The Mohammed Code: Why a Desert Prophet Wants You Dead by Howard Bloom Page A
Authors: Howard Bloom
Tags: Islam, Terrorism, World history, 911, jihad, mohammed, marathon bombing, prophet, osama bin laden, jewish history, jihadism, muhammad, boston bombing, islamism, muslim
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Why I Am Writing This Book…
And Why I Am Writing It To You
Why An Ayatollah Wants To Rule The World
In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah of Iran and started a disturbing new form of government. The Ayatollah made blunt statements about a new genocide in the making, an all-out war of true Moslems to “obliterate” 26 those of us who refuse to believe. Meanwhile, there were numerous indications that Islam would soon have nuclear weapons. And the words of the Qur’an called out over and over again that “slaughter is better than tumult and oppression” 27 —slaughter is better than unbelief. What’s more, the weapon God most often used in the Qur’an to punish those who disdained His message was fire. Not just any fire. But “ the fire whose fuel is Men and Stones .” 28 This phrase seemed to eerily hint that God was telling his followers to use the atomic bomb.
The Western press paid no attention to the Ayatollah’s blizzard of pronouncements that, “"Moslems have no alternative... to an armed holy war against profane governments. ...Holy war means the conquest of all non-Moslem territories.” 29 They paid no attention to the fact that the Ayatollah’s words are still considered gospel in 2007, when Iran is busy building a uranium enrichment industry able to produce the key materials for nuclear weapons. The Western media also overlooked the clues that Iran may have been stockpiling nuclear warheads since the late 1990s… clues we’ll dig into later.
So in 1989, I entered four months of negotiations with George Crile, a producer at 60 Minutes. The goal? To warn America that while it slumbered in complacency, a new enemy was plotting its destruction. That new enemy was militant Islam. In the end, I put together a 40-page, single-spaced document for Crile with quotes from the Ayatollah, from activists in Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and from a wide variety of other Moslem sources indicating that the fall of Western Civilization was militant Islam’s goal and that any means—even nuclear means--were permissible. I tried to get a very alien way of thinking across to Crile. A way of thinking that makes total sense once you know its premises. A way of thinking that tells idealists—would-be savers of the human race—that their only way to save you, me, and George Crile may be mass murder.
Finally, Crile took me to dinner with his wife (who had been named the editor of Premiere , the film magazine, earlier that day) and his assistant. The dossier I’d put together of militant Islamic statements and their meaning had scared his assistant shitless. But Crile was charming…and aloof. Would he cover the threat of militant Islam? He wouldn’t say. The next day he flew to Saudi Arabia. When he returned, he gave his answer. No. No reason, just no.
Later Crile wrote a book— Charlie Wilson’s War . About what? About militant Islam. But about militant Islam as a creation of the CIA! Crile was accurate in his portrayal of the way the US had funded, armed, and trained what would eventually become al Qaeda. But Crile was wrong in his sense of history. He made the We-Did-It mistake—an error whose instinctual underpinnings and grisly consequences we’ll lay bare in a hundred pages or so. He implied that modern Islamic civilization is so weak and American civilization so all-powerful that a 1,300-year-old movement—militant Islam--is a recent genie conjured from a bottle by American intelligence agents.
That view can be fatal.
Time To Get Serious—The Punch of 9/11
Four years later, in 1993, Moslem militants made their first attempt to topple the World Trade Center. They detonated a Ryder rental truck packed with 1,500 pounds of explosives in the Trade Center’s basement parking lot, a bomb that killed six people, injured a thousand, penetrated five underground floors, but did not topple the Twin Towers. 30 In 2001, the
Why I Am Writing This Book…
And Why I Am Writing It To You
Why An Ayatollah Wants To Rule The World
In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah of Iran and started a disturbing new form of government. The Ayatollah made blunt statements about a new genocide in the making, an all-out war of true Moslems to “obliterate” 26 those of us who refuse to believe. Meanwhile, there were numerous indications that Islam would soon have nuclear weapons. And the words of the Qur’an called out over and over again that “slaughter is better than tumult and oppression” 27 —slaughter is better than unbelief. What’s more, the weapon God most often used in the Qur’an to punish those who disdained His message was fire. Not just any fire. But “ the fire whose fuel is Men and Stones .” 28 This phrase seemed to eerily hint that God was telling his followers to use the atomic bomb.
The Western press paid no attention to the Ayatollah’s blizzard of pronouncements that, “"Moslems have no alternative... to an armed holy war against profane governments. ...Holy war means the conquest of all non-Moslem territories.” 29 They paid no attention to the fact that the Ayatollah’s words are still considered gospel in 2007, when Iran is busy building a uranium enrichment industry able to produce the key materials for nuclear weapons. The Western media also overlooked the clues that Iran may have been stockpiling nuclear warheads since the late 1990s… clues we’ll dig into later.
So in 1989, I entered four months of negotiations with George Crile, a producer at 60 Minutes. The goal? To warn America that while it slumbered in complacency, a new enemy was plotting its destruction. That new enemy was militant Islam. In the end, I put together a 40-page, single-spaced document for Crile with quotes from the Ayatollah, from activists in Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and from a wide variety of other Moslem sources indicating that the fall of Western Civilization was militant Islam’s goal and that any means—even nuclear means--were permissible. I tried to get a very alien way of thinking across to Crile. A way of thinking that makes total sense once you know its premises. A way of thinking that tells idealists—would-be savers of the human race—that their only way to save you, me, and George Crile may be mass murder.
Finally, Crile took me to dinner with his wife (who had been named the editor of Premiere , the film magazine, earlier that day) and his assistant. The dossier I’d put together of militant Islamic statements and their meaning had scared his assistant shitless. But Crile was charming…and aloof. Would he cover the threat of militant Islam? He wouldn’t say. The next day he flew to Saudi Arabia. When he returned, he gave his answer. No. No reason, just no.
Later Crile wrote a book— Charlie Wilson’s War . About what? About militant Islam. But about militant Islam as a creation of the CIA! Crile was accurate in his portrayal of the way the US had funded, armed, and trained what would eventually become al Qaeda. But Crile was wrong in his sense of history. He made the We-Did-It mistake—an error whose instinctual underpinnings and grisly consequences we’ll lay bare in a hundred pages or so. He implied that modern Islamic civilization is so weak and American civilization so all-powerful that a 1,300-year-old movement—militant Islam--is a recent genie conjured from a bottle by American intelligence agents.
That view can be fatal.
Time To Get Serious—The Punch of 9/11
Four years later, in 1993, Moslem militants made their first attempt to topple the World Trade Center. They detonated a Ryder rental truck packed with 1,500 pounds of explosives in the Trade Center’s basement parking lot, a bomb that killed six people, injured a thousand, penetrated five underground floors, but did not topple the Twin Towers. 30 In 2001, the
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