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The black and white of it.
- Wade
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Bin Laden's Statement
Following is the translated text of Osama Bin Laden's latest statement,
as posted on the British Broadcasting Corporation's web site.
We praise God, seek His help, and ask for His forgiveness.
We seek refuge in God from the evils of our souls and our bad deeds.
A person who is guided by God will never be misguided by anyone and a
person who is misguided by God can never be guided by anyone.
I bear witness that there is no God but Allah alone, Who has no partner.
Amid the huge developments and in the wake of the great strikes that hit
the United States in its most important locations in New York and
Washington, a huge media clamor has been raised.
This clamor is unprecedented. It conveyed the opinions of people on these
events.
People were divided into two parts. The first part supported these
strikes against US tyranny, while the second denounced them.
Afterward, when the United States launched the unjust campaign against
the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan, people also split into two parties.
The first supported these campaigns, while the second denounced and
rejected them.
These tremendous incidents, which have split people into two parties, are
of great interest to the Muslims, since many of the rulings pertain to
them.
The polls showed that the vast majority of the sons of the Islamic world
were happy about these strikes.
These rulings are closely related to Islam and the acts that corrupt a
person's Islam.
Therefore, the Muslims must understand the nature and truth of this
conflict so that it will be easy for them to determine where they stand.
While talking about the truth of the conflict, opinion polls in the world
have shown that a little more than 80 per cent of Westerners, of
Christians in the United States and elsewhere, have been saddened by the
strikes that hit the United States.
The polls showed that the vast majority of the sons of the Islamic world
were happy about these strikes because they believe that the strikes were
in reaction to the huge criminality practiced by Israel and the United
States in Palestine and other Muslim countries.
After the strikes on Afghanistan began, these groups changed positions.
Those who were happy about striking the United States felt sad when
Afghanistan was hit, and those who felt sad when the United States was
hit were happy when Afghanistan was hit. These groups comprise millions
of people.
The entire West, with the exception of a few countries, supports this
unfair, barbaric campaign, although there is no evidence of the
involvement of the people of Afghanistan in what happened in America.
The people of Afghanistan had nothing to do with this matter. The
campaign, however, continues to unjustly annihilate the villagers and
civilians, children, women, and innocent people.
The entire West, with the exception of a few countries, supports this
unfair, barbaric campaign.
The positions of the two sides are very clear. Mass demonstrations have
spread from the farthest point in the eastern part of the Islamic world
to the farthest point in the western part of the Islamic world, and from
Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan to the Arab world and
Nigeria and Mauritania.
This clearly indicates the nature of this war. This war is fundamentally
religious. The people of the East are Muslims. They sympathized with
Muslims against the people of the West, who are the crusaders.
Those who try to cover this crystal clear fact, which the entire world
has admitted, are deceiving the Islamic nation.
They are trying to deflect the attention of the Islamic nation from the
truth of this conflict.
This fact is proven in the book of God Almighty and in the teachings of
our messenger, may God's peace and blessings be upon him.
Under no circumstances should we forget this enmity between us and the
infidels. For, the enmity is based on creed.
We must be loyal to the believers and those who believe that there is no
God but Allah.
We should also renounce the atheists and infidels. It suffices me to seek
God's help against them.
God says: "Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with thee
unless thou follow their form of religion."
It is a question of faith, not a war against terrorism, as Bush and Blair
try to depict it.
Many thieves belonging to this nation were captured in the past. But,
nobody moved.
It is a question of faith, not a war against terrorism, as Bush and Blair
try to depict it.
The masses which moved in the East and West have not done so for the sake
of Osama.
Rather, they moved for the sake of their religion. This is because they
know that they are right and that they resist the most ferocious,
serious, and violent Crusade campaign against Islam ever since the
message was revealed to Mohammad, may God's peace and blessings be upon.
After this has become clear, the Muslim must know and learn where he is
standing vis-a-vis this war.
After the US politicians spoke and after the US newspapers and television
channels became full of clear crusading hatred in this campaign that aims
at mobilizing the West against Islam and Muslims, Bush left no room for
doubts or the opinions of journalists, but he openly and clearly said
that this war is a crusader war. He said this before the whole world to
emphasize this fact.
Anyone who lines up behind Bush in this campaign has committed one of the
10 actions that sully one's Islam.
What can those who allege that this is a war against terrorism say? What
terrorism are they speaking about at a time when the Islamic nation has
been slaughtered for tens of years without hearing their voices and
without seeing any action by them?
But when the victim starts to take revenge for those innocent children in
Palestine, Iraq, southern Sudan, Somalia, Kashmir and the Philippines,
the rulers' ulema (Islamic leaders) and the hypocrites come to defend the
clear blasphemy. It suffices me to seek God's help against them.
The common people have understood the issue, but there are those who
continue to flatter those who colluded with the unbelievers to
anesthetized the Islamic nation to prevent it from carrying out the duty
of jihad so that the word of God will be above all words.
The unequivocal truth is that Bush has carried the cross and raised its
banner high and stood at the front of the queue.
Anyone who lines up behind Bush in this campaign has committed one of the
10 actions that sully one's Islam.
Muslim scholars are unanimous that allegiance to the infidels and support
for them against the believers is one of the major acts that sully Islam.
There is no power but in God. Let us investigate whether this war against
Afghanistan that broke out a few days ago is a single and unique one or
if it is a link to a long series of crusader wars against the Islamic
world.
Following World War I, which ended more than 83 years ago, the whole
Islamic world fell under the crusader banner - under the British, French,
and Italian governments.
They divided the whole world, and Palestine was occupied by the British.
Since then, and for more than 83 years, our brothers, sons, and sisters
in Palestine have been badly tortured.
Hundreds of thousands of them have been killed, and hundreds of thousands
of them have been imprisoned or maimed.
Let us examine the recent developments. Take for example the Chechens.
They are a Muslim people who have been attacked by the Russian bear which
embraces the Christian Orthodox faith.
Russians have annihilated the Chechen people in their entirety and forced
them to flee to the mountains where they were assaulted by snow and
poverty and diseases.
Nonetheless, nobody moved to support them. There is no strength but in
God.
This was followed by a war of genocide in Bosnia in sight and hearing of
the entire world in the heart of Europe.
For several years our brothers have been killed, our women have been
raped, and our children have been massacred in the safe havens of the
United Nations and with its knowledge and cooperation.
Those who refer our tragedies today to the United Nations so that they
can be resolved are hypocrites who deceive God, His Prophet and the
believers.
Are not our tragedies but caused by the United Nations? Who issued the
Partition Resolution on Palestine in 1947 and surrendered the land of
Muslims to the Jews? It was the United Nations in its resolution in 1947.
Those who claim that they are the leaders of the Arabs and continue to
appeal to the United Nations have disavowed what was revealed to Prophet
Mohammad, God's peace and blessings be upon him.
Those who refer things to the international legitimacy have disavowed the
legitimacy of the Holy Book and the tradition of Prophet Mohammad, God's
peace and blessings be upon him.
This is the United Nations from which we have suffered greatly. Under no
circumstances should any Muslim or sane person resort to the United
Nations. The United Nations is nothing but a tool of crime.
We are being massacred everyday, while the United Nations continues to
sit idly by.
Our brothers in Kashmir have been subjected to the worst forms of torture
for over 50 years. They have been massacred, killed, and raped. Their
blood has been shed and their houses have been trespassed upon.
Still, the United Nations continues to sit idly by.
Today, and without any evidence, the United Nations passes resolutions
supporting unjust and tyrannical America, which oppresses these helpless
people who have emerged from a merciless war at the hands of the Soviet
Union.
Let us look at the second war in Chechnya, which is still underway. The
entire Chechen people are being embattled once again by this Russian bear.
The humanitarian agencies, even the US ones, demanded that President
Clinton should stop supporting Russia.
However, Clinton said that stopping support for Russia did not serve US
interests.
A year ago, Putin demanded that the cross and the Jews should stand by
him.
He told them: You must support us and thank us because we are waging a
war against Muslim fundamentalism.
The enemies are speaking very clearly. While this is taking place, the
leaders of the region hide and are ashamed to support their brothers.
Let us examine the stand of the West and the United Nations in the
developments in Indonesia when they moved to divide the largest country
in the Islamic world in terms of population.
We should view events not as separate links, but as links in a long
series of conspiracies, a war of annihilation.
This criminal, Kofi Annan, was speaking publicly and putting pressure on
the Indonesian government, telling it: You have 24 hours to divide and
separate East Timor from Indonesia.
Otherwise, we will be forced to send in military forces to separate it by
force.
The crusader Australian forces were on Indonesian shores, and in fact
they landed to separate East Timor, which is part of the Islamic world.
Therefore, we should view events not as separate links, but as links in a
long series of conspiracies, a war of annihilation in the true sense of
the word.
In Somalia, on the excuse of restoring hope, 13,000 of our brothers were
killed. In southern Sudan, hundreds of thousands were killed.
But when we move to Palestine and Iraq, there can be no bounds to what
can be said.
Over one million children were killed in Iraq. The killing is continuing.
As for what is taking place in Palestine these days, I can only say we
have no one but God to complain to.
What is taking place cannot be tolerated by any nation. I do not say from
the nations of the human race, but from other creatures, from the animals.
They would not tolerate what is taking place.
A confidant of mine told me that he saw a butcher slaughtering a camel in
front of another camel.
The other camel got agitated while seeing the blood coming out of the
other camel. Thus, it burst out with rage and bit the hand of the man and
broke it.
How can the weak mothers in Palestine endure the killing of their
children in front of their eyes by the unjust Jewish executioners with US
support and with US aircraft and tanks?
Those who distinguish between America and Israel are the real enemies of
the nation. They are traitors who betrayed God and His prophet, and who
betrayed their nation and the trust placed in them. They anesthetize the
nation.
These battles cannot be viewed in any case whatsoever as isolated
battles, but rather, as part of a chain of the long, fierce, and ugly
crusader war.
Every Muslim must stand under the banner of There is no God but Allah and
Mohammad is God's Prophet.
I remind you of what our Prophet, may God's peace and blessings upon him,
told Ibn Abbas, may God be pleased with him.
He told him: Boy, I am going to teach you a few words. Obey God, He will
protect you. Obey Him, you will find Him on your side. If you ask for
something, ask God. If you seek help, seek the help of God.
You should know that if all people come together to help you, they will
only help you with something that God has already preordained for you.
And if they assemble to harm you, they will only harm you with something
that God has already preordained for you. God wrote man's fate and it
will never change.
I Tell the Muslims who did their utmost during these weeks: You must
continue along the same march.
Your support for us will make us stronger and will further support your
brothers in Afghanistan.
Exert more efforts in combating this unprecedented war crime.
Fear God, O Muslims and rise to support your religion. Islam is calling
on you: O Muslims, O Muslims, O Muslims.
God bear witness that I have conveyed the message. God bear witness that
I have conveyed the message. God bear witness that I have conveyed the
message.
God's peace and blessings be upon you
Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company
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