Al-Qaida right in our backyard

Several news outlets have recently commented about this website: "The Ignored Puzzle Pieces of Knowledge". It's a jihadist site that cheers on the enemies of the United States and the destruction of US forces abroad. It also calls for global Shariah (Islamic law). What's worse is that it is based not in the Middle East, but right here in our own backyard. The author is a 22 year-old man named Samir Khan who lives in Charlotte, NC with his parents. His family emigrated from Saudi Arabia when he was seven years old.

In other words, he is another one of these parasites who enjoys the very freedoms of the very country he is condemning. If Sharia law is so wonderful, one wonders why he doesn't move back to Saudi Arabia to enjoy it? (I would even help him pack) Khan is able to get away with this because his site is careful not to outright call for violence against US soldiers, in order to barely stay within the limits of our nation's laws.

This quote from the site says it all:

We will never condemn them [mujaahideen - holy warriors] in order to please your hearts. We speak what is good and leave that which is evil. The honor belongs to Allah, His Messenger, and the Believers and not the disbelievers.

If what the Mujaahideen are doing is something not permissible under Islaamic Law, then we will stay quiet and pray to Allah for guidance (for them). Never will we condemn them to make you happy because they are still better than the disbelievers due to their belief in Allah and His Messenger.

In other words, even if the Islamic terrorists kill innocent people, they are not to be condemned simply because they are Muslims. That is incredibly warped and extremely irresponsible.

They claim they "speak what is good and leave that which is evil". Suicide bombings that deliberately target innocent people are evil. So are states that lock up women and suppress their health and freedom their entire lives. People who commit evil do not serve God, but Satan instead.

For a more down to earth example of their wildly irresponsible claims, on their front page right now, there is an article claiming that "millions" of Iraqi children have been killed as a result of depleted uranium used by US forces. The first problem is, they pull that number entirely out of thin air; not even the wildest of estimates have claimed that "millions" of Iraqi children have died as a result of the war, even from all causes put together. The second problem is, while it sounds ominous, depleted uranium (or DU for short) is DEPLETED. It's not significantly radioactive anymore. It's essentially a waste product of uranium enrichment process, and is used as a outershell for many munitions and armor plating, due to it's density. It was used primarily when knocking out Iraqi tanks in the early phase of the war in 2003, as well as during the Gulf War a decade before. The only danger is if you breathe in the dust after the munitions have been fired, but to do this you would have to visit a target destroyed by DU ammunition less than a minute afterward, and actively breathe in the dust. Moreover, there is nothing special about DU in this regard; inhaling any metallic dust is not good for you. It's extremely unlikely that any Iraqi children were exposed to it; and even if, by some wild chance, it made some of them sick, it certainly didn't kill "millions" of them. It's unlikely to have killed even one person. But the rumor persists, and has been a favorite of Al-Qaida for some time. I have seen it repeated on many jihadist sites over the years.



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