34 Comments

1. Delia:

Awwwwwwwww. The lonely terrorists. *wee crocodile tear*

LMFAO.

This read was some funny shizzle. Thank you, my nizzle. lol

Mar 11, 2009 - 2:05 am 2. Craig:

“The news coverage of fellow Muslims being slaughtered en masse by al-Qaeda…”

Yah…I can see that might pose a PR problem.

Mar 11, 2009 - 4:36 am 3. Anonymous:

One has to hope that the Muslims don’t find their Stalin. Russian Communists were busy tearing each other apart bit-by-bit until old Crazy Joe took over. Of course if some one does try to take that job we could introduce him to a JDAM. Oh wait…..we would first have to find a President to give that order; 3 years, ten months and counting…………..

Mar 11, 2009 - 6:50 am 4. alan:

the reason for the change is they have been getting there heads handed to them by the west they thought blowing up helpless women and children would work wrong it has backfired if islam is so great why is it that 95% of the muslim world is a mess.

Mar 11, 2009 - 7:43 am 5. RV:

“In Iraq, the Sunni population that harbored al-Qaeda operatives ultimately turned against them and allied with the U.S. and the Iraqi government after being exposed to al-Qaeda’s rule.”

Also, after being exposed to massive amounts of US money, paid to them so that they would no longer target American Soldiers.

Mar 11, 2009 - 7:48 am 6. ashraf alanany:

as a Arabic man ,i say that the phobia to Islam will remain a strong wall between us shall be treated humanely and as peoples, I think that bin Laden is not alone responsible for, the shipping information which is also controlled by the uncle of what he has done

Mar 11, 2009 - 8:04 am 7. Frank:

Osama isn’t important in the grand scheme.

This isn’t about “terrorism” or Al Qaeda. It’s about Islam itself.

Mar 11, 2009 - 9:04 am 8. Professor Guvinoff:

How much more time and effort are we going to waste rationalizing over Bin Laden’s and Zawahiri’s loss of stature? What stops Ryan Mauro from stating plainly that Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri have been humiliated by their defeat in Iraq?

This is not something to philosophize about, it’s something to celebrate! Back in 2001, all the arabs saw Bin Laden as a hero. Probably some still do today, while the jihadist cohort has been thoroughly discredited in Iraq. In 2003 notables in Al-Anbar were giving their daughters in marriage to the heroes of the day! Five years later they were working in earnest to beat them once and for all, and essentially succeeded. The jihadists in Iraq have not been eradicated yet, but does anyone remember how long it took for the violence to subside in Ireland?

Why can’t we just recognize victory when we reach it? Are we still wallowing in the pseudo-thinking babbles of the sixties?

Mar 11, 2009 - 9:19 am 9. Chip:

Bin Laden is one mass casualty attack of hundreds of Jews or Americans away from regaining his popularity. Though it’s nice substantial percentages of Muslims don’t support the mass murder of other Muslims, the same cannot be said for non-Muslims.

I can’t help but wonder if the general capitulation to sharia law globally hasn’t made Muslims wonder why Bin Laden didn’t simply ask his enemies to implement Islamic law with a Hallmark card.

Mar 11, 2009 - 9:24 am 10. OsoPardo:

ashfaf alanany, in recent history, Arabs have undertaken the murdering of other Arabs in record numbers. IMHO there isn’t a phobia to Islam as much as a recognition that Arabs don’t seem to value each other very much. And, if Arabs don’t value each other much, why should I expect that Arabs would value me at all?

Mar 11, 2009 - 9:25 am 11. christian:

RV
Also, after being exposed to massive amounts of US money, paid to them so that they would no longer target American Soldiers.

Mainly they were exposed to a massive amount of US firepower and no longer wanted to be targeted by American Soldiers and Marines. When you have attrition ratios aproaching 100 to 1 it makes for a tough campaign to sustain.

Mar 11, 2009 - 9:27 am 12. BMoon:

Sounds too much like Hitler and germans of the 1930’s railing against Bolsheviks and being worried about Communism coming into Germany. Crips and Bloods.

Mar 11, 2009 - 9:37 am 13. Bill:

Um, please don’t get too optimistic. The Jihadis who have just taken over Somalia have formally joined Al-Qaeda. Great. An AQ state- not even Afghanistan got that far.

Besides, the criticism of AQ you take such reassurance from often is only about means, not the hideous goal. 9/11 etc drew a lot of unwanted law-enforcement and intelligence attention to the far more dangerous campaign against civilization, the Stealth Jihad. It’s mind-boggling that most of our government seems to equate ‘extremist’ with ‘terrorist’- as if those who are working to impose Sharia from within aren’t ‘extremists.’

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“Also, after being exposed to massive amounts of US money, paid to them so that they would no longer target American Soldiers.”

God, the Left will never let the facts get in the way of a good lie. If you actually knew anything about the Anbar Awakening, you would be aware that the tribal sheikhs turned against AQ first, then asked the US for assistance (and protection), and only then asked that their men be paid a derisory ten bucks a day for their work as a fulltime police auxiliary.

Mar 11, 2009 - 9:38 am 14. Ruebacca:

Any Islamic state is our mortal enemy. Any devout Muslim is a mortal enemy of the west. I hope resonable people in the Arab world become dominate.

Mar 11, 2009 - 9:57 am 15. deguello:

BIN Laden will never be lonely as long as nrhere is a single Western “progressive”(code word for self-hating-stalinist traitor) left alive.

Mar 11, 2009 - 10:01 am 16. Aristotle's Toes:

The news coverage of fellow Muslims being slaughtered en masse by al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups is causing major defections from the ideology of radical Islam

It’s quite educational to get a dose of your own medicine

Mar 11, 2009 - 10:29 am 17. Susan Katz Keating:

If only this essay reflected the situation at hand. It looks to me as if the Muslim world is becoming increasingly enchanted with Bin Laden and his ilk. Please – for all our sakes – tell me I’m wrong.

Mar 11, 2009 - 10:29 am 18. Mary Madigan:

From the poll results:

But while the poll was encouraging, “It’s not all Kumbaya,” he added. Bergen said a “substantial minority” of Saudis — 30 percent — support fighting against U.S. and coalition troops in Iraq, and 52 percent would support Saudi Arabia’s development of nuclear weapons.

They’re changing their tactics, but Saudi-supported jihad continues.

The focus of the jihad is changing – there is less support for large-scale terrorist attacks, but the non-Saudi Muslim population never really supported those. Mass murder of innocent civilians is a Wahhabi thing, and even Wahhabis object when they’re the victims. However, Saudis have no problem with violent attacks in Iraq.

Al Qaeda never had much popular support outside of the KSA, because they didn’t need it. All they needed was enough money and weapons to buy or intimidate the host population. This is how the Saudis are still hosting jihad worldwide.

Now, they’re working through the Muslim Brotherhood, focusing their attention on India/Pakistan and Israel. Iran is also working through semi-legitimate organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas to spread their jihad. Their new plans include:

- firing rockets into Israel in an attempt to make more and more Israeli cities uninhabitable. Israel doesn’t strike back at the countries that are hosting this violence (Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia). Instead, Israel strikes at Lebanon and Gaza. Since Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia can wage this war without even breaking a nail, this strategy will continue.

- protests and random violence against Jews worldwide, seemingly spontaneous but actually organized by local branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, working with ‘anti-war’ organizations like ANSWER. This is happening in the US too.

- more Mumbai-style attacks in vulnerable urban areas

- joining with Western Governments in an attempt to go legit. Hezbollah is currently negotiating with the British Government, al Qaeda is dominating or attacking governments throughout Africa.

It is a good thing that the jihad is no longer using large scale terrorist attacks as a means of gaining supporters. The jihad’s new strategy would be easier to deal with – if we could only stop our governments from cooperating with it.

Mar 11, 2009 - 10:41 am 19. Avitar:

You know the dead is often lonely. if someone wants to visit Bin Laden he should contact the twelfe Inman for an appointment.

Mar 11, 2009 - 10:59 am 20. Oscar the Grump:

I think Mary Madigan has got it right. Don’t pat yourselves on the back the battle is not over. Its tactics only have changed.

Mar 11, 2009 - 12:27 pm 21. El hefe:

Yes if our western governments would only stop enabling these radical demons. Some of these wastes want sharia law enacted in western countries and we help them enact this evil to appease the Taliban in thier own countries. So only 15 to 30% of them hate and want to kill us all? So thats 330 million radicals in the Islamic world, nothing to worry about there.

Mar 11, 2009 - 1:03 pm 22. Nick G.:

Good article, didn’t realize about this Sharif fellow. And we all hate those emo guys.

Mar 11, 2009 - 1:20 pm 23. Frank:

The only reason Muslims dislike Osama is because he killed fellow Muslims. Not because he is violent, Not because he attacks America, not because he is a supremacist scumbag, they only dislike him because he attacked his own people.

If Osama had purely targeted non-Muslims, instead of allowing the slaughter of Muslims en masse in Iraq by his group, he would still be a Jihad poster boy.

They don’t care about us. They only care about themselves. Now that they dislike Osama, they will merely turn to other groups that focus more exclusively on Kafirs than Al Qaeda and their obsession with rooting out heretics, groups such as LeT, JeI, Hamas and Hizbullah

Mar 11, 2009 - 1:38 pm 24. Camaron:

No doubt about it, the enemy is changing colors. New groups are entering the arena and the rest of the Muslim world is either sneaking into western world or talking the language of misunderstood victim.

Just today the Pakistani Prime Minister said that, “Islam has no link to terrorism.”
http://infidelsunite.typepad.com/infidels_unite/2009/03/pakistan-islam-has-no-link-with-terrorism.html

The jihadists are emboldened by our weak response to their strategy to take over the world. The western governments are fully cooperating; it is time to learn Arabic and memorize the Quran.

Mar 11, 2009 - 2:56 pm 25. Marie Claude:

well, has Osama really existed ? wasn’t he an icone that the modern video regies can create and manipulate ? OK, he was the boss of the whole jihadism apparatchik, kind of George Soro with charity businesses, global bank… for the muslims, since the Russians left Afghanistan, in 2 decades, he had quit enough time to recruit and to train some key organisators, that are not the idiots who are going to blow themselves up, but they are good managers, they know the commercial strategies, they know how to use the internet tool, and like the moon sect they have millions of souls across the world wide ready to work for them, in our countries too, especially in our countries. They don’t need the poor villans whose families get a handful of banknotes for the sacrifice of one of them. These educateds have many delegations to get more adepts, in our jails, in our difficult surburbs… wealthy quaters, and an occidental that would become an human bomb will not make it because of misery, but rather because he has become more fanatic than his patrons, I have remarked how these “white” converted guis are radical in their discourses, in their new clothes, beard, hair habits ; islam has become their new “revolution”, and they believe that they are recasting the revolutionnaires.
So, this is why we have to survey the leftist agitations too, they are the soil for islam revolution

Mar 11, 2009 - 3:21 pm 26. Gary Ogletree:

After shouting that The Jihad had America right where they wanted us, they got a good beating in Iraq, by local Sunnis as well as infidels. I assume that many relatives and friends of jihadis who flocked to Iraq to kill the crusaders are not amused they died for nothing. Osama got it right when he said Muslims would choose the strong horse.

Mar 11, 2009 - 4:25 pm 27. maasanova:

Are you trying to say that Osama bin Laden, who has been dead since December 2001 is still alive?

Mar 11, 2009 - 4:41 pm 28. eor:

I doubt if the jihadis have changed their minds. They have heard Obama say he is pulling our troops out and is willing to talk to the Taliban. They are just waiting—-(the patience of a thousand years).

Mar 11, 2009 - 8:08 pm 29. fear Obama:

al-Qaeda terrorists are a nuisance.

John Kerry (D)

Mar 11, 2009 - 8:51 pm 30. Agamemnon:

Yep. bin Laden’s dead.

Deal with it.

[If bin Laden's not dead, produce him. Go ahead. I double-dog dare ya.]

Mar 11, 2009 - 8:53 pm 31. Jean Gogh:

Cave living must get lonely. Poor widdle Osama. Boo Hoo, sucks to be you.

Mar 12, 2009 - 9:41 am 32. Distant Smoke:

All bin Laden has to do to regain his popularity, is commit another major attack on Western interests. The Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, Lloyd’s of London, any part of the financial district in New York City…all of these would improve his popularity. So the problem still exists. The Muslims haven’t changed their way of thinking. They merely disapprove of bin Laden’s current targets.

Mar 12, 2009 - 11:37 am 33. Oscar the Grump:

Maybe we can get him a gay friend?

Mar 12, 2009 - 1:05 pm 34. tanstaafl:

Al-Qaeda’s popularity is dropping like a rock. Even Muslim extremists have turned against Osama and gang.

Maybe dropping like a rock, but extremely conservative Islam-ism/Shari’a continue to gain ground in northern/western Pakistan where Osama and crowd are reportedly entrenched.
Which is worrisome.

Pakistani government does deal with Taliban on sharia law

Mar 13, 2009 - 8:54 am