Saturday, November 10, 2007

Former PLO member arrested in Philippines

Another case of Jihadi traveling around the world to commit terroristic activities in the name of Allah. This illustrates the basic religio-political aspect of Islam.
FROM JIHADWATCH.ORG:
Former PLO member arrested in Philippines
I spoke a few days ago at the University of Wisconsin in Madison -- three times, in fact -- and after the second talk a gentleman came up to me and posited that all the conflicts between Islamic and non-Islamic forces around the world can be explained in terms of local political and socioeconomic factors, and that if what I was saying was true about the religious motivations of the Islamic forces, one would expect to see at least some conflicts, or even one, proceeding along religious grounds only without these political and socioeconomic factors present.
I answered by explaining that there is no distinction between the sacred and secular in traditional Islam, such that the religious and the political are not so easily separated in the Islamic world, and by explaining that defensive jihad, which is the only kind of jihad that can be waged legitimately today according to the classic canons of Islamic law, became an obligation on every Muslim when a Muslim land was attacked -- hence the need to point to such pretexts.
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