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Bin Laden Transcript:
All praise is due to Allah, who built the heavens and earth
in justice, and created man as a favor and grace from Him. And from His ways is
that the days rotate between the people, and from His Law is retaliation in
kind: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and the killer is killed. And all
praise is due to Allah, who awakened His slaves’ desire for the Garden, and all
of them will enter it except those who refuse. And whoever obeys Him alone in
all of his affairs will enter the Garden, and whoever disobeys Him will have
refused.
As for what comes after: Peace be upon he who follows the
Guidance, People of America: I shall be speaking to you on important topics
which concern you, so lend me your ears. I begin by discussing the war which is
between us and some of its repercussions for us and you.
To preface, I say: despite America being the greatest
economic power and possessing the most powerful and up-to-date military arsenal
as well; and despite it spending on this war and is army more than the entire
world spends on its armies; and despite it being the major state influencing
the policies of the world, as if it has a monopoly on the unjust right of veto;
despite all of this, 19 young men were able – by the grace of Allah, the Most
High – to change the direction of its compass. And in fact, the subject of the
Mujahidean has become an inseparable part of the speech of your leader, and the
effects and signs of that are not hidden.
Since the 11th, many of America’s policies have
come under the influence of the Mujahideen, and that is by the grace of Allah,
the Most High. And as a result, the people discovered the truth about it, its
reputation worsened, its prestige was broken globally and it was bled dry
economically, even if our interests overlap with the interests of the major
corporations and also with those of the neoconservative, despite the differing
intentions.
And for your information media, during the first years of
the war, lost its credibility and manifested itself as a tool of the
colonialist empires, and its condition has often been worse than the condition
of the media of the dictatorial regimes which march in the caravan of the
single leader.
Then Bush talks about his working with al-Maliki and his
government to spread freedom in Iraq but he in fact is working with the leaders
of one sect against another sect, in the belief that this will quickly decide
the war in his favor.
And thus, what is called the civil war came into being and
matters worsened at his hands before getting out of his control and him
becoming like the one who plows and sows the sea: he harvest nothing but
failure.
So these are some of the results of the freedom about whose
spreading he is talking to you. And then the backtracking of Bush on his insistence
on not giving the United Nations expanded jurisdiction in Iraq is an implicit
admission of his loss and defeat there.
And among the most important items contained in Bush’s
speeches since the events of the 11th is that the Americans have no
option but to continue the war. This tone is in fact an echoing of the words of
neoconservatives like Cheney, Rumsfeld and Richard Pearle, the latter having
said previously that the Americans have no choice in front of them other than
to continue the war or face a holocaust.
I say, refuting this unjust statement, that the morality and
culture of the holocaust is your culture, not our culture. In fact, burning
living beings is forbidden in our religion, even if they be small like the ant,
so what of man!? The holocaust of the Jews was carried out by your brethren in
the middle of Europe, but had it been closer to our countries, most of the Jews
would have been saved by taking refuge with us. And my proof for that is in
what your brothers, the Spanish, did when they set up the horrible courts of
the Inquisition to try Muslims and Jews, when the Jews only found safe shelter
by taking refuge in our countries. And that is why the Jewish community in
Morocco today is one of the largest communities in the world. They are alive
with us and we have not incinerated them, but we are a people who don’t sleep
under oppression and reject humiliation and disgrace, and we take revenge on
the people of tyranny and aggression, and the blood of the Muslims will not be
spilled with impunity, and the morrow is nigh for he who awaits.
Also, your Christian brothers have been living among us for
14 centuries: in Egypt alone, there are millions of Christians whom we have not
incinerated and shall not incinerate. But the fact is, there is a continuing
and biased campaign being waged against us for a long time now by your
politicians and many of your writers by way of your media, especially
Hollywood, for the purpose of misrepresenting Islam and its adherents to drive
you away from the true religion. The genocide of peoples and their holocausts
took place at your hands! Only a few specimens of Red Indians were spared, and
just a few days ago, the Japanese observe the 62nd anniversary of
the annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by your nuclear weapons.
And among the things which catch the eye of the one who
considers the repercussions of your unjust war against Iraq is the failure of
your democratic system, despite it raising of the slogans of justice, liberty,
equality and humanitarianism. It has not only failed to achieve these things,
it has actually destroyed these and other concepts with its weapons –
especially in Iraq and Afghanistan – in a brazen fashion, to replace them with
fear, destruction, killing, hunger, illness, displacement and more than a
million orphans in Baghdad alone, not to mention hundreds of thousands of
widows. Americans statistics speak of the killing of more than 650,000 of the
people of Iraq as a result of the war and its repercussions.
People of America: the world is following your news in
regards to your invasion of Iraq, for people have recently come to know that,
after several years of the tragedies of this war, the vast majority of you want
it stopped. Thus, you elected the Democratic Party for this purpose, but the
Democrats haven’t made a move worth mentioning. On the contrary, they continue
to agree to the spending of tens of billions to continue the killing and war
there, which has led to the vast majority of you being afflicted with
disappointment.
And here is the gist of the matter, so one should pause,
think and reflect: why have the Democrats failed to stop this war, despite them
being the majority?
I will come back to reply to this question after raising
another question, which is:
Why are the leaders of the White House keen to start wars
and wage them around the world, and make use of every possible opportunity
through which they can reach this purpose, occasionally creating justifications
based on deception and blatant lies, as you saw Iraq?
In the Vietnam War, the leaders of the White House claimed
at the time that it was a necessary and crucial war, and during it, Rumsfeld
and his aides murdered two million villagers. And when Kenned yook over the
presidency and deviated from the general line of policy drawn up for the White
House and wanted to stop this unjust war, that angered the owners of the major
corporations who were benefiting from its continuation.
And so Kennedy was killed, and al-Qaida wasn’t present at
that time, but rather, those corporations were the primary beneficiary from his
killing. And the war continued after that for approximately one decade. But
after it became clear to you that it was an unjust and unnecessary war, you
made one of your greatest mistakes, in that you neither brought to account nor
punished those who waged this war, not even the most violent of its murderers,
Rumsfeld. And even more incredible than that is that Bush picked him as
secretary of defense in his first term after picking Cheney as his
vice-president, Powell as secretary of state and Armitage as Powell’s deputy,
despite their horrific and blood history of murdering humans. So that was clear
signal that his administration – the administration of the generals – didn’t
have as its main concern the serving of humanity, but rather, was interested in
bringing about new massacres. Yet in spite of that, you permitted Bush to
complete his first term, and stranger still, chose him for a second term, which
gave him a clear mandate from you – with you full knowledge and consent – to
continue to murder our people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Then you claim to be innocent! This innocence of yours I
like my innocence of the blood of your sons on the 11th – were I to
claim such a thing. But it is impossible for me to humor any of you in the
arrogance and indifference you show for the lives of humans outside of America,
or for me to humor your leaders in their lying, as the entire world knows they
have the lion’s share of that. These morals aren’t our morals. What I want to emphasize
here is that not taking past war criminals to account led to them repeating
that crime of killing humanity without right and waging this unjust war in
Mesopotamia, and as a result, here are the oppressed ones today continuing to
take their right from you.
This war was entirely unnecessary, as testified to by your
own reports. And among the most capable of those from your own side who speak
to you on this topic and on the manufacturing of public opinion is Noam
Chomsky, who spoke sober words of advice prior to the war, but the leader of
Texas doesn’t like those who give advice. The entire world came out in
unprecedented demonstrations to warn against waging the war and describe its
true nature in eloquent terms like “no to spilling red blood for black oil,”
yet he paid them no heed. It is time for humankind to know that talk of the
rights of man and freedom are lies produced by the White House and its allies
in Europe to deceive humans, take control of their destinies and subjugate
them.
So in answer to the question about the causes of the
Democrats’ failure to stop the war, I say: they are the same reasons which led
to the failure of former president Kennedy to stop the Vietnam war. Those with
real power and influence are those with the most capital. And since the
democratic system permits major corporations to back candidates, be they
presidential or congressional, there shouldn’t be any cause for astonishment –
and there isn’t any – in the Democrats’ failure to stop the war. And you’re the
ones who have the saying which goes, “Money talks.” And I tell you: after the
failure of your representatives in the Democratic Party to implement your
desire to stop the war, you can still carry anti-war placards and spread out in
the streets of major cities, then go back to your homes, that that will be of
no use and will lead to the prolonging of the war.
However, there are two solutions for stopping it. The first
is from our side, and it is to continue to escalate the killing and fighting
against you. This is our duty, and our brothers are carrying it out, and I ask
Allah to grant them resolve and victory. And the second solution is from your
side. It has now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the
democratic system and how it plays with the interests of the peoples and their
blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations to achieve the interests of the
major corporations.
And with that, it has become clear to all that they are the
real tyrannical terrorists. In fact, the life of all of mankind is in danger
because of the global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of
the factories of the major corporations, yet despite that, the representative
of these corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord,
with the knowledge that the statistic speaks of the death and displacement of
the millions of human beings because of that, especially in Africa. This
greatest of plagues and most dangerous of threats to the lives of humans is
taking place in an accelerating fashion as the world is being dominated by the
democratic system, which confirms its massive failure to protect humans and
their interests from the greed and avarice of the major corporations and their
representatives.
And despite this brazen attack on the people, the leaders of
the West – especially Bush, Blair, Sarkozy and Brown – still talk about freedom
and human rights with a flagrant disregard for the intellects of human beings.
So is there a form of terrorism stronger, clearer and more dangerous than this?
This is why I tell you: as you liberated yourselves before from the slavery of
monks, kings, and feudalism, you should liberate yourselves from the deception,
shackles and attrition of the capitalist system.
If you were to ponder it well, you would find that in the
end, it is a system harsher and fiercer than your systems in the Middle Ages.
The capitalist system seeks to turn the entire world into a fiefdom of the
major corporations under the label of “globalization” in order to protect democracy.
And Iraq and Afghanistan and their tragedies; and the
reeling of many of you under the burden of interest-related debts, insane taxes
and real estate mortgages; global warming and its woes; and the abject poverty
and tragic hunger in Africa: all of this is but one side of the grim face of
this global system.
So it is imperative that you free yourselves from all of
that and search for an alternative, upright methodology in which it is not the
business of any class of humanity to lay down its own laws to its own advantage
at the expense of the other classes as is the case with you, since the essence
of man-made positive laws is that they serve the interests of those with the
capital and thus make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The infallible methodology is the methodology of Allah, the
Most High, who created the heavens and the earth and created the Creation and
is the Most Kind and All-Informed and the Knower of the souls of His slaves and
the methodology that best suits them.
You believe with absolute certainty that you believe in
Allah, and you are full of conviction of this belief, so much so that you have
written this belief of yours on your dollar.
But the truth is that you are mistaken in this belief of
yours. The impartial judge knows that belief in Allah requires straightness in
the following of His methodology, and accordingly, total obedience must be to
the orders and prohibitions of Allah Alone in all aspects of life.
So how about you when you associate others with Him in your
beliefs and separate state from religion, then claim that you are believers?!
What you have done is clear loss and manifest polytheism.
And I will give you a parable of polytheism, as parables summarize and clarify
speech.
I tell you: its parable is the parable of a man who owns a
shop and hires a worker and tells him, “Sell and give me the money,” but he
makes sales and give the money to someone other than the owner. So who of you
would approve of that?
You believe that Allah is your Lord and your Creator and the
Creator of this earth and that it is His property, then you work on His earth
and property without His orders and without obeying Him, and you legislate in
contradiction to His Law and methodology.
This work of yours is the greatest form of polytheism and is
rebellion against obedience to Allah with which the believer becomes an
unbeliever, even if he obeys Allah in some of His other orders. Allah, the Most
High, sent down His orders in His Sacred Books like the Torah and Evangel and
sent with them the Messengers (Allah’s prayers and peace be upon them) as
bearers of good news to the people.
And everyone who believes in them and complies with them is
a believer from the people of the Garden. Then when the men of knowledge
altered the words of Allah, the Most High, and sold them for a paltry price, as
the rabbis did with the Torah and the monks with the Evangel, Allah sent down
His final Book, the magnificent Quran, and safeguarded it from being added to
or subtracted from by the hands of men, and in it is a complete methodology for
the lives of all people.
And our holding firm to this magnificent Book is the secret
of our strength and winning of the war against you despite the fewness of our
numbers and materiel.
And if you would like to get to know some of the reasons for
your losing of your war against us, then read the book of Michael Sheuer in
this regard.
Don’t be turned away from Islam by the terrible situation of
the Muslims today, for our rulers in general abandoned Islam many decades ago, but
our forefathers were the leaders and pioneers of the world for many centuries,
when they held firmly to Islam.
And before concluding, I tell you there has been an increase
in the thinkers who study events and happenings, and on the basis of their study,
they have declared the approach of the collapse of the American Empire.
Among them is the European thinker who anticipated the fall
of the Soviet Union, which indeed fell. And it would benefit you to read what
he wrote about what comes after the empire in regard to the United States of
America. I also want to bring your attention that among the greatest reasons
for the collapse of the Soviet Union was their being afflicted with their
leader Brezhnev, who was overtaken by pride and arrogance and refused to look
at the facts on the ground. From the first year of the Afghanistan invasion,
reports indicated that the Russians were losing the war, but he refused to
acknowledge this, lest it go down in his personal history as a defeat, even
though refusal to acknowledge defeat not only doesn’t do anything to change the
facts for thinking people, but also exacerbates the problem and increases the
losses. And how similar is your position today to their position approximately
two decades ago. The mistakes of Brezhnev are being repeated by Bush, who –
when asked about the date of his withdrawing of forces from Iraq – said in
effect that the withdrawal will not be during his reign, but rather, during the
reign of the one who succeeds him. And the significance of these words is not
hidden.
And here I say: it would benefit you to listen to the
poignant messages of your soldiers in Iraq, who are paying – with their blood,
nerves and scattered limbs – the price for these sorts of irresponsible
statements. Among them is the eloquent message of Joshua which he sent by way
of the media, in which he wipes the tears from his eyes and describes the
American politicians in harsh terms and invites them to join him there for a
few days. Perhaps his message will find in you an attentive ear so you can
rescue him and more than 150,000 of your sons there who are tasting the two
bitterest things:
If they leave their barracks, the mines devour them, and if
they refuse to leave, rulings are passed against them. Thus, the only options
left in front of them are commit suicide or cry, both of which are from the
severest of afflictions. So is there anything more men can do after crying and
killing themselves to make you respond to them? They are doing that out of the
severity of the humiliation, fear and terror which they are suffering. It is
severer than what the slaves used to suffer at your hands centuries ago, and it
is as if some of them have gone from one slavery to another slavery more severe
and harmful, even if it be in the fancy dress of the Defense Department’s
financial enticements.
So do you feel the greatness of their sufferings?
To conclude, I invite you to embrace Islam, for the greatest
mistake one can make in this world and one which is uncorrectable is to die
while not surrendering to Allah, the Most High, in all aspects of one’s life –
i.e., to die outside of Islam. And Islam means gain for you in this first life
and the next, final life. The true religion is a mercy for people in their
lives, filling their hearts with serenity and calm.
There is a message for you in the Mujahideen: the entire
world is in pursuit of them, yet their hearts, by the grace of Allah, are
satisfied and tranquil. The true religion also puts peoples’ lives in order
with its laws; protects their needs and interests; refines their morals;
protects them from evils; and guarantees for them entrance into Paradise in the
hereafter through their obedience to Allah and sincere worship of Him Alone.
And it will also achieve your desire to stop the war as a consequence,
because as soon as the warmongering owners of the major corporations realize
that you have lost confidence in your democratic system and begun to search for
an alternative, and that this alternative is Islam, they will run after you to
please you and achieve what you want to steer you away from Islam. So your true
compliance with Islam will deprive them of the opportunity to defraud the
peoples and take their money under numerous pretexts, like arms deals and so
on.
There are no taxes in Islam, but rather there is a limited
Zakaat [alms] totaling only 2.5%. So beware of the deception of those with the
capital. And with your earnest reading about Islam from its pristine sources,
you will arrive at an important truth, which is that the religion of all of the
Prophets (peace and blessings of Allah be upon them) is one, and that its essence
is submission to the orders of Allah Alone in all aspects of life, even if
their Shari’ahs [Laws] differ.
And did you know that the name of the Prophet of All Jesus
and his mother (peace and blessings of Allah be on them both) are mentioned in
the Noble Quran dozens of times, and that in the Quran there is a chapter whose
name is “maryam,” i.e. Mary, daughter of Imran and mother of Jesus (peace and
blessing of Allah be upon them both)? It tells the story of her becoming
pregnant with the prophet of Allah Jesus (peace and blessings of Allah be upon
them both), and in its confirmation of her chastity and purity, in contrast to
the fabrications of the Jews against her. Whoever wishes to find that out for
himself must listen to the verse of this magnificent chapter: one of the just
kings of the Christians – the Negus – listened to some of its verses and his
eyes welled up with tears and he said something which should be reflected on
for a long time by those sincere in their search for the truth.
He said, “verily, this and what Jesus brought come
from one lantern”: i.e., that the magnificent Quran and the Evangel are both
from Allah, the Most High: and every just and intelligent one of you who
reflects on the Quran will definitely arrive at this truth. It also must be
noted that Allah has preserved the Quran from alterations of men. And reading
in order to become acquainted with Islam only requires a little effort, and
those of you who are guided will profit greatly. And peace be upon he who
follows the Guidance.
All praise is due to Allah, who built the heavens and earth
in justice, and created man as a favor and grace from Him. And from His ways is
that the days rotate between the people, and from His Law is retaliation in
kind: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and the killer is killed. And all
praise is due to Allah, who awakened His slaves’ desire for the Garden, and all
of them will enter it except those who refuse. And whoever obeys Him alone in
all of his affairs will enter the Garden, and whoever disobeys Him will have
refused.
As for what comes after: Peace be upon he who follows the
Guidance, People of America: I shall be speaking to you on important topics
which concern you, so lend me your ears. I begin by discussing the war which is
between us and some of its repercussions for us and you.
To preface, I say: despite America being the greatest
economic power and possessing the most powerful and up-to-date military arsenal
as well; and despite it spending on this war and is army more than the entire
world spends on its armies; and despite it being the major state influencing
the policies of the world, as if it has a monopoly on the unjust right of veto;
despite all of this, 19 young men were able – by the grace of Allah, the Most
High – to change the direction of its compass. And in fact, the subject of the
Mujahidean has become an inseparable part of the speech of your leader, and the
effects and signs of that are not hidden.
Since the 11th, many of America’s policies have
come under the influence of the Mujahideen, and that is by the grace of Allah,
the Most High. And as a result, the people discovered the truth about it, its
reputation worsened, its prestige was broken globally and it was bled dry
economically, even if our interests overlap with the interests of the major
corporations and also with those of the neoconservative, despite the differing
intentions.
And for your information media, during the first years of
the war, lost its credibility and manifested itself as a tool of the
colonialist empires, and its condition has often been worse than the condition
of the media of the dictatorial regimes which march in the caravan of the
single leader.
Then Bush talks about his working with al-Maliki and his
government to spread freedom in Iraq but he in fact is working with the leaders
of one sect against another sect, in the belief that this will quickly decide
the war in his favor.
And thus, what is called the civil war came into being and
matters worsened at his hands before getting out of his control and him
becoming like the one who plows and sows the sea: he harvest nothing but
failure.
So these are some of the results of the freedom about whose
spreading he is talking to you. And then the backtracking of Bush on his insistence
on not giving the United Nations expanded jurisdiction in Iraq is an implicit
admission of his loss and defeat there.
And among the most important items contained in Bush’s
speeches since the events of the 11th is that the Americans have no
option but to continue the war. This tone is in fact an echoing of the words of
neoconservatives like Cheney, Rumsfeld and Richard Pearle, the latter having
said previously that the Americans have no choice in front of them other than
to continue the war or face a holocaust.
I say, refuting this unjust statement, that the morality and
culture of the holocaust is your culture, not our culture. In fact, burning
living beings is forbidden in our religion, even if they be small like the ant,
so what of man!? The holocaust of the Jews was carried out by your brethren in
the middle of Europe, but had it been closer to our countries, most of the Jews
would have been saved by taking refuge with us. And my proof for that is in
what your brothers, the Spanish, did when they set up the horrible courts of
the Inquisition to try Muslims and Jews, when the Jews only found safe shelter
by taking refuge in our countries. And that is why the Jewish community in
Morocco today is one of the largest communities in the world. They are alive
with us and we have not incinerated them, but we are a people who don’t sleep
under oppression and reject humiliation and disgrace, and we take revenge on
the people of tyranny and aggression, and the blood of the Muslims will not be
spilled with impunity, and the morrow is nigh for he who awaits.
Also, your Christian brothers have been living among us for
14 centuries: in Egypt alone, there are millions of Christians whom we have not
incinerated and shall not incinerate. But the fact is, there is a continuing
and biased campaign being waged against us for a long time now by your
politicians and many of your writers by way of your media, especially
Hollywood, for the purpose of misrepresenting Islam and its adherents to drive
you away from the true religion. The genocide of peoples and their holocausts
took place at your hands! Only a few specimens of Red Indians were spared, and
just a few days ago, the Japanese observe the 62nd anniversary of
the annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by your nuclear weapons.
And among the things which catch the eye of the one who
considers the repercussions of your unjust war against Iraq is the failure of
your democratic system, despite it raising of the slogans of justice, liberty,
equality and humanitarianism. It has not only failed to achieve these things,
it has actually destroyed these and other concepts with its weapons –
especially in Iraq and Afghanistan – in a brazen fashion, to replace them with
fear, destruction, killing, hunger, illness, displacement and more than a
million orphans in Baghdad alone, not to mention hundreds of thousands of
widows. Americans statistics speak of the killing of more than 650,000 of the
people of Iraq as a result of the war and its repercussions.
People of America: the world is following your news in
regards to your invasion of Iraq, for people have recently come to know that,
after several years of the tragedies of this war, the vast majority of you want
it stopped. Thus, you elected the Democratic Party for this purpose, but the
Democrats haven’t made a move worth mentioning. On the contrary, they continue
to agree to the spending of tens of billions to continue the killing and war
there, which has led to the vast majority of you being afflicted with
disappointment.
And here is the gist of the matter, so one should pause,
think and reflect: why have the Democrats failed to stop this war, despite them
being the majority?
I will come back to reply to this question after raising
another question, which is:
Why are the leaders of the White House keen to start wars
and wage them around the world, and make use of every possible opportunity
through which they can reach this purpose, occasionally creating justifications
based on deception and blatant lies, as you saw Iraq?
In the Vietnam War, the leaders of the White House claimed
at the time that it was a necessary and crucial war, and during it, Rumsfeld
and his aides murdered two million villagers. And when Kenned yook over the
presidency and deviated from the general line of policy drawn up for the White
House and wanted to stop this unjust war, that angered the owners of the major
corporations who were benefiting from its continuation.
And so Kennedy was killed, and al-Qaida wasn’t present at
that time, but rather, those corporations were the primary beneficiary from his
killing. And the war continued after that for approximately one decade. But
after it became clear to you that it was an unjust and unnecessary war, you
made one of your greatest mistakes, in that you neither brought to account nor
punished those who waged this war, not even the most violent of its murderers,
Rumsfeld. And even more incredible than that is that Bush picked him as
secretary of defense in his first term after picking Cheney as his
vice-president, Powell as secretary of state and Armitage as Powell’s deputy,
despite their horrific and blood history of murdering humans. So that was clear
signal that his administration – the administration of the generals – didn’t
have as its main concern the serving of humanity, but rather, was interested in
bringing about new massacres. Yet in spite of that, you permitted Bush to
complete his first term, and stranger still, chose him for a second term, which
gave him a clear mandate from you – with you full knowledge and consent – to
continue to murder our people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Then you claim to be innocent! This innocence of yours I
like my innocence of the blood of your sons on the 11th – were I to
claim such a thing. But it is impossible for me to humor any of you in the
arrogance and indifference you show for the lives of humans outside of America,
or for me to humor your leaders in their lying, as the entire world knows they
have the lion’s share of that. These morals aren’t our morals. What I want to emphasize
here is that not taking past war criminals to account led to them repeating
that crime of killing humanity without right and waging this unjust war in
Mesopotamia, and as a result, here are the oppressed ones today continuing to
take their right from you.
This war was entirely unnecessary, as testified to by your
own reports. And among the most capable of those from your own side who speak
to you on this topic and on the manufacturing of public opinion is Noam
Chomsky, who spoke sober words of advice prior to the war, but the leader of
Texas doesn’t like those who give advice. The entire world came out in
unprecedented demonstrations to warn against waging the war and describe its
true nature in eloquent terms like “no to spilling red blood for black oil,”
yet he paid them no heed. It is time for humankind to know that talk of the
rights of man and freedom are lies produced by the White House and its allies
in Europe to deceive humans, take control of their destinies and subjugate
them.
So in answer to the question about the causes of the
Democrats’ failure to stop the war, I say: they are the same reasons which led
to the failure of former president Kennedy to stop the Vietnam war. Those with
real power and influence are those with the most capital. And since the
democratic system permits major corporations to back candidates, be they
presidential or congressional, there shouldn’t be any cause for astonishment –
and there isn’t any – in the Democrats’ failure to stop the war. And you’re the
ones who have the saying which goes, “Money talks.” And I tell you: after the
failure of your representatives in the Democratic Party to implement your
desire to stop the war, you can still carry anti-war placards and spread out in
the streets of major cities, then go back to your homes, that that will be of
no use and will lead to the prolonging of the war.
However, there are two solutions for stopping it. The first
is from our side, and it is to continue to escalate the killing and fighting
against you. This is our duty, and our brothers are carrying it out, and I ask
Allah to grant them resolve and victory. And the second solution is from your
side. It has now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the
democratic system and how it plays with the interests of the peoples and their
blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations to achieve the interests of the
major corporations.
And with that, it has become clear to all that they are the
real tyrannical terrorists. In fact, the life of all of mankind is in danger
because of the global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of
the factories of the major corporations, yet despite that, the representative
of these corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord,
with the knowledge that the statistic speaks of the death and displacement of
the millions of human beings because of that, especially in Africa. This
greatest of plagues and most dangerous of threats to the lives of humans is
taking place in an accelerating fashion as the world is being dominated by the
democratic system, which confirms its massive failure to protect humans and
their interests from the greed and avarice of the major corporations and their
representatives.
And despite this brazen attack on the people, the leaders of
the West – especially Bush, Blair, Sarkozy and Brown – still talk about freedom
and human rights with a flagrant disregard for the intellects of human beings.
So is there a form of terrorism stronger, clearer and more dangerous than this?
This is why I tell you: as you liberated yourselves before from the slavery of
monks, kings, and feudalism, you should liberate yourselves from the deception,
shackles and attrition of the capitalist system.
If you were to ponder it well, you would find that in the
end, it is a system harsher and fiercer than your systems in the Middle Ages.
The capitalist system seeks to turn the entire world into a fiefdom of the
major corporations under the label of “globalization” in order to protect democracy.
And Iraq and Afghanistan and their tragedies; and the
reeling of many of you under the burden of interest-related debts, insane taxes
and real estate mortgages; global warming and its woes; and the abject poverty
and tragic hunger in Africa: all of this is but one side of the grim face of
this global system.
So it is imperative that you free yourselves from all of
that and search for an alternative, upright methodology in which it is not the
business of any class of humanity to lay down its own laws to its own advantage
at the expense of the other classes as is the case with you, since the essence
of man-made positive laws is that they serve the interests of those with the
capital and thus make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The infallible methodology is the methodology of Allah, the
Most High, who created the heavens and the earth and created the Creation and
is the Most Kind and All-Informed and the Knower of the souls of His slaves and
the methodology that best suits them.
You believe with absolute certainty that you believe in
Allah, and you are full of conviction of this belief, so much so that you have
written this belief of yours on your dollar.
But the truth is that you are mistaken in this belief of
yours. The impartial judge knows that belief in Allah requires straightness in
the following of His methodology, and accordingly, total obedience must be to
the orders and prohibitions of Allah Alone in all aspects of life.
So how about you when you associate others with Him in your
beliefs and separate state from religion, then claim that you are believers?!
What you have done is clear loss and manifest polytheism.
And I will give you a parable of polytheism, as parables summarize and clarify
speech.
I tell you: its parable is the parable of a man who owns a
shop and hires a worker and tells him, “Sell and give me the money,” but he
makes sales and give the money to someone other than the owner. So who of you
would approve of that?
You believe that Allah is your Lord and your Creator and the
Creator of this earth and that it is His property, then you work on His earth
and property without His orders and without obeying Him, and you legislate in
contradiction to His Law and methodology.
This work of yours is the greatest form of polytheism and is
rebellion against obedience to Allah with which the believer becomes an
unbeliever, even if he obeys Allah in some of His other orders. Allah, the Most
High, sent down His orders in His Sacred Books like the Torah and Evangel and
sent with them the Messengers (Allah’s prayers and peace be upon them) as
bearers of good news to the people.
And everyone who believes in them and complies with them is
a believer from the people of the Garden. Then when the men of knowledge
altered the words of Allah, the Most High, and sold them for a paltry price, as
the rabbis did with the Torah and the monks with the Evangel, Allah sent down
His final Book, the magnificent Quran, and safeguarded it from being added to
or subtracted from by the hands of men, and in it is a complete methodology for
the lives of all people.
And our holding firm to this magnificent Book is the secret
of our strength and winning of the war against you despite the fewness of our
numbers and materiel.
And if you would like to get to know some of the reasons for
your losing of your war against us, then read the book of Michael Sheuer in
this regard.
Don’t be turned away from Islam by the terrible situation of
the Muslims today, for our rulers in general abandoned Islam many decades ago, but
our forefathers were the leaders and pioneers of the world for many centuries,
when they held firmly to Islam.
And before concluding, I tell you there has been an increase
in the thinkers who study events and happenings, and on the basis of their study,
they have declared the approach of the collapse of the American Empire.
Among them is the European thinker who anticipated the fall
of the Soviet Union, which indeed fell. And it would benefit you to read what
he wrote about what comes after the empire in regard to the United States of
America. I also want to bring your attention that among the greatest reasons
for the collapse of the Soviet Union was their being afflicted with their
leader Brezhnev, who was overtaken by pride and arrogance and refused to look
at the facts on the ground. From the first year of the Afghanistan invasion,
reports indicated that the Russians were losing the war, but he refused to
acknowledge this, lest it go down in his personal history as a defeat, even
though refusal to acknowledge defeat not only doesn’t do anything to change the
facts for thinking people, but also exacerbates the problem and increases the
losses. And how similar is your position today to their position approximately
two decades ago. The mistakes of Brezhnev are being repeated by Bush, who –
when asked about the date of his withdrawing of forces from Iraq – said in
effect that the withdrawal will not be during his reign, but rather, during the
reign of the one who succeeds him. And the significance of these words is not
hidden.
And here I say: it would benefit you to listen to the
poignant messages of your soldiers in Iraq, who are paying – with their blood,
nerves and scattered limbs – the price for these sorts of irresponsible
statements. Among them is the eloquent message of Joshua which he sent by way
of the media, in which he wipes the tears from his eyes and describes the
American politicians in harsh terms and invites them to join him there for a
few days. Perhaps his message will find in you an attentive ear so you can
rescue him and more than 150,000 of your sons there who are tasting the two
bitterest things:
If they leave their barracks, the mines devour them, and if
they refuse to leave, rulings are passed against them. Thus, the only options
left in front of them are commit suicide or cry, both of which are from the
severest of afflictions. So is there anything more men can do after crying and
killing themselves to make you respond to them? They are doing that out of the
severity of the humiliation, fear and terror which they are suffering. It is
severer than what the slaves used to suffer at your hands centuries ago, and it
is as if some of them have gone from one slavery to another slavery more severe
and harmful, even if it be in the fancy dress of the Defense Department’s
financial enticements.
So do you feel the greatness of their sufferings?
To conclude, I invite you to embrace Islam, for the greatest
mistake one can make in this world and one which is uncorrectable is to die
while not surrendering to Allah, the Most High, in all aspects of one’s life –
i.e., to die outside of Islam. And Islam means gain for you in this first life
and the next, final life. The true religion is a mercy for people in their
lives, filling their hearts with serenity and calm.
There is a message for you in the Mujahideen: the entire
world is in pursuit of them, yet their hearts, by the grace of Allah, are
satisfied and tranquil. The true religion also puts peoples’ lives in order
with its laws; protects their needs and interests; refines their morals;
protects them from evils; and guarantees for them entrance into Paradise in the
hereafter through their obedience to Allah and sincere worship of Him Alone.
And it will also achieve your desire to stop the war as a consequence,
because as soon as the warmongering owners of the major corporations realize
that you have lost confidence in your democratic system and begun to search for
an alternative, and that this alternative is Islam, they will run after you to
please you and achieve what you want to steer you away from Islam. So your true
compliance with Islam will deprive them of the opportunity to defraud the
peoples and take their money under numerous pretexts, like arms deals and so
on.
There are no taxes in Islam, but rather there is a limited
Zakaat [alms] totaling only 2.5%. So beware of the deception of those with the
capital. And with your earnest reading about Islam from its pristine sources,
you will arrive at an important truth, which is that the religion of all of the
Prophets (peace and blessings of Allah be upon them) is one, and that its essence
is submission to the orders of Allah Alone in all aspects of life, even if
their Shari’ahs [Laws] differ.
And did you know that the name of the Prophet of All Jesus
and his mother (peace and blessings of Allah be on them both) are mentioned in
the Noble Quran dozens of times, and that in the Quran there is a chapter whose
name is “maryam,” i.e. Mary, daughter of Imran and mother of Jesus (peace and
blessing of Allah be upon them both)? It tells the story of her becoming
pregnant with the prophet of Allah Jesus (peace and blessings of Allah be upon
them both), and in its confirmation of her chastity and purity, in contrast to
the fabrications of the Jews against her. Whoever wishes to find that out for
himself must listen to the verse of this magnificent chapter: one of the just
kings of the Christians – the Negus – listened to some of its verses and his
eyes welled up with tears and he said something which should be reflected on
for a long time by those sincere in their search for the truth.
He said, “verily, this and what Jesus brought come
from one lantern”: i.e., that the magnificent Quran and the Evangel are both
from Allah, the Most High: and every just and intelligent one of you who
reflects on the Quran will definitely arrive at this truth. It also must be
noted that Allah has preserved the Quran from alterations of men. And reading
in order to become acquainted with Islam only requires a little effort, and
those of you who are guided will profit greatly. And peace be upon he who
follows the Guidance.
