NYT: The jihadi’s guide to etiquette
posted at 7:44 pm on June 10, 2007 by Allahpundit
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They’re not street-fighting, they’re following Queensberry rules. It’s just that the Queensberry rules authorize something that looks exactly like street-fighting, and to the extent that they don’t, they can be “finessed” and re-interpreted until they do. Funny, that.
Six handy rules, which can be boiled down thusly to four:
1. You can kill civilians, including kids, because they get bonus points from Allah as unwilling martyrs in the afterlife and thus you’re really sort of doing them a favor. Kids, in fact, magically metamorphose into young adults so they can get laid properly for eternity.
2. You can, of course, kill combatants, “combatant” being defined essentially as anyone who doesn’t follow shari’a, e.g., bankers who charge interest on loans, or anyone who votes for Tony Blair. BUT you can’t kill inside a country where you reside unless you were born there — UNLESS you’re waging jihad in Iraq, where you get some kind of special Iraq pass or something.
3. You can lie. I.e., taqiyya.
4. You need your parents’ permission UNLESS you’re in Iraq or any “nearby” country, which exempts pretty much the entire Middle East.
I was going to say something about one of the Times’s sources equating jihadism with the western concept of collateral damage but Tigerhawk’s already beaten me to it. So instead, here’s my latest work — “Study in Charcoal: Islamist Savages and Their Western Enablers, #62.”
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Those are a very interesting 6 rules, AP, all 1-4 of them.
Christoph on June 10, 2007 at 7:52 PM
Rules??? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules
Oh yeah there is no crying in baseball either.
LakeRuins on June 10, 2007 at 7:53 PM
Hence the phrase “boiled down.” I’ve added “to four” to clarify.
Allahpundit on June 10, 2007 at 7:54 PM
AP – For those of us who only learned to count to 4 we appreciate it.
gubmint skool don’t ‘ya no
LakeRuins on June 10, 2007 at 7:56 PM
Pretty typical, and pretty appalling. I believe the NYT and MSM agrees with the professor’s belief that 60’s leftists, and the US Military share the same rationale as Jihadists.
Oh, and Islam is just as appaling. The “Religion of Peace” demonstrates just how easy it finds justifying whosale slaughter.
Rode Werk on June 10, 2007 at 7:58 PM
Sigh, too much ParisBrittanyJessicaLindseyHiltonSpearsLohan harms one’s spelling. Gubmint skool is my excuse also.
Rode Werk on June 10, 2007 at 8:03 PM
Man, I follow this links and read various linked fatwas, and it is like a work of fiction. It would almost be beyond belief if it weren’t for the daily bloodshed.
Spirit of 1776 on June 10, 2007 at 8:28 PM
Exactly what I was thinking. If only it was a work of fiction, oh if only…
hollygolightly on June 10, 2007 at 8:30 PM
Google is doing to my spelling skills, what calculators have done to my math skills. :(
JayHaw Phrenzie on June 10, 2007 at 8:31 PM
“Jihad Etiquette” – laughable if it wasn’t so bloody serious.
I guess even Satan believes himself to be a person of honor.
infidel4life on June 10, 2007 at 8:43 PM
Study in charcoal? It looks a little more like watercolor. I thought thet only had two rules
1. Violence
2. Killing
Jeff on June 10, 2007 at 8:47 PM
What do girl kids get in the hereafter if not virgins?
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on June 10, 2007 at 9:12 PM
Yeah, all of those who follow the pedophile Mohammad would like to see this happen. Let them all rot in hell!
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on June 10, 2007 at 9:36 PM
So basically, according to these “rules” , depending on who you are and what you go for, you can find any idiot to translate this cursed religion any way you damned want! How convenient for them. Bastards.
4shoes on June 10, 2007 at 9:48 PM
Lucky for you! I’ve answered that. Or, rather, Mullah major dad has.
tree hugging sister on June 10, 2007 at 10:34 PM
The above is a posting on Tigerhawk’s. My thoughts exactly, it never ceases to amaze me how some people (leftist give appeasment a chance moonbat crowd)
can be so blinded by their ideology that they refuse to see how ridiculous and indefensible it is to make such a comparison, the Pentagon and our military are no different in their tactics than the Islamo-fascists…sickening!
The lefts denial of what we are facing, how brutal our foe is, and the fact they continue to compare these murdering butchers with our military proves their state of denial has reached the level of psychosis!
You know, maybe I’m wrong and the apologist/appeasement/peaceniks are right, perhaps the WOT would be over and they would leave us alone if we would just talk with our enemy, give them a hug, and make amends for all the terrible things we have done to them all these years. Seriously, after reading their Jihadi Guide to Etiquette they’re obviously just as peace loving and rational as we are, right?/sarc
Liberty or Death on June 10, 2007 at 10:37 PM
The only satisfaction from this topic is that “Miss Manners”, or the bride in the picture, is dead. May the virgins abuse him forever.
I used to wish comm*nism away fervently and never thought that it would happen in my lifetime. Then it did, for the most part. Never, in a million thoughts, could I imagine that this is a topic for our discussion in this new century. We live in very strange times. The current form of our media and these savages need to be destroyed.
Entelechy on June 10, 2007 at 10:47 PM
Yep, hell is exactly where people that believe it’s permissible to intentionally murder innocent people need to go! However, our politicos are getting in the way of letting our commanders dispatch them to the infernal regions they should be rotting in!
Let the military do it’s job and keep politics out of it!
P.S. Born in Syracuse…go Orange Men!
Liberty or Death on June 10, 2007 at 10:51 PM
Me thinks AP is waging Parishad against us.
Kini on June 10, 2007 at 11:42 PM
Spirit of 1776-
It is fiction.
Unfortunately, people kill over that just as well as for reality.
See: Aztecs, Kali ‘Thugs’, Communists, Nazis, etc.
All were following essentially unreal theories…
As a paranoid lunatic can kill you because he mistakes you for “Satan”.
But you’re just as dead, no matter how wrong the maniac was.
Islam is like a Steven King nightmare bled into our dimension.
Or siren-zombies spawned from the meteorite in the Ka’aba.
profitsbeard on June 11, 2007 at 1:38 AM
I mean the events of the world today, not the doctrine of it’s masses, but I get your point. :)
Spirit of 1776 on June 11, 2007 at 2:02 AM
Further proof that the “religion of peace” is, in reality, just a violent cult with brain dead followers. Pathetic.
lynnv on June 11, 2007 at 8:09 AM
Posting pictures of Rosie again, huh, AP??
Mazztek on June 11, 2007 at 11:46 AM
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