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Love v. Jihadism: Valentine's Enflame the Middle East
The New Media Journal ^ | Feb 15, 2009 | Dr. Walid Phares

Posted on 02/15/2009 10:41:35 AM PST by NewMediaJournal

As we celebrate the Valentine's Day just passed, it's important to note the emergence of an eternally verified reality: Love is the strongest human force fighting against terrorism and jihad.

"Al Gharam mamn’uh, al Gharam kufr," screamed the self-declared cleric in al-Ansar’s chat room this Friday. “Love is forbidden, love is infidel” -- said the online fatwa about the “legitimacy of loving and being in love.”

A weekend before Valentine's Day, jihadist souls were not questioning the “commercialization” of romance, but inquiring about the ban on “being in love.” The “scholars” said human love is evil. The simple feeling of being attracted to or in love with someone is a terrifying sin if it is committed outside of their religious dogma -- and it warrants serious punishment.

“Al Hub” (basic love) -- said one of the scholars online -- “is not permissible outside commitment to Jihad.” The subject of romantic love was new and overwhelming to the al-Qaeda sympathizers, who were busy dodging the “decadent feeling.” But it was too close chronologically, too well publicized, and too difficult to escape on the web.

Suddenly, a marquee rolled an ad for Valentine's Day in the room. The room shouted its objections, but the ideologue could not ignore reality. “Sometimes we’ll have to absorb our reaction and control ourselves. This Valentine Day is a dark day, it is poison, but by the will of Allah when the Caliphate will be established, Valentine will be smashed.”

But there was a concern: Valentines is “ravaging” the region, including under the most restrictive regimes. They are right to worry: the battle for love is as wide as the call for jihad.

(Excerpt) Read more at newmediajournal.us ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: clashofcivilizations; hate; islam; jihad; love; rop; valentinesday; walidphares

1 posted on 02/15/2009 10:41:36 AM PST by NewMediaJournal
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To: NewMediaJournal
Valentine will be smashed

And of course, once you ban it, feelings of love will magically disappear!

These people have the same irrational mindset as proponents of PC social codes and 'hate speech' laws. If you ban outward displays of something, it follows that it ceases to exist!

Another thing Jihadis and leftists have in common.

2 posted on 02/15/2009 10:55:01 AM PST by Lorianne (Without the Republicans helping pass TARP in 2008, we would not have this monstrosity in 2009.)
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To: NewMediaJournal

Another piece of evidence about the “Religion of Peace”..


3 posted on 02/15/2009 11:04:05 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: NewMediaJournal

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. (1 John)

(Or, if you prefer the Torah, it’s Det. 7 -Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.)


4 posted on 02/15/2009 11:11:17 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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To: NewMediaJournal
The “scholars” said human love is evil.

But goats and camels are kosher.

5 posted on 02/15/2009 11:14:52 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: NewMediaJournal
“Love is forbidden, love is infidel”

God is love...Allah is nuts!

6 posted on 02/15/2009 11:16:22 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: NewMediaJournal

The Islamists really reveal their Satanic inspiration here.

The physical sex act, and the control of it by the authorities, is the key to political Islam. The heroic shaheed gets his 72 virgins...for sex and sex only in the celestial whorehouse. One cannot imagine any emotional connection between the martyr and his 72 concubines.

Genuine romantic love, on the other hand, is subversive to the Islamist. This is a great theme in literature—true love subverting evil—and it’s as true as ever.

And Walid Phares is a treasure as always.


7 posted on 02/15/2009 11:19:35 AM PST by denydenydeny (People in dictatorships long for truth while pampered, decadent people in the West long for myth.)
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To: NewMediaJournal

“Love is forbidden, love is infidel”

The word love is not mentioned once in the Koran.


8 posted on 02/15/2009 11:29:04 AM PST by Jeb21 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

If god is love, Allah is hate - and thus the total opposite of the real god.


9 posted on 02/15/2009 11:31:29 AM PST by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: NewMediaJournal

These people are insane!


10 posted on 02/15/2009 11:34:54 AM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: AliVeritas

Have cheer oh scholars and jihadis... You shirk your responsibilities by ignoring previous and varied sides of the argument, stop looking on the bright side:

Muslims here in NY start celebrating early:

Mild-mannered accountant cuts wife’s head off

Gee, how could this be? Isn’t this the norm? Um, aren’t accountants mild mannered? Mark Steyn:

On countless occasions since 9/11, I’ve found myself at lunch or dinner in New York, London, Washington, Paris or some other western city, sitting next to a modern Muslim woman like Mrs Hassan telling me how horrified she is at how hijabs and burqas, honor killings and genital mutilation, forced cousin marriages and the disproportionate number of Muslim wives in European battered women’s shelters, how all these have come to define Muslim womanhood in the 21st century. Yet Aasiya Hassan ended up no differently - all because her husband’s TV network had a cashflow problem?

Well apparently America is not multi-cultural enough—we should embrace, yes emulate this multiculti morality...

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWVlZDFkN2RmOGE1YWMzMmY5YjBiZThkYTIxN2Q5ZDU=

If only it had been reported.

Also, the shaheed should study the history in ways they could understand:

St. Valentine guest piece: I Wish I’d Spent Valentine’s Day Eating A Prix Fixe Dinner, But I Was Too Busy Getting Beheaded

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/i_wish_id_spent_valentines_day?utm_source=b-section

There, that should do it. Like mobsters before you, you can transform it back to the roots... hopefully by beheading a friend instead of an enemy. Think about it.

Side note: Oh btw, this is the day Maryam renders all who stoned, hanged, shot, beat their wives or women impotent (Oh, also the day women poison their husbands). Trust me. You muj have to get with it, you have the wrong ideas re: holidays, forget those crazy conspiracy theories.

Just like those vanishing jihadis? Not shot, put in a bag, dragged out and beaten to death by the guy in the red suit (for giving the kiddies bomb belts for Xmas). See they gave them the belts out of love, so they’d go to paradise, but as you say, love is bad.

In short, God creates and loves, the beast destoys and hates.
The beast has many names and comes in many forms, with one thing in common... they hate God’s creation, the flesh.
They must control and injure those made in his image and make themselves gods. It’s just a branch on the tree of eugenics and man’s political religion of godlessness, a mocking and twisting of what went before; a lie is the truth, a funerals a wedding, what’s good is bad and bad is good, etc..


11 posted on 02/15/2009 11:51:56 AM PST by AliVeritas (And while the rest of the nation was still sleepin', they'll be bidding America goodbye.)
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To: denydenydeny

Amen.

BTW, what do the women get if the men get the virgins (grapes, goats, whatever)? Do they turn into houris, or as in life, they’re just doomed.

What about female jihadis or their celebrated mother jihadi martyr makers, what do they expect from paradise?

Or do they expect nothing.


12 posted on 02/15/2009 11:55:21 AM PST by AliVeritas (And while the rest of the nation was still sleepin', they'll be bidding America goodbye.)
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To: NewMediaJournal
Click Here.


13 posted on 02/15/2009 12:03:39 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: AliVeritas

A virtuous moslem woman gets to remain the wife of her current husband in the afterlife; she serves him in paradise as she did on earth. She does not become a houri. The great thing about it is, if a woman’s husband beat her on earth, he might not do it in paradise, since Allah will change them both and make them better. That’s something for the ladies to look forward to, eh?


14 posted on 02/15/2009 12:15:50 PM PST by tvdog12345
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