Memo to Ibrahim Hooper and other "moderate" Muslim leaders: Fathi Yakan, despite his clerical training, is clearly yet another misunderstander of Islam. Please dispatch a team of your best men to Lebanon immediately, to inform him of the true, peaceful teachings of the religion.
From MEMRITV, with thanks to Nicolei:
Following are excerpts from an interview with Lebanese Sunni Cleric Fathi Yakan, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on March 16, 2007:Fathi Yakan: There is no doubt that Sheik Osama bin Laden has a high level of faithfulness, trustworthiness, and transparency. He is faithful to his religion and to Jihad for the elevation of the word of Allah. Unfortunately, there have been many rumors that he is an American creation, and that all that is happening is the result of scenarios concocted by him and America, especially following the Russians withdrawal from Afghanistan. There were claims that these people were biased towards the Americans, and that America toyed with them, and so on. I believe this is all nonsense, and that this is totally untrue. This man has a pure, honest and believing personality. He defends all that belongs to Islam and who renounces anything that is not Islamic, and therefore, he is a man after my own heart....
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Interviewer: But there was an operation, for which Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility - the bombing of the Twin Towers in America, and what was described as terrorist attacks against the Americans. In this case, for example, are you with him or against him? Were you happy when you saw the towers collapse?
Fathi Yakan: If we examine the ideology of Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden in depth, we see that he has become completely convinced that the only way to curb the disease that is afflicting the Islamic world... The only way to stop this octopus is to crush the serpent's head.
Interviewer: Do you share this opinion?
Fathi Yakan: It's fine with me. I might have crushed the serpent's head in a different way. I might have crushed it by means of the Islamic resistance in South Lebanon, by attacking Israel. But Bin Laden said: "No, I will strike it in its own home. I will strike it in the World Trade Center, and shake its economic status." This is his methodology, and he should bear responsibility for it, but I am not sad or depressed that this happened, and I do not condemn it. In all honestly, I have never condemned this. Just like it had negative ramifications, it had positive ones as well.
LOL, I love how you "paged" Ibrahim Hooper on this. Just shows how utterly absurd him and CAIR are.
Just what is the disease that is afflicting the Islamic world?
Is it Bird Flu Syndrome?
A new strain of tuberculosis?
The Global Psychosis known as Islam?
These nutbar wackos remind me of the movie Planet Of The Apes 2 , the Apes worsip the Ape-God and are forbidden to question the official
story of their founding Messiah for all Apes.
But the ending was a classic, the Apes are so consumed with wanting to be in Paradise with their Ape-God and messiah that they embrace
a nuclear war to defeat their enemies in a mass suicide as a favour to the Ape-God.
Damn those Islamists....damn them to hell!
I love the smell of dead semians in the Morning, it smells like ....like....Victory.
"Fathi Yakan: There is no doubt that Sheik Osama bin Laden has a high level of faithfulness, trustworthiness, and transparency. He is faithful to his religion and to Jihad for the elevation of the word of Allah".
Precisely. I agree totally with this statement because it shows yet again that the "tiny minority of jihadists" in fact comprises the most faithful Muslims. And since very few Muslims will take violent exception to Yakan's statement that must be taken as confirmation of its truthfulness.
I know the script off by heart.
By highlighting the good cleric's words, the 'Islamophobe' Robert Spencer is simply driving Muslims into the arms of radicals, don'tcha know?
Besides, the cleric has clearly been quoted out of context. When he says, "...I do not condemn it [911]...', what he really means is "...I condemn it...".
MEMRI is controlled by Zionists and its CEO is a former Mossad agent; it's all a conspiracy to discredit Muslims.
Sigh...don't you people ever learn?
Fathi Yakan: There is no doubt that Sheik Osama bin Laden has a high level of faithfulness, trustworthiness, and transparency.
Transparency?!
Two important elements of transparency are accessibility and accountability.
Nobody knows where OBL is, or even if he is.
Once more we see how good they are at spewing Western jargon with the intent to lull.
"Were you happy when you saw the towers collapse?"
...this is a simply yes/no question....what is your answer....
To be honest with you guys, I do not believe Muslims were behind the 9/11 attacks. I have never come across any Muslim who believes Muslims were behind those attacks. Those attacks were designed to discredit Islam in the eyes of the world.
Despite this attempt to extinguish the light of Islam, al-hamdulillah (thank Allah) more and more people are reverting to the faith of their first parents Adam&Hawaa (peace be upon them). This in itself is a miracle. All the while only a tiny minority of our useless nincompoops are leaving us for your camp.
"All the while only a tiny minority of our useless nincompoops are leaving us for your camp. "
....and these "useless nincompoops " are often hunted down and killed by the other "useless nincompoops "......
"Muslim leaders - Fathi Yakan" is one of those Dinesh D'Souza traditionalists with whom US conservatives and moderates should ally.
"The only way to stop this octopus is to crush the serpent's head."
They are great in logics too...
Abdu----,
There were similar surges in membership in the bolshevik party, NSDAP etc. Any doctrine that demands violence has increase of membership after advertisments such as (if 9/11 is anti-islamic plot) Madrid and London bombings. The dark souls of the world are gathering on your side. We will be happy to receive anybody who is useless in the eyes of an islamist. They are few -- many are called, but few are chosen.
"To be honest with you guys, I do not believe Muslims were behind the 9/11 attacks. I have never come across any Muslim who believes Muslims were behind those attacks. Those attacks were designed to discredit Islam in the eyes of the world."
Fathi Yakan believes that Muslims were behind the attacks - and he approves of the attacks too. He even takes the time to commend Osama for his 'faithfulness'. even though he does not agree with his modus operandi.
Why, therefore, did Muslims claim to be behind the attacks and - seemingly - approve of them if, as you suggest, the purpose of the attacks was to discredit Islam?
This makes about as much exhorting people to use an octopus to crush a serpent's head.
"I have never come across any Muslim who believes Muslims were behind those attacks"
....Do you only talk to dead Muslims?"......
@abdulla
Who was behind 911?
abdulla-
911! who did it? Was it the Jews?
Come on! I've got $150 riding on your answer!!!!
abdulla
C'mon sweetie! Spit it out! Who did 911?
Abdullah
Like others have pointed out, either Muslims did it, and agree that it was Allah's will and a good thing too, or they think it was not done by Muslims. Which one is it?
I suggest you take credit for it - it's probably the biggest achievement of the ummah ever (next to the post Mohammed conquests of Islam).
That is not an achievement when compared to what the Ummah could do to your cities in the future.
I don't think Muslims did 9/11...The whole thing is a conspiracy (look at the emergency date even).
The answer is I don't know who carried out those attack. I am not going to speculate but I won't put it past the Israeli Mussad.Oh boy and it worked. Mr Dubya attacked two Muslim countries and killed close to million Muslims. What was in it for Muslims? Look at who benefited from those attacks....Bingo!
Agression and oppression do not go unpunished by the free people of this world and ultimately by Allah in the life to come.
I suggest the American people who claim to be free from the Jewish Lobby and satan, write to their leaders and beg them to stop the illegal plundering of Muslim lands, from somalia to Iraq.
Tell them Muslims have eaten up the Roman and persian empires before and there is no reason that could stop them from devouring us too If we dont stop our illegal activites such as arming Israel.
What is wrong with these people. They serve "the father of all lies" Satan himself, and cannot, for the life of them, sort out truth from lie. Abdullah, you are possessed! And to be pitied.
Abdullah,
Below is the top ten countries which the US imports oil from:
1. Canada
2. Mexico
3. Saudi Arabia
4. Venezuela
5. Nigeria
6. Angola
7. Iraq
8. Algeria
9. United Kingdom
10. Brazil
Afghanistan is conspicuously missing from that list. Are we to believe that the US government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks so we could invade Afghanistan, supposedly searching for Bin Laden? Are you also suggesting that Bin Laden was not in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11? Was Bin Laden lying when Al-Qaeda took credit for 9/11? Was invading Afghanistan just a ruse to get to Iraq?
Also, can you specifically name who is behind this "Jewish lobby" that you speak of? Why do Islamists fear a population of people totaling about 0.25% of the world? Is it because they live smack dab in Islam's backyard, and have been for about 60 years?
It is absolutely imperative that you remember that when the oil wealth of the Islamic states disapperas, so does Islam as a societal sustaining force. Islamic nations will fall into abject destitution, rivaling some of the worst in the world, and there is absolutely nothing that the failed ideology of Islam can do to prevent that. Nothing.
Fathi Yakan and our resident slave (Abdul) illustrate perfectly the difference between a moderate muslim and an extremist:
Extremist: The 9/11 attacks were a wonderful and justified attack against the zionist crusaders.
Moderate: The 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy by the zionist crusaders to tarnish the pure unblemished reputation of islam.
@abdullah!
You came through with flying colors!
Your quote:
I don't know ... but I won't put it past the Israeli Mussad.Oh boy and it worked. Look at who benefited from those attacks....Bingo!
I was betting another infidel (for money) that you abdullah were a typical psychotic muslim fool and would blame 911 on the Jews.
And I WON!
Such a no-brainer!
THE CANCER OF ISLAM (IN A MUSLIM'S OWN WORDS)
abdulla says:
"Muslims have eaten up the Roman and persian empires before"
Eaten Up???
I enjoy these clerics and imams immensely as every time they open their mouths they reveal how stupid they are. They can not even analyze situations in the correct genre. Mixing octopus with serpents in analogy is telling of ignorance as much as thinking southern Lebanon would somehow be the entire western world.
I was listening to an Iranian mother last night and she understood completely the situation going on. When the conversation turned to if she wanted her son to fight in the next war and be a martyr like before, her quote was"
"No mother wants her child to die. I do not want my son fighting in the next war, because the next war will be America and not Saddam's Iraq".
That mother understands the reality which these Muslim males do not. America is not pithy Iraq and America has yet to strike with more than it's finger poking at these terrorists.
These ignorant males are going to start a war which America if provoked enough will finish.
It's a shame how every thread now seems to degenerate into arguing with this mindless, brainwashed, hateful, fanatical Muslim troll. The only thing being proven by keeping him around is how impossible it is to talk to these people using logic and reason.
"I am not going to speculate but I won't put it past the Israeli Mussad.Oh boy and it worked. Mr Dubya attacked two Muslim countries and killed close to million Muslims. What was in it for Muslims? Look at who benefited from those attacks....Bingo!"
Israel and Mossad benefited from the attacks precisely how, Abdullah?
I do like your debating technique though, Abdullah.
"I am not going to speculate but..." is followed by...speculation.
Class!
Abdullah
"To be honest with you guys, I do not believe Muslims were behind the 9/11 attacks. I have never come across any Muslim who believes Muslims were behind those attacks. Those attacks were designed to discredit Islam in the eyes of the world.
Despite this attempt to extinguish the light of Islam, al-hamdulillah (thank Allah) more and more people are reverting to the faith of their first parents Adam&Hawaa (peace be upon them). This in itself is a miracle. All the while only a tiny minority of our useless nincompoops are leaving us for your camp."
Well it was not 19 Catholics who hijacked 4 jetairliners filled with jet fuel in order to crash them into 3 major buildings. Deniel is not a river in Egypt. As for more and more people "reverting" or converting to Islam, if this is the case, why is Christianity is going through major growth in the global south, the largest growth being in Africa to cite an example? Goes to show that the good news of the Gospel of Jesus is having its positive results.
"...beg them to stop the illegal plundering of Muslim lands...."
Clearly, by "illegal plundering" you must mean "selfless and noble charity."
Considering their heroic self-sacrifice for the West and for Iraqis, the violent ingratitude our forces receive is especially perverse.
In light of the Ummah's historical and contemporary obedience to Allah, I am almost ready to beg for the plundering of Muslim lands.
Liberation from the tyrant Saddam benefited many; liberation from the tyranny of Allah will benefit all.
God has a whitness protection program and Osama Bin Laden is protected by God, for he is God's whitness. Like it or not. May God bless him.
And your god is so impotent that he needs his 'witnesses' to kill defenseless men women and children on his behalf? If heaven is full of pious muslim murderers like OBL, then I am quite content to reside in hell.