Al-Qaeda Threatens Jihad over Pope's Remarks

Al-Qaeda Threatens Jihad over Pope's Remarks

An Iraqi militant group led by al-Qaeda has threatened to massacre Christians in response to remarks about Islam by Pope Benedict XVI. An Internet statement by the Mujahideen Shura Council, an umbrella group led by Iraq's branch of al-Qaeda, threatened reprisals against "worshippers of the cross" for the pope's remarks. "We shall break the cross and spill the wine....(You will have no choice but) Islam or death," said the statement, citing a saying of the Prophet Mohammed promising Muslims that they would "conquer Rome...as they conquered Constantinople. We tell the worshipper of the cross that you and the West will be defeated, as is the case in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya. God enable us to slit their throats, and make their money and descendants the bounty of the mujahideen."

What exactly does it mean to make one's descendants someone else's bounty? In normative Islam, slavery has always been encouraged. For females this means a life of continual rape and torture. This is why the Muslim jihad in Darfur is marked by mass gang rape and slavery. The "bizarre" phenomenon of choirs of Muslim women performing at gang rapes singing songs of encouragement to the rapists is thus explained. Jihad has always been associated with rape.