How Not Living Up To Our Own Beliefs Aids Our Enemies

[volvotool]

Taliban officials know it’s sacrilegious to hope a mosque will not be built, but that’s exactly what they’re wishing for: the success of the fiery campaign to block the proposed Islamic cultural center and prayer room near the site of the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. “By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor,” Taliban operative Zabihullah tells NEWSWEEK. (Like many Afghans, he uses a single name.) “It’s providing us with more recruits, donations, and popular support.”

America’s enemies in Afghanistan are delighted by the vehement public opposition to the proposed “Ground Zero mosque.” The backlash against the project has drawn the heaviest e-mail response ever on jihadi Web sites, Zabihullah claims—far bigger even than France’s ban on burqas earlier this year. (That was big, he recalls: “We received many e-mails asking for advice on how Muslims should react to the hijab ban, and how they can punish France.”) This time the target is America itself. “We are getting even more messages of support and solidarity on the mosque issue and questions about how to fight back against this outrage.”

Zabihullah also claims that the issue is such a propaganda windfall—so tailor-made to show how “anti-Islamic” America is—that it now heads the list of talking points in Taliban meetings with fighters, villagers, and potential recruits. “We talk about how America tortures with waterboarding, about the cruel confinement of Muslims in wire cages in Guantánamo, about the killing of innocent women and children in air attacks—and now America gives us another gift with its street protests to prevent a mosque from being built in New York,” Zabihullah says. “Showing reality always makes the best propaganda.”

Taliban officials say they’re looking forward to a new wave of terrorist trainees from the West like this year’s Times Square car bomber. “I expect we will soon be receiving more American Muslims like Faisal Shahzad who are looking for help in how to express their rage,” says a Taliban official who was a senior minister when the group ruled Afghanistan and who remains active in the insurgency. As an indication of the anger that is growing among some Muslims in the West, this official, who requested anonymity for security reasons, mentions the arrest of three Canadian Muslims in Ontario last week on charges of plotting to build and detonate improvised explosive devices. (A fourth individual was arrested in Ottawa last Friday in connection with the case.) The Ground Zero furor will likely add to that anger. “The more mosques you stop, the more jihadis we will get,” Zabihullah predicts.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/30/taliban-using-mosque-controversy-to-recruit.print.html

[Chilled man]

Still dont care.

Go post it on SS there some one might care

Still nuke the whole middle east everyone and anyone who thinks some pile of dirt is holy and that should solve most of our problems

[Pops Racer]

And there it is, NEWSWEEK.

Finally you show your colors.

Not that that was in doubt, you just never were specific about your sources of info.

Dude, that rag is dead. You and 3 other people read it. Save yourself some money, cancel your subscription, your gonna need it to pay your health care taxes.

[volvotool]

And there it is, NEWSWEEK.

Finally you show your colors.

Not that that was in doubt, you just never were specific about your sources of info.

Dude, that rag is dead. You and 3 other people read it. Save yourself some money, cancel your subscription, your gonna need it to pay your health care taxes.

True colors? What the monkey are you on about? I posted a link to the Newsweek article, rather than other sources with the same story, because I thought it was a fairly neutral news source. I had no idea it would set off hair fires in wingnutville. Seriously, Newsweek sets you off? Good God, no wonder you imagine the NY Times is 'liberal!'

I think print media in general is dying because America has moved on. Unfortunately, we've moved on to illiteracy. Which is why the retarded spectacle of TV cable 'news' is so popular, I guess. Less thinkin', more outrage!

Edited September 16, 2010 by volvotool

[DonutsDemise]

And there it is, NEWSWEEK.

Finally you show your colors.

Not that that was in doubt, you just never were specific about your sources of info.

Dude, that rag is dead. You and 3 other people read it. Save yourself some money, cancel your subscription, your gonna need it to pay your health care taxes.

so what do people read these days if it's not the New Yorker or Newsweek? The New York Post? The Washington Times?

[Fishey]

so what do people read these days if it's not the New Yorker or Newsweek? The New York Post? The Washington Times?

I read Volvospeed and Rennlist most of the time.

That being said magazine wise the only reliable source I use is Jegs and Summit.

-Your Pal

|^FiShEy^|

[Pops Racer]

so what do people read these days if it's not the New Yorker or Newsweek? The New York Post? The Washington Times?

I read my local paper, and internet and OMG FOX NEWS.

cuz when i watch msnbc I puke.

ANd my life experiences tell me whats right and wrong, I was raised by nonsocialist, hard working, godfearing, self-reliant individuals, not whinny victims of there own slackerness.

I say again, I will follow the founders, I know what I'm getting, not these userpers of GOds will, the elitists who know better than me, or the smarmy educrats raised in the 60's.

Keep whining, the tide is changing, your plans of globalization, income redistribution, and social justice are gonna work out just fine... :rolleyes:

[Chilled man]

I think print media in general is dying because America has moved on. Unfortunately, we've moved on to illiteracy. Which is why the retarded spectacle of TV cable 'news' is so popular, I guess. Less thinkin', more outrage!

I had to +1 you for this and so should everyone else sinces unfotuanlly its the truth <_<

[Pops Racer]

oh yeah