[lit-ideas] Re: Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:24:40 -0000
I was going to protest at another of Lawrence callous insults, but the pressure
has become too great, the force of Helmian logic too profound, and as such I'm
forced to admit that, yes, I am indeed in league with the foul enemies of
western civlisation....
I first started eating marmite at the age of four, though it might have been
younger; naturally my parents tried to shelter me from such depravity and it
was understandable that they could have understated the crime. At first it was
on bread soldiers, buttered of course, but as the years went by I sank deeper
into the marmite pit until I was putting teaspoons of it into hot water.
Nowadays I dispense with the water altogether.
I know, I know, it's depraved, and I wouldn't tell you all, but as I said,
Lawrence's logic was just too much to bear. I'm sorry, I'm really sorry...I
only hope that you can find someway to forgive me...
Simon
Marmite Fiend
http://www.marmite.co.uk/
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Helm
To: Lit-Ideas
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 8:55 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants
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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