FWD: Bin Laden on Al-Jazeera, translated by BBC (11/3/01)

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Thema:        text for tolerance
Datum:  09.11.01 12:13:33 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit
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just one of the 4 texts we are meant to look at for today's text
analysis workshop. the others include one statement by GWB,
one by the pentagon describing activity in the region, and
one BBC news report on the same topic. compare & contrast.
(yes simon i do go more than once a week)

=46YI:

At 19:22 +0000 7/11/01, P.R.R. wrote:
>Text 2. Translation by BBC monitoring of broadcast by Osama Bin Laden
>on Al-Jazeera satellite television channel, Saturday 3 November
>1. We praise God, seek His help, and ask for His forgiveness.
>2. We seek refuge in God from the evils of our souls and our bad deeds.
>3. A person who is guided by God will never be misguided by anyone and a
>person who is misguided by God can never be guided by anyone. =85
>5. Amid the huge developments and in the wake of the great strikes that
>hit the United States in its most important locations in New York and
>Washington, a huge media clamour has been raised.
>6. This clamour is unprecedented. It conveyed the opinions of people
>on these events.
>7. People were divided into two parts. The first part supported these
>strikes against US tyranny, while the second denounced them.
>8. Afterward, when the United States launched the unjust campaign against
>the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan, people also split into two
>parties.
>9. The first supported these campaigns, while the second
>denounced and rejected them.
>10. These tremendous incidents, which have split people into two
>parties, are of great interest to the
>Muslims, since many of the rulings pertain to them
>11. These rulings are closely related to Islam and the acts that
>corrupt a person's
>Islam.
>12. Therefore, the Muslims must understand the nature and truth
>of this conflict so that it will be easy for them to determine where
>they stand.
>13. While talking about the truth of the conflict, opinion
>polls in the world have shown that a little more than 80 per cent of
>Westerners, of Christians in the United States and elsewhere, have
>been saddened by the strikes that hit the United States.
>14. The polls showed that the vast majority of the sons of the
>Islamic world were
>happy about these strikes because they believe that the strikes were
>in reaction to the huge criminality practiced by Israel and the United
>States in Palestine and other Muslim countries.
>15. After the strikes on Afghanistan began, these groups changed positions.
>16. Those who
>were happy about striking the United States felt sad when Afghanistan
>was hit, and those who felt sad when the United States was hit were
>happy when Afghanistan was hit. These groups comprise millions of
>people.
>17. The entire West, with the exception of a few countries,
>supports this unfair, barbaric campaign, although there is no evidence
>of the involvement of the people of Afghanistan in what happened in
>America.
>18. The people of Afghanistan had nothing to do with this
>matter. The campaign, however, continues to unjustly annihilate the
>villagers and civilians, children, women, and innocent people
>19. The
>positions of the two sides are very clear. Mass demonstrations have
>spread from the farthest point in the eastern part of the Islamic
>world to the farthest point in the western part of the Islamic world,
>and from Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan to the
>Arab world and Nigeria and Mauritania.
>20. This clearly indicates the  nature of this war. This war is
>fundamentally religious. The people of
>the East are Muslims. They sympathized with Muslims against the people
>of the West, who are the crusaders.
>21. Those who try to cover this crystal clear fact, which the entire
>world has admitted, are deceiving
>the Islamic nation.
>22. They are trying to deflect the attention of
>the Islamic nation from the truth of this conflict.
>23. This fact is proven in the book of God Almighty and in the
>teachings of our
>messenger, may God's peace and blessings be upon him.
>24. Under no circumstances should we forget this enmity between us and the
>infidels. For, the enmity is based on creed.
>25. Muslims must stand together
>26. We must be loyal to the believers and those who believe
>that there is no God but Allah.
>27. We should also renounce the atheists and infidels. It suffices
>me to seek God's help against them.
>28. God says: "Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with
>thee unless thou follow their form of religion."
>29. It is a question of faith, not a war against terrorism, as Bush
>and Blair try to depict
>it. =85



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