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Afghanistan
Mullah Omar calls for world-wide jihad
2001-09-15
  • ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The supreme leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban has urged Muslims there and around to world to face the threat of U.S. attack firmly and prepare for jihad (holy war) to defend their faith. Mullah Mohammad Omar told the Taliban Voice of Shariat Radio on Friday in an address monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation that Afghanistan was an obvious target as a true Muslim state.

    The United States, he added, saw this as a danger sign and he cautioned against handing over Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden, the key suspect in Tuesday's terror attack on New York and Washington. "You should know that this is not only the issue of Osama, it is opposition to Islam," Mullah Omar said, according to a BBC transcript. Here (in Afghanistan) there are real Muslims and there is real Islam, and the real voice of religion is raised. They regard this as a danger signal and pay attention to this danger signal... Each Muslim should be ready for a jihad against this and be ready for his religion if there is a need for him to sacrifice himself for Islam and his belief, and make a sacrifice for the symbol of belief in Islam... All the Muslims in the world should support their Islam and their own belief, should defend Afghanistan, should defend Muslims and should be ready for anything to make a sacrifice for Islam... If they don't do this, then they don't do it. It depends on everybody and it is everybody's own business. But they should defend their history and their Islam and their belief."
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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