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Religious claims -- Islamic Mullahs and teachers preach murder
Please note that I am not referring to Islam as meaning one central religious belief system, mainly because there is no single central official authority over the several versions of Islam (see distinction) -- just as there is no single central authority for the many versions of Christianity. The murderous beliefs set out below I call Islamic because their proponents (Mullahs and Imams) preach belief in a god they call Allah, a prophet they call Mohammed, and teachings derived from a book they call sacred -- the Koran. It is irrelevant that some Muslims disagree with some of those teachings. The key point is that these teachings as outlined below are teachings of a religion. Lest Christians become too smug, let them not forget their Crusades, their Inquisitions, and their important contribution to Hitler's Holocaust, through centuries of anti-Semitic and anti-Judaic preachings.
Jihad University: http://www.gazette.com/terror2/ter1.html By Jeffrey Goldberg/The New York Times. Article first appeared in the July 25, 2000, issue of The New York Times.
. . . in the North-West . . . of Pakistan . . . sits a school called the Haqqania madrasa. . . . a Muslim religious seminary, and Haqqania is one of the bigger madrasas in Pakistan: The school enrolls more than 2,800 students.
Tuition, room and board are free; the students are, in the main, drawn from the dire poor, and the madrasa raises its funds from wealthy Pakistanis, as well as from devout and politically minded Muslims in . . . the Persian Gulf. The students range in age from 8 and 9 to 30, sometimes to 35.
. . . enrolled in an eight-year course of study that focuses on the interpretation of the Quran and of the Hadith, the sayings of the Prophet Muhammed.
. . . There are no world history courses or math courses or computer rooms or science labs at the madrasa. The Haqqania madrasa is, in fact, a jihad factory. This does not make it unique in Pakistan. There are 1 million students studying in the country's 10,000 or so madrasas, and militant Islam is at the core of most of these schools.
Haqqania . . . has graduated more leaders of the Taliban, Afghanistan's ruling faction, than any other school . . . The Taliban today are known the world over for their harsh interpretation of Islamic law, their cruelty to women and their kindness to terrorists -- the most notable one being Osama bin Laden . . .
The Taliban also seem to harbor a deep belief in the notion of a never-ending jihad . . .
The majority of Haqqania students come from Pakistan. Pakistan's Islamists are becoming more and more radicalized - "Talibanized," some call it -- thanks in part to madrasas like Haqqania.
Pakistan also happens to be in possession of nuclear weapons. Many Muslim radicals want these weapons to become part of the arsenal of jihad.
. . . in March 2000, I . . . myself in his school. . . . to see . . . what this jihad factory was producing. The chancellor (a mullah) is a friend and supporter of bin Laden. He has granted an honorary degree, the first and only in his school's history, to Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader.
Samiul Haq is also a politician, a former senator who today leads a faction of the Jamiat-Ulema-Islami, a radical Islamic party seeking to impose Shariah, or Islamic law, in Pakistan to make it more like the Afghanistan of his Taliban disciples. . . .
"The problem," he told me, through an interpreter, "is not between us Muslims and Christians. The only enemy Islam and Christianity have is the Jews," he said. "It was the Jews who crucified Christ, you know. The Jews are using America to fight Islam. Clinton is a good man, but he's surrounded by Jews. Madeleine Albright's father was the founder of Zionism."
. . . "Osama bin Laden is a great Muslim," a student named Wali said . . .
I asked him how his parents felt to have him at the madrasa, knowing there is a chance he would choose to be a Mujahedeen - against the northern alliance or perhaps against India, in Kashmir.
"They support the jihad," he said.
"How would they feel if you were killed?"
"They would be very happy," he said. "They would be so proud. Any father would want his son to die as shaheed," or martyr . . .
One school of thought, Samiul Haq's school, says it's the Americans' fault: American imperialism and the export of American social and sexual mores are to blame.
The other school of thought holds that Islam, by its very nature, is in permanent competition with other civilizations. This is the theory expounded by Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington, who coined the term "Islam's bloody borders" -- a reference to the fact that wherever Islam rubs up against other civilizations -- Jewish, Christian, Hindu -- wars seem to break out. . . .
"Jihad" is a concept widely misunderstood in the West. It does not mean only "holy war." It essentially means "struggle," . . .
These are poor and impressionable boys kept entirely ignorant of the world and . . . of all but one interpretation of Islam.
They are the perfect jihad machines.
Jeffrey Goldberg is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.
NCAFP: http://www.ncafp.org/record/apr01ftr.htm National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Inc.The Many Facets of the Middle East Crisis. April 2001.
. . . In fact, the Middle East conflict extends far beyond the states bordering Israel. It concerns Jews, Christians, Muslims, and others throughout the planet. It threatens world peace and touches on the national interests of many states, including the United States. It underlines the contrasting political structures of the adversaries, which, although living side by side, are far from being "contemporaries": Israel, with its democratic institutions, is in the twenty-first century, whereas others are still sleeping in autocracies of the Middle Ages. The conflict also reflects the overarching antagonism between two opposed religious and cultural views exacerbated by local factors. It envinces deeply rooted psychological feelings that go back to ancient times. It involves economic aspects, for a great part of world oil resources are concentrated in the region. It bears on free trade in the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea. Also, it nurtures expanding terrorist activities both locally and internationally.
It is no secret that militant Islamist organizations teach hatred of the West in general and the United States in particular. To them because Islam is the most recent and "final" message of God and because Muhammad is the "seal" (the ultimate) prophet, it supersedes both Judaism and Christianity and should rule the entire world; this verity constitutes the doctrinal basis of jihad (holy war) that allowed Arabia's Bedouins to conquer many lands, including Palestine; the "interruption" of jihad in the eighth century was provisional; according to Muslim ulamas (theologian-jurisprudents), the world is divided between the "House of Islam" and the "House of War," which must be united sooner or later under the flag of Islam. From this perspective, Israel is an implant of the West in the "House of Islam." Muslims should therefore start a new jihad (holy war) in order to throw out the Jewish state and bring the whole planet under Islam's flag. Militant Islamist groups adhere to this "interpretation" and proclaim the "renewal" of jihad. In general, observers consider them "extremist" and as straying from mainstream Islam. A glance at the history of Islam may help in clarifying their nature and role.
During its first three centuries, the Muslim world was relatively open and tolerant, allowing a brilliant civilization to develop rapidly. But by the end of the eleventh century, this openness had almost vanished. . . . the strictest interpretations of the Koran gradually dominated Muslim theology. The doors to the rest of the world were tightly closed and Muslims lived in seclusion. Decadence steadily eroded the Muslim world, and save for a few short-lived episodes, Muslim countries never regained their splendor.
What many experts seem to forget is that the fundamentalist views that triumphed in the Middle Ages are still in force in today's Muslim world where ulamas uphold them against the slightest hint of revision. With the passing of time, fundamentalism lost its cutting edge. Nevertheless, in the nineteenth century . . . Muslims could no longer ignore the scientific and technological advances of the West. Modernizing trends appeared in some countries and clashed with traditional ways of living. As a result fundamentalist movements rose from their ashes, galvanizing leaders who called for jihad (holy war) against the Western infidels who, in their view, were plotting to erase Islam from the planet. The renewed agitation subsided only to be rekindled with an unprecedented vigor after the creation of the state of Israel.
Therefore, fundamentalism, far from being a new phenomenon, characterizes what had been called mainstream Islam since the twelfth century. Consequently, applying the adjective fundamentalist to describe "terrorist" movements may be misleading. That is why the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) about fifteen years ago coined the phrase "militant Islamic fundamentalism" in order to characterize militant groups and to avoid any confusion about the necessity of distinguishing terrorism from Islam -- one of the three Abrahamic religions. We are gratified our effort to do so has gained currency in most of the writings about the subject.
Today this kind of terrorist group, often in connivance with rogue states, constitutes a new and extremely dangerous manifestation of the turmoil that agitates the Muslim world. Such groups do not hide their aims, which are the same as those of similar groups of the past: (1) the overthrow of local Muslim rulers; (2) strict application of the sharia; (3) the revival of jihad against the West and Israel. . . . In January 1999 President Clinton warned that it was likely that a terrorist group would launch or threaten to unleash a germ or chemical attack on American soil "within the next few years." . . .
Unfortunately, U.S. foreign policymakers have not always been up to the demands of the situation. Until the early 1990s the main objectives of the United States were to maintain the flow of oil and to block Soviet influence. Those objectives pushed Washington to pursue contradictory tactics such as strengthening militant Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan and Afghanistan, fostering traditional tribalism in some parts of the Persian Gulf and encouraging modernization in other parts of the Arab and Muslim world, denouncing terrorist states such as Syria and arranging for the president to visit Damascus, and so on. Israel shares at least part of the blame for authorizing settlements in the occupied territories, helping Iran against Iraq during their eight-year war, using individuals of shadowy character to establish contacts between Washington and the mullahs, and so on. . . .
In general, the West and especially the United States have taken a piecemeal approach to the interrelated problems of the Middle East and the Muslim world. In contrast, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy has made a case for adopting a comprehensive approach so that the interrelated elements that provoke or encourage instability in the region can be dealt with. . . .
One such hurdle, the NCAFP believes, resides in the mind-set and beliefs of the people of the region. It is obvious that neither the United States nor its Western allies can interfere in issues concerning religious interpretations of the Bible and the Koran. But they can encourage Muslim and Jewish intellectuals both from the West as well as from the region to remind Muslims and Jews that the hallowed past is steeped in mythology and that the torch of fundamentalism and nationalism cannot light up for them or their children the "global" highways of the new century and millenium. Western countries in general and the United States in particular can help the "modernizers" in the region and the scholars living in the East address the philosophical and theological aspects of the problem.
The NCAFP considers the question of changing mind-sets an important element of establishing lasting peace and stability in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, Central Asia, and South Asia.
Excellent analysis!
Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - FBI report Project Megiddo: http://www.gospelcom.net/apologeticsindex/usa-01.html Apologetics Index (apologeticsindex.org, apologeticsindex.com, and countercult.com) provides research resources on religious cults, sects, new religious movements, alternative religions, apologetics-, anticult-, and countercult organizations, doctrines, religious practices and world views. . . . reflect a variety of theological and/or sociological perspectives. . . . information that helps equip Christians to logically present and defend the Christian faith, and that aids non-Christians in their comparison of various religious claims. Issues . . . spiritual and cultic abuse to contemporary theological and/or sociological concerns . . . religion news, articles on Christian life and ministry . . .
RCA Militant Islam: http://www.rca.org/response/militantislam.html by Chaplain (LTC) Kenneth L. Sampson, Reformed Church in America, Deputy Staff Chaplain for Fifth U.S. Army. He sets out a useful distinction between various factions of Islam.
Religious decrees becoming commonplace: http://www.mydailycamera.com/news/terror/oct01/07wfatwa.html By Edward A. Gargan, Newsday.
LAHORE, Pakistan — Last month, . . . Mufti Nimazzudin Shamazai, a militant Islamic cleric in Karachi, Pakistan, issued a fatwa, or religious decree, authorizing Muslims to kill Americans.
It was one in a wave of fatwas issued by hardline mullahs denouncing the United States and calling for a jihad, or holy war, against the infidels from across the seas.
In the Islamic world, fatwas have proliferated in recent years. Once pronounced by a limited number of religious authorities, they are now issued with the regularity and speed of press releases. In response, scholars, religious authorities and governments in Pakistan and other countries have taken steps to reign in the practice. . . .
Sunday Herald: http://www.sundayherald.com/18454 A people weary of fear but ready for the worst. By Nick Meo in Peshawar. . . .
Noor and his friends said they were willing to follow the fatwa his mullah issued at Friday prayers; to kill Americans in Pakistan if US airstrikes are carried out. 'Destroy the embassy' was another instruction, in a region where political bombings and assassinations of opponents have in the past been routine. . . .
sunspot.net - maryland's online community: http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.osama13sep13.story The face of evil, the voice of terrorism. Osama bin Laden teaches his comrades why Americans must die. By Kathy Lally, Sun Staff, Originally published Sep.13, 01. The Baltimore Sun . . .
He has a soft voice, a melancholy smile and a gift for flowery Arabic, which allows Osama bin Laden to explain in pleasing poetry why all Americans should die.
"He's probably the most popular individual in the Muslim world," says Yossef Bodansky, author of Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America. "He's the most lucid and eloquent spokesman for all of the grievances Muslims have toward the West, justified and unjustified."
Bin Laden, who had a university education in Saudi Arabia but lacks a formal Islamic education, has been able to make an exceptionally persuasive case that international terrorism is the work of God, Bodansky says.
"It's correct that the majority of Muslims don't follow his beliefs, but we have yet to find someone with similar credentials who can make a contradictory case in Islamic terms," he says. "The contradictory arguments are made at the higher, academic level, but not at the popular level." . . .
Bin Laden objected to the American presence in Saudi Arabia after the gulf war, creating diplomatic difficulties for his country, and he was exiled to Sudan.
There he fell under the influence of a Sudanese religious leader, Hassan Turabi, and became further radicalized even as he learned the religious arguments to support his beliefs. . . .
He (bin Laden) went to Afghanistan, where he has lived ever since, training religious fighters recruited from numerous Muslim countries.
He named his organization Al Qaeda, "the base" in Arabic, and began recruiting members from among 50,000 Afghan war veterans. In 1998, he allied himself with several other militant leaders and issued a religious decree called a fatwa: "To kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who is able, in any country where this is possible."
"He's a formidable foe," Bodansky says, "not as a bomb-builder but as someone building a structure among a quarter of the human population." Al Qaeda reportedly has trained about 5,000 militants who have returned to their homes to set up cells of their own. . . .
"He sees the U.S. as permissive and promiscuous, tolerating values that are utterly destructive of the social fabric," Maxim says. "You combine the religious grounds and the political grounds, and that's the motivation." . . .
Palestinian Incitement of Suicide Bombings: http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0jyy0 Palestinian Incitement of Suicide Bombings. 18 May 01. Part of much broader Israel govt. site, of -- presumably -- Israel Foreign Ministry . . .
3. There follows a number of examples from recent months:
a. Youssef Jamah, Palestinian Minister of Holy Sites, in an interview on Egyptian Television (April 29), stated:
"The suicide bombings are a legitimate means through which the Palestinians fight the enemy. Their aim is to serve Allah, and through them, they fight for Allah and for the Islamic faith and homeland. The attacks are the command of Allah."
e. Sheikh Youssuf Kardawi (Albayan - Internet, May 12):
"I believe that the Palestinian Jihad fighter who carries out suicide actions in Israel does not think about the murder of children and women, but rather goes to fight against Israel, its army and its forces." The suicide mission is the loftiest form of Jihad. We are talking about an heroic act of sacrifice and sanctification. The person who redeems his soul for Allah, sacrifices himself as a sacrifice for his religion and people, and fights the enemies of Allah with new weapons that fate awarded to the downtrodden, in order to fight with these means against the tyranny of the arrogant.
f. The Palestinian Council of Religious Leaders publicized a Fatwa (Al Iyyam, May 6), determining that "these acts of sacrifice are legitimate, and their legitimacy is derived from the Koran and Islamic law."
g. Khamad Almadavi, a preacher at the Al Aqsa Mosque, and the Chairman of the Islamic Appeals Court in Jerusalem (in an interview to a radio station in London): "the suicide attacks are commanded by the Koran and the command applies to every Muslim."
h. Sheikh Ahmad Yassin (Egyptian Television, April 29):
"The fighters for Allah kill and get killed. Can there be bravery which is superior to that shown by a person who sacrifices himself for his homeland, in order to sow fear, defeatism, death, division and destruction amongst enemy ranks."
j. Sheikh Alshaibi, Head of the Faculty of Religious Studies, University Bin Saud (Alhayat, April 30):
"The suicide missions are a legitimate act, and are included within the framework of the Jihad in accordance with Allah, if the intention of the person perpetrating it is pure. These actions are one of the most effective means of the Jihad. One of the most effective means against the enemies of the faith is to bring about disasters and attacks in their midst ... in other words, to cause killing and mutilation, and to sow panic in their midst. These actions strengthen the Muslims and their spirit, and breaks the morale of the enemies."
4. In the context of the propaganda, "broadcasting services" are broadcast to Palestinian children, in which the boy Mohammed A-Dura, the "martyr", calls out to his friends from paradise, and asks them to follow his path and join the fighter. . . .
5. There are a few religious figures who reject the religious legitimacy of suicide attacks. For instance, Mufti Alsheikh of Saudi Arabia maintained that suicide attacks have no basis in Islamic law. In Egypt, Sheikh Alzahar maintained that "if a person blows himself up between people who are fighting him, he is a Shaheed, but if he blows himself up between young children, women or the elderly that take no part in the fighting, he is not a Shaheed." Nevertheless, most of the religious figures responding rejected the ruling of Mufti Alsheikh of Saudi Arabia, and claimed that his ruling was incorrect and was intended only to serve political ends.
Pronouncements by Moslem Religious Leaders Defending Suicide Attacks: http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH01h20 (Compiled by the Israel Foreign Ministry - September 1997).
1. A trend of growing extremism has been observed in remarks by Moslem religious leaders regarding Israel and Judaism in recent months - specifically, in remarks justifying suicide attacks.
2. These pronouncements express attitudes current in rather wide sectors of the Arab public and threaten to become a sweeping phenomenon - attacks will be called for not just out of political need, but will receive religious support and legitimization.
3. Because suicide is prohibited in Islam as it is in Judaism, religious leaders do not use the term "suicide," but "martyrdom" ("shahid"). Sheikh Al Azhar - Muhammad Sa'ad Tantawi (one of the leading religious authorities in the Moslem world) makes this distinction clearly: "One who blows himself up among enemies, in order to defend his land, is considered a martyr." (Egyptian newspaper "Alwafd" 27/4/96). In "Al Aharam" (9/4/96) Tantawi differentiates between acts of self-sacrifice, as when someone blows himself up in a crowd of people, which is permitted as long as it is directed against enemies who have adopted a terrorist and inhumane regime, and between the prohibited act, i.e. when it is directed against civilians, children, or innocent, unarmed people, who did not lift a weapon or behave with violence or terrorism.
4. In a meeting with students at the University of Alexandria (3/8/97), Tantawi explained that given the oppression which the Palestinians suffer, he has no alternative "but to tell our Palestinian brothers: 'Defend yourselves, your rights, your land and your dignity. Defend these by the means that Islam and the teachings of morality approve, without weapons or aggression.'" He stressed that the monotheistic religions do not permit the murder of children, old people or the helpless. In his opinion those who carry out suicide attacks are in a "situation of self-defense against their attacker and therefore do not regard him as an old person, child or woman." In response to a question about the verdict of the Sharia (the Moslem law code) on someone who blows himself up, he said: "To those who say that this is prohibited ("haram"), you must first ask what motivated the act, and why the youth are compelled to sacrifice themselves. What can we expect from the Palestinians when the Prime Minister repeats, every morning and evening, that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel, when this statement contradicts logic, religion and the law? Oppression gives birth to the attack (literally "explosion") and a person on whom the oppression weighs is liable to sacrifice himself: for those with dignity prefer death to a life of submission."
. . . 6. Therefore, "the youth of the Islamic resistance who blow themselves up in order to cause casualties, are considered the greatest of those who die, because they die as martyrs."
. . . 8. According to the members of the "Islamic Action Front" in the Jordanian parliament as well as several Islamic religious scholars, "the Jews occupying today the entire land of Palestine are infidels, enemies, fighters and thieves who robbed the entire land of Palestine, including Jerusalem, and built on it their predatory entity." (Radio Al-Quds 26/3/96) "Therefore it makes no difference whether they are soldiers, civilians, men or women, or to which party they belong. The Jews are a foreign implant in Palestine who arrived there on the basis of the 'Promised Land' ideology and they have no alternative but to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque and build the temple in its place, and to conquer the land of the Moslems from the Nile to the Euphrates. According to religious law, it is our duty to kill these Jews, to rout them from Palestine and to imprison their supporters. Islam rules that one must fight the attacking invader, even unto his death, whether he is a soldier or a civilian... 'Estishad' (suicide attack) is in accordance with Moslem law, and jihad qualifies him for the reward of jihad warriors.
. . . Many more details.
For more, see Koran atrocities.
SHARIA - COMPARISON: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/war/2000/04/000426-islam1.htm DATE=4/26/2000.
INTRO: Islamic law -- and its role in a pluralistic democracy -- is a continuing focus of controversy in Nigeria. Supporters of Islamic law, or Sharia, say it's an essential part of their faith that should be recognized by the government. But critics say some of the Sharia's punishments -- like amputation and flogging -- are not humane. Though Nigeria has gotten the most attention, it is not the only country in Africa that uses Sharia in its legal system. From Washington, reporter William Eagle looks at how Muslims in some other African countries are handling the issue.
TEXT: In northern Nigeria, religion and politics have come together in the debate over Sharia. For many Muslims, adherence to Islamic law is not a matter of personal choice - it's a divine code of conduct mandated for all of society.
Abdulatif Adegbite [pron. ahb-del-AH'-teef ah-DEG'- bee-the] is the secretary general of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs. He spoke from Abeokuta, Ogun State.
/// ADEGBITE ACT /// Our religion does not allow us not to apply Sharia. It is part and parcel of Islam. You can not have freedom of religion without observing Sharia. I do not see why [opponents] should dogmatically insist we have no right to apply Sharia to ourselves. /// END ACT ///
Some Muslims in East Africa agree, including Chief Nassir Mohammed Nahdy. Chief Nahdy, who lives in Mombassa, is the chief Islamic judge, or Khadi, in Kenya . . .
In Memory Of An Old Friend: http://www.koshertorah.com/kahane.html Ruchani Eye On Israel. Nov. 17, 2000; 19 Heshvan 5761. By Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok. . . . Rabbi Kahane and any organization that bears an association to him or his name have been branded by the American and Israeli governments as terrorist organizations. Yet, why? . . . Any Jew who cannot solicit Divine protection due to his observance of the mitzvot has no business being involved in Jewish defense matters. This is because such an individual's own individual lack of Torah piety would be more of a liability to Jewish spiritual protection than an asset. [A blatant defence of religious discrimination!]
. . . Ten years have gone by and Eretz Yisrael is in more danger than ever before. Rabbi Kahane's once radical (and alleged ** racist) view of a need of total separation between Arabs and Israelis is quickly becoming the accepted position of even the left wing party of Mr. Barak. The remnants of Kach and other American organizations of Rabbi Kahane are a mere shell of what they once were. . . . [** Real, not just alleged!]
So, the Rabbi defends racism and racial discrimination!
Beliefnet; The source for Spirituality, Religion and Morality: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/45/story_4562_1.html Wide range of resources re religious beliefs, dictionary, . . .
Religion is Mental Illness: http://www.artnet.net/~acharya/truth/mental.htm RELIGION IS MENTAL ILLNESS GOD IS A PSYCHOPATH.
The following is the legacy of "religion":
"With the wrath of an Old Testament prophet, historian Dagobert Runes (whose mother was killed by the Nazis) blamed the Christian church for the Holocaust. He wrote:
"'Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the Christian churches. . . .
"The massacre at Dueima in 1948 was perpetrated by the official Labor Zionist Israeli army, the Israel Defense Forces (Tzeva Haganah le-Israel or ZA-HAL). The account of the massacre, as described by a soldier who participated in the horror, was published in Davar, the official Hebrew daily newspaper of the Labor-Zionist-run Histadrut General Federation of workers:
"'They killed between eighty to one hundred Arab men, women and children. To kill the children they [soldiers] fractured their heads with sticks. There was not one home without corpses. The men and women of the villages were pushed into houses without food or water. Then the saboteurs came to dynamite them.
"In another area of human rights, many Christian clergymen advocated slavery. Historians Larry Hise notes in his book, Proslavery, that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who use the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals."
Source: Holy Horrors
"In December 1984, on Mohammed's birthday, Khomeini told his people:
"'War is a blessing for the world and for all nations. It is God who incites men to fight and to kill. The Koran says, "Fight until all corruption and all rebellion have ceased." The wars the Prophet led against the infidels were a blessing for all humanity. Imagine that we soon will win the war. That will not be enough, for corruption and resistance to Islam will still exist. The Koran says, "War, war until victory! . . ." The mullahs with corrupt hearts who say that all this is contrary to the teachings of the Koran are unworthy of Islam. Thanks to God, our young people are now, to the limits of their means, putting God's commandments into action. They know that to kill the unbelievers is one of man's greatest missions.' . . .
Revival of Religious Terrorism Begs for Broader U.S. Policy, By Bruce Hoffman: http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/rr.winter98.9/methods.html Old Madness, New Methods. One of the world's leading experts on terrorism, Bruce Hoffman has rejoined RAND.
"I acted alone and on orders from God,"
said Yigal Amir, the young Jewish extremist who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995. "I have no regrets." Amir's words could have been uttered just as easily today by Islamic Hamas suicide bombers of buses and public gathering places in Israel; by Muslim Algerian terrorists who have targeted France with a campaign of indiscriminate bombings; by Japanese followers of Shoko Asahara, whose Aum Shinrikyo sect perpetrated the March 1995 nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway in hopes of hastening a new millennium; by members of the American Christian Patriot movement, who bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City a month later; or by Arab Afghans linked to Osama bin Laden, the alleged Saudi mastermind behind the August 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Indeed, the religious imperative for terrorism is the most important defining characteristic of terrorist activity today. The revolution that transformed Iran into an Islamic republic in 1979 played a crucial role in the modern advent of religious terrorism, but it has not been confined to Iran, to the Middle East, or to Islam. Since the 1980s, this resurgence has involved elements of all the world's major religions as well as some smaller sects or cults.
The characteristics, justifications, and mind-sets of religious and quasi-religious terrorists suggest that they will be much more likely than their secular counterparts to use weapons of mass destruction . . .
The emergence of religion as a driving force behind the increasing lethality of international terrorism shatters some of our most basic assumptions about terrorists. In the past, most analysts tended to discount the possibility of mass killing involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear terrorism. Few terrorists, it was argued, knew anything about the technical intricacies . . . We believed that terrorists had little interest in, and still less to gain from, killing wantonly and indiscriminately. . . .
Driven by value systems and worldviews that are radically different from those of secular terrorists and that are largely impervious to military counterattacks, religious terrorism demands vastly revised national and international diplomatic and cultural strategies that aim to strike at its root causes.
The connection between religion and terrorism is not new. In fact, some of the English words we use to describe terrorists and their acts today are derived from the names of Jewish, Muslim, and Hindu religious groups active centuries ago. The etymology of "zealot," for example, can be traced back to a millenarian Jewish sect that fought against the Roman occupation of what is now Israel between 66 and 73 A.D. The Zealots waged a ruthless campaign of both individual assassination and wholesale slaughter. Similarly, the word "assassin" is derived from a radical offshoot of the Muslim Shi'a who, between 1090 and 1272 A.D., fought the Christian crusaders attempting to conquer present-day Syria and Iran. The assassin, literally "hashish-eater," would ritualistically imbibe hashish before committing murder, an act regarded as a sacramental or divine duty designed to hasten the new millennium. Finally, the appellation "thug" comes from an Indian religious association of professional robbers and murderers who, from the seventh century until their suppression in the mid-19th century, ritually strangled wayward travelers as sacrificial offerings to Kali, the Hindu goddess of terror and destruction. Until the 19th century, religion provided the only justification for terrorism
Only in the past century has religious terrorism tended to be overshadowed by ethnonationalist/ separatist and ideologically motivated terrorism. These categories include the anticolonial, nationalist movements of Jewish terrorist organizations in preindependence Israel; the Muslim-dominated National Liberation Front in Algeria; the overwhelmingly Catholic Irish Republican Army; their Protestant counterparts, such as the Ulster Freedom Fighters, Ulster Volunteer Force, and Red Hand Commandos; and the predominantly Muslim Palestine Liberation Organization. Although these groups evidence a strong religious component, it is the political, not the religious, aspect of their motivation that is dominant. . . .
By 1992, the number of religious terrorist groups had increased exponentially (from 2 to 11) and expanded to embrace major world religions other than Islam as well as obscure sects and cults. During the 1990s, the proportion of religious terrorist groups among all active international terrorist organizations grew appreciably. In 1994, 16 -- nearly a third -- of the 49 identifiable organizations could be classified as religious; . . .
Terrorism motivated in whole or in part by religious imperatives often leads to more intense acts of violence producing considerably more fatalities than the relatively discriminating acts of violence perpetrated by secular terrorist organizations. . . . The attacks that caused the greatest numbers of deaths in 1995 -- those that killed eight or more people -- were all perpetrated by religious terrorists. The reasons why religious terrorism results in so many more deaths than secular terrorism may be found in the radically different value systems, mechanisms of legitimization and justification, concepts of morality, and worldviews embraced by the religious terrorist.
For the religious terrorist, violence is first and foremost a sacramental act or divine duty executed in response to some theological demand or imperative. Terrorism thus assumes a transcendental dimension, and its perpetrators are consequently undeterred by political, moral, or practical constraints. Whereas secular terrorists, even if they have the capacity to do so, rarely attempt indiscriminate killing on a massive scale -- because such tactics are inconsistent with their political aims and therefore are regarded as counterproductive, if not immoral -- religious terrorists often seek to eliminate broadly defined categories of enemies and accordingly regard such large-scale violence not only as morally justified but as a necessary expedient to attain their goals. Religion -- conveyed by sacred text and imparted via clerical authorities claiming to speak for the divine -- therefore serves as a legitimizing force. This explains why clerical sanction is so important to religious terrorists and why religious figures are often required to "bless" terrorist operations before they are executed.
Religious and secular terrorists also differ in their constituencies. Whereas secular terrorists attempt to appeal to actual and potential sympathizers, religious terrorists seek to appeal to no other constituency than themselves. . . . This absence of a broader constituency leads to the sanctioning of almost limitless violence against a virtually open-ended category of targets: . . .
Religious and secular terrorists also have starkly different perceptions of themselves and their violent acts. Whereas secular terrorists regard violence as a way to instigate the correction of a flaw in a system that is basically good, religious terrorists see themselves not as components of a system worth preserving at all but as "outsiders" seeking fundamental changes in the existing order. This sense of alienation further enables the religious terrorist to contemplate far more destructive and deadly types of terrorist operations than secular terrorists -- and reinforces the tendency to embrace a far more open-ended category of "enemies" for attack.
Even more disturbing is that, in some instances, the aims of contemporary religious terrorist groups go far beyond the establishment of a theocracy amenable to their specific deity (e.g., the creation of an Iranian-style Islamic republic in Algeria, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia). These aims can embrace, on the one hand, mystical, transcendental, and divinely inspired imperatives or, on the other hand, a vehemently antigovernment form of populism that reflects far-fetched conspiracy notions based on a volatile mixture of seditious, racial, and religious dicta. . . . The members of the Aum sect in Japan; the fanatical Jewish groups in Israel, such as Eyal, of which Yigal Amir was a member; the Christian Patriot movement in America; and some of the radical Islamic organizations in Algeria, Lebanon, and Israel do not conform to our traditional models of the secular terrorist organization. . . .
In terms of the countermeasures that the government, military, police, and security services can employ against these new types of adversaries, the first and most immediate challenge is simply identifying them. . . .
Perhaps the most sobering realization in confronting religious terrorism is that the threat--and the problems that fuel it--can never be eradicated completely. . . .
An Ancient Scourge for the New Millennium. Religion has been the major driving force behind international terrorism during the 1990s. As described below, the most serious terrorist acts of the decade -- in terms of the number of people killed or the political implications -- all have had a significant religious dimension. List of religiously-inspired atrocities . . .
The Public Good: http://nwcitizen.com/publicgood/reports/holywar3.htm "HOLY TERROR": THE IMPLICATIONS OF TERRORISM MOTIVATED BY A RELIGIOUS IMPERATIVE. Bruce Hoffman. RAND Paper P-7834, 1993. Postscript (May 1995).
Terrorism in the Name of Religion by Dr Magnus Ranstorp: http://www.st-and.ac.uk/academic/intrel/research/cstpv/publications2a.htm St. Andrews University, Centre for the Study of Terrorism & Political Violence.
Introduction:
On February 25, 1994, the day of the second Muslim sabbath during Islam's holy month of Ramadan, a zionist settler from the orthodox settlement of Qiryat Arba entered the crowded Ibrahim (Abraham's) Mosque, located in the biblical town of Hebron on the West Bank. He emptied three 30-shot magazines with his automatic Glilon assualt-rifle into the congregation of 800 Palestinian Muslim worshippers, killing 29 and wounding 150, before being beaten to death. A longstanding follower of the radical Jewish fundamentalist group, the Kach movement, Baruch Goldstein were motivated by a complex mixture of seemingly inseparable political and religious desiderata, fuelled by zealotry and a grave sense of betrayal as his Prime Minister was "leading the Jewish state out of its God-given patrimony and into mortal danger." . . .
Israeli leaders and the Jewish community tried to deny or ignore the danger of Jewish extremism by dismissing Goldstein as belonging, at most, to "the fringe of a fringe" within Israeli society. Sadly, any doubts of the mortal dangers of religious zealotry from within were abruptly silenced with the assassination of the Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a young Jewish student, Yigal Amir, who claimed he had acted on orders of God. He had been influenced by militant rabbis and their halalic rulings, which he interpreted to mean that the "pursuer's decree" was to be applied against Israel's leader. Most Israelis may be astonished by the notion of a Jew killing another Jew, but Prime Minister Rabin was ultimately the victim of a broader force which has become one of the most vibrant, dangerous and pervasive trends in the post-Cold War world: religiously motivated terrorism.
Far afield from the traditionally violent Middle East, where religion and terrorism share a long history, a surge of religious fanaticism have manifested itself in spectacular acts of terrorism across the globe. This wave of violence is unprecedented, not only in its scope and the selection of targets, but also in its lethality and indiscriminate character. . . .
This article seeks to explore these reasons for the contemporary rise in terrorism for religious motives and to identify the triggering mechanisms that bring about violence out of religious belief in both established and newly formed terrorist groups.
The Wider Trend of Religious Terrorism
Between the mid-1960s and the
mid-1990s, the number of fundamentalists movements of all
religious affiliations tripled
worldwide. Simultaneously, as observed by Bruce Hoffman, there has been a virtual explosion of
identifiable religious terrorist groups from none in 1968 to
today's level, where nearly a quarter of all terrorist groups
active throughout the world are predominantly motivated by
religious concerns. Unlike their secular counterparts, religious
terrorists are, by their very nature, largely motivated by religion, but they are also driven by day-to-day
practical political considerations . . .
Islam's jihad, for example, is essentially a defensive doctrine, religiously sanctioned by leading Muslim theologians and fought against perceived aggressors, tyrants, and "wayward Muslims". In its most violent form, it is justified as a means of last resort to prevent the extinction of the distinctive identity of the Islamic community against the forces of secularism and modernism. . . . In the United States, the paranoid outlook of white supremacist movements is driven by a mixture of racism, anti-Semitism, as well as mistrust of government and all central authority. This sense of persecution is also visible among the Shi'ites . . .
The threat of secularization from foreign sources is also the catalyst for springing religious terrorists into action. . . .
The so-called spiritual guides**, who ultimately overlook most political and military activities while blessing acts of terrorism, can be found in almost all religious terrorist groups: Examples include: Hizb'allah's Sheikh Fadlallah and Hamas' Sheikh Yassin, the militant Sikh leader Sant Bhindranwale and Aum Shinrikyo's leader, Shoko Ashara. . . . [** Using the term so-called is being a bit too politically correct. They are spiritual guides -- not just so-called ones!]
. . . In many ways, religious terrorists embrace a total ideological vision of an all-out struggle to resist secularization from within as well as from without. They pursue this vision in totally uncompromising holy terms in literal battles between good and evil. Ironically, for example, there is a great degree of similarity between the stands of the Jewish Kach and Islamic Hamas organisation . . .
The sense of totality of the struggle for these religious warriors is one purely defined in dialectic and cosmic terms as believers against unbelievers, order against chaos, and justice against injustice, which is mirrored in the totality and uncompromising nature of their cause whether that cause entails the establishment of Eretz Israel, an Islamic state based on shari'a law or an independent Khalistan ("Land of the Pure"). . . .
Religious terrorism also offers its increasingly suffering and impatient constituents more hope and a greater chance of vengance against the sources of their historical grievances . . .
various religious terrorist groups also refer to their alien or secular enemies in de-humanizing terms which may loosen the moral constraints for them in their employment of particularly destructive acts of terrorism. As explained by an extremist rabbi in conjunction with the funeral of Baruch Goldstein: "there is a great difference in the punishment becoming a person who hurts a Jew and a person who hurts a gentile ... the life of a Jew is worth much more than the lives of many gentiles." This moral self-purification points to the belief that the perpetrators view themselves as divinely "chosen people"*** ,who not only possess religious legitimacy and justification for their propensity for violence, but also often act out of the belief that the violence occurs in a divinely sanctioned juncture in history. [*** Just as the Bible states.]
. . . the Islamist movements and their respective armed "terrorist" wings have gradually propelled themselves to the forefront of politics as the true defender of the oppressed and dispossessed and as the only effective spearhead against Israel's continued existence in the heart of Muslim territory and against the West's presence and interference in the region. Apart from the obvious religious dimensions of the loss of Palestine to Zionism, Muslim militants draw heavily on the symbolism of the historical legacy of the Crusades, pitting Christendom against Islam, to explain their current condition of oppression and disinheritance, and to provide workable solutions and defences against the threat of western encirclement and secularization. . . .
While the Hizb'allah clerics gradually encountered theological dilemmas in continuing the sanctioning of this method, as suicide is generally forbidden in Islam except for under exceptional circumstances, the Hamas movement felt compelled to adopt suicide-bombings in 1994 as a means of last resort in order to sabotage the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. . . .
Conclusions
This article has sought to
demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, the nature and
scope of religious terrorism is anything but disorganised or
random but rather driven by an inner logic common among diverse
groups and faiths who use political violence to further their
sacred causes. The resort to terrorism by religious imperative is
also not a new phenomenon but rather deeply embedded in the
history and evolution of the faiths, which have gradually served
to define the causes, the enemies as well as the means, methods
and timing of the violence itself. As such, the virtual explosion
of religious terrorism in recent times is part and parcel of a
gradual process of what can be likened to neo-colonial liberation
struggles, which has trapped religious faiths within meaningless
geographical and political boundaries and constraints, and which
has been accelerated by grand shifts in the global political,
economic, military and socio-cultural setting, compounded by
difficult local indigenous conditions for the believers. The
uncertainty and unpredictability in the present environment as
the world searches for a new world order, amidst an increasingly
complex global environment with ethnic and nationalist conflicts,
provides many religious terrorist groups with the opportunity and
the ammunition to shape history according to their divine duty,
cause, and mandate while it indicates for others that the end of
time itself is near. As such, it is imperative to move away from
treating this new religious force in global politics as a
monolithic entity but rather seek to understand the inner logic
of these individual groups and the mechanisms that produce
terrorism in order
to undermine their breeding ground and strength as they are here
to stay. At present it is doubtful that the U.S. or any Western
government are adequately prepared to meet this challenge.
* "Terrorism in the Name of Religion" Journal of International Affairs, Summer 1996, 50, no.1.: pp.41-62 Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
** Magnus Ranstorp is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations at the Univeristy of St. Andrew's in Scotland and a senior research associate at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, specializing in the dynamics of militant Islamic movements and their use of terrorism in the Middle East. Dr. Ranstorp is the author of Hizb'allah in Lebanon: The Politics of the Western Hostage Crisis and has contributed to such periodicals as Terrorism and Political Violence and Jane's Intelligence Review.
Note 2 The Kach movement was founded in 1971 by the ultra-orthodox American Rabbi Meir Kahane as he emigrated to Israel. The group calls for the establishment of a theocratic state in Eretz (Greater) Israel and the forced expulsion of Arabs.
Note 39 For a very interesting discussion of this phenomenon, see: Gilles Keppel, The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World (London: Polity Press, 1995).
Terrorism Theirs and Ours: http://www.sangam.org/ANALYSIS/Ahmad.htm By Eqbal Ahmad. (A Presentation at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Oct 12, 98)
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Jewish underground in Palestine was described as “TERRORIST.” Then new things happened.
By 1942, the Holocaust was occurring, and a certain liberal sympathy with the Jewish people had built up in the Western world. At that point, the terrorists of Palestine, who were Zionists, suddenly started to be described, by 1944-45, as “freedom fighters.” At least two Israeli Prime Ministers, including Menachem Begin, have actually, you can find in the books and posters with their pictures, saying “Terrorists, Reward This Much.” The highest reward I have noted so far was 100,000 British pounds on the head of Menachem Begin, the terrorist. . . .
The United States Counter-Terrorism Program Can't Save Us: http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/irc/nh/nh9798/0085.html by/par Major N.M. Wisneski . . .
Another growing threat is religious terrorism. While the traditional "secular" terrorists generally have a goal and maintain limits to the amount of destruction they will cause, the religious terrorists believe they have a divine mission, and do not have to justify their acts or adhere to any concepts of morality. These religious and ethnic cults can justify violence against almost anyone, but particularly anyone who is not a member of their group. For example, according to a RAND researcher, Bruce Hoffman, "many white supremacists actually welcome the prospect of nuclear war or terrorism. They see it as an opportunity to eliminate their avowed "enemies" and permit the fulfillment of their objective to create a new world order peopled exclusively by the white race". . . .
Rongstad's Worldwide Military Links Terrorism: http://vikingphoenix.com/public/rongstad/military/terrorism/terrorism.htm
Terrorism Research Center Terrorist Intelligence Operations: http://www.terrorism.com/terrorism/IntelOperations.shtml
Nuclear Terrorism How to Prevent It (Nuclear Control Institute): http://www.nci.org/nci-nt.htm
1997 Global Terrorism Appendix B Background Information on Terrorist Groups: http://www.hri.org/docs/USSD-Terror/97/backg.html U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1997.
Anti-Israel terrorist groups: http://tvaisrael.freeyellow.com/terroristgroups.htm Terror Victims Association. "The movement heading the campaign against terrorism in Israel"
A GUIDE TO HAMAS: http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0203/jpn0303.htm By: Bluma Zuckerbrot-Finkelstein, Director, Special Projects- Middle East for the National Office of the Anti-Defamation League. This article first appeared in the St. Louis Jewish Light (March 13)., The Jewish Post of New York © Copyright, April 1996, The Jewish Post of New York Online. . . . Hamas is simultaneously a terrorist organization and a mass social, political and religious movement. Hamas -- an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement meaning "zeal" . . .
Today, direct support for Hamas is estimated at 15-25 percent of the total population with varying degrees of sympathy among many more.
Hamas enjoys strong financial backing from Iran, private benefactors and Muslim charities in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, Palestinian expatriates across the globe and American donors. Its budget has been estimated at between $40-70 million ** and 85 percent of it reportedly comes from abroad; the remaining 15 percent is raised among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. . . .
[** A pittance compared with the $3,000 million aid to Israel from the USA government alone.]
. . . Hamas raises funds in the U.S. through mosques, Muslim organizations and legitimate charitable organizations . . .
Library of Congress - Federal Research Division - Country Studies - Area Handbook Series - Israel: http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/iltoc.html Includes Jewish Terrorist Organizations. . . . Gush Emunim Underground (sometimes called the Jewish Terror Organization) . . . Terror Against Terror (known as TNT) was established by Kach, the right-wing extremist political movement of Rabbi Meir Kahane.. . . Defending Shield (Egrof Magen) . . . Data as of Dec 88.. . . Extremely detailed.
Ezines: http://www.zgram.net/terroristorgs.htm ZGram Terrorism Resources. Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1997. Background Information on Terrorist Groups. Source: United States Department of State. . . .list of terrorist groups is not exhaustive. It focuses on the groups that were designated foreign terrorist organizations on 8 Oct 97 . . .
Osama Bin Ladin Wealth plus Extremism equals Terrorism: http://www.ict.org.il/articles/bin-ladin.htm Yoram Schweitzer, ICT Research Fellow. At the end of May, 1998, ABC News' John Miller was granted an interview with Osama bin Ladin, millionaire, Islamic fundamentalist, and financier of international terrorism. The interview provided a rare glimpse into the ideological worldview of a radical Muslim fundamentalist; whose influence with the "Afghan Veterans" qualifies him as one of the top backers of terrorism worldwide. Bin Ladin represents a new type of supporter of terrorism -- the wealthy individual who . . . places his extensive resources at the disposal of terrorist organizations.
Religion in the Service of
Terrorism
Bin Ladin, a Saudi millionaire and veteran of the Afghan war of
79-89, came to see that conflict in the light of "Muslim believers vs. heretics." In his view, the term,
"heretics" embraces the "pragmatic" Arab
regimes (including his homeland, Saudi Arabia), and the United
States, which he sees as taking over the Muslim holy sites of
Mecca and Medina, and assisting the Jews in their conquest of
Palestine.
In the course of the ABC interview bin Ladin presents the views typical of his organization, and of the majority of Sunni fundamentalist groups affiliated with him. This worldview not only encourages the perpetration of acts of terrorism but sanctifies these acts by religious edict. For bin Ladin, political violence has the standing of a religious injunction. He sees the "Jihad" as necessary to raise the Muslim world above the world of the heretics, and argues that terrorism is justified by the degraded moral standards of his enemies, the Christians and the Jews. The United States, he maintains, is responsible for the most reprehensible acts of world terrorism, such as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and carpet bombing in Iraq. While the Zionists--whom he refers to in terms reminiscent of the writers of "the Protocols of the Elders of Zion" -- are held responsible for the massacre of Dir Yassin and Sabra and Shatila.
In order to further his religious "duties", bin Ladin founded the "International Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders." This year this organization published a "fatwa" (religious ruling) proclaiming the "Jihad against the heretics who conquer Muslim lands" a duty incumbent upon all believing Muslims.
The Secular Web - infidels.org: http://www.secweb.org/bookstore/books.asp The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism. A book by Simon Reeve. Writen long before "Day 9-11," this book explores in depth the new terrorist movement that the United States has now declared war against. . . . the first of a new breed of terrorist, men with no restrictions on mass killing. He also offers evidence that bin Laden's organization may already have chemical and nuclear weapons and explains why the world could soon face attacks by terrorists with weapons of mass destruction . . .
International Terrorism: http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/frame.htm Detailed database of many groups.
Terrorism as practiced by the Zionists in Palestine: http://www.palestine-info.com/terrorism/terror14.htm Nawaf Al-Zarou.
. . . The Zionist policy of terrorism as carried out by the terrorist organizations and secret systems has been the most bloody, racial, ideological and systematic form of terrorism ever experienced by man, either before the establishment of Israel or afterwards. Even though man has experienced terrorist operations that have led to the annihilation of certain races and nations, these operations are nowhere near the magnitude to that suffered by the Palestinians during the past 50 years. . . .
The Political Ideology of Zionist Terrorism
. . . the Zionist's political ideology has been an extension of the "ghetto" societies, which have produced the mentality of conspiracy, racial malice, and the adoption of the terrorist ideology. It went on to produce the idea of God's Chosen People, who are seen as being superior to all other races. Professor Yesrael Shahak, a Jew who is against the Zionist ideology, says, "Judaism has deepened the peculiarity and racialism of the Jews", while the Jewish Talmudic laws have discriminated between the Jews and the other races; the extremist religious radicalism present in Israel supports and promotes these attitudes, especially amongst the Israeli soldiers.
Since we do not understand the religious, Talmudic, racial and Jewish ideology of Zionism, we should emphasize that this ideology has developed greatly since the Zionist conference, which took place in Basl in 1897, and through the Protocols of the wise men of Zion, both of which are replete with terroristic and racial terms, especially from Hertzl, the spiritual leader of Zionism . . . These men have established various terrorist organizations and systems so that eventually the philosophy of terror has become a matter of policy for Israel . . .
David Ben Gurion shed light on the outlines and policies of Zionism, which emphasize the need to use force and violence in order to realize its goals, when he said in his book, The History of Hagana, published by the Zionists in 1954, that "It is obvious that Palestine belongs to the Jews, just as England belongs to the English, and Egypt belongs to the Egyptians, and so we must deport all the Palestinians."
Menachem Begin also emphasized this opinion in his book, The Revolution, published on 28 October 1956, when he said, "The Israelis ought not to be lenient or merciful when fighting their foes so that they destroy the so-called Arab culture…" . Begin also boasted about the terrorist practices of his terrorist organization "Al-Atsel", established under a legal cover. In addition, Moshe' Dayyan, the Minister of Defence in 1973, said, "I could not imagine the establishment of the Jewish State without removing all the Arabs; we do not need to seek their permission to do so, because otherwise we will never be able to establish our State".
The Psychology of the Policy of Zionist Terrorism
Professor Yesrael Shahak said in relation to this psychlogy that "The military leaders of Israel are ready to capture all the resources of the Palestinians by force, and this has been practised by the Israeli oligarchic militarism", which resulted in all the Palestinians suffering from a continual policy of massacre, persecution and deportation.
The Central Role of the Rabbis
The rabbis play a significant role in the Zionist and terrorist psychology and ideology through their roles in the schools of Palestine or through the Jewish settlements situated all over the country. If we refer to the Israeli syllabuses or to the official attitudes taken towards the Palestinians, we see that the ideas of these rabbis are a very important basis for this philosophy of terrorism. It is noticeable that the ideas of the rabbis urge the terrorists to carry out even more crimes and massacres against the Palestinian people, such as the massacre at the Al-Ibraheemi Shrine . They also work to prevent the Israeli Government from giving the Palestinians any chances, as dictated in the document signed by more than 250 rabbis in 1997, which banned any delivery of land to non-Jews by the Israeli Government. Moreover, they have encouraged the racial policies practiced against the Palestinians . . .
A Place Under the Sun
We . . . take a look at the work of Benyamin Netanyahu, A Place under the Sun, which represents the most dangerous magnet of the Israeli terrorist State. This book reveals the intended eventual outcome of the religious, political and terrorist ideology of Zionism. . . .
Prior to the Foundation of Israel in 1948
The terrorist organizations worked intensively before Israel had even been founded, and they used all the means available to commit some of the most atrocious acts of terrorism. Al-Hagana . . . Al-Atsel . . . Leihy . . .
CDT's Counter-Terrorism issues page: http://www.cdt.org/policy/terrorism/ The Center For Democracy & Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media.
. . . The Center for Democracy and Technology home page: http://www.cdt.org/
Peter Probst predicted WTC-type attack
http://www.ez1057.com/news/terror/?news=011004_wallstreet Expert: Wall Street May be Next on bin Laden's List San Antonio - Jim Forsyth, Clear Channel News
In 1994 Peter Probst, who was then a CIA official, said Osama bin Laden was capable of hijacking an airplane and flying it into a prominent U.S. building.
Probst, who is now Vice President of the Institute for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence told a security conference in San Antonio there is "no doubt" that bin Laden will hit the US again.
"I'm particularly concerned about another attack against financial centers, especially New York's Wall Street district", Probst told WOAI radio following a speech to the American Society of Industrial Security convention here.
"I can virtually guarantee that he will strike again," Probst said.
Probst said bin Laden is more interested in damaging the United States economy than in simply killing American citizens. He said evidence over the past decade indicates bin Laden is actively experimenting with biological weapons, and while he says bin Laden would "like biological and would like nuclear", he says the more serious threat today is for additional conventional attacks, and he says bin Laden will seek out targets and attacks which target US economic might.
"I think we could see a coordinated assault on the airline industry, setting off bombs on a dozen jetliners, for example," he said. "The sight of a dozen airliners falling from the sky would have a ripple effect economically, forcing major airlines into bankruptcy and disrupting the economy of this country." . . .
Probst said bin Laden hoped that the September 11th terror assault would provoke a "rash" U.S. retaliation, which would inflame anti U.S. sentiment among moderate Muslims and establish him as "the new Saladin", a reference to the 12th century Kurdish warlord who drove Christian crusaders out of Jerusalem. . . .
Copyright 2001 Clear Channel Communications. All Rights Reserved. Excellent article!
Military Aviation Week's AviationNow.com: http://www.aviationnow.com/ World Aviation Directory. General aviation links, . . . satellite images of WTC and Pentagon destruction.
SPACE.com space news, games, entertainment and science fiction: http://www.space.com/ . . . satellite images of WTC destruction. IKONOS 1-m resolution. On a lighter note, see Cannes, France: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagepump/archive.php?category=Europe&index=17
Space Imaging - Visual Information. Visible Results: http://www.spaceimaging.com/ . . . IKONOS imagery, down to 1-m resolution! Satellite images of WTC and Pentagon destruction (before and after).
Urban Legends Reference Pages: http://www.snopes2.com/ Images of the World Trade Center fire reveal the face of Satan. Click on the flag above Rumors of War near the top, then click on Images of the World Trade Center fire reveal the face of Satan!
WARNING PAGE: http://www.smirknet.com/religion/ The Christly people at the Westboro Baptist Church and Picketing Ministry explain how bad pre-schooling has made Americans "congenitally unable to tell right from wrong," how the demon-possessed Centers for Disease Control are wreaking abominable perversions, and, of course, how God hates fags. Links to: . . .
. . . Day Of God's Wrath: http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/dayofterror.html A Message To The Nation In The Wake Of The World Trade Center/Pentagon Tragedy - The Rod Of God Hath Smitten Fag America!
The largest terrorist attack in United States history occurred on September 11, 2001, killing thousands. God uses these kinds of tragedies to punish evil nations for their monstrous sins against Him. God once blessed this country and made it great, and now He is punishing it. Just like He punished ancient Israel with Nebuchadnezzar, the wicked Babylonian king. The shameful religious groups across America are lying to you by saying such things as "God wouldn't do anything like this" and pretending that they don't understand why this horrible event happened. The prayer meetings that they are holding are worthless because "when [an evil nation] makes many prayers, I will not hear" (Isaiah 1:15). The message to get from this tragedy is not the message that these lying churches all across the nation are telling you. The message to get is that God is punishing this wicked, sinful, perverse, adulterous, sodomite nation. You need to repent! Just as Jesus taught upon similar tragic events:
Here is a very small sample of the work of these 'gentle Christians' -- blaming America, the victim, as do the terrorists, for wrong religious beliefs. Why does blaming victims have to be so central to both Christianity and Islam?
America the Burning
(Sung to America the Beautiful)
O wicked land of sodomites
Your World
Trade Center's gone
With crashing planes and burning flames
To hell
your souls have flown
America
America
God's wrath was shown to thee!
He smote this land
With his own hand
And showed his sovereignty
God Hates America
(Sung to God Bless America)
God hates America!
Land of the gays
He abhors her
Deplores her
Day and night, by his might, all his days
From the mountains
To the prairies
To the oceans
White with foam
God hates America!
The fag-gots' home!
. . . Westboro Baptist Church's Perpetual Gospel Memorial to Matthew Shepard: http://www.godhatesfags.com/memorial.html
Those of you reading this Gospel Memorial need to have a very clear understanding that there is a God in heaven, and He has created a hell for people who despise His commandments. . . .
The supreme irony here is that Shepard, who was tortured to death, will spend eternity in Hell unless he 'repents", whereas his murders, if they repent, can spend eternity in Heaven watching Shepard burn forever. Isn't religion marvellous! This church group demonstrated here in Ottawa a couple of years ago. . . . Established in 1955, the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) of Topeka, Kansas still exists today as an Old School (or, Primitive) Baptist Church. In short, we adhere to the teachings of the Bible, preach against all form of sin . . .
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