Times Square bomb plotter tells us how a devout Muslim approaches his oath of citizenship
From this AFP report as retailed by Australia’s ABC:
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/06/3030435.htm
‘Life sentence for defiant Times Square bomber’
‘A Pakistani-born US citizen who tried to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square in May has been sentenced to life in prison.
‘A defiant Faisal Shahzad warned Americans “the war with the Muslims has just begun”, as he was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for a botched attempt to bomb New York’s famed Times Square.
‘The defeat of the US is imminent and will happen in the near future”, he told the court shortly before his sentence was announced. “Brace yourselves because the war with the Muslims has just begun”.
‘Shahzad, a US citizen who lived in Connecticut and started what resembled an ordinary American family before embracing jihadist militancy (’embracing jihadist militancy’ – sic: when, oh, when, will a mainstream journalist simply write – ‘before embarking upon combat jihad’? – CM) pleaded guilty in June to the May 1 bombing attempt.
Now for the part of this report that simply jumped out at me the moment I read it: the most important, and the most revealing, and the most useful, and the part that from this point onward should be incessantly brought to the attention of those non-Muslim politicians and officials who have to do with immigration and citizenship, all over the free non-Muslim lands – CM.
‘The 30 year old (it should be: ‘The 30 year old Muslim – CM) obtained US citizenship in April 2009 but said Tuesday it was only a ploy.
And no-one who knows anything at all about Islam will be at all surprised.
Qur’an 9: 3 – ‘Allah and his Messenger dissolve obligations”. Qur’an 66: 1 – ‘Allah has already sanctioned for you the dissolution of your vows’.
Qur’an 3: 28 – “Let believers [Muslims] not take Infidels [non-Muslims] for friends and allies instead of believers. Whoever does this shall have no relationship left with God – unless you but guard yourselves against them, taking precautions”. Raymond Ibrahim in his article “How Taqiyya Alters Islam’s Rules of War” states that Muslim scholar Ibn Kathir, interpreted this verse to mean that ‘Whoever at any time or place fears…evil [from non-Muslims] may protect himself through outward show”.
[Note: Raymond Ibrahim specifically discuss disloyalty in his more recent “The Specter of Muslim Disloyalty in America“]
The Hadith of al-Bukhari, Vol 7, p. 102, states that ‘Abu al-Darda said: “Let us grin in the face of some people while our hearts curse them”; and again, from Bukhari, Vol 4, Book 52, No. 268 – ‘Narrated Abu Huraira – ‘Allah’s Apostle called: “War is deceit”.
The Umdat al-Salik, Shafii manual of Islamic law, quotes (as an authority) the Muslim scholar al-Ghazali, as follows: “Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim (and one may note that conquering America for Islam, would be seen as a praiseworthy aim – CM) is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish it through lying because there is no need for it. **When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying, but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible…and obligatory to lie, if the goal is obligatory. When the purpose is war (and we see that Shahzad has clearly shown he views himself as at war with the USA – CM), settling a disagreement, or gaining the sympathy of a victim legally entitled to retaliate, it is not unlawful to lie when any of these aims can only be attained through lying…”.
A little additional anecdotal testimony, courtesy of one ‘ecil man’ posting on Mr Spencer’s jihadwatch website, July 8, 2005, at 7.52 am, in a discussion of Islam and lying: “Actually I have a friend who was raised a moslem in Pakistian [sic]. He no longer believes in god period. But he stated to me any non-moslem who thinks he can be friends with a moslem is a fool. Never believe what they say. To lie or deceive a nonmoslem is a great honor…”.
So, bearing all this in mind, back to our Pakistani Muslim jihadist Shahzad in the courtroom in America…
“Didn’t you swear allegiance to this country?” Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum asked him.
“I sweared, but I didn’t mean it,” Shahzad replied…
‘The son of a Pakistani air force officer, Shahzad came to the United States to study at the age of 18 and in 2009 became a naturalised American citizen.
And now we all know exactly how much that US citizenship – so ardently sought, so proudly borne, so loyally lived by millions of non-Muslim immigrants to America, including the forebears of persons such as Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum with her magnificently Jewish name, and including those Filipino-born, Korean-born and Latin-American-born new-minted US citizens whose names may be seen in the list of the 9/11 dead – meant to this Muslim, and what it likely means to many, many others just like him. That is: nothing.
Nothing but a temporary pose during the preparation of an act of Jihad. For as Hizb ut Tahrir, and others, openly tell us, a Muslim is supposed to give no loyalty or friendship to anything else but the Ummah; certainly not to any Infidel nation-state – CM.
‘Living in the suburbs of New York City, he worked as a financial analyst and married another Pakistani-American, raising two children. But he says he became disillusioned with his estrangement from Islam and upset at what he considered humiliation of Muslims worldwide.
O indeed, I’m sure he felt ‘humiliated’…because Muslims, ‘the best of people’, do not yet rule the entire world. Anything less than that is a condition of oppression and humiliation, a grave injustice, to those who feel themselves entitled and mandated so to rule – CM.
‘In a 40-minute Taliban video released by the US government, Shahzad, wearing traditional clothes and carrying an automatic rifle and a Koran, calls for war against the West to avenge what he refers to as downtrodden Muslims.
“You will see the Muslim war has just started, until Islam spreads war over the whole world”, he threatens in the video…”Our way is with the sword”.
‘The video was apparently shot while Shahzad was receiving training in Taliban-friendly regions in Pakistan over the previous year before coming back to Connecticut and gathering materials for the bomb’.
Judging from this, he had Jihad well and truly in mind even as he insincerely took part in that US citizenship ceremony (I am assuming there was a ceremony ) in 2009. I wonder whether, somewhere, there is a photograph of the participants in that ceremony, all those new-minted Americans smiling side-by-side; and among them one Faisal Shahzad, smiling with the rest while nurturing hatred in his heart. – CM.
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