PA Official Calls for “War Against the Crusaders”
07 November 2001
The al-Aqsa Mosque, on the Temple Mount, was the site of a Friday
sermon by Yusuf Abu Snena, an official of the Palestinian Ministry of
Religious Affairs, which was also broadcast over the “Voice of Palestine”
radio.
He said that “the U.S. support for renewed Israeli occupation of Palestinian
land and cities should serve as a lesson to those who shed tears for the
American blood shed…” In a strange analogy, the preacher seemed to
compare the Islamic nations currently under Western attack to Germany of
World War I and World War II: “The attack on our Islamic allies seems to
be a repetition of the First World War, reminding us of the cooperation
between the heretics to bring down the German nation, which was
destroyed by the heretic nations, thus giving those heretic and imperialistic
nations the freedom to invade our Arab Muslim homelands. These heretic
nations are once again attacking, like dogs, Muslim Afghanistan, and are
fighting Islam everywhere… Imperialism is returning to Arab regions,
through the guise of a ‘war on terror,’ and therefore the question must be
asked: When the English and the French fought the Nazis, were they then
also fighting terror or were they fighting Islam?”
Therefore, concluded the PA official, “We urge all Muslims to unite in a
war against the Crusaders, and that Allah will bring vengeance upon them.” |
