A faithful Muslim is a jihadist, period.

From Front Page Magazine:

“Fifty-two. That’s not even breakfast for me.”

Those were the words of an Islamic preacher in Britain, Mohammed Hamid, who liked to call himself “Osama bin London.” Hamid was referring to the fifty-two people murdered by Islamic jihadists in the London bombings of July 2005, and was boasting that his own plots would lead to, presumably, lunch and dinner -- far more deaths. One police official, discussing surveillance tapes made of conversations inside Hamid’s home, said, “There was repeated talk of finding and killing nonbelievers.”

Hamid was a member of the “London 7,” a jihadist gang that established training camps in the British countryside, where they prepared for large-scale attacks on British non-Muslims -- and who even planned to open training camps in the U.S. as well. Two of the gang members pleaded guilty to terror charges Tuesday, but this case is far from over. Its implications ought to be studied closely by government and law enforcement officials.

The establishment of jihad training camps in the British hinterlands raises disquieting questions with no easy answers: How many more might be there? How can they be detected? Questions like these should lead to considerations of the wisdom of the current no-holds-barred immigration policy, and of the loyalty of the larger Muslim community in Britain – questions that have never been satisfactorily answered. Exposure to the jihadist, Islamic supremacist ideology, says the self-styled British “former Islamist” Ed Husain, “that radicalism, that extremism, that ‘them-and-us’ mind set -- starts here on our streets in Britain.”

Why does it start on the streets in Britain, and what can be done about that? According to the Associated Press, “Hamid, originally from Tanzania, hand-picked recruits from mainstream mosques, inviting them for radical meetings at his home and then selecting a smaller number to attend the camps, police said.” Yet whenever law enforcement officials have broached the topic of monitoring activity inside mosques, they meet a barrage of indignation and criticism. The core problem is that, for all their ballyhooed condemnations of terrorism, peaceful Muslims in Britain and America have not moved in any great numbers to expose those who hold jihadist sentiments, much less to separate themselves from them and expel them from their mosques. There is no wall of separation in the British or American Muslim community between Muslims who accept Western pluralism and just want to live ordinary lives and those who hold to the same ideology of jihad and the destruction or subjugation of infidels to which “Osama bin London” had dedicated his life. There is no easy or reliable way to distinguish a Muslim who may be working to top the death total of the July 2005 London bombings from one who abhors the very idea.

For the most part if any Muslim is forced to choose between Osama bin Laden and his jihadists or Western pluralist society they will pick Osama bin Laden. They may very well try to hedge their bets and enjoy Western style peace, security and prosperity for as long as they can but in the end if forced to choose one or the other they will go with jihad.

This is because if you take the Koran as authoritative the Muslim today who is most like Mohammed, the perfect example of how a Muslim should be, is bin Laden. Mohammed was a warrior who slaughtered the infidels and forced them to convert to Islam. He subdued Christians and Jews and made them pay the jizra. He began the bloody jihads which engulfed the Middle East, North Africa and threatened Europe.

He named the non-Islamic world the "House of War" because it was the destiny of the believers to war against the non-believers.

Tell me who in the world today better fits that description than bin Laden? The only one who could come close is a Hamas or Fatah leader murdering Jews in Israel.

For a Muslim to reject bin Laden is to reject true Koranic Islam. Some will, the same way that some people who call themselves "Christian" will reject the virgin birth or resurrection of Jesus Christ, but those who hold to faith in the Bible will denounce such as heretics. Just as those who hold to faith in the Koran will denounce those who renounce jihad as heretics.