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| 2005-11-18 |
| Osama bin Laden wants the United States to convert to Islam, ditch its constitution, abolish banks, jail homosexuals, bar women from appearing in the press and sign the Kyoto climate change treaty. The first complete collection of the Saudi's statements, published on Thursday by Verso, portrays a world in which Islam's enemies will take the first steps towards salvation by embracing the "religion of all the prophets". Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden is billed as the first accurate compendium of the terrorist leader's words, threats and ruminations from 1994 to 2004. Its editors have rooted out many statements which they identified as forgeries and retranslated to correct "horrendous" errors. Bin Laden's terms for America's surrender appeared after the September 2001 suicide attacks. Alcoholic drink and gambling would be barred and there would be an end to women's photos in newspapers or advertising. Any woman serving "passengers, visitors and strangers" would also be out of a job. The West must "stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you" and has become the "worst civilisation witnessed in the history of mankind". Verso said it expected criticism for publishing the thoughts of a terrorist, but "the idea is to have an annotated, scholarly collection of bin Laden's words", Gavin Browning from Verso said. "Until now, his words have only been available in poor translations or soundbites." Mr Browning emphasised that publishing bin Laden's views did not imply approval of them by the publishers. The book's introduction is written by Professor Bruce Lawrence, who teaches Islamic studies at Duke University, in North Carolina, and describes the terrorist as "one of the best prose writers in Arabic". Many past translations of the words of the head of al-Qaeda had been "horrendous" and often wrong, he said. In the book the terrorist responsible for killing 3000 civilians in September 2001 says that killing the innocent is wrong. In bin Laden's world a global conflict is under way between the umma, or Muslim community, and unbelievers. |
| Posted by:Elmeating Snaith2753 |
| #4 It is good to have the lefties see what Bin Laden really wants. He wants them dead, everything they believe in is what he's against. At some point they'll see the idiocy of their own attempts to derail the war, it'll probably be over by then though. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-11-18 17:58 |
| #3 I am so happy to see that Duke professors are taking the time to help Bin Laden articulate his message into a more understandable readable format. Wish they could help do the same for ehh maybe their OWN F*CKING HOMELAND THE US. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2005-11-18 10:35 |
| #2 sign the Kyoto climate change treaty He and Al Gore have something else in common. Did Bin Laden invent the Internet, too? |
| Posted by: anymouse 2005-11-18 08:36 |
| #1 "...statements which they identified as forgeries and retranslated to correct "horrendous" errors." How do you correct forgeries.I know I'm just a dumb ass white boy,but isn't the basic definition of a forgaerie a lie? |
| Posted by: raptor 2005-11-18 08:20 |