Posted by Ahmed Mirza on October 2, 2001, 2:16 pm >>Yusuf: I WOULD SAY THAT HE HAS NO LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY, THAT AN ISLAM >>Bradley: YOU THINK HE'S A VIGILANTE? >>Yusuf: ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY. ALL MUSLIMS ARE GUIDED BY THE WORDS OF >>Bradley: SO THEN IT'S OUTRIGHT AGGRESSION? >>Yusuf: IT'S OUTRIGHT AGGRESSION. >>Bradley: IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM? >>Yusuf: THAT'S MY BELIEF. >>Bradley: SO IF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE FOLLOWERS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR >>Yusuf: THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION. BUT HOW DO CHRISTIANS HAVE TO >>Bradley: IT IS THE ISLAMIC BELIEF IN THE AFTERLIFE THAT COULD BE AN >>Faisal: IN THE ISLAMIC BELIEF SYSTEM, THE NEXT LIFE IS THE PRIMARY >>Yusuf: I THINK THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT DO THESE THINGS THAT >>Bradley: AND THE SATAN OF THE EVIL WEST, ACCORDING TO MUSLIM >>Esack: IT IS THE FASTEST- GROWING RELIGION IN THE WORLD, THE RELIGION >>Bradley: AND THROUGHOUT THE MUSLIM WORLD, THERE IS ALSO STRONG >>Faisal: IT IS A REACTION AGAINST THE U.S. GOVERNMENT POLITICALLY, >>Bradley: ARE YOU IN ANY WAY SUGGESTING THAT WE IN THE UNITED STATES >>Faisal: I WOULDN'T SAY THAT THE UNITED STATES DESERVED WHAT HAPPENED, >>Bradley: YOU SAY THAT WE'RE AN ACCESSORY? HOW? >>Faisal: BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN ACCESSORY TO A LOT OF INNOCENT LIVES >>Bradley: BIN LADEN AND HIS SUPPORTERS WERE IN FACT RECRUITED AND PAID >>Vali Nasir: WAHABISM TENDS TO PRODUCE INCREASINGLY THAT KIND OF STARK >>Bradley: VALI NASIR, A MUSLIM AND A PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AT >>Nasir: IT'S MORE LIKELY TO SUPPORT THE KINDS OF VIOLENCE THAT THE
>>Bradley: WHILE ISLAM FORBIDS THE KILLING OF INNOCENTS, IN THIS 1998
INTERVIEW, BIN LADEN JUSTIFIED THE U.S. EMBASSY BOMBINGS IN AFRICA,
SAYING EVERY AMERICAN MAN IS OUR ENEMY, WHETHER HE IS A SOLDIER OR A
TAXPAYER. AS FOR THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO DIED, HE SAYS WOMEN AND
CHILDREN DIE EVERY DAY IN PALESTINE. IN A STATEMENT LAST WEEK, BIN
LADEN CALLED FOR A JIHAD OR HOLY WAR IN THE NAME OF ALLAH.
JIHAD CAN ONLY BE DECLARED BY LEGITIMATE STATE AUTHORITY. AND THIS IS
ACCEPTED BY CONSENSUS. THERE IS NO VIGILANTISM IN ISLAM. MUSLIMS BELIEVE
IN STATE AUTHORITY.
ISLAM'S HOLY BOOK, THE KORAN, WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE THE WORD OF GOD,
AND EXPLAINS HOW MUSLIMS SHOULD LEAD THEIR LIVES. IT ALSO SAYS FIGHTING
SHOULD ONLY BE IN SELF-DEFEE, A FIGHT IN THE WAY OF ALLAH AGAINST THOSE
WHO FIGHT AGAINST YOU, BUT BE NOT AGGRESSIVE. AND THE KORAN FORBIDS
SUICIDE. THEY CANNOT BRING ANY TEXTUAL EVIDENCE FROM THE KORAN, FROM
THE TRADITIONS OF THE PROPHET, TO PROVE ANYTHING THAT JUSTIFIES WHAT
THEY'VE DONE.
THIS ARE FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM, HOW DO THEY JUSTIFY THIS?
JUSTIFY CHRISTIANS WHO KILL PEOPLE AT ABORTION CLINICS? MANY OF THE
TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IN THIS COUNTRY ARE ACTUALLY DONE BY EXTREMIST
CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS, AND I DON'T THINK ANYBODY IN THE MAINSTREAM
CHRISTIAN WORLD WOULD SEE THAT AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN A SERIOUS
ABERRATION. UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF OUR IGNORANCE IN THIS COUNTRY OF
ISLAM, WE SEE THESE TYPE OF THINGS, AND THERE IS AN ASSUMPTION THAT
SOMEHOW ISLAM CONDONES THIS THING.
INCENTIVE TO DIE IN THE NAME OF ISLAM. ACCORDING TO THE PROPHET
MOHAMMED, THE NEXT LIFE IS PARADISE, OFFERING FORGIVENESS.
LIFE. THE NEXT LIFE IS MORE REAL, MORE INTENSE, AND MORE VIVID.
BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A NOBLE END, AND THE NOBLE END IS TO BRING ABOUT
SOME KIND OF CONFLICT TO WAKE UP THE MUSLIM WORLD, TO START A GLOBAL
JIHAD AGAINST THE EVIL WEST.
EXTREMISTS, IS THE UNITED STATES AND ITS CULTURE OF COMMERCIALISM, WHICH
IMAM FARID ESACK EQUATES WITH A RELIGION.
OF CONSUMERISM, AND EVERYBODY IS BEING DRAWN INTO THIS NEW RELIGION. AND
IF YOU DO NOT BUY INTO THIS, YOU ARE AN OUTCAST, YOU ARE A HERETIC, AND
THERE IS THE HELLFIRE OF UTTER POVERTY WHICH AWAITS YOU.
OPPOSITION TO AMERICA'S FOREIGN POLICY, PARTICULARLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
BECAUSE OF ITS SUPPORT OF ISRAEL AND ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ.
WHERE WE ESPOUSE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, AND WHERE WE
ALLY OURSELVES WITH OPPRESSIVE REGIMES IN MANY OF THESE COUNTRIES.
DESERVED WHAT HAPPENED?
BUT UNITED STATES POLICIES WERE AN ACCESSORY TO THE CRIME THAT HAPPENED.
DYING IN THE WORLD. IN FACT, IN THE MOST DIRECT SENSE, OSAMA BIN LADEN
IS MADE IN THE U.S.A.
NEARLY $4 BILLION BY THE C.I.A. AND THE GOVERNMENT OF SAUDI ARABIA IN
THE 1980s TO FIGHT WITH THE MUJADEEEN REBELS AGAINST THE FORMER SOVIET
UNION, WHICH HAD INVADED AFGHANISTAN. AFTER THE SOVIETS PULLED OUT, THE
SAUDIS, OUR BEST FRIENDS IN THE ARAB WORLD, OUR STAUNCHEST ALLY DURING
THE GULF WAR, POURED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO THE
NEWLYORMED TALIBAN REGIME, AND THEN FEAD THAT BIN LADEN AND THE TALIBAN
WERE OUT OF CONTROL. BIN LADEN'S FAITH IS A STRICT, PURITANICAL FORM OF
ISLAM CALLED WAHABISM, WHICH WAS FOUNDED IN THE 18th CENTURY IN SAUDI
ARABIA, AND IS NOW THAT COUNTRY'S PREDOMINANT IDEOLOGY.
VIEW OF WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO, IS AN EXPERT ON ISLAMIC EXTREMIST
MOVEMENTS.
MAJORITY OF MUSLIMS DON'T BELIEVE THEIR FAITH ACTUALLY SUPPORTS.
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