The Pentagon Reads The Koran.

Note: This site admits that there are numerous possible readings of all the passages in the Koran. Everyone is entitled (it's called freedom of religious belief)to make up his/her own mind on these matters of serious concern.

This also applies to the Pentagon. The reading they give seems, to them, to correspond to the reality of the suicide bombings performed by many muslims. Other readings of the same Koranic suras lead other muslims to do other things...

...one man's meat, is another man's poison.

Read this very interesting posting.



September 28, 2006
Suicide bombers follow Quran, concludes Pentagon briefing
After retailing nonsense since 9/11 about how all this jihad terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, someone in the Pentagon actually took a look at the Qur'an itself, and -- lo and behold! -- discovered what I have been trying to tell people for years now: that the jihadists have a broad justification within the Qur'an and Islamic theology and law, and that fact has to be confronted by both Muslims and non-Muslims if anything effective is ever going to be done about it. "Suicide bombers follow Quran, concludes Pentagon briefing: Tasked with pinpointing motivation, analysts find terrorists 'rational actors' following 'holy book,'" from WND, with thanks to all who sent this in:

With suicide bombings spreading from Iraq to Afghanistan, the Pentagon has tasked intelligence analysts to pinpoint what's driving Muslim after Muslim to do the unthinkable.
Their preliminary finding is politically explosive: it's their "holy book" the Quran after all, according to intelligence briefings obtained by WND.

In public, the U.S. government has made an effort to avoid linking the terrorist threat to Islam and the Quran while dismissing suicide terrorists as crazed heretics who pervert Islamic teachings.

"The terrorists distort the idea of jihad into a call for violence and murder," the White House maintains in its recently released "National Strategy for Combating Terrorism" report.

But internal Pentagon briefings show intelligence analysts have reached a wholly different conclusion after studying Islamic scripture and the backgrounds of suicide terrorists. They've found that most Muslim suicide bombers are in fact students of the Quran who are motivated by its violent commands – making them, as strange as it sounds to the West, "rational actors" on the Islamic stage.

In Islam, it is not how one lives one's life that guarantees spiritual salvation, but how one dies, according to the briefings. There are great advantages to becoming a martyr. Dying while fighting the infidels in the cause of Allah reserves a special place and honor in Paradise. And it earns special favor with Allah.

"Suicide in defense of Islam is permitted, and the Islamic suicide bomber is, in the main, a rational actor," concludes a recent Pentagon briefing paper titled, "Motivations of Muslim Suicide Bombers."

Suicide for Allah a 'win-win'

"His actions provide a win-win scenario for himself, his family, his faith and his God," the document explains. "The bomber secures salvation and the pleasures of Paradise. He earns a degree of financial security and a place for his family in Paradise. He defends his faith and takes his place in a long line of martyrs to be memorialized as a valorous fighter.

"And finally, because of the manner of his death, he is assured that he will find favor with Allah," the briefing adds. "Against these considerations, the selfless sacrifice by the individual Muslim to destroy Islam's enemies becomes a suitable, feasible and acceptable course of action."

The briefing – produced by a little-known Pentagon intelligence unit called the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA – cites a number of passages from the Quran dealing with jihad, or "holy" warfare, martyrdom and Paradise, where "beautiful mansions" and "maidens" await martyr heroes. In preparation for attacks, suicide terrorists typically recite passages from six surahs, or chapters, of the Quran: Baqura (Surah 2), Al Imran (3), Anfal (8), Tawba (9), Rahman (55) and Asr (103).


Particularly 9:111, which guarantees Paradise to those who "kill and are killed" for Allah.





Comment: The struggle in the West is against the ideology of Jihadist Islam. It can help confused readers to look back in history; the struggle in the Second World War was not against Germans, it was against Nazi ideology; in the Cold War the struggle was not against the Russians, it was against the ideology of Communism.

Today, the struggle is not against muslims, it is against the ideology of Jihadist Islam.

The source of the Jihadist Islamic ideology is the Koran, as the Jihadist Islamists interpret it. This interpretation may be wrong (who knows? There is no central teaching authority in Islam.)but it is the one that is actually being made by the Jihadist Muslims. This is the force against which the West is struggling.

As in every war, the innocent are always casualties.

The report from the Pentagon will strengthen the resolve of the Americans to fight the Jihadist Islamists. Australian muslims need to urgently develop an Australian Islam which rejects entirely Jihadist Islam.

There is no alternative.