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To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (12250)	9/30/2001 4:42:44 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80904

Alan, I can see people have a difficulty in accepting that the war is with Islam, especially when Bush keeps saying that it isn't. The problem is that we non-Muslims do not understand the dictates of the religion and therefore do not appreciate to what extent the Islamic people, generally, are compelled by the religion to make war with anyone whom they believe is evil. Do not forget that the US is known as the "Great Satan". In truth, the separation between "terrorists" and "non-terrorists" is artificial and convenient to focus the US strategy, but there's no such thing in a Holy War. Any and every Muslim who decides he must wage a jihad against the US is a potential "terrorist". Here's a very long transcript of an interview which was broadcast on TV here this evening which may give some insights. Imam Achmat Cassiem is the leader of Islamic Organisation Qibla, whose aim is to defend and promote Islam in South Africa. Both Qibla and Pagad are on the US State Department`s list of 42 terror organisations. In a rare interview, Achmat Cassiem gave Carte Blanche his perspective on the events of the 11th of September. Read the full, unedited transcript here. mnet.co.za Some relevant extracts: "America was declared the great Satan by Imam Khomeini for various reasons, that everything that is evil in the political world emanates from those quarters through the CIA etc , and for the readers’ interest, one book - Alexander George is the author of Western State Terrorism, it is documented exactly what and why they did these things in various parts of the world, Nicaragua, Chile, etc, so the Americans might suffer from historical amnesia - Muslims don`t." "I`m saying you put yourself in the boots of those people that have been massacred, raped, tortured and murdered, not just for decades, almost for half a century in occupied Palestine, then I`m saying that when you fight the enemy in the same theat he fights you, then that is justifiable. In Islam, in Q`ran, we say you fight them in the same way they fight you, but self-restraint is better - now who wouldn`t like to be better than the murderers, the rapists of the earth." "....You don`t antagonise the entire world and let the world now remind you, that this is what you did here in Saudi Arabia, this is what you did in Palestine, this is what you did in Vietnam, North Korea, Nicaragua, in San Salvador, in Chile.. " "Q: Would you say the attacks on America are a direct response to the handling of the Israeli situation? A: No I`m not prepared to generalise that because you`ve got Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya...the Muslims I am referring to are called in Q`ran the ummah, the global community of believers. Therefore it is all of them who are affected " "They’re unethical (the US), even immoral. The world consists of 6.5 billion human beings and not of 300 million Americans." "Islam has already taken over the world...because Islam is the commands of the creator governing the voluntary actions of man, and any human being who is obeying scientific laws is already obeying the laws of Islam. When you obey the law of gravity you are obeying the laws of God, which are scientific laws, so to say that Islam wants to take over the world you are wrong. If you are saying that Muslims are trying to take over the world that`s a different question"