An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding this article on TIMES ONLINE.co.uk: "SHUTTLE DESTROYED BY GOD, SAYS ABU HAMZA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mr Hamza, 44, said: "The Muslim people see these pilots as criminals. By going into space they would have sharpened the accuracy of their bombs through satellites. These missions would increase the number of satellites for military purposes. It would increase the slavery of governance of other countries by America. It is a punishment from God. Muslims see it that way. It is a trinity of evil because it carried Americans, an Israeli and a Hindu, a trinity of evil against Islam."") (February 4, 2003)
JOY JUNCTION.org: "SOME MEMBERS OF ONE RADICAL BULLETIN BOARD DELIGHTED ABOUT SHUTTLE DISASTER" -Opinion Commentary by Jeremy Reynalds (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "While people grieved worldwide over Saturday's tragic loss of the Columbia shuttle during its attempted re-entry to the earth, some Islamic fundamentalists posting on www.clearguidance.com, a controversial bulletin board for Muslim youth, were positively gleeful.") (February 3, 2003)
DAILY STAR.com.lb - Lebanese News: "JUMBLATT LASHES OUT AT WESTERN POLITICIANS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Walid Jumblatt lashed out Sunday against Western politicians and "the Jews," calling on Arab leaders to hold popular referendums before allowing in foreign troops for a war against Iraq. The Progressive Socialist Party leader also said he felt "great joy" at Saturday's destruction of the United States space shuttle Columbia, because it carried an Israeli astronaut who had taken part in aggression against "Lebanon and Iraq." "The true axis of evil that rules the world today is an axis of oil and Jews," Jumblatt said at his family home of Mukhtara, Chouf.") (February 3, 2003)
MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Special Dispatch Series No. 464: "FRIDAY SERMON IN IRAQI TELEVISION: "YES, BUSH IS THE DRACULA OF THIS GENERATION"" (ARTICLE SNIPPETS: "The preacher, Sheikh Dr. Abd Al-Latif Humaym, based his sermon on the Islamic tradition regarding the hero Ja'far Ibn Abi Taleb, one of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad..." ... ""Yes, Bush is the Dracula of this generation; [he is the] blood sucker of peoples." "Oh Ja'far, come out of your grave and cry out Allah Akbar..." "Oh Ja'far, rise for Iraq... Oh Saddam, hit with your sharp sword and burn the armies of the infidels... Oh Allah, support the Mujahideen in Iraq and in Palestine... Oh Allah, support Saddam and the Iraqis... Oh Allah, make those who wish us, our religion, our nation, or our leader ill slaughter themselves by their own hands. Oh Allah, deal with the Jews, the Zionists, and the Americans, since they are incapable of countering you..." Endnote: (1)Iraqi TV, January 31, 2003.") (February 2, 2003)
PAK TODAY.com: "DESTROY THE JEWS, AMERICANS Friday Sermons Slam US, Israeli Plans Against Iraq, Arab Nation: FBIS Report" (ARTICLE SNIPPETS: "SAUDI ARABIA: Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia TV1 in Arabic, official television station of the Saudi Government, at 0942 GMT carries an 18-minute live broadcast of the sermon from the holy mosque in Mecca. Shaykh Usamah Khayyat delivers the sermon." ... "Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabic TV2 in Arabic, official television station of the Saudi Government, at 0946 GMT carries a live 22-minute broadcast of the sermon from the holy mosque in Medina. Shaykh Ali al-Hudhayfi delivers the sermon.") (013103)