Sunday, June 10, 2007

Kill ... With Manners

The New York Times pubilshed a fascinating article about informal Jihadi rules of conduct, also known as “Jihad etiquette.” There are six basic rules. Two of them:

- You can kill bystanders without feeling a lot of guilt. This is the “let-God-sort-them-out” line of thinking. In essence, it means that God knows who of the bystanders deserved to die and who did not. Those who did not deserve to die will go to heaven (as martyrs), those who did deserve to die will go to hell.

- You may need to ask your parents for their consent.

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2 comments:

munaeem said...

Why are they trying to demonize Islam ? These rules have been indoctrinated by CIA trainers and ISI operatives. It has nothing to do with Islam.

Pete Abel said...

munaeem - I don't think anyone was suggesting these rules are reflective of all of Islam. They are reflective of al-Qaeda, however, aren't they? Many of us recognize that Islam, like Christianity, is a religion of peace, and that only extremists distort either. That's how I read the NYT article, as a reflection of the extremists, not mainstream Islam.