Ahmadinejad’s Lust for Blood

by Jamie Glazov

Glenn Beck did a superb job on his program last night discussing the horrifying belief system that shapes Ahmadinejad’s lust for wiping Israel off the face of the earth.

Beck refers to the Iranian despot as “the Twelver” because Ahmadinejad believes that he must purify the earth with as much human blood (and preferably of the Jewish variety) as possible in order to hasten the return of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi, who is the much-anticipated Islamic messiah.

This is precisely what Ahmadinejad was talking about in his UN speech and it is exactly why his regime is in the process of building the nuclear bomb (if it hasn’t already built it).

Not surprisingly, we haven’t heard one peep of criticism, alarm or ridicule from the liberal Left about all of this.

It’s understandable, of course: they are too busy keeping an eye on the real threats to peace in the world, such as Glenn Beck and, well, you know, some right-wing Christian evangelist somewhere who is trying get someone to believe in Jesus Christ. That’s far more dangerous than what the Twelver is up to, right?

In any case, Beck’s shedding of light on the Twelver is extremely important because doing so crystallizes — and reminds us of — what the militant Islamic ideology is all about.

The yearning to disinfect the world with human blood is at the foundation of the Islamist impulse. If we are to have any chance of defending our civilization successfully, we simply have to digest this reality.

The French-born scholar Laurent Murawiec has written one of the most profound works on this phenomenon: The Mind of Jihad. This fascinating and frightening book summarizes the Islamist ideology’s overriding theme: “I kill, therefore I am.” In his study of the Islamist terrorist’s mindset, Murawiec explains:

“. . . the means has become the end. The blood of the enemy renews the identity of the lynch mob. . . . Death is not an instrumentality—like the death of the enemy on the battlefield—it has become an end in itself . . .”

Know Thy Enemy

By Michael Ledeen

Laurent Murawiec’s The Mind of Jihad is, at last, a book on radical Islam that does it all. Unlike many engaged in the heated debate over the nature of our enemies, Murawiec does not believe that ancient texts tell us all we need to know. He insists that all ideas change over time, even those believed to have been dictated by God’s angel. He has therefore immersed himself not only in the sacred texts of Islam but also in the richly variegated speeches, writings, and actions of its most extremist practitioners: the jihadis waging war against us.

He candidly admits that it was not easy, that many of his initial ideas turned out to be wrong, and that his current understanding of “the mind of jihad” surprises him. This understanding holds that the current doctrine is far more than the resuscitation of medieval commandments, and in fact has a lot to do with modern European and Soviet totalitarianism.

As Murawiec tells us in fascinating detail, the jihadis have been willing to collaborate will all European totalitarian movement and regimes. And although we have heard quite a lot about their collaboration with the Fuhrer (in the person of Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem), there was a constant, intimate and extremely important alliance with the Soviet Union, which gave some of the key jihadis training in organization (and, most likely, intelligence as well). Read more ...

Source: NRO