Famous Quotes by A.R.
The following is a continuing list of quotes of interest concerning the Western dominance of Muslim lands:
The Intellectual Revolution for the living of Islam and governing by Islam for Muslim majority countries is our right and the will of the Islamic people. No one can stop this noble endeavor. Not even the West can stop the global freedom movement of the Muslim world and unification of the Islamic Caliphate. Islamic Revival is coming. - A.R. [GAI-GI-O]
"For years now I have heard some Muslims in the West proclaiming that they represent the new leadership of the Muslim ummah. They claim that the "old-world" Muslims of the East are mired in ancient conflicts and bogged down in cultural habits. This always struck me as presumptuous - the arrogance and ignorance of the young. Don't they know their history? Don't they know that these "old-world" Muslims have survived the khawarij, the crusades, the Huns, the Tatars, the black plague, the collapse of the Khilaafah, colonization, occupation, and the rule of dictators? They have been tested, and yet they have maintained their faith in the face of all opposition. Activists in the Muslim world have been arrested, imprisoned and even executed. And yet the "old-world" ummah continues to produce great Islamic thinkers, scholars and martyrs." - Wael Abdelgawad
"From 638 to 1917 Muslims and Jews have been each others friends and sometimes protectors. During the period of the Inquisition in Spain, Muslims and Jews suffered together and protected each other. Whenever there were pogroms of the Jews in Europe, they fled to North African Muslim ruled countries or to the East where the Turks ruled and they found sympathy, friendship, welcome and rehabilitation. Similarly, Christians and Muslims have been living together in peace all over the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and other countries. One example of the Christian-Muslim harmony is that the Orthodox Church had its headquarter in Constantinople before 1453 when Muhammad II conquered it for the Ottoman Empire. Constantinople was the seat of the Orthodox Church and it remained throughout the Turkish rule and it continues to be the seat of the Orthodox Church." - M. AMIR ALI Ph. D.
"From time to time, some Western countries develop policies in relation to the Islamic World, which have nothing but their own interests at heart, even at the cost of the most basic needs of Moslem nations. This in turn creates anti-Western sentiments in certain circles of Moslem countries and a mutual distrust and anxiety between civilizations." - Harun Yahya, Prominent Turkish scholar
"Like the 1458 papal bull, once more the focus is on Islam and Muslim majority areas. Considering Muslims savages and lecturing them to behave and get civilized is nothing new. Deliberate blindness towards the past makes all those who attempt to lecture Muslims make wild statements. They ignore that the seeds for the present destabilization in the former colonial lands were sown centuries ago in the form of imposing highly exploitive trading terms; indulging in undisguised looting; transferring enormous amounts of wealth to Europe; engineering and adapting these continents according to their own interests in extending European hegemony." - Abid Ullah Jan
"I would, nevertheless, reiterate the fact that the collapse the West is facing or the humiliation and daily psychological and physical degradation the Muslim world is going through these days is a clear proof of the validity of the principles and message of Islam. Yes, especially over Western secularism -- which might be a dying god to some but I believe it has long been dead -- rather dead since its creation by the secularists. False gods never live." - Abid Ullah Jan
"The terrorist-occupiers (the west) should not prolong their unjust occupations on the basis that acts of resistance, which they call terrorism, should have the sole effect of impeding the legitimate causes they are intended to promote." - Abid Ullah Jan
The world does not need civilising by the US government, it is the US that needs to be civilised by the world. - Yamin Zakaria, Graduate in Chemistry from London University and a Technical Director
"There is no tally of Iraqi deaths, but every single death of a US soldier is reported to the world. These are soldiers who must expect to be killed. But the Iraqis who die are innocent civilians who under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein would still be alive." - former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammad
"A truth that has been largely forgotten in the post-9/11 frenzy is that terrorism is a technique, not an ideology or a country." - Sean Gonsalves
"If you ask me, the whole of the Western international community are bastards. Nobody is helping us. What's more, they have sold us out and are accomplices to the extermination of our people" - Commander-in-Chief of the Bosnian armed forces, Commander Zulfikar
"American Jews are responsible for pushing the country to war with Iraq." "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this," - Congressman James P. Moran Jr. of Virginia
"The people who nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who killed hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, and are killing people in Afghanistan through the recently imposed sanctions, how strange that they should be raising their voice in support of stone statues?" - Mufti Rafi Usmani, the Grand Mufti of Pakistan
"What we say is we refuse to be part of a conspiracy to deny that it has anything to do with the fact that our country is going round the world setting fire to other people's countries and killing them... I am utterly against the punishing of innocent people for the crimes of the guilty, whether it is done on the underground in London or the streets of Fallujah by George Bush's air force." - George Gallaway, MP for Bethnal Green in UK
"The United States is the champion of double standards. The United States' government defends terrorism. They talk of the fight against the terrorism, but they commit terrorism, state terrorism," - Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela
"God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war... We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Israel as a Jewish state constitutes a danger not only to itself and its inhabitants, but to all Jews, and to all other peoples and states in the Middle East and beyond." - Prof. Israel Shahak, the founder of Israel's Human Rights League
"Every time we do something you [Shimon Peres] tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." - Ariel Sharon in his speech in the Knesset, Tel Aviv, Oct. 3, 2001
"We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves." - Israeli Chairman Heilbrun
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." - Israeli Northern District Commissioner Israel Koenig
"I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy [in the Middle East] not approved by the Jews..... terrific control the Jews have over the news media and the barrage the Jews have built up on congressmen .... I am very much concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get congress to do anything they don't approve of. The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to the congress through influential Jewish people in the country" - John Foster Dulles, American Secretary of State from 1953-1959
"If after having elected their man or group, obedience is not rendered to the Jewish control, then you speedily hear of "scandals" and "investigations" and "impeachments" for the removal of the disobedient. Usually a man with a "past" proves the most obedient instrument, but even a good man can often be tangled up in campaign practices that compromise him. It has been commonly known that Jewish manipulation of American election campaigns have been so skillfully handled, that no matter which candidate was elected, there was ready made a sufficient amount of evidence to discredit him in case his Jewish masters needed to discredit him." - Henry Ford of Ford Automobiles
"I've never seen a President -- I don't care who he is -- stand up to them [the Israelis]. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. If the American people understood what a grip those people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens certainly don't have any idea what goes on." - Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chairman of the US Joint Chief of Staff under Ronald Reagan
"Israel controls the United States Senate. We should be more concerned about the United States' interests." - William Fulbright, US Senator and Chairman of the US Foreign Relations Committee
"The United States Congress is Israeli occupied territory." - Patrick Buchanan, Former Presidential candidate and syndicated columnist/author
"Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I'll tell you what I think the real threat [is] and actually has been since 1990 - it's the threat against Israel," Philip Zelikow, executive director of the 9/11 commission
"Israel is an illegitimate child of Western imperialism." - Quad-e-Azm Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan
"The Palestinian Arabs should go back to their homeland. Right up to the present time we have had no diplomatic relations with the Israeli government. The Arabs are the overwhelming majority. All Arab peoples are opposed to their fellow-Arabs being driven out of Palestine. If we don't stand on your side we will be making a mistake. That is why we are with you. But it is not just a question of Israel but of who stands behind Israel. Therefore it is a world question and particularly -one concerning the USA." - Chairman Mao Tse-tung to a group of peace conference delegates 22 August 1964
"Who is the innocent? Is the Jew who took my home, land, and expelled me from it by force, killed my children, wife, and parents, is he innocent? The important thing is to determine who is the aggressor, are we the ones that attack Israelis first or is it them? If you know that, the answer would be clear for you." - Shaikh Ahmad Yassin, 7th May 2003
"People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs! People of the world, be courageous, dare to fight, defy difficulties and advance wave upon wave. Then the whole world will belong to the people. Monsters of all kinds shall be destroyed." - Chairman Mao Ze Tong
"The United States has set up hundreds of military bases in many countries all over the world. China's territory of Taiwan, Lebanon and all military bases of the United States on foreign soil are so many nooses round the neck of U.S. The nooses have been fashioned by the Americans themselves and by nobody else, and it is they themselves who have put these nooses round their own necks, handing the ends of the ropes to the Chinese people, the peoples of the Arab countries and all the peoples of the world who love peace and oppose aggression. The longer the U.S. aggressors remain in those places, the tighter the nooses round their necks will become." - Chairman Mao Ze Tong
"The one thing that has motivated Israel has nothing to do with peaceful coexistence... [It is] to take as much Palestinian land as possible without Palestinians." - Michael Tarazi, Palestinian-American lawyer
"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace." - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy." -- Ramsey Clark, American Lawyer and peace activist
"They not only want to go into Iraq and disarm and overthrow this regime. They want to make Iraq a satellite of the U.S., democratize it and use it as a base camp for modernizing the Arab and Islamic world. That is imperialism pure and simple." - Pat Buchanan, American journalist
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people." - Henry Kissinger
"It must be understood clearly that terror bombing is basically a political and not a religious response. A modern educated youth is far more aware of injustices being done to Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Kashmir and Chechnya. They also become aware of the past colonial history and its continuation in modern times to varied degrees. It was not hatred of the West but hatred to wards its policies. One must distinguish between the two." - Iftikhar Ahmad
"There is a worldwide revolution going on... what is it revolting against? The power structure. The American power structure? No. The French power structure? No. The English power structure? No. Then what power structure? An international Western power structure. An international power structure consisting of American interests, French interests, English interests, Belgian interests, European interests. These countries that formerly colonized the dark man formed into a giant international combine. A structure, a house that has ruled the world up until now And in recent times there has been a revolution taking place in Asia and Africa, whacking away at the strength or at the foundation of the power structure." -Malcolm X
"I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation... It is incorrect to dassif' the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of Black against white, or as a purely American problem. Rather we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor the exploited against the exploiter." -Malcolm X
"There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion. If fact, that's that old time religion. That's the one that Ma and Pa used to talk about: an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, and a head for a head, and a life for a life. That's a good religion. And nobody resents that kind of religion being taught but a wolf who intends to make you his meal... No, preserve your life, it's the best thing you've got. And if you've got to give it up, let it be even-steven." -Malcolm X
"We don't believe in fighting a battle... in which the ground rules are to be laid down by those who suppress us. We don't believe that we can win a battle where the ground rules are laid down by those who exploit us. We don 't believe that we can carry on a struggle trying to win the affection of those who for so long have oppressed and exploited us." -Malcolm X
"I am utterly against the punishing of innocent people for the crimes of the guilty, whether it is done on the underground in London or the streets of Fallujah by George Bush's air force." - George Gallaway, MP for Bethnal Green, UK
"We have to show our opposition to Islam and we have to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on us because there are some things for which we should display no tolerance." - Queen Margrethe II (Danish Queen), April 15, 2005
"The west has invaded and occupied our lands, killed our families, robbed our resources, decimated our language and culture, humiliated our humanity and marginalized our faith, and we've been silent far too long; but now we draw a line in the sand at the desecration of our Holy Qur'an and the insulting of our beloved Prophet.Enough is enough. It's time you respected our faith and humanity, withdraw from our lands, stop supporting your dictators, and deal with us as equals. Let's pray your humanity supersedes your worldly passions and greed before it's too late. The majority in this world want peace, it's time we demand it forcefully from our governments, and not Neo Cons, a biased media, and bought politicians determine our destiny. Muslims are willing to die for their faith, what is the west willing to die for? God is indeed Great." - Mohamed Khodr
"This [War on Terror] indicates the transfer of society into the state of permanent mobilization around the authority under the slogans "terrorism ... In spite of the readiness of public opinion to be received by many for the victory of Putin [Russian President] on "terrorism", fear ceases to work as the universal tool of mobilization.". - KavKaz Center
"We should be conscious of the superiority of our civilisation, which consists of a value system that has given people widespread prosperity in those countries that embrace it, and guarantees respect for human rights and religion... This respect certainly does not exist in the Islamic countries... [the West would] continue to conquer peoples, [as it had] already done with the Communist world, and the moderate Arab states. Islam is inferior." - Silvio Berlusconi [Italian Prime Minister]
"No other ethnic group in America would willingly submit to what Arabs and Muslims in general have faced in the United States media." - Journalist John Cooley
"It is necessary to prevent a Jew or an Arab who calls for equality of rights for Arabs from sitting in the Knesset or being elected to it." - Israeli Supreme Court Justice
"If we take the magnitude of the injustice done to the Palestinians by the State of Israel, there is a basis for comparison with apartheid." - Alon Liel, former Israeli Ambassador to South Africa
"I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian women and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian child's existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger. I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956). I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian woman is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do." - Ariel Sharon [Israeli Prime Minister]
"Were the world to turn its back on the Chechan cause in response to the actions of a handful of terrorists, many innocent Chechans would be penalized for the actions of the few. But I believe the cost is necessary since the destruction of innocent human life is worse than most forms of oppression." - Russian writer Len Breslow - [A.R.'s response: The writer does not mention the political, social, economical effects along with the death toll of the Chechen civilians living under Russian domination in Eastern Europe for over a century. The death poll is 300,000 Chechan civilian deaths since 1994. The author shows little concern for Chechan fatalities and argues in favor of Russia's unjust occupation. This shows the lack of concern for the oppressed people of the world by the majority of western media soucres. People will give their life for freedom, and by no means is slavery preferable over death. This is my opinion on this matter."]
"They (The West) know that as long as their tyrannical occupation would remain in place, resistance is bound to come. And as long as there is resistance, there would remain justification for prolonging tyranny under the banner of a war on terrorism." - Abid Ullah Jan (ICSSA.org)
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." - Samuel P. Huntington