Tolerance Not On The Menu

Steven Edwards: The new jihadi menu -- eat your kill

Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:45 AM by NP Editor

If anyone ever doubted the West faces sheer insanity in the fight against the most extreme of the Muslim extremists, consider a discussion that recently erupted on a jihadist Web site based on the writings of one of al Qaeda's leading theorists. The thrust of the debate was that Muslim fighters may be justified in cannibalizing U.S. soldiers if they find themselves with nothing else to eat.

The jihadist leading the exchange even said that, in a bid to instill fear into U.S. servicemen, Americans should be told Muslim fighters "smack their lips to eat the flesh of ... the eaters of hamburgers and Pepsi."

The chilling message refers to parts of a recently published book by Muhammad al-Maqdisi, who is best known as the spiritual mentor of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the first al Qaeda leader in Iraq, whom U.S. forces killed in 2006. In one section of the work, Maqdisi discusses the idea of having to do something that is otherwise forbidden, like "murder or eating food sacrificed for an idol," according Washington-based SITE Intelligence Group, which translates jihadist "chat" sites.

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