The Great Azzam has made a point of encouraging Americans to convert to Islam and join his crusade against Zionist Crusaders. This has brought him to the attention of a larger audience, though not a very receptive and positive audience. In his September 2, 2006 video he deliberately called out to people to abandon their infidel positions and reject atheism. He didn't do a very convincing job.
Isn't it time for the unbelievers to discard these incoherent, illogical beliefs, theories, and conjecture? Isn't it time for every Christian, Jew, pagan, and atheist to cast off the cloak of spiritual darkness which enshrouds them, and emerge into the light of Islam, to live a life illuminated by faith and die the death of a believer, return to his Lord, pleased and pleasing to Him, God willing, rather than living out his days in blindness, to die as an unbeliever and be resurrected as an unbeliever, whose eternal abode is a fire from which the fire of this world screams in fright?
Source: IMRA
I'm not surprised that "Azzam the American" thinks of atheism as incoherent or illogical, but it's a shame that he didn't trouble himself to explain why it's incoherent or illogical. If anything is illogical, it's the idea that someone would abandon a life of reason and science in favor of religious fanaticism, violent extremism, and terrorism like Adam Gadahn has.
He may believe that his fanatical behavior is conducted under the good graces of some god, but that only makes it worse. He can't even take personal responsibility for his behavior and his violent actions; instead, he has to attribute it all to his god by proclaiming that he's only following orders. Well, Nazi concentration camp guards were "only following orders" as well.
I have discovered that true happiness is to be found in obedience to God's orders and prohibitions, and in the following of His Prophet, peace be upon him, and not in Western-style hedonism and immorality or amorality, nor in Eastern-style monasticism or cultist-like withdrawal from the world. And I can state with a confidence born out of experience and observation that as long as a person persists in unbelief and atheism, his or her pursuit of happiness will be exactly that - a pursuit, a never-ending search, which is guaranteed to bring him misery, if not in this life then in the next. By that, I mean to say that even if he does happen upon some degree of happiness today, it is guaranteed to be short-lived, ending at his death, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that eternal happiness is better than the fleeting delights of this world.
My happiness may be "short-lived" because I will eventually die, but at least my happiness doesn't require me to bring misery, suffering, and death to others simply because they disagree with me. I'm not personally bothered by the fact that "Azzam the American" isn't an atheist and have no desire to harm him for not becoming an atheist. Azzam, on the other hand, is part of a murderous terrorist organization which kills, maims, and destroys both Muslims and non-Muslims. It evinces no sense of morality, no sense of decency, and on understanding of restraint. It's a blight upon humanity and he has chosen to align himself with it.
Even worse, he sees his choice as one that brings him happiness.
Those who think democracy is synonymous with freedom are either people who haven't experienced life in America, or Americans who haven't lived abroad. To America and the rest of Christendom, we say: Either repent of your misguided ways and enter into the light of truth, or keep your poison to yourself, and suffer the consequences in this world and the next. But whatever you do, don't attempt to spread your misery and misguidance to our lands. Muslims don't need democracy to rid themselves of their home-grown despots and tyrants. What they do need is their Islamic faith, the spirit of Jihad, and the lifting of foreign troops and interference from their necks.
Well, I have to give credit where credit is due. Even a broken clock is right twice a day and it looks like somehow "Azzam the American" managed to say something correct: democracy is not synonymous with freedom. It's possible to live in a democratic society and not be free. The missing ingredient for freedom is, however, something which would horrify Azzam: liberalism.
A democratic society must also be a liberal society which respects personal autonomy, privacy, and liberty. The sort of society which people like Azzam seek are anti-liberal in the extreme and he certainly can't offer real freedom to anyone. What Muslim extremists like him call "freedom" is simply the "freedom" to obey others or die. No thank you, Azzam, you can keep it. Next time you have a message for the West, please do a little research first and learn more about what you're attacking.
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This character and Osama stink to high heaven. They are larger than life and then tend to pop up into the media at the most opportune times (from a Bushite point of view). Every time I see one of these displays I think that we have discovered or generated scapegoats.
Every time I see one of these Islamic villains, I think of old Western melodramas. They are larger than life and make perfect scapegoats for 911.
Interesting that this guy is ethnically Jewish and home-schooled Cristian. Some kids rebel by wearing all black cloths, trench coats and black eye-liner, and some convert to Islam. I will take the Goth kids anyday! LOL
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