December 31, 2004

[Ed.'s Warning: This is the Ass. Press.
Read accordingly!]
Terror groups call voting un-Islamic

The radical Ansar al-Sunnah Army and two other terrorist groups issued a statement yesterday, warning Iraqis not to vote in the Jan. 30 election because democracy is un-Islamic.
    "Democracy is a Greek word meaning the rule of the people, which means that the people do what they see fit," the groups said in a warning. "This concept is considered apostasy and defies the belief in one God — Muslims' doctrine."
[How they make this leap of supposedly theologically-based logic is beyond me!
Is this to say that "the people," either collectively or individually, don't express God's will with their vote?
Or that their leaders, as corrupt, apostate and unjustly tyrannical as they may be, are still in power simply because "Allah wills it?"
No wonder political life in the Middle East has been so sclerotic, medieval and just plain terrible!--Jen]
    
"Democracy leads to passing un-Islamic laws, such as permitting homosexual "marriage," if the majority agrees, the terrorists said.
[Too bad they fail to point out that in the US, where 13 states have voted on the homosexual marriage issue in the past year or so, all those states have voted against it.--J.T.]

After the warning was issued, all 700 employees of the electoral commission in Mosul, Iraq, resigned, the Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera reported.
    
Farid Ayar, spokesman of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, said he was not able to confirm the Al Jazeera report.

The warning came a day after insurgents in Mosul, which has seen increased violence in recent weeks, launched a highly coordinated
[More AP editorializing to benefit the Enemy.--Jen] assault on a U.S. military outpost.
    
The United States said 25 insurgents
[Yeppers!
The killers are still dubbed "insurgents."]
were thought to have been slain and one American soldier was killed in the battle, which involved strafing runs by U.S. warplanes.
   
 The United States, which has said the vote must go forward, repeatedly has sought to portray recent attacks that have killed dozens of people as the acts of a reeling insurgency, not the work of a force that is gathering strength.
    
Ansar al-Sunnah earlier posted a manifesto on its Web site saying democracy amounts to idolizing human beings.
[The significance of this is that, to Waahabs, any idol-worship is anathema and punishable by death and "righteous" jihadi murder.]
Yesterday's joint statement reiterated the threat that "anyone who accepts to take part in this dirty farce will not be safe."

A message this week from Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind and a spiritual leader for millions of Muslims, branded anyone who votes in Iraq as an "infidel."
[Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?
This is quite a comedown for Osama, BTW, to go from promising the complete downfall of the West to threatening voters like an Arab Terry McAuliffe!
I love it. We're winning the war...big time!]
   
 Insurgents have intensified their strikes against the security forces of Iraq's U.S.-installed interim government as part of a continuing campaign to disrupt the elections for a constitutional assembly.
    
The statements by the Sunni-dominated insurgent groups
[This means Waahabs, for those following along at home.]
seemed aimed at countering Shi'ite leaders' claims that voting in the election is every Muslim's duty.
    
Shi'ite Islam includes a strong historic tradition of people rising up to oust corrupt leaders who deviate from Islam.
[AP getting creative again...Who are they talking about? Iran?
This election will mark the first time that Shiites won't be left out of the electoral process in Iraq-- ever, after being brutally suppressed by Saddam for 30 years and that's enough for them.
See next paragraph.]

    Shi'ites, who make up 60 percent of the population, hope to use the vote to gain power from minority Sunnis, who were favored under former dictator Saddam Hussein.
    
Iraqis will elect a national assembly, which will write a new constitution.

The road ahead to the Jan. 30 elections may be rough, but quitting isn't an option for us or for the Iraqis.
This "Democracy is un-Islamic" attitude is the biggest obstacle we face now, but it's what these Islamic despots have clung to for years, decades, centuries even to hang on to power and keep most of their people in misery and subjection.
At war is our view that "All men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights..." which springs directly from Christianity versus their immutable determinism that "It is the will of Allah that you commen men be nothing but helpless pawns in a ruler's 'divine' reign, so resistance is futile.", even civil resistance.
According to these theocratic thugs, power can't be transferred peacefully after the citizenry votes, but can only be seized by force, conquest and murder.
I wonder which side of this argument will win?
The suspense is killing me!
(P.S. Osama, as a devout Waahab, considers all Shi-ites to be infidels anyway, so they might as well vote!)