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Subject: PMW:Annihilate the Infidels"- Anti-British Religious Hatred in PA Palestinian Media Watch Special Report July 14, 2005 Palestinian Media Watch p:+972 2 625 4140e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] f: +972 2 624 2803w: www.pmw.org.il "Annihilate the Infidels" A Study of the Ongoing Anti-British Religious Hatred in the PA By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook Less than 24 hours after the July 7 terrorist bombings in London, a Palestinian Authority Television sermon called for the extermination of every single Infidel: "Annihilate the Infidels and the Polytheists! Your [i.e. Allah's] enemies are the enemies of the religion! Allah, disperse their gathering and break up their unity, and turn on them, the evil adversities. Allah, count them and kill them to the last one, and don't leave even one." [Suleiman Al-Satari, PA TV, July 8, 2005. View an excerpt of this sermon online here] http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_Sermon080705.asx This call for the genocide of all Infidels is particularly striking coming as Britain was still reeling from the London terror attacks - especially since PA religious usage routinely includes Britain in the "Infidel" category. [See examples below.] Such a call does not represent a new policy - or even a shift in policy. While the PA is careful to exclude this hate ideology from the image it presents to the foreign media, to its own people in Arabic the PA has always presented itself as part of a greater Arab-Islamic conflict against the West. This enmity is focused primarily on the US and Britain, who are seen as the dominant forces of Western civilization. This enmity is neither time nor event dependent, but is presented as part of Allah's plan. The ultimate victory is predetermined, Palestinians are taught, and Islam will eventually rule over America and Britain. This representation of current affairs as an Islamic-Western religious conflict is of particular significance given the overwhelming religious sentiment in PA society. In a recent poll, 69% of Palestinians preferred that the PA follow the Shari'a - Islamic religious law, while only 16% preferred laws passed by their own Palestinian Legislature. Another 11% wanted both. [Palestinian Center for Research and Cultural Dialogue, March 3, 2005] The following is a review of some of this religious hate expression towards Britain as reported in the PA media. It is important to understand the depths of this pan-Islamic, anti-Western religious sentiment when searching for the motivation of the London suicide terrorists. Britain is among the Infidels "America, Britain and Spain ... are uniting to strike at the people of truth [i.e. Muslims] in their homeland. This is the Infidels' way, Oh Muslims... The United Nations, to our regret, has become Dar al-Nadwa [literally 'House of Assembly,' the term for the pre-Islamic meeting place in Mecca], because that is where the Infidels meet." Ibrahim Mudayris, PA TV, February 28, 2003. View an excerpt of this sermon online here] http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_Mudyris280203.asx "The Infidel countries under the leadership of the US made up an excuse and justification to wage their dirty war [post 9-11 war in Afghanistan] against Islam and the Muslims... Concerning evil Britain, which directly brought about this corrupt entity [Israel] on Palestinian land. Britain forgot that it is the height of terror and the height of hatred against Islam and Moslems." [Yusuf Abu Sneina, Iman of Al-Aqsa Mosque, PA Radio, December 28, 2001. Hear an excerpt of this sermon online here] http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_AbuSeninaUSAENG.asx Prayers to Allah to destroy Britain Dr. Ikrime Sabri, Mufti of Jerusalem, highest-ranking Islamic figure in the Palestinian Authority, just 18 days before the September 11 attacks against America in 2001: "Oh, Allah, destroy America and its supporters and collaborators. Oh Allah, destroy Britain and its supporters and collaborators." [Ikrime Sabri, PA Radio, August 24, 2001. Hear an excerpt of this sermon online here] http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_IkrimeSabri_7.asx "It is our obligation to prepare for the soldiers of Allah who are advancing in the will of Allah, glorified and praised. We will prepare a foothold for them. Allah willing, this oppressive state will disappear, the oppressive state Israel. The oppressive country America will disappear. The oppressive country Britain will disappear - those who caused our people's Catastrophe [PA term for the establishment of Israel]. [Muhammad Ibrahim Maadi, PA TV, June 8, 2001. View an excerpt of this sermon online here] http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_Madi-dissapear_7.asx "We shall rule Britain"- the ultimate victory is predetermined "The Palestinian nation is the strongest on earth. Look at all the civilizations! Look at all the states! Look at all the civilizations and forces and empires. To where did Great Britain disappear..? We [Muslims] have ruled the world and a day will come, by Allah, and we shall rule the world [again]. The day will come and we shall rule America. The day will come and we shall rule Britain." [Ibrahim Mudayris, PA TV, May 13, 2005. View an excerpt of this sermon online here] www.pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_MudyrisMay13.asx Britain hated because of war in Iraq "Allah, punish our enemies! You enemies, the enemies of the Religion [i.e. Islam]... Allah, punish America and those who set an alliance with it... Destroy them and destroy their weapons... Allah, cleanse the land of Islam from the treachery and shame, cleanse our lands from the conquerors' filth, from the filth of America and the defilement of Britain..." [Muhammad Jamal Abu Hanud, PATV, August 1, 2003] Britain hated because of Israel's existence "Those [Jews] do not know what a homeland is and do not know what a land is... Concerning Palestine, it belongs to us... They came, expelled from every land, came to this lanevery country andd claming to have a national homeland on the land of Palestine, with the help of Britain. That vengeance still stands between us and them; [a vengeance] that will not be forgotten except by a coward or traitor." [Ibrahim Mudayris, PATV, April 4, 2004] "In 1917 of the previous century, Palestine was conquered by Britain, on whom we place full responsibility for the events in this land. At this opportunity, we put the responsibility on Britain [for the creation of the state of Israel] and say: we will never forget our revenge! We will never forget our revenge on Britain, who cannot escape the burden of its historical, political and moral responsibility because of what it committed on the land of Palestine... "Britain [is the one] that promised them [i.e. Jews] the establishment of a national homeland on the land of Palestine. Why? Because Britain resented the Jewish presence there, in Britain, and wanted to be relieved of them..." [Ibrahim Mudayris, PATV, May 13, 2005. View an excerpt of this sermon online here] www.pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_MudyrisMay13.asx Subject: Excerpts: Confront terrorists with another conference. Murder of 32 Iraqi children.Hamas cultural takeover. Egypt bows to terrorism.15 July 2005 Excerpts: Confront terrorists with another conference.Murder of 32 Iraqi children.Hamas cultural takeover.Egypt bows to terrorism.15 July 2005 AL-AHRAM WEEKLY 14-20 July '05:"Editorial:Call for a conference on terrror" QUOTES FROM TEXT: "The terrorists' rhetoric was the same, distorted and demented, remorseless and indifferent to the lives of innocent civilians." "The international community needs to find the resolve to confront terrorism regardless of its motives and causes" "Differences may still exist on teh definition of terror" --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- ----EXCERPTS: the same week as Egypt's top diplomat in Baghdad, Ambassador Ihab El-Sherif, was murdered by terrorists, [IMRA: He was not yet appointed Ambassador.] London was hit by lethal bombings. In both cases, Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility through its Iraqi and European branches. The terrorists' rhetoric was the same; distorted and demented, remorseless and indifferent to the lives of innocent civilians. [IMRA: No mention of 32 Iraqi children murdered ]Irrespective of the ramifications of the attacks, the shock waves of horror that ripped through Egypt and the UK, there is an important fact that we have to keep in mind. There is a groundswell of human outrage against terror, against this kind of unbridled violence that wants to destroy our legal legacy, our humanitarian norms that prohibit attacks on civilians even in situations of war and occupation. The international community needs to find the resolve to confront terror regardless of its motives and causes. Terrorists may claim to be religious warriors or freedom fighters, but their choice of target says it all. Their victims are invariably civilians who are distant from the battle they claim to be fighting. Differences may still persist on the definition of terror, but it is time the international community agrees that civilians distant from the field of political and military conflict should not be harmed, regardless of their nationality, religion or colour. The international community needs a legal framework for criminalising attacks on civilians and creating mechanisms to halt such attacks. In doing so, the international community would be drawing the line between resistance and terror. National resistance chooses its targets with care, principally the soldiers of occupations or foreign aggression. The Egyptian ambassador and the victims of the London blasts were not military targets. Those who lost their lives in Madrid, Washington and New York, civilians who continue to die in Iraq and the occupied territories, civilians who are attacked inside Israel, none of these are legitimate military targets. {IMRA: And those outside Israel are legitimate targets?] ,,, Egypt and the UK ... should call for an international conference on terror. [IMRA: How about the Arab League?] Egypt has a clear view of international terror: it has definite views on how to eliminate terror in the region, by resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict and ending the occupation in Iraq; and in the world, through holding an international conference on terror. President Mubarak outlined Egypt's view in his speech at a meeting of European parliamentarians in Strasbourg in 1986, when he called for treaties to be signed on judicial cooperation in matters concerning terrorism, corruption and organised crime. +++JORDAN TIMES 15-16 July '05: "Editorial: Time to act, and swiftly" QUOTE FROM TEXT: "The silence of the world thus far makes the forces who are taking lives in Iraq believe that it acquiesces to their savagery" --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- EXCERPTS: What kind of demons possessed those who on Wednesday deliberately killed 32 children and wounded 31 others? What made them orchestrate and carry out a suicide bombing in a Baghdad neighbourhood while the children were assembled near US soldiers to receive sweets? This and similar acts against Iraqi civilians randomly killed on almost daily basis as "collateral" casualties of attacks on US soldiers are atrocious and barbaric. They call for an effective response from the Iraqi government and the international community at large, one that is swift, efficient and deterring. . . . The silence of the world thus far makes the forces who are taking lives in Iraq believe that it acquiesces to their savagery. [IMRA: Passing blame on the "world". A new excuse. What about the Arab League?] It should not be that hard to determine who those responsible for such crimes are, and once that is known, concerted effort should be made to identify and apprehend them. The perpetrators should know that they will be pursued, brought to justice and made to pay for their atrocities. The suicide bombers who randomly kill civilians have diabolic minds and not a drop of humanity. In the name of the 32 children brutally mowed down in a Baghdad suburb, the international community must act, and act now. +++JORDAN TIMES 15-16 July '05:"National poet lashes out at factions trying to restrict arts"By Mohammed Daraghmeh The Associated Press QUOTES FROM TEXT: "Gunmen broke up the concert of a popular West Bank singer after he refused to limit his repetoire to political songs, and a Hamas-run town banned a music festival to prevent mingling of the sexes." "Hamas banned a one-day music festival in town, arguing that the mingling of men and women at such an event was ... forbidden by Islam." "local Al Aqsa leader ... said the group would continue to ban concerts" "a cultural affairs commentator for Al Ayyam, said Hamas is powerful enough now to impose its beliefs" --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ EXCERPTS: RAMALLAH - It's been a hot summer on the Palestinian arts scene: Gunmen broke up the concert of a popular West Bank singer after he refused to limit his repertoire to political songs, and a Hamas-run town banned a music festival to prevent mingling of the sexes. Now, Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish is striking back, saying fanatics have no right to deprive Palestinians of beauty in their lives. "There are Taleban-type elements in our society, and this is a very dangerous sign," Darwish told a gathering of artists and intellectuals this week. ...Compared to other Arab societies, the Palestinians were once largely secular and tolerant of Western customs, ... . Many Palestinians have strong ties with the West, including relatives living abroad or years spent studying in foreign universities. . . . Fundamentalists, meanwhile, have become increasingly assertive. The Hamas group scored several victories in local elections in recent months, and expects to pull even with ... Abbas' secular Fateh movement in future parliamentary elections. In the West Bank town of Qalqiliya, Hamas won local elections earlier this year with promises of better government services, but also with assurances it would not impose its religious beliefs. However, two weeks ago, Hamas banned a one-day music festival in town, arguing that the mingling of men and women at such an event was ... forbidden by Islam. Mustafa Sabri, spokesman for the Qalqiliya municipality, said the ban was democratic because it reflected the wish of the majority. "We are not like the Taleban ... But we respect them [the Taleban] because they chose something suitable for their people." ... . Last week, music lovers got another jolt when gunmen broke up the concert of popular singer Amar Hassan at An Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus. Hassan shot to local fame last year after he came in second in a Lebanese TV version of "American Idol," ... . Before the Nablus show, memebrs from Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades came to Hassan's hotel room. They told him he must sing only political songs, and cut love songs from his repertoire. Al Aqsa gunmen, who have ties to Fateh, told Hassan that light-hearted entertainment is forbidden as long as Israel occupies the West Bank. Hassan said he ignored the demands, and started his concert before a crowd of 6,000. During his show, dozens of gunmen and hundreds of protesters rallied outside the university's walls. Gunmen fired in the air and threw stun grenades, eventually forcing Hassan to break off the performance. As concertgoers left the campus, the protesters barged in, throwing chairs and scuffling with those leaving. Hassan said in an interview Tuesday that he would not be silenced. "These people [the factions] don't want us to be happy.They want us to sit in the ruins and cry," he said. "We will wage a creative war against them, with more poems, more art, more singing." A local Al Aqsa leader, Ahmed Al Taki, said the group will continue to ban concerts. On Monday, Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon who has eloquently described his people's struggle for independence, rallied to Hassan's side, inviting him to a meeting with Palestinian intellectuals and artists in Ramallah. Darwish told participants "we all have to resist" attempts to restrict artists. Darwish's comments were published Tuesday in the Palestinian newspaper Al Ayyam. The reclusive poet, who lives in Ramallah, was not available for comment. The concerts in Qalqiliya and Nablus had been part of an attempt to restore a sense of normalcy after more than four years of fighting, said organiser Iman Hamouri. The summer concert series began in 1994, but was suspended during the Palestinian Intifada. Hassan Khader, a cultural affairs commentator for Al Ayyam, said Hamas is powerful enough now to impose its beliefs, but that he believes such attempts will eventually backfire at the polling booth. "If Hamas wants to be a political power, it can't force people to adopt its ideology," he said. +++AL-AHRAM WEEKLY 14-20 July '05:"Blaming everyone but the killers" HEADING:"The people responsible for the murder of Ihab El-Sherif are the people who killed him, writes Abdel-Moneim Said, director Al Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies" QUOTES FROM TEXT: "Egypt is downsizing its diplomatic mission in Baghdad, reversing an earlier decision to upgrade the country's representation." "many in the Egyptian and Arab meda have have started to cast about to blame anyone and everyone for El-Sherif's murder, except the people who killed him" "Egypt's relations with Iraq are based on ties which have nothing to do with the U.S." "decision to scale down our diplomatic representtion in Iraq can only be construed as an admission of error" "It is regrettable that the Foreign Ministry has decided to downsize egypt's representation in Iraq. Doing so can all to easily be construed as a victory by Al-Zarkawi's supporters" -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- --- FULL TEXT: Egypt is downsizing its diplomatic mission in Baghdad, reversing an earlier decision to upgrade the country's representation. As if this was not enough tensions have surfaced between the Egyptian and Iraqi governments over whether Ihab El-Sherif was holding contacts with Iraqi opposition groups. The icing on the cake, though, is that many in the Egyptian and Arab media have started to cast about to blame anyone and everyone for El- Sherif's murder, except the people who killed him. Al-Zarqawi-led group, Al- Jihad Base in the Country of the Two Rivers, has claimed responsibility for the murder of the Egyptian diplomat. As the tragedy began to unfold accusing fingers were pointed at the Egyptian state which was blamed for upgrading diplomatic relations with Iraq. This, said those doing the pointing, was an act of recognition of occupation and of the "unlawful" government of Iraq. Fingers were also pointed at the US and the Iraqi government, denounced for creating and presiding over the state of chaos in the country that has given rise to "resistance". Some even blame El-Sherif himself for going out to buy a newspaper without adequate security. Everyone is to blame for his murder, they say, except the people who killed him. Everyone, apart from the killers, is a culprit. The fact that a specific group of people abducted and murdered El-Sherif has become a minor detail. But those who offer such a lopsided view overlook two facts. One is that Egypt has been at war with terror for three decades in the course of which one president was assassinated and another almost. Some 1,500 Egyptians have been killed by terrorists, including a People's Assembly Speaker and several ministers. Economic installations and our diplomatic mission in Islamabad were bombed before the Americans went to Iraq and before 11 September attacks took place. The other fact that is ignored by those determined to accuse everyone apart from the murderers is that Egypt's relations with Iraq are based on ties that have nothing to do with the US. These ties existed before the occupation and will continue to exist long after it ends. Iraq, a major Arab country with undeniable influence in the region, has a long history of close economic ties with Egypt. There are 120,000 Egyptians living in Iraq and in need of diplomatic support. Egypt has no choice but to maintain a presence in Iraq, a country with which it shares the bonds of Arabism and religion. Even after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait Egypt retained a care-taking mission in Baghdad, headed by a high-ranking diplomat. El-Sherif was the last envoy to head that mission. Not only have the wrong people been blamed for El-Sherif's murder, not only have the perpetrators been spared any blame, the entire Egyptian struggle against terror has been ignored, even though the bombings in Taba and Cairo are a recent memory. There are those writers who seem determined to overlook Egypt's interests in Iraq; so desperate are they to reduce Egyptian- Iraqi bonds to a strand of Egyptian-US relations. Egypt, we are told, "obeyed" US orders. It is a claim many opposition newspaper in Egypt continue to make, and traces of the accusation can also be found in state-affiliated papers. Ultimately, even the government seems to have bought it. Its decision to scale down our diplomatic representation in Iraq can only be construed as an admission of error. The same people who accuse Egypt for subjugating its policy to US dictates are ironically pushing it to bow to the wishes of Al-Qaeda and similar groups. When the group calling itself Al-Jihad Base in the Country of the Two Rivers claimed responsibility for abducting and killing El- Sherif it mentioned, by way of justification, that he came from an apostate state, one that maintains ties with the Jews and the Crusaders. Follow such absurd reasoning to its conclusion and you reach the position where Egypt would have to abandon all relations with the Christian world, go to war with Israel, and turn the Egyptian state into the kind of entity of which the Taliban would be proud. Otherwise its diplomats will be abducted and murdered, and deservedly so. It is regrettable that the Foreign Ministry has decided to downsize Egypt's representation in Iraq. Doing so can all too easily be construed as a victory by Al-Zarqawi's supporters and this could conceivably lead to the abduction of yet more diplomats as the terrorists attempt to bounce Cairo into making concessions. Dr. Joseph Lerner, Co-Director IMRA -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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