Politics & Power Quote by Ahmed Yassin

A call like this doesn’t just recruit; it collapses politics, theology, and personal identity into a single, irreversible choice. Yassin frames jihad as obligation rather than option, borrowing the grammar of religious duty to override the ordinary hesitations of cost, strategy, or moral ambiguity. “Sons of Islam everywhere” expands the constituency beyond any single territory, turning a local conflict into a borderless kinship claim: if you’re Muslim, you’re already implicated.

The subtext is as much about legitimacy as it is about violence. “Establish the rule of Allah on earth” isn’t merely devotional language; it’s a bid to displace secular nationalism and compromise politics with a higher jurisdiction. Then comes the hard pivot to an external enemy: “America’s domination and its Zionist allies.” Naming the U.S. foregrounds patronage, weapons, and diplomacy that shape Israel-Palestine, but it also serves a rhetorical shortcut. If the enemy is an empire, asymmetric tactics become easier to justify, and internal dissent can be recast as collaboration.

The final cadence, “either victory or martyrdom,” is the most psychologically efficient line in the passage. It drains the category of failure. Winning is proof; dying is proof. That binary isn’t accidental; it’s designed for a context where conventional victory is rare and daily life is saturated with humiliation, blockade, and loss. Martyrdom becomes an instrument of endurance and a solution to despair, converting personal death into communal meaning and political leverage.

Yassin’s intent, in that sense, is strategic: to internationalize the struggle, sanctify it, and immunize it against the demoralization that normally breaks movements under superior force.