Reading Bin Laden

12.07.04


    Bin Laden's speech one month after September 11

    Let the whole world know that we shall never accept that the tragedy of Andalucia (ph) would be repeated in Palestine. We cannot accept that! Palestine will become Jewish.

    And with regard to you, Muslims, this is the day of question. This is a new (inaudible) against you, all against the Muslims and Medina. So be like the followers of the prophet, peace be upon him, and all countrymen (ph), lovers of God and the prophet within, and a new battle, great battle, similar to the great battles of Islam, like the conqueror of Jerusalem. So, hurry up to the dignity of life [008.024] and the eternity of death.

    Thanks to God, he who God guides will never lose [008.009], [008.065] .

    I bear witness that L� ilaha illall�h wa Anna Muhammad-ur-Ras�l All�h (there is no God but Allah and that Mohammad is his messenger).

    There is America, hit by God in one of its softest spots. Its greatest buildings were destroyed, thank God for that. There is America, full of fear from its north to its south, from its west to its east. Thank God for that.

    What America is tasting now is something insignificant compared to what we have tasted for scores of years. Our nation (the Islamic world) has been tasting this humiliation and this degradation for more than 80 years. Its sons are killed, its blood is shed, its sanctuaries are attacked, and no one hears and no one heeds.

    When God blessed one of the groups of Islam, vanguards of Islam, they destroyed America. I pray to God to elevate their status and bless them.

    Millions of innocent children are being killed as I speak. They are being killed in Iraq without committing any sins, and we don't hear condemnation or a fatwa (religious decree) from the rulers. In these days, Israeli tanks infest Palestine � in Jenin, Ramallah, Rafah, Beit Jalla, and other places in the land of Islam, and we don't hear anyone raising his voice or moving a limb.

I want to point out that Bin Laden sees no wrong in the bombing of innocent Jews (see link above). He doesn't even bother to argue that the killing done by Palestinians is in response to Jewish/Israeli/Zionist injustice. To him the fact that Israel exists at all is a crime, because Israel belongs to Islam. He will expand on this point in his Letter to America, on the next page. Continued:

    When people at the ends of the earth, Japan, were killed by their hundreds of thousands, young and old, it was not considered a war crime, it is something that has justification. Millions of children in Iraq is something that has justification. But when they lose dozens of people in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (capitals of Kenya and Tanzania, where U.S. embassies were bombed in 1998), Iraq was struck and Afghanistan was struck.
I have to stop again. If Bin Laden is referring to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then the number of dead is just over 100,000, not "hundreds of thousands". Both cities had specific military targets, and it is true that it is impossible to attack a military target with a nuclear bomb without killing a lot of civilians, which is kind of why we haven't used them since. The firebombing of cities was unfortunately employed by both sides in WWII, but we've since developed weaponry that can destroy specific military targets without obliterating an entire city. Bin Laden is aware of this.

Also, the attacks in Kenya and Tanzania killed over 200 and injured over 4,000. Continuing:

    These events have divided the whole world into two sides. The side of believers and the side of infidels, may God keep you away from them. Every Muslim has to rush to make his religion victorious [002.193], [008.039]. The winds of faith have come. The winds of change have come to eradicate oppression from the island of Muhammad, peace be upon him.

    To America, I say only a few words to it and its people. I swear by God, who has elevated the skies without pillars [013.002], neither America nor the people who live in it will dream of security before we live it in Palestine, and not before all the infidel armies leave the land of Muhammad, peace be upon him.

    God is great, may pride be with Islam. May peace and God's mercy be upon you.

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