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November 18, 2003
Jihad gazette

The Palestinians claim at every opportunity that the reason they can't crack down on terror is that the Israelis have destroyed the Palestinian Authority security apparatus. Well, here is evidence that this excuse is bogus. A textbook preaching the value of 'holy war' and 'martyrdom' for all Muslims has just been reintroduced into PA schools in the West Bank, despite explicit assurances that incitement and religious hatred would be removed from the curriculum. The PA is therefore continuing to incite mass murder. This is the wellspring of terror. The PA schoolbook also provides a definition of 'jihad':

'Jihad is an Islamic term that equates to the term war in other nations. The difference is that jihad has noble goals and lofty aims, and is carried out only for the sake of Allah and for His glory'.

So let's not hear any longer the spurious argument that 'jihad' merely means 'struggle', and that those who claim it means violence are somehow anti-Muslim. It means war. That's what the Palestinians are telling their children; and that's what their culture of hatred and death will use those children to provide.

Posted by melanie at November 18, 2003

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When Abu Mazen was Prime Minister did not the CIA send "activists" to help rebuild the security forces for him? Of course we all know that Arafat took it all for himself along with all that lovely cash.
Funny (peculiar) how Colin and the EU don't come out and face him about it.

Posted by: Barry at November 18, 2003 05:10 PM

Melanie don't you know that jihad is merely an internal struggle within each Muslim in order to 'better' himself? Yeah right!

Posted by: Travis at November 18, 2003 09:20 PM

Monopoly of power is an aspect of a nation state, but there are no nation-states in Arabia......they are all tribal societies where ownership of key businesses is vested in the tribal chief.

Just as the Communists had a Party/State problem so these 'states' have a tribal/civic structure problem as leading tribal families seize the best franchises.

Is it true that the P A Authority airport built with EU money is vested in the PLO as an organisation, and not the people ? It is interesting to know just wat business ventures have been appropriating by the different mafia families sequestrating the general populace.

Posted by: Peter Williamson at November 19, 2003 06:56 AM

If you look at The Express masthead they should still have The Crusader from the Free Trade debates in the 1920s/30s.......I like the word "crusade" it has such a ring to it.

Posted by: Peter Williamson at November 23, 2003 06:36 PM