Iqbal.

This is coolbert: I am reprising one of my prior blog entries in reaction to the recent attacks carried out by the fevered minded ones in London.

Of course Tony Blair said that we must get to the root causes of terror. Those root causes being poverty, oppression in the Muslim world, the Middle-Eastern conflict [Arabs and Israelis], etc.

It would do good at this point to remind ourselves what another London resident said way before the current wave of terror that has spread to all parts of the world.

From the prior blog entry, quoting Mohammad Iqbal here:

"Believe me, Europe today is the greatest hindrance in the way of
man's ethical achievement. The Muslim, on the other hand, is in
possession of these ultimate ideas on the basis of a revelation .
. . With him the spiritual basis of life is a matter of conviction
for which even the least enlightened man among us can easily lay
down his life [9/11!!!!!!!] . . . The basic idea of Islam that
there can be no further revelation binding on man . . . "

And please note that Iqbal was not some wild-eyed fanatic.
He was educated in elite English schools and came from the most elite
segment of Indian and later Pakistani society, and was the
confidant of the most elite powers in what has become Pakistan.
Iqbal died in 1938, so the above quote had to be from before that.
When we read Europe in the above quote, also think of the United
States in the current context.

See now the quote from the ex-head of the Israeli Mossad:

Efraim Halevy, who recently stepped down as the head of the Israel
National Security Council and national security adviser to the
Israeli prime minister, said we were in for the long haul and must
brace ourselves for more that will follow.

"We are in the throes of a world war, raging over the entire
globe, and characterized by the absence of lines of conflict and
an easily identifiable enemy. There are sometimes long pauses
between one attack and the next, consequently creating the wrong
impression that the battle is all over."...

He said the 'great wars' of the 20th century lasted less than this
war, and the end was nowhere in sight. "The aim of the enemy is
not to defeat western civilization but to destroy its sources of
power and existence, and to render it a relic of the past.

"It does not seek a territorial victory or a regime change; it
wants to turn western civilization into history and will stop at
nothing less than that."

And even more. This time from an e-mail post from a "believer" of the type that would have warmed the heart of Mohammad Iqbal:

[please note, the spelling is copied is as it was written and copied, not my spelling!!]

"Asslamualikum,

Problem is not the kaffirs of America understanding
true Islam. It is the Muslims not
understanding true Islam.

War is deception. Some of the best techniques used by the west
thought history is say we have come in peace, Same happened during
the evil British and French empires. They said they came as
peaceful traders and the people believed them both Muslims and
kaffirs. After which the countries were they went in peace were
devoured. Their wealth taken away, 100 of thousands of their
religious people massacred. Fault lies not just with the kaffirs
of the west but with the Muslims. Muslims ignored
the Quran and the Hadith. Which told them that the Christians
and Jews would never be happy until the Muslims left Islam.
Today the same thing is happening America and Britain and
other European nations say we have come in peace.
And at the same time they are chopping the
heads of Muslim babies, raping Muslim women and Torturing Muslim
men and women and even children. Shaving the beards of male prisoners,
removing the cloths of female prisoners even those who are as
young as 13 and raping them.

Spreading Music and pornography in Afghanistan and Iraq which they
know isharam. Bombing Masjids.

And still millions of Muslims think that west has come in peace
and are not Anti-Islam. So fault lies with Muslims because
they do not want to believe in some parts
of the Quran and hadith.As I mentioned many times before
that we learn from hadith that the west will remain fighting Islam
until the day of judgement.

If we say we are Muslim then we cant pick and choose
what we want to believe. What the Allah or His Prophet
(peace be upon him ) havesaid will happen and no one
can change the future.

If the world was to last for another million years then the west
will be against Islam and fighting Islam for another million years.

And it will be trying to convert your children and grandchild to
Christianity or secularism or other types of kufr [unbelief] with
brain washing via media and educational intuitions, charities and
at gun point....

In Africa Christian Aid agencies have converted many starving African
Muslims. In other parts of Muslim world though food Aid and Loans
they haven't got Muslims to become Christians but they have had
some Muslims to start to leave Shariah law.

When this happens then the punishment of Allah comes on the
Muslims. We saw the devastation that happened in seconds.
It is said that just this one earthquake was equivalent to
a million Atom bombs.

And Imagine if Allah was to punish the Muslims for fearing
American 100, 000 Atom bombs instead of fearing Allah.

Imagine if Allah was to say you fear America and the west more
than me and sent 100 000 of these Earthquakes on the Muslims.

And Imagine if the Muslims pleased Allah , feared him and loved
him. And asked His help against the west and Allah answered their
Duas. What could America do to save themselves?

They would be easily defeated."

The message from the above quoted e-mail is quite clear.
Be true to our religion and we will be triumphant.

From my prior blog entry, I repeat here:

The jihadist believes that they, and the whole world can achieve
moral perfection through Islam, but that there is one roadblock,
the cultural influence of the cesspool west and especially the
U.S., impeding this grand scheme even from occurring.

Now, is this to say that the motivators for this hate of the west
is not also rooted in the such things as was mentioned in the
previous post? NO! Poverty, oppression, undue influence, the
Palestinian issue, all these are factors too. But, at least in my
opinion, these are a side show to the major issue, that of an
enormous culture clash and world view rooted in religion.

coolbert.