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To: Snowshoe who wrote (202538)	4/14/2007 9:12:41 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

Those "sideliners" just set off a car bomb that killed over 50 people near the important Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala. The Shia are going crazy with grief and throwing stones at the governor's office. Meanwhile, someone tried to take out another major bridge over the Tigris in Baghdad... That is terrorism. It is intended to instill fear and intimidate. Our conventional military leaders still argue over whether or not it is a tactic. Terrorism is part of their strategy. Terrorism is how they plan to intimidate large masses of people. "The universalism of Islam, in all its embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military....The Jihad accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war..." ~Majid Khadduri We need to understand the militants believe their first duty is to prevent other (Muslim) "believers" from obstructing the road that leads to God. That is the basis and motivator for the internal killing and the terror attacks on each other. A US Army Colonel at our War College explained, "This turns the concept of Jihad on its head. To the extent that a Muslim may proclaim Islam as a faith and seeks to extend its invitation and reach - initiate its advance - but is unable to do so, then that represents an overt threat justifying a defensive Jihad." From The Quranic manuscript Surah, al-tawbah: "Fight those who believe not in Allah, nor the last day, nor hold that which hath been forbidden by Allah and his Messenger (Mohammed), nor acknowledge the religion of truth (even if they are) of the people of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued." Muslims believe that Jihad is based on a divine philosophy of God, and therefore, needs no explanation. Just Do It. And they oppose what we would consider professional soldiers. They believe it is every believers duty as commanded by God, and each must pursue this duty at every opportunity. Malik explains that Muslims are required to wage war "with the spirit of religious duty and obligation." In return they will receive divine assistance. The Quran instructs the Jihad warrior "to fight...with total devotion and never contemplate a flight from the battlefield for fear of death." The Jihad warrior who dies in the way of Allah, does not really die but lives on in heaven. Islam has continuously been spread by the sword. Yet we refuse to acknowledge this is a religious war. That is another error. I'd say it is a religious war and we are losing it. Already one out of four people on earth are Muslims and their numbers increase everyday. Even if they convert the entire world, we should expect they will continue to kill each other over perceived infractions. This link contains enough of the 1965 book The War of The Flea to describe and explain the dilemma we face in making war against this type of force. As an absolute minimum everyone should read the posted pages from chapter I and II. books.google.com