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Posted 9:00 P.M.
: December 17, 2002
Analysis: The roots of jihad
WGNNews.org Commentary By Kenneth Martin
The Lie that is told all the time in the United States about the
seperation of church and state has traveled into the Islamic
World. By this quote from the article;
They blamed
the western idea of the separation of religion and politics for
the decline of Muslim societies
I didn't realize the ACLU and their supporters went to so much
trouble to spread the Lie World Wide. I guess the Islamic people
need to learn the truth. The United States of America is a
Christian Nation and always has been. It was founded and run by
Christians from its beginning. The Christian Nation has so much
Freedom because it's run by Christian Liberty and Christian
formed laws. The ACLU and their kind started a rumor that it was
secular. They have went to the trouble of spreading that Lie all
over the world. At least they are probably heavily involved it
it if not entirely at fault. I thought the Muslim World should
know the truth about this matter.
There seems to be an undercurrent in all world governments to
remove religion or belief of a God from all governments, and to
put in place secular control. This control will prepare all
governments to receive the God of Flesh, which will be Humanist.
He will be Anti-Christ, and Anti all Gods, including Allah the
Islam God. If you get Religion or believing in a God out of the
way, Man can then dictate a false peace system.
There has never been in my Lifetime a more clear reason to start
identifying people than now, to control and know the location of
people, ( the mark of the beast ), terrorism.
Tuesday,
16 October, 2001, 18:25 GMT 19:25 UK
Saudi
Arabia, which follows the fundamentalist Wahhabi school of
Islam, had become a natural haven for radical Islamist scholars,
including the radical Egyptian Islamist Ayman al-Zawahri
Analysis: The roots of jihad
Jihad has become a rallying cry for some
Muslims
By Middle East analyst Fiona Symon
The Arabic
word jihad means literally "struggle" and Islamic scholars have
long been divided on how it should be interpreted
For some it
means the struggle to defend one's faith and ideals against
harmful outside influences
For others
it has come to represent the duty of Muslims to fight to rid the
Islamic world of western influence in the form of corrupt and
despotic leaders and occupying armies
This is a
view that has come to be widely accepted among the more militant
Muslim groups, although most would not agree with the methods
adopted by Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda movement.
Modern jihad
The origins
of Bin Laden's concept of jihad can be traced back to two early
20th century figures, who started powerful Islamic revivalist
movements in response to colonialism and its aftermath.
In Egypt,
Hassan al-Banna's Muslim Brotherhood and in Pakistan, Syed Abul
Ala Maududi's Jamaat Islami sought to restore the Islamic ideal
of the union of religion and state
They blamed the
western idea of the separation of religion and politics for the
decline of Muslim societies
This, they believed, could only be corrected through a
return to Islam in its traditional form, in which society was
governed by a strict code of Islamic law.
Al-Banna and Maudoudi breathed new life into the concept
of jihad as a holy war to end the foreign occupation of Muslim
lands.
Wide acceptance
For Qutb, all non-Muslims were infidels - even the
so-called "people of the book", the Christians and Jews - and he
predicted an eventual clash of civilisations between Islam and
the west.
According to
Dr Azzam Tamimi, director of the Institute of Islamic Political
Thought in London, Qutb's writings in response to Nasser's
persecution of the Muslim Brotherhood, "acquired wide acceptance
throughout the Arab world, especially after his execution and
more so following the defeat of the Arabs in the 1967 war with
Israel".
'Mentality of jihad'
Saudi
Arabia, which follows the fundamentalist Wahhabi school of
Islam, had become a natural haven for radical Islamist scholars,
including the radical Egyptian Islamist Ayman al-Zawahri
Gulf war blow
But followers of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement, an
extremist offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood led by al-Zawahri,
argued that "Afghanistan should be a platform for the liberation
of the entire Muslim world".
Zawahri's
growing influence over Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda
organisation paved the way for the notorious 1998 "declaration
of war" against the United States and the spate of terrorist
attacks on American targets that followed
