Posted on 04/27/2005 3:37:22 PM PDT by saquin
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| 4/15/2005 | Clip No. 645 |
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| Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: The Islamic Nation's Problem is That Muslims Do Not Work. The Zionist Gang Has Turned the Desert into an Oasis | |
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The following are excerpts from a friday sermon on Qatar TV by Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi Dr. Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: We use trains and planes, but they are not our trains or planes. The (Westerners) manufacture them and export them to us. True, we can buy the most magnificent things in the world products for our homes and for ourselves. Our people can buy the most luxurious cars, Rolls-Royce or Mercedes 500 or 700, models S, M, and L with all the luxuries. We own them, but we don't manufacture them. We don't even produce a single nail in any of these cars. Others do this for us.
The income of the entire Arab world, including the oil-producing countries, does not reach the that of a European country, such as Spain. Spain ? let alone Germany, France, Britain, or Italy. Just Spain, which is at the bottom of the list of industrial countries... The income of the entire Arab world does not reach it. How come? Because we don't work, and if we do work, we don't do it professionally.
They conducted a survey of the average time that a government employee spends working in a certain Arab country. The average was 27 minutes a day. 27 minutes! The rest of the time he drinks coffee, reads newspapers, and goes on errands here and there. Only a small number of people work. The rest do not.
In the mid 1970s I went to Germany. We arrived during in the morning. I asked the guy who took me from the airport to the convention hall? As I was passing through the empty streets, I asked him how come the streets were not busy, like in our countries. He said: "People are at work." After 7 p.m. he took me back to the hotel, and the streets were empty. I said to him: "What's going on, the streets are empty again." He said: people are back home from work, and they are exhausted. All they want is to eat their dinner, watch the news, and then go to bed, because early next morning they have to wake up for hard work. They commute more than an hour to work and back, and spend an hour at lunch. They work non-stop.
We are a nation that doesn't work. How can we develop if we don't work? When we do work, we don't do it professionally. We keep saying "Don't worry, later, later?" Islam teaches us to do things professionally. Doing things professionally is a religious duty. The Prophet said that Allah ordered to excel in everyhting. He imposed excellence and professionalism. Professionalism must be followed in everything. "If you kill, do it properly, and if you slaughter, do it properly." Even when killing, you must do well.
Unfortunately, we do not excel in either military or civil industries. We import everything from needles to missiles. This is our nation. We still haven't manufactured an engine in our Arab countries. We assemble parts, but have no manufacturing industries. India has manufactured a car, and even a plane, while we still go around in circles like a bull in who turns a grinding mill or a water weal until it reaches exactly where it started.
How come the Zionist gang has managed to be superior to us, despite being so few? It has become superior through knowledge, through technology, and through strength. It ahs become superior to us through work. We had the desert before our eyes but we didn't do anything with it. When they took over, they turned it into a green oasis. How can a nation that does not work progress? How can it grow? |
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Some very interesting stuff at MEMRI. If you really want a glimpse of Arab conspiracy-theory stupidity check this link : Saudi Women's Rights Activist Suheila Hammad: Global Zionism Responsible for 9/11 as Proven by President Bush's Remarks
Even the Al-Arabiya interviewer seems to think she's nuts.
It would be interesting now to track this fellow's lifespan & proximate cause of death...
These folks better pray to allah the they never run out of oil, because as soon as they do or see the day it is no longer needed, they will once again see what it's like to live in the 6th century.
You have to admit, sometimes even Islamists have epiphanies on occasion, the president of Indonesia said it in his own anti Semitic fashion.....as in why aren't we on the leading edge of technology etc duh because the Islamists want everyone to live in the 7th century and you teach your kids hate and suicide bombing 101 instead of something constructive
I'd go one step further, because you have all these unemployed or not usefully occupied young Arab men, terrorists have a large pool to draw on.......
heaven help us when the oil runs out
nah, he's a big cheese in the Islamic world, he might get criticized but they won't fatwa him.......
Its also hard to get the work ethic when you gots to pray 5 times a day since you are four. Also, the sexual frustration of Arab men must play hell with attention span.
"We don't even produce a single nail in any of these cars."
I hope this is a translation mix up, and Arabs really don't think cars are nailed together.
Because if they do believe that, I'm glad they don't manufacture anything.
Indeed.
Heh. Interesting point.
Well, Just Damn! (sorry for stealing a catchphrase)
Someone in the Muslim world gets it.
Now I'm concerned that the West may really be in trouble. What'll it take? 50 years for this guys ideas to take hold (if ever)? I'll be dead, but my kids may have to take this seriously.
Muslims are capable of making cars. Soapbox derby cars. And those are nailed together
1) The Muslim religion (like most ME religions before its time) is a fatalistic one, i.e. "What will bee will be."
2) Under the Ottoman empire everything belonged to the emperor -- literally. There was no point in saving, in investing, or working harder to get more; everything was the emperor's. If it happened that some of it came your way, well, enjoy it while you can.
Can't forget to slip in that "kill the infidels" thing..
Well, at least they all go to Koran school. Tht really helps the economy I hear.
The word "professionalism" is a silly cliché these day. This brooding Muslim has has topped all, claiming the Koran demands that Muslims do their jobs professionally.
I wonder what opprobrious term was actually used in place of the inserted (westerners).
And these are just excerpts. A look at the full sermon-ie, at what was left untranslated- might be illluminating.
75% of all Saudi PhDs are in Islamic studies.
that's a typical day o' work for Kerry.
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