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Al-Qaeda chief's wife urges women to teach children jihad
2012-06-08
The wife of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has congratulated Muslim women for the role they have played in the Arab Spring and urged them to raise their children for jihad.
Which wife, and why is she speaking up in the public sphere reserved for men? And how many wives does he have, anyway?
"I congratulate all Muslim women for these blessed revolutions," Umaima Hassan Ahmed Mohammed Hassan wrote in a letter posted on the Al-Fajr website on Friday.

"I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death," she wrote.

In doing so, "each woman would raise her child to be a new Saladin by telling him 'it is you who will restore the grandeur of the Islamic nation and you will will liberate Jerusalem.'"

Saladin was a 12th century Kurdish general who became the first sultan of Egypt and whose forces defeated Crusader armies in a battle that led to the eventual fall of the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem.

The text also counseled women to continue to wear the veil and to encourage their husbands and sons to "free the prisoners wherever they are... such as the widows of our martyr Osama bin Laden, who are languishing with their children in a Pakistani prison."
I thought his dependents had been returned to the bosoms of their families, because the bin Laden clan wasn't interested. Am I wrong?
Posted by:tipper

#2  More proof that those whom believe the GWOT is over wid the death of Osama + the degradation of [core] Al-Qaeda leadership were at best premature or fallacious, at worst don't understand the Islamic andor Islamist mindset.

* RADICAL CLERIC = "ISLAM RULES, OR [else] ISLAM IS DESTROYED". There is no interim or compromise option, as Radical Islam Jihad = WAR FOR UNILATERAL OR MUTUAL ANNIHILATION.

As indic once again now by Ayman's Babe, IMO ANY US SUCCESS IN THE GWOT WILL BE DETERMINED, IN PART, BY HOW WELL THE US-ALLIES ARE ABLE TO DECONSTRUCT + MOVE THE ARAB-MUSLIM WORLD AWAY FROM SUPPORTING ANY + ALL CONCEPTS OF UNILATERAL VIOLENT = "MILITARY" JIHAD. Until such occurs, the US-led GWOT will never be truly "over" - the US will simply be in temporary or benign period(s) of "armistice" = "defensive peace" ala the Medieval Crusades.

Lastly, the comments of Ayman's Babe also indir shows why, within the context of perennial Islamic/Islamist Jihad agz US-West/Allies unto Total Victory or Total Annihilation, PAST
"IMPERIALISM" IS NOT NECESSSARILY A "DIRTY WORD/CONCEPT".

Iff only because ISLAM = "WARRIOR/CONQUERER'S FAITH" = itself akin to GOD-BASED/LED MILPOL
"IMPERIALISM", among other Models e.g. Theo-Socialism.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-06-08 20:28  

#1  I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death

A description of Islam in a nutshell.
Posted by: Frozen Al   2012-06-08 19:38  

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