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Quotes from Osama Bin Laden
Well, here it goes. Probably a perspective you don't see every day.
__________________------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Source: http://www.usvetdsp.com/osam_qts.htm Quotes from Osama bin Laden: "We should fully understand our religion. Fighting is a part of our religion and our Sharia [an Islamic legal code]. Those who love God and his Prophet and this religion cannot deny that. Whoever denies even a minor tenet of our religion commits the gravest sin in Islam." "Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God . . . . I am confident that Muslims will be able to end the legend of the so-called superpower that is America. Time Magazine "The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles. If you would have seen it with your own eyes, you would have been very pleased, and your heart would have been filled with joy." -- At the wedding of his son in southern Kandahar about the 17 sailors who died suicide bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen "Every American man is an enemy to us." -- Independent. " . . . It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities." -- May 1998 "We--with God's help--call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson." Feb. 1998 - Bin Laden edict ``We are seeking to incite the (Islamic) nation to rise up to liberate its land and to (conduct) jihad (holy war) for the sake of God." -- al-Jazeera, June 1999. "`I was never afraid of death ... As Muslims, we believe that when we die, we go to heaven. Before a battle, God sends us ... tranquility." -- Independent, 1993. "I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans." -- Osama bin Laden, quoted by Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper "We declared jihad against the US government, because the US government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous and criminal whether directly or through its support of the Israeli occupation." - Osama bin Laden - to CNN in March 1997 " . . . For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception. Thousands of millions of Muslims are angry. The Americans should expect reactions from the Muslim world that are proportionate to the injustice they inflict." to Time Magazine Dec 1998 Responding to the question "are you trying to acquire chemical and nuclear weapons?" "Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling me to do so. And if I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty. It would be a sin for Muslims not to try to possess the weapons that would prevent the infidels from inflicting harm on Muslims." Time Magazine Dec 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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Found a few other ones. These are from http://www.allgreatquotes.com/osama_...n_quotes.shtml
__________________"A reaction might take place as a result of the US government's hitting Muslim civilians and executing more than 600,000 Muslim children in Iraq by preventing food and medicine from reaching them. So, the US is responsible for any reaction, because it extended its war against troops to civilians." Osama bin Laden CNN interview 1997 "As for their accusations of terrorizing the innocent, the children, and the women, these are in the category of 'accusing others with their own affliction in order to fool the masses.' The evidence overwhelmingly shows America and Israel killing the weaker men, women and children in the Muslim world and elsewhere. A few examples of this are seen in the recent Qana massacre in Lebanon, and the death of more than 600,000 Iraqi children because of the shortage of food and medicine which resulted from the boycotts and sanctions against the Muslim Iraqi people, also their withholding of arms from the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina leaving them prey to the Christian Serbians who massacred and raped in a manner not seen in contemporary history. Not to forget the dropping of the H-bombs on cities with their entire populations of children, elderly, and women, on purpose, and in a premeditated manner as was the case with Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Osama bin Laden In Nida'ul Islam magazine October-November 1996 "God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the towers but after the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that followed -- when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way (and) to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women." Osama bin Laden Admitting responsibility for attacks on US on September 11, 2001, on videotape shown on Al Jazeera, October 29, 2004 "I have benefited so greatly from the jihad in Afghanistan that it would have been impossible for me to gain such a benefit from any other chance and this cannot be measured by tens of years but rather more than that. Praise and gratitude be to God. We saw the brutality of the Russians bombing Mujaheddins' positions, by grace of God, we dug a good number of huge tunnels and built in them some storage places and in some others we built a hospital. So our experience in this jihad was great, by the grace of God, praise and glory be to Him, and the most of what we benefited from was that the myth of the superpower was destroyed not only in my mind but also in the minds of all Muslims. Slumber and fatigue vanished and so was the terror which the U.S. would use in its media by attributing itself superpower status or which the Soviet Union used by attributing itself as a superpower." Osama bin Laden CNN interview 1997 "If the American government is serious about avoiding explosions inside the U.S., then let it stop provoking the feelings of 1,250 million Muslims." Osama bin Laden CNN interview 1997 "In our religion, there is a special place in the hereafter for those who participate in jihad." Osama bin Laden In Time magazine May 6, 1996 "To kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque [Jerusalem] and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim." Osama bin Laden In Fatwa entitled Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders World Islamic Front Statement, February 28, 1998 "We believe that the biggest thieves in the world are Americans and the biggest terrorists on earth are the Americans." Osama bin Laden On ABC's Nightline, June 10, 1998 "We, God willing, will continue to fight you and will continue martyrdom operations inside and outside the United States until you abandon your oppression and foolish acts." Osama bin Laden Demanding US withdraw from Iraq, in audiotape broadcast on Al Jazeera, October 18 2003 "O American people, I am speaking to tell you about the ideal way to avoid another Manhattan, about war and its causes and results." Osama bin Laden On videotape shown on Al Jazeera, October 29, 2004 "Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential candidate John] Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe." Osama bin Laden On videotape shown on Al Jazeera, October 29, 2004 |
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Say it isn't so, he is resisting American and Israeli imperialism and he has a genuine greivance, solving the "root causes" of terrorism like poverty, America and capitalism will allow him to be at peace with us. It is wrong to suggest that Bin Laden uses Islamic teachings to justify his actions, as a call to arms for others, Islam is a religion of peace and Bin Laden is most certainly not a muslim.
Interesting side point, the last quote you posted was very different from his prior ones in that it was directed towards westerners. Gone is the speak of a global ummah and reconquering Andelusia and present is words of coexistance and Bush bashing, the man does not speak the language of peace he speaks of the language conquest and genocide that is at the heart of radical Islam - we can decieve ourselves a lot when we have to but at some point there will be another wakeup call and I just hope that it is as minimal as possible. |
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Not many Middle Easterns approve of our ties with Israel, but they are geographically in a place where nobody is safe. It would be horrible if we backed down and broke those ties, it would mean watching a defenseless country get nuked.
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Indeed she can pack a punch when needed, but the fact remains that should more Islamic countries develop nuclear weapons eventually one will be delivered to Israel and we will see another shoah.
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Then Sharon and Israel should change their ways and work for a fair compromise peace with the Palestinians.
The U. S. will back it up and enforce it. We are paying for the current mayhem that only adds to the instability and more deaths all around. |
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Peace at what price? I think that the next 5 years will be critical but the entire situation is better today than it was three years ago; the hamas leadership is virtually demolished, the security fence has massively reduced suicide bombings and likewise reduced IDF responses to bombings, Arafat is dead and the least extreme of the existing Palestinian leadership has a decent shot at becoming .President. A fair compromise in the eyes of so many Palestinians was and still is the oblitteration of Israel and the establishment of another Arab Muslim country; getting a leadership on that side that will accept a deal something like the Barak offer in 2000 will be of great benefit. If there is a fair settlement in the eyes of the world and then many Palestinians turn around and demand more and work on terror campaigns (which probably will happen) the support they recieve in certain quarters of the western world will be diminished.
Regardless, I think that once the Arab / Israeli problem is solved there will still be Islamic terrorism all around the globe and it will just pick up whole new grievances and excuses that we in the west are receptive to. |
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Why always mention Arab extremists as the problem. There are plenty of Israeli extremist that want a greater Israel from the Saini to the Jordan River with all Palestinians pushed out. I say fuck the extremist on both sides and stop letting them dictate to us what terms they want. We should impose an agreement on them. Can we start a process with these people? Quote:
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Interesting that hamas is practicing the long Islamic tradition of taqiya. Reports of peace from genocidal terrorists may have been premature.
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There are extremists on both sides, the difference is that while the Israeli extremists protest and in rare instances resort to terror tactics the PLO Arabs rely pretty much exclusively on terrorism. There may be plenty of Israeli extremists but plenty without a majority doesn't mean squat in a democracy. Regardless of the extremists I think that the playing field has changed significantly; the intafada is more or less over and peace is plausible. |
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