My Jihad

There was an amusing spat recently between Pamela Gellar and CAIR (The Council on American-Islamic Relations) about the meaning of the word “jihad”. CAIR has been pushing the line that jihad is all about personal struggle. With this in mind they ran a billboard campaign featuring smiling Muslims hugging and being otherwise tactile with infidels. Blazoned across each are slogans like, “My Jihad is to stay fit despite my busy schedule. What’s yours?” and “My jihad is to not judge people by their cover. What’s yours?”Here’s the hippy version.

  

Pamela Gellar took issue with CAIR’s attempt to detoxify the jihad brand and came up with a campaign of her own featuring variations on the theme below.

  

CAIR were somewhat upset to have their awareness building campaign sabotaged, and took up position on the high moral ground to fight back. Various clean shaven men and liberated sounding Muslim women took to the airwaves to do battle, specifically with Pamela herself and more generally with “Islamophobia”. This has rumbled on inconclusively for the last couple of months leaving the public, no doubt, as bewildered as ever by the meaning of jihad.

Until now, that is. The Boston bombers have clarified the issue. It turns out that whilst both definitions are valid, the blood and guts version takes precedence. Just as in considering Hitler’s global personality, his murderous war-making is rather more significant than his vegetarianism and concern for animal welfare. So in the case of the Boston brothers, their murder and maiming of innocents jihad outweighs their exemplary efforts in reaching out to the wider American community.

The Boston bombers’ sister doesn’t know what “got into” her “kind and loving” brothers. Indeed, CAIR must be relieved they didn’t run into them a few months ago when they were casting for their cuddly Muslims campaign. The boys would have been perfect. Here’s a great picture of the older one, the “fanatical one”,  a boxer, being seamlessly integrated. It would have gone great with the slogan,  “My Jihad is to build friendships across the aisle. What’s yours?” version.

  

And that goes double for the younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaey, 19. He not only talked the talk of a well integrated all-American-Muslim in the form of his inane Twitter chatter about innocuous pop culture. He also walked the walk of the “My Jihad” campaign in terms of his numerous non-Muslim friends, his winning a scholarship, and working as a lifeguard. As he put it himself: “I didn’t become a lifeguard just to chill… saving brings me joy”. Or perhaps as CAIR would have had it: “My Jihad is saving people. What’s yours?”

So all this begs an answer to their sister’s question: “What got into them?”

In a word, Islam.

One typically Muslim example of cognitive dissonance is the views of the younger brother on 9/11. On the one hand he posted to his buddies that:

“Idk [I don't know] why it's hard for many of you to accept that 9/11 was an inside job, I mean I guess f*** the facts y'all are some real #patriots #gethip.”
                                                                   
But with the great itself day approaching:

“September 10th baby, you know what tomorrow is. Party at my house!”

So which was it? A glorious Muslim victory, or an “inside job”?

You’d need a psychiatrist to work that one out. But if you don’t have one handy you might like to consider the following.

This is taken from one of the earliest biographical sources on Mohammad considered to be reliable by Muslim scholars.

The Apostle of Allah (Mohammad) imprisoned the Qurayza (inhabitants of a Jewish town) in Medina while trenches were dug in the market place. Then he sent for the men and had their heads struck off so they fell into the trenches. They were brought out in groups, and among them was Kab, the chief of the tribe. In number, they amounted to six or seven hundred, although some state it to have been eight or nine hundred. All were executed. One man turned to his people and said, “It matters not! By God’s will, the children of Israel were destined for this massacre!” Then he seated himself and his head was struck off.

Ibn Ishaq - The Life of Muhammad

This scene of mass slaughter seems familiar to anyone with a passing acquaintance with 20th century history. The waiting trench, groups of Jews driven to the edge of the pit, the squalid murder, and the mass grave of the murdered.

This was, however, no Nazi atrocity. It was committed, in person, by the founder of the world’s second largest religion, Islam,

Islam is aggressive and intolerant because the founder of Islam, the ideal Muslim role model, was aggressive and intolerant.

My Jihad is to expose Islam. 

                                                                            

That is, of course, in the CAIR sense of the word.