Mosul Police Station Raid

Posted July 11th, 2007 on Muntada al-Ekhlaas.

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
Praise be to God, helper of his faithful worshippers, vanquisher of the enemies of the religion. Blessings and peace be upon his representative by the sword, dear to the monotheist worshippers of God, and upon all his companions.

Said the exalted: "If you help God, he will help you and steel your resolve." [Muhammad: 7]

By guidance from God, the lofty, the omnipotent, it was possible for your heroic brothers, Aswad al-Ansar, on Sunday 7/8 at 7:30, to storm the apostate police station with machine guns in a successful flanking maneuver. This was in the Hadba' quarter, a short distance south from the city of Mosul. This raid resulted, by the pleasure of God, in casualties KIA and wounded. The number is yet unknown.

God is greatest. To God be the glory, and to the Prophet, and to the faithful.

The quotation in the middle of the post is quite irregular. The Qur'an is normally referenced in sura/aya numbers, and hadith are typically referenced by the editor of the collection, i.e. Bukhari, Muslim, etc.

A Little Introduction

I am an American college student, studying Arabic and History, particularly Islamic History. In doing research for a presentation on Iraq in early 2007, I discovered that there exists a whole other Internet inhabited by potential mujahidin, extremists, and terrorists. When I read translations of some of what I had found to the class, they were absolutely shocked. I've found that most people, though aware of the threat of militant Islamic fundamentalism, have no idea that the Internet is saturated with hate speech and militant Islamist rhetoric. Many of the web sites crawled for this blog have several thousand users viewing and posting at a given moment.

An important note: This is not a political blog. Commentary will be kept to a minimum, used only to identify persons or organizations in the translations. Of my own character, I will say only that I am not an Islamophobe. I've learned too much of the beauty of the Islamic religion and the glories of Islamic civilization to embrace such a narrow view. However, I do not blind myself to the reality of extremism.