How should we understand this statement about Islam and 9-11?

Question

“O, Slaves of Zion and Amerika, Arise! The shaheed (martyr) who yearns to die, and has prayed for this moment all his life, has come to rescue you!”

“The shaheed, May God Be Pleased with Him, is not only the perfect soldier, but the perfect Muslim. All of life is preparation, and striving for, martyrdom.”

“(T)he Muslim knows no continents, regions, nations or tribes but acknowledges the existence of only two groups of human beings; men of faith---his Brothers---and the kaaffir (unbelievers and apostates), those ungrateful and rebellious beings that, like Satan himself, opted for disobedience. With the latter no compromise is possible or permissible, by Islamic principles.”

“Laa ‘ilaaha ‘illallahu must be on his dying lips that he may enter Paradise. Not by chance did Mohammed Atta’s ‘Instructions for the Final Night’ counsel him make these his last words before crashing into the World Trade Center. Amen.”
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2007/09/14/pino_911

The author of the rant is Professor Julio Pino of Kent State University. Pino is a Muslim extremist who advocates the mass murder of Jews while drawing a paycheck from the hard-working people of the great state of Ohio.

For those who reflexively point to Christian extremists, two problems. For every bombing in the name of Christianity, there are a thousand bombings in the name of Islam. Second, Muslim extremists can find justification for terrorism in the demands for jihad in the Quran; no similar teachings by Jesus support terrorism.

More details today on the Islamic professor at Kent State who pimps for the terrorists.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2007/09/20/rate_my_terrorist_professor_dot_com

Answer 1

That there is a violent group or subgroup in Islam, who by and large are not only TOLERATED, but PRAISED AND LAUDED by most of Islam's adherants.

The same can certainly NOT be said about Christianity. When a professing Christian commits a wicked deed, his actions are UNIVERSALLY condemned in Christendom!

Answer 2

The way we understand this is that evil people will always use religion as justification for evil acts. It doesn't matter whether it's Islam, Christianity, or Satanism. They always try to present this false dichotomy of "Us" and "Them", "Brothers" and "kaaffir". "We" are always good, and "They" are always bad.

Same story that explains why Jews, Gypsies, people in ethnic minorities, homosexuals, and dozens of sections of society are persecuted, because someone will always twist strong religious faith in people to bend it to the will of evil, rather than the will of God, who's yet to make his presence felt on the matter.

If I said something like "All blondes must be slaughtered!" people are just going to laugh at me, but if I say "God commands that the evil blonde people must be destroyed, and all those who die in the cause of anti-Blonde-ness will automatically go to heaven!" then suddenly I'm a hero to some people. I could add in stories about how the Blonde people of the world have more fun, because they steal it from the Brunettes and the Gingers. It's all completely absurd, but because I've thrown in some religion, there's just enough complete nutters or impressionable people who'd go along with those ideas.

It's also interesting that in the whole passage, the Qu'ran isn't directly quoted, it's just stated that there is no compromise, under "Islamic principles"....I wonder who decided which principles were Islamic and which weren't.

Answer 3

Fundamentalist Christians argue that martyrdom is holy, too. Have you seen anything about "Jesus Camp," a movie which should chill your bones as much as "Obsession" does. Both are about children being brainwashed to fight a holy war.

Yes, Muslims have their fundamentalists, and they are possibly even more dangerous than the Christian variety. But it's a matter of degree, not of kind. They all scare me plenty.

Moderate Muslims and moderate Christians MUST speak out against the whole concept of holy war, and do so unambiguously. We'll never make it to the 22nd century if these extremists have their way: they WANT Armageddon!

Answer 4

How should we understand the statement? We should understand it as someone's interpretation of Islam, not what Islam actually is.
the Quran says fighting is for defensive purposes only
Qur'an 2:190
"And fight in the cause of God those who fight you, but do not transgress limits, for god does not love those who exceed their rightful limits"
it also says unbelievers and apostates should be overlooked with tolerance and patience
Qur'an 2:109
"Many of the people of the book wish they could turn you back to disbelief after you have believed,from selfish envy even after the truth has been revealed to them, but FORGIVE AND OVERLOOK til God has completed His purpose, indeed God has power over all things."

So the ones who make statements like you quoted don't seem to understand or follow the very Book they "claim" to base their faith on.
What we should understand about these statements is there will always be radicals of some sort, claiming whatever particular faith they choose, and going against what the faith actually teaches.

Answer 5

Yes, a nut rants, but that's all within the law.

And, the author of your "townhall" rant admittedly adores listening to the likes of Neal Boortz, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Jim Quinn and it doesn't surprise me that Mike Adam's nazi jibbering has the ability to whip sheep up into a frenzy.

I believe this Pino "thing" has been bandied about by Kent State and it seems that the issue really boils down to just how much does one believe in free speech.

I suppose you would just love to stifle selected authors and speakers. Perhaps you could institute the beginnings of book burning, or record/cd burning....but that's already been done.

Answer 6

Hi there! I was a christian and hated Muslim that time. Now I am 6 years Muslim, and I am grateful to God for giving me this opportunity. I am still studying Islam, and its not that easy to understand if your not open to it. I cannot say that all Muslim will go to paradise. Because God promised to save all righteous people and also promised that there's a punishment waiting for those who have sinned. If a muslim sin and ask God's forgiveness God will forgive him, but if he repeatedly do the same sin he do, there's a punishment awaits with that person. God is Just. Even I was a christian before I already believe in ONE GOD, ONE CREATOR, ALL POWERFUL ALL KNOWING. we say God is powerful, then why other will say that we need a savior, is God the Creator not enough to save us? Is our asking for forgiveness not enough for God to hear us? Is His mercy not enough to forgive us? Then why we do not go directly to Him , and instead go to the son, mother mary, etc. God is ALL KNOWING ALL POWERFUL, He knows better than anything else. Just go to the basic if your a christian, The TEN COMMANDMENTS, specially the first TWO read and understand that deeply.

Answer 7

wooow
slow down.
All of this is wrong. A shahid is some body who dies for his Islamic country or his religion or his family or killed by an anti-Islamic guy or is killed for Educationical perposes.
THey arent force to say La-elaha-elallah. It is good to say that while you think your dying. It brings the percent of going to paradise up. ANd something else the 9/11 was Bush's plan and it isnt Bin laden or any other groups we can see it by the Movies that are made by Moore or others ,
People's that dont beleive in God are called Kafir. It means that the christians and ... arnt called Kafir. Kafir isnt like SAtan according to Islam.Kafir is only an unguided human in Islam.
You are an extrimist!

Answer 8

Simple, its bull ****...im muslim, the stuff on the website aint true. There is absolutely nothing to do with islam and 9/11 except that a man who CLAIMS to be muslim (osama bin laden) allegedly had something to do with it. So I as a muslim say screw him, just so you dont think that real muslims support him or 9/11. One of the saddest days in American history was 9/11, Islam would never advocate the killing of the innocent

Answer 9

Muslim Extremists & Terrorists are the human manifestation of Satan,

Answer 10

As a fellow Christian and Catholic, I believe we should understand nothing about "Islam" (i.e. the collective body of 1.2 billion people from Ankarra to Alabama who follow this religion) from this.

We would do better to understand it for what it in fact represents - the views of one specific cadre of extremists, in words formulated by one specific idiot.

For how can we consider ourselves "liberators" of places like Iraq and Afghanistan if the only view we are to permit ourselves of muslims is that of violent extremists and crazed ideologues? If we dehumanize them, we can certainly be no "liberators" for we demonstrably do not even regard them really as people if we do.