Getting into Their Minds: Hizbullah Leader Hassan (from MEMRI)
MEMRI: Speccial Dispatch Series - No. 867, February 22, 2005
We keep saying, read and listen to the jihadists; they reveal all.
Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said the following on Al-Manar TV on February 18 and 19, 2005. (Click the MEMRI link to read the entire Special Dispatch.)
Oh, yes, I remember now. Some need to know that this thinking applies broadly to Muslims. After all, these may be just the radical few.
The words quoted are absolutely Qur'anic. The quotes are identical in meaning to those alleged to have come from Allah and Muhammad. This is Islamic orthodoxy. It has always been thus.
The difference is whether or not Muslims act on these dicta. They are under severe religious and social pressure to obey, to submit to the "will of Allah." They are like explosives waiting for the detonator, and no one can easily predict when they will detonate and become overt jihadists. They are always covert jihadists.
The big question for those who continue this pathological denial and cow before pressure groups like C.A.I.R. is whether they will recognize reality or continue the denial. Remember: reality always wins in the end.
We keep saying, read and listen to the jihadists; they reveal all.
Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said the following on Al-Manar TV on February 18 and 19, 2005. (Click the MEMRI link to read the entire Special Dispatch.)
Hassan Nasrallah:"How can death become joyous? How can death become happiness? When Al-Hussein asked his nephew Al-Qassem, when he had not yet reached puberty: 'How do you like the taste of death, son?' He answered that it was sweeter than honey. How can the foul taste of death become sweeter than honey? Only through conviction, ideology, and faith, through belief, and devotion.What more do you need to know?
"We do not want to live merely in order to eat, drink, and enjoy life's pleasures, and leave our homeland to Israel so it will slaughter it upon the altar of its aspirations, desires, hate, and historic vendettas. Therefore, we are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah.
"The most honorable death is to be killed, as the Leader Imam Al-Khamenei said when 'Abbas [Musawi] was martyred. He said: 'Congratulations to 'Abbas, congratulations to 'Abbas.' The most honorable death is death by killing, and the most honorable killing and the most glorious martyrdom is when a man is killed for the sake of Allah, by the enemies of Allah, the murderers of the prophets [i.e. the Jews]."
(Emphases mine)
Oh, yes, I remember now. Some need to know that this thinking applies broadly to Muslims. After all, these may be just the radical few.
The words quoted are absolutely Qur'anic. The quotes are identical in meaning to those alleged to have come from Allah and Muhammad. This is Islamic orthodoxy. It has always been thus.
The difference is whether or not Muslims act on these dicta. They are under severe religious and social pressure to obey, to submit to the "will of Allah." They are like explosives waiting for the detonator, and no one can easily predict when they will detonate and become overt jihadists. They are always covert jihadists.
The big question for those who continue this pathological denial and cow before pressure groups like C.A.I.R. is whether they will recognize reality or continue the denial. Remember: reality always wins in the end.
posted by George Mason @ 2/23/2005 07:07:00 PM
1 Comments:
At Thu May 01, 03:57:00 PM PDT,
huntingnasrallah said…
The 2006 Hezbo-Israeli War: A Panther in Wolf's Clothing?
The Hezbollah attack on Israel on July 12th 2006 was an insurrectionary movement against the Lebanese Administration framed as a Resistance movement against Israel. In 2005, the assassination of Rafik Hariri, a charismatic Sunni Leader that Nicholas Blanford has iconized as Mister Lebanon, began a process of political assassinations of the anti-Syrian cabinet members in the Lebanese Government which eventually led to the declaration of a State of Emergency by the Prime Minister, Fuad Siniora in 2007 as his cabinet's ability to govern the country collapsed. Blamed by many in Lebanon on Syria, the assassination of Hariri, was but one focal point in a long line of Shia resistance to the confessional system of democratic politics practiced in Lebanon for over 70 years.
What is necessary to understand is the nature of the Hezbo-Israeli conflict in terms of this prism. For as much as Islamic martyrs sought the destruction of the Zionist state as 4,000 katyusha rockets were loosed, the most important motivating and mitigating factors of the Hezbollah cause in the 34-day war of 2006 revolve around the control of the Lebanese government, not around the defeat of Israel.
The nature of a veiled insurrection is hard to ascertain, but not far out of the realm of the attainable...particularly if world opinion and focus is on the perceived continuation of conflict that for 60 years has crippled the region into multiplicative hatreds. The most devastating reality of all is the simple fact that until now, the world has missed this obvious national populist movement riding the rails of the jihadi juggernaut right into the halls of the Human Rights ignobility. The question that must be asked and answered in the short run, that we might defeat this movement in the long run, is: does Nasrallah seek to usher in the age of a Jerusalem Caliphate by manipulating Lebanese public opinion into full blown war with Israel, allied with Syria, Iran, Egypt, the Palestinians, and Jihadi brigades the world over...or does he simply seek local power for the sake of its built in corruptions? Moreover, it must be understood, irregardless of the answer that rises to the forefront of public perception, both options of powerpolitik are harmful to the cause of Peace in our Age...
By Nasrallah's own admission, he did not believe that attacking an Israeli military patrol and kidnapping those remaining alive to seek ransom from the IDF or the Israeli Government in the form of prisoner exchanges was enough cause to garner a response of war from Israel. By other admissions, Nasrallah has stated that the mission was a successful one, which was five months in the planning stage before going operational. The questions the world should ask in the face of these admissions are: When did conspiracy to murder, kidnapping, and extortion become a tool of Statecraft and dispute resolution rather than the tool of Piracy and Villainy? And, when did Katyusha Diplomacy's mass attempted murder barrages trump Peacable Talks as an acceptable mode of Resistance?
In full, it must be considered that the "genuine resistance" of Hezbollah in the Shia mold is nothing more than a "veiled insurrection" against the established confessional politics of the day.
Why else would Nasrallah compare the strength of Israel to a spiderweb? In the history and mythology of Islam, there is only one moment when a spiderweb was of importance to the success and continuation of the faith. During his famed flight from Mecca to Medina, Muhammad and Abu Bakr hid in a cave from his pursuing foes. Miraculously, the cave he was hiding in was covered over in the night by a spiderweb, which led the seekers to believe that the cave in question was undisturbed by the likes of Muhammad. Thus, in the Koran, in the traditions of the Hadith, a spiderweb provided a veil which allowed the founder of Islam to survive in order to establish the Caliphate and the armed forces capable of taming and subjugating the unruly deserts of idolatrous nomadic mercantilism.
In the case of Hezbollah, the resistance against and war with Israel provided a veil for the triumph of an insurrection against the leaders of Beirut, an insurrection whose salvos were released with pinpoint accuracy from Israeli turrets. The words of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah are important but should not be taken at face value, for in Islam, deception is the definition of War. And at the end of the day we must ask ourselves: do the US relations with Israel in the Middle East act as a spiderweb, veiling the truth of Nasrallah's aims, gains, and machinations?
Gary Johnson,
Gray, GA
4-29-08
3:15pm
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