So, I’m sure many of you have heard this news already, that lots of young people are reading Osama bin Laden’s Letter to America and finding the Taliban leader as a sympathetic character. It’s made the rounds recently, as it was part of a broader body of news about how absolutely insane the younger cohort of Americans is vis-à-vis politics and radical Islam. It seems that the Zoomers haven’t quite yet figured out that Islamic terrorists are bad guys. I grant, they aren’t the only ones. Many moronic Millennials and Gen-X jabronis and not a few buffoonish Boomers also don’t think that the people who drive planes into buildings and plan for violent world domination and genocide are the black hats.
They’ve fallen prey to a quite popular, albeit dimwitted, line of argument for moral equivalence. And many have already spoken at length about the folly of moral equivalence, so I won’t say much other than that this is an entirely predictable result in a society that pushes moral relativism. If everything is relative, and a matter of opinion, then can anything ever be righter or wronger? Obviously not to the true relativist—if such a thing is possible. The thoroughgoing moral-relativist, a self-contradiction if ever there was one, a person who believes that all moral statements are relative to some standard and that since those standards differ we have to accept a plurality of standards will naturally, and I’d argue inevitably, come to the conclusion that the egregious sins of my friends are no worse than the minor sins of my enemies.
And when I talk about thoroughgoing or true moral relativism, I’m talking here about Normative Moral Relativism—because it is important to distinguish between Normative and Descriptive Moral Relativism—NMR says that there are no absolute universal moral standards. So, if bin Laden wants to blow up civilians and exterminate the Jews, that’s just his moral system working itself out, and “hey, America’s done bad things, too, so we really can’t determine whose side to be on.”
And that would be bad enough, but nature abhors a vacuum, which is why I said that a truly thoroughgoing Normative Moral Relativist is a self-contradiction. Eventually a moral standard will arise. An ethic will emerge. And so now we have people who THINK that they’re NMR, but in fact they have an absolute moral standard that they wish to impose upon people, and that standard is Wokeism, with its anti-colonial, sexually libertine, intersectional hierarchical viewpoint.
And so, these (mainly) younger Americans see bin Laden and ignore his Islamo-fascism and his desire to brutally execute homosexuals, throw women in sacks and make them subhuman, and exterminate the Jews . . . and also conquer the world and subjugate it to Sharia. They’ll ignore that and wash it away with Normative Moral Relativism. But they’ll then say that he’s not just not wrong, but he’s actually right, because he’s a non-white, non-Christian, from outside the West. Therefore he has to be higher on the intersectional hierarchy than the Jews, or the people who were murdered on 9/11.
Now, you might want to tut-tut me right now. Perhaps you’re someone who’s read a lot of Christianity Today and you know all the ins and outs of intersectionalism and relativism and you want to say, “Luke, you fundy rube, that’s an oversimplification; the academic versions of these theories are much more nuanced and complex, you need to deconstruct your own views.”
Yeah, no.
There is such a thing as straw-manning, where you take the weakest form of an opposing position and attack that, and that’s dirty pool in the Academy. The Academy prefers steel-manning, where you deal with the strongest possible version of an argument, even a possible version that your opponents haven’t proposed because you want to deal with the best version of an argument. And that’s very popular in intellectual circles, and when you’re writing for an Academic audience, this really is the way to go.
But there’s also something I like to call Real-Manning. I’m not interested in arguing against the most precise form of these arguments as they exist in captivity away from the consequences of life. I’m interested in these arguments and ideas as they exist in the wild. I wanna talk about what these views look like when they’re tested by life. Because here’s the thing. Perhaps I AM being overbroad when I critique moral relativism and its relationship to Woke ideology and intersectionalism and moral equivalence. But I’m not talking about Academic philosophers here, I’m talking about your friends and neighbors—people who can vote!
And the reality, tragic though it may be, is that there are lots of Americans whose minds have been so corrupted by corrosive ideologies that they are literally defending and agreeing with people who murdered thousands of their fellow citizens, are calling for the extermination of the Jewish people, and the violent conquest and subjugation of the world.
And friends, the days of just dismissing these people as a few cranks are long since gone. They are too many to ignore.
And this is a problem. And it’s a problem because we are in a Holy War. The West is currently engaged in a Holy War against Islam. Now, perhaps you’re saying, “But Luke, I don’t want to be in a Holy War against Islam—I’m against war, and wars of religion in particular.”
Me too.
Me too.
But here’s the thing. It only takes one side to make a Holy War. This isn’t like selling a home where both sides have to agree to the terms. If one side and only one side wants a war of religion, then they can have a war of religion. And at that point your choices are really only 2: fight back; or surrender. There really is no third way.
But here’s the other thing. And this is really the main point. And this is what I want to talk about.
Secularism, in all its many forms, cannot win in a Holy War against Islam. Secularism has no capacity to resist Islam. Islam has a purpose, it has a raison d’etre. Secularism has none. Islam has a coherent moral system. Secularism does not. Islam has a desire to live. Secularism does not.
Now, please don’t mistake me for saying that Islam is good or right or true. I’m saying nothing of the sort. And I’m not saying that Islam is not facing major real problems. It is. Suicide rates in Muslim countries are not negligible. And the fertility rate among Muslims is also declining.
What I’m NOT saying is that Islam is good. I’m not saying it is. What I’m saying is that Secularism is not capable of winning a war of attrition against Islam. Islam functions, today, similarly to how Communism functioned in the 1920s–80s in the West. Westerners, by and large, didn’t go for it, but there were many who were enticed by its promises and the Western social structure was challenged by Communism and forced to answer hard questions. Communism, in the sense of Marxism-Leninism, that the USSR wanted to colonize the world with, was a worldwide system that had a clear and articulable utopian vision. It offered something to live for and something to fight for and something to die for. Nevermind that it was a foolish and impossible and immoral dream. That’s not relevant. What IS relevant is that multitudes of people were lead astray by the promise of a better world because they had failed to believe that what they had was worth living and fighting and dying for.
Russia embraced Marxism-Leninism because the Tsarist system had been so oppressive and abusive and the lives of average Russians was so bad that they believed it couldn’t get worse. It could and did. But at least Lenin and Stalin and the boys promised something worth suffering for. They promised a future of peace and plenty. Sure you had to liquidate the Kulaks to get there and starve a bunch of Ukrainians, but that’s small potatoes compared to perfect equality and prosperity.
The Russian system was morally and societally bankrupt and had no immunity to Communism.
Today, Islam is willing to fight, kill, and die and to keep fighting, killing, and dying until the whole world bends the knee to Allah and is subject to Sharia as part of the Ummah. Muslims who really believe in this will have lots of kids so that they can swell the ranks of the Mujahadeen. They will willingly suffer and go without to ensure future victory. Islamists are willing to sacrifice the present to win a glorious future. It has something that gives people purpose.
In short, Islam has a goal that transcends the individual, gives purpose to suffering, and has moral clarity—if not moral truth.
What does Secularism have in response to this? More sexual perversion? More deviancy? More pronominal tyranny?
Are we really so foolish to think that a society of queer-activist social justice warriors stand any chance in a protracted war against the Mujahadeen? The Islamofascists are willing to blow themselves up to kill their enemies. The Knights of Secularism get triggered if you call them a snowflake.
And now we come to the awkward part of this sermon. We come to the point where one must ask ole Lukey-pooh what then I’m suggesting. Or rather, what do I think the Bible is calling Christians to. And that’s a difficult question. And it’s difficult because Christians are being called to be like Christ and that means a lot of different things.
So, there are a couple things that we can use as poles or foundations or fixed points
First, We can say that as a starting point, Islam, as a religion, is fundamentally, unchangeably, and violently opposed to Secularism.
Second, Islam desires to impose Islam worldwide.
Third, Secularism cannot win a protracted war against Islam.
Fourth, and this has been implied, but not stated explicitly—so I say it now—only Christianity is able to resist Islam.
So, given those fixed-points, what am I suggesting? Violent conquest of Muslim lands? No, nothing of the sort. A return to Christendom? I might think that this is an interesting political theory, but I don’t think you can get there in a straight-line via the Bible. There’s no verse of scripture that tells nations to establish a multi-national Christian politico-military coalition, and, what’s more, I think such a thing, would develop organically anyways, because it has. I think that’s inevitable. Whether such a coalition does more harm than good is a question of speculative historians…and me when I’m feeling spicy…but that’s not today.
Moreover, what I’m not saying is that I want America to become Christian to save America. And I know I’ve talked about this a lot over the years, but there is a very fine, and important, distinction between wanting to see nations flourish and prosper as a result of their becoming godly and wanting nations to be godly so that they can flourish and prosper. It’s a fine line. But it is there, and it’s fairly clear. To confuse them is to confuse means and ends.
So what am I suggesting? I’m merely suggesting that the lack of resistance that the Secular West has to Islam is proof of the bankruptcy of Secularism and our need for Christ.
Blue Like Jazz joked about a group on a fictional college campus called “Jews for Jihad.” Such jokes no longer land. And that is the sad and tragic result of godlessness. Living in a post-satirical culture is the inevitable conclusion of Christlessness. The tragedy is that the farther from God we get the more serious and strong we feel, the more enfeebled and beclowned we truly are.
Somewhere someone once said that “professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
Let’s strive to live in a world where satire is funny and not tragicomic. Let’s strive to live in a nation that loves life and goodness and has purpose. Let’s seek after Christ and all these things will be added unto us, as well.
At the bottom I’m posting the copy of bin Laden’s Letter to American provided by Newsweek:
“The full transcript of the letter can be found below. Please note that this document was written with propagandistic intent from an international terrorist and mass murderer.
November 24, 2002
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
"Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory." [Quran 22:39]
"Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan."[Quran 4:76]
Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are we fighting?'. These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.
While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:
(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?
Q2)What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:
(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
a) You attacked us in Palestine:
(i) Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be
erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.
(ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism. This is one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history. The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be
upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed. Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. If the followers of Moses have been promised a right to Palestine in the Torah, then the Muslims are the most worthy nation of this.
When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them. Therefore, the call to a historical right to Palestine cannot be raised against the Islamic Ummah that believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and blessings be upon them) - and we make no distinction between them.
(iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.
(b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.
(c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis;
(i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah, using violence and lies to do so.
(ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and place us in a large prison of fear and subdual.
(iii) These governments steal our Ummah's wealth and sell them to you at a paltry price.
(iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people.
(v) The removal of these governments is an obligation upon us, and a necessary step to free the Ummah, to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain Palestine. And our fight against these governments is not separate from our fight against you.
(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of your international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.
(e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our sanctities, to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures.
(f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down.
(g) You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Under the protection of your weapons, Sharon entered the Al- Aqsa mosque, to pollute it as a preparation to capture and destroy it.
(2) These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression and aggression against us. It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?!!
(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake:
(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.
(b) The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates.
(c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is these very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us.
(d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and their women in the American Forces which attack us.
(e) This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.
(f) Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back. Whoever has destroyed our villages and towns,
then we have the right to destroy their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen or wealth, then we have the right to destroy their economy. And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.
The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question:
Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?
If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of peace!!! America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so we are addressing it using the language it understands.
(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.
(a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between them - peace be upon them all.
It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy, honor, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme. And it is the religion
of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their color, sex, or language.
b) It is the religion whose book - the Quran - will remain preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed. The Quran is the miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the Quran or even ten verses like it.
(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.
(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honor, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.
We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to which you have reached.
(b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind:
(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the lord and your Creator. You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all
the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they are most in need of: knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?
(ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.
(iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.
(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.
Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations?
(v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.
(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women.
(vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and establishments are established on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other deceptive names you attribute to it.
(viii) and because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.
(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries.
(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.
(xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?
(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.
(a) The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new lesson from the 'American book of democracy'!!!
(b) Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.
(c) You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the full support of America.
(d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for - you shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside. You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.
(e) You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands of Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.
What happens in Guantanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its values, and it screams into your faces - you hypocrites, "What is the value of your signature on any agreement or treaty?"
(3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with yourselves - and I doubt you will do so to discover that you are a nation without principles or manners, and that the values and principles to you are something which you merely demand from others, not that which yourself must adhere to.
(4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens and to also cease supporting the Manila Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines.
(5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in coffins.
(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.
(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this will result in more disasters for you.
If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words: "Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people. And remove the anger of their (believers') hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise." [Quran9:13-1]
The Nation of honor and respect: "But honour, power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger (Muhammad- peace be upon him) and to the believers." [Quran 63:8]
"So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be*superior (in victory )if you are indeed (true) believers" [Quran 3:139]
The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than you desire life:
"Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive with their Lord, and they are being provided for. They rejoice in what Allah has bestowed upon them from His bounty and rejoice for the sake of those who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice in a grace and a bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the reward of the believers." [Quran 3:169-171]
The Nation of victory and success that Allah has promised: "It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it victorious over all other religions even though the Polytheists hate it." [Quran 61:9]
"Allah has decreed that "Verily it is I and My Messengers who shall be victorious,
All-Powerful, All-Mighty." [Quran 58:21]
The Islamic Nation that was able to dismiss and destroy the previous evil Empires like yourself; the Nation that rejects your attacks, wishes to remove your evils, and is prepared to fight you. You are well aware that the Islamic Nation, from the very core of its soul, despises your haughtiness and arrogance.
If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.
This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious?”