Posted on 02/10/2008 11:10:26 AM PST by J Aguilar
Bism Illah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim
It is certain to me that many Muslims in this country lean more towards the Socialist Party than other political options, but this personal and social preference cannot leave in second term the obligation that is incumbent to all Muslims, to defend Islam when it is unfairly attacked. And in this case, that is, in the case of the terrorist attacks of the 3/11, it has been blamed on Islam, a series of mass murders of which it is certain to me that Islam is innocent.
Of course, Islam, like any other religion, can have delinquents and criminals, and without a doubt it has them, but that is one thing and another one very different is to indirect shooting and thus blaming for almost four years Islam itself of organizing and executing a terrible attack, although when doing it, it is alluded the fundamentalist Islam, which we fight like any other pacific and democratic person, without tolerating for that reason a generalization that transmits the message that all the Muslims are guilty of something of which they know very well, and I believe that we all know, that they are not.
From this approach, we will explain what the principles of the Jihad are, how it is carried out by the terrorists and the inevitable conclusion which such study leads us.
A) A False Proposition
The authentic Jihad is a personal and collective overcoming of the Muslim community to obtain the correct application of the teachings of Islam. In an extreme case, it became a Muslim mobilization that was used in the fortress and border cities with other non-Muslim countries to defend themselves against the attacks that these non-Muslim peoples could direct against the Land of Islam. Those who fought in the Jihad were soldiers and those against which they fought were soldiers too. At no point it was said that Muslims could kill innocent civilians during the Jihad.
Thus it is so indicated in all texts of hadith and sunna, as much in Muslim as in Bukhari, Tirmidi and Abu Daoud, but specially in the Risala of Ibn Abi Zayd Al-Qayrawani, from the maliki rite, which is the one most of the indicted in 3/11 belonged. It is seen in chapter 30 of this work, called El Jihad.
The perversion of the modern fundamentalists consists of transposing this medieval necessity -today practically inapplicable- to a terrorist activity directed against civilians as if those civilians were soldiers and without carrying out the triple call to the conversion to Islam that was performed during the medieval wars. In this sense, it is recommended to read the chapters of the Bidaya by Averroes the Cordovan, dedicated to the same subject.
This all means that committing suicide in a subway train in London or to throw oneself against the Twin Towers of New York or the Pentagon in Washington is not an act of Jihad, but thanks to the preaching and the fanaticism spread by some minority imams, some people, many of them educated but in any case fanatized, have practiced and continue practicing this kind of Jihad.
B) Carrying Out the False Jihad
Peculiarly, the modern fundamentalists once accepted the nonsense showed in section A, are extraordinarily careful in following all the norms that were prescribed for the medieval Jihad. The objective is to fulfil the rite for, once dead, accede to the Paradise for all the eternity. The assassins ignore the Muslim general norm that innocents must not be murdered nor suicide be committed. It is not the same to commit suicide than to receive the hit of an enemy spear in a battle.
Once accepted this idea, they fulfil exactly all the smaller dispositions that describe a certain activity like the Jihad. Firstly, they are purified by means of a procedure that is called tatahhur and that implies that sins cannot be committed since the accomplishment of the act of Jihad is decided until this one is carried out. However, the supposed authors of 3/11, and concretely one known as El Chino, faces in a shooting another delinquent in a tavern of Bilbao at the end of the month of December 2003, that is, when he already had to be in the heat of period of tatahhur, if they had decided the date of the 3/11 to perform the attack
The purification or tatahhur is used in many aspects of the Muslim life. For example, there is a form of tatahhur that is called ihsan, which is practiced during the peregrination to Mecca and by which the man does not approach his wife until the peregrination finishes. Some extend the practice to the Ramadan, as it is indicated in the sura of the Cow, number 2, verse 181 and following and they do not approach their women during the sacred month, or the same Jihad, which is regulated in the Quran ninth chapter, verses 29 and following. This is exactly the opposite that the defendants and convicts did before the attacks of 3/11.
Other elements of tatahhur are, for example, not to steal or not to commit impure acts, and we see that the indicted ones in 3/11 continued selling stolen items calmly and maintaining sexual relations with unfaithful ones, with whom they were not legally married, according to the Sharia.
In addition to tatahhur, the accomplishment of an act of Jihad needs the shura, which means the council. That is, it is not possible to organize a terrorist act in a bar before glasses full of alcoholic beverages, as it was told in the testimonies of some witnesses. The shura is a formal act, that begins with the reading of fatiha, first chapter of the Quran, and it consists of established procedures and a concrete voting, as it is gathered in the frontispiece of the room of sessions of the Palestinian Parliament in Ramallah, where it is said that the decisions that you take, you will do them among you in shura.
The istishhad or sacrifice implies the death in the same act of the battle. It does not fit into the fact that the Jihadists leave the theatre of war, and in fact they did it neither in New York, nor in London, nor in no other known terrorist action in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. To maintain that the Jihadists run away to an apartment that they have in Leganes and they commit suicide there is like saying that, after having delivered so many attacks and having assassinated so many people, it does not matter to them to go to Hell, because this principle (the one that says that simple suicidal ones go to Hell) is gathered even by the most radical fundamentalism.
In the Risala called the Muntasar, that means the Victorious one, by Khalil Ibn Ishaq, he points out clearly that to accede to the Paradise it is precise to die in combat and that to flee from the battlefield is a very serious sin, condemned with Hell. Again, the opposite the defendants in 3/11 did.
Still admitting that the Muslims had decided to commit suicide in Leganes through some act of collective madness, they would have been prepared themselves for death, which implies the total shaving of the body and the dressing with some white underclothes, as all the terrorists in Iraq put on. And, the truth is, that as far as we have read, no corpses found in Leganes were dressed in such way.
Intiqam means the revenge, but the revenge is only from God. A fundamentalist in state of tatahhur cannot take revenge himself against anybody, reason which explains that no one profaned the tomb of the GEO [Spanish Police Assault Unit] member that died during the assault to the apartment of Leganes, to take revenge against his body. What reason would have someone to take revenge profaning the corpse of GEO Torronteras? That revenge would have only had sense if he had made something bad, but if the inhabitants of the apartment were the ones that committed suicide, that GEO member would have not been guilty of anything. In addition, the profanation acts are also considered Barbarian and execrable according to Islam.
The revenge is allowed when somebody has caused damage to a member of the own family, not for a general religious reason, as it is shown in the Muwatta by Malik; and always against somebody alive, not on a corpse; and only in case that the delinquent had to pay in regard to diyya or legal compensation. Therefore, the profanation of the tomb of the GEO does not have any sense from the point of view of Islam, not even in its more fundamentalist approach.
C) An Inevitable Conclusion
Not only one of the behaviours of the Muslims who would have taken part in the 3/11 attacks show the minimal fundamentalist characteristics -although they surely show characteristics of common delinquency-, for that reason I consider that the great majority of the Spanish Muslims do not think that the assassinations of March 11th were a plot of fundamentalist character.
This does not mean that Muslims have not been able to take part in it, but not like Muslims, but like criminals, and what we fear is that it has been tried to blame on Muslims the attacks 3/11 perhaps to divert the attention from a line of investigation that pointed out important doubts on the masterminds as wells as on the perpetrators..
To pretend that a person with important mental limitations, like it is the so-called the Egyptian, can be mastermind of the attacks, when his own health situation forbids him, in accordance with the Sharia, to participate in the shura, is such a nonsense, that even the most in favour of the Islamist theory of 3/11, I consider, can neither believe nor sincerely assume.
D) An Unavoidable Task
To foment the culture of the fear towards the Islam and the Muslims is a mistaken strategy, because it makes the coexistence of the Muslims and other citizens impossible, when making responsible Islam as a whole for the terrorist phenomenon by which the own terrorists and the ones who defend them are the only responsible.
It is not competence of the Muslims to associate to one or another theory on the terrible terrorist attacks of 3/11, but the Muslims cannot either keep silence nor not defending God and His prophets, when it is evident that, perhaps to hide other realities, it is tried to blame on them responsibilities that not even the sentence [of the trial] attributes them in a direct way.
The shortages of immigration, like the economic difficulties, can without a doubt sometimes lead to crime, but never to the violation of the Law of God in such a direct form as the defendants would have done in 3/11, if truly they, and only they, had carried out the attacks.
Therefore, here is fulfilled nothing else that an unavoidable duty, and God is wiser than all and in the end everything that today is veiled will come to light.
Finally, I seize the opportunity, to congratulate all the Muslims in Spain for the celebration of the Adha that is taking place these days.
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Jesús Riosalido has a Ph. D. in Islamic Law. He has been the Spanish ambassador in Syria, Cyprus, Kuwait and Albania and a member of the Spanish Socialist Party during 30 years. Now he is affiliated to UPD, Union for Progress and Democracy, a new center-left party.
You can watch his interview by Luis del Pino here.
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The Madrid atrocity is a copycat attack of the Bologna train station massacre that happened on August 2nd 1980, when a device loaded with around 20 kilograms of military explosive detonated inside the 2nd class waiting room, also affecting the Anchona-Chiasso train that was waiting at the first platform.
As in Madrid, the targeted ones were modest people, in this case travelling to begin their holidays from Northern Italy to the less industrialized South. In both cases, the date and time of the detonation were carefully chosen to hit the intended target and provoke the higher death toll among them, in order to shock the public opinion.
Seven years later, two neofascists were found guilty of perpetrating the crime, and two officers of the Italian Military Intelligence Service, SISMI, Pietro Musumeci and Giuseppe Belmonte, as well as its de facto leader, Francesco Pazienza and puppet master (and former SS) Licio Gelli were convicted for diverting the investigations.
General Pietro Musumeci carried out the most blatant action of cover-up, planting in a train a travel bag containing the same kind of explosives that were used in the Bologna massacre, along with documents that pointed towards two foreign terrorists that were not really linked with the case.
As we know, the whole official version of the Madrid atrocity is based in a travel bag full of explosives that had enough leads in it to perform rapid detentions of Muslims just in time to turn the result of the last Spanish National Elections.
The Madrid massacre is a barefaced copy of the Bologna one, even to some minor details. The tactics used are just the same, and that points out toward very specific people linked to the Spanish security forces.
Ping!
Do they have some sort of preoccupation with the number 11? 3/11, 9/11, the “internet jihad” was supposed to start on 11/11; the first plane that crashed into the WTC was flight number 11, the 3/11 bombings were 911 days after 9/11....heck, 9+1+1 = 11, 3+1+1+2+4 (from 3/11/2004) = 11. This is kinda weird.
“us blaming for almost four years Islam itself of organizing and executing a terrible attack, although when doing it, it is alluded the fundamentalist Islam, which we fight like any other pacific and democratic person,”
REALLY?
The Saudis FUND expansion of Wahhabi Islam to the world.
Where is the Islamic outcry?
Where is the call for freedom of religion in Saudi Arabia?
This is a load of camel sh&t.
An interesting argument. The writer proposes that those waging Jihad against the West and Israel aren’t following authentic Islamic teaching; therefore, even though the terrorists themselves call themselves Islamic warriors waging a jihad, they aren’t really Islamic.
I’ve seen this argument before.
When Pol Pot when on his killing rampage in Cambodia, I recall Communists writing that the Khymer Rouge weren’t really Communists, but a splinter faction that didn’t reflect Communist ideology. Ditto for Stalin’s Great Terror, Mao’s Great Leap Forward, and many other outrages by the followers of socialism. As a teacher friend of mine put in (and it raised the hair on the back of my neck), “Communism is a great idea - it just hasn’t been tried the right way yet.”
I have a better standard. It goes like this: “By their fruits you shall know them.”
The Islamic revolution in Iran was on the 22nd (11 * 2 = 22) of Bahman, the 11th month on the Islamic calendar (February 11th for us). “Allah akbar” is written 11 times across the top and bottom stripe of the Iranian flag, 22 in total.
That means absolutely nothing. "Well-informed" people in Muslim countries obviously have their minds so filled with conspiracy theories that they obviously can't think clearly.
... for the simple reason, as we can see, that it did not have any of Islamic characteristic, which indeed appeared in other ones, such 9/11 or London.
Obviously Al Qaeda wanted Spanish troops out of Iraq, had said as much, and had threatened countries with troops in Iraq. The bombing was successful in getting Spanish troops out of Iraq and even in affecting an election. Obviously one reason England was attacked is that they have troops in Iraq.
The Madrid atrocity is a copycat attack of the Bologna train station massacre that happened on August 2nd 1980,
Did anyone ever hear of a "copycat attack" that occurred after an interval or 24 years?
The Madrid massacre is a barefaced copy of the Bologna one, even to some minor details.
There were no cell phones in 1980.
Nice whitewash.
>>The Saudis FUND expansion of Wahhabi Islam to the world.<<
>>Where is the Islamic outcry?”<<
Why should there be an Islamic outcry when the Saudis also fund the building of mosques in the West?
> The Madrid massacre is a barefaced copy of the Bologna
> one, even to some minor details.
Except for one MAJOR detail.
Al Qaeda, you know that group of MUSLIMS that hates all infidels and is sworn to convert, enslave or kill them all, CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MADRID BOMBINGS!!
Game over.
Your right, in a Minister Farrakahn sort of way!
>>>There are various schools of teaching in Islam, and some are not so extremists, that is true.
However, that is not the point of the article.<<<
It appears as if the point of the article to rationalization of multiple terrorist events which are connected in some way to Islam. Obviously, if you’re a Moslem who doesn’t like killing and mayhem, you’ll go to great lengths to preserve your own faith, including the kind of rationalization found in this article. I imagine that being Islamic is somewhat embarressing - after all, you think that you have all of humanity’s problems solved through unaltered divine word, yet most of the places that are Islamic are impoverished tyrannies which condone behavior such as honor killings, oppression of women, and seemingly unending war against non-Islamic neighbors, while the infidels (at least in North America and Europe) live in relative peacefulness, luxury, and freedom. It must be galling for Moslems to see the difference.
The writer can rationalize all he wants. I don’t see Buddhists going to Islamic countries to kill nonbelievers; I don’t see Baptists strapping bombs to themselves to kill children in Cairo; I don’t see Catholic taking over planes and flying them into skyscrapers in Dubai; I don’t see Jews selling makebelieve stories about Moslems on the order of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”; I don’t even see agnostics or athiests threatening death against Moslems drawing distasteful cartoons, or killing film directors on the street while chanting slogans about their beliefs.
“By their fruits you shall know them.”
I suggest again that everyone read Andrew Bostom’s chilling “Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims” The accounts of Muslim conquests in the name of “Jihad” by all major Islamic factions on 3 continents had certain common themes. Not the least of these is the fact that they all thought that what they were doing was in fact a Jihad. Of course Señor Riosalido may be the foremost Islamic expert of all time for all I know- but I doubt it. It seems to me the definition of what constitutes Jihad should be made in the light of what the Jihadists themselves think. If violent confrontation with the West and our traditions and institutions for their “un-Islamic” nature is called Jihad by the millions of people around the world who want to destroy our civilization and replace it with Shari’a- then that’s what a Jihad is.
Well, now that the Muslim theory can be discarded, any new revelations about the Socialist-ETA connection?
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