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NewsMax.com
Saturday, Jan. 18, 2003
3:57 p.m. EST
Bin Laden Sends Greetings to D.C. Protesters?
A representative from a Muslim advocacy group offered greetings to tens of
thousands of anti-war protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., on Saturday in the
name of the "Mujahideen," a term that has come to be closely associated with
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network.
Dr. Ghazi Khaksan, of the Council on American Islamic Relations, took to the podium
near the end of the rally to read a poem packed with criticism of the Bush
administration.
"Tell Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Tony Blair to stop colonizing Middle East oil
through blood and warfare," he told the crowd.
"We're all against weapons of mass destruction. But let's compare. Who has them
stockpiled in the Middle East - only Israel, I declare."
Near the end of his poem, Khaksan announced, "I bring to you salaams and
greetings from the Mujahadeen at CAIR." CAIR's spokesman Ibrahim Hooper
defended bin Laden two months ago as being no worse than the Rev. Jerry Falwell
and Pat Robertson.
Webster's Collegiate dictionary defines Mujahideen as: "person who wages jihad:
Islamic guerrilla fighters esp. in the Middle East."
In December, top al-Qaeda official Sulaiman Abu Ghaith invoked the Mujahideen to
threaten further terrorist attacks on the West.
"The Christian-Jewish alliance will not, God willing, be safe from attacks by the
mujahadeen," he warned, according to the New York Post. "The alliance's
installations and facilities everywhere will be subject to attacks."
After his reference to the Mujahideen, Khaksan told the crowd somewhat
incongruously, "Ten million Muslims and Arab Americans, like you, are truly patriotic
and deeply care for America's welfare."
In a November interview with WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, Hooper defended bin
Laden, saying the terrorist mastermind was no worse than Falwell and Robertson.
"They're the equivalent of our Osama bin Laden," the CAIR official charged, before
asking rhetorically, "Why did Osama bin Laden send planes into the World Trade
Center? What possible reason? The only thing you can think of is that he wanted to
create a permanent divide between the Muslim world and the West. And that's the
same thing these guys want to do."
Asked about bin Laden's penchant for mass murder, Hooper responded, "Given the
right circumstance, [Falwell and Robertson] would do the same in the opposite
direction."
Minutes before Khaksan offered greetings from the bin Laden-connected group,
Imam Mousa Masjid Al-Islam took to the podium and called for the overthrow of the
U.S. government.
"It's revolution time, brothers and sisters. We gotta get rid of this system,"
Al-Islam
said. "The people of the world [are] waiting on us," he added, warning that the
world's problems "will never be solved as long as we have these greedy murderers
and imperialists like George Bush and George Bush Jr. sitting in the White House "
Then the Imam led the crowd in an Islamic chant specifically addressed to what he
called "the 1.5 billion people in the world" who would understand its meaning.
"When I say Takbia, you say Alhaam hu Akhbar," he exhorted the protesters, who
repeated the phrase several times. It could not be immediately learned what the
Imam's coded message to the world's Muslims meant.
Other luminaries addressing the anti-U.S. demonstration included Black Panther-
turned New York City Councilman Charles Barron, Democratic Congressman John
Conyers and presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton.
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and to hatred of the Jews, the Christians, and the infidels;
educating the children to Jihad and to revival of the embers of
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