A complete translation of the February 11, 2005 audiotape issued by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, entitled “The Freeing of Humanity and Homelands under the Banner of the Qur’an,” is available at the pro-jihad site Jihad Unspun (thanks to RB). Here are some choice excerpts.
Zawahiri trots out the usual palaver about the Zionist tail on the American dog:
In the scale of any neutral analysis it will become clear that the Zionist entity is nothing but the front of the American campaign to control the Islamic East, and it is nothing but part of a massive campaign against the Islamic world, in which the West under America’s leadership has allied with global Zionism....
Note that he identifies "terrorism" as "the deceitful name of Jihad." I agree, Doc. We are not up against "terrorists." We are facing a global jihad. Terrorism is a tactic used by an opponent, not an opponent in itself.
America is trying with all that it has to fight the Muslim Ummah in their beliefs, which represents the biggest threat to America’s arrogant existence, especially since voices have increased inside America saying that there is no hope in defeating what they call “terrorism”, the deceitful name for Jihad, except by changing the beliefs of the Muslims, and their minds, and the military confrontation with America will only lead to more losses for America; it may shake the foundation of the American empire.
Zawahiri follows this with a long diatribe about what freedom is and what it isn't, in terms of what should or should not be "permitted." The upshot is that he's not happy about not being free to destroy Israel and expand Islamic sovereignty. Heck, what's freedom for, anyway?
The freedom we want is not the lowly, filthy American freedom...It is not the freedom of gambling, alcohol and family breakups, it is not the freedom of using women as merchandise to gain customers, sign deals and attract tourists and sell products.
I am not for these things either, but I do not believe that Sharia is the answer: leaving a man unfree to be evil does not make him good. Also, this sort of thing makes conservative Christians think they can make common cause with Muslims on social issues. And maybe they can -- but they're deceiving themselves if they think they will be considered equals thereafter by the Muslims with whom they work, if the Muslims are serious about their religion.
It is not the freedom of double standards, and dividing people into robbers and robbed, it is not the freedom of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is not the freedom of selling torture machines, and supporting regimes of force, suppression and might, the friends of America, it is not the freedom of Israel massacring Muslims, destroying Masjid Al-Aqsa and turning Palestine into a Jewish state, it is not the freedom of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, it is not the freedom of carpet bombings, seven ton bombs, cluster bombs and leaf fallers, nor depleted uranium, and the destruction of villages in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is not the freedom of the government of Haliburton and its sister blood suckers. It is not the freedom of monopolization of weapons of mass destruction, developing it and then forbidding it from others. It is not the freedom of monopolizing the vote in the Security Council to the five big nations, four of whom are crusaders.
Crusaders, eh? More fantasizing. But anyway, this is a list of pretexts. It gains recruits for Zawahiri, but here again is deceit: so many analysts think that if these conditions were changed, there would be no more trouble with the Islamic world. In this they misunderstand the jihad ideology.
The Sharee’ah brought down by Allah is the Sharee’ah which must be followed. In this matter, no person is able to stand in a position of waviness or oscillation; it is a matter that can only be received very seriously because it doesn’t accept jokes. Either you are a believer in Allah and then you have to abide by His laws, or either you are a disbeliever in Him, and then there is no use in discussing with you the details of His law.
No jokes?? You're kidding, right, Doc?? But of course he isn't: this is in full accord with Khomeini's declaration that I quote in Islam Unveiled: "There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious."
Anyway, Zawahiri allows no distinction between being a Muslim and fighting to institute Sharia:
The beliefs of Islam do not differentiate between the existence of Allah and recognizing His right in ruling and legislating. This kind of differentiation cannot be made by a serious believer nor a serious atheist. Therefore, among the most important tricks of the secularists in covering up their impotence was to mix freedom and the removal of the right of legislating from Allah and giving it to man; this is a mix which does not conform in the sound mind, rather real freedom is submitting to the sharee’ah which is above greed, enmities and base desires.
Oh really? What's all the fuss in the Sharia about "fighting the enemies of Allah" if there is no enmity? Why plunder the infidels' loot, if there is no greed? What's with all the repressive sexual regulations (stoning for adultery, etc.), if there are no base desires? Am I missing something here, Doc?
And if it is that secular Europe [sic] have mixed freedom with removing religion from ruling, because it faced a church which gave itself infallibility and the right to speak on Allah’s behalf, and invented a trinity which no mind can accept...and fought the scientists and scientific research, then what is our sin as no church has stood in our lands,
Well, Doc, I'm really not sure that your disliking the Church constitutes an excuse. Would you like the same argument to be used in the West against the building of mosques?
...and we have no infallible person except for the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, the ruler by us is not infallible, nor cajoled, nor is he legislator nor eternally ruler, whom no person can debate on his views. He is rather a human being whom an allegiance is pledged to, to obey in that which is good, and he is removed if he exceeds his limits.
Sure, Doc. The ruler can be removed. But Sharia can't. What if the populace determines that it is Sharia itself that "exceeds...limits"? What can they do then?
What is our fault, seeing as there is none amongst us who claims to speak on behalf of Allah and His prophet, peace be upon him, nor anyone who has inherited authority, entrustment or agency, which raises him above wrongdoing, forgives him from criticism, or which gives him the right to legislate and rule and engage in the lives of people and their wealth. What is our fault as there is none amongst us who claims the right of intercession between Allah and His creation? What is our fault, as there is no men of religion amongst us, only scholars, whose words have no infallibility, and they do not claim agency on behalf of a hidden force, rather the truthfulness of their words and its proof-worthiness, is based on the strength of their proof of the Qur’an and Sunnah.
What is he so on the Pope about? How many legions does the Pope have? This is just silly religious grandstanding, and would be laughable were it not for the fact that it is in fact a justification for the invasion and Islamization of the West, and for violence committed to that end.
Note how dead-set he is against any government that is not established on religious authority -- and not just any religious authority, of course, but that of Sharia:
As for the secular governments, they had cooperated with the crusaders in the first world war against the Khilafat...and they brought in the period of half a century, five major catastrophes on the Muslim Ummah, beginning with the 1948 war and ending with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, they accepted the existence of Israel, and they acknowledged it, they stepped down on most of Palestine for it, and they even signed treaties with it to fight the Mujahideen in Sharm Al-Shaykh, in 1996. They helped laid siege to the land of Iraq and then helped attack it, they helped invade Afghanistan, and they accepted the agent governments which the crusader aggressors put up in Iraq and Afghanistan. They fought Islam and they fought the Jihad against Israel and America, and they spread filth, rottenness, robbery and secularism with fraud, force and military courts.
Zawahiri then elaborates on his second principle, "the freedom of the homlands of Islam", in which he rejects the distinction between "moderates" and "terrorists":
The second principle upon which reform must be built on is a branch of the first principle: The freedom of the homelands of Islam, and freeing it from every occupying robbing thief, as no reform can be pictured to take place while we are under the burden of American and Jewish occupation, no free elections nor independent governments can take place, nor can our honor and dignity be guaranteed while the crusader and Jewish forces are trampling our land, killing whoever they want, and shelling whoever they want, and torturing whoever they want; they divide people into moderates, who have the right of freedom and practicing politics, and terrorists, who must expect nothing but destruction, death and torture.
Those dastardly Americans! Giving people the freedom to practise politics!
Zawahiri's third principle is the "freedom of humanity." Three guesses as to what that means.
The Ummah must accept the authority of the Sharee’ah judgement, and that no person has the right to touch the rights of others except with its ruling.
And...
These three principles of reform, and they are: The ruling of the Quran, and the freedom of homelands and humanity, cannot be achieved except with Jihad, and struggle and martyrdom, it will not be achieved except if we remove our enemies from our homeland, except if we secure our rights with the power of Jihad....In this great battle, each one of us has his important and dangerous role, and on his shoulders is a great responsibility, which he will be asked about on the day of judgement.
Yes, won't we all...
In this great battle, it becomes the duty of all of us, individuals, movements and groups to unite and gather for the sake of Jihad against the crusaders, the Jews and their agents who rule our homelands, and to not accept any middle solution with them, or any course which justifies their position. We must all break away from them, discard them, oppose them, and incite in opposing them, and gather the Ummah to wage Jihad against them.So Oh Muslims! Fight Jihad in the path of Allah! And let our slogan be: The freeing of humanity and homelands under the banner of the Qur’an.
All we have of freedom, all we use or know -—
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
Ancient Right unnoticed as the breath we draw -—
Leave to live by no man’s leave, underneath the Law.
Lance and torch and tumult, steel and grey-goose wing
Wrenched it, inch and ell and all, slowly from the King.
Till our fathers 'stablished, after bloody years,
How our King is one with us, first among his peers.
So they bought us freedom —- not at little cost
Wherefore must we watch the King, lest our gain be lost,
Over all things certain, this is sure indeed,
Suffer not the old King: for we know the breed.
Give no ear to bondsmen bidding us endure.
Whining "He is weak and far"; crying "Time shall cure.",
(Time himself is witness, till the battle joins,
Deeper strikes the rottenness in the people’s loins.)
Give no heed to bondsmen masking war with peace.
Suffer not the old King here or overseas.
They that beg us barter —- wait his yielding mood -—
Pledge the years we hold in trust -— pawn our brother's blood -—
Howso' great their clamour, whatsoe'er their claim,
Suffer not the old King under any name!
Here is naught unproven —- here is naught to learn.
It is written what shall fall if the King return.
He shall mark our goings, question whence we came,
Set his guards about us, as in Freedom's name.
He shall take a tribute, toll of all our ware;
He shall change our gold for arms —- arms we may not bear.
He shall break his judges if they cross his word;
He shall rule above the Law calling on the Lord.
He shall peep and mutter; and the night shall bring
Watchers 'neath our window, lest we mock the King -—
Hate and all division; hosts of hurrying spies;
Money poured in secret, carrion breeding flies.
Strangers of his counsel, hirelings of his pay,
These shall deal our Justice: sell -— deny -— delay.
We shall drink dishonour, we shall eat abuse
For the Land we look to —- for the Tongue we use.
We shall take our station, dirt beneath his feet,
While his hired captains jeer us in the street.
Cruel in the shadow, crafty in the sun,
Far beyond his borders shall his teachings run.
Sloven, sullen, savage, secret, uncontrolled,
Laying on a new land evil of the old -—
Long-forgotten bondage, dwarfing heart and brain -—
All our fathers died to loose he shall bind again.
Here is naught at venture, random nor untrue -—
Swings the wheel full-circle, brims the cup anew.
Here is naught unproven, here is nothing hid:
Step for step and word for word —- so the old Kings did!
Step by step, and word by word: who is ruled may read.
Suffer not the old Kings: for we know the breed -—
All the right they promise -— all the wrong they bring.
Stewards of the Judgment, suffer not this King!
-- Rudyard Kipling
"There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious."
Ah, well, that explains why the Israeli kids had a pillow fight yesterday, meanwhile the Palestinian kids assembled Qassem's and polished their AK47s.
Feathers and Frivolity in the face of suicide bombers will surely outlast bomb belt idiocy! I dont make light of the suffering, but, where there is smiles and fun, even for 20 minutes, there is hope and promise - surely more powerful than defeatist self-loathing.
Do 'spokesmen' for Islam ever get tired of repeating the same old crap about other religions? In turn, they ignore their own problems - deliberately. They seem to constantly demand the 'proofs' for something, and then ignore it when you give it to them.
Typical.
Geoff
Now that I think about it, the lack of "joy" in Islam is what distinguishes it most from Christianity in my mind.
"The joy of the Lord" is a constant refrain throughout the Jewish and Christian bibles. If, as Khomeini said, there is no joy in Islam, this would seem to be prima facie evidence that the God of the Jews and Christians is not, as so often maintained, the Allah of the Muslims.
Not that I ever believe He was, ever since I went beyond the "we all worship the same God" PC palaver and started reading for myself.
For those who still believe that only those who are poor or on the margins of Islamic society, can be terrorists, the two best counterexamples are Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
The first is a son of someone who was, outside of members of the Al-Saud family, the richest man in Saudi Arabia. The second, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was from the highest stratum of Egyptian, or even of pan-Arab, life. His grandfather's brother, Azzam Pasha, was the first Secretary of the Arab League, and the man who threatened in 1948 the Jews of Israel that the Arabs would massacre them in a way the likes of which had not been seen since "the days of the Mongols."
Like great-uncle, like grand-nephew, but with OPEC oil money, and improvements in technology, the larger enemy -- the entire Infidel world -- can now be attacked, and not merely the local, but of course manageable problem, of Israel as a non-Muslim sovereignty. Al-Andaluz (Spain) and the lands in southern and eastern Europe and southern Russia that were once part of dar al-Islam, and then onward and upward, until all barriers to the spread of Islam are overcome, and non-Muslim peoples properly subjugated.
Just a Jew hating troll this guy. Sad that his main purpose in life is to help bin Laden go pee.
March 9, 2005
http://www.beecy.net/frank/
Plane Flying with Bullet hole??
Romania President with Prresident Bush today will improve relations is a part of NATO! This will help around the Black Sea??
Mas. Whiteout closes airport and shuts down mos flights out.. Lot’s of mulsums there and lot’s of Lib’s too!!
Iraq 41 bodies found among them children ½ had their heads cut off what MONSTERS ARE THESE MULSUMS!!
Iraq Islamic Terrorist use a garbage truck to kill some Iraqi People well this shows WHAT MONSTERS THEY ARE!! The Iraqi People need their Garbage trucks to pick up the garbage!!
These Islamic Terrorist are Sick Fu-Ks!! THEY NEED TO BE PUT DOWN YES I MEAN KILLED AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM TO!!! TO CUT THE HEADS OF CHILDREN OFF
WHAT I SAY IS JUST KILL THEM SO THEY CAN NOT HARM ANYONE ELSE!!!
WONDER IF ANY OF THAT ITALIAN MONEY HAD A PART IN THESE KILLINGS OR WAS IT ANYONE ELSE WHO PAID A RANSOME WILL THEY GO AND CONSOLE THE FAMILYS OF THESE BRAVE IRAQI PEOPLE??
30 arrested with fake I.D. in NY who worked for the airport maintenance on Planes all were Illegal??
Large part of the Syrian Protest today was in Lebanon yesterday? Yes they made their way back across the border?? Can tell when you watch video feed from Syria Yesterday the streets were empty!! And today normal??
Mass murder caught in Spain is he a mulsum?? Left a card @ each murder [reminds me of the rumors of the D.C. snipers Molvo and John mo-ham-od]
Europeans shocked by a giant swa sticker??
WI man to face charges for impersonating a U.S. Marine??
We can use grains for our cars can the arabs eat black oil?? Democrats [Nelson] say it 10 years to open Alaska for oil?? Guess they have not kept up on current events or Tec or history! It only took 2 years to put in the Alaskan Pipe Line and have it working now how long agao was that and how far have we come in new Tec??
SAD SHAME WRONG!!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE WORLDS EYES TO THEIR THREAT AMEN
Robert:
Conservative Christians can indeed make common cause with Muslims over moral issues--and part company over a lot of other things, too. After all, Conservative Protestants who see the Pope as Antichrist make common cause with conservative Roman Catholics who see Protestantism as heresy all the time--and both make common cause with orthodox Jews who see Jesus of Nazareth as a false Messiah.
A commonly ignored side of this coin is that Evangelical Protestants, who follow congregational or presbyterial forms of church polity rather than hierarchical ones have been a mainstay of consensual, democratic, and constitutionalist government in the Anglo-Saxon world (even if a lot of us are only "Anglo-Saxon" by osmosis)since the days of the Stuart kings of Great Britain. We Evangelicals know no Anointed of the Lord other than Jesus Christ; have no pope; and look to no Caliph. If there's someone who wins the admiration of a alrge section of us, he has to do it by persuasion and bridge-building; not by pretence of new divine revelation (yes, a lot of us yearn for the good old days when Pat Robertson, with his "the Lord told me", absent book-chapter-verse, would've been flogged out of town at the cart's tail for a Quaker). Show us a Hitler or Mussolini or Stalin or Mao or anyone else touted as "great leader", and we're more likely to scream "Antichrist!" than to see the potential latter-day saviour of Christendom. Why, our nervous nellies even said that of the likes of Henry Kissinger and Ronald W. Reagan!
Yes, I fight Islam now. However, I still see the sexual revolution of the 1960's and '70's as part of the rot in our civilization that made the resurgence of a putrescent Islam possible.
Extracted from the Zawahiri rant:
" It is not the freedom of monopolization of weapons of mass destruction, developing it and then forbidding it from others. "
According to their hagiography, Muslim scientists had a 500 year headstart on the rest of the world - except for the Chinese and perhaps the Indians.
The Muslims should have developed nuclear weapons around the time that Columbus accidently found America.
Posted by: jay at March 10, 2005 03:15 AM
Looks like the Z MONSTER has a bit of the green eyed monster going on!!
Along with being FAT!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength, Wisdom, Sight, and Courage to stay the course to Victory[FREEDOM] to Destroy ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat give the World Courage to Stand Up and Fight Amen
PS
What is not to covent thy Neighbors House or is it Goods!
"The Muslims should have developed nuclear weapons around the time that Columbus accidently found America."
Jay, Columbus did NOT "find" America accidentally: he was a renowned Catalan admiral, who fought several wars, including the Catalan Civil war (1462-1472). And I hope the historian Charles Merrill will explain more about that in the Discovery Channel.
By the way, Adm. Columbus, as a seaman, was well aware of the Islamic menace --e.g., the Mediterraean piracy--, as all Catalans of those times. (Today is very different, due to the marxist crap.)
Please keep in mind that the Catalan dinasty included James I el Conquistador, who expelled the Arab-Muslim invaders from the Iberian peninsula.
The Catalan National anthem is "The Reapers" (around 1640), this is a translation:
Triumphant, Catalonia,
Will once again be rich and full!
We must not be the prey
Of those proud and arrogant invaders!
Let us swing the sickle!
Let us swing the sickle, defenders of our land!
Let us swing the sickle!
Now it is moment, oh reapers!
Now it is moment, to be alert!
Awaiting the arrival of another June
Let us sharpen our tools!
(Chorus)
May our enemy tremble
On seeing our noble flag:
Just as we reap the golden corn,
May we also cut free of the chains!
(Chorus)
Muslim conquerors who invaded Egypt intentionally destroyed the Library of Alexandria, at that time the nerve center of global technological information and advancement. The loss of this facility probably sent humanity's development back over 1000 years.
Now what does this tell us about Islamic 'science' and 'scientists'??????