Yossef Bodansky Quotes
additional pressure on Moscow will only increase. Determined to consolidate their control over the strategically and economically crucial Caucasus, the Islamists and their sponsoring states have already resolved to escalate their terroristic Jihad to achieve what no negotiations can deliver. And herein lies the quintessence of the grim prospects for the Caucasus.
Yossef Bodansky, Director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the U.S. Congress, Freeman Center for Strategic Studies Chechnya: The Mujahedin Factor
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The “area” was Chechnya, a province of Russia with a substantial Muslim population. Islamic forces were not as unhappy in the Russian Communist days in the Christian Orthodox church was subdued, but after the fall of Communism, the Russian Orthodox church had a revival, and that exacerbated all the independence aspirations that existed for years in Chechnya.
Slogans taken from posters listing 10 people targeted by Muslim extremists. Most were people who had said or published material that some fundamentalist Muslims had decided were offensive to Islam. One was Charlie Hebdo, the French Publisher who Islamic terrorists murdered later. Note the Americanisms that the terrorist propagandists adopted. The Wanted Dead or Alive was taken from the posters of the American West of the 19th century. The "Yes we can" was lifted from the Barack Obama 2008 campaign slogan. The "Bullet A Day Keeps the Infidel Away" is a takeoff on the American saying "An apple a day keeps the Doctor away." One of the reasons for these Americanisms was that the founding editor was Samir Khan, self-described American traitor.
This threat of massacre by the Arabs backfired in that the Israelis had no other alternative but to fight and win or else die. It also gained them a great deal of world sympathy and revulsion at the Arab call for massacre. See related quotes for another of the many examples.
See {586916} for a passage from the Koran supporting his point.
This characteristic of much of Islam is corroborated by Islamic scholars and politicians. To some, the implication is that it is foolish to negotiate with Muslims over issues that have been classified as jihad. The negotiation is only a sham which will go on until Islam feels strong enough, and then force and violence will be used. While this is historically and culturally true, many Muslims have modernized and see the world in terms of vested interests and negotiated settlements and compromise just like most others. And there have been many non-Islamic ideologues who have also used negotiations and diplomacy as a smokescreen to buy them time to strengthen militarily and then have used force and violence.
Under this interpretation of Islamic law – Sharia – virtually anything regardless of how sinful or immoral under normal circumstances is morally permissible if Islam is being defended from attack. Not all Muslim theologians agree with this principle. See {589498}. There was a similar perversion of theological logic used by Christian Popes during the Crusades.
Son of Reverend Billy Graham. While parts of the Koran do preach violence, parts of the Old Testament also do, as do parts of the New Testament such as the Book of Revelations.
Islam is the only religion which has a concept that all adherers to the religion must militarily defend any majority Muslim nation that is attacked. Within Christianity, or other major religions there is no such concept. Despite this religious concept over the years Islamic countries have warred against each other much more so than non-Muslims have attacked Islamic countries. For ovrer 400 years Islamic Turkey subjugated all the Arab Counties. Iran and Iraq have frequently been at each other’s throats. Bangladesh had to fight for its independence from Pakistan, etc. Even in the Palestinian Israeli conflict, Jordan killed more Palestinians than Israel has.
Many Muslims used passages in the Koran to justify the terrorist attack on New Work and the Pentagon.
Most sophisticated Muslim theologians would not agree at all with the “permission” he quotes from the Koran. However, there is no hierarchy of belief in Islam and there are tens of thousands of Muslim imams and millions of individual Muslims who believe and teach just what this particular terrorist stated.
“Martyrdom” is the euphemism that fundamentalist Muslims use to denote being killed while “fighting for Islam” or on a suicide mission for same. Many believe that such people ascend directly to Paradise where they are given a bevy of virgins and other “perks.” Ironically, this was the last interview that he gave before he himself was “martyred”—he was killed by coalition troops. This mental perspective is one of the reasons that fighting fundamentalist Islamic terrorists is so difficult. They perceive victory whichever way the battle or even the war comes out.
He drove a rented SUV into a crowd at a Dining Hall at the University of North Carolina from which he had recently graduated. He was an Iranian-born American citizen who had perceived that American policies and practices abroad led to the death on many Muslims. His interpretation of the Koran agrees with most of the radical, extremist, theologians, but does not comport with the interpretation of moderate Muslim religious thinkers. In 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to 33 years of prison.
Yossef Bodansky (born in Israel) is an Israeli-American political scientist who served as Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives from 1988 to 2004. He is also Director of Research of the International Strategic Studies Association and has been a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). In the 1980s, he served as a senior consultant for the Department of Defense and the Department of State.
