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January 19, 2006

Laughable: Bin Laden Claim that Islam Forbids Lying

From the tape purporting to be of Bin Laden, and asking for a truce:

We are a nation that God has forbidden to lie and cheat.  

See, a man hiding explosives under his clothing, and taking advantage of this deception to go into a restaurant packed with women and children and blowing himself up, to Bin Laden, is not lying and cheating.

Terrorists dressing in civilian clothes, and taking advantage of this deception to kill American soldiers, to Bin Laden, is not lying and cheating. 

Capturing civilians and cutting their heads off on tapes that are then broadcast, to Bin Laden, is not lying and cheating.

Sending people to flight school in the U.S. to learn how to fly planes into skyscrapers, to Bin Laden, is not lying and cheating.

When radical Islamists ask for a truce, is exactly the right time to blow the hell out of them, because they only ask for it when they're weak and planning for future attacks. Fundamentalist Islam declares permanent and unending war against non-Muslims. No permanent peace is permitted. A truce of no more than 10 years is permitted when the fundamentalist Islamic forces are weakened, after which fundamentalist Islam demands that war be resumed. From The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) by Robert Spencer, page 17:

...Islamic jurists enunciated the principle that, in general, truces were to be concluded for no longer than ten years and only entered into for the purpose of allowing weakened Muslim forces to gain strength. 

From Wikipedia :

According to Umdat as-Salik, a medieval summary of Shafi'i jurisprudence, hudnas with a non-Muslim enemy should be limited to 10 years: "if Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud" ('Umdat as-Salik, o9.16). 

The only reason such a deceptive truce works is that the other side thinks the fundamentalist Islamists mean it to be permanent. On their side, they know it's only for 10 years, after which they must return to the attack. Such a truce is a deception, a lie, and shows again that nothing Bin Laden says is to be trusted. 

Bin Laden's claim that "We are a nation that God has forbidden to lie and cheat" is a blatant lie, because the requirements of the Koran are the reverse. From The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), page 79:

When it comes to unbelievers -- particularly those who are at war with Muslims -- Muhammad enunciated quite a different principle: "War is deceit."

Specifically, he taught that lying was permissible in battle. 

In asking for truce, Bin Laden is inadvertently showing that we are winning, and that we must not stop and give him ten years to regain strength for a future attack such as that of 9-11.