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Freepers, now here is the FBI transcript for the Dr.'s message to France:

Thanks to caseyb at It's Happening for the FBI provided translation ...

Al-Qa'ida's Al-Zawahiri Attacks French Ban on Headscarf
24 Feb 2004
FBIS

Dubai: Al-Arabiyah Television in Arabic 0701 GMT 24 Feb 04 [Corrected version: Announcer-read report over still picture of Ayman al-Zawahiri; adding dropped ultimate graf]

Ayman al-Zawahiri, second-in-command in Al-Qa'ida Organization, has criticized the French Government's decision to ban the wearing of the hijab [Muslim women's headdress] at government schools.

In an audio recording obtained by Al-Arabiyah, he said that the decision is part of a campaign targeted against Muslims and the only response to it is bombings.

[Begin Al-Zawahiri recording] In the name of God, praise be to God, and may peace and blessings be upon the prophet, his household, companions, and loyalists. O Muslim brothers everywhere, may God's peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you.

The latest decision by the French president to create a law preventing Muslim girls from covering their heads at schools is an additional indication of the extent of the Crusaders' rancor harbored by Westerners toward Muslims. This is despite their bragging about freedom, democracy, and human rights. Even after their rebellion against the authority of the Church, their hearts and chests seethe with that rancor, which they bequeath to their coming generations.

The Zionist-Crusader West considers freedom sacred as long as it is its freedom to steal the wealth of others and plunder their resources. But when freedom becomes a means of resisting the West or choosing Islam as a way of life, jihad, and resistance, it becomes terrorism, narrow-mindedness, and fanaticism that should be dealt with by tank shells and aircraft missiles. France, the country of freedom, is defending the freedom of nudity and depravity and is fighting chastity and decency.

You in France, the protector of freedom, are free to bare yourselves, but you are not free to be decent or show shame.

Banning the hijab is not restricted to France. It is a continuing policy planned by the Zionist crusades at the hands of its agents in Egypt, Turkey, and Tunis, and other Islamic countries, in different forms and through various means.

Banning the hijab in France is consistent with the burning of villages along with their people in Afghanistan, demolishing houses over their sleeping residents in Palestine, and killing the children of Iraq and stealing its oil under false pretexts. It is consistent with the killing of Muslim prisoners in Qal'eh (?Panjeh) as they die from suffocation or thirst while on their way to the prison of (?Safaruhand). It is consistent with tormenting prisoners in the cages of Guantanamo and torturing Muslims in the prisons of our leaders, the friends of the United States. It is consistent with the right that the United States granted itself to kill any human being or arrest anyone anywhere and deport and detain him anywhere for any duration of time, without anyone daring to ask why, how, where, or even when this person was arrested. It is consistent above all with the banning of nuclear weapons everywhere, except Israel.

The banning of the hijab is consistent with all these crimes. It shows the scope of the Zionist-Crusade's moral and doctrinal hypocrisy and the extent of its savagery in its war against Islam and Muslims. [end recording]

Additional: FYI -- Al-Zawahiri Says Dialogue With Regimes 'Useless'
24 Feb 2004
FBIS

Dubai: Al-Arabiyah Television in Arabic 0900 GMT 24 Feb 04

Dubai Al-Arabiyah Television in Arabic at 0900 GMT on 24 February carries a second rebroadcast of the audio recording by Ayman al-Zawahiri, second-in-command in Al-Qa'ida, on France's decision to ban the Islamic veil.

The rebroadcast includes an additional paragraph that was not included in the first broadcast of Al-Zawahiri's audio statement, filed as GMP20040224000040, or in the first rebroadcast, which included an additional paragraph that was filed as GMP20040224000045.

The new additional paragraph reads as follows:

"In a related development, Al-Zawahiri urged a confrontation with the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. He also criticized the domestic peaceful attempts at change, saying that they conflict with the [Islamic] shari'ah, as he put it.

"[Begin Al-Zawahiri recording, in progress] regimes are the wolf's paws of the Zionist-Crusader West. Hence, dialogue with them through arguments, counterarguments, and peaceful action is useless. Besides, the attempts to change these regimes using their own laws and through their own parliaments is a violation of the shari'ah, because this requires recognizing the legality of these constitutions and laws, which God asks us to regard as blasphemous." [end recording]"

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