Fight Oppression Quotes
This is the pitch that has brought volunteers to the Al-Qaeda terrorist banner throughout the Muslim world. “Polytheists” refer to Christians who because of the concept of the Trinity are believed by Muslims to be breaking the Commandment to worship only one God. “Crusaders” refers to Christians. Christians and Jews are not the only religions who many Muslims regard as the enemy of Islam. In the final pitch the listener is given the choice between victory or martyrdom. The latter does not have quite the same meaning for the Muslim as for most of the rest of the world. A Muslim who dies fighting for Islam, the religion teaches, goes directly to Heaven bypassing all judgment. He gets the best treatment in heaven including the services of 72 virgins. The notion seems ludicrous to most of us today, but in the Crusader era, several Popes essentially claimed the same thing for Christians who died fighting for the faith in the Crusades—the virgins were only a modern Muslim thing.
Scott was then the Special Advisor on Negro Affairs to the Secretary of War in the Woodrrow Wilson administration. Wilaon hs commited U. S. Troops to fight oversease to "make the world safe for democracy", but many blacks and whites also saw gross hypocricy in asking Negores to fight for a Jim Crow, segregated America. See the related quotation 644805. Scott was also the major aide to Booker T, Washington, one of the leading Negro educators but a very pliable man on equal rights for the Blacks. The problem for the administration was much greater than that of WWII where the president was seen as very sympathetic to Blacks while Wilson was himself a racist. And in WWII the fight against the Nazis was a fight agaisnt racial supremacy. So this quotation and Scott's role was very important to the administration.
