Posted on 02/08/2002 3:28:41 AM PST by vrwc54
Saudi Government Official on Bin Laden as a Hero: "He Did
Not Present a Distorted Picture of Islam to the West"
American Jews are "Brothers of Apes and Pigs"The popular Al-Jazeera talk show, "The Opposite Direction,"
recently addressed the issue of whether Osama bin Laden has
served the cause of Islam, or damaged it. Appearing on the
program were Osama Safar, a Kuwaiti columnist who opposed
bin Laden and Abdallah Bin Matruk Al-Haddal, a Saudi
preacher from the Ministry of Islamic Affairs in Saudi
Arabia, who supported bin Laden.
Since September 11th the policy set by the heads of the
Saudi Kingdom dictates that Saudi government employees are
to refrain from expressing support of bin Laden. However,
Al-Haddal stood firmly in defense of bin Laden. In his
comments he also fiercely attacked American Jewry.
Following are excerpts of Al-Haddal's statements:(1)
On Bin Laden...
"...I did not come [here] to defend bin Laden personally.
Bin Laden waged an Islamic Jihad; he defended the oppressed
people in Afghanistan. He expelled the Soviet Union [from
Afghanistan]. The Western world focuses on Osama bin Laden
and the Jihad, and ignores the Muslims' faith, their
principles, and their values. Men like bin Laden will not
allow the Islamic world to bow down under the infidel
enemies' tyranny, under the tyranny of the U.S...."
"...There is no doubt that Osama bin Laden waged Jihad
against the infidels, against the aggressor and the
oppressor. America does not want Islamic principles [to
exist] on the face of this planet. It does not want the
full implementation of Islam's values and principles... It
does not want there to be a free Islamic economy."
"...America doesn't want to have any competitors. She
wants to be all alone in this world. Osama bin Laden's
demands are the demands of his nation. The nation who gave
rise to Osama bin Laden is a strong and great nation. It
is the nation of the future. Before bin Laden, it gave
rise to Salah Al-Din An-Ayyubi [Salladin]."
"...Osama bin Laden [caused] the West to think and read a
lot about Islam. Books on Islam disappeared from the
market; everybody wants to read about the kind of Islam
that does not accept oppression..."
"...Osama bin Laden is a Jihad warrior who implemented the
principles of Islam and of faith, and then reached the
pinnacle by going to fight the Jihad in Afghanistan. This
is a man who gave his soul for Allah, and Allah guarded his
soul until he reached a point where he became a hero like
Salah Al-Din An-Ayyubi [Salladin]."
"Like all other Muslims, bin Laden wanted to apply the
Shari'a fully with its values, principles, economics,
media, and education. Even in sports there should be Shari'
sport."On American Jewry
"I don't believe that the attack on America [on September
11th] was perpetrated by bin Laden or the Muslims. I think
differently. I believe it was a scheme. What is happening
now is a continuation of an ancient attack. It is a
continuation of the Jewish deception and the Jewish-Zionist
wickedness which infiltrates the U.S.... I am surprised
that the Christian U.S. allows the 'brothers of apes and
pigs' [meaning the Jews] to corrupt it. [The Jews] have
murdered the prophets and the messengers. [The Jews] are
the most despicable people who walked the land and are the
worms of the entire world. They are all evil. And why?
Because they are deceiving and plotting aggressors..."
"...The Jews do not respect Jesus, the son of Mary. America
should know who the Jews truly are. The Jews see Jesus as
someone born from prostitution, while he is the noble
prophet of Allah, and his mother, peace be upon her, is
pure..."
"...Jewish fingerprints have infiltrated the U.S. Jewish
evil and deception are those who attacked the U.S. [on
September 11th]. Osama bin Laden fought against the
opposing falsehood and oppression that is generated by the
evil and deceptive Jewish-Zionism..."
"...They want to rid the world of Islam. They don't want
Islam to ever have a revival. Osama bin Laden removed
oppression; even Muslims came back to their belief and
their religion. He did not present a distorted picture of
Islam to the West. Quite the contrary; reading about Islam
became more popular in the West. Westerners read on the
morality of the Prophet Mohammed, his beliefs and his
values. They read about Islam, not about terrorism..."
"...The American people is a people that is being led by
the media and TV culture. If a wicked Jewish crook begins
saying that the Muslims are oppressors, it has an influence
on the Americans. The media in America is in the hands of
the Jews and behind it there are the Jewish Zionists'
despicable fingerprints that change reality. They have even
deceived the Christians about their own religion. Did you
know that the person who forged the Christian religion is a
Jew?"
"The Muslims have mercy on the Christians more than they
have on the Jews. Bin Laden defended the oppressed. We warn
the U.S. and advise her to get rid of the Jews."
Endnote:
(1) Al-Jazeera TV, January 22, 2002.*********************
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an
independent, non-profit organization that translates and
analyzes the media of the Middle East. Copies of articles
and documents cited, as well as background information, are
available on request.The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
P.O. Box 27837, Washington, DC 20038-7837
Phone: (202) 955-9070
Fax: (202) 955-9077
E-Mail: memri@memri.org
www.memri.org
Sigh...
If only that were true...
... The Jews do not respect Jesus ...But they respect our laws and our republic and civic values. Unlike some of our Muslim brothers and sisters.
I had no negative opinions about Islam at all, nor ever gave a thought to ridding the world of it.
But that was September Tenth.
Effective September 11th, Yes, fine.
Be assured I do not want it to have a revival.
There are lots of things that do not deserve revival and are best left in the Past; The Plague, for example. Or filthy moon cults based on hatred, intolerance, condemnation and murder.
One of the by-products of the September 11 terror attacks is America's crash course in Middle Eastern studies.
As journalists try to decipher a culture of terrorists and nuances of their political, religious and social derivations, and policymakers face up to new priorities, a tiny think tank based in Washington, DC, and Jerusalem has proven to be a source of vital information.
The Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, was founded in 1998 to monitor and translate the media of the region, focusing on the Palestinian, Egyptian, Syrian, Iranian, Saudi Arabian and Iraqi press. MEMRI distributes its translations of regional content by fax and e-mail to over 10,000 journalists, diplomats, politicians and activists worldwide. No other organization does this work.
MEMRI provides an essential window into the Arab world, one that previously didn't exist, according to Yigal Carmon, founder and president of the non-partisan, non-profit organization. Carmon, former advisor on counter-terrorism to Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin, said that these Middle Eastern countries "are very closed societies. It's very hard to get newspapers out, especially Syria."
Western journalists, pressured for accuracy, reliability of sources and even-handedness, are often stunned by the discrepancy between what is released as official statements of the Arab leaders, and what they say internally to their own people. Journalists are often ill prepared to discern the lies and fabrications of representatives of dictatorships, in which the media is merely a tool of the government.
"There is hope. It's not a lost battle. Journalists and policymakers just need to listen to what the primary sources are saying," Carmon said.
MEMRI exposes real sentiments of the Arab regimes
MEMRI exposes the West to the real sentiments of the Arab regimes as expressed in their respective government controlled press. Carmon said it was an "uphill battle" to get the press of democratic nations to report on the "vile ideology" uncovered by his organization. Even the Jerusalem Post practiced self-censorship and refused to report on the contemptible propaganda against Jews revealed in the Egyptian press, Carmon said."It contradicts the idea we are going toward peace. The western mind does not believe there's such a thing as undeserved hatred… Americans keep asking 'why do they hate us?'"
Carmon said that for MEMRI, "there is a role… to expose as much as we can."
Some of the more recent gems discovered by MEMRI have been reports in the Iraqi press of Saddam Hussein meeting with members of the "Iraqi nuclear industry," and the head cleric for the Palestinian Authority stating on local television, "We're going to win because just as much as you [Israel] love life, we love death."
In November 2001, the leading Egyptian science magazine, published by the government-sponsored daily Al-Gumhuriya, accused the United States and Israel of using biological warfare, and alleged germ warfare was being implemented in Afghanistan. The article also stated that Jews were intentionally spreading AIDS to Asia and Africa.
In 1993, audiences dismissed warnings of Islamic fundamentalism
Carmon, a modest, scholarly man, was in a unique position to offer a prophetic message to the United States on February 26, 1993. As a senior IDF adviser on counterterrorism working with foreign governments, he delivered a briefing to the Pentagon in which he quoted the Arab sentiment popular at the time - "Capitalism is a crime.""Islamic fundamentalism is an imminent threat to the United States today," he warned his audience. Carmon's remarks were greeted with skepticism. One official told him he was "overly sensitive, as an Israeli."
Carmon then flew to New York in time to witness the first bombing of the World Trade Center by Islamic fundamentalists.
"People tend to explain these terrorist attacks in terms familiar to them - suicide, kamikaze…" Carmon said. "It's really acts of faith. To them it's martyrdom; suicide is not the case. They are not desperate - some are well to do, some are students. They are martyrs. They are in self-control and cold blooded."
Carmon called these acts of extreme "fanatic faith," and said that for totalitarian societies to indoctrinate this behavior it takes three things; education, religion and media.
"The power of religion is huge"
"The power of religion is huge." Carmon said that the basic tenet of fundamentalist Islam is "this world is nothing, only what comes after matters."Carmon contrasted the Islam of the 11th century and of the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent, which was "quite tolerant," to the Islam of the 7th century which was not. "Our enemies want to go back to the Islam of the 7th century," he said.
The key to understanding hatred is exposure and knowledge of your adversaries and their objectives, Carmon emphasized. He lamented that as a recent visitor to the Museum for the Oklahoma Federal Building bombing, he saw "all kinds of photos of the victims, children's toys and teddy bears, but no mention of the militia and the ideology which produced this kind of hatred."
Carmon is optimistic that once a group is exposed for that kind of hatred, "they may change."
MEMRI translations regularly appear in international media
When MEMRI began just four years ago, there were only a handful of people interested in its work, initially translating only Palestinian material. MEMRI now has offices in Washington, DC, Jerusalem and London.At MEMRI's Media Center in Jerusalem, foreign journalists are provided with balanced and comprehensive information regarding the Arab and Islamic world, news verification, technical facilities, and special seminars for visiting dignitaries and journalists. The Jerusalem office employs 17 translators, mainly former IDF people with backgrounds in language and dialects. "We need 170," Carmon said.
MEMRI materials now regularly appear in the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Guardian, Sunday Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Commentary, The Jerusalem Report and the Associated Press, and countless other outlets, including broadcast media.
U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman (Dem. - Cal.), recently stated, "MEMRI does an outstanding job of reviewing the Arab language press. Knowing what is being said about America and Israel is critical to understanding the Middle East. Holding Arab leaders accountable for failure to refute outrageous lies about America and Israel is an important part of our public diplomacy efforts and ultimately our Middle East policy."
And I thought our politicians had an IQ problem.
Definitely not Kosher!
The reason there is nothing about the ideology of the milita, is that they had nothing to do with the OK City bomb. It would be more fruitful to look at the ideology of the FBI and why it would allow its agents provacateurs to carry out that bombing.
Given that the Jews and Muslims are brothers in worship of the same God, maybe there is some truth to this statement :-)
Care to elaborate?
Okie Dokie. Full speed ahead with the pig bombing of Mecca.
Oh, and let's give all the camp X-ray inmates a bath in pig blood.
--Boris
They were too busy filming the 20-part series based on the anti-semitic hoax, "Protcols of the Elders of Zion" for their state-run TV.
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