Welcome to Denial Central, Tehran division. The question that leaps to mind: does Khamenei really believe this, or does he just know that there are millions of people so drunk with hatred of America and Israel that they'll believe it? From AP, :
In comments made during a meeting with visiting Singaporean Prime Minister of Singapore Goh Chok Tong, Khamenei said: "We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims." ...Numerous Islamic militant groups have claimed responsibility for similar operations in the country, including the beheadings of an American and a South Korean.
Yeah, the United States has been beheading people for the past 1,370 years!
What a moron. Especially in light of the fact Zarqawi himself killed Nick Berg on video.
Here is the transcript from Ayatollah Meshkini's Friday Sermon in Qom courtesy of Memritv. Enjoy!
http://www.memritv.org/
7/2/2004 Clip No. 148
Ayatollah Meshkini In A Friday Sermon in Qom: An Islamic Rule Under Ayatollah Sistani Is Required in Iraq
Ayatollah 'Ali Meshkinidelivered the Friday Sermon in Qom which was aired on Channel 2 of the Iranian TV. The following are excerpts from the sermon:
Crowd:Death to England.
Death to England.
The hand of God is on our head.
Khamenei is our leader.
Ayatollah Meshkini:Thanks to God...
Crowd:The hand of God is on our heads.
Ayatollah Meshkini:Indeed.
Crowd:Islam will be victorious and America will be annihilated...
Ayatollah Meshkini:Allah willing, please be seated.
Islam is a religion that wants to run the world. It has done so before and eventually, will run it (again). This religion has four prominent characteristics:
First, it abrogates all other religions. Islam came and abrogated all (other religions). They are obsolete. This is a religion that abrogates all (other) religions. (Saddam Hussein) committed innumerable mass murders, not to mention the individual murders. One case was in Halabja. He murdered 5,000 men, women, and children using poisonous substances such as mustard gas and cluster bombs- all given to him by America.
Crowd:Death to America
Death to America
Death to America
Death to America
Death to America
Ayatollah 'Ali Meshkini: Its high time Iraq established a Just Islamic regime under the supervision of the Grand Ayatollah Sistani and God willing, they will get somewhere. Hopefully.
After 9/11 I bought a keychain off ebay in a charity auction for the 9/11 fund for $209 (included shipping). I bought it out of patriotic feeling.
But the threading was weak, the keychain kept opening and the keys kept falling into the street....just went on and on ....
finally I was yelling "Death to America".
It's funny what can account for a person's viewpoint. In the words of Richard Nixon:
"strange..."
Afrafaste:
Could you be a little bit more straightforward, blunt and to the point. Your obliqueness does not serve you well. Could it be that you are obeying the following dictates from the Sharia:
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/21475
25. Lying is permissible in a time of war (or jihad)
pp. 744-745
PERMISSIBLE LYING
R8.2 The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said,
“He who settles disagreements between people to bring about good or says something commendable is not a liar.”
This much is related by both Bukhar and Muslim, with Muslim’s version recording that Umm Kulthum added,
“I did not hear him permit untruth in anything people say, except for three things: war, settling disagreements, and a man talking with his wife or she with him (A: in smoothing over differences).”
This is an explicit statement that lying is sometimes permissible for a given interest, scholars having established criteria defining what types of it are lawful. The best analysis of it I have seen is by Imam Abu Hamid Ghazali, who says, “Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying but not telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible (N: i.e. when the purpose of lying is to circumvent someone who is preventing one from doing something permissible), and obligatory to lie if the goal is obligatory. … Whether the purpose is war, settling a disagreement, or gaining the sympathy of a victim legally entitled to retaliate against one so that he will forbear to do so; it is not unlawful to lie when any of these aims can only be attained through lying. But it is religiously more precautionary in all such cases to employ words that give a misleading impression, meaning to intend by one’s words something that is literally true, in respect to which one is not lying, while the outward purport of the words deceives the hearer, though even if one does not have such an intention and merely lies without intending anything else, it is not unlawful in the above circumstances.”
Someone needs to explain to Khamenei that "Pogo" ("We have met the enemy, and he is us")is an old American comic strip, not a statement of our foreign policy.
your last post went right by me, Mentat.
I don't know from sharia.
Agonstically yours,
Afrafaste
blah, blah, blah... Different channel, same news.
": "We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims." ... "
It is obvious that Pot has been legalized in Iran and now enjoys wide spread use amoung the upper levels of government.
"Your grandchildren will be thinking logically about things and rejecting islamic B.S."
The west takes drugs to hallucinate,these wretched filth seem to have a natural ability to moonbat 24/7.
Yadda.... yadda.... yadda..... zionist plot this.... American anti-muslim propaganda that!!!
DO YOU MUSLIMS TRUELY BELIEVE YOU'RE CAPABLE OF NO WRONG???????? SUCH 100% BS!!!