Iran Prepares For Nuclear Jihad

Hot on the trail of Der Spiegel article I wrote about a couple of days ago comes the breaking news from the liberal Guardian in London today, from a leaked European secret service document:

The Iranian government has been successfully scouring Europe for the sophisticated equipment needed to develop a nuclear bomb, according to the latest western intelligence assessment of the country's weapons programmes.

Scientists in Tehran are also shopping for parts for a ballistic missile capable of reaching Europe, with "import requests and acquisitions ... registered almost daily", the report seen by the Guardian concludes.

The warning came as Iran raised the stakes in its dispute with the United States and the European Union yesterday by notifying the International Atomic Energy Authority that it intended to resume nuclear fuel research next week. Tehran has refused to rule out a return to attempts at uranium enrichment, the key to the development of a nuclear weapon.

The 55-page intelligence assessment, dated July 1 2005, draws upon material gathered by British, French, German and Belgian agencies, and has been used to brief European government ministers and to warn leading industrialists of the need for vigilance when exporting equipment or expertise to so-called rogue states.

The assessment declares that Iran has developed an extensive web of front companies, official bodies, academic institutes and middlemen dedicated to obtaining - in western Europe and in the former Soviet Union - the expertise, training, and equipment for nuclear programmes, missile development, and biological and chemical weapons arsenals.

The Iranian Thug-In Chief President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has constantly repeated that there will be no dialogue with Europe because it is a waste of time. This point was underlined by the Iranian leader during his first appearance in front of the committee of foreign affairs and national security of the mullah-run majlis.

"The president, defined the attempts by the governments of the past 16 years to bring to the table a dialogue with Europe and to try and reduce tensions, as a waste of time which has so far not produced any tangible results for our country," Kazem Jalali told.

"The policies of the previous governments, has distanced the Islamic republic from its revolutionary origins and produced a damaging laxity," added Jalali who was quoting the words used by Ahmadinejad.

Yeah right. Just to remind us all about the true meaning of Jihad, in case the apologists tell me again that I am either a) a racist or b) Islamophobic, or in fact when they really rev up, both.

Apologists in the West have asserted that Jihad means primarily "spiritual struggle." There are several things to be said about this. First of all, the tradition to which they are referring is a late Sufi tradition, of the eleventh century, which divides jihad into a "Jihad of the Sword" and a "Jihad of the Spirit," stating that the former is the "lesser" Jihad and the latter is the "greater." This tradition is not contained in any of the canonical volumes of Sunni traditions, however, and has occupied, historically, only a very minor place in the Islamic tradition.

How do we know this to be so? There have been thousands of books composed on the religious duty of Jihad throughout the 14 centuries of Islamic history. Every last one of those books was about the "Jihad of the Sword" but one - and that one was composed only in the 20th century, by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shi'ite, and not exactly a pacifist. Second, and far more important: all that this tradition states is that the "Jihad of the Spirit" is the greater Jihad; it does not in any way abrogate the "lesser Jihad," the "Jihad of the Sword"- on the contrary. It is not accidental that the word for a Sufi monastery and for a fortress of volunteer border warriors (ribat) is identical in the Islamic languages; the same people who were "struggling in God's path" in the Jihad of the Spirit were simultaneously "struggling in God's path" in the Jihad of the Sword; even the Sufis who invented this tradition saw the two types of Jihad as being complementary, not mutually exclusive. Moreover, even had the late Sufi tradition actually been the dominant one in Islam, it would in no way abrogate the militaristic Qur'anic verses which order the believers variously to "fight' or to "kill" the unbelievers.

Every classical treatise on Islamic government has viewed the primary duty of a ruler as essentially that of ordering the world according to God's will. The world is divided into two mutually antagonistic parts: the "Abode of Islam" (Dar al-Islam), in which God's rule has already been established, and which is ruled according to Muslim law; and the "Abode of War" (Dar al-Harb); that portion of the world which is not yet under God's rule, but which the Muslims must eventually bring into the Islamic oecumene by force or by persuasion. What the apologists are not revealing when they talk of Islam as a religion of peace is that the "peace" they are referring to is a Pax Islamica."

Qur'an 9:29, which is regarded by all the exegetes as the specific passage commanding Muslims to fight Christians and Jews until they accept Dhimmitude: "Fight those among the People of the Book who do not believe in Allah and the last Day, do not forbid what Allah and His Apostle have forbidden and do not profess the true religion, till they pay the poll-tax out of hand and submissively." According to Muslim exegesis, it was after receiving this revelation in the year 630 that the Prophet Muhammad sent a raiding party to fight the Byzantines. This verse is cited as abrogating virtually all prior Qur'anic verses calling for patience or forgiveness toward Scriptuaries.

Also, the Prophetic sunna (as recorded in the Hadith) gives a hierarchy of those values considered most meritorious. For instance, in one tradition included in most of the 6 canonical collections (and, by the way, Jihad in all of these collections unambiguously means unconditional warfare against non-Muslims): " A man came to God's Apostle [Muhammad] and said: 'Show me an act equal to Jihad.' [Muhammad] answered: 'I cannot find one.'" In other traditions, Jihad against non-Muslims is accounted as "better than the world and all that is in it."

So now, who will be making the move against Iran going nuclear? Israel is the first target, in my mind there is no doubt, therefore we know that Israel will have to strike, and we know this to be planned for sometime after March this year. The hot button question is will it be with our help or as we have advocated before without.

Hugh Hewitt: "Nukes plus missiles, plus radical leadership committed to the destruction of Israel: Is the world really going to do nothing and hope that Israel takes care of the crisis?"

One of the first bloggers on the story is the talented Gina Cobb: "One little reminder:  It's not a game.  If we lose this one, we lose everything.
Not just the game.  Not just our team.  We lose our security.  We lose many of our own lives.  We lose our homes. We lose our children and our future.  We lose our freedoms."

Steve @ Secure Liberty: "I'll always remember the Iran hostage crisis, and the ineptness of the Carter administration in dealing with it. Iran is moving back up the leaderboard in renegade states that are hostile to U.S. interests."

More @: Jeff Goldstein @ Protein Wisdom The Belgravia Dispatch, The Washington Monthly, Pamela @ Atlas Shrugs, Ace @ Ace of Spades HQ

Related posts on ATB:
Has Israel Persuaded Washington?
The Constitution Is Not A Suicide Pact
If Israel Is The Tumor Then Iran Is The Metastasizing Cancer Part I 
If Israel Is The Tumor Then Iran Is The Metastasizing Cancer Part II
Extraction Of The Stone Of Iranian Madness

Comments

[stephen franklin jr]

hello from the states good ol america why would tran do such a thing and vow nuclear jihad against the united states that would be very wrong i think what are your comments

[Buddy Larsen]

And mighty old Ajax has fallen, in Israel.

[North by Northwest]

I think that one of our best chances to escape these dark prophecies is in fact doing exactly what we are doing right now. Citizens journalism. Letting our voices be heard. Reading and commenting on Blogs such as this one. Blogs are set to reach more and more mainstream readers, thus pulling the rug from under the feet of the appeasing MSM.

Because awareness in politically significant numbers is all it takes to force the hands of politicians wishing to be reelected. Imagine the reach some Blogs will have in 2015 or 2025. Clearly party lines will remain divided over many issues 50/50, but in post-Iraq times, the dangers posed by Islamofascism may eventually also be publicly acknowledged by leading Democrats (as many do of course already today, but are unable to declare for reasons of obvious political positioning, with the notable and honorable exception of Lieberman).

So, in 10-15 years time, we may find all of us united in the will to foil any attempt of Islamofascists to bully their way through the door. Question is, in what scenario could that be too late?

[Liquid]

I think the horrific obstacle is that many inside the USA and abroad, are helping to destroy the future of the western world and the free nations when they try to keep everyone focused on trying to paraylyze us in the deception of our own rationale and that the hope that it will make us stagnant in making the difficult big decisions, which IMHO, sadly to say, but if allowed to go on, will only leave us duped in the end for waiting and trusting with such passiveness.

I think this is allowed in this political correct world, because there is that propaganda out there today which is created to inflict fear inside our nations and which guides us away from truth; because to take action might risk us being labelled the scoundrel bully.

Iran's regime is on a mission and they have enjoyed their terrorizing agenda in the world arena since they think Bush's troubles with the "Saddam Sitcom" will be enough to buy more time for them to push forward to destroy Israel! Even with Iran's president being pretty up front about his motives, there are so many that would rather take this crucial time to mend and appease those that criticize our policies and actions, but until the free world wakes up and realises that we are still at war and that Iran and others like them are taking advantage very strategically and similiar to a cobra will strike as soon as the opportunity is there, (until there is an awakening to this) then we are doing nothing but looking the other way while the snake is lying in wait for it's lethal moment.