Oct 03 2007
Decimating al-Qaeda In Iraq
The Strategy Page has a good look at what has happened in Iraq over the last year and why we are on the path to success there, not a path of defeat desired by those strange people on the left who fantasize about a defeated America:
The Sunni Arab terrorist campaign, an attempt to regain control of the country, has been disastrous for the Iraqi Sunni Arabs. There were about five million of them in 2003, when their leader, Saddam Hussein, was overthrown. Since then, about half have fled the country, while over 60,000 have been killed. Neighboring Sunni Arab nations have also backed away from support for the Iraqi Sunnis.
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Now, even the Sunni Arab community, or at least most of it, has turned on the terrorists. For example, a recent peace treaty in Diyala province, between the government and the tribal leaders, included 11 Sunni, six Shia and three Kurdish tribes. About half the 1.6 million population of the province belong to these 20 tribes. Diyala is a largely Sunni Arab area northeast of Baghdad. Long a stronghold of Sunni Arab nationalism, and support for Sunni Arab terrorists, the peace deal has broken the back of that terrorist support.
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Meanwhile, terrorist communications (phone calls, emails, captured letters) indicate increasing desperation. Al Qaeda has lost half its leadership this year, and the replacements find themselves struggling just to stay alive in the face increasing activity by American and Iraqi troops.
Islamo Fascism, in the guise of al-Qaeda or one of its cousin groups, could not thrive in Iraq without the support of the local population. But after years of massacring the locals with car bombs, chlorine bombs, public torture and killing of families in the streets, the locals rose up and are now destroying al-Qaeda. They have sworn on the Koran to destroy al-Qaeda. This turn of events cannot be undone, but al-Qaeda tried with more of the very same bloody violence that caused the locals to turn on them in the first place. No media spin out of DC or NY City can change what has happened to the soul of Islam in Iraq. al-Qaeda is not the enemy of Allah, the enemy of Islam, and the Muslim street is purging itself of its evil and killer ways. Those kinds of dynamics are too strong to be turned back with propaganda and editorials and push polls.
Osama Spoke Recently: Via Jihad Watch:
“Come To Jihad, To The People Of Pakistan,” by Osama bin Laden, translated from Urdu by Ahmed Al-Marid in Jihad Unspun (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair):
All praise is due to Allah, we praise him and seek his aid and forgiveness, and we seek refuge in Allah from the evil in ourselves and from our bad deeds. He whom Allah guides cannot lead astray, and he who is led astray cannot be guided. I bear witness that there is no God other than Allah alone, without partners and I bear witness that Muhammad is his slave and messenger.
To proceed:
To My Muslim Brothers In Pakistan:
Allah the Most High says:
“O prophet! Strive hard against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be harsh against them. Their abode is hell, and an evil destination it is.†Quran 9:73
And the messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, says, “There is no one who abandons a Muslim in a place where his honor is violated and his sanctity is infringed upon except that Allah, the most high abandons him in a place in which he would like his aid. And there is no one who aids a Muslim in a place where his honor is violated and his sanctity is infringed upon except that Allah aids him in a place in which he would like his aid.â€(Narrated by Ahmed)
Pervez’s invasion of Lal Masjid in city of Islam, Islamabad, is a bad event similar to the crime of the Hindus in their invasion and destruction of the Babri Masjid. And this event has crucial and significant connotations, most important of which are:
First, this event demonstrated Musharraf’s insistence on continuing his loyalty, submissiveness and aid to America against the Muslims, and this is one of ten nullifiers of Islam as the people of knowledge have determined and makes armed rebellion against him and removing him obligatory.
Allah the Most High says:
“O you who believe! Take not the Jews and Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guides not a people unjust.†Quran 5:51
And his statement “And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them†means that he is one of them in kufr (unbelief), as the people of tafseer (explanation) have said. This ruling was the one given and confirmed by Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, may Allah have mercy on him, in his famous fatwa following the raids on New York, and among the things he said: “If any ruler of an Islamic state provides aid to an infidel state in its aggression against the Islamic states, it is the legal obligation of the Muslims to remove him from power and consider him to be legally a traitor to Islam and Muslims.â€
Bin Laden goes on to quote Quran 9:65-66; 33:19; 51:56; 8:39; 54:43; 33:36; 4:84; and 9:87-88. In the course of doing so he makes these assertions:
Pervez threw away the cause of Kashmir and restrained those fighting to liberate it, in accordance with the wishes of the Hindus and the Nazarenes….
So I tell the soldiers who perform the Salaat (prayer) in the military organs; you must resign from your jobs and enter into Islam and disassociate yourself from Pervez and his shirk (polytheism). Some of the munafiqeen [hypocrites] among the Ulema of vice and others may say that Islam orders to stay together and people to unite with the army and government to stand in the face of enemies and avoid fitnah (strife). I say; the one who says this is creating lies about Allah. The government and army have become enemies of the Ummah [Islamic community], after becoming a weapon in the hands of the kuffaar [unbelievers] against the Muslims. And they refuse to rule by the religion of Islam in all of life’s affairs, like politics, economy, social life and other matters. Allah has ordered these and their like to be fought, not to be united with and hung onto, as those hypocrites claim.
Allah the Most High says:
“And fight them until there’s no fitnah (polytheism) and religion is wholly for Allah.†Quran 8:39
So if someone of the religion is for Allah and some of it is for other than Allah, fighting is obligatory to make the religion entirely for Allah, the most high….
Fighting in Allah’s path is an act of worship, and it is based on sacrifice of selves. Muslim blood is spilled and poured to protect the religion which only reached us after his (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) cusped tooth was broken, his head cut open and his noble face bloodied and after the blood of best of people like Mus’ab, Zaid and Ja’far (with who Allah was pleased) was poured out. This is the path so follow it. The people have forgotten the path of victory, they think it comes easily or without blood running. Where is the Jihad of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him?
Invocations of Muhammad’s example, explanations of traditional Islamic theology, quotes from the Qur’an. When I point all this out, people like to say, “See? He endorses bin Laden!” But that is just a cheap rhetorical dodge. It assumes that peaceful Muslims have a ready, Qur’anically based, Islamically sound reply to this argument — a reply which I am ignoring. Well, I don’t want to ignore it. I’d love to see it. Ibrahim Hooper? Akbar Ahmed? Anyone? Anyone?
Posted at October 3, 2007 6:11 AM
What many seem to skip over is that of the over 9,000 Islamic terrorist attacks that have occured AFTER 9/11, only a small percentage were done by Al Queda. And the majority of attacks are based on Islamic Texts, as evidenced above.
“Islamo fascism, in the guise of alQaeda or one of its’ cousin groups, could not thrive in Iraq without the support of”
most of the Democrat party and the Mainstream media in the United States.