Mikhail Kalashnikov Quotes
Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms.
"Kalashnikov 'sad' over terrorist use." BBC News, 19 July 2002.
This quotation provides a succinct view of most non-Western Muslims on the issue of the definition of “terrorist.” A “mujahid” can be translated from Arabic as “freedom fighter.” To the rest of the world, terrorism is defined by the techniques and behavior of the doer. To many Muslims, it is defined only by the motive. If one is defending land or a cause, he cannot be a terrorist. The only terrorist to a Muslim holding this point of view is a person who engages in these violent methods for no reason. The essential difference is that to most of the world a cause—even a worthy one—does not justify any methodology or cost. To the Islamicist who accepts Al-Jozo’s point of view, there is NO methodology that is immoral, especially if one is fighting for a cause, and no cause is more worthy than the spread and dominance of Islam and the world of God. Therefore, for that cause, there can be no terrorism as there can be no ethical or moral limits.
Sudan openly used Islamic terrorists to attack, rape and murder animist and Christian civilians in Darfur. The leaders were wanted for war crimes and openly admitted to many. See {641655}.
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.
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was a Soviet and Russian lieutenant general, inventor, military engineer, writer, and small arms designer. He is most famous for developing the AK-47 assault rifle and its improvements, the AKM and AK-74, as well as the PK machine gun and RPK light machine gun.
