Posted on 07/19/2008 9:28:02 PM PDT by forkinsocket
It's not easy to find a place to meet the man who goes by the name of Abu Mustafa. A number of places were agreed on and jettisoned. Finally, after hours of cruising around Gaza City with Abu Mustafa's driver, the call came. The meeting would take place on the beach. There are enough people on the beach that one doesn't attract so much attention, the caller explained. How absurd this notion was would soon become clear.
Most people don't stick out on the beaches of Gaza to the degree that Abu Mustafa does. He picks his way across the sand on crutches, his leg wrapped in a cast up to his thigh. The Pakistani clothes he wears are also foreign -- and the white shirt that hangs to his knees makes walking on crutches even more difficult. Finally he slumps in a plastic chair. "Peace be upon you," he says quietly, welcoming his guest.
Many people would like to speak with Abu Mustafa these days -- he guesses about 10 men call him each day. Abu Mustafa holds the key to an ideology that many are turning to in the Gaza Strip: Salafist jihadism, a belief in the most radical form of Islam. "We meet secretly in mosques and private homes," says Abu Mustafa, who has become an entry point to the movement for many. He says the Salafis now number up to 5,000 people, not counting the women and children.
'A Very Dangerous Man'
"We aren't well enough organized yet, but we are in the process of building networks," says the 33-year-old. Eventually, he hopes, a powerful movement will be born. Members are already receiving weapons training and are schooled in both dogma and strategy.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
The lesson here is very clear- if they have an unpronounceable Muslim name, chances are they’re a terrorist or got something to hide. The war on terrorism is in fact a war on all Islam.
No! The war on terrorism is a defensive counterattack!
Islam is at war with all that is non-Islamic!
As in, worthless Bedouin seventh-century moral savages out to kill anyone who disagrees with their barbarian ways!
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Will we ever see a day when men of reason rule the world, and men of superstition are mocked and ridiculed?
Ironically, Bedouin are now notorious for being less religious than the other Muslims. They also consider themselves the only real Arabs.
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islamism is central, and fundamental to islam.
I wish it were other.
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