagitating for special rights as aggrieved minorities. These goals and motives of jihad are detailed in Islamic texts and by Islamic teachers. Osama bin Laden and other jihad leaders have repeatedly declared their intention to establish the Islamic social order globaly. As Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted: The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world. South African Mufti Ebrahim Desai of South Africa explained recently that one of the primary responsibilities of the Muslim ruler is to spread Islam throughout the world . If a country doesnt allow the propagation of Islam to its inhabitants in a suitable manner or creates hindrances to this, then the Muslim ruler would be justifying in waging Jihad against this country The fact that this jihad is justified by the Korans repeated exhortations for the faithful to do battle with the infidels renders negotiations with jihadis utterly useless. As Osama bin Ladens lieutenant, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, stated in the summer of 2006: War with Israel is not subject to a treaty, cease-fire, Sykes-Picot Treaty agreements, patriotism or disputed borders, but it is jihad for the cause of God until the entire region is for him only. Jihad seeks the liberation of Palestine, the entire country of Palestine and to liberate every land that used to be a territory of Islam, from Spain to Iraq. Syed Abul Ala Maududi, founder of the radical Pakistani political party Jamaat-e-Islami, supported this view: Islam is a revolutionary ideology and program which seeks to alter the social order of the whole world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenets and ideals .Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it Maududi envisioned a unified Islamic state that would steadily expand throughout the subcontinent and beyond: The Muslim Party will inevitably extend invitation to the citizens of other countries to embrace the faith which holds promise of true salvation and genuine welfare for them. Even otherwise also if the Muslim Party commands adequate resources it will eliminate un-Islamic Governments and establish the power of Islamic Government in their stead. This was, according to Maududi, exactly what Muhammad and the first caliphs did. It is the same policy which was executed by the Holy Prophet (peace of Allah be upon him) and his successor illustrious Caliphs (may Allah be pleased with them). Arabia, where the Muslim Party was founded, was the first country which was subjugated and brought under the rule of Islam.1 The restoration of the caliphate--the unified Islamic state governed by a caliph who leads the Muslim community as successor of Muhammad--is a key imperative for jihadists today because only the caliph is authorized to wage war against non-Muslim states to bring them under the rule of Islamic law. This idea is not an invention or fantasy of marginalized jihadists, but is part of traditional, mainstream Islamic law: for example, a manual of Islamic law that in 1991 was certified by the most influential institution in Sunni Islam, Cairos Al-Azhar University, defines jihad as war against non-Muslims.2 And it spells out the nature of this warfare in quite specific terms: The caliph makes war upon Jews [and] Christians . . . until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya). With the goal of world domination for the religion of Allah, jihad proceeds by any means necessary, and until the goal is won. Rest at link. Posted by: ed 2007-02-22 |
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