Twisted Wisdom: Some Osamaspeak

Updated on: 7 February 2024 7:12 pm

"Pakistan should allow military camps for a Kashmir jehad."
- 1998

"Our biggest enemies are the US and India and we should target them using the best of our efforts. All the jehad groups in Pakistan should combine their efforts to declare war against these two countries."
- September 1999

"India is staging a drama of elections in Kashmir. I am always ready to help Kashmiri mujahideen."
- September 1999

"There is no doubt that the treacherous attack (on Iraq) has confirmed that Britain and America are acting on behalf of Israel and Jews, paving the way for Jews to divide the Muslim world once again."
- January 1999

"We should fully understand our religion. Fighting is a part of our religion and our Sharia. Those who love God and his Prophet and this religion cannot deny that. Whoever denies a minor tenet of our religion commits the gravest sin in Islam."
- 1999

"Jehad needs to be waged by nations. We believe that those who participated in the jehad in Afghanistan bear the greatest reponsibility in this regard because they realised that with a small number of anti-tank mines, with a smattering of Kalashnikov rifles, they managed to crush the greatest empire known to mankind."
October - 2000

"God blessed the Muslims with the coming of the Taliban rule. It was not a force being pushed abroad, as crusaders in the western media try to depict them, but it was a pulling force. People had become sick and tired of road bandits, of paying taxes and protection money. The Taliban put an end to it all."
- 2000

"I know the Pakistan government is under pressure from the Christian-Jewish coalition to prevail upon the Taliban to expel me from Afghanistan. The pressure is part of a conspiracy against the Muslim Ummah."
- 1999