Why we're at war
So says Al Qaeda in their training manual.The confrontation that we are calling for with the apostate regimes does not know Socratic debates, Platonic ideals, nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine-gun.
Islamic governments have never and will never be established through peaceful solutions and cooperative councils. They are established as they [always] have been by pen and gun, by word and bullet, by tongue and teeth.
posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 9/11/2005 11:55:00 PM
2 Comments:
Wow. Reading through that is troubling on 2 levels.
• What you quoted is only 1 of several overt calls for violence & bloodshed. That these groups are unabashadly committed to destruction is clear.
• On the otherhand, it is humbling & saddening to read the passion & conviction which they have in response to the unrighteousness that they see. One section listed off several atrocities against women that they believe the "infidels" are responsible.
I wonder what it will take in the church to cause this kind of stir - not for violence, but rather for justice & righteousness?
Scott, I'm feeling you on the need for the church to rise up with passion to confront injustice and unrighteousness. But I'm not sure Al Qaeda and groups like that are motivated by a similar passion. Sure, they use the rhetoric of religion and righteous anger (as have dictators since the beginning of time), but I suspect that at the core of their venom is a lust for power and greed.
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