They certainly are brainwashing a lot of people from around the world who are traveling from all over to take part in this Jihad with the same rhetoric as the radical Muslims have used before. I often wonder just how many Muslims who are posting and reading different forums and message boards discussing the news about what is happening believe all the rhetoric that these crazies are throwing out.
July 9, 2014
Jihadi Rhetoric: Tiresome but Deadly
By Raymond Ibrahim
I just spent the better part of the day reading and listening to sermons by the leaders and jihadis of the new “caliphate” in Mesopotamia, the Islamic State (formerly “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”).
I did so in the vain hopes of learning something “new.”
But it was absolute déjà vu – taking me back to a decade ago, when I was reading and translating the Arabic writings and speeches of al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri, as collated in The Al Qaeda Reader.
Now, as then, it’s the same Koran verses; the same hadiths of Islamic prophet Muhammad waging and praising jihad; the same threats of hellfire for themunafiqun (hypocrites or lukewarm Muslims); the same carnal rewards in the now (or hereafter) for those who join the “caravan” of jihad.
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July 9, 2014
Jihadi Rhetoric: Tiresome but Deadly
By Raymond Ibrahim
I just spent the better part of the day reading and listening to sermons by the leaders and jihadis of the new “caliphate” in Mesopotamia, the Islamic State (formerly “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”).
I did so in the vain hopes of learning something “new.”
But it was absolute déjà vu – taking me back to a decade ago, when I was reading and translating the Arabic writings and speeches of al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri, as collated in The Al Qaeda Reader.
Now, as then, it’s the same Koran verses; the same hadiths of Islamic prophet Muhammad waging and praising jihad; the same threats of hellfire for themunafiqun (hypocrites or lukewarm Muslims); the same carnal rewards in the now (or hereafter) for those who join the “caravan” of jihad.
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