More On That Muslim Bomb Plot

More interesting and important details emerge about that Muslim plot to bomb seven airliners.

Six of the eight men recorded videos justifying "revenge" attacks on non-Muslims, jurors were told. One man, said to be defendant Umar Islam, described his plans as "revenge" for the actions of the United States and its "accomplices such as the British and the Jews". He warned: "Martyrdom operations upon martyrdom operations will keep on raining on these kuffars [non-believers] until they release us and leave our lands." Another man, described as defendant Abdulla Ahmed Ali, was heard saying: "Sheikh Osama [Bin Laden] has warned you many times to leave our lands or you will be destroyed, and now the time has come for you to be destroyed."

Note the constant repetition of "our lands". By "our", they mean Muslim. This is another example of the fact these men's actions - and those of countless others like them - transcend nationalism and country boundaries: they are completely and specifically motivated by Islam. And yet Western analysts continually tell us this is not the case and downplay the role of Islam in such actions. They do so at our peril.

Umar Islam went on to argue British citizens were legitimate targets because they had paid taxes that funded the Army. And this is very similar to something bin Laden himself said to justify the mass murder of 9/11: "The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates." By such definition, there is no such thing as an innocent American. How are peaceful Muslims attempting to challenge these views?

I also found this interesting: in what the jury was told was Tanvir Hussain's suicide video, a man said he wished he could "come back and do this again, and just do it again and again until people come to their senses and realise, you know, don't mess with the Muslims". I am sure Hussain is well aware of the hadith which reads:

"The Prophet said...I would love to be martyred in Allah's Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred." (Sahih Bukhari v.4, b.52, no.4)

This case is a great example of the overall problem: these Muslims planned to commit their acts "in the name of Islam". They imbued all their actions with religious significance and invoked mainstream and reliable (from an Islamic standpoint) religious traditions. And all the while, Westerners attempt to downplay the role of religion or leave it unexplored. Meanwhile, peaceful Muslims are mounting no significant or vociferous challenge to the jihad ideology these men embody. Instead, they are spending all their time protesting against non-Muslims who make films in which they point out that men like Umar Islam and Abdulla Ahmed Ali exist.