Text of Fatwa By Bin Laden Ordering Moslems to Kill Americans

World Islamic Front | 9-23-2001 | Osama Bin Laden

[Chapita]

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[aristeides]

I think the normal interpretation of "pagans" in this Koran passage does not include Christians and Jews, whose religions are "religions of the book" that Muslim rulers in the past have tolerated. bin Laden seems to take a different view.

[Non-Sequitur]

I noticed that this declaration is 3 years old. He had his supporters before this and he has his supporters now but he hasn't gotten a lot of support among mainstream Muslims in the interim, has he?

[SauronOfMordor]

We -- with God's help -- call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it.

The Bin Laden group (or at least some people with advance knowledge of the WTC attack) were active in the stock options market in the days leading up to the attack.

Somebody who can precisely predict when a major fall in stock prices will occur, can triple their money in the options market. You think they would have been able to resist the temptation to make a hundred million dollars?

[M Kehoe]

If there weren't any "holy places" would that mean that this fatwah would be null and void?

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[the-ironically-named-proverbs2]

opps, "..that the Islam" should be "..that Islam". need more coffee

[the-ironically-named-proverbs2]

Agreed. It also seems that Bin Laden sees us as attacking Islam and he is just defending.

[FITZ]

You think they would have been able to resist the temptation to make a hundred million dollars?

Especially not if they can claim it was all done out of their religious beliefs.

[Travis McGee]

I am not sure how within Islam it is determined just who may issue a Fatwa. There is no "Islamic Pope", I think that leadership is much more open to anyone who can claim wide followership.

[Travis McGee]

I think that the radical islamicists have cowed and terrorized the moderates into silence.

All we get from our "moderate" Moslems are denunciations of the WTC act, but at the same time none dare put out a Fatwa against Osama Bin Laden. If they did, they know full well they would be killed by covert agents of the fanatics.

IOW, radical Islam spreads through terror, which is used to silence and disempower the non-radicals.

This is at work around the world as well as in the USA.

[Travis McGee]

Ping.

[Travis McGee]

If making a "killing" in the options on airline stocks helps the cause of the "holy jihad" then it is of course blessed by this Fatwa.

Have you noticed that none of our Koranic scholars has been by to denounce this Fatwa as a fraud?

If it is a fraud, I would hope someone would prove it.

[goldstategop]

Public opinion polls in Arab/Muslim countries are non-existent but if one had to hazard a guess, its safe to say the overwhelming majority of Arabs/Muslims (with a handful of exceptions) support terrorism, violence, and murder against Israelis and Americans. In the PLO zones where polls have been conducted, public approval of such attacks is staggering. And what we've seen in the West, its clear that on the Arab street the legitimacy of extremist violence and savagery is not confined to a marginal group of fringe extremists but is in fact the view of the vast popular majority. We in the West would like to think every one especially a MAJORITY of people everywhere oppose terror, murder, and violence, but unfortunately this is not the case. Now its true most Arabs/Muslims do not themselves in engage in terrorism, violence, and murder but that is not the point. After all a majority of Germans in Nazi Germany did not personally take part in the Holocaust either, neverthless overwhelmingly supported genocide of the Jews. There is the same phenomenon here and the most Arabs/Muslims have been Nazified to an extent unprecedented in history. As the U.S and the U.K move to attack Islamist Nazis in the Arab/Muslim world, its safe to predict that if any thing the already deep-rooted hatred of the West and America will increase accordingly. Let's make no mistake about it: while one would wish the Islamist Nazis were an extremist faction shunned by the overwhelming majority in the world from which they come from, the empirical reality demonstrates the opposite is true. Therefore if history is any guide we will be in for a long and arduous struggle to make the world safe for freedom and democracy.

[Travis McGee]

It probably won't get reported in the US, but Saddam offered it condolances to American civilians and offered intelligence assistance.

Oh gee, that's good enough for me, that certainly proves that Saddam has moved over to the side of righteousness.

I wonder why in the days after 9-11 all of the papers in Iraq were calling the WTC destruction a righteous act?

The Iraqi papers must be full of brave dissidents to oppose the word of Saddam.

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Now will you please address this Fatwa?

[Travis McGee]

There is no way to tell what percentage of the moslem world supports the Fatwa of Osama Bin Ladin and his mega murdering tactics, and what percentage has merely been cowed into silence through fear of certain death at the hands of radical assassins.

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[Travis McGee]

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[Travis McGee]

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