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The NEFA Foundation has the transcript of a jihadi magazine interview with former Taliban Deputy Justice Minister Jalaluddin Shinwari, once considered one of the moderate Taliban leaders who would cooperate with the Karzai administration.
Shinwari said, “we welcome Sheikh Usama bin Laden and his Arab brothers and others in Afghanistan, and we defend them in obedience to Allah before anything…The Afghani people are fully ready to provide—for the cause of Allah—two million other martyrs in defense of Sheikh Usama bin Laden and his brothers, because we consider this a pillar in our religion; we cannot [possibly] neglect the Sheikh and his brothers…it is an impossible matter for us.
The love of the Afghani people to Sheikh Usama bin Laden—we believe—is stronger than the love of the Arabian Peninsula to his because he is a Muslim Mujahid.’” He added, “We consider the Sheikh Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Muhajir—may Allah protect those— leaders of Jihad against the crusader occupation to our beloved Iraq.”
The official Taliban media wing has distanced itself from Shinwari: “There was a famous person named Jalal ad-Deen Shinwari whose position was Vise deputy of the Ministry of Justice during the Islamic Emirate government, and not representative of the Amir of Believers. But, today he is not with the mujahideen and he does not work with the Islamic Emirate.”
Excerpted. PDF at link:
http://www.nefafoundation.org/documents-area-afghanistan.html
Snips:
Thousands of young Asians and Africans and a handful of Westerners are flocking to conservative Islamic schools in Pakistan, despite a government ban on foreign students.
Several hundred students from 29 countries live alongside 5-thousand Pakistani pupils, according to teachers there.
Ejaz Buksh, a Canadian student at Madrassa Jamia Binoria Alamia, said that in the madrassa all scholars do is explain "what Allah has said through the Quran", however clerics firmly endorse suicide bombings and jihad against Western troops in Afghanistan on the school Web site.
Church screening of Jesus film attacked in Pakistan
Snip: Some 50 Muslim villagers armed with clubs and axes attacked a showing of the "Jesus Film" near this city in Punjab Province on Wednesday night (Dec. 9), injuring three part-time evangelists and four Christians in attendance.
Snips: In recent weeks, a renewed epidemic of suicide bombings has swept Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, climaxing in huge blasts in Baghdad that killed 130 innocents on Tuesday. The Obama administration says these bombings have nothing to do with religion. It’s purely coincidental that the perps preach severe Islam. The attacks are merely meant to destabilize governments.
Religious fanatics delight in killing and torturing the imperfect and impure. It’s not about justice or redemption. The fanatic’s joy lies in the deed itself, in the god-like thrill of inflicting pain. Religious butchers really love their work.
When we lie and deny that religion has anything to do with Islamist terrorism, we’re not doing Muslims a favor. We empower the worst elements in the Islamic world.
But we don’t want to hurt the feelings of fanatics. So we insist that Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood avenger for Allah, was upset. And the deeds of Gitmo inmates had nothing to do with religion (although we rush to pander to their beliefs). Al Qaeda and the Taliban just want political power. And so on.
But men don’t rush to die to achieve political power they won’t live to exercise. The current epidemic of massacres is about faith gone homicidal. It’s about uncompromising hatred in Allah’s name, a hatred unappeasable on this earth.