September 29, 2013

Separating the Kafirs from the Muslims

By Bill Warner
When the al Shabaab jihadi group from Somalia attacked the mall in Kenya, they gathered the crowd together and asked who were Muslims and let them go.  According to the media, they then started killing the non-Muslims who were left.  But "non-Muslims" is not the word what the terrorists would have used.  No, they would have called them Kafirs.  (Actually, they would have called them the Arabic plural of kafir, kuffar.  "Kafirs" is the standard English plural form.) Why did members of al Shabaab do this?  Why did they ask the Muslims to leave and keep the Kafirs and start killing them?  Let's start with the word "terrorists."  Members of al Shabaab are not terrorists; they are jihadists, or mujahedeen.  That is what they call themselves. So what difference does it make which words we use?  It makes all the difference in the world.  You cannot think precisely with imprecise words, and a Kafir is much more than non-Muslim. The...(Read Full Article)