This was my favorite quote from the Economist article I posted earlier.  This one’s for the enemy out there (and you know who you are) that might be reading this.  You are a stain on Islam and humanity and we will put you back into the toilet where you belong. Inshallah. -Mudeer 

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Reformed Booger Eater, Dr. Fadl 

Another blow was delivered from an Egyptian jail by Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, better known as Dr Fadl, one of al-Qaeda’s founders in 1988 and a former leader of Mr Zawahiri’s movement, al-Jihad. He had developed much of al-Qaeda’s ideology, but at the end of last year he came up with a sweeping revision. “There is nothing that invokes the anger of God and His wrath like the unwarranted spilling of blood and wrecking of property,” he wrote. -Economist

“One day you will take a fork in the road, and you’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make your compromises and … turn your back on your friends, but you will be a member of the club, and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way, and you can do something, something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. … You may not get promoted, and you may not get good assignments, and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors, but you won’t have to compromise yourself. … In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you have to make a decision: to be or to do.”

-Col. John Boyd

 John Boyd on Wikipedia 

“That state which seperates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools” - Thucydides, on the Peloponessian War