Posted on 06/28/2002 5:17:47 PM PDT by vannrox
Special Dispatch Series - No. 389 |
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June 13, 2002 | No.389 |
Saudi Ambassador to London: 'I Want Peace with Israel; I Long to Die as a Martyr; Stoning and Amputating Hands Are at the Core of Every Muslim's Belief' Huda Al-Husseini, a correspondent for the Saudi owned London Arabic daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, conducted an extensive interview with Saudi Ambassador to London Ghazi Al-Qusaibi.[1] The following are excerpts from the interview:[2] I Had to Take a Stand on Suicide Bombers "I wrote this poem for two reasons that affected me psychologically. First, I saw her talking in the video broadcast on television. It was obvious that she was a woman who wanted only to die as a martyr and defend her homeland. She was young, 17, and I imagined her to be my daughter. I felt that she was a girl whom despair, frustration, and rage had brought to a point where she was willing to kill herself for her homeland." "Second, some time after her martyrdom, the American president George Bush said that all Arabs should call the perpetrators of suicide operations and I, by the way, object to this term because these are martyrdom operations criminals and murderers. I said to myself: the humiliation in which we live is bad enough, but maybe the day has come when they impose on us not only what to do but also what to say. Will the man influenced by Israel [referring to President Bush] determine who is a Muslim martyr and who is a Muslim criminal? I had no choice but to take a stand on this issue. I could have written an article, but emotion has found expression in my poem. I knew that the poem would spark debate, but sometimes a man must take a stand." Asked whether he encourages young people to carry out 'martyrdom operations,' Al-Qusaibi replied: "Whether I encourage it or not is irrelevant My personal position has no connection to events. Yet the position of my government or of other governments is another matter. I think that it is the right of every man to defend his homeland by any means. A man who defends his homeland and dies doing so is a martyr, and in no case must we consider him a suicide [bomber]." "In the Koran it is written that anyone who dies for the sake of Allah is a martyr. When the Prophet Muhammad was asked about the meaning of 'for the sake of Allah,' he said, 'Anyone who fights so that the words of Allah will be supreme.' Namely, he who kills because he wants to be a hero, or to be brave, will not be a martyr, no matter what he does " My Son Makes His Own Decisions
"What hurts is that the Zionist journalists write that a man carries out an operation because he gets 70 black-eyed women in Paradise! Whoever wants 70 girls goes to a Tel Aviv whorehouse, and does not kill himself. Is it conceivable that a heroic martyrdom operation would be defiled in such a manner? " Saudi Arabia is Giving Aid to the Families of Palestinian Martyrs Al-Qusaibi was asked whether he feared that in the future, suicide attacks would become a weapon against the Arab regimes. He answered: "I cannot compare the Palestinians' situation with that of any other person The Palestinians are currently the only people in the world under a colonialist regime. I wrote in an article that I was not demanding human rights for them, but animal rights Britain is about to pass an animal rights bill that would give animals the right to eat, drink, and express themselves. There are four million Palestinians who have no way of moving or working, and they are slaughtered." The interviewer reiterated, "You demand freedom of expression as they demand here for animals. But the Palestinians under Israeli occupation are not the only ones denied this. There are many like them in the Arab world." "There is no room for comparison," replied Al-Qusaibi. "There are varying degrees of [repression] in the Arab world. In the worst cases, a man can leave The Palestinians cannot do this " On the Culture of Death The Saudi Initiative: Israel's Last Chance "Another message was directed to the Israeli people: 'We, 22 [Arab] countries, have now offered you peace before things get out of hand '" "You ask me how can it be stopped. Can I stop it by [telling] the martyr not to martyr himself? We have seen in demonstrations in Arab countries that everyone wanted to martyr himself. Only a viable Palestinian state will stop the violence " "[The borders of this state] are clear: the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, and the dismantling of the settlements. The Arab initiative clearly explained this. When the final borders of the state are declared, I will be able to find work opportunities for the young people and to enable the 17 year-old girl to wait for a husband. When a man thinks of sacrificing himself, it means he has reached a dead end. Accordingly, the solution for stopping the violence will not come from my condemning the violence or refraining from [giving] aid [to the Palestinians] " Yes, I Want Peace With Israel "I Long to Die as a Martyr" A Cultural Gap Between Islam and the West Flogging, Stoning, and Amputations Are in Muslim Eyes "The Core of the Islamic Faith" "For this reason, there is a genuine cultural gap that cannot be bridged by hiring the services of a PR company but only by West and East respecting each others' culture. If we say that Western culture is preposterous, and that it is a wicked and inferior culture, and if they say, your culture is primitive - we will get no results. I maintain that the mature position is to accept the Westerners with their culture, and for them to accept us with ours " [1] For other materials on the Saudi Ambassador to London Ghazi Al-Qusaibi please see:
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Unbelievable.
LVM
Don't let this camel jockey get away with imposing his ignorance of history on you. He's as Western as any Frenchman was in the 15th Century!
Of all the other nonsense and SICK perversions that Islam foists upon it's Cult members, one cannot be FAT and be a Martyr?
My suggestion: 1-800-JENNY-CRAIG. Lose the wait, blow yourself up.
This guy is a real piece of work. Just goes to show how sick twisted, dimented and outright STUPID Islam and it's followers truly are.
L
in your best John Wayne voice
All right men listen up, we've got a dangerous mission coming up. Some of you may make, some of you may not. I'd like to be going with ya, but unfortunately I've got a dental appointment.
I dont know what is harder to handle.
The complete and total disconnect these morons have from reality or their unflappable hubris.
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The very small kind, that needs someone to come upside their head with a 2x4.
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