Algerian Jihadists Wanted to ‘Teach the Americans What Islam Is’
At the height of the hostage crisis in Algeria, one of the kidnappers explained: “We’ve come in the name of Islam, to teach the Americans what Islam is.” As of Sunday evening, this exercise in religious education had claimed eighty-one lives and left BP’s natural gas plant in Algeria in a state of ruin, booby-trapped with mines and explosives.
Further indication of the hostage-taker’s mindset came from one Algerian who escaped and later recounted: “The terrorists told us at the very start that they would not hurt Muslims but were only interested in the Christians and infidels. We will kill them, they said.” According to the Telegraph, “They allowed locals to go free, saying they did not want to hurt Muslims. Some locals were forced to recite parts of the Koran to prove they were Muslims.”
Clearly the hostage-takers’ religion was important – indeed central – to their motives and goals for undertaking this savage attack; yet mainstream media coverage has followed the usual patterns, downplaying or ignoring outright what the attackers said about what they were hoping to accomplish, since these statements lead to questions about Islam that they would prefer not be asked.
Yet they must be asked: we have now in the last few months seen bloody massacres carried out in the name of Islam in at this natural gas plant and at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi; a brutal Sharia regime come to power in northern Mali; and escalating persecution of Christians in Egypt, Pakistan, and Nigeria. Muslim spokesmen and groups in the U.S. routinely dismiss concerns about such things by asserting that their view of Islam, and that of Muslims in the U.S. and the vast majority of Muslims worldwide, is completely different from that of the Muslims who perpetrate these attacks, and that therefore anyone who wonders if such violence in the name of Islam will ever become commonplace in the U.S. is simply “Islamophobic” and hateful.
Maybe so. Certainly this line has so thoroughly convinced government, law enforcement, and media elites that no discussion or dissent is permitted anymore from these claims, as if they were hallowed religious dogma. Nonetheless, it is ill-advised not to take the trouble to understand one who is determined to destroy you. The hostage-takers in Algeria said they wanted to teach Americans what Islam is. It would be foolish, and ultimately fatal, not to consider exactly what message they wanted us to get about Islam.
Shush. You are interfering with Obama’s narrative.
I’ve said it before, and taken all kinds of heat for it, but it’s true. The jihadists are correct. They are following their religion to the letter. ISLAM IS THE PROBLEM FOLKS. I know that’s uncomfortable to accept, but it’s the truth. Some 1300 or so years of Islamic scholarship and jurisprudence support what Al Qaeda, the Taliban and others are doing. The only question is, will we submit?
Or wait until, like Europe, we are overrun. They have compounds in the woods of Virginia, Georgia, New York. I am certain that unlike Waco, they are left alone. This is not going to end well for anyone who is NOT interested in bowing to a 7th century false “prophet”. Didn’t the Pope recently “apologize” to Islam?
No he didn’t. In fact he has been far more confrontational than John Paul II.
I agree with you 100%. The American people have been lied to by both the Bush and Obama administrations who have told us that Islam is a religion of peace, when all the evidence shows that Islam is a religion of violence, intolerance, and Jihad. The gutless liberal dhimmis in the Obama administration who deny the link between Islam, Jihad, and the motivation of our terrorist enemies are playing into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood and other militant Islamic groups. God save us from these cowardly dhimmis.
Dhimmis in the obama administration? I think not. They are true believers, posing as non-muslims. That includes obama himself.
Doesn’t look like there is any reasoning with such people. Only good ones a dead one, from what I can see.
No different than the Nazis.
Go have kittens lefties, it needed to be said.
As a matter of fact, a surprising number of the Nazis WERE Muslims.
Someday in the future we will play Cowboys and Islamists.
With pig’s blood tipped hollow points?
It was really more of a confirmation and reminder of what I already knew about Islam.
Meanwhile the Uniform Code of Military Justice is deliberating over the issue of Maj./Jihadist Nidal Hasan’s beard.
Algerian jihadists did teach Americans what Islam is really like!! Question is if the Americans will ever learn or will they be fooled again and again by the likes of CAIR, our stupid media and politicians. Quick, quick, somebody call our ex-Prez who said “Islam is religion of peace” or the current Prez who finds the sounds of Quran so endearing to him. We is doomed!!!
In the UK, the government subsidizes Jihadis with welfare checks while they stand on the corner and shout sedition. Is that our future? I watch Somalis in my city utterly unassimilated loading up on carts of groceries bought with EBT cards, a group brimming with Al Shahab warriors.
A regular Norman Rockwell painting of life in America today.
No wonder we are completly f&$ked as a people. We have become so ignorant that we richly deserve everything that is coming to us.
That welfare stuff is just another part of their jihad – they are not allowed to contribute to infidel countries and are ordered to cripple them. They don’t believe in western civilizations so in order to bring them down they immigrate to those countries and immediately go on welfare to drain them. They also get highly specialized degrees – but only if the government pays for them.
I found out all I needed to know about islam on September 11, 2001. Nuff said…
The modern Progressives cannot believe that anyone truly follows the tenets of their proclaimed religion. Since their own lives are decadence surrounded by hollow shells of publicly proclaimed morals, they assume that everybody else operates according to the same principles. For someone to actually live and die according to the tenets of the faith that they proclaim is quite literally unimaginable for them.
It’s more that the Progs are so arrogant that they think they can manipulate or buy off the Jihadis.
They see them as a surrogate mercenary army that they can set against their “enemies” (conservatives, libertarians, evangelicals) without having to get their own hands dirty. Greenshirts instead of Brownshirts.
They’re just so incredibly arrogant that they think that the Jihadis will only kill Conservatives, Libertarians, and Evangelicals.
You can worship your rock. Just don’t throw it at me. (The great Pamela Geller). But see, you ARE commanded to throw your rocks and it appears, a gang lead by frothing at the mouth testosterone pumped inbreds with no outlet. Time bomb.
The great Arabist Philip Hitti called it “the traditional choice” – conversion, slavery, or death. You automatically got the last two choices if you didn’t pick the first choice before the battle. Only the most desirable got the second choice for qualities like skill, fitness or beauty. Many got the third choice.
I note that overnight there was ANOTHER mass killing of Muslims by Muslims–for being the “wrong kind” of Muslims.
So lets re-cap…..”somtimes” the mass murdering fanatics let the Mulsims go. “Sometimes” they decide to martyr YOU in THEIR plans. And “sometimes” they simply kill you for whatever reason they decide.
There is no saftey in being Muslim, there is no saftey in being a “person of the book” whom the Holy Quaran commands that Muslims “respect.” As there is is no safety—the only choice is refuse to live by the dictates of murdering thugs.
Sure they might kill you–but they were planning on doing that anyway.
Dealing with islamic jihad is like waving your hand back and forth in front of a cobra – while it looks like it is smiling at you, you instinctively know it is stupid to the nth degree and is guaranteed to get you bit. Prudent people can recognize the shear impossibility of coming to any accommodation with them and should be preparing for the coming showdown. It is, after all, either Us or Them. There is no in-between.
I recognise the probable accuracy of your view that an armed conflict with Islamists is inevitable.
I suggest that both parties would be better off if there was no intercourse of any type between the cultures. Practically, that may be an impossibility now.
If war comes, it’s going to go very badly for the Islamists.
Eventually it will be necessary to deal with these people using weapons of mass destruction. It is impossible to “reason” with these people, and it appears they have little if any fear of death. During World War 2 we bombed German and Japanese cities, even though most of those who died were not part of their national military forces. Whether or not even this would deter them is a good question. Unfortunately it is impossible to separate those Muslims who realize that a “war of extermination” would be the “end” for all of them, and those who have become so fanatical in their thinking that death holds no terrors for them.
war?? are you joking? we already surrendered! ISLAM needs no war- see Eur-Arabia for example- a done deal- by birthrate and attrition, infiltration to the highest offices (a Muslimophile is prez here), oil money talks no Muslim walks (in fear that anything or anyone will retaliate)
those of us who have been opposed to “peace at any price” and tolerance of the intolerant ones have been marginalized, and make no mistake we will soon be entering re-education facilities or jails.
The USA as we knew it is dead- funda —->mentally changed
It’s a malignant political philosophy masquerading as a religion. I have all the respect for it that it has for me.
If the Islamists are the true face of Islam, then its time to take off the gloves and obliterate an insidious evil from the face of the earth.
I don’t believe they are the true face, but neither do I suscribe to the “ecumenical tolerance at all cost” theories espoused by many Christian leaders. There comes a time when enough is enough.
“I don’t believe they are the true face …” Whhhhy?
Did you not read Robert’s article? Did you not see the quotes from the Sunnah? Why would you not believe what their writings say they believe? Are you declaring them “shirk?” They will get angry with you for that — I am telling you.
Just because the bear does not eat you today, does that insure that he will not tomorrow?
Jihad means struggle and whatever form that struggle takes to defeat the infidel the Jihadi will take; from the knife and gun to being a leech, sucking the life’s blood from the victim until he is too weak to fight and must succumb; and then even the leech will take up the scimitar.
Muslims are true to their faith, unlike the “Christians” of the west and so the west shall die. Sadly, all that needs to be done to defeat Islam is to stand up and tell them, “We know what you believe and it is antithetical to the Judeo-Christian principles of the west. Renounce your false religion or leave.” … But sadder still is the fact that America by an official act of government began to defenestrate the One True God over 50 years ago. And we dare, in our arrogance now ask Him to bless us? HA! It is to LAUGH!!! What does the scripture say? ~ Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? … [they say] “Let us tear their fetters apart, And cast away their cords from us!” But he that dwelleth in the heaven, shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.~ And so it is.
Somehow if you are in an Islamic country and are taken hostage, identifying yourself as a liberal or progressive American is not going to save you. And of course liberals, being liberals who think their view is the only one that is correct, would be very surprised when the Islamic leaders kills them, in the name of Allah. But then the liberals would be politically correct, but still dead.
The Left has an alliance with Islamo-Fascism. For the Left, the alliance is strategic and long term (and ultimately naive). For the Islamists,it is definitely temporary and one sided. The ultimate goal for both is the elimination of Christianity from the public life of the West. The useful idiots of the Left will tolerate any humiliation, on the part of the Islamists, so long as it furthers the destruction of Christianity. Once they have helped eliminate Christianity from the public square, they will be put to the sword by the Islamists. Hitler was helped to power by idiotic bourgeois and capitalist elements. The Left serves a similar function.
September 11, 2001 taught me all I needed to know about Islam.
The Koran and hadiths I’ve read have only confirmed it.
If anyone hasn’t read the Koran or Hadiths (Teachings and Acts of Mohammed not found in the Koran), there are Muslim and educational sites online that have them free and in English translation.
Explosive Islam
Peter Leithart
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2013/01/23/explosive-islam/
I want to thank these savage Islmic Jihadists for showing the world what the religion of Islam is really like, but the gutless dhimmis in the press, in our colleges, and in the Obama administration will ignore this important message and continue to speak the nonsense that “Islam is a religion of peace.”
But what if I am an Islamiphobe and hate those Islamist who pervert the word peace onto terrorism in the name of their prophet/leader? Then ot becomes, for them, a kill or be killed matter. Ok. So now at least I know where we both stand. Its better that way.
OMG, Muslims in Algeria! Be afraid says Mr. Spencer, be very afraid. Man up people. Let the Muslims kill each other, who cares.