September
11, 2013
We must never forget Twelve years ago 19 jihadis attacked the World Trade Center. There will be countless remembrances and memorial services today, as there should be. We must never forget the price paid by the victims, their families and friends, and America, because of this jihadist attack. But we must also never forget why they attacked us – and keep telling policymaking elites why they attacked us. Please see Andrew Bostom’s compelling column below. 12-Years After 9/11/2001 And 21,564 Jihad Terror Attacks Later, U.S. Policymaking Elites Are Still in Jihad Denial Andrew Bostom http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2013/09/11/12-years-after-9112001-and-21564-jihad-terror-attacks-later-u-s-policymaking-elites-are-still-in-jihad-denial/ My Preface to the paperbound 2008 edition of The Legacy of Jihad, written in late 2007, included this observation:
Just under six years later, the rate of carnage having escalated, that gruesome tally as of September 10, 2013, was 21,564 attacks. During the recently completed week of August 31 through September 6, 2013, alone, there were 49 jihad terror attacks, including 6 “jihad martyrdom” homicide bombings, resulting in 309 deaths, and 610 critical injuries. Those figures for the entire month of August, 2013, were 260 jihad terror attacks occurring in 25 countries (directed against votaries of 4 non-Muslim “infidel” religions, and also including sectarian Islamic violence between Muslims), causing 161 deaths, and 3412 critical injuries. The consensus view of orthodox Islamic jurisprudence regarding jihad, since its formulation during the 8th and 9th centuries, through the current era, is that non-Muslims peacefully going about their lives—from the Khaybar farmers whom Muhammad ordered attacked in 628, to those sitting in the World Trade Center on 9/11/01—are “muba'a”, licit, in the Dar al Harb, lands not yet vanquished by jihad war. As described by the great 20th century scholar of Islamic Law, Joseph Schacht,
And these innocent non-combatants can be killed, and have always been killed, with impunity simply by virtue of being “harbis” during endless razzias and or full scale jihad campaigns that have occurred continuously since the time of Muhammad, through the present. This is the crux of the specific institutionalized religio-political ideology, i.e., jihad, which makes Islamdom’s borders, innards, and the further reaches of today’s jihadists, “bloody,” to paraphrase the late Samuel Huntington, across the globe. I concluded the updated 2008 Preface to The Legacy of Jihad with these comments, which sadly apply to our policymaking elites with even more uniformity today, September 11, 2013:
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
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