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Monday, May 19, 2008

NAVAL JIHAD

Via the most recent newsletter from America's Truth Forum:
Islamist forums and jihadi media have been promoting and threatening to perpetrate naval terrorism as an important strategic trend in the jihadi path....

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The Jihad Press deems it essential to take the battle to the sea now that the final fight to subdue the enemy is closing in. When the mujahideen have won the final battle they will impose on the Crusaders and Zionists an unconditional withdrawal from Muslim countries, leaving behind the weapons they brought to kill Muslims. Similar to jihadi ground formations, the maritime mujahideen must commence marine training programs to prepare naval units capable of controlling the sea and restoring the Islamic caliphate. According to the author of the article, the mujahideen should start the naval jihad operations along the Yemeni coastal area...
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This idiocy will serve to embolden the naval jihad even further:
Piracy used to be a one way ticket to the gallows. With the Royal Navy these days, it may be a one way ticket to the pirates’ port of choice; or worse for the people of Britain, the chance for freebooters to claim asylum in the UK.

Last month, Britain’s Foreign Office instructed the Royal Navy not to return pirates to jurisdictions sporting Islamic law for fear that their human rights might be violated. It has even been discouraged from capturing pirates, because they might demand asylum in Britain, a request with which the UK might have to comply under international human rights law.

It isn’t that bad in the U.S. -- yet -- but things are getting worse. Welcome to the brave new world of “lawfare,“ the soft jihad that uses international organizations and treaties, but especially the courts, in an effort to undermine the ability of the West to fight Islamofascism; directly by making military action and law enforcement more difficult, and indirectly by suppressing free discussion of ideas that are crucial to understanding and confronting the Islamist threat....

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