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Al Queida's War on Islam
By Dr. Richard Benkin
The recent terrorist bombs in London muffled another significant
event. Near Baghdad, Al-Queida assassinated Egyptian diplomat, Ehad
Sherif, never even negotiating for his release. The group stated
that it self-proclaimed Islamic court convicted Sherif of
"apostasy." Their statement arrogantly slapped the face of
offical Islam, which never recognized a change (or attempted change) in
Sherif's religion. So, why are they afraid? What is their
real agenda?
They seek to create a bifurcated world posing Muslims
against the other three-fourths of humanity, as seen in their calling
Egypt an ally of "Jews and Christians." So branding Egypt
is also curious considering that far more Egyptians have died fighting
Israel than have Islamist terrorists.
What is their real agenda?
The
answer: their rhetoric is a sham. Far from being defenders of the
faith, they are at war with Islam. And in that war they have
killed huge numbers of Muslims:
According to the US State Department, half the victims of Islamist terror in 2003 were Muslims.
Between 1992 and 1998, Islamists killed about 150,000 Muslims in Algeria.
Since 1980, more than 40,000 Pakistani Muslims were killed in Shi'a-Sunni terror attacks.
According to Iraqi Interior Minister Baqir Jabbur, terrorists killed 8,175 Iraqis and wounded another 12,000 just this year.
Victims of Muslim terror in the Sudan are overwhelmingly Muslim.
Muslim
terrorists carry out attacks in overwhelmingly Muslim countries,
including, Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Iraq.
In the past year, Bangladesh's Rapid Action Batallion arrested 636
Muslim terrorists in Chittagong. Al-Queida and its like have been
responsible for the murder of Islamic leaders including Egypt President
Anwar Sadat, Afghanistani war hero Ahmed Shah Massoud, and others.
Sherif's
murder should be a wake-up call to Muslims worldwide that their enemy
is not the United States, not Israel, but al-Queida and other
Islamists. Figures show that Muslims are far more likely than
non-Muslims to be killed by Muslim terrorists claiming to defend their
faith. Let's also remember that it was the US who came to the defense
of oppressed Bosnian Muslims when no one else would. Al-Queida
forces fought against those
Muslims! So, who is waging war on Islam? Who is killing Muslims?
In
the few days since murdering Egypt's Sherif's, al-Queida has tried
kidnapping diplomats from the Muslim countries of Pakistan and Bahrain.
They promise that more will follow.
The
US aided oppressed Muslims in Bosnia, Kuwait, and Iraq, including
Kurds. Israel was the first Middle Eastern country to give Muslim women
the vote.
All the while, Islamists worldwide have been waging a
worldwide war on Islam, killing far more Muslims than all the nations
of the earth combined.
Fortunately, the tide of history is clearly
against them. Al-Queida's retrograde platform to keep Muslims out of
the twenty-first century mirrors similar, failed efforts by
Christian Crusaders, Nazis, agrarian communists like Pol Pot, and
others. And like the others, they and their War on Islam will not
prevail.
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