Chapter 15
TH E JI HA D CO NT IN UE S
Here's a test. Which of these two statements is from the
e l e v e n t h c e n t u r y , a n d w h i c h f r o m t h e t w e n t y -f i r s t?
"0 God, raise the banner of Islam and its helper and refute
poly thei sm by wound ing its back and cutti ng its rope s. Help
those who fight for jihad for your sake and who in obedie nce
to you have sacrificed themselves and sold their souls to you., ..
Becau se they persi st in going astra y, may the eyeba ll ofthe
proponents of polytheism become blind to the paths of
righteousness."'
"We ask Allah to turn this Ramadan into a month of glory, victor y, and
migh t, to hoi st hig h in [th is mont h] the bann er of rel igi on , to
st re ng th en Is la m and th e Mu sl im s, to hu mi li at e po ly th ei sm
an d po ly th ei sm , to wa ve th e ba nn er of mo no th eis m, to fi rm ly
pl an t th e ba nn er of Ji ha d,an d to sm it e th e pe rv e r t s a n d t h e
o b s t i n a t e. " ' Islamic scholar Ibn al-Mawsilaya wrote the first
paragraph late in the eleventhcentury. The al Qaeda Sheikh, Aamer bin
Abdallah al-Aamer wrote the second in 2004.
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Guess what?
l s l a m h a s n o t
reformedor changed
it’straditional doc-
t r i n e s o f j i h a d
warfare.
Modern-day jihad
groupsareworkingto
restore the caliphate
asa means toFurther
their warwiththe
west.
These groupsdespise
democracy asa
Western Importat
odds with thecali-
phate and sharia.