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| Leaflets urge war on coalition in Afghanistan |
| 2002-06-06 |
| Posters plastered on polls and walls in the area along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan declare that Osama bin Laden is alive and urge the faithful to wage war against the U.S.-led coalition. "I am alive. My friend, Mullah Omar, is alive and it is the duty of all Muslims to wage a war on non-Muslims," the posters read. Sure you're alive. There, there... Impotent, but alive. It was impossible to determine whether the posters were really from bin Laden or from followers using his name to rally Taliban and al-Qaida sympathizers. Posters and handbills calling for jihad against the U.S.-led coalition have appeared intermittently since the collapse of the Taliban last year. What makes these unusual is that they were written in the Pakistani language Urdu. That could well imply they're running out of Afghans willing to put up with this nonsense, and they're trying to fire the Paks, those with short memories who are sprung from jug, to get a little jihad goin'. The fresh call for recruits coincides with a decision by Pakistan to redeploy troops to its tense eastern border with neighbor India, where the world worries about an all-out nuclear war over the disputed territory of Kashmir. The posters, seen on both sides of the border, call bin Laden the "lion of Islam." Other handbills feature a picture of the elusive terror mastermind. On the other side is a drawing of Mullah Omar with one eye blackened. The troops are being thinned. Now's the chance for Fazl to get his own jihad going in NWFP... Also in the drawing is the black and white flag of Pakistan's right-wing Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI) party, a vocal critic of Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and ideologically akin to the Taliban. Followers of Pakistan's JUI have spearheaded attacks on theaters and music shops in the tribal regions, charging they violated Islam, a belief propagated by the Taliban. JUI is headed by Fazlur Rehman. JUI is a signator of Binny's declaration of Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, though the Fazlur Rehman who signed it is actually Fazlur Rehman Khalil. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 MMA - Muttahida Majlis i Amal - is the successor to the Afghan Defense Council, then Pak-Afghan Defense Council. Qazi, Fazl and Samiul Haq are the three drivers of the fundo political fronts, and all three make very comfortable livings at it. That JI has been able to set up North American front organizations is an indication of how Saudi seed money can be used to push their brand of fascist Islam. Post 9-11 Bush - president of the entire country, not just the part he likes - was concerned about anti-Muslim violence. Part of this was the currently fashionable PC "be nize to everybody" attitude that's expected. More important at that moment was the fact that we were about to stomp a Muslim nation that was surrounded by Muslim nations, and that was hollering for all Muslims, everywhere to join the jihad and coincidentally pull the Taliban's chestnuts out of the fire. Americans slaughtering Muslims in the streets might actually have made that happen - and don't forget that the fascists were perfectly happy to lie about the facts of the pogroms and continue to do so. So Bush's moves in respect to presenting a "nice" image were perfectly understandable, and to have done otherwise wouldn't have been wise. The "two degrees of separation" statement is meaningless. I know a Catholic, the Pope's Catholic, so there are only two degrees of separation between us. I still don't know the Pope. And Bush, from what I understand, is a United Methodist rather than an evangelical; there is "one degree of separation" between a United Methodist and an Episcopalian, and both are members of the National Council of Churches, which by some interpretations could make them one and the same. Even if he were a Free Methodist, a more |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-06-07 07:51:13 |
| #2 I'd doubt if GWB's overtures encouraging the better lights of Islam represent a contravention of the First Amendment. |
| Posted by: Tom Roberts 2002-06-07 06:29:48 |
| #1 Yes, the JUI is a signatory partner in the al-Qaeda/Islamic Jihad "jihad" against "Jews and Crusaders". As is the JUI a partner in the anti-secular, MMA of Pakistan, a movement which plans to participate in the Fall elections. Another partner is the Jamaat-i-Islami, which is the puppet organization, which directs the Islamic Society (Jamaat) of North America and the Muslim Students Assn. According to the JI website - www.jamaat.org - their Deputy Director - Khurshid Ahmad - has been operating ISNA/MSA operations in the US, at ISNA conventions, for the past "Twenty years". In fact, the JI leader - Qazi Hussain Ahmad - accepted an invitation to counsel US State Dept diplomats, shortly before 911. At one ISNA convention, Qazi operated dawah sessions with ISNA leader - Muzammil Siddiqi - who was invited to attend US memorial ceremonies for the victims of the September massacres. The Jamaati puppet also counseled Bush-Junior at the Whitehouse, one day before Junior called Islam a "religion of peace". Thus, there are only two degrees of separation between the US President and the al-Qaeda terrorists. Conspiracy? No. Stupidity? Yes. Once an evangelical, always an evangelical. I am disgusted by the serial accession to Junior's redundant sallies against separation of church and state. |
| Posted by: RG Fulton 2002-06-06 19:45:26 |