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Arabia
Makka imam talks of oppression
2004-02-02
Makka's Grand Mosque imam has lashed out at Israel, condemned Iraq's continued occupation and called for unity among Muslims in the face of oppression. Speaking from Islam's holiest site in Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Sudais marked the start of Islam's Eid al-Adha – the festival of the sacrifice – with a message for all Muslims. "In Palestine, Muslims suffer oppression and al-Aqsa mosque [in Jerusalem] buckles under occupation ... how can we live peacefully while our holy lands 
 are being tarnished by a band of infidel Zionists?"
"How could we possibly exert the least bit of self-control, negotiate in good faith, reach compromises? It just can't be done!"
Saudi's best known cleric told millions currently performing Hajj and tens of millions more via satellite broadcast that Israelis were escalating hostilities by building new settlements and separation barriers. The cleric also lamented that Iraq "bleeds and that the occupier has ransacked the country and seized its riches."
I confess. I, personally, have seized about $30 worth of Iraq...
"I pray that our brothers in the nation of the Rafidn (Mesopotamia) be governed according to the Sunna (Islamic tradition)," added al-Sudais, calling on Muslims everywhere to unite "to defeat all their occupiers and oppressors."
"Get out there and explode for Allah!"
He said Islam is "misrepresented by Western media which associate it with terror."
Prob'ly because holy men take every opportunity to urge people to unite "to defeat all their occupiers and oppressors."
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#9  al-Asqa is buckling because of shoddy islamic construction.
Posted by: Anonymous2U   2004-2-2 6:52:47 PM  

#8  The chutzpah. How about the Sudanese enslaved, raped and murdered by Muslims? How about the Hazara or teh Algerians slaughtered by the wahabis?

For a change how about asking for beheading of the Jihadi murderers and rapers?
Posted by: JFM   2004-2-2 2:23:52 PM  

#7  SteveW: Ke=MV. Quarter-mile diameter asteroid, mostly basalt, would have the kinetic energy of about 140MT. Not quite a planet-killer, but would take out Mecca, Medina, Mt. Ararat, Jedda, Riyadh, and most of the Red Sea's west bank. The shake, rattle, roll, and air burst would do serious damage to anything within about 300-400 miles - not quite enough to reach Israel, but enough to let everyone in the Arab world know that the Big Guy is seriously pissed at His children's opressors.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2004-2-2 2:01:00 PM  

#6  "braying like asses"

-a new one liner for my vocab tool box, thanx OP.
Posted by: Jarhead   2004-2-2 12:54:31 PM  

#5  OP: quarter-mile asteroid? Good Gawd, how big a hole do you want? A 50 yard across asteroid would leave Mecca and the surrounding hundred miles uninhabitable. A quarter-miler could be a planet killer.
Posted by: Steve White   2004-2-2 12:27:10 PM  

#4  I think I'm going to start praying to the REAL God that Mecca gets smacked with a quarter-mile asteroid next year at Haj season. Maybe send a message to the turbantops that they're braying like asses to the wrong Fella.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2004-2-2 11:07:31 AM  

#3  heh, I wish he would give the full-blown seethe sermon before the stoning of the devil ceremony. We need to get the numbers up on the ritual human sacrifice portion of the hajj.
Posted by: BH   2004-2-2 11:01:57 AM  

#2  Fred, as an American taxpayer who is funding the reconstruction, as well, I would like a souvenier to commemorate my contribution to piece. Were any of the Sadaam statues nudes? I have an idea of which chunk of Iraq that I might want.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-2-2 10:46:10 AM  

#1  F&%king losers will never allow Israel to live in peace - it gives them something permanent to seethe over - quit pretending they will and kill the loudest bastards
Posted by: Frank G   2004-2-2 10:04:54 AM  

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