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| Louis Attiya Allah sez al-Qaeda got a Plan(TM) | |
| 2003-12-24 | |
| Third MEMRI story, this one focusing around Louis Attiya, who seems to be laying out the foundations for the next round of al-Qaeda propaganda. In the interview, The Voice of Jihad asked Louis Attiya Allah how he responded to those who argued that Al-Qa’ida had no comprehensive political program. He said, "Does [Saudi Crown Prince] Abdullah bin Abd Al-Aziz, for example, have a political program, apart from being an agent and slave of the Americans? Do any of the existing regimes in the Islamic world have a genuine political program?
If you mean a political program compatible with the existing world order, I say to you that yes, Al-Qa’ida has no political program compatible with the existing world order, simply because the existing world order does not recognize us as an independent Islamic state, and forces us to be its satellite, to adapt ourselves to its secular laws and to be subjugated to its military rule. "Al-Qa’ida is absolutely opposed to this, and states: The world order must be removed from the region and defeated, first of all militarily. Then, the Islamic state must be reestablished, in accordance with the Islamic regime. This means that we will control our fate, rule over ourselves, and control our resources. More generally, we will rebuild our lives according to our foundations and our principles. The experience [of an Islamic state] is real, and it existed 1,300 years ago. The peoples of the East ruled themselves and lived according to their own rules long before the West was in the region. There is nothing to prevent the revival of these rules, which are based on the Koran and the Sunna
"No political program has a chance of succeeding if we do not defeat the West, militarily and culturally, and remove it from Muslim countries. Then, it will not be difficult for the nation, with the help of its tremendous resources, to rebuild life according to religious Islamic principles. We will become the masters of the world, as the world’s economic fate depends on us because we have the resources the world needs and all the elements of controlling the world are in our hands. What we are lacking is to live free and to rule ourselves by ourselves, cut off from the West and its agents."
"Expelling the colonialists from the Muslim lands means simply eradicating the borders and all types of nation-states created by the West. The significance of this is that when the Jihad goes into action in Iraq, for example, it will not stop at the colonialist borders; it will not stop in Jordan and recognize it as an entity, because in Islamic concepts this country called Jordan has no [right to] exist. The Jihad movement in the Arabian Peninsula will not be stopped by the borders of the so-called Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, because the entity called by this name is an artificial entity that has no religious foundation. There is no religious consideration that prevents, for example, the transfer of Jihad outside this entity to Yemen or to the countries called the Gulf States. All these types of nation-states have no significance, and they have no [religious] protection preventing their removal when the Jihad goes into action. "Igniting the fire in the Arabian Peninsula is expected to be one of the keys to the great change, because the Arabian Peninsula is the heart, and any change in the Arabian Peninsula affects the other parts of the Islamic body. Even if we assume that, Allah willing, the sparking of conflicts will lead to painful results in the short term and perhaps in the intermediate term, in the long term the changes happening here will be the key to the cleansing of the entire Islamic world, to ridding ourselves of the colonialists, and to removing the Crusaders – so that we can then prepare for the great conflicts with them in the battles to come, including the decisive war with the Byzantines of which the Prophet spoke
The main enemies of the nation, the Byzantines, will not come to their end until Judgment Day, and therefore there is no point in talking of stopping the battle
The most important thing is that the Mujahideen will safeguard the burning ember of Jihad. The more martyrs’ blood is shed for the sake of this ember, the greater its light; it will burn the enemies more quickly and victory will draw near, Allah willing
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| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 "Plans? Wee don' need no steenking plans!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-12-24 7:18:14 PM |
| #3 They're big on that "Allah willing" shit. It's Muslim-speak for "covering your ass". |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-24 12:41:00 PM |
| #2 They're big on that "Allah willing" shit. My question is, What if Allah's NOT willing? Or does that really matter? I think I already know the answer... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-12-24 10:08:35 AM |
| #1 I don't know if I'm thankful to The Voice of Jihad for all this or not. But it's good to see they feel better to get it out. I recommend regular use of Metamucil® to ease the condition. |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-24 4:24:47 AM |