Grabbed By The Balls, Fadl’s Heart And Mind Soon Followed

Liberals without a brain in their head who claim that war is never, ever the answer always fail to understand what is the answer once your enemy has decided that war is indeed the answer. They decry war as pointless and never a way to prove anything. Well, Sayyid Imam al-Sharif (aka Dr. Fadl) proves them wrong. Who is Dr. Fadl you ask? Oh no one … just one of the men who was at the forefront of getting little jihadists motivated to attack the west and who has now learned that poking a dragon with a twig is not worth the pain.

I want to thank Bob Jacobs, a loyal reader, for sending me this story:

Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, who goes by the nom de guerre Dr Fadl, helped bin Laden create al-Qaeda and then led an Islamist insurgency in Egypt in the 1990s.

But in a book written from inside an Egyptian prison, he has launched a frontal attack on al-Qaeda’s ideology and the personal failings of bin Laden and particularly his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Twenty years ago, Dr Fadl became al-Qaeda’s intellectual figurehead with a crucial book setting out the rationale for global jihad against the West.

Today, however, he believes the murder of innocent people is both contrary to Islam and a strategic error. “Every drop of blood that was shed or is being shed in Afghanistan and Iraq is the responsibility of bin Laden and Zawahiri and their followers,” writes Dr Fadl.

Ouch … bin Laden are you listening? And Dr. Fadl, watch your back because bin Laden has a lot of lunatics with high explosives who are ready to do whatever he says no matter how insane!

Fadl speaks about how it was indeed a bad idea, as I said, to poke the dragon with a twig as well:

The terrorist attacks on September 11 were both immoral and counterproductive, he writes. “Ramming America has become the shortest road to fame and leadership among the Arabs and Muslims. But what good is it if you destroy one of your enemy’s buildings, and he destroys one of your countries? What good is it if you kill one of his people, and he kills a thousand of yours?” asks Dr Fadl. “That, in short, is my evaluation of 9/11.”

Yes, kicking evil’s ass and taking names does indeed work. It’s true what they say, hearts and minds do indeed follow once you have them by the balls.