Original Article: Ore. Lawyer Held in Spain Attack Released
Note from Robert Spencer:
As I have recently pointed out, there is No Margin For Error In the Terror War.
Ethelred Note: The fact that the case was ultimately dropped, and that the Spanish police and
the FBI are pointing fingers at each other in no way invalidates the comments below.
To those who pretend that Mr. Mayfield can be a good Muslim and
a loyal citizen of the United States, or any other Infidel polity, one
must ask several questions: 1) does Islam encourage, in every nook and cranny
of Qur'an and hadith, loyalty to the umma al-islamiyya, to one's fellow Muslims,
or does it not? 2) does Islam inculcate hostility, sometimes amounting to murderous
hatred, of non-Muslims -- beginning with the injunction "not to take Christians or
Jews" as friends, and ending with such notions as beheading the Infidels, or
does it not? 3) if the Qur'an and hadith are full of such
statements, and they are, then why should non-Muslims believe that Muslims can in
fact be loyal citizens of a non-Muslim state, when everything in Islam teaches
that such loyalty would be a betrayal of Islam? (the feigned offering of
such loyalty, in order to further the cause of da'wa, and to protect
the faith, is of course not only allowed, but religiously-sanctioned -- kitman or
taqiyya are the interchangeable terms, the one more general, the other more specifically
Shi'a).
Whether Mayfield's is innocent of participation in the Madrid bombing does not in
the least vitiate the points made here -- and that Muslims who tell
the truth would have great difficulty in answering to the satisfaction of those
of us who think loyalty to the nation-state is a minimum demand to
be made on all citizens.
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