True Meanings of Muslim "Labels"

Hat Tip to Miss Ladybug at The Victory Caucus for this one! It comes from the comment section at Blackfive during a conversation regarding what to call the Ft. Dix Six. As the writer of this states, I wonder how CAIR is going to react to this?

Here's the article:

Comment below written by: @thepointyend

Personally, I like it when their warriors are hole-ey.

From the Stromata Blog last year:

The Hirabah of the Mufsidun

While I doubt that the Moslem world is much influenced by whatever Westerners say, new terms of denigration for Islamofascism are always welcome (first seen at Never Yet Melted):

We cannot win wide-spread support throughout the Muslim world if we use terms that, to them, define the behavior of our enemies as moral. Because the Global War on Terrorism—or more precisely the war against Islamic totalitarian terrorism—includes a war of ideas, leaders, journalists, authors and speakers must use the most accurate terms to describe those ideas. . . .

Many of these terms will be unfamiliar to Westerners, but not to most Muslim audiences. Only those who actively, passively or even unwittingly [emphasis in original] support al-Qa’ida’s (and similar groups’) professed goals would find the terms, and their use by non-Muslims, offensive. .

Hirabah: this word, which is derived from the Arabic root which refers to war or combat, means sinful warfare, warfare contrary to Islamic law. There is ample legal justification for applying this term to Islamic totalitarian terrorists and no moral ambiguity in its connotation. We should describe the Islamic totalitarian movement as the global hirabah, not the global jihad [footnote omitted].

Mufsid (moofsid): this word refers to an evil or corrupt person; the plural is mufsidun. We call our enemies mufsidun, not jihadis, for two reasons. Again, there is no moral ambiguity and the specific denotation of corruption carries enormous weight in most of the Islamic world.

Fitna/fattan: fitna literally means temptation or trial, but has come to refer to discord and strife among Muslims; a fattan is a tempter or subversive. Applying these terms to our enemies and their works condemns their current activities as divisive and harmful [footnote omitted]. It also identifies them with movements and individuals in Islamic history with negative reputations such as the assassins of the Caliph ‘Uthman in 656, who created the first fissure in the political unity of the Muslim community.

Totalitarian: calling our enemies totalitarian serves several purposes. There is no such thing as a benign totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is a Western invention and it appeared in the Islamic world as a result of Western influence (first fascist, then Marxist-Leninist). It is also in direct contrast to the idea that the enemy would actually establish a caliphate [a term with positive connotations for Moslems] if they defeat the United States, our allies and coalition partners.

I’ll be interested to observe the reaction of CAIR and its ilk if opponents of Islamic extremism start writing about hirabah, mufsidun and fattan.

To reiterate: “Only those who actively, passively or even unwittingly support al-Qa’ida’s (and similar groups’) professed goals would find the terms, and their use by non-Muslims, offensive.”

Lemme show you just who's 'ahkbar', f-head.

Thanks again Miss Ladybug, for this GREAT piece of education!

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