Islamic Terrorists Quotes
The dramatic expression was actually not original with bin Laden. It emerged throughout Islamic history regarding the “enemies” of the time.
Fanatic Muslims believe that suicide bombers when they blow themselves up have done so to defend Islam and therefore will not only go directly to heaven but will get 72 Virgins when they get there. Most of the suicide bombers are young men with very little or no sexual experience. At the time that Trainor made this remark, there had been an enormous increase in suicide bombers in the Iraq war.
She had been covering Muslim nations and leaders for a long time and saw the relationship between the contemporary domination of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism long before most.
This is the type of person who suicide bomber recruiters seek out.
The journalist and author, one of the most influential Italian journalists and intellectuals, was then dying of cancer and came out of retirement to warn about the great threat that she believed that Islam was for the West. See {587753} for her earlier warning. While at the surface, she appears to be a very bigoted individual, her main concern about Islam in general and for European immigration in particular had an intellectual and sophisticated base. Specificly, was 1) Islam is the ONLY religion that teaches and demands the transcendence of nationalism in a world that is organized around nations. It demands a concept of Muslim land as opposed to Egyptian land or Pakistani land. 2) It is overtly sexist and requires sexism of its adherents as opposed to other religions where sexism is traditional and cultural and not as theological. 3) It is anti democratic and requires adherents to conflate religion and government. However, what Fallaci was unaware of was the reform and modernist movement within Islam who argued for a modern, democrative evolution of the religion much as what has occurred with Christianity and Judiasm and other religions.
This marked the shift to the United States and American interests as the target for Al Qaeda. Shortly thereafter, al-Zawahiri and Bin Laden hold a press conference declaring war against the U. S. and then issue a Fatwa stating that Muslims should kill Americans wherever they can in the world. Two American Embassies were bombed shortly thereafter.
This quotation reveals the Islamic “logic” of murdering innocent people by a suicide bomber. “Terror” must be brought to the enemy (See {586965} and {586916}) to be a good Muslim. If an innocent person is killed, it will not be so bad because Allah will welcome them in Paradise. And Allah will ask the murdered innocents to forgive their murderer. And they will do so because they as good Muslims they would not only listen to Allah but would realize that they died to save Islam from its enemies. If the innocent victims do not forgive the suicide bomber, then they really are not very good Muslims and are really not so innocent.
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}.
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 {641717}.
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She was originally Egyptian but because of her criticism, her citizenship was actually revoked.
