"All praise is due to Allah, who built the heavens and earth in
justice, and created man as a favour and grace from Him. And from
His ways is that the days rotate between the people, and from His
Law is retaliation in kind: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a
tooth and the killer is killed. And all praise is due to Allah,
who awakened His slaves' desire for the Garden, and all of them
will enter it except those who refuse. And whoever obeys Him
alone in all of his affairs will enter the Garden, and whoever
disobeys Him will have refused.
"As for what comes after: Peace be upon he who follows the
Guidance. People of America: I shall be speaking to you on
important topics which concern you, so lend me your ears. I begin
by discussing the war which is between us and some of its
repercussions for us and you.
"To preface, I say: despite America being the greatest economic
power and possessing the most powerful and up-to-date military
arsenal as well; and despite it spending on this war and is army
more than the entire world spends on its armies; and despite it
being the being the major state influencing the policies of the
world, as if it has a monopoly on the unjust right of veto;
despite all of this, 19 young men were able - by the grace of
Allah, the Most High - to change the direction of its compass.
And in fact, the subject of the Mujahedeen has become an
inseparable part of the speech of your leader, and the effects
and signs of that are not hidden.
"Since the 11th, many of America's policies have come under the
influence of the Mujahedeen, and that is by the grace of Allah,
the Most High. And as a result, the people discovered the truth
about it, its reputation worsened, its prestige was broken
globally and it was bled dry economically, even if our interests
overlap with the interests of the major corporations and also
with those of the neoconservatives, despite the differing
intentions.
"And for your information media, during the first years of the
war, lost its credibility and manifested itself as a tool of the
colonialist empires, and its condition has often been worse than
the condition of the media of the dictatorial regimes which march
in the caravan of the single leader.
"Then Bush talks about his working with al-Maliki and his
government to spread freedom in Iraq, but he in fact is working
with the leaders of one sect against another sect, in the belief
that this will quickly decide the war in his favor.
"And thus, what is called the civil war came into being and
matters worsened at his hands before getting out of his control
and him becoming like the one who plows and sows the sea: he
harvests nothing but failure.
"So these are some of the results of the freedom about whose
spreading he is talking to you. And then the backtracking of Bush
on his insistence on not giving the United Nations expanded
jurisdiction in Iraq is an implicit admission of his loss and
defeat there.
"So these are some of the results of the freedom about whose
spreading he is talking to you. And then the backtracking of Bush
on his insistence on not giving the United Nations expanded
jurisdiction in Iraq is an implicit admission of his loss and
defeat there.
"The fact is that the Americans have no option but to continue
the war. This tone is in fact an echoing of the words of
neoconservatives like Cheney, Rumsfeld and Richard Pearle, the
latter having said previously that the Americans have no choice
in front of them other than to continue the war or face a
holocaust.
"I say, refuting this unjust statement, that the morality and
culture of the holocaust is your culture, not our culture. In
fact, burning living beings is forbidden in our religion, even if
they be small like the ant, so what of man?!
"The holocaust of the Jews was carried out by your brethren in
the middle of Europe, but had it been closer to our countries,
most of the Jews would have been saved by taking refuge with us.
And my proof for that is in what your brothers, the Spanish, did
when they set up the horrible courts of the Inquisition to try
Muslims and Jews, when the Jews only found safe shelter by taking
refuge in our countries. And that is why the Jewish community in
Morocco today is one of the largest communities in the world.
They are alive with us and we have not incinerated them, but we
are a people who don't sleep under oppression and reject
humiliation and disgrace, and we take revenge on the people of
tyranny and aggression, and the blood of the Muslims will not be
spilled with impunity, and the morrow is nigh for he who awaits.
"Also, your Christian brothers have been living among us for 14
centuries: in Egypt alone, there are millions of Christians whom
we have not incinerated and shall not incinerate. But the fact
is, there is a continuing and biased campaign being waged against
us for a long time now by your politicians and many of your
writers by way of your media, especially Hollywood, for the
purpose of misrepresenting Islam and its adherents to drive you
away from the true religion. The genocide of peoples and their
holocausts took place at your hands: only a few specimens of Red
Indians were spared, and just a few days ago, the Japanese
observed the 62nd anniversary of the annihilation of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki by your nuclear weapons.
"And among the things which catch the eye of the one who
considers the repercussions of your unjust war against Iraq is
the failure of your democratic system, despite it raising of the
slogans of justice, liberty, equality and humanitarianism. It has
not only failed to achieve these things, it has actually
destroyed these and other concepts with its weapons - especially
in Iraq and Afghanistan - in a brazen fashion, to replace them
with fear, destruction, killing, hunger, illness, displacement
and more than a million orphans in Baghdad alone, not to mention
hundreds of thousands of widows.
"Americans statistics speak of the killing of more than 650,000
of the people of Iraq as a result of the war and its
repercussions.
"People of America: the world is following your news in regards
to your invasion of Iraq, for people have recently come to know
that, after several years of the tragedies of this war, the vast
majority of you want it stopped. Thus, you elected the Democratic
Party for this purpose, but the Democrats haven't made a move
worth mentioning. On the contrary, they continue to agree to the
spending of tens of billions to continue the killing and war
there, which has led to the vast majority of you being afflicted
with disappointment.
"And here is the gist of the matter, so one should pause, think
and reflect: why have the Democrats failed to stop this war,
despite them being the majority?
"I will come back to reply to this question after raising another
question, which is: Why are the leaders of the White House keen
to start wars and wage them around the world, and make use of
every possible opportunity through which they can reach this
purpose, occasionally even creating justifications based on
deception and blatant lies, as you saw Iraq?
"In the Vietnam War, the leaders of the White House claimed at
the time that it was a necessary and crucial war, and during it,
Rumsfeld and his aides murdered two million villagers. And when
Kennedy took over the presidency and deviated from the general
line of policy drawn up for the White House and wanted to stop
this unjust war, that angered the owners of the major
corporations who were benefiting from its continuation.
"And so Kennedy was killed, and Al-Qaeda wasn't present at that
time, but rather, those corporations were the primary beneficiary
from his killing. And the war continued after that for
approximately one decade. But after it became clear to you that
it was an unjust and unnecessary war, you made one of your
greatest mistakes, in that you neither brought to account nor
punished those who waged this war, not even the most violent of
its murderers, Rumsfeld. And even more incredible than that is
that Bush picked him as secretary of defence in his first term
after picking Cheney as his vice president, Powell as secretary
of state and Armitage as Powell's deputy, despite their horrific
and blood history of murdering humans. So that was clear signal
that his administration - the administration of the generals -
didn't have as its main concern the serving of humanity, but
rather, was interested in bringing about new massacres. Yet in
spite of that, you permitted Bush to complete his first term, and
stranger still, chose him for a second term, which gave him a
clear mandate from you - with your full knowledge and consent- to
continue to murder our people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Then you claim to be innocent! This innocence of yours is like
my innocence of the blood of your sons on the 11th - were I to
claim such a thing. But it is impossible for me to humour any of
you in the arrogance and indifference you show for the lives of
humans outside America, or for me to humour your leaders in their
lying, as the entire world knows they have the lion's share of
that.
"These morals aren't our morals. What I want to emphasise here is
that not taking past war criminals to account led to them
repeating that crime of killing humanity without right and waging
this unjust war in Mesopotamia, and as a result, here are the
oppressed ones today continuing to take their right from you.
"This war was entirely unnecessary, as testified to by your own
reports. And among the most capable of those from your own side
who speak to you on this topic and on the manufacturing of public
opinion is Noam Chomsky, who spoke sober words of advice prior to
the war, but the leader of Texas doesn't like those who give
advice. The entire world came out in unprecedented demonstrations
to warn against waging the war and describe its true nature in
eloquent terms like "no to spilling red blood for black oil," yet
he paid them no heed. It is time for humankind to know that talk
of the rights of man and freedom are lies produced by the White
House and its allies in Europe to deceive humans, take control of
their destinies and subjugate them.
"So in answer to the question about the causes of the Democrats'
failure to stop the war, I say: they are the same reasons which
led to the failure of former president Kennedy to stop the
Vietnam war.
"Those with real power and influence are those with the most
capital. And since the democratic system permits major
corporations to back candidates, be they presidential or
congressional, there shouldn't be any cause for astonishment -
and there isn't any - in the Democrats' failure to stop the war.
And you're the ones who have the saying which goes, "Money
talks." And I tell you: after the failure of your representatives
in the Democratic Party to implement your desire to stop the war,
you can still carry anti-war placards and spread out in the
streets of major cities, then go back to your homes, but that
will be of no use and will lead to the prolonging of the war.
"However, there are two solutions for stopping it. The first is
from our side, and it is to continue to escalate the killing and
fighting against you. This is our duty, and our brothers are
carrying it out, and I ask Allah to grant them resolve and
victory. And the second solution is from your side. It has now
become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the
democratic system and how it plays with the interests of the
peoples and their blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations
to achieve the interests of the major corporations.
"And with that, it has become clear to all that they are the real
tyrannical terrorists. In fact, the life of all of mankind is in
danger because of the global warming resulting to a large degree
from the emissions of the factories of the major corporations,
yet despite that, the representative of these corporations in the
White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord, with the
knowledge that the statistic speaks of the death and displacement
of the millions of human beings because of that, especially in
Africa. This greatest of plagues and most dangerous of threats to
the lives of humans is taking place in an accelerating fashion as
the world is being dominated by the democratic system, which
confirms its massive failure to protect humans and their
interests from the greed and avarice of the major corporations
and their representatives.
"And despite this brazen attack on the people, the leaders of the
West - especially Bush, Blair, Sarkozy and Brown - still talk
about freedom and human rights with a flagrant disregard for the
intellects of human beings. So is there a form of terrorism
stronger, clearer and more dangerous than this? This is why I
tell you: as you liberated yourselves before from the slavery of
monks, kings, and feudalism, you should liberate yourselves from
the deception, shackles and attrition of the capitalist system.
"If you were to ponder it well, you would find that in the end,
it is a system harsher and fiercer than your systems in the
Middle Ages. The capitalist system seeks to turn the entire world
into a fiefdom of the major corporations under the label of
"globalisation" in order to protect democracy.
"And Iraq and Afghanistan and their tragedies; and the reeling of
many of you under the burden of interest-related debts, insane
taxes and real estate mortgages; global warming and its woes; and
the abject poverty and tragic hunger in Africa: all of this is
but one side of the grim face of this global system.
"So it is imperative that you free yourselves from all of that
and search for an alternative, upright methodology in which it is
not the business of any class of humanity to lay down its own
laws to its own advantage at the expense of the other classes as
is the case with you, since the essence of man-made positive laws
is that they serve the interests of those with the capital and
thus make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
"The infallible methodology is the methodology of Allah, the Most
High, who created the heavens and earth and created the Creation
and is the Most Kind and All-Informed and the Knower of the souls
of His slaves and the methodology that best suits them.
"You believe with absolute certainty that you believe in Allah,
and you are full of conviction of this belief, so much so that
you have written this belief of yours on your dollar.
"But the truth is that you are mistaken in this belief of yours.
The impartial judge knows that belief in Allah requires
straightness in the following of His methodology, and
accordingly, total obedience must be to the orders and
prohibitions of Allah alone in all aspects of life.
"So how about you when you associate others with Him in your
beliefs and separate state from religion, then claim that you are
believers?!
"What you have done is clear loss and manifest polytheism, And I
will give you a parable of polytheism, as parables summarize and
clarify speech. I tell you: its parable is the parable of a man
who owns a shop and hires a worker and tells him, "Sell and give
me the money," but he makes sales and give the money to someone
other than the owner. So who of you would approve of that?
"You believe that Allah is your Lord and your Creator and the
Creator of this earth and that it is His property, then you work
on His earth and property without His orders and without obeying
Him, and you legislate in contradiction to His Law and
methodology.
"This work of yours is the greatest form of polytheism and is
rebellion against obedience to Allah with which the believer
becomes an unbeliever, even if he obeys Allah in some of His
other orders. Allah, the Most High, sent down His orders in His
Sacred Books like the Torah and Evangel and sent with them the
Messengers (Allah's prayers and peace be upon them) as bearers of
good news to the people.
"And our holding firm to this magnificent Book is the secret of
our strength and winning of the war against you despite the
fewness of our numbers and materiel. And if you would like to get
to know some of the reasons for your losing of your war against
us, then read the book of Michael Scheuer in this regard.
"Don't be turned away from Islam by the terrible situation of the
Muslims today, for our rulers in general abandoned Islam many
decades ago, but our forefathers were the leaders and pioneers of
the world for many centuries, when they held firmly to Islam.
"And before concluding, I tell you: there has been an increase in
the thinkers who study events and happenings, and on the basis of
their study, they have declared the approach of the collapse of
the American Empire.
"Among them is the European thinker who anticipated the fall of
the Soviet Union, which indeed fell. And it would benefit you to
read what he wrote about what comes after the empire in regard to
the United States of America. I also want to bring your attention
that among the greatest reasons for the collapse of the Soviet
Union was their being afflicted with their leader Brezhnev, who
was overtaken by pride and arrogance and refused to look at the
facts on the ground. From the first year of the Afghanistan
invasion, reports indicated that the Russians were losing the
war, but he refused to acknowledge this, lest it go down in his
personal history as a defeat, even though refusal to acknowledge
defeat not only doesn't do anything to change the facts for
thinking people, but also exacerbates the problem and increases
the losses. And how similar is your position today to their
position approximately two decades ago. The mistakes of Brezhnev
are being repeated by Bush, who - when asked about the date of
his withdrawing of forces from Iraq - said in effect that the
withdrawal will not be during his reign, but rather, during the
reign of the one who succeeds him.
"And the significance of these words is not hidden.
"And here I say: it would benefit you to listen to the poignant
messages of your soldiers in Iraq, who are paying - with their
blood, nerves and scattered limbs - the price for these sorts of
irresponsible statements. Among them is the eloquent message of
Joshua which he sent by way of the media, in which he wipes the
tears from his eyes and describes American politicians in harsh
terms and invites them to join him there for a few days. Perhaps
his message will find in you an attentive ear so you can rescue
him and more than 150,000 of your sons there who are tasting the
two bitterest things:
"If they leave their barracks, the mines devour them, and if they
refuse to leave, rulings are passed against them. Thus, the only
options left in front of them are to commit suicide or cry, both
of which are from the severest of afflictions. So is there
anything more men can do after crying and killing themselves to
make you respond to them? They are doing that out of the severity
of the humiliation, fear and terror which they are suffering. It
is severer than what the slaves used to suffer at your hands
centuries ago, and it is as if some of them have gone from one
slavery to another slavery more severe and harmful, even if it be
in the fancy dress of the Defense Department's financial
enticements.
"So do you feel the greatness of their sufferings?
"There is a message for you in the Mujahedeen: the entire world
is in pursuit of them, yet their hearts, by the grace of Allah,
are satisfied and tranquil. The true religion also puts peoples'
lives in order with its laws; protects their needs and interests;
refines their morals; protects them from evils; and guarantees
for them entrance into Paradise in the hereafter through their
obedience to Allah and sincere worship of Him Alone.
"And it will also achieve your desire to stop the war as a
consequence, because as soon as the warmongering owners of the
major corporations realise that you have lost confidence in your
democratic system and begun to search for an alternative, and
that this alternative is Islam, they will run after you to please
you and achieve what you want to steer you away from Islam. So
your true compliance with Islam will deprive them of the
opportunity to defraud the peoples and take their money under
numberous pretexts, like arms deals and so on.
"There are no taxes in Islam, but rather there is a limited
Zakaat (alms) totaling only 2.5 percent. So beware of the
deception of those with the capital. And with your earnest
reading about Islam from its pristine sources, you will arrive at
an important truth, which is that the religion of all of the
Prophets (peace and blessings of Allah be upon them) is one, and
that its essence is submission to the orders of Allah Alone in
all aspects of life, even if their Shariah (laws) differ.
"And did you know that the name of the Prophet of Allah Jesus and
his mother (peace and blessings of Allah be on them both) are
mentioned in the Noble Koran dozens of times, and that in the
Koran there is a chapter whose name is "Maryam," i.e. Mary,
daughter of 'Imran and mother of Jesus (peace and blessings of
Allah be upon them both)? It tells the story of her becoming
pregnant with the Prophet of Allah Jesus (peace and blessings of
Allah be upon them both), and in its confirmation of her chastity
and purity, in contrast to the fabrications of the Jews against
her. Whoever wishes to find that out for himself must listen to
the verse of this magnificent chapter: one of the just kings of
the Christians - the Negus - listened to some of its verses and
his eyes welled up with tears and he said something which should
be reflected on for a long time by those sincere in their search
for the truth.
"He said, "verily, this and what Jesus brought come from one
lantern": i.e., that the magnificent Koran and the Evangel are
both from Allah, the Most High; and every just and intelligent
one of you who reflects on the Koran will definitely arrive at
this truth. It also must be noted that Allah has preserved the
Koran from the alterations of men. And reading in order to become
acquainted with Islam only requires a little effort, and those of
you who are guided will profit greatly. And peace be upon he who
follows the Guidance."