Mohammed Omar Quotes

“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.

The Security Counsel was meeting it the Situation room at the White House

See {586916} for a passage from the Koran supporting his point.

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.

The military attack on the Taliban was a great success and the regime was ousted very rapidly. Once the regime was displaced, however, the military was faced with an extremely decentralized country with sporadic resistance from Taliban sympathizers and with the tough task of rebuilding the dilapidated country.

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.

Some of the Prophet’s followers by modern standards were very violent and urged attacks on innocent people in order to intimidate others. He was expelled from his Egyptian university and arrested, tried and found guilty of “holding religion in contempt”. Which is a crime in most Islamic countries. He also “insulted” the President. He is the first blogger to have been jailed in Egypt for the contents of his blog. See {585058}.

The Libertarians were major opponents of President George W. Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative.

In 9 days they had forged alliances with tribal leaders

Objecting to the United States supporting the Kurdish Peshmerga forces attacking ISIS in Syria when they were affiliated with the PKK an organization that used terror tactics to gain independence for Kurds in Turkey.