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| 'Allah... Anger America and Make Us Blow Up in the Heart of this Cursed Zionist Entity' |
| 2002-06-11 |
| Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdallah Shalah, focused in his speech on President Bush's statements against suicide bombings: "...If America is the one to divide the world into the 'camp of the good' and the 'camp of the evil,' and if it puts the Palestinian people and its Jihad fighters on the evil side, claiming that the martyrs are evil, then we say: 'Allah, make us all evil, [make us all] anger America and blow up in the heart of this cursed Zionist entity...'" You've got your wish, Ramadan. You are evil and you will go the way of evil... "America, the West, or any country in the world, has no moral right to decide whether a Palestinian has the right to blow himself up... or not. Why isn't America objecting when someone American or European contributes millions of dollars for dogs and cats? No one tells him - why are you giving up your wealth for the sake of dogs and cats? We are the owners of our souls... no one has the right to object to us giving away our souls and turning them into human bombs for a cause we consider more important and more sacred than our lives." Because dogs and cats aren't blowing people up. Because dogs and cats aren't systematically inculcating hatred, violence and insanity in large numbers of people. Most dogs and cats aren't imbued with implacable hatred for their fellow creatures... Referring to American calls for reform in the Palestinian Authority, Shalah said: "Who amongst us doesn't want reform? Who amongst us isn't against corruption? But when reform is raised today - it is [only] a cover for the American-Israeli plan to dismantle the unity of the Palestinian people... This kind of reform, we reject. We all know the PA... we all blamed Arafat for corruption... But [now] we say, if for the sake of reform, we have to give up the Intifada, the resistance, and the Jihad warriors - then we would rather have Arafat's corruption continue... We have suffered many years from corruption and will continue to suffer more and more in order to have the resistance continue." "Keep the corruption, and keep the |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |