All praise is due to Allah, who built the heavens and earth in justice, and created man as a favor and grace from Him.
And from His ways is that the days rotate between the people, and from His Law is retaliation in kind: an eye for an eye,
a tooth for a tooth and the killer is killed. And all praise is due to Allah, who awakened His slaves' desire for the Garden,
and all of
them will enter it except those
who refuse. And whoever obeys Him alone in all of his affairs will
enter the Garden, and whoever
disobeys Him will have refused.
As for what comes after: Peace be upon he who follows the Guidance.
People of America: I shall be
speaking to you on important topics which concern you, so lend me your
ears. I begin by discussing
the war which is between us and some of its repercussions for us and you.
To preface, I say: despite America being the greatest economic power
and possessing the most
powerful and up-to-date military arsenal as well; and despite it
spending on this war and is army
more than the entire world spends on its armies; and despite it being
the being the major state
influencing the policies of the world, as if it has a monopoly on the
unjust right of veto; despite all of
this, 19 young men were able - by the grace of Allah, the Most High-
to change the direction of its
compass. And in fact, the subject of the Mujahideen has become an
inseparable part of the speech
of your leader, and the effects and signs of that are not hidden.
Since the 11th, many of America's policies have come under the
influence of the Mujahideen, and
that is by the grace of Allah, the Most High. And as a result, the
people discovered the truth about
it, its reputation worsened, its prestige was broken globally and it
was bled dry economically, even if
our interests overlap with the interests of the major corporations and
also with those of the
neoconservatives, despite the differing intentions.
And for your information media, during the first years of the war,
lost its credibility and manifested
itself as a tool of the colonialist empires, and its condition has
often been worse than the condition of
the media of the dictatorial regimes which march in the caravan of the
single leader.
Then Bush talks about his working with al-Maliki and his government to
spread freedom in Iraq but
he in fact is working with the leaders of one sect against another
sect, in the belief that this will
quickly decide the war in his favor.
And thus, what is called the civil war came into being and matters
worsened at his hands before
getting out of his control and him becoming like the one who plows and
sows the sea: he harvests
nothing but failure.
So these are some of the results of the freedom about whose spreading
he is talking to you. And
then the backtracking of Bush on his insistence on not giving the
United Nations expanded
jurisdiction in Iraq is an implicit admission of his loss and defeat there.
And among the most important items contained in Bush's speeches since
the events of the 11th is
that the Americans have no option but to continue the war. This tone
is in fact an echoing of the
words of neoconservatives like Cheney, Rumsfeld and Richard Pearle,
the latter having said
previously that the Americans have no choice in front of them other
than to continue the war or face
a holocaust.
I say, refuting this unjust statement, that the morality and culture
of the holocaust is your culture,
not our culture. In fact, burning living beings is forbidden in our
religion, even if they be small like
the ant, so what of man?! The holocaust of the Jews was carried out by
your brethren in the middle
of Europe, but had it been closer to our countries, most of the Jews
would have been saved by
taking refuge with us. And my proof for that is in what your brothers,
the Spanish, did when they
set up the horrible courts of the Inquisition to try Muslims and Jews,
when the Jews only found safe
shelter by taking refuge in our countries. And that is why the Jewish
community in Morocco today is
one of the largest communities in the world. They are alive with us
and we have not incinerated
them, but we are a people who don't sleep under oppression and reject
humiliation and disgrace,
and we take revenge on the people of tyranny and aggression, and the
blood of the Muslims will not
be spilled with impunity, and the morrow is nigh for he who awaits.
Also, your Christian brothers have been living among us for 14
centuries: in Egypt alone, there are
millions of Christians whom we have not incinerated and shall not
incinerate. But the fact is, there is
a continuing and biased campaign being waged against us for a long
time now by your politicians
and many of your writers by way of your media, especially Hollywood,
for the purpose of
misrepresenting Islam and its adherents to drive you away from the
true religion. The genocide of
peoples and their holocausts took place at your hands: only a few
specimens of Red Indians were
spared, and just a few days ago, the Japanese observed the 62nd
anniversary of the annihilation of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki by your nuclear weapons.
And among the things which catch the eye of the one who considers the
repercussions of your unjust
war against Iraq is the failure of your democratic system, despite it
raising of the slogans of justice,
liberty, equality and humanitarianism. It has not only failed to
achieve these things, it has actually
destroyed these and other concepts with its weapons - especially in
Iraq and Afghanistan- in a
brazen fashion, to replace them with fear, destruction, killing,
hunger, illness, displacement and
more than a million orphans in Baghdad alone, not to mention hundreds
of thousands of widows.
Americans statistics speak of the killing of more than 650,000 of the
people of Iraq as a result of the
war and its repercussions.
People of America: the world is following your news in regards to your
invasion of Iraq, for people
have recently come to know that, after several years of the tragedies
of this war, the vast majority
of you want it stopped. Thus, you elected the Democratic Party for
this purpose, but the Democrats
haven't made a move worth mentioning. On the contrary, they continue
to agree to the spending of
tens of billions to continue the killing and war there, which has led
to the vast majority of you being
afflicted with disappointment.
And here is the gist of the matter, so one should pause, think and
reflect: why have the Democrats
failed to stop this war, despite them being the majority?
I will come back to reply to this question after raising another
question, which is:
Why are the leaders of the White House keen to start wars and wage
them around the world, and
make use of every possible opportunity through which they can reach
this purpose, occasionally
even creating justifications based on deception and blatant lies, as
you saw Iraq?
In the Vietnam War, the leaders of the White House claimed at the time
that it was a necessary and
crucial war, and during it, Rumsfeld and his aides murdered two
million villagers. And when Kennedy
took over the presidency and deviated from the general line of policy
drawn up for the White House
and wanted to stop this unjust war, that angered the owners of the
major corporations who were
benefiting from its continuation.
And so Kennedy was killed, and al-Qaida wasn't present at that time,
but rather, those corporations
were the primary beneficiary from his killing. And the war continued
after that for approximately
one decade. But after it became clear to you that it was an unjust and
unnecessary war, you made
one of your greatest mistakes, in that you neither brought to account
nor punished those who waged
this war, not even the most violent of its murderers, Rumsfeld. And
even more incredible than that
is that Bush picked him as secretary of defense in his first term
after picking Cheney as his vicepresident,
Powell as secretary of state and Armitage as Powell's deputy, despite
their horrific and
blood history of murdering humans. So that was clear signal that his
administration - the
administration of the generals- didn't have as its main concern the
serving of humanity, but rather,
was interested in bringing about new massacres. Yet in spite of that,
you permitted Bush to
complete his first term, and stranger still, chose him for a second
term, which gave him a clear
mandate from you - with your full knowledge and consent- to continue
to murder our people in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
Then you claim to be innocent! This innocence of yours is like my
innocence of the blood of your
sons on the 11th - were I to claim such a thing. But it is impossible
for me to humor any of you in
the arrogance and indifference you show for the lives of humans
outside America, or for me to
humor your leaders in their lying, as the entire world knows they have
the lion's share of that.
These morals aren't our morals. What I want to emphasize here is that
not taking past war
criminals to account led to them repeating that crime of killing
humanity without right and waging
this unjust war in Mesopotamia, and as a result, here are the
oppressed ones today continuing to
take their right from you.
This war was entirely unnecessary, as testified to by your own
reports. And among the most
capable of those from your own side who speak to you on this topic and
on the manufacturing of
public opinion is Noam Chomsky, who spoke sober words of advice prior
to the war, but the leader of
Texas doesn't like those who give advice. The entire world came out in
unprecedented
demonstrations to warn against waging the war and describe its true
nature in eloquent terms like
"no to spilling red blood for black oil," yet he paid them no heed. It
is time for humankind to know
that talk of the rights of man and freedom are lies produced by the
White House and its allies in
Europe to deceive humans, take control of their destinies and subjugate them.
So in answer to the question about the causes of the Democrats'
failure to stop the war, I say: they
are the same reasons which led to the failure of former president
Kennedy to stop the Vietnam war.
Those with real power and influence are those with the most capital.
And since the democratic
system permits major corporations to back candidates, be they
presidential or congressional, there
shouldn't be any cause for astonishment - and there isn't any- in the
Democrats' failure to stop the
war. And you're the ones who have the saying which goes, "Money
talks." And I tell you: after the
failure of your representatives in the Democratic Party to implement
your desire to stop the war, you
can still carry anti-war placards and spread out in the streets of
major cities, then go back to your
homes, but that will be of no use and will lead to the prolonging of the war.
However, there are two solutions for stopping it. The first is from
our side, and it is to continue to
escalate the killing and fighting against you. This is our duty, and
our brothers are carrying it out,
and I ask Allah to grant them resolve and victory. And the second
solution is from your side. It has
now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the
democratic system and how it
plays with the interests of the peoples and their blood by sacrificing
soldiers and populations to
achieve the interests of the major corporations.
And with that, it has become clear to all that they are the real
tyrannical terrorists. In fact, the life
of all of mankind is in danger because of the global warming resulting
to a large degree from the
emissions of the factories of the major corporations, yet despite
that, the representative of these
corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto
accord, with the knowledge that
the statistic speaks of the death and displacement of the millions of
human beings because of that,
especially in Africa. This greatest of plagues and most dangerous of
threats to the lives of humans is
taking place in an accelerating fashion as the world is being
dominated by the democratic system,
which confirms its massive failure to protect humans and their
interests from the greed and avarice
of the major corporations and their representatives.
And despite this brazen attack on the people, the leaders of the West
- especially Bush, Blair,
Sarkozy and Brown- still talk about freedom and human rights with a
flagrant disregard for the
intellects of human beings. So is there a form of terrorism stronger,
clearer and more dangerous
than this? This is why I tell you: as you liberated yourselves before
from the slavery of monks,
kings, and feudalism, you should liberate yourselves from the
deception, shackles and attrition of
the capitalist system.
If you were to ponder it well, you would find that in the end, it is a
system harsher and fiercer than
your systems in the Middle Ages. The capitalist system seeks to turn
the entire world into a fiefdom
of the major corporations under the label of "globalization" in order
to protect democracy.
And Iraq and Afghanistan and their tragedies; and the reeling of many
of you under the burden of
interest-related debts, insane taxes and real estate mortgages; global
warming and its woes; and
the abject poverty and tragic hunger in Africa: all of this is but one
side of the grim face of this
global system.
So it is imperative that you free yourselves from all of that and
search for an alternative, upright
methodology in which it is not the business of any class of humanity
to lay down its own laws to its
own advantage at the expense of the other classes as is the case with
you, since the essence of
man-made positive laws is that they serve the interests of those with
the capital and thus make the
rich richer and the poor poorer.
The infallible methodology is the methodology of Allah, the Most High,
who created the heavens and
earth and created the Creation and is the Most Kind and All-Informed
and the Knower of the souls of
His slaves and the methodology that best suits them.
You believe with absolute certainty that you believe in Allah, and you
are full of conviction of this
belief, so much so that you have written this belief of yours on your dollar.
But the truth is that you are mistake in this belief of yours. The
impartial judge knows that belief in
Allah requires straightness in the following of His methodology, and
accordingly, total obedience
must be to the orders and prohibitions of Allah Alone in all aspects of life.
So how about you when you associate others with Him in your beliefs
and separate state from
religion, then claim that you are believers?!
What you have done is clear loss and manifest polytheism, And I will
give you a parable of
polytheism, as parables summarize and clarify speech.
I tell you: its parable is the parable of a man who owns a shop and
hires a worker and tells him,
"Sell and give me the money," but he makes sales and give the money to
someone other than the
owner. So who of you would approve of that?
You believe that Allah is your Lord and your Creator and the Creator
of this earth and that it is His
property, then you work on His earth and property without His orders
and without obeying Him, and
you legislate in contradiction to His Law and methodology.
This work of yours is the greatest form of polytheism and is rebellion
against obedience to Allah with
which the believer becomes an unbeliever, even if he obeys Allah in
some of His other orders. Allah,
the Most High, sent down His orders in His Sacred Books like the Torah
and Evangel and sent with
them the Messengers (Allah's prayers and peace be upon them) as
bearers of good news to the
people.
And everyone who believes in them and complies with them is a believer
from the people of the
Garden. Then when the men of knowledge altered the words of Allah, the
Most High, and sold them
for a paltry price, as the rabbis did with the Torah and the monks
with the Evangel, Allah sent down
His final Book, the magnificient Quran, and safeguarded it from being
added to or subtracted from
by the hands of men, and in it is a complete methodology for the lives
of all people.
And our holding firm to this magnificient Book is the secret of our
strength and winning of the war
against you despite the fewness of our numbers and materiel.
And if you would like to get to know some of the reasons for your
losing of your war against us, then
read the book of Michael Scheuer in this regard.
Don't be turned away from Islam by the terrible situation of the
Muslims today, for our rulers in
general abandoned Islam many decades ago, but our forefathers were the
leaders and pioneers of
the world for many centuries, when they held firmly to Islam.
And before concluding, I tell you: there has been an increase in the
thinkers who study events and
happenings, and on the basis of their study, they have declared the
approach of the collapse of the
American Empire.
Among them is the European thinker who anticipated the fall of the
Soviet Union, which indeed fell.
And it would benefit you to read what he wrote about what comes after
the empire in regard to the
United States of America. I also want to bring your attention that
among the greatest reasons for
the collapse of the Soviet Union was their being afflicted with their
leader Brezhnev, who was
overtaken by pride and arrogance and refused to look at the facts on
the ground. From the first
year of the Afghanistan invasion, reports indicated that the Russians
were losing the war, but he
refused to acknowledge this, lest it go down in his personal history
as a defeat, even though refusal
to acknowledge defeat not only doesn't do anything to change the facts
for thinking people, but also
exacerbates the problem and increases the losses. And how similar is
your position today to their
position approximately two decades ago. The mistakes of Brezhnev are
being repeated by Bush,
who - when asked about the date of his withdrawing of forces from Iraq
- said in effect that the
withdrawal will not be during his reign, but rather, during the reign
of the one who succeeds him.
And the significance of these words is not hidden.
And here I say: it would benefit you to listen to the poignant
messages of your soldiers in Iraq, who
are paying - with their blood, nerves and scattered limbs - the price
for these sorts of irresponsible
statements. Among them is the eloquent message of Joshua which he sent
by way of the media, in
which he wipes the tears from his eyes and describes American
politicians in harsh terms and invites
them to join him there for a few days.