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India-Pakistan
Jihadi Press review
2003-03-28
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WITH IRAQ FINALLY BEING ATTACKED BY the United States, the jihadi press has much to write about. The tenor of the editorial comments and opinion, however, remains the same; if anything, the tone has become more bitter, more apocalyptic.
I think I read somewhere that the readership of the Jihadi press in Pakistan is equal to the readership of the mainstream Urdu language newspapers (and they aren't exactly liberal in the outlook either.)
  • Weekly Ghazwa Time (Time for the Sacred Battle) in its March 27 issue says the US attack on Iraq would spur jihad around the world: “The attack on Iraq will open a new ‘door’ for jihad; the struggle will become all-pervasive. Jihad is now ubiquitous, and is being propagated by the official media of several Muslim countries. Thousands of mujahideen from neighbouring countries and Russia have joined the Iraqi forces and will conduct a guerrilla warfare strategy against America.”

  • Ummat (Fraternity of Muslims) is Bin Laden’s mouthpiece. When Islamabad declared Bin Laden a terrorist last year and published ads to describe bin Laden’s activities, Ummat published counter-ads in a tit-for-tat response calling him a mujahid! The newspaper describes US president Bush as “Satan” and likens him to Chengez and Hulagu Khan. “Bush plans to cleanse the world of Muslims,” says Ummat’s editorial.

  • Jamat-ud Dawa brings out several publications. One of them is a monthly journal— Zarb-e-Tayyaba (The Holy Blow). The journal profiles a few holy warriors in each issue. Its March issue runs a story of an “emotional holy warrior” who is so impatient and fond of cutting the throats of the Hindus that he often disobeys the orders of his seniors and cannot be restrained. The “emotional” boy runs away from home and joins Dawa’s guerrilla training camp in Muzaffarabad. Within 21 days, he becomes a commando. “After becoming a mujahid, I realised that I owned the world,” says the boy, adding: “When I kill the Hindus, I feel as if the blood of Mohammad bin Qasim is running through my veins and I have come closer to Allah. “The happiest moment of my life was slaughtering the Hindu General Haman, an extremely cruel and cunning army officer. I kidnapped him and brought him to my camp. He was licking my boots and begging for his life. He was even ready to embrace Islam. But I knew he was a liar. I took my sharp knife and started cutting his throat. He was screaming and I was enjoying cutting his throat. The blood was gushing out like a fountain from his throat. The sight gave me immense pleasure. I kept on cutting his throat until he died. My commander was very happy with me. He kissed my forehead and I became his blue-eyed boy!” The journal asks young boys to follow in the (sadistic) footsteps of the “emotional holy warrior” and slay the Hindus in the same manner.
    What more needs to be said?

  • Daily Islam is owned by Al Rashid Trust (the Trust had been banned by the US for having links with al-Qaeda). The publication quotes the law minister of Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) as saying the clerics in the province will enforce Shariah through a special “Hasba Force” on the pattern of the Taliban’s ministry of vice and virtue.
    Since they voted for them the Pashtuns can now reap the rewards
Almost all the jihadi publications are conjecturing about the US’ next target. Zarb-e-Momin says: “Ka’aba and the shrine of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) will be the next target of the US.”
You have to keep the cannon fodder riled up, after all..
Posted by:Paul Moloney

#6  I'll bet he was his brown eye boy, too.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-03-28 16:36:38  

#5  "I kept on cutting his throat until he died. My commander was very happy with me. He kissed my forehead and I became his blue-eyed boy." Since being blue-eyed is definitely a western trait, does that mean he became an infidel? It's a strange world we live in.
Posted by: charlotte   2003-03-28 12:02:19  

#4  Flaming Sword:
Hundreds of reported exhortations to jihad, issued from mosques, should have caused you to doubt "hijack" theory. If you read al-Faraj's book - THE NEGLECTED DUTY - on jihad-conscription obligations of all Muslims, you wouldn't restrict finger-pointing to al-Qaeda and company.
Posted by: Anonon   2003-03-28 11:14:12  

#3  I'm not quite ready to make the declaration that anonon did, but my thoughts are certainly heading in that direction. If the "majority" (as we are told time and time again) of Muslims are peaceful and respectful of others, why have we not witnessed an outcry against terrorism by those Muslims in positions of authority?

One standard answer I've been given is that they are afraid of "reprisals". Forgive me if I find that logic less than compelling--the idea that a religion of "peace and tolerance" must roll over and play dead so that it can be corrupted and kidnapped by those who would use it for violence is an abdication of one's responsibility.

Muslims, you have only a few short years to speak up, act, and regain control of your religion from those who have perverted it for violent means before even those of us who like to think of ourselves as "reasonable" decide that your adherants must be dealt with by force on a global scale. It is not the Anglos who have declared "jihad"--it is also not OUR responsibility to REBUKE it. That job belongs to those of the Muslim faith who truly believe in peace and tolerance.
Posted by: Flaming Sword   2003-03-28 10:47:38  

#2  Boy is about due for a 44.cal enema.
Posted by: raptor   2003-03-28 05:56:43  

#1  Yesterday, it was the supreme religious leader of Syria. Two days before that the JUI of Pakistan did the same. From minbars (pulpits) and schools all over the world and in your neighborhood, Muslims are inciting violence against non-believers (kaffirs). On Dec. 22, 2002, the fatwah committee of al-Azhar University (Cairo, the highest religious authority of Muslims
ordered the production of weapons of mass destruction for use by Muslims. And large numbers of these mortal enemies are pouring into the democracies. An Australian government website proclaims a 161% increase in Muslims in the past 10 years. In city after city in America, extremist and genocidal Salafi mosques are arising, aided and abetted by supporters of President Bush's "faith based" regime.

How are we replying to this aggression? Logic dictates that nuclear blackmail, annihilation of Islamofascists and forced occupation, are the only effective means to pacify Iraq, etc. Bush/Blair are talking about months and months of unnecessary deaths of the finest soldiers in Western civilization. Bush said that the counter-terror war could take "10 years" while Cheney revised this to "50." Now that there is battlefield proof of Iraq's preparations and plans to use WMD, we are still attacking these animals on a piecemeal basis. American commanders, such as Captain Waldron (3-Div) are openly protesting rules of engagement that jeopardize the lives of troops. Even after Baghdad is occupied by costly, limited-war means, occupying troops will still have to face a bloody intifada carried out by protected Fedayen. Everybody saw those Umm Qasr civilians cheer Saddam Hussein, even as they took food from a relief convoy. This "hearts and minds" indulgence is becoming a spectacle.

Only a wholesale effort, which takes the sail out of "heroic jihad" propaganda, will eliminate this genocidal enemy. We de-nazified Germany. The entire globe needs to be de-Islamofascied at the earliest opportunity, and by the least costly means. Bush's alienation of China, Russia and India - all of which face jihadi insurgencies - has to be reversed, and the common enemy of civilization must be annihilated. (Don't point the finger at Russia. Bush chose to ally with the terror state of Pakistan, which supplies the Chechen jihadis)

One more month of Fedayen sniping from housing complexes followed by laughable Coalition consultation with DOD lawyers on a legal response, will produce the type of frustration that will cause free peoples to cheapen the lives of those human-cockroaches. Solemn declarations concerning imaginary Western "values" that supposedly indulge Salafi genocidism, are going to sound very hollow in the next few weeks. Kill or be killed.





Posted by: Anonon   2003-03-28 02:57:45  

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