By Max Musson:
In recent days, media commentators and career politicians have been falling over themselves to reassure the British public that the brutal murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich this week was a ‘one off’, ‘lone wolf’ attack by two madmen, which had nothing to do with Islam and which was unconnected with any larger terrorist network.
So keen were they to portray this version of events that the original video of the rant given by one of the suspected killers was trimmed and edited so that the public would be denied important information about the these men and their motivation.
BBC news reports last Wednesday, the day Lee Rigby was murdered, did show the full version of the video up until the 9 o’clock news in the evening, when the edited version replaced it and not just on TV, but all across the Internet.
So crudely cut was the edited version that it actually cause conspiracy theory addicts to speculate that the murder may have been a hoax.
Today however the full version of the video has been republished on the Internet website of the Sun newspaper and once again we have access to the uncensored version of the suspected killer’s rant.
A transcript is as follows:
“The only reason we have killed this man today, is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers and this British soldier is one, he is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
“By Allah we swear by almighty Allah that we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone.
“So what if we want to live by the Shariah in Muslim lands, why does that mean that you must follow us and chase us and call us extremists and kill us? Rather you lot are extreme, you are the ones, when you drop a bomb, you think it hits one person? Or rather your bomb wipes out a whole family. This is the reality.
“By Allah, if I saw your mother today with a buggy, I would help her up the stairs, this is my nature, but we are forced by the Koran and Sura At-Tawba, and many many ayah throughout the Koran that we must fight them as they fight us, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
“I apologise that women had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same.
“You people will never be safe. Remove your governments, they don’t care about you.
“Do you think David Cameron is going to get caught in the street when we start busting out guns, do you think politicians are going to die? No, it’s going to be the average guy like you and your children.
“So get rid of them, tell them to bring our troops back, so we can, so you can all live in peace. Leave our lands and you can live in peace, that’s all I have to say. Allah’s peace and blessings be upon you, As-Salāmu Alaykum.”
The key elements are:
1. That knowing full well that he was deliberately awaiting a confrontation with the police that would either end in his death or capture, the suspected killer referred to “we” who would in time to come, be “busting out guns”. This can only be a reference to other terrorist colleagues who would be more lethally armed than the two suspected killers were this time.
2. The statement that, “… we are forced by the Koran and Sura At-Tawba, and many many ayah throughout the Koran that we must fight them as they fight us …”
This second extract, demonstrates that the suspected killer believed his religion ‘demanded’ of him that he commit acts such as the murder of Lee Rigby. So let us examine the Koranic reference to which he directly refers, and so that no-one will suspect that I am quoting short passages out of context, I reproduce below, five verses just as they are presented in an online version of the Koran, which can be found here :
The Koran, Sura At-Tawba, 9
9:1.[This is a declaration of] disassociation, from Allah and His Messenger, to those with whom you had made a treaty among the polytheists.
9:2. So travel freely, [O disbelievers], throughout the land [during] four months but know that you cannot cause failure to Allah and that Allah will disgrace the disbelievers.
9:3. And [it is] an announcement from Allah and His Messenger to the people on the day of the greater pilgrimage that Allah is disassociated from the disbelievers, and [so is] His Messenger. So if you repent, that is best for you; but if you turn away – then know that you will not cause failure to Allah . And give tidings to those who disbelieve of a painful punishment.
9:4. Excepted are those with whom you made a treaty among the polytheists and then they have not been deficient toward you in anything or supported anyone against you; so complete for them their treaty until their term [has ended]. Indeed, Allah loves the righteous [who fear Him].
9:5. And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.
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It is clear from the text above, that the terms ‘polytheist’ and ‘disbelievers’ are interchangeable, and it is clear that these passages betray a violent and murderous intent towards all those ‘disbelievers and polytheists’ who do not repent and adopt the teachings of Islam, the same murderous intent that the suspected killers exhibited towards their victim Lee Rigby.
It is now evident that the two suspected killers were motivated by their religion and that they acted in the way instructed by this specific piece of religious text. They may therefore be religious fanatics, but it would appear they were not insane. To someone who is a devout Muslim, i.e. one who believes the Koran to be the literal word of God, their actions are a logical consequence of their religious beliefs, and therefore, any claims that their actions are ‘un-Islamic’, are at best mistaken, or worse, disingenuous.
Since the capture of the suspected killers, there have been a number of further arrests of people acquainted with them and this strongly indicates that, contrary to earlier ‘assurances’ the killers are indeed part of a wider network of other potential terrorists.
The onus now lies with Muslim leaders and clerics to either refute the content of Sura At-Tawba, or to acknowledge that their religion, which teaches that the Koran is the literal word of God, is in urgent need of revision and a process of enlightenment, similar to that which Christianity underwent, in order to bring it’s teachings into line with modern values and modern standards of morality. Without such a revision, there is a very real danger that atrocities such as we witnessed this week will continue to be committed by naïve Muslim fanatics.
By Max Musson © 2013
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Steve
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To be honest let them “start busting out guns”, get it over with, the noise might wake a few more people up & something might at last start to happen.
Steve
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The other problem is that we haven’t got a few hundred years for islam in this country to go via Henry the 8th & become all touchy feely, lovey dovey.
Even if it did, you would still have extremists sticking to the original form just as you have extreme Christians banging on about hellfire & damnation.
It has no place in Europe at all.
Franks
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Time to consider internment?
An emotional subject, internment. However just consider for a moment the danger Britain finds itself in today following the folly of mass immigration of peoples who hate western society and only want to war with us.
1. Security Services are investigating several thousand Islamic extremists in this Country. Their numbers continue to increase.
2. The Security Services can not keep a watch on them all because there are too many of them and we do not have the necessary resources. In most cases they can only note their names and add to the growing data base, e.g. Adebolajo and his fellow Nigerian terrorist.
3. Security experts keep highlighting the risk to British people of “lone wolf” attacks by ‘local’ people radicalized over the Internet and say that nothing can be done to arrest and charge them since they have not broken the law.
4. This terrorist threat will not go away but will only multiply. The question one now asks is when and where will the next attacks occur?
5. Internment will allow the Security Services to process them and allow the Authorities to take measures where appropriate to withdraw any British citizenship followed by deportation for those of foreign origin.
Steve
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When your bath overflows, it’s best to turn the taps off & pull the plug, not look for a bowl or bucket to catch the overflow in.
Steve
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Internment won’t work & there will be issues with lawyers etc, think of Guantanamo Bay.
You might as well go the whole hog and implement a policy of repatriation.
Steve
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Some mainstream media reports are saying that one of them has always been a trouble maker.
So he’d be inclined to chop off heads anyway?
On the other hand extremist hate preachers look for people like that to convert as they are already anti social & easy to make into a weapon against the establishment.
Herbert
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Why discuss this man’s religion or culture? He should live in some remote African slum. But he’s more intelligent than most. He understood our predicament :
“You people will never be safe. Remove your governments, they don’t care about you.
“Do you think David Cameron is going to get caught in the street when we start busting out guns, do you think politicians are going to die? No, it’s going to be the average guy like you and your children.
“So get rid of them, tell them to bring our troops back, so we can, so you can all live in peace. Leave our lands and you can live in peace, that’s all I have to say.”
Steve
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Well I guess a lot of people feel his religion & culture are the cause of this but as you say he shouldn’t be here, this is not his country & we should not be in his.
Steve
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I understand one of them was charged with illegal possession of a 9.4 mm revolver.
Which I have never heard of, maybe it was a very old one of an obscure calibre?