Militants Quotes
One Islamic belief that has stood since the inception of the religion is that if a true believer who is defending the faith in a jihad is killed, he will immediate be transported to Paradise where he will receive the best of the other world. If a Muslim dies under normal circumstances, he is judged and may or may not attain Paradise depending on his past life. However, if he dies in jihad, all past sins are immediately erased and he is guaranteed Paradise. This quotation is exactly what is told to Muslim fighters and suicide bombers today (see {635766}, {588728} and {590762}) and it is just as effective as ever in persuading men to fight and sacrifice themselves. The Roman Catholic Pope issued a similar edict in the Crusades and fights of both religions were willing and almost anxious to die in battle. In modern times Christian leaders do not make such appeals and if they did, few would believe them.
The two were in the Dublin suburbs when others seized the Dublin Post Office and began the Easter Uprising without their knowledge. They were desperate to get to Downtown Dublin and have a role in the activities and get arrested with the more militant leaders.
While some Pakistani officials were publicly condemning the U. S. Drone Program, others privately asked for more use of the drones for intelligence purposes. This was provided. The Pakistan military was split. The regular army leaders saw the Taliban as a danger to the state; the ISI (intelligence service) supported the Taliban as they saw them as an ally against India.
This is diplomatic language for a very stern warning. Pakistan supported terrorist organizations because 1) they used the terrorists as their proxies in their continuing conflict with India. The terrorists were a de facto asset of the Pakistani Intelligence Service. 2) Many Pakistani citizens were ultra-orthodox Muslims and believed in the religious objectives of the terrorists and even shared a religious belief in the propriety of the terrorist methods as long as they were being applied to non-Muslims or Muslim heretics. 3) Much of the militant infrastructure was in the tribal, frontier areas of the country where the government was relatively weak. 4) The militants had taken the position that if the Pakistan government tried to curtail their jihad efforts, then the government and its supports were heretical Muslims and were, under Sharia—Islamic Law—proper targets for their terrorism activities. The number of Pakistani Muslims that the terrorists murdered was far greater ironically than the American or European Christians and Indian Hindus that had been killed. A decade later, the Pakistani authorities were split over those who realized that the terrorists were most dangerous to the Pakistanis themselves—and especially the government officials—and those who believed that the terrorists should have continued support because of the 4 reasons above.
Azad Kashmir is that part of the disputed territory of Kashmir that was under Pakistan’s control, as opposed to the part of Kashmir that was under Indian Control.
