Jay Nordlinger, National Review
Have you seen what Zawahiri, the Qaeda No. 2, has called “the mainstay of war”? “Men and money.” Together, they are the mainstay of war, says Zawahiri. And he is disappointed in the Muslim performance: They have not flocked off to Iraq, for example, to prosecute the jihad. Too few people committing suicide attacks.
We often get signals that Qaedism is not exactly hot among Muslims. And that is something to cheer, or at least be glad of.
One more point about ZawahiriÂ’s latest exhortations: He, and other Qaedists, say that the world is at war: radical Islam versus most everything else. Do we, on the most-everything-else side, recognize the same? |