[lit-ideas] Re: Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:38:55 -0800
Well, see you guys are doing your illogical thing which is to assume that I
am saying something illogical, which to you seems perfectly logical er
rational er no you won't like that either er sensible - shoot . . . Anyway,
no, I'm not saying just because you guys share an abhorrence of logic with
Al Quaeda that you guys are terrorists. No I'm not saying that at all. I
mean how would I know that even if you were since I spend all my time
hunched over a computer in San Jacinto and none at all traveling to such
places as Memphis and er and er wherever everyone else lives. No, not at
all. . . But I suppose I might be induced to . . . if there was a proper
inducement . . . say that if you abandon practical logic you might end up
any old place including but not necessarily limited to training camps
outside of Kandahar or some remote place in Pakistan, but it might be some
entirely different illogical place like but not necessarily limited to
Memphis.
Lawrence
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On Behalf Of Mike Geary
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 2:14 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants
Jesus, Lawrence, you've turned yourself into a cartoon. Get a grip, man.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence <mailto:lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Helm
To: Lit-Ideas <mailto:Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 2:55 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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