Posted on 09/23/2001 1:17:25 AM PDT by Travis McGee
Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
World Islamic Front Statement
23 February 1998
Shaykh Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin
Ayman al-Zawahiri, amir of the Jihad Group in Egypt
Abu-Yasir Rifa'i Ahmad Taha, Egyptian Islamic Group
Shaykh Mir Hamzah, secretary of the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistan
Fazlul Rahman, amir of the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh
Praise be to God, who revealed the Book, controls the clouds, defeats factionalism, and says in His Book: "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war",[Surya 9-5] and peace be upon our Prophet, Muhammad Bin-'Abdallah, who said: I have been sent with the sword between my hands to ensure that no one but God is worshipped, God who put my livelihood under the shadow of my spear and who inflicts humiliation and scorn on those who disobey my orders.
The Arabian Peninsula has never -- since God made it flat, created its desert, and encircled it with seas -- been stormed by any forces like the crusader armies spreading in it like locusts, eating its riches and wiping out its plantations. All this is happening at a time in which nations are attacking Muslims like people fighting over a plate of food. In the light of the grave situation and the lack of support, we and you are obliged to discuss current events, and we should all agree on how to settle the matter.
No one argues today about three facts that are known to everyone; we will list them, in order to remind everyone:
First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.
If some people have in the past argued about the fact of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula have now acknowledged it. The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, but they are helpless.
Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, which has exceeded 1 million... despite all this, the Americans are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation.
So here they come to annihilate what is left of this people and to humiliate their Muslim neighbors.
Third, if the Americans' aims behind these wars are religious and economic, the aim is also to serve the Jews' petty state and divert attention from its occupation of Jerusalem and murder of Muslims there. The best proof of this is their eagerness to destroy Iraq, the strongest neighboring Arab state, and their endeavor to fragment all the states of the region such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Sudan into paper statelets and through their disunion and weakness to guarantee Israel's survival and the continuation of the brutal crusade occupation of the Peninsula.
All these crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God, his messenger, and Muslims. And ulema have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries. This was revealed by Imam Bin-Qadamah in "Al- Mughni," Imam al-Kisa'i in "Al-Bada'i," al-Qurtubi in his interpretation, and the shaykh of al-Islam in his books, where he said: "As for the fighting to repulse [an enemy], it is aimed at defending sanctity and religion, and it is a duty as agreed [by the ulema]. Nothing is more sacred than belief except repulsing an enemy who is attacking religion and life."
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God, "and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together," and "fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God."
This is in addition to the words of Almighty God: "And why should ye not fight in the cause of God and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)? -- women and children, whose cry is: 'Our Lord, rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from thee one who will help!'"
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. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson.
Almighty God said: "O ye who believe, give your response to God and His Apostle, when He calleth you to that which will give you life. And know that God cometh between a man and his heart, and that it is He to whom ye shall all be gathered."
Almighty God also says: "O ye who believe, what is the matter with you, that when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of God, ye cling so heavily to the earth! Do ye prefer the life of this world to the hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least. For God hath power over all things."
Almighty God also says: "So lose no heart, nor fall into despair. For ye must gain mastery if ye are true in faith."
"A Muslim journalist interviewed Osama bin Laden for Newsweek, Jan. 11, 1999:
Question: Why have you asked Muslims to target civilian Americans all over the world? Islam prohibits its followers from killing civilians in war.
Bin Laden: If the Israelis are killing small children in Palestine and the Americans are killing innocent people in Iraq, and if the majority of the American people support their dissolute president, this means the American people are fighting us and we have the right to target them.
Question: All Americans?
Bin Laden: Muslim scholars have issued a fatwa (a religious order) against any American who pays taxes to his government. He is our target, because he is helping the American war machine against the Muslim nation.
This commentary appeared on ABCNEWS.com, Jan. 1999 (on Osama bin Laden):
"His fatwa was clear: Americans must die, within the next few weeks. U.S. troops will leave Saudi Arabia when Islamic terrorists "send the bodies of American troops and civilians home in wooden boxes and coffins," Osama Bin Ladin vowed in an exclusive interview with ABC NEWS Correspondent John Miller. "We don't differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They are all targets in this fatwa."
Bin Ladin recently convened a meeting of fundamentalist extremists and sponsors of terrorism. More than 150 clerics named themselves the "International Islamic Front for the Jihad against Jews and Crusaders," and issued a variety of fatwas."
Do you now accept that the False Fatwa was in fact proclaimed by Osama Bin Ladin?
See my post #57. Also note: Fight against such of those to whom the Scriptures were given as believe neither in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His apostle have forbidden and do not embrace the true faith until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued. Sura 9:26
We shall see what happens.
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See post 57.
Yes. Otherwise they should be killed.
Are you familiar with the mahdi traddition that I have heard some about in the past? Could you enlighten us?
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No I am not.
I do know, however, that there is a Shiite tradition which allows them to say that they are not Shiites when they are in non-Shiite areas. So when among Sunni Muslims, a Shiite is allowed to curse the Shiites and say the prayers in the manner a Sunni says prayers, for example. This tradition was developed, if I understand it correctly, mainly as a self-defense technique. It seems to be different than jihad, but the concept of concealment is the same.
What about the Mahdi? Is this the group in Iran? I don't know that much about them. Don't they say Mahdi is the one to come in the future?
As I understand it there is a Muslim prophecy that states there will come in the future one who shall unite all the faithful and cause the whole world to become Muslim. some interpretations I have heard of this traditions state that this will be after the mahdii leads all the faithful to victory in a holy war. Although I have read a translation of the Koran it has been many years. i do know that the dessert leader that inspired the warfare against the British in The Sudan took the name Mahdi for himself. Omdurman proved him to be false.
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What about violence committed against homosexuals in the name of, for example, Leviticus 18:22? Or abortion clinic bombings by "Christians" such as Eric Rudolph or James Kopp?
Who has done this? Names? Organizations? Bible teachers? Bible college students? What churches do they attend?
Or abortion clinic bombings by "Christians" such as Eric Rudolph or James Kopp?
What church did Eric Rudolph and James Kopp go to? What Bible verses did they quote to justify their actions? Who are they organized with? Who are these groups?
With the terrorists who are Muslims we see they attend mosques, study the Quran, quote the Quran and Hadith, are associated with Islamic groups, etc.
That's what I've been wondering - where are all of the American Muslim clerics comdemning OBL? The only one who has spoken out against the attack is Farrakhan, and I don't think he was totally sincere.
Taking into account that there will be more attempts at 9-11 level terrorist actions, you must see that if this occurs, many, many recently arrived Moslems in the USA will be deported or interned. To forestall this, moderate Moslems need to open up a wide and visible separation between themselves and the Wahhabosts.
But then there is the problem that these Wahhabists are operating covertly within the USA. I don't see a solution, do you?
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