Background:
The Prophet of Islam exhorted jihadists to battle.
https://islam.worldofislam.info/
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I read in a Michael Dibdin mystery, Medusa, when the character Alberto, a stiff
ruthless old fossil and Italian colonel in the military intelligence service,
reflected on the phrase on a WWI memorial on his way off work in Rome,
`Il Paradiso è all'Ombra delle Spade.' Yes, he thought. `Paradise lies in
the Shadow of the Swords.' ...
The sun had already slid down below the line of rooftops to the west,
casting shadows that reached across the broad boulevard. Alberto moved like
a tank through the groups of afternoon shoppers shuffling about as aimlessly
as the windblown dead leaves of the lindens that lined the kerb.
All'Ombra delle Spade. He had lived there all his life, but what did they
know of such things, these infantile adults in their quilted acrylic jackets
and two-tone designer sports shoes? He tried not to despise them, although
he knew that they would despise him. They were rather to be pitied. Yes, get
the latest style clothing, the latest mobile phone, the most powerful
motorbike, the most fashionable pedigree dog. Get it all, if you can! It
won't make you happy, but it may eventually bring you what you least desire
but most need: the knowledge that happiness is an illusion.
