by Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n
Jihad Watch<\/em><\/p>\n The Obama administration supports “democracy” and “self determination” in the Middle East \u2014 two euphemisms that, in the real world, refer to “mob-rule” and “Islamic radicalization,” respectively. Yet, as\u00a0Jimmy Carter<\/a>\u00a0recently put it: “I don’t have any problem with that [an “Islamist victory” in Egypt], and the US government doesn’t have any problem with that either. We want the will of the Egyptian people to be expressed.”<\/p>\n Sounds fair enough. The problem, however, is that Muslim clerics openly and unequivocally characterize democracy and elections as tools to be discarded once they empower Sharia law. Thus\u00a0Dr. Talat Zahran<\/a>\u00a0holds that it is “obligatory to cheat at elections \u2014 a beautiful thing”; and\u00a0Sheikh Abdel Shahat<\/a>insists that democracy is not merely forbidden in Islam, but\u00a0kufr\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 a great and terrible sin \u2014 this even as he competed in Egypt’s elections.<\/p>\n The Obama administration can overlook such election-exploitation because the majority of Muslims are either indifferent or willing to go along with the gag \u2014 with only a minority (secularists, Copts, etc.) in Egypt actually objecting to how elections are being used to empower Sharia-enforcing Muslims.<\/p>\n But what if Muslims do\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0win elections? What if there are equal amounts of non-Muslims voting\u2014and an “infidel” wins? What then? Then we get situations like Nigeria.<\/p>\n While many are aware that\u00a0Boko Haram<\/a>\u00a0and other Islamic elements are waging jihad against the government of Nigeria, specifically\u00a0targeting Christians<\/a>, often overlooked is that the jihad was provoked into full-blown activity because a Christian won fair elections (Nigeria is about evenly split between Christians and Muslims).<\/p>\n According to\u00a0Peter Run<\/a>, writing back in April 2011,<\/p>\n The current wave of riots was triggered by the Independent National Election Commission’s (INEC) announcement on Monday [April 18, 2011] that the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, won in the initial round of ballot counts. That there were riots in the largely Muslim inhabited northern states where the defeat of the Muslim candidate Muhammadu Buhari was intolerable, [but] was unsurprising. Northerners [Muslims] felt they were entitled to the presidency for the declared winner, President Jonathan, [who] assumed leadership after the Muslim president, Umaru Yar’Adua died in office last year and radical groups in the north [Boko Haram] had seen his ascent [Christian president] as a temporary matter to be corrected at this year’s election. Now they are angry despite\u00a0experts and observers<\/a>concurring that this is the fairest and most independent election in recent Nigerian history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Note some key words: Muslims felt “entitled” to the presidency and seek to “correct” the fact that a Christian won elections \u2014 which they assumed “a temporary matter.”<\/p>\n Of course, had elections empowered a like-minded Muslim, the same jihadis would still be there, would still have the same savage intent for Christians and Westerners \u2014 Boko Haram means “Western education is forbidden.” But there would not be a fullblown jihad, and Obama would be singing praises to Nigerian democracy and elections, and the MSM would be boasting images of Nigerians with ink-stained fingers.<\/p>\n Yet the same jihadi intent would be there, only dormant. Like Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood \u2014 whose ultimate goal is “mastership of the world<\/a>” \u2014 they would not need to expose themselves via jihad, and would be biding their time and consolidating their strength.<\/p>\n Now, back to the Egyptian clerics, specifically\u00a0Sheikh Yassir al-Burhami<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 yet another leader in Egypt’s Salafi movement, who teaches that Muslims mustpreach peace when weak but wage war when strong<\/a>. Discussing the chances of a fellow Salafi,\u00a0Burhami asserts<\/a>:<\/p>\n We say \u2014 regardless of the outcome of the elections \u2014 whether he [his colleague, the aforementioned al-Shahat] wins or loses, we will not permit an infidel [kafir<\/em>] to be appointed to a post where he assumes authority over Muslims.\u00a0This is forbidden<\/em>. Allah said: “Never will Allah grant to infidels a way [to triumph] over the believers [Koran 4:141].” We are not worried about losing elections or al-Shahat losing votes. We will not flatter or fawn to the people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n What will you and your associates do, Sheikh Burhami \u2014 wage jihad? Of course, that will not be necessary: unlike Nigeria, most of Egypt is Muslim; one way or another, “elections” will realize the Islamist agenda.<\/p>\n Thus, whether by word (al-Burhami) or deed (Boko Haram) those who seek to make Islam supreme prove that democracy and elections are acceptable only insofar as they enable Sharia. Conversely, if they lead to something that contradicts Sharia \u2014 for instance, by bringing a Christian infidel to power \u2014 then the perennial jihad resumes.<\/p>\n \u00a92012 Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch The Obama administration supports “democracy” and “self determination” in the Middle East \u2014 two euphemisms that, in the real world, refer to “mob-rule” and “Islamic radicalization,” respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29,227,230],"tags":[12,379,192,1034,1061,1044,1043,30,1016],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-g2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6321,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-return-of-al-qaeda-and-jihad\/","url_meta":{"origin":994,"position":0},"title":"The Return of Al Qaeda and Jihad","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0FrontPage Magazine With the ousting of Muhammad Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, al-Qaeda has been vindicated and the terror-jihad exonerated, in the opinion of many Islamists, that is. 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