MEMRI: Islam is Only Consummated through Jihad
MEMRI: Special Dispatch Series - No. 865,February 17, 2005 No.865: Top Wanted Kuwaiti Islamist: Islam is Only Consummated through Jihad; We Don't Have Any Ties to Al-Qa'ida; Al-'Anzi Was Executed upon American Orders
MEMRI is one of the most valuable sites available to anyone attempting to understand the Arab mind and that unique amalgam, the Arab-Islamic mind. MEMRI translates what these people say and puts what they say on their website. What you read once, you read over and over. The people making statements or writing articles change, and they come from all over Islamia. What they say repeats, repeats, repeats.
The only option for anyone who respects truth and seeks to learn it is to read what they say and compare it to their actions. Only in the halls of academe does truth not correspond to the facts of reality.
Here is a highly synopsized presentation of an interview, really just a snippet. To corroborate what has been selected and to read the entire interview, click the link to be taken to the MEMRI site.
We cannot accept what this felon says on his terms, but we can analyze them by means of objectivity, something absent in his part of the world.
What does this mean? To these people, who are tribalists, even in the 21st century, blood and religion are not only the sole ties, but they are complete ties. He is trying to make some simple Western mind think that these are trivial ties. He is, in fact, as bound to bin Laden as if joined at the hip.
This is not some Islamic version of Give me liberty, or give me death! This means quite literally that his highest value in life is death. To die means his sole chance to hook up with Allah. If you look at how these people live, you can see that they put little store by life.
If you are willing to believe in God or Allah, you will be willing to believe in anything. You will be forfeiting your mind and its tool, reason, so you will cling even to the belief in something that does not exist (God or Allah) and its software application, religion. You will ride the Titanic to the bottom before you will step into the lifeboat.
Now, what is this about Islam being a religion of peace? Do you think this murderer thinks that jihad is some dewy-eyed, quivering lipped liberal search for inner meaning? Or, is it cutting your head off and conquering your lands in order to destroy all?
All religions are intrinsic systems, i.e., self-contained regarding all aspects of philosophy. If it ain't in the religion, it ain't. Truth = what Islam says it is. False = Anything else. Evil = non-Islam in any aspect. Think of this: If Islam is full of truth, why do people have to be forced "to the truth"? For people like this interviewee, reality has no meaning whatsoever. Truth comes solely from the Koran, Sunna, and the mouths of imams. Islam is a closed system, and everything else outside that closed system must be destroyed to eliminate all threats to Islam. What could threaten Islam? The independent mind, the mind that thinks for itself, the mind seeking truth as correspondence with the facts of reality. Before such a mind, Islam becomes nothing but falsehoods. All of Islam is a lie, and they will kill you before they will let you know that--if you give them even half a chance.
MEMRI is one of the most valuable sites available to anyone attempting to understand the Arab mind and that unique amalgam, the Arab-Islamic mind. MEMRI translates what these people say and puts what they say on their website. What you read once, you read over and over. The people making statements or writing articles change, and they come from all over Islamia. What they say repeats, repeats, repeats.
The only option for anyone who respects truth and seeks to learn it is to read what they say and compare it to their actions. Only in the halls of academe does truth not correspond to the facts of reality.
Here is a highly synopsized presentation of an interview, really just a snippet. To corroborate what has been selected and to read the entire interview, click the link to be taken to the MEMRI site.
The London-based organization "Islamic Media Watch" recently conducted an interview with Khaled Al-Dosari, the top wanted Kuwaiti Islamist who is charged with attempting to overthrow the government and of plotting car bomb attacks against American military convoys in Kuwait.
In the interview, Al-Dosari, who calls himself "a human rights activist and spokesman for the Association of Victims of Torture and Administrative Detention," claimed that the Kuwaiti authorities are after him because of his having revealed human rights violations in Kuwait.
The following are excerpts from the interview:
Question: "Are there any ties between you and the Al-Qa'ida organization?"
Al-Dosari: "There are no ties between us other than that we have the same blood and religion."
Question: "Would you turn yourself in to the authorities? Has anyone requested you to turn yourself in?"
Al-Dosari: "I love death more than [prison]... To whom should I turn myself in? To the oppressor so that he can oppress and torture me? I should turn myself in knowing that my fate would be like the fate of Sheikh 'Amer [Al-'Anzi]? If I knew that there was justice and respect for human rights, I would go of my own accord, but I am convinced that they want to kill me…"
Question: "What is your message to your people, your brethren, your friends, and the people at large?"
Al-Dosari: "I tell them that I stand firm in my principles. Their [the authorities'] threats to kill me will not turn me away from my religion. I don't mind dying a Muslim, even if I don't know where I am going [to Paradise or Hell]. Religion is only consummated in the Muslims' souls and among the people through Jihad for the sake of Allah, in all its forms. Religion can subjugate the evil of those who corrupt the land only through force, which will scare them, and only through Jihad, which will break their power. Without Jihad there would be perversion in the land and the mosques would be ruined. The struggle between truth and falsehood is a valid sunna [way of life]. The party of falsehood is always larger than the party of truth. They will be defeated, and their evil will be stopped only through Jihad. Many people only listen to the truth when the use of force pushes them to do so."
We cannot accept what this felon says on his terms, but we can analyze them by means of objectivity, something absent in his part of the world.
There are no ties between us other than that we have the same blood and religion.
What does this mean? To these people, who are tribalists, even in the 21st century, blood and religion are not only the sole ties, but they are complete ties. He is trying to make some simple Western mind think that these are trivial ties. He is, in fact, as bound to bin Laden as if joined at the hip.
I love death more than [prison]...
This is not some Islamic version of Give me liberty, or give me death! This means quite literally that his highest value in life is death. To die means his sole chance to hook up with Allah. If you look at how these people live, you can see that they put little store by life.
Their [the authorities'] threats to kill me will not turn me away from my religion. I don't mind dying a Muslim, even if I don't know where I am going [to Paradise or Hell].
If you are willing to believe in God or Allah, you will be willing to believe in anything. You will be forfeiting your mind and its tool, reason, so you will cling even to the belief in something that does not exist (God or Allah) and its software application, religion. You will ride the Titanic to the bottom before you will step into the lifeboat.
Religion is only consummated in the Muslims' souls and among the people through Jihad for the sake of Allah, in all its forms.
Now, what is this about Islam being a religion of peace? Do you think this murderer thinks that jihad is some dewy-eyed, quivering lipped liberal search for inner meaning? Or, is it cutting your head off and conquering your lands in order to destroy all?
The struggle between truth and falsehood is a valid sunna [way of life]. The party of falsehood is always larger than the party of truth. They will be defeated, and their evil will be stopped only through Jihad. Many people only listen to the truth when the use of force pushes them to do so
All religions are intrinsic systems, i.e., self-contained regarding all aspects of philosophy. If it ain't in the religion, it ain't. Truth = what Islam says it is. False = Anything else. Evil = non-Islam in any aspect. Think of this: If Islam is full of truth, why do people have to be forced "to the truth"? For people like this interviewee, reality has no meaning whatsoever. Truth comes solely from the Koran, Sunna, and the mouths of imams. Islam is a closed system, and everything else outside that closed system must be destroyed to eliminate all threats to Islam. What could threaten Islam? The independent mind, the mind that thinks for itself, the mind seeking truth as correspondence with the facts of reality. Before such a mind, Islam becomes nothing but falsehoods. All of Islam is a lie, and they will kill you before they will let you know that--if you give them even half a chance.
posted by George Mason @ 2/18/2005 04:00:00 PM
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