Don't say they haven't warned us

By Aussiegirl

The American Thinker, as usual, has a great article on the true 1000 year old philosophy behind terror and jihad. The terrorists are following an old game plan and they are saying out loud exactly what they intend to do. Perhaps because we are modern and civilized, many of us (not me) simply cannot take them at their word.

As the toll of deaths and injuries mounts from these horrific blasts�aptly termed by London emergency management officials as, "A callous attack on innocent members of the public"�the intent of the self-proclaimed "mujahadeen" perpetrators merits examination within the overall strategy of Islamic jihad. Indeed to sow terror, and thus promote the Islamization of infidel territories, is consistent with jihad tactics that date back well over a millennium.

Ibn Hudayl, a 14th� century Granadan author of an important treatise on jihad, explained the original methods which facilitated the violent, chaotic jihad conquest of the Iberian peninsula, and other parts of Europe, during the prior six centuries:

It is permissible to set fire to the lands of the enemy, his stores of grain, his beasts of burden � if it is not possible for the Muslims to take possession of them � as well as to cut down his trees, to raze his cities, in a word, to do everything that might ruin and discourage him, provided that the imam (i.e. the religious "guide" of the community of believers) deems these measures appropriate, suited to hastening the Islamization of that enemy or to weakening him.� Indeed, all this contributes to a military triumph over him or to forcing him to capitulate. [1]

And the 20th century historian Charles Emmanuel Dufourcq characterized the impact of these repeated attacks, indistinguishable in motivation from modern acts of jihad terrorism, such as the Madrid bombings on (3/11/04), or yesterday's London bombings (7/7/05):

It is not difficult to understand that such expeditions sowed terror.� The historian al-Maqqari, who wrote in seventeenth-century Tlemcen in Algeria, explains that the panic created by the Arab horsemen and sailors, at the time of the Muslim expansion in the zones that saw those raids and landings, facilitated the later conquest, if that was decided on:

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'Allah,' he says, 'thus instilled such fear among the infidels that they did not dare to go and fight the conquerors; they only approached them as suppliants, to beg for peace.' [2]

And Qaradawi stated his ultimate goals explicitly�consistent with orthodox jihad ideology�at a Muslim youth convention in 1995 in Toledo, Ohio: "We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America!". In light of the London bombings, will the West's intellectuals finally awaken to this threat�the jihad? Will they study with seriousness and urgency the theological-juridical underpinnings of the Islamic jihad, and its 14 centuries of brutal, imperialistic conquests, continuing through the present? Hope springs eternal.