The statement noted, "We issue this statement in support of the actions of brother Nidal Malik Hassan; as a congratulations for his brave and heroic deed, as well as the jealousness he displayed for the pains suffered by the Muslim Ummah as a result of the modern Zionist-Christian Crusades against it.
We ask Allah to accept this great feat of yours and make you an example for others to follow." Further, "It is not permissible for Muslims to aid the infidels in any way in war against the Muslims, whether physically, morally, financially, or strategically.
There is a consensus amongst the scholars that whoever does so, even by a mere gesture, has committed an act of apostasy and has left the fold of Islam."
THE veteran mujaheddin leader once married to Australian woman Rabiah Hutchinson has re-emerged as a key political and military strategist for the Taliban in its insurgency in Afghanistan.
Egyptian Mustafa Hamid, also known as Abu Walid al-Misri, has authored a series of articles in the official Taliban magazine and on Islamist websites in the past two months, outlining the Taliban's push to retake Afghanistan and re-establish the Islamic Emirate overthrown by US forces in 2001.
Hamid ran al-Qa'ida's training camps in Afghanistan in the 1990s and was a senior adviser to the al-Qa'ida leadership and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar in 2000-01. A hard-headed pragmatist who was often critical of al-Qa'ida's zealous ideology, Hamid fell out with the al-Qa'ida leadership over the September 11 attacks on the US and became a vehement critic of Osama bin Laden.
His re-emergence is seen by al-Qa'ida and Taliban experts as a significant development in the Afghan insurgency.
Jihad-watchers say it is further evidence of a strategic shift by the Taliban.
Hamid's writings are being closely monitored by former Australian Federal Police counter-terrorism expert and al-Qa'ida specialist Leah Farrall.
She says Hamid is "coming out against al-Qa'ida quite strongly in some of his responses", indicating the Taliban might be dissociating itself from al-Qa'ida as part of "trying to build itself up as a ruling party".
Hamid is living in Iran, where he fled into exile after the September 11, 2001, attacks, and where he was placed under house arrest and later imprisoned. He is believed to be under some form of detention but his whereabouts are unknown.
A prolific writer and the self-appointed historian of the jihadist movement, Hamid in 2007 began posting articles on a blog site and earlier this year began writing for official jihadist publications.
Vahid Brown, a historian at the US Military Academy at West Point, says Hamid has effectively "taken up one of his old jihadi jobs: official Taliban propogandist and media strategist" and his latest writings show he is still at odds with the al-Qa'ida leadership on a wide range of ideological and strategic issues.
Hamid is believed to have been instrumental in speeches made recently by the Taliban leadership, asserting it is a "responsible force" that has no quarrel with the West and wants to have "good neighbourly relations" in Central Asia.
The tone of these overtures is seen as signalling to the West that if the Taliban returns to power in Afghanistan, now a distinct possibility, it will not provide a new launchpad for al-Qa'ida attacks.
Hamid married Ms Hutchinson in Afghanistan in 2001. They separated after escaping to Iran amid the US bombardment of Afghanistan in late 2001. She declined to comment on his recent activities.
THE Taliban has called for a boycott of the upcoming re-run of Afghanistan's presidential election, and threatened violence against anyone who participates.
"The Islamic emirate (of Afghanistan) once again informs all the people that no one should participate in this American process and should boycott the process," said a Taliban statement emailed to the media.
"The mujahideen are fully prepared to defeat this process," it said, adding: "Anyone who participates and gets hurt will be responsible for their own losses."
Afghanistan's fraud-tainted first-round presidential election on August 20 was hit by a vicious Taliban campaign that has been blamed for keeping turnout below 40 per cent.
Abdulhakim Muhammad: “It Wasn’t Murder, It Was War” by Baron Bodissey - Tuesday, June 09, 2009
I asserted last night that Pvt. William Andrew Long should be classified as a battlefield casualty, since he was killed by a self-declared Muslim mujahid in an ongoing war against the United States. The accused murderer, Abdulhakim Muhammad, continues to make my case for me. By now the Obama administration must fervently wish that this poster boy for Islamic peacefulness and tolerance would shut up. Notice that Mr. Muhammad’s latest media announcement was made via a collect call to the AP from his jail cell in Arkansas: Suspect in Soldier Shooting Says He Was Justified
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Muslim convert charged with fatally shooting an American soldier at a military recruiting center said Tuesday that he doesn’t consider the killing a murder because U.S. military action in the Middle East made the killing justified. “I do feel I’m not guilty,” Abdulhakim Muhammad told The Associated Press in a collect call from the Pulaski County jail. “I don’t think it was murder, because murder is when a person kills another person without justified reason.” […] “Yes, I did tell the police upon my arrest that this was an act of retaliation, and not a reaction on the soldiers personally,” Muhammad said. He called it “a act, for the sake of God, for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the world, and also a retaliation on U.S. military.” No doubt President Obama, like President Bush before him, would assert that Abdulhakim Muhammad is not a true Muslim, because real Muslims don’t commit such heinous acts. But Mr. Muhammad considers himself an authentic Muslim, and so do many other Muslims who slaughter innocent people in the name of Allah. Thousands upon thousands of Muslims across the globe do the same thing, and consider themselves good Muslims as a result of their actions. Who are we to dispute their definition of their own religion? How is it that Presidents Bush and Obama know more about the meaning of Islam than Muslims themselves? The article continues: In the interview, Muhammad also disputed his lawyer’s claim that he had been “radicalized” in a Yemeni prison and said fellow prisoners that some call terrorists were actually “very good Muslim brothers.” And indeed they are, in the eyes of many (possibly a majority) of their fellow Muslims. This incident seems to be yet another instance of Sudden Jihad Syndrome. He also said he didn’t specifically plan the shootings that morning. “It’s been on my mind for awhile. It wasn’t nothing planned really. It was just the heat of the moment, you know,” said Muhammad, who was arrested on a highway shortly after the attack. Mr. Muhammad’s phone call was in defiance of a gag order designed to protect his right to a fair trial: Prosecutor Larry Jegley, who on Monday won a gag order in the case, declined to comment specifically on Muhammad’s remarks. “I asked for the gag order to protect Mr. Muhammad’s right for a fair trial,” Jegley said. “I’ve never had a situation like this with a gag order and I’m sure Mr. Muhammad’s attorney will take care of it.” And here’s the money quote: Asked whether he considered the shootings at the recruiting center an act of war, Muhammad said “I didn’t know the soldiers personally, but yes, it was an attack of retaliation. And I feel that other attacks, not by me or people I know, but definitely Muslims in this country and others elsewhere, are going to attack for doing those things they did,” especially desecrating the Quran. It was an act of war. The upcoming trial is going to be an interesting event. It will be hard for the media to impose as thick a blanket of silence on it as they did on the shooting itself. Unless Britney Spears is getting divorced or married or something at the same time, it’s quite possible that the American public may actually become aware of the murder trial of Abdulhakim Muhammad. And if there were any real justice, it would be a military tribunal.
Knowledge is inextricably linked to language. The less accurate words are, the less accurate the knowledge they impart; conversely, the more precise the language, the more precise the knowledge. In the war on terror, to acquire accurate knowledge — which is pivotal to victory — we need to begin with accurate language.
Would the free world have understood the Nazi threat if, instead of calling them what they called themselves, “Nazis,” it had opted to simply call them “extremists” — a word wholly overlooking the racist, expansionary, and supremacist elements that are part and parcel of the word “Nazi”?
Unfortunately, the U.S. government, apparently oblivious to this interconnection between language and knowledge, appears to be doing just that. Even President Obama alluded to this soon after taking office when he said, “Words matter in this situation because one of the ways we’re going to win this struggle [war on terror] is through the battle of [Muslims'] hearts and minds.”
According to an official memo, when talking about Islamists and their goals, analysts are to refrain from using Arabic words of Islamic significance (”mujahidin,” “salafi,” “ummah”); nor should they employ helpful English or anglicized words (”jihadi,” “Islamo-fascism,” “caliphate”). Instead, vague generics (”terrorists,” “extremists,” “totalitarians”) should suffice. Read more ...
In recent years, many of the Muslim nations although are continuing to term those who participated in the war in Afghanistan as terrorists, in the state-owned and private media, Afghan warriors are continued to be termed as 'Mijahid' [member of Holy War].
Mujahid is originally, "someone who struggles". The term has, even in Arabic, taken on meanings that are specifically religious, or in particular, military or paramilitary, or both.
Muslim nations, irrespective of their geological locations, language or culture, consider armed militants in Kashmir, Palestine, Afghanistan and other parts of the world as members of Holy War. Some nations, including Bangladesh have recently accepted the fact that, those fought in Afghan war are terrorists. Despite this recent change in strategy, there is no change in the official terminology of those militants who continue to be in the fields of militancy. Bangladesh´s present so-called secularist government also considers Afghan, Palestine, Kashmir etc militants as Mujahids.
Dhaka, under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina looks for excellent relations with India, United States and rest of the non-Muslim world. But, they possibly fail to realize the fact that, by terming Kashmiri or Afghan or Palestinian militants as Members of Holy War, they in fact, prove to be un-dependable and dubious. Read more ...
OUTWARDLY he presents an innocuous image as a be-spectacled father of three trained in the law. But Anjem Choudary is now considered by many politicians and religious leaders as the most dangerous Islamist extremist in Britain.
He has previously made no secret of his demands that the country be placed under sharia - Islamic law. This would mean all women would have to wear veils, adulterers would be stoned to death and drunks whipped in public.
Last Tuesday Choudary and his small but obsessive group of followers turned their bile on British troops parading through Luton after their return from service in Iraq. Read more ...
One of President Obama’s first foreign policy initiatives was to open direct negotiations with the government of Iran. His action reverses the policy of every U.S. President since the seizure of American hostages by Iranian militants in 1979.
Americans under age 30 probably do not remember that those 52 American hostages were held for 444 days, not by radical students, but by the Iranian Revolutionary Council -- with the blessing of the Iranian Islamist government. The hostages were released the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated President.
So, as they say, the American people have “a history” with the radical mullahs of Iran, who still refer to the United States as the “Great Satan.“ This is not to say that relations with Iran can’t be improved, but that that improvement must be based on concrete changes in behavior.
In the 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain and Barack Obama agreed on very few things, but one of them was this: An Iran with nuclear weapons is not a prospect either the United States or Iran’s neighbors can view with equanimity. Iran continues to defy United Nations resolutions regarding its uranium enrichment activities and continues its crash program to develop nuclear weapons. Read more ...
Update: DhimmiTube removed the video claiming "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation." Apparently the violation is using "homicidal perverts" to describe "glorious mujahideen." There are plenty of videos on DhimmiTube that depict "glorious mujahideen" murdering people, but as long as they are nor described as "homicidal perverts," it doesn't seem to violate the terms of use.
На позицию мальчика провожал шариат Под рубашку приладили динамита заряд Бросил взор затуманенный на муллу паренек Помолился на коврике, докурил косячок.
Ho удача оставила муджахида-бойца Пaрню взрывом оттяпало член и оба яйца И дeвицам обещаным он, болезный, не рад Aх, ты доля арабская, ах, ты блядский джихад!
TALIBAN militants dragged a school teacher out of a mosque in Afghanistan and cut off his ears as a "punishment" for working for the Government, an education official said.
The rebels took another dozen people, most of them elderly men, out of the mosque in the southern province of Zabul and beat them up on similar charges, provincial education chief Mohammad Nabi Khushal said overnight.
The men had burst into the mosque while dozens of worshippers were in a late night prayer session Saturday and singled out primary school teacher Bismillah Khan, Mr Khushal said, blaming Taliban rebels.
"They took him out of the mosque and cut off his ears. They said, 'Anyone working for the Government will be punished like this'," he said.
The teacher, who worked at a refurbished school re-opened five months ago, was admitted to a US military-run medical facility in the area for treatment, he said.
A villager who refused to be identified confirmed the incident by telephone. The rebels had introduced themselves as members of Taliban militant group, he said.
But a spokesman for the extremist militia, Yousuf Ahmadi, said Taliban were not involved.
"Whoever they were, they were not our mujahideen (holy fighters)," Ahmadi said.
The rebel group has killed dozens of Afghans employed by the Government or its international military or development partners as part of a campaign to undermine support for President Hamid Karzai's Western-backed Government.
Education is one of the successes of post-Taliban Afghanistan with about 6.2 million children enrolled in school, up from 1 million in 2001, when the extremist Taliban regime was removed in a US-led invasion.
It is also one of the main targets of a Taliban insurgency. Attacks left 220 pupils and teachers dead in 2007, the education ministry says.
Terms like "radical Islamist" and "jihadist" have dominated headlines and speeches since 9/11, with the Bush administration using them frequently to describe America's enemies.
But that language may be about to change.
Although Al-Qaeda and other terrorists identify themselves as jihadists -- holy warriors--some feel we make a mistake by calling them what they call themselves.
"It makes sense why they would want to be called it. It makes no sense why we would want to call them that," said Peter Singer, a national security expert with the Brookings Institution in Washington.
Singer co-wrote a recent New York Times op-ed that argues against the use of words like "jihadist" to describe Islamic terrorists.
"This feeds into their idea that this is a religious war, and it's not.," he said. "They want it to be a war of religions, but we have said very clearly that this is not a war on Islam, it's not Christianity vs. Islam in some way. It's about radicals, it's about extremists who are using violence."
U.S. government agencies agree with Singer's view. More ...
The Danish Security Service, PET, is proposing that the Danish government refrain from using the words "war against terror" and "Jihad".
In an eight page report the language use PET recommends that the authorities choose their words with care in order to deescalate the conflict between the West and the Muslim world.
Besides refraining from using the phrase "war against terror" PET recommends to refrain from speaking of Muslims as a population group related to terror and extremism. Other expression to refrain from using are "jihad", "holy war", "Islamism", "fundamentalism" or "mujahedines". Read more ...
In fighting Jihad, America's greatest challenge remains understanding and confronting the ideology that provides the basis for Jihadist terrorism. Efforts to clearly define this enemy ideology recently have been undermined by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), and the State Department in promoting a "terror lexicon" that recommends federal government employees avoid terms such as "jihad," "jihadist," "Islamist," "mujahideen," and "caliphate" when addressing issues involving terrorism. The argument made by the DHS, NCTC, and others is that the use of such terms will aid in the "recruitment" of Muslims to join terrorist organizations, or will alternatively provide "legitimacy" to religious aspects of terrorist efforts.
However, this tactical approach to create a "terror lexicon" to ban such terms used in federal government terrorism reports and the 9/11 Commission report undermines the strategic efforts to identify, understand, and confront the ideology that is the root challenge in a war of ideas against Jihad. And, as Bill West points out, it can also open the door to some unintended consequences for law enforcement.
Congressmen Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) has been an outspoken critic of such "terror lexicon" efforts, and was the leader of an amendment to the House of Representatives' 2009 Intelligence funding bill to prevent government funding from supporting such activities. On July 16, 2008, the House passed (by voice vote) House Resolution 5959 "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009," which included Congressman Hoekstra's amendment (Section 507 'Jihadists'). Read more ...
The terminology we use to describe our enemy in the war on terror matters a lot. A spirited debate is underway among specialists and in the press.
An op-ed published Monday in the New York Times entitled "What do you call a Terror(Jihad)ist?", by P.W. Singer and Elina Noor, attempts to defend the recent State Department memo advising government personal to refrain from using theologically-laden terms-"jihadi," "mujahidin," "caliphate," "Islamo-fascism," "salafi," "wahhabi," "ummah"-when describing Islamic radicals and their motives. Instead, generics-"terrorists," "extremists"-should suffice. Read more ...
In yet another startling case of incompetence, the State Department is sponsoring international delegations for an Islamic group being investigated for terrorist support.
State Department diplomats are taking full advantage of their new rules prohibiting the use of "jihad," "jihadist," and "mujahedeen" to describe Islamic extremists and terrorists, which they apparently have taken to mean that there are no jihadists in light of the exchange programs they have recently sponsored for the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT) — an organization currently under active federal grand jury investigation for terrorist support activities.
The IIIT exchange programs have been conducted under the State Department's International Visitor's Program. According to reports published on IIIT's website, the State Department sponsored a March 7 visit to IIIT by a group of Chinese scholars and, more recently, an April 17-18 session with a large delegation of Islamic scholars from the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia.
The State Department has sponsored these IIIT activities at the very same time that a federal grand jury continues to look into IIIT's multiple ties to terrorism as part of the Department of Justice's ongoing Operation Green Quest investigation. A March 24 article in the New York Sun, "A Court Sheds New Light on Terror Probe," identifies IIIT as the "group at the center of the probe." Read more ...
U.S. officials are being advised in internal government documents to avoid referring publicly to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujahedeen, which "unintentionally legitimize" terrorism. Read more ...
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