My re-cap
I thought I would never ever blog again, Whew it seems like forever. Anyway first one caught my attention is the Imam of the “Red Mosque” in Islamabad Pakistan Threatens to Send Students to Anti-Government Suicide Operations , If that does’nt catch your attention I don’t know what. .. Script Below.
Following is an excerpt from an interview with the imam of the “Red Mosque” in Islamabad, Pakistan, Mullah Abd Al-’Aziz, a.k.a. “Mullah Pakistan”, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on April 7, 2007:
Mullah Abd Al-’Aziz: We want to reform Pakistan. We are not afraid of the government at all. We said: “If you…” The government says: “We will bring the police and attack you.” I said yesterday in my Friday sermon: “If you have many policemen and soldiers - fine. Allah be praised, we are few, but we have thousands of students, who want to commit martyrdom.” But we won’t be the ones to start it. If the government starts it and attacks us, we will attack them, Allah willing, with martyrdom operations. LInk
—A martyr is a person who is put to death or endures suffering because of a belief, principle or cause. The death of a martyr or the value attributed to it is called martyrdom. In different belief systems, the criteria for being considered a martyr is different. In the Christian context, a martyr is an innocent person who, without seeking death, is murdered or put to death for his or her religious faith or convictions. An example is the persecution of early Christians in the Roman Empire. Christian martyrs sometimes decline to defend themselves at all, in what they see as an imitation of Jesus’ willing sacrifice.
Islam accepts a much broader view of what constitutes a martyr, including anyone who dies in the struggle between those lands under Muslim government and those areas outside Muslim rule. Generally, some seek to include suicide bombers as a “martyr” of Islam, however, this is widely disputed in the Muslim community.
— And Ofcourse Hamas and their definition of Martyrdom
………The Hamas religious figure said, “The Hamas of the Revolution of the Mosques, of the War of the Knives, of the car bombs, of the great martyrdom-seekers, of the Al-Qassam missiles, of the Zionists’ death tunnels, of the kidnapping of the soldiers and the settlers is the same Hamas of the government, of the legislative council, and of the ministries. … It will continue to march along the path of the martyrs and to follow in their footsteps until the liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the aggressive oppressors
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