In the video that was released today, Osama Bin Laden urges all Americans to become Muslims if they want to stop the war:
“There are two solutions to stopping it. One is from our side, and it is to escalate the fighting and killing against you. This is our duty, and our brothers are carrying it out.”
“The second solution is from your side, I invite you to embrace Islam.”
Robert Spencer on his blog points out that it is the duty of all good Muslims to offer Islam to their enemies before they attack:
“I invite you to embrace Islam,” says Osama, and yes, that is a prerequisite for an observant Muslim before he can commit an act of violence against an unbeliever.
Muhammad directs Muslims to issue this invitation first, and if they refuse, to invite non-Muslims to enter the Islamic social order as second-class dhimmis, and if they refuse both, to go to war with them (Sahih Muslim 4294).”
Later, Bin Laden stresses that Christians have been living under Islamic law in peace for years and that the Jews could have avoided the Holocaust if they had been under the protection of Islam.
The MSM totally ignores that these references are actually part of the traditional Muslim formula for properly declaring war.
Osama does make one statement that I find particularly amusing:
“To conclude, I invite you to embrace Islam. There are no taxes in Islam, but rather there is a limited Zakaat [alms] totaling 2.5 percent.”
There you have it my friends and readers. If we all join Islam and turn America into an Islamic republic we would all save on our taxes!