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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Citing, for a change, an Islamist scholar and a reborn-neoconservative
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Kindly see below Update if you are revisiting this posting:
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ـ"- (فيما يخص قضية كركوك لايجوز شرعاً تأييد إنفصالها والحاقها بجزء آخر من العراق او مايسمى بإقليم كردستان لأن الاسلام يأمر بتوحيد المسلمين شعوباً وحكومات وأوطاناً وهذا أمر معروف لا يجوز للمسلم أن يخرج عنه او يوافق عليه او يقبل به او يعين عليه بالقلم او الرأي او الموقف او حتى السكوت.)ـ
ـ (الفدرالية تقسيم للعراق ولا يجوز إقرار دولة او أقليم في شمال العراق او في اي جزء آخر منه، لأن العراق وطن واحد لا يجوز تقسيمه ولأنه واحد من ديار المسلمين و ديار الاسلام لا يجوز شرعاً تقسيمها تحت اي ظرفٍ أو ذريعةٍ من الذرائع، ولا يجوز تأييد ذلك ولا الترويج به من قبل أي مسلم ، ولا يجوز للمسلمين ان يؤيدوا إقليم منفصل لا يحكم بالاسلام لانتفاء مبرر التقسيم .ـ
- ـ وحول الاستعانة بالاجنبي والمُحتل (أقول قولاً هو القاعده في ذلك إن من يستعين بالكافر ويأخذ منه المال والسلاح أو يستعين به غير جائز وهو أمر محرم ومن يفعل ذلك كافرٌ مرتدٌ.)ـ
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The above Arabic snippet , a Fatwa by Dr. A. Zaidan, a professor of Islamic Shari'a and Fiqh, who advises against:
"- the seperation of Kerkuk and joining it with Kurdistan since Islam advocates the joining of the moslems, people, governments and nations, and not their dispersion.
- the 'federation' option for Iraq, that personifies its partioning, since Iraq is one country and can not be split into parts.
- the cooperation with an oocupiers or take their money or arms."
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"Though Iraq remains a very troubled country, virtually all of the trend lines -- Iraqi and U.S. casualties, government provision of basic services, and the ability of Iraqi forces to provide order -- have been moving in a positive direction for the past year.
What I absolutely did not concede, however, was the fact that this change meant that the war itself was worth it. By invading Iraq in the manner it did, the U.S. exacerbated all of the threats it faced prior to 2003. Recruitment into terrorist cells shot up all over the world. North Korea and Iran accelerated their development of nuclear weapons.
Indeed, Iran has emerged as the dominant regional power in the Persian Gulf once the U.S. removed its major rival from the scene and put its Shiite clients into power in Baghdad. While everyone is better off without Saddam Hussein around, the cost was hugely disproportionate. If you don't believe this, ask yourself whether Congress would ever have voted to authorize the war in 2002 if it knew there was no WMD, or that there would be trillion-dollar budget outlays, or that there would be 30,000 dead and wounded after five years of bitter struggle."
What I absolutely did not concede, however, was the fact that this change meant that the war itself was worth it. By invading Iraq in the manner it did, the U.S. exacerbated all of the threats it faced prior to 2003. Recruitment into terrorist cells shot up all over the world. North Korea and Iran accelerated their development of nuclear weapons.
Indeed, Iran has emerged as the dominant regional power in the Persian Gulf once the U.S. removed its major rival from the scene and put its Shiite clients into power in Baghdad. While everyone is better off without Saddam Hussein around, the cost was hugely disproportionate. If you don't believe this, ask yourself whether Congress would ever have voted to authorize the war in 2002 if it knew there was no WMD, or that there would be trillion-dollar budget outlays, or that there would be 30,000 dead and wounded after five years of bitter struggle."
Iraq May Be Stable, But the War Was a Mistake, By Francis Fukuyama, Ausgust 15, 2008
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Update:
An email from an old friend:
"Imad,
Is Zaidan an "Islamist scholar" or "Islamic scholar" ? Does he have a
website ? I am curious to know about any other fatwas that he has issued.
And what exactly is a " reborn-neoconservative" ? Is this like a "
born-again Christian", or did you invent the term. If so, please define
it properly so that we, who read your blogs, can follow.
Best,
A"
Is Zaidan an "Islamist scholar" or "Islamic scholar" ? Does he have a
website ? I am curious to know about any other fatwas that he has issued.
And what exactly is a " reborn-neoconservative" ? Is this like a "
born-again Christian", or did you invent the term. If so, please define
it properly so that we, who read your blogs, can follow.
Best,
A"
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"Greetings A
It is indeed heartening to know that you are still using the same old email address, as that of seven years ago.
I derived the term "Islamist scholar" from this definition: Relation between Islam and Islamism:
It is indeed heartening to know that you are still using the same old email address, as that of seven years ago.
I derived the term "Islamist scholar" from this definition: Relation between Islam and Islamism:
"One of the most central controversies in Islamism is whether Islam is inherently political. Scholars and observers who think not include Fred Halliday and John Esposito). Those who do think Islam is inherently political, and thus question the validity of the terms "Islamist" and "Islamism," include Robert Spencer, Bat Ye'or, and Bernard Lewis[citation needed])".
Hence, I thought it appropriate to shove Zaidan عبد الكريم زيدان in there. Here is a list of (some) of his Fatwas and all of his writings .
Now, as far as being “reborn”, the meaning of it is: “Emotionally or spiritually revived or regenerated”
It is quite different from being born again: “Catholics and Protestants agree that to be saved, you have to be born again”
The important point is that there is no “saving” for the reborn; i.e. to hell with them, if you pardon the expression.
All the best
The important point is that there is no “saving” for the reborn; i.e. to hell with them, if you pardon the expression.
All the best
Imad Khadduri"
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Subsequent email from another friend (difficult for me to translate. Arabic is such an exquisite language):
ـ" اخي عماد
تحية طيبة
اني دائم التباهي امام الناس اني من بين معارفك او اصدقائك
ولكن بعد هذا الايميل سأبدأ بالتفاخر ليس فقط بك وانما بمعلوماتك اكثر من ذي قبل (هناك فرق بين التباهي والتفاخر)ـ
شكرا على المعلومات عن (الحجي عبد الكريم زيدان) وكما كنا نسميه قبل حوالي اربعين سنه حينما كنت احد طلابه في كلية الحقوق في بغداد.ـ
" صباح
تحية طيبة
اني دائم التباهي امام الناس اني من بين معارفك او اصدقائك
ولكن بعد هذا الايميل سأبدأ بالتفاخر ليس فقط بك وانما بمعلوماتك اكثر من ذي قبل (هناك فرق بين التباهي والتفاخر)ـ
شكرا على المعلومات عن (الحجي عبد الكريم زيدان) وكما كنا نسميه قبل حوالي اربعين سنه حينما كنت احد طلابه في كلية الحقوق في بغداد.ـ
" صباح
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August 28, 2008 -- Russia confirms WMR report that it seized US intelligence equipment: On August 25, 2008, WMR reported, "Russians also captured another prize, five U.S. Marine Corps Humvees that were providing signals intelligence and electronic warfare assistance to Georgian forces. Along with the Humvees and their classified equipment, the Russians also obtained important and highly-classified encryption codes used by the United States and NATO to scramble their military and diplomatic communications. U.S. intelligence sources told WMR that the Russians obtained an intelligence windfall from the capture of the Humvees."
The Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn told ITAR-TASS that five Humvees captured by Russian troops at the Georgian port of Poti wold have been returned to the United States if there "had there been U.S. citizens inside at the moment of detention." The admission indicates that the United States military handed sophisticated Special Operations Forces (SOF) Intelligence Vehicles to Georgian troops, non-members of NATO, possibly compromising NATO and U.S. intelligence sources and methods to Russia.
Izvestia's Moscow edition reported on August 27 that the Russians also seized a specialized military Landrover in Poti, along with the five Humvees. As Izvestia noted, "It's hard to believe that Washington responded so quickly and brazenly to the loss of only six cars. Such vehicles burn by the dozen in Iraq - and the Americans don't complain to the resistance there. But they feel differently about the jeeps in Georgia."
However, the Russians soon realized that the six captured vehicles were not merely for transport but for intelligence gathering. Nogovitsyn stated in Moscow: "Russia is very interested in this incident. We believe the Pentagon has its reasons for worrying about the Humvees. We found a great deal of interest in the internal workings of these vehicles, and we are continuing to work on that." Another translation of Nogovitsyn's remarks had him stating: "It is not accidental the Pentagon is so worried about the future of its Hummers . . . We have discovered many things of interest to us inside the vehicles."
Not only was the Pentagon concerned about the capture of the Humvees but Crawford White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe weighed in: "We'd certainly expect that the Russians would return any equipment that is U.S. equipment and return it quickly, if, in fact, they do have it."
Izvestia also reported another curious element of the Humvee story -- that some of the U.S. electronic equipment in the Humvees were manufactured under U.S. license in Odessa in Ukraine. Like Georgia, Ukraine is not a member of NATO, yet NATO-compatible sensitive military equipment is being manufactured in a non-NATO country. The Izvestia article stated: "The Georgian military not only abandoned valuable equipment, but essentially blew the lid on the U.S. security system. In Gori, Russian troops seized an American intelligence center packed with cutting-edge reconnaissance equipment. All of it is in Russia now. And the six jeeps [Humvees and Landrover] are a mobile reconnaissance and patrol complex, providing troop management in the field. According to our sources, the leading car's equipment wasn't the most modern at all; and most curiously of all, it is produced under license from the USA in Odessa, Ukraine."
A Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson told Izvestia, "Another reason why the Americans are infuriated is because the Georgians have humiliated the USA in front of the whole world. The Americans trained the Georgian army for five years, arming them with the latest weapons and hardware - but the Georgians ran like rats at the first sign of action against Russian troops, abandoning all their hardware."
Jane's Defense reports that Georgia's tactical intelligence left much to be desired even with their American and Israeli support. Georgia's Israeli-supplied unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were worthless against the Russians because Russia's "rapid assertion of complete air superiority" prevented the use of manned and unmanned aerial reconnaissance flights. Georgia's military intelligence assets inside South Ossetia were confined to Georgian enclaves where they could not report on Russian military movements in the rest of the region.
Georgia's own intelligence failure means that the United States likely supplemented Georgia's reconnaissance with satellite imagery obtainable from mobile intelligence stations such as the one the Russians captured in Gori and the Humvees taken in Poti. Georgia's problems with handling the intelligence provided by the Americans is also hinted at by a Jane's report: "the Georgians proved unable to effectively fuse intelligence from a range of sources in the chaotic and sometimes panicked atmosphere that followed the Russian onslaught."
Nogovitsyn's comment that "we have discovered many things of interest to us inside the vehicles," may be an understatement of the intelligence windfall obtained by the Russians, which means that CIA Director Michael Hayden and Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, both former National Security Agency (NSA) directors, have a major security compromise on their hands.
Georgia not only suffered an intelligence defeat but also a major naval disaster. Jane's Navy International reports that Russia's Navy destroyed at least six Georgian patrol and fast attack vessels but only after Georgian vessels attacked Russian Federation naval ships off Abkhazia. Jane's reports: "four Georgian craft made two attempts to attack ships of the RFN's [Russian Federation Navy] Black Sea Fleet, with the Nanuchka-class corvettes RFS Mirazh and RFS Shtyl returning fire and sinking one of the boats." Russian ground troops later neutralized Georgian vessels in Poti, including the Greek-supplied Anninos-class fast attack craft Dioscuria, Georgia's most capable naval ship.
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August 28, 2008 -- Russia confirms WMR report that it seized US intelligence equipment: On August 25, 2008, WMR reported, "Russians also captured another prize, five U.S. Marine Corps Humvees that were providing signals intelligence and electronic warfare assistance to Georgian forces. Along with the Humvees and their classified equipment, the Russians also obtained important and highly-classified encryption codes used by the United States and NATO to scramble their military and diplomatic communications. U.S. intelligence sources told WMR that the Russians obtained an intelligence windfall from the capture of the Humvees."
The Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn told ITAR-TASS that five Humvees captured by Russian troops at the Georgian port of Poti wold have been returned to the United States if there "had there been U.S. citizens inside at the moment of detention." The admission indicates that the United States military handed sophisticated Special Operations Forces (SOF) Intelligence Vehicles to Georgian troops, non-members of NATO, possibly compromising NATO and U.S. intelligence sources and methods to Russia.
Izvestia's Moscow edition reported on August 27 that the Russians also seized a specialized military Landrover in Poti, along with the five Humvees. As Izvestia noted, "It's hard to believe that Washington responded so quickly and brazenly to the loss of only six cars. Such vehicles burn by the dozen in Iraq - and the Americans don't complain to the resistance there. But they feel differently about the jeeps in Georgia."
However, the Russians soon realized that the six captured vehicles were not merely for transport but for intelligence gathering. Nogovitsyn stated in Moscow: "Russia is very interested in this incident. We believe the Pentagon has its reasons for worrying about the Humvees. We found a great deal of interest in the internal workings of these vehicles, and we are continuing to work on that." Another translation of Nogovitsyn's remarks had him stating: "It is not accidental the Pentagon is so worried about the future of its Hummers . . . We have discovered many things of interest to us inside the vehicles."
Not only was the Pentagon concerned about the capture of the Humvees but Crawford White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe weighed in: "We'd certainly expect that the Russians would return any equipment that is U.S. equipment and return it quickly, if, in fact, they do have it."
Izvestia also reported another curious element of the Humvee story -- that some of the U.S. electronic equipment in the Humvees were manufactured under U.S. license in Odessa in Ukraine. Like Georgia, Ukraine is not a member of NATO, yet NATO-compatible sensitive military equipment is being manufactured in a non-NATO country. The Izvestia article stated: "The Georgian military not only abandoned valuable equipment, but essentially blew the lid on the U.S. security system. In Gori, Russian troops seized an American intelligence center packed with cutting-edge reconnaissance equipment. All of it is in Russia now. And the six jeeps [Humvees and Landrover] are a mobile reconnaissance and patrol complex, providing troop management in the field. According to our sources, the leading car's equipment wasn't the most modern at all; and most curiously of all, it is produced under license from the USA in Odessa, Ukraine."
A Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson told Izvestia, "Another reason why the Americans are infuriated is because the Georgians have humiliated the USA in front of the whole world. The Americans trained the Georgian army for five years, arming them with the latest weapons and hardware - but the Georgians ran like rats at the first sign of action against Russian troops, abandoning all their hardware."
Jane's Defense reports that Georgia's tactical intelligence left much to be desired even with their American and Israeli support. Georgia's Israeli-supplied unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were worthless against the Russians because Russia's "rapid assertion of complete air superiority" prevented the use of manned and unmanned aerial reconnaissance flights. Georgia's military intelligence assets inside South Ossetia were confined to Georgian enclaves where they could not report on Russian military movements in the rest of the region.
Georgia's own intelligence failure means that the United States likely supplemented Georgia's reconnaissance with satellite imagery obtainable from mobile intelligence stations such as the one the Russians captured in Gori and the Humvees taken in Poti. Georgia's problems with handling the intelligence provided by the Americans is also hinted at by a Jane's report: "the Georgians proved unable to effectively fuse intelligence from a range of sources in the chaotic and sometimes panicked atmosphere that followed the Russian onslaught."
Nogovitsyn's comment that "we have discovered many things of interest to us inside the vehicles," may be an understatement of the intelligence windfall obtained by the Russians, which means that CIA Director Michael Hayden and Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, both former National Security Agency (NSA) directors, have a major security compromise on their hands.
Georgia not only suffered an intelligence defeat but also a major naval disaster. Jane's Navy International reports that Russia's Navy destroyed at least six Georgian patrol and fast attack vessels but only after Georgian vessels attacked Russian Federation naval ships off Abkhazia. Jane's reports: "four Georgian craft made two attempts to attack ships of the RFN's [Russian Federation Navy] Black Sea Fleet, with the Nanuchka-class corvettes RFS Mirazh and RFS Shtyl returning fire and sinking one of the boats." Russian ground troops later neutralized Georgian vessels in Poti, including the Greek-supplied Anninos-class fast attack craft Dioscuria, Georgia's most capable naval ship.
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