Al Qaeda's number two Ayman Al-Zawahiri slammed Pakistan's embattled President Pervez Musharraf as an enemy of Islam, in a first English audio message posted online on Saturday.Nothing he hasn't said before. It remains false on its face, unless you're another takfir.
In the message, excerpts of which were aired by Pakistan's ARY One television last week, Zawahiri also dismissed the Pakistani army as a "band of mercenaries" controlled by the US administration.
Just not a very good one...
"Musharraf has proven himself to be one of the biggest enemies of Islam, if not the biggest," Zawahiri said in the purported message, which was posted on a website usually used by Islamist militant groups. He chided Musharraf for offering "all support to topple the Muslim emirate in Afghanistan."
It was either him or them at the time. If he'd said "no" there's no telling what might have happened to Pak. We can be pretty sure it wouldn't have been pleasant.
"It is evident that during the past years, the Pakistan Army's primary duty has been to take part in the killing of Muslims from Kabul to Islamabad," he charged.
The Pak army's primary duty is to present a threat of some sort to India. It's actually not used as an instrument of domestic oppression most of the time, that being the job of the police. The Frontier Corps, of course, is a different matter. Their job seems to be to stop bullets or to have their heads chopped off by Muslims within the borders of Pakistain.
English: Zawahiri said he chose to speak in English against his wish in order to address the people of Pakistan in a language they can understand, saying he would have spoken in Urdu had he mastered the "charming" language.
He has to make due with Arabic, the language of the Master Race, with Pashto, the language of natives, and with English, the language of civilization.
Zawahiri said that he went to Pakistan first in 1980, to help treat the Mujahideen wounded in the war in Afghanistan against the Russians. He was forced to leave in the early 1990s due to American pressure, Zawahiri said. "All of us have enjoyed the warm welcome and the caring attention of most Pakistanis, which has been most evident during the past crusade being carried out by Musharraf and his hunting dogs, in compliance with the orders of their master in Washington," he said.