Breaking CNN: statement attributed to bin Laden praises recent attacks

A statement posted on a Web site and attributed to Osama bin Laden praises recent attacks on U.S. Marines in Kuwait and a French oil tanker. Details to come.

At War With EVIL(Posted By FReeper GaryMontana)

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.

All bones, no meat

(CNN) -- A statement attributed to Osama bin Laden praises attacks on U.S. Marines in Kuwait and a French supertanker off Yemen and warns Western powers to "stop their aggression on us and their support to our enemies."

The statement follows a string of attacks authorities suspect were the work of bin Laden's al Qaeda network.

In addition, investigators on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali suspect that Islamic extremists with ties to al Qaeda are responsible for Saturday night's nightclub bombings that killed at least 187 people. The death toll was expected to rise Monday, as authorities said more than 200 people were missing.

"We are sure al Qaeda is here. The Bali bomb blasts are related to al Qaeda, with the cooperation of local terrorists," Indonesia's defense minister said Monday. (More on the Bali bombings)

The statement purported to be from bin Laden appears on an Internet site which has been associated in the past with al Qaeda. The Qatar-based Arabic language network Al Jazeera said it received a copy of the statement bearing bin Laden's signature. The authenticity of the signature could not be independently verified.

"We congratulate the Islamic Nation on the bold heroic jihad operations that her children ... the mujahedeen in Yemen against the crusader's oil tanker and in Kuwait against the enemy troops and the American occupation," bin Laden is quoted as saying in the statement.

One U.S. Marine was killed and another wounded Tuesday when gunmen opened fire on them during maneuvers on Failaka Island, off Kuwait City in the Persian Gulf. Kuwaiti officials have said the gunmen have ties to al Qaeda.

The following day, Kuwaiti civilians overtook a military Humvee outside Kuwait City and pointed a weapon at two U.S. service members, who then fired into the civilian vehicle, military sources said.

U.S. officials reported another attack on U.S. military units training with Kuwaiti forces Monday. Gunshots were fired at the troops from two civilian vehicles, but the fire was not returned and there were no injuries reported, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said.

The French tanker Limburg was set ablaze October 6 in the Gulf of Aden, off Yemen. Yemeni officials discounted terrorism at first, but French officials said last week the 332-meter (1,089-foot) ship was damaged in a bombing similar to the one that crippled the destroyer USS Cole in October 2000, killing 17 U.S. sailors.

"By hitting the oil tanker in Yemen, the mujahedeen hit the secret line, the provision line and the feeding to the artery of the life of the crusader's nation," the statement said.

"They reminded the enemies of the heaviness of the blood bill and the enormity of losses, that they will pay a high price to the continuation of their aggression on our nation and their plunder to our good and our wealth."

DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar's al-Jazeera television broadcast Monday what it said was a statement by Osama bin Laden hailing last week's attacks on U.S. Marines in Kuwait and a French supertanker off Yemen.

The statement urged Muslims to wage war against the United States and Israel.

The statement, carried by Jazeera and at least one Islamist Web site (www.islammemo.com), also blasted the United States for planning to attack Iraq and accused Washington of trying to rob Arab nations of their riches.

"We congratulate the Muslim nation for the daring and heroic Jihad (holy war) operations which our brave sons conducted in Yemen against the Christian oil tanker and in Kuwait against the American occupation and aggression forces," it said.

"By striking the oil tanker in Yemen with explosives, the attackers struck at the umbilical cord of the Christians, reminding the enemy of the bloody price they have to pay for continuing their aggression against our nation," it added.

The typed statement, which Jazeera said bore bin Laden's signature, was referring to Tuesday's attack on U.S. troops training on a Kuwaiti island which killed one Marine and wounded another as well as last Sunday's blast which ripped through the French-flagged Limburg in the Gulf of Aden, killing one crewman.

If proven to be from the Saudi-born militant, the statement would be the first conclusive proof that bin Laden survived the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan which it waged in retaliation for the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide attacks.

"These attacks coincide with the first anniversary of the crusade and is a clear message to enemies and friends alike that the mujahideen have not been weakened or exhausted," the statement added.

"The priority in this war at this stage must be against the infidels, the Americans and the Jews...who will not stop infringing upon us except through Jihad," it added.

Washington blames bin Laden and his al Qaeda network for the hijacked plane attacks on New York and Washington.

The statement did not make any mention of the weekend bomb attack which killed 181 people, mostly young Westerners, on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

Indonesia, a mostly Muslim nation, and other countries have linked the blast to al Qaeda.

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