From Sheikh Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis' Friday sermon of July 15, 2005 in Mecca, aired on Saudi Arabia's Channel 1. Brought to us by MEMRI:
"With all the violence and bombings that today's world has suffered, and with all the terrorism and destruction which have robbed the world of sleep, which are considered by all intelligent and honorable people as criminal, which are prohibited by all esteemed Muslim scholars, and whose negative effects afflict the Islamic nation – one of the most dangerous wars to afflict the Islamic nation and to cause atrophy and decadence to nations and civilizations is the war against virtue and to promote vice."The noble Islamic law deals with all issues. One of the most important issues is protecting women's honor – indeed, defending families, and protecting societies and generations from the flames of vice, from the removal of the veil, from the volcanoes of debauchery, from the storms of evil, from the armies of harlotry, from the voracity of pleasure, and from bestial libertinism.
"The most dangerous weapon which the enemy has raised against us – with which he tore to pieces our established order, and with which he soiled our spiritual and social purity, is the terrible deluge of all manner of vice, which is considered a form of moral terrorism against the values, ideals, and virtues of the Islamic nation.
"[This war is waged] by means of the licentious satellite channels and the vile spiderwebs of the Internet, whose gloom fills the sky with darkness and spreads its stench in all directions, and by means of those hidden computer discs, which are the cauldron of sin, consumed by the old, young, and inexperienced, while fathers, mothers, and educators are heedless and negligent.
"Oh brethren in faith, morning has dawned upon all with eyes to see, without ambiguity or falsehood. It has become clear that the enemies of virtue, the marshals of licentiousness, and the heroes of sexual promiscuous pleasures have a most ill-fated hope and aspiration to export sexual diseases and vice in the form of a plague, which shall crush the fortresses of the Muslims, the fortresses of honor and virtue, and they hope that [Muslims] will abandon the castles of chastity, honor, and virtue, which have been effaced by time, and have become a matter of the past.
"Oh, Allah, heal our sick, have mercy on our dead, release our prisoners, and save our Al-Aqsa Mosque. Oh Allah, liberate our Al-Aqsa Mosque from the defilement of the occupying and brutal Zionists. Oh Allah, make it high and mighty until Judgment Day. Oh Allah, punish the occupying Zionists and their supporters from among the corrupt infidels. Oh Allah, scatter and disperse them, and make an example of them for those who take heed."...
So it's pornography and debauchery that is the problem...Why would he worry about 'hidden' computer disks, if devout muslims were not looking at them in secret? Getting rid of the disks wont get rid of the desire.
Why would he worry about evil, corrupting vices, if muslims were strong in their Islamoship and just ignored all that...how does he know about 'hidden' disks anyway...The last thing these clerics want is for Islam to become westernised...They know the west has an attraction for it's vices both sexual and otherwise...He would consider freedom and democracy un-Islamic, a vice...And debauchery? Islam has it's own forms of debauchery...but thats another story...
"castles of chastity, honor, and virtue..."
oh, brother! (oh, my aching head)
one thing you have to give the gangster clerics,
those boys sure can craft a phrase.
too bad they couldn't be encouraged to write greeting cards for a living.
"son you're finally twenty-one
hope your day is really fun,
mom and dad are oh-so-proud
you're head and shoulders 'bove the crowd.
now go kill an infidel"
nah, it just doesn't flow.
Steady on Al Sudsy, old mate, you know too much excitement is bad for your dyspepsia. But I do know what you mean. Like "licentious satellite channels", yes Al Jazeera and Saudi Channel 1 really ought to be banned.
And "the vile spiderwebs of the Internet," yes, Islam on line and Ask the Imam, and the dozens like them, all must go and damn quick.
As for "the heroes of sexual promiscuous pleasures" and "the volcanoes of debauchery, from the storms of evil, from the armies of harlotry, from the voracity of pleasure" is it wise to criticise your man Mo, Profit of Doom (and gloom), husband of 12 wives, paedophile, slave master, murderer, rapist, liar and thief quite so energetically? Still the punishment of having your throat slit should sort your blood pressure out. It's an ill wind....
Aw, c'mon, Sheikh Al-Sudayyis. tell us how you really feel!
If you're having trouble expressing yourself, feeling yourself a bit inhibited today, here's the couch and here's friendly old Dr. Freud to help you sort through your feelings about those Infidels.
Now, are you comfortably settled? Good . . . Sheikh Al-Sudayyis, You don't mind if the good doctor makes a few notes do you? OK, let's get started. Relax, let your mind drift. Don't be afraid to say whatever pops into your head. Here we go . . .
Does anyone remember when some English rock group back in the '70s or '80s recorded a song "Killing an Arab" to remonstrate those who would dehumanize them?
So, who likes to dehumanize who around here?
"Aw, c'mon, Sheikh Al-Sudayyis. tell us how you really feel!"
-- from a posting above
Purists will protest, but what about starting off with a Rorschach test, before beginning the course of psychotherapy proper. Every inkblot will likely remind this patient, and others like him, of the fires of Hell, or of virgins in a paradisiacal garden, save for the one he insists looks just like little Aisha's swing set, and the other one that looks uncannily like the pile of prisoners' heads after a famous battle.
Incidentally, those sessions -- call them The Battle of the Couch -- are going to run into money. Let's see: five sessons a week, x 3-5 years per patient x 1 billion patients-- yes, all past and present and all future OPEC revenues should just about cover it.
Pornography?
Just returned from Europe: Most of the (satellite pay-) channels provide their services in Arabic. I wonder why?
Moaning and groaning is international, isn't it?
Now which miserable hypocrite out there would deny the sons of Allah the pleasures of this evil world?