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Islam expert Robert Spencer gives greater insight into the mind of a suicide bomber

In my brief commentary of June 29, "TIME Magazine: Interview with an Iraqi 'Suicide Bomber in Waiting'" about the TIME Magazine article, "Inside the Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber," I noted that the main culprit behind global jihad is the misguided ideology of militant Islam. By inculcating a worldview that promotes the vision of a global Islamic state, an ideology directly lifted from the Qur'an, tragically, militant Islam destroys the lives of multiple adherents like the suicide bomber, Marwan.

In this article, Robert Spencer, Director of Jihad Watch and an expert on Islam, goes into, in his words, "this trip inside Marwan's mind," in order to elucidate his mindset and its social implications for the West.

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Jihad Watch

Taking Truth about Jihad Terrorism to the People

by Robert Spencer

Posted Jun 30, 2005

"The only person who matters is Allah — and the only question he will ask me is 'How many infidels did you kill?'"

These are the words of Marwan Abu Ubeida, the subject of a Time magazine piece entitled "Inside the Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber." It is gratifying to see Time being willing to make this trip inside Marwan’s mind, since most mainstream media outlets have been singularly uninterested in the thought processes of jihad terrorists. But even Time doesn’t explore the implications of Marwan’s words. And this is no trivial omission: jihadists from Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Marwan Abu Ubeida have consistently made clear that today’s jihadists are working from mainstream traditions and numerous Qur’anic exhortations, and that by means of these traditions and teachings they are able to gain recruits among Muslims worldwide — as well as to hold the sympathy of others whom they do not recruit. This explains why there has been no widespread, sustained, or sincere Muslim outcry against the jihad terrorist enterprise in general.

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posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 9:18 PM