[Juenger-list] RE: Ernst Juenger - A Man For All Times

[buchbinder@unternehmen.com (Brown)]

Adalbarr,

Correct you are.

As a contribution to the question of jihad:

> There are five crucial Arabic and Islamic words, as follows:  
> Hirabah (forbidden "war against society")

"Hirabah: Highway robbery brigandage. There is a lot of
diversity among the schools as to what this applies to.
It involves armed robbery. Malik says it can take place
inside a town, but Abu Hanifa says it must be outside
of it..." Aisha Bewley, "Glossary of Islamic Terms"

> mufsidoon:(those evil-doers who wage such unholy war)

corrupters literally. Comes from the root FaSaDa to be corrupt.
Found in the Quran. z.B. Suratul Baqara, The Cow 2:10

> jahannam.
> (the Eternal Hellfire into which unrepentent evil-doers are cast 
> by Allah)

An older word of semetic origin for hell, the same as gehenna. One
of several names for hell used in the Quran.

> tajdeef (the sort of blasphemy which bin Laden 
> and al Qaeda are conducting against authentic Islam)

No root to be found in the Quran, nor the term itself. (Penrice,
"Dictionary and Glossary of the Quran.") I did find it in Hans
Wehr, "A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic." I suspect a word
of newer origin. It is also missing from Bewley's Glossary.


> and.... 
> shaitaniyah (the word for satanic, which is the character of 
> both bin Laden and his al Qaeda Blasphemy.)

Comes from the root Shatana to be obstinate, perverse.
Here it is in an adjectival form describing something akin
to our satanic.

It is important as with all language to think in terms of 
the root meanings.

Now my question is how are these related to the second part
of your post. Are we discriminating against assassination
and terrorism?

Abdalbar

> Let us think of July 20 for a second:

> "After the 20th of July, I was stunned to see that I had
> pre-described the events very accuarately: Prince Sunmyra
> is none other than Stauffenberg. He fails in his undertaking,
> but the mere attempt is already very fine." (p. 36, _Details
> of Time."

> With best Juengerian wishes

> Bertil

> Thank you Bertil for this contribution. As always
> EJ is, as you say, a man for all times.
> 
> For those of you who are interested...
> 
> Shaykh Abdalqadir As-sufi, has written about the
> suicide bombers of the mid.-east from a Muslim
> perpective. The essay touches on points similiar
> to EJ's quote and Bertil's point of view. So I
> thought it might be of interest to some of you.
> 
> It can be found at http://www.murabitun.org/mur/article20.html
> under the title The New Ismailism.
> 
> I think it is clear from your post, and that of the
> Shaykh that these bombers will achieve nothing other
> than giving Islam an extremist face. For that matter
> it also rhymes with Juenger's dislike of assassination
> techniques to achieve goals. See pgs. 75-76 of the Details
> of time. A small sample: "One seldom encounters aged
> assassins. This also applies to terrorist on the
> whole: you will find very few who become old, after
> escaping all the dangers, which inevitably include
> suicide."