Ten Arabic Words: A challenge to national security professionals engaged in the Global War On Terror

Gates of Vienna ^ | 20 May, 2016 | Matthew Bracken

[MtnClimber]

If you are a politically-correct bliss-ninny with a coexist bumper sticker slapped on the back of your Subaru, and you don’t have the slightest clue what the following ten words mean, then this essay is not meant for you. You are excused.

dawah, dhimmi, hijra, jizya, kafir, shaheed, shariah, takfir, taqiyya, ummah

But if you are a national security professional, senior military officer or political leader involved in any aspect of the “Global War On Terror,” AKA “Countering Violent Extremism,” these are ten words that should already be a part of your working vocabulary. If you can’t readily discuss their meaning, significance, and relationships, then you are worse than a fool, you are disgrace to your office and a danger to your country.

If you don’t already have a firm grasp of the meaning of these words, then you are as prepared to conduct the GWOT as President Obama’s “Pajama Boy” is prepared to fight a heavyweight MMA champion in a no-quarter steel-cage death match.

[InMemoriam]

Hudnah: Muslims are allowed to sign a treaty of peace with unbelievers for no more than ten years before they must resume attacking them.

Mahram: All women have men who have authority over them. Such a man is called her mahram.

Zina-bil-jabr: The Muslim concept of rape is “fornication with force involved”. You must first concede being guilty of the death penalty offense of zina, and then if you can establish that force was involved (Muslim female testimony is weighted as half that of a Muslim man; infidels have no standing to testify), you are spared the death penalty.