| Oh, no! Oh, not the Jews! Oh, hold me, Ethel! |
BAGHDAD - A Sunni Muslim prayer leader charged Friday that US forces occupying Iraq were opening up the country to "the Jews" and chided Iraqis he said were working as "brokers" for the Jewish infiltrators. "The liberation of which they spoke boils down to liberating Iraq from its Arab Muslim people ... so that the Jews can enter it," Sheikh Mahmud Khalaf told the faithful during weekly Muslim prayers in Baghdad's Sheikh Abdul Kader al-Kilani mosque. "The Jews, civilian and military people, are now entering Iraq ... buying property, factories and companies while Iraqis work for them as brokers and guides," he said.
| "Skulking in alleys, sniffin' around our wimmin..." |
"It is a sin for Iraq's people to sell their lands to the Jews and to deal with the Jews in this way," the imam said.
| "Yes, yes! A sin! Take their money, don't give them anything in return! That is the Arab Way™!" |
Khalaf charged that the "honeyed promises" made by the US-led coalition that ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in April had "gone with the wind."
| "Then I looked around me, and, thhhpppt! They was gone!" |
"The economic situation is deteriorating, the citizens' conditions are steadily getting worse, our country's resources have been devastated and our will has been usurped," he said. "Unemployment is growing, vice is spreading, crimes are being committed in every corner, honor is being violated, and blood is being shed."
| "And the hookers! You just can't get away from them! Why, just last night... never mind." |
Amid repeated hit-and-run attacks against US forces in Iraq, the US-led administration occupying the country has outlawed incitement to violence and said it was ready to enforce the ban even in mosques.
| How about in mosques especially? |
The imam urged the Muslim faithful to "return to God" in order to earn relief from the misfortune that struck them "when the occupiers entered our country under the banner of liberation."
| "Buy yourself a turban! Slap your women! Wave your gun and roll your eyes! That is the way of true salvation!" |
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