Israel’s military success in Lebanon and the strings Gulf patrons attached to reconstruction money forced Hezbollah to cut its losses and acquiesce to the election of a president it had vetoed for 802 days: Lebanese Armed Forces Commander Joseph Aoun. The new president promised the state would hold the monopoly on arms – code for disarming Hezbollah – and vowed “positive neutrality” in the Arab-Israeli conflict, signaling a return to the 1949 truce with Jerusalem.
Instil Muslim supremacism: jihad’s generational wedge, Part 3
Differentiation from non-Muslims is necessary, but not sufficient. The Muslim must know, with every fibre of his being, that he is a higher order of creation than the kafir, and that the boundary between himself as human, and the animals, lies more properly between himself and the kafir.
Jerusalem, 1948. Arab Muslim victor condescends to Jewish leader
Muhammad is “the seal of the prophets”. His religion, Islam, is the final religion, and so also the perfect religion. Its adherents, therefor, are as close to perfect as it is possible for humans to be (if they are not prophets). Any creed arising after Islam is thus not a religion, and whatever their adherents might think they are, they cannot be religious. Readers might find the following near-verbatim account of an exchange between myself and some Muslims in Marrakech instructive. The conversation had turned to their claim that Islam is the final religion:
