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Please take a moment to visit and log in at the subscriber area, and submit your city & country location. We will use this information in future to invite you to any events that we organize in your area. Job Opening: New Global Jihad Leader Wantedby Raymond Ibrahim http://www.meforum.org/2894/job-opening-new-global-jihad-leader-wanted
  Be the first of your friends to like this.With the killing of Osama bin Laden, we return to the age old question: which came first, the chicken or the egg? Or, in our context, which came first—the jihadist vision or the jihadist? The ideology or the ideologue? Did Osama "create" the ideology of jihad, or did the ancient ideology of jihad create him—and countless like him, past, present, and future? Years ago, Ayman al-Zawahiri, now al-Qaeda's undisputed leader, placed it all in context. After he was asked about the status of bin Laden and the Taliban's Mullah Omar, he confidently replied:
In short, bin Laden's death, while intrinsically good, has no instrumental value against the jihad—a phenomenon that "transcends time" and "is greater than any individual."
Related Topics: War on terror Raymond Ibrahim This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented as an integral whole with complete information provided about its author, date, place of publication, and original URL. | ||||
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