Iraq’s Quandary

Faced with their country tangled up in wars, Iraqis are attempting to establish a foundation. But the foundation is intentionally being pockmarked by these holier-than-thou men who signed the fatwah.

Holier-than-thou?
Why did I choose those words? Think about it.
These are men who claim they are fighting against Americans because their god's book claims:

"But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)".

Ah so suddenly we Americans are pagans. Hmmm. And the basis for that is?

"All these crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God, his messenger, and Muslims."

They list three reasons known as "crimes and sins". I will examine the fatwah in another post and we will go over these. Meanwhile...

And ulema have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries. This was revealed by Imam Bin-Qadamah in "Al- Mughni," Imam al-Kisa'i in "Al- Bada'i," al-Qurtubi in his interpretation, and the shaykh of al-Islam in his books, where he said "As for the militant struggle, it is aimed at defending sanctity and religion, and it is a duty as agreed. Nothing is more sacred than belief except repulsing an enemy who is attacking religion and life."

Hold up, hold up.

Ok so basically, the Americans are pagans because we fight back? We just don’t take their attempts at tyranny?

Let us back up in time. Let’s begin with their first attacks when the United States was finally independent of Great Britain. (See Previous Blog). Their first attacks on the seas, forcing our shipping and our immigrants to pay tribute to their Omars and Sheiks or else seizing our ships and goods & selling us into slavery. They also stated in this fatwah: Prophet, Muhammad Bin-'Abdallah, who said "I have been sent with the sword between my hands to ensure that no one but God is worshipped, God who put my livelihood under the shadow of my spear and who inflicts humiliation and scorn on those who disobey my orders."

What kind of god is this? I will examine that in another post…

But here is the point… they struck at us first. Ever since we began crawling in diapers, these guys have attempted to dominate us. The last time these guys tried to “make an agreement” with us (Americans), it was to agree to pay tribute again. That was 1796. President Madison stated two things in return:

1. "the United States, whilst they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none."
   
2. He concluded that it was the "settled policy" of the United States "that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute."

Now fast forward to the current time. Here we are today. United States over in this war-infested country. We are spending millions and billions of dollars to help them rebuild their ruined country after freeing them from yet another dominating tyrant... and guess who is the bad guy?

I read that the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report says:
"Iraq will not be a 'success' for a long time. Whether or not US forces are invited to leave in 2005 [when a fully constitutional Iraqi government is due to take office], Iraq's ultimate success depends on building Iraqi capacity to take the country forward."

Yeah - they need to take over, but we (U.S.) have set aside $18 million to help out their country. We're trying to train police officers and help build their electricity and schools and water utilities. But to what use? If these guys (Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group) keep bombing the place up, these things go back to ruin anyway. They're eventaking the claim to these bombings:

A car bomb has exploded close to an Iraqi police station in central Baghdad, killing 47 people, health ministry officials say. More than 100 people were injured in the huge mid-morning blast, which devastated a busy shopping area in Haifa Street. Gunmen also shot dead 12 policemen and a civilian in Baquba, north of Baghdad. A statement said to be from alleged al-Qaeda militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi's group said it carried out the attacks.

These guys really do not have any regard for any human life. I am going to examine that Fatwah later and point out some inconsistencies, hypocrisies, and plain out B.S. As far as God is concerned, the days of old are just that... old. I will go into some things from the bible and we will just look at this fanatical sect's (al-Qaeda's) twisted view of love, life, liberty, and God. It will explain a lot.