Posted on 10/14/2002 6:33:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar's Jazeera television broadcast Monday what it said was a statement by Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden hailing last week's attacks on U.S. Marines in Kuwait and a French supertanker off Yemen.
The statement, which Jazeera said bore bin Laden's signature, also urged Muslims to unite against Americans and Jews.
"The heroic operation in Kuwait proves the level of danger that threatens U.S. forces in Islamic countries," the statement said.
"The priority in this war at this stage must be against the infidels, the Americans and the Jews who have not stopped their injustice," it added.
In Kuwait, gunmen killed a U.S. Marine and injured another last week. A blast ripped through the French-flagged tanker Limburg off the coast of Yemen last Sunday, killing one crewman.
Peace be upon those who follow the good path, well, I am an honest mentor , I invite you to the happiness of this life and the hereafter and I invite you to get rid of your material dry and hard life which lacks spirit.
I invite you to Islam which calls for the following of only the path of God who is one and has no partner and calls for justice and interdict injustice and crime.
I call you also to understand the message of the raids of NY and Washington which came as a retaliation on some of your previous crimes and the first to attack is the more injust.
However if we look at the criminal gang in the White House, agents of the jews who are preparing to attack the islamic world and divide it without you disowning their acts , one feels that you did not understand the message of the raids.
So, I inform you, and let God witness what I will say , If America increases or decreases the degree of this conflict, we will retaliate with the same degree with the permission of the praised and exalted.
And I witness God that the youths of islam are preparing what makes your hearts full of fear and targets the "joints" of your economy untill you stop your injuctice and agression or the last one of us dies. We hope that the great & the almighty will provide us with his support he is the one capable of that.
"Say: O People of the Scripture! Come to an agreement between us and you: that we shall worship none but Allah, and that we shall ascribe no partners unto Him, and that none of us shall take others for lords beside Allah. And if they turn away, then say: Bear witness that we are they who have surrendered (unto Him)."
Osama Bin Mohammad Bin Laden.
Listen to the original message in arabic:
http://www.aljazeera.net/mritems/streams/audio/2002/10/6/1_117546_1_13.asf
transelated by abo omar may God forgive him.
Pretty clear that Al-Qaeda's designs extend beyond the attacks against Americans and Jews. Others should see the need to get on the bandwagon and unite against terrorism.
What did we (in America) learn from September 11, 2001 and the deaths of 3,000 people. I am tempted to admit: Absolutely nothing.
Among the many unlearned lessons of Day-Which-Will-Live-In-Infamy-II-- the necessity to control our borders, the need for a patriotic renewal and the importance of combating multiculturalism -- the most significant is the nature of Islam. You will note that I do not say militant Islam, or radical Islam, or Islamic extremism or other such weasel words – but Islam, period.
Every one of the hijackers who flew airliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon were professing and practicing Moslems, as is Osama bin Laden. The Al Qaeda terrorist network, is based in Moslem countries and supported financially by the so called pious Moslem leadership of Saudi Arabia.
The overwhelming majority of Moslem religious authorities who have spoken out on the subject, including those at the main mosque in Mecca and Egypt’s prestigious Al Azar University, either endorse or rationalize acts of terrorism. On a day when Americans were incinerated or buried under tons of rubble, Muslims from Nigeria to Indonesia, celebrated in the streets.
Sept. 11 was one chapter in a 1400-year jihad. Every day, the World Trade Center massacre is reenacted on a smaller scale somewhere in the world. Jewish women and children are burned alive in a bus in Israel. A missionary is beheaded in the Philippines, gunmen shoot up a church in Pakistan (deliberately firing into the prostrate bodies of women trying to shield their children). Ancient monasteries and convents are destroyed in Kosovo. Women are sentenced to death for adultery in Nigeria, Hindus are murdered in the Kashmir. In Denmark, the Muslim community there has put a $30,000 bounty on the heads of Jews and those who support Israel. Nuns are beheaded in Baghdad, Christians in Sudan are forced into slavery, and in Britain, Islam openly states it is going to take over not only the UK, but the whole world -- and the beat goes on.
Genocide in the Sudan, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, religious persecution in Saudi Arabia, calls for another holocaust in mosques from Mecca to Gaza, the imposition of Islamic law in Nigeria, forced conversions in Indonesia, synagogues burned in France, Jews attacked across Europe – these are everyday events, as Third World and much of the First slowly turns Islamic green.
Sadly our leaders, from President Bush on down, insist on peddling the absurdity that Islam is a religion of peace – a creed of kindness and benevolence tragically and inexplicably corrupted by fanatics.
Why is the leadership of the West reluctant to confront manifest reality? The reason lies partly with our absurd foreign policy. We have declared certain Moslem nations to be our loyal allies – including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. We would not want to offend these dear friends by saying something unflattering about their bloody, butcherly, dark ages faith.
Americans are naturally benevolent. Most of us are taught from childhood that is religion is good (and it does not matter which religion). As long as little Johnny believes in God and goodness, it’s inconsequential whether he lights candles, wears a skull cap to services or prays in the direction of Mecca.
This works with every religion except Islam.
Consider the following: Of the three major western religions: one was started by a lawgiver who helped to free slaves; one by a man of peace; the last one by a man who loved war and having sex with children. Mohammed not only led men into battle, he enjoyed marrying girls as young as six years old (it is in the Koran). The essence of his message is sick and disgusting. A holy war where you slaughter your enemies, while at the same time encouraging followers to have sex with the children they capture (as he did) for the glory of Allah. He even advised his followers to negotiate false peace treaties in order to lull their enemies.
For almost 1,400 years, that has been the reality of Islam. Within a century after the death of Mohammed, Islam spread throughout the Middle East and across North Africa. It overran the Iberian peninsula and was finally stopped in southern France. It spread eastward as far as the southern Philippines. It was not propagated by fresh-faced young men knocking on doors and announcing: “Hello. I’m from your local mosque. Have you considered the Koran?” It was and is spread by force – conversion by the sword or death. This is still in practice today.
Some will respond that all religions go through periods of violence, usually in their infancy. Christianity had its crusades and Inquisition, its forced conversions and expulsions. The evil committed in the name of Christ happened centuries ago. The evil committed in the name of the Prophet is going on now, as you read these words. Of 22 conflicts in the Third World, 20 involve Moslems versus someone else. Coincidence? In his brilliant book, “Clash of Cultures and the Remaking of World Order,” Samuel Huntington speaks of Islam’s “bloody borders.”
There is no Methodist Jihad, no Jewish Hasidic holy warriors, no Buddhist monk wanting to have 72 virgins waiting for him after a suicide bombing, no Hindu Holy men plotting to blow up people, no Southern Baptist suicide bombers, no Mormon elders preaching the annihilation of members of other faiths.
Islam is a warrior religion – the perfect vessel for fanatics, the violence-prone, the envious and haters of all stripes. This is one reason why Islam is making so many converts among the peaceable denizens of our prison system.
Still, much of the West is addicted to a fairy-tale version of Islam. Christian and Jewish clergy fall all over themselves to have interfaith services with imams. Representatives of Moslem groups are invited to the White House. The president signs a Ramadan declaration. In California, public schools ask children to role-play at being Moslems. Our universities take carefully selected verses from the Koran and present them as the essence of the faith. All that’s needed is a Moslem character on “Sesame Street.” Look – it’s the Jihad Monster!
This perspective engenders a fatally false sense of security. Imagine, in 1940, Winston Churchill taking to the airwaves to announce “Nazism is an ideology of peace which, regrettably, has been perverted by a few fanatics like Hitler and Goebbels. But most storm troopers and SS men are fine follows – your friends and neighbors.”
For the first thousand years of its history – from the death of Mohammad to the 17th. century decline of the Ottoman empire, Islam was an expansionist force. For the next 300 years, as the West rose to preeminence, Islam receded. For the past four decades – fueled by Arab oil wealth, a surplus population in the Middle East, the waning of the West and the rise of more virulent strains of the faith (Shiism, Wahhabism, Sunni fundamentalism) – Islam is expanding once more.
Due to Moslem immigration and aggressive proselytizing, Islam is being exported to the West. Moslem populations are burgeoning throughout Western Europe. (In southern France, there are more mosques than churches.) In Judeo-Christian America, Islam is the fastest growing religion. It is also spreading down the coast of West Africa, through the Balkans (after Serbia, Macedonia is the next target) and up from Mindanao in the Philippines.
Wherever it comes, Islam brings its delightful customs – child marriages, female circumcisions, rabid hatred toward Christians, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists and every other non-muslim, terrorism and support for terrorism and a virulent intolerance of other faiths.
Am I suggesting we declare war on over 1 billion million Moslems? The question is moot – Islam has declared war on the rest of the human race. When one side knows it’s at war and the other thinks peace and brotherhood prevail, guess who wins?
Ultimately, it is not about Jews in Israel, or Orthodox Serbs in Kosovo, or Hindus in Kashmir, Buddhists in Thailand, or Maronite Catholics in Lebanon, Taoists in China, or Christians in Sudan and Nigeria, but all of us. As Ben Franklin would have it – Either we will hang together, or surely we shall all hang separately.
While I wouldn't call for that -- yet, I have to say that increasingly, I've been wondering about AlJazeera and their role.
Are they an Al Qaeda-controlled organ of propaganda?
This is begging for someone whose artistic abilities far out-strip mine....[LOL]
"Until . . . the last one of us dies"
Works for me . . .
"Needless to say this whole thing has gotten people upset around here. An Aussie that works with Richard was at the scene of the blast when it happened. He had only minor injuries, but five men from his rugby team are still missing and presumed dead. I am having qualms about leaving here without knowing whether we can get back. I would rather know for certain so I can make arrangements for Mugsy. He will be at the kennel that transported him here so I guess that is a good place to be. He will not be among friends so that is worrisome to me. What a mess. I like the people here and the majority are very kind. It is a shame that fanatics are giving the Indonesians an uncalled-for bad reputation. These fanatics are ruining the world not cleansing it as they think."
Pat
Sounds like a plan to me! Let's Roll!!!!
The world would be a much better place without the muslim cult.
It's not my paper. It was posted by GaryMontana on a thread last night. He gave me permission to post it and make a 'stand-alone' thread out of it. I just wish I could write that well. Man-O-Man, do I.
Yup. I heard that too. Thre are 5.5 million Muslims in France, they (the Muslims) will 'bomb' France back to the stone ages. Get ready. (Where is Le Pen?)
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