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| Nasrallah says Islamic nation awakening to US war plans |
| 2003-01-25 |
| The Islamic nation has awakened to defy American plans to control the oil-rich Middle East region, the secretary-general of Hizbullah said Friday. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was speaking during a ceremony in Haret Hreik, said that US president George Bush wanted to âput his hands on this regionâ and on the oil fields. Nasrallah is the secretary general of Hezbollah, so he's a disinterested party... Even though Washington is deploying troops and establishing military bases in Arab and Islamic countries, Bush must know by now that the Islamic nation has its resistance fighters, whom he described as willing to die at any moment for the sake of the Islamic nation and God, Nasrallah said. And we're willing to help them do it, hopefully in droves... Nasrallah said the Arab world was witnessing an âIslamic renaissanceâ that had prompted Washington and the âZionistsâ to conduct a campaign against the region. Nasrallah also said Hizbullahâs resistance fighters would remain active and that ârumors and liesâ claiming local, regional, and international pressures on the resistance to scale down its activities were untrue. âWe were responsible for fighting the occupation and those responsibilities will remain as long as the Zionist enemy is occupying our land, whatever the circumstance or the situation is,â he said. "Killing infidels is what we do, y'know?" Nasrallah said his party was ready to respond to any decisions taken by the US administration, which he said has stated it will invade Iraq no matter what the United Nationsâ security council decides. âWe can not confront the Americans because the Arab world is weak and divided, and each party seeks its own interest and the narrow interest of their small community or the people living in their street, ⊠Arab politics is similar to Lebanese politics,â Nasrallah said. Lebanese politix, on the other hand, used to be different, until the Islamic Nation⢠arrived on the scene... He argued that Americans were starting to portray women in veils as terrorists and associating Islamic religious rituals with terrorism. Only when they're toting rocket launchers under their burkas, or the "rituals" involve slaughtering people... Nasrallah added that while Westerners talk about human rights and personal liberties they accuse Muslims and Arabs of being terrorists and undemocratic, forgetting that some schools in Europe forbid women who chose to veil to attend their classes. âWhere do we find human rights and human dignity in such oppressive acts by regimes of the world today?â he asked. Yeah, yeah. There's really no difference between a bikini and a burka, or between amputations and lap dancing, is there? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Gotta watch out for "veiled threats." |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-01-25 22:31:05 |
| #1 âIslamic renaissanceâ ??? Gawd. How'd you manage to type that without dying of laughter? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-01-25 22:03:35 |