Jihad Watch

We are fighting a Holy war whether we wish to call it that or not is not how the Islamic terrorists see it. A must read from Robert Spencer in this weeks Human Events.

by Robert SpencerPosted Jun 30, 2005

Calling the Saudis’ Bluff
Did We Create the Global Jihad?
All Religions Are Not Created Equal
Zarqawi’s Islamic Challenge: Terror Leader Throws Down Gauntlet to Moderate Muslims
“The only person who matters is Allah — and the only question he will ask me is ‘How many infidels did you kill?’”
These are the words of Marwan Abu Ubeida, the subject of a Time magazine piece entitled “Inside the Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber.” It is gratifying to see Time being willing to make this trip inside Marwan’s mind, since most mainstream media outlets have been singularly uninterested in the thought processes of jihad terrorists. But even Time doesn’t explore the implications of Marwan’s words. And this is no trivial omission: jihadists from Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Marwan Abu Ubeida have consistently made clear that today’s jihadists are working from mainstream traditions and numerous Qur’anic exhortations, and that by means of these traditions and teachings they are able to gain recruits among Muslims worldwide — as well as to hold the sympathy of others whom they do not recruit. This explains why there has been no widespread, sustained, or sincere Muslim outcry against the jihad terrorist enterprise in general.