| ONE OSAMA GONE: MANY MORE IN THE MAKING |
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| Monday, 30 May 2011 12:41 |
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Copyright: www.rieas.gr Osama bin Laden is dead. Islamist terrorism, is nonetheless alive and kicking. “We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.” How can anyone forget the response of the people of Gaza to the news of the slaughter of 9/11? They erupted into loud cheers and vulgar chants. Sweets and candies were distributed in celebration of the carnage. Haniya told the reporters that Hamas sees the killing of Osama bin Laden as “a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood”. We have seen comparable show of solidarity with, and sympathy for the dead terrorist in numerous Muslim countries. In Pakistan, two elected parliamentarians from two different parties lifted their hands in prayer for the departed soul of a mass murderer. This happened on the Floor of the House and the Speaker did not stop these Members of the National Assembly from praying for a terrorist. The headline of Daily Ausaf, a Pakistan-based Urdu newspaper, read: American Raid, Osama “martyred”. An Imam of Al-Aqsa mosque when expressing his support for the dead terrorist threatened President Obama and Bush (Jr.) with death. Imam of a mosque is extremely important for Muslims and plays an intrinsic role. Mosque plays a pivotal role in the lives of Muslims everywhere. And it acquires an immensely heightened significance on Fridays. For Muslims, Friday is the most sacred day of the week. Most Muslims including those who do not pray the daily five obligatory prayers attend the Friday congregational prayers held in the mosques. While many perform the daily prayers at home or at work, the Friday prayers would necessarily mean a large gathering of Muslims in the mosques. Khutbaah (Sermon) is an integral part of Friday congregational Salaat / Namaaz (prayer). It is delivered by the cleric of the particular mosque who leads the congregation in prayer. He is known as the Imam of the mosque. Most of the clerics who on a weekly basis lecture large-to-huge gathering of Muslims and lead them in prayers, are devoid of any creditable education at the formal level. At most mosques the sermon comes before the obligatory prayer. Be it a mosque in a remote village of Indonesia or Bangladesh, the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the Great Mosque in Mecca or the University of Tehran, the congregation of Muslims are obligated by religious pinning to sit through the clerics’ sermons. This is how a clergy that is highly uneducated commands the attention and attendance of masses of worshippers when they are riding a religious high. The Friday sermon has a set theme. The khateeb (lecturer/sermon-deliverer) and the mosque’s financer however have the privilege of choosing its tone and scale. Thematically, the Friday sermon is: Christians, Jews, every other non-Muslim and those Muslims who prefer peaceful co-existence to Islamist supremacy, are all enemies of Allah, and therefore your enemies too. Infidels can never be your friends. Muslims who are friends with non-Muslims are bad Muslims and must not be trusted. These bad Muslims, Jews, Christians, and every other infidel are hostile to the fundaments of Islam, which is to convert, conquer, and coerce until all submit to the one true creed of Allah. It is therefore, the obligation of all true Muslims to fight for the destruction of Satans of all sizes (USA, UK, and other free nations) and to wipe Israel “from the face of the earth”. Special mention is made of the “holy” warriors like Hamas and Hezbollah and in a highly charged atmosphere of religious ardour, their horrific deeds are heroised. The total thrust of the sermon is on a Muslim’s holy duty of combative jihad and how to sustain an atmosphere of continuous aggression until the Muslim domination over the infidels is complete and conclusive. On Friday 13 March 1998, Sheikh Ali Abd-ur-Rahman al-Huzaifi, Imam of Masjid-e-Nabavi (the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia) said the following in his sermon to a huge congregation of Muslims. For Sunni Muslims, the Imam of this mosque is amongst the excellent of Allah’s creation. He is revered as a Muslim man of extraordinary virtue, wisdom, piety and truth. His words are believed to be in perfect alignment with the “Will of Allah”. In his sermon, Imam Huzaifi said: “… How can there be any similarity, any bond between Islam and Yehudiyyat, (the Jewish faith) when… Yehudiyyat is a collection of materialism and narrow-mindedness, bears malice towards humanity, is steeped in moral degradation, greed and covetousness. … Can the Muslims bear the presence of the Jews who call Hazrat Esa Alayhissalam (Jesus) the son of a whore? … Similarly there is no similarity between Christianity and Islam. Islam is a pure and clean religion believing in the oneness of Allah, in Tauheed….Whereas Christianity is a deviation from the right path… The Shias are the followers of Ibn Sabaa, the Yehudi, and of Abu Lulu, the Majoosi (Zoroastrian)… The enemies of Islam have united in their false beliefs to fight against Islam. This applies whether the enemies are of old or new. Thus the only reason for the creation of a Jewish, Zionist state in Palestine was to start an armed conflict with the Muslims and thus create tension and terror in the region. After they had succeeded in creating Israel, the Jewish colonial powers then set in motion such basic and collective plans….Among these the major plan was to bring about a dissolution of all Sharaee courts from the Islamic countries….To a large extent the Kuffar succeeded in their aim. But praise is to Allah Ta-Aala, that the Saudi government did not fall a prey to this conspiracy and there still exist many Sharaee courts in the country. Today, amongst all the Muslim governments of the world, the government of Saudi Arabia is the only representative, model Islamic government. …forces of Kufr (infidelity) have now all united against Islam and the Muslims. The evil intentions and aims of the world powers are: To strengthen and fortify the Zionist, Jewish state of Israel To tear down Al-Aqsa Mosque and build a synagogue in its place, thus satisfying the ancient desire of the Jews To maintain the military supremacy of the Jews over the Muslim Arab countries To appropriate a major part of the oil-wealth of the Gulf States for themselves, leaving the Saudis with the residue only To deal a death-blow to Islam at the slightest provocation To promote everything which is against Islam… O people! There is religious enmity between the Muslims and the Kuffar. So how can they be the well-wishers of the Muslims? ...Muslims cannot tolerate…the presence of any power of Kufr in the Arabian Peninsula… Two religions cannot co-exist in Arabia… Ya Allah! Confer upon the Muslims and Islam, honour and victory, upon Kufr and the Kuffar dishonour and defeat….Ya Allah! Lord of the universe cause the powers of Kufr to go to war against each other…. Ya Allah! Seize the Jews and Christians in the grip of your punishment. Seize the Hindus and the Mushrikeen (polytheists) too…. Ya Allah! Send down upon them a torment most grievous…. Ya Allah, we seek only thy shelter against the mischief of the Rawafiz (Shias), the heretics…” The current Imam of the Great Mosque in Mecca, Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Sudais, is one of the most powerful religious advisors of the Saudi government. On Friday 19 April 2002, he delivered a sermon from the Great Mosque to a large gathering of pilgrims in which he said: the Jews are, “the dregs of the human race… the rats of the planet…killers of prophets…pigs and monkeys,” and prayed to Allah to “exterminate them”. (Laurent Murawiec, Princes of Darkness, 2003, chapter 8, p 88). |
Anita Rai
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