Ali's Notepad: What is Jihad?

Ali Dahmash has provided an interesting discussion of jihad in his blog entry Ali's Notepad: What is Jihad?

The discussion asks among other questions what do women receive for martyrdom just as Betty Shamieh does in her play The Black Eyed. (Not only is Martin Denton's review overly harsh, but he also misses some of the issues that I had with the script.)

While some non-Muslims taking part in the discussion give the usual brainwashed bigoted Zionized input, the Muslim participants manage to convey many of the different connotations of Jihad even if this latter group is too defensive.

Khomeini's anti-Imperialist Jihad, Qutb's Jihad to over to overthrow the unjust Muslim ruler, or the reworking of the concepts of fard `eyn (individual obligation) and fard kifaya (communal obligation) by the Palestinian Abdullah Azzam (with the input both of the Egyptian, Kamil al-Sananiri, and also of the Saudi Usama bin-Ladin) to rally collective defense of Muslims under attack by non-Muslims all constitute attempts to blend a religious ideal with modern political mobilization.

There is nothing inherently wrong with such a blending. Martin Luther King made the exact same effort in fighting for civil rights in the USA. One might criticize Usama bin-Ladin

• for arrogating to himself the right to decide when to take the completely legitimate struggle against Zionism (ethnic Ashkenazi Nazism) back to the USA, which is the main and really the only supporter of Zionist genocidalism and barbarism, and
• for failing to explain in coherent terms why Zionism is a threat to all Muslims and in fact to the whole human race,
  

but he might have been dealing with a lack of funds.

Just as investment strategies generally work optimally with a minimum of $250 million, an utter defeat of the Zionist state, eradication of Zionism, and total dismantlement of the Zionist Virtual Colonial Motherland (Judonia) probably requires a minimum of $1 billion to guarantee success and to minimize costs effectively. Bin-Ladin and his fellow Arab Jihadists never had that kind of money at hand.

As an aside, I have to add that the discussion participants really did not find the most blood-thirsty Biblical passages for comparison with the Quran. Just take a look below at the ending of Psalm 137, which is considered inspirational for Zionism.

Note that Babylon is in Mesopotamia, to which Iraq and part of Iran roughly correspond. It is no accident that Zionists spent so much effort in trying to send the native Palestinian population to Iraq, where Zionists felt they belonged. Having failed in that transfer, Zionists by their logic spentd a lot of time in inventing new ways to dash out the brains of Palestinian children and otherwise mass-murder the native Palestinian population.

The Psalmist does refer to proportionality, but claims of justice are typical of all aggressive propaganda, and in any case the vast majority of Persian-period "returnees" to Palestine were almost certainly according to the Book of Esther not returnees at all but the descendants of converts. This Psalm might have been part of an effort by native Palestinian Hasmonean priests to justify their usurpation of the Temple cult from the descendants of Mesopotamian immigrants.

In any case, Zionists cannot use the cover of proportionality for Zionist barbarism, Arabs had practically no contact with ethnic Ashkenazim until racist murderous genocidal E. Europeans began to implement their program to invade, steal and ethnically cleanse Palestine. By Nuremberg Law not only is any and all resistance to the Jewish Nazi occupiers of Palestine completely legitimate, but the Zionist squatters have no legal right of resistance whatsoever.

Note also the verse in red, which has an external link to the Book of Revelation, which itself often serves as a justification for Christian blood-thirstiness.

The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.

The Psalms

137

The Mourning of the Exiles in Babylon
1	By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2	We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3	For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4	How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
5	If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6	If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7	Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8	O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Rev. 18.6
9	Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

עַל נַהֲרֹות בָּבֶל שָׁם יָשַׁבְנוּ גַּם־בָּכִינוּ בְּזָכְרֵנוּ אֶת־צִיֹּון׃	.1
עַל־עֲרָבִים בְּתֹוכָהּ תָּלִינוּ כִּנֹּרֹותֵינוּ׃	.2
כִּי שָׁם שְׁאֵלוּנוּ שֹׁובֵינוּ דִּבְרֵי־שִׁיר וְתֹולָלֵינוּ שִׂמְחָה שִׁירוּ לָנוּ מִשִּׁיר צִיֹּון׃	.3
אֵיךְ נָשִׁיר אֶת־שִׁיר־יְהוָה עַל אַדְמַת נֵכָר׃	.4
אִם־אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָם תִּשְׁכַּח יְמִינִי׃	.5
תִּדְבַּק־לְשֹׁונִי לְחִכִּי אִם־לֹא אֶזְכְּרֵכִי אִם־לֹא אַעֲלֶה אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַם עַל רֹאשׁ שִׂמְחָתִי׃	.6
זְכֹר יְהוָה לִבְנֵי אֱדֹום אֵת יֹום יְרוּשָׁלִָם הָאֹמְרִים עָרוּ עָרוּ עַד הַיְסֹוד בָּהּ׃	.7
בַּת־בָּבֶל הַשְּׁדוּדָה אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיְשַׁלֶּם־לָךְ אֶת־גְּמוּלֵךְ שֶׁגָּמַלְתְּ לָנוּ׃	.8
אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיֹּאחֵז וְנִפֵּץ אֶת־עֹלָלַיִךְ אֶל־הַסָּלַע׃	.9

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