Commentary: Allah off the Richter Scale
By Arnaud de Borchgrave
UPI Editor at Large
Published January 4, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The killer wave that swallowed tens of thousands of Muslims
was an act of Allah designed to punish the Christians. So went the
convoluted logic of some Muslim imams in last Friday's sermons from Saudi
Arabia to the Palestinian territories.
If it weren't for the diligent monitoring of Muslim clerics by the
Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Americans would be in the dark
about the outpourings of dangerous drivel fed to devout Muslims as they
gather in mosques for Friday prayers.
Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajiid explained God's tsunami punishment of
the Christians stemmed from "the Christian holidays (that) are accompanied
by forbidden things, by immorality, abomination, adultery, alcohol, drunken
dancing and revelry. A belly dancer costs 2,500 pounds a minute, and a
singer costs 50,000 pounds an hour, and they hop from one hotel to another
from night to dawn. Then they spend the entire night defying Allah. ... At
the height of immorality, Allah took revenge on these criminals. ... Allah
struck them with an earthquake. He finished off the Richter scale. All nine
levels gone."
In the same vein, Sheikh Mudeiris, at a Palestinian Friday sermon in
Gaza, said, "When oppression and corruption increase, the law of equilibrium
applies. I can see in your eyes you are wondering what is the 'universal law
of equilibrium.' This law is a divine law. If people are remiss in
implementing God's law and in being zealous and vengeful for His sake, Allah
unleashes his soldiers in action to take revenge,"
In Saudi Arabia, one of last year's measures to counter mosque-generated
hatred was a ban on the use of the word "jihad," or holy war, by imams. But
the content hadn't changed much without the banned word. Saudi cleric 'Aed
Al-Qarni told the worshippers, "Throats must be slit and skulls must be
shattered. This is the path to victory." He was reacting to the death of a
brother "killed by the brothers of apes and pigs, the murderers of the
prophets." In case there was any doubt, he was referring to the Jews of
Israel. He then deplored lamented the lack of Muslim backbone: "One billion
two hundred million nobodies! We are incapable of taking action, of being
useful, of harming the Jews. The most people do today is to verbally protest
over the TV channels or to demonstrate. What is the use of this? ... We must
sacrifice people like Abd Al-Aziz Al-Rantisi, and Ahmed Yassin (Hamas
leaders killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza), and thousands of others.
Houses and young men must be sacrificed. Throats must be slit and skulls
must be shattered. This is the path to victory, to shahada, and to
sacrifice."
Al-Qani then went to explain that the "idolatrous" people of Vietnam,
Cambodia and South Africa, "nations with no calling or divine law make
sacrifices ... in people, blood and souls. All the more reason we should
too, the nation of Islam."
Saudi clerics have also been urging the Iraqis to resist "the American
occupation of Iraq." They can urge jihad without the proscribed word for
holy war.
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->
Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for
anyone who cares about public education!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->
--------------------------
Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
--------------------------
Brooks Isoldi, editor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.intellnet.org
Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has
not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of
The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT
YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the
included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of
intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods,
techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other
intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes
only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material
as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use
this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,'
you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
For more information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
