Tuesday April 17, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

Political terror is being nudged out by theological terror.

The Palestinian Jihad and Tawheed Brigade is the group that has claimed responsibility for the execution of BBC journalist Alan Johnston.
What exactly does the name of this terrorist organization mean?
Why would an organization choose this specific name?

Jihad is pretty much known to everyone - it means Holy War.
Tawheed is one of the most important theological concepts in Islam.
Tawheed is best explained as Islamic monotheism.
Tawheed is the belief in the unity of Allah.
Tawheed means that everything originates with Allah, the Creator.

This group also professes allegiance to al Qaeda.
Their announcement of Alan Johnston's execution was a vicious attack against not only this innocent journalist but against Palestinian leadership, the world press, England and the West.
Israel, by the way, is never mentioned by name and referred to only as "the oppressor" and "the occupier."

Hate - especially hatred fueled by religious fervor - has no bounds.