Ali Muhami and the Forty IEDs

Holy ____, what the ____ is happening, thought Ali, as he averted his eyes from the Colonel looking out to sea, asking him, “What do you mean your cause ? What's your cause ?” “To defeat the Islamic terrorists who are preparing to attack by blowing up the pipeline and killing the King and his family,” and incite a jihad (holy war) to reclaim the country for the Caliphate,” the Colonel exclaimed. “We, the military, will kill the terrorists and then immediately end the monarchy, removing the King and the Royal family by coup d'etat in order to bring about freedom and democratic government through properly held elections. This will include religious reforms to end the jihad against all unbelievers, to institute religious pluralism regarding the diversity of religious beliefs, accepting that more than one religion has mutually exclusive claims of the truth, that they are equally valid and worthy of being exalted.” “Well, in that case,” Ali was quick to point out, “Islam would no longer spread its beliefs by force. There would be no 'submitting' to Islam, there would be no death for apostasy (the abandonment or renunciation of a religious belief, 'leaving the religion'), and no death for criticizing or blaspheming against God or sacred persons, like Jesus and Mohammed, even though it is a mortal sin. Speaking badly or sacrilegiously about God, religion or sacred things are the consequences of our having the free will we have to live with.” “What do you think they’ll do to me,?” Ali quivered. “You mean if there is fighting ? Well either way, if they believe you betrayed them or were duped into leading me to the pipeline to kill them,” asserted Colonel Abdullah, “they will want to kill you but not before capturing you so they could make a spectacle of your be-heading at the edge of the Red Sea, cutting your throat from ear to ear !” “My God, Colonel, why do Muslims do this other than to instill the fear of “Allah” in believers and unbelievers (infidels) alike, ?” Ali asked incredulously. “Well Ali, it goes deeper than that, it's jihad or holy war to force ‘Islam,’ which literally means ‘to submit,’ upon the world or face death or second-class status as the Qur’an speaks of infidels who must pay the tax to live in 'peace' with their Muslim rulers ! Only Islam is to be exalted and no other religion. It is by the force of the sword, by the threat of death or enslavement that Islam was spread. It's anything but a religion of peace. That's the furthest thing from the truth,” the Colonel lamented. “So, you mean to tell me that from the time Islam began, through the time of the Crusades, to the defeat at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, Muslims have been waging a holy war against Christianity and all other religions, and that your holy war had been lying ‘dormant’ since that defeat until Israel, Afghanistan, and Iran opened the proverbial Pandora’s box some four hundred years later to Islamic terrorism ?” Ali replied indignantly. “What gives you Muslims the exclusive right to claim yours is the only true religion, when so many before you have claimed the same, and to demand that all ‘bow’ or submit to Islam ? In other words you want me and two billion other Christians to believe that our God of love approximately six hundred twenty-two years after the death and resurrection of his son, Jesus Christ, made a one hundred-eighty degree about face, and became a god of hate, war and submission, taking away from man the most precious after his Son, of God’s gifts, and greatest demonstration of his selfless love for us, our free will ? By 622AD the world had not become another 'Sodom and Gomorrah.' There’s way more immorality now than in those ancient times, so I don't for one second believe Almighty God has become 'Allah of fire, brimstone and be-heading.' There's got to be another explanation about how the Qur’an came about if not from God the Almighty.” “Well Ali, it seems like you summed it up,” the Colonel admitted. “The Muslim world stood up to fight when Israel was created and the Palestinians were left 'homeless', an injustice done at the end of World War II that might have been avoided had President Harry Truman done the right thing. Left unresolved, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict became the first call to jihad, holy war, followed by the Afghanistan war of liberation against the Soviet Union, Islamic terrorism of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games and the Iran-U.S. hostage crisis. Pandora's box has unleashed today's weapons of jihad, missiles, rockets, suicide bombers, and IEDs (improvised explosive device). With respect to the exaltation of Islam above all other beliefs, this must change to its accepting other religions, and to coexist with them, realizing it is not the only means of approaching the truths of the world but there are others. The Al Jihad Group will take us back to living a literal interpretation of the Qur’an where all must believe in Allah, and with an autocratic royal family defending Islam, it is left to us in the military to bring about the necessary changes for a more free and pluralistic society. Replacing the royal family with parliamentary government, calling for an end to jihad against Christianity and the western world, and coexisting with all religions and philosophies. This is what we must achieve for the sakeof our countries, our civilization and for all of humanity.”