Is the ICU preparing for major offensive?

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I don't have a majertain girlfriend. I had a Dulbahante girlfriend and an Abgal girlfriend. Both are long exes and both live in Germany.

EEAQ: East Africa Al Qaeda.

[FAH1223]

[quote="MAD MAC"]Manaking
America is fighting political Islam - no doubt about it.

Democratic Islam??? I'll believe it when I see it. Islam as a political entity is our ideological enemy. Islam as a personal faith - hey have at it.

If you want to join the radicals, do so. But don't whine when your a$$ ends up in Guantanamo.[/quote]

When speaking of democracy, we are not speaking of the American Democracy. Democracy is the only system of government that is Islamic.

Democracy consists of a set of values and procedures. One of most the important values of democracy is people's right to choose their leader and not to be ruled by force or tyranny. This is also an Islamic value, which we call shura or mutual consultation.

Another important value is checks and balances by which powers are distributed and separated in a way that achieves independence of each power and the ability to check and correct each other. In Qur'anic terminology, this is called al-mudafa`ah, which is a very important Islamic concept that protects the society against corruption. Almighty Allah says,

[Had not Allah checked one set of people by means of another, the earth would indeed be full of mischief] (Al-Baqarah 2:251).

As for the procedures of democracy, such as elections, voting, campaigning, et c, these are means for achieving principles. In this sense, democracy is also an Islamic principle. This does not mean that each democratic country is Islamic, but it does mean that each Islamic country SHOULD be democratic.

Nowadays you still find Islamists who enthusiastically argue that Islamic political system is only about obeying the ruler without any justice or checks and balances in governance.

That's of course a distortion of the original theme....a big and dangerous one.... which is why we see the state the Islamic world is in today. And, part of why we do not have a Caliphate or any sort of Islamic state worldwide.

The ICU wasn't even really governing. They were doing a lot of social work, which was good, but they had no idea or plan for governance in the future, no way to select a leader and no skills in negotiating when the ball was in their court.