[lit-ideas] Re: Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:44:11 EST
Okay, you're big on formal logic. So explain this to me: how does my
belief that Reality doesn't always fit into Aristotelian parameters indicate
or
imply that my world-view is jihadist or aligned with Al Quaeda? I imagine some
members of Al AQaeda brush their teeth also.
Julie Krueger
(one-legged stools are difficult to make sturdy)
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the Jihad Against the Tyrants Date: 1/15/2007 2:55:46 P.M. Central Standard
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Several here on Lit-Ideas have expressed their disdain for logic,
Aristotelian thinking, reasoning, etc. They may be interested in finding that
their
views are shared by some notable others. On page 302 of The Looming Tower,
Lawrence Wright writes, about Al Qaeda trainees being prepared for the 9/11
plot: “Their text was a 180-page manual, Military Studies in the Jihad
Against
the Tyrants, which included chapters on counterfeiting, weapons training,
security, and espionage. ‘The confrontation that we are calling for with
the
apostate regimes does not know Socratic debates . . . Platonic ideals . . .
nor
Aristotelian diplomacy,’ the manual begins. ‘But it does know the
dialogue
of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing and destruction, and the
diplomacy of the canon and machine gun.’”
Of course they were not initially told what they would be assigned to do,
but in general, “The targets were always Americans, either U.S., soldiers or
vehicles, but there were other, ‘enemies of Islam,’ according to the
handwritten notes of a student in an al-Qaeda ideology class.
1. Heretics (the Mubaraks of the world)
2. Shiites
3. America
4. Israel”
Their goals were (are)
1. Establishing the rule of God on Earth
2. Attaining martyrdom in the cause of God.
3. Purification of the ranks of Islam from the elements of depravity.
Lawrence
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