Osama Bin Laden in Audio Message to Palestinians: The Way to Reclaim Palestine Is through Jihad
On January 14, 2009, the Islamist forum Al-Faluja (hosted by TMIDC-My, Malaysia) posted a 22-minute audio message by Osama Bin Laden, in which he called on the Palestinians to persevere and keep on fighting. Bin Laden stressed that the attempts to regain Palestine were flawed, in that the responsibility for the Palestinian cause had been assumed by "the rulers who had betrayed the trust [invested in them]."
According to Bin Laden, this is also true for the current Arab leaders, as well as for others, whom he described as "enemies of the Islamic Ummah." Among the latter group, he mentioned the Shi'ite religious leader Ayatollah 'Ali Al-Sistani, the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar University Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the Ulama appointed by the Arab leaders, as well as writers, intellectuals and journalists – all of whom are legitimizing the regimes of "the Crusaders' agents in our countries."
Bin Laden also stated that the current events in Gaza are the result of Israel's "desperate attempt" to benefit from the last days of the Bush administration.
In addition, Bin Laden announced: "We are on our way to open new fronts." He further called on Muslims to donate money to support the global Jihad, stating that the Zakat (i.e. alms tax) paid by one rich Muslim trader would suffice to cover the costs of Jihad on all fronts.
[Allah needs money? George Carlin was right.]
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