September 07, 2007
New Bin Laden Video: Americans still don't get it.
First, here is an excerpt of what Bin Laden says.
"This war was entirely unnecessary...However, there are two solutions for stopping it. The first is from our side, and it is to continue to escalate the killing and fighting against you. This is our duty, and our brothers are carrying it out, and I ask Allah to grant them resolve and victory. And the second solution is from your side...So it is imperative that you free yourselves from all of that and search for an alternative, upright methodology...The infallible methodology is the methodology of Allah...I invite you to embrace Islam..."
Second, here is an Associated Press writer's take on what the speech was.
"In a rambling 30-minute speech addressed to Americans, bin Laden references the attacks on New York and Washington several times, almost gloating about policy changes by the U.S. government in response."
(Emphasis Mine; Source here.)
Third, the logical conclusion of considering as "rambling" what Bin Laden says? Mock the idea that Islam is violent.
"...the remark that a devout Muslim candidate "might blow us all up" isn't funny at all, not even if it was meant as a joke (which it doesn't seem to have been.)"
(Quote source here. This guy first said it: "might blow us up"; this guy mocked it.)
Finally, remember how Bin Laden offered Americans the chance to accept Islam? It's not mere rhetoric.
"Say to the Unbelievers, if (now) they desist (from Unbelief), their past would be forgiven them; but if they persist, the punishment of those before them is already (a matter of warning for them.) And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere."
(Qur'an, Al-Anfal 38,39.)
Bin Laden is only doing what the Qur'an tells him to do. He's offering Americans the chance to become Muslims before he "blows them all up"; or makes the attempt at least.
Islam is emphatically NOT a religion of peace; neither in theory nor in practice.
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