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| Top Saudi imam sez 'God, please kill them all!' |
| 2002-06-03 |
| Saudi Arabia's top Muslim cleric has called on the Islamic world to unite against a worldwide conspiracy of Hindus, Christians, Jews and secularists threatening Islamic moral values. Muslims, he said, should cleanse themselves from creeping Western values and American-controlled "globalization." Damn those people with their creeping Western values! They eat Kentucky Fried Chicken. They've started bathing and some of them wear underwear and use toilet paper. Disgusting. In a television address monitored in London, Sheik Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, the imam of the Mosque of Mecca, Islam's holiest shrine, turned his ire on the followers of India's dominant religion as tension mounted between that country and mainly Muslim Pakistan. "The idol-worshipping Hindus indulge in their open hatred against our brothers and sanctities in Muslim Kashmir, threatening an imminent danger and a fierce war in the whole Indian subcontinent," he said in a live sermon heard throughout the Arab world via the official Saudi national television and satellite channel. The linkage of Hinduism with the sort of invective normally reserved for Jews and the supporters of Israel — together with scathing remarks about Christians — made the speech unusual. Certainly no Muslim would ever induldge in open hatred of... Oh. Never mind. Anyway, seems they've changed spittle-spewing preachers at the mosque since the last eruption of vitriol in January. The imam lashed out with thinly veiled invective against the United States. He contrasted the "sublime" truths of Islam with the supporters of "fake globalization that wastes human values and ideals," an apparent reference to the West in general and the United States in particular. Hell, yeah. Next thing you know, some people might not want to be good Muslims, or even want to be Muslims at all. Where would the imams of this world be then? Out on the streets, destitute, begging their bread. This has nothing to do with the fact that they have no salable skills, of course; it'd be purely because they were good, pious Muslims, with turbans and automatic weapons... Though he was particularly scornful of Jews, whom he said had been cursed and turned into "pigs and monkeys" by Allah, he turned his ire on Christians and capitalists as well. "Their course is supported by the advocates of credit and worshippers of the Cross," the imam asserted, "as well as by those who are infatuated with them and influenced by their rotten ideas and poisonous culture among the advocates of secularism and Westernization." "Pigs and monkeys" is a lot worse than "crazed killers," "homicidal maniacs" and "raving lunatics." I guess. The imam prefaced his remarks with a warning to his own people not to become confused by modernity. "The nation has never been in such a dire need to follow the example of the prophet in this age of tribulations, sedition, open challenges and mean plotting by the enemies of Islam," Sheikh al-Sudays said. Yeah. All this modern stuff is a crock. Beheading was good enough for Grampaw, so it's good enough for us... Leaders of former communist countries also came under attack, especially in zones where Muslims have taken up arms. "The enemies of Muslims among the atheists insist on their arrogance and aggression against our people and sanctities in struggling Chechnya," declared the imam. And in all the areas around Chechnya, as well. Like the ripples caused by a corpse tossed in a pool, the people and sanctities in struggling Chechnya spread far and wide... He concluded with a prayer for God to support Islam and Muslims, to humble the infidels, destroy the enemies of religion, and make his and other Muslim countries peaceful and stable. He went on: "Oh God, support our brother mujahideen in Palestine, Kashmir and Chechnya. Oh God, we ask you to support our Palestinian brothers in Palestine against the aggressor Jews and usurper Zionists. It's pretty obvious that the Muslim definition of "holy" differs somewhat from the one in the West. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Somebody should talk to him about his ecumenical spirit. |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-06-04 06:56:07 |