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THE HANDSTAND | SEPTEMBER 2006 |
![]() The Secretary-General of Hizbullah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressing the people on the seventh night of Ashouraa (1) for the year 1423 (20-3-2002)
Praise be to Allah the lord of the world, and may peace and Allahs praises be upon our master and prophet, the purifier of our sins, and the love of our hearts Mohammed Bin Abdullah followed by his pure progeny, rightful followers, and all the martyrs and mujahideen (2) for Allahs teachings since the birth of Adam until the day of judgment. May peace be upon you my lord and master Abu Abdullah Al Hussein (3) and upon those spirits who are floating around thy grave. I send you my adoration as long as night follows day. I ask my dear Allah to keep me committed to continuously visit thee and thy family. May peace be upon Al Hussein, Ali Bin Al Hussein, the sons of Al Hussein, and the followers of Al Hussein. Dear brothers and sisters, May peace be upon you all; Allah says in his Glory book Verily,
Fir'aun (Pharaoh) exalted himself in the land and made
its people sects, weakening (oppressing) a group (i.e.
Children of Israel) among them: killing their sons, and
letting their females live. Verily, he was of the
Mufsidûn (i.e. those who commit great sins and crimes,
oppressors, tyrants). Lets
remember some of the words in my speech I read to you on
the first night. I said that Al Hussein may
peace be upon him, rose up and fought with the very few
members of his family and his companions. He was
protecting Islam, the values of Islam, and the existence
of this religion, in order to prevent its termination,
transformation, vanishing, or the manipulation of its
teachings in an aim to send the people back to the early
days of ignorance. I added saying that there are many
challenges at this time in which we are living. The
declaration of war by the American Administration these
days is nothing but a war on Islam, on the values of
Islam, on the understandings of Islam, on the Quraan (6)
of Islam, and on the Prophet of Islam on the grounds that
the existence this religion lives among the people of
this nation and its Moslem followers. I would like to
stand up today in the atmosphere of this declaration of
war to try and comprehend, explain, and realize the
issues widely surrounding us. Consequently well
realize our stand, the enemy we are facing, and the sort
of reality or fact we are living in at this present time.
When we go back and read some of the words or phrases of the American president Bush speeches during the past few days, weeks and months, we will find that some of his words and phrases identified the title of this war. For example, from what he said: it is the responsibility of each American at the present time to guarantee the domination and the spread of the American values in other parts of this world. I repeat the domination and the spread of the American values in other parts of this world. He spoke these words while he was addressing his officers and soldiers, encouraging them to be patient, endure and tolerate the difficulties. He told them we are fighting for the values of civilization (of course it would be the materialistic American civilization!). He promises to send forces to this country or that in more than one occasion, and that he aims at transferring the values of the American society to the various countries, societies, and states, since terror cannot be exterminated by the means of military and security only. Yet he says it should be fought by means of culture, which means that we should wipe out the culture that gives birth to terrorists and uprisings, in order to replace it with another culture, which would not push those society individuals to commit acts of terror (of course it would be the terror according to the American comprehension). In any case, this issue becomes clear to us, since even this war, which Bush announced, did not rely on any basic rules or thoughtful and cultural or educational rules. After his announcement of this war, he gave missions to a number of his American educationalists to write theories about this war, just as our leader imam Khamenaei (4) said a few days ago. After their declaration of war, starting the war, attacking Afghanistan, killing whomever they wanted, doing whatever they wanted. A group of their American educationists were assigned to write theories and ideologies about this war, to write the basics of the ethics and the theories for which this war stood. Yet this confirms that what is being applied by America is killing first then issuing a verdict later. First we kill then we issue the verdict of killing. The American educationists issued a statement of mass killing but after the mass killing, which confirms that the ground on which this American war stands is not what these educationists are claiming, but something else. Bush is calling for the world to follow his values (excluding Europe of course), hes aiming at the Arab and Islamic world in the first degree, a world from which he sees terrorists, yet his list of terrorists include mostly that of the states, organizations, parties, and personalities who belong to this Islamic world. Yet his promise to us is that the values of his society should conquer that of our countries and societies and replace them. This night we will try to present a short and calm reading of the virtues and values of the American society, the virtues and values that are ruling the American society, and which he is promising and preaching to us. He says that he will bring his values to our countries in order for us to become good people and not terrorists. Of course we must discover the truth, which lies clearly and sharply behind the picture that is showed by the media about the society of the USA, a picture that is a lie. Anyway, This truth could be discovered by reading some reports, studies, books, documentaries, and even watching some movies that shows some aspects of life in the society of the USA, we can reveal this truth through the various numbers of the statistics. About one or two years ago and during the first night of Muharram (5) I read my speech that was mostly statistical. I said that there were many actions of killings and murders, the increase in the number of prisons and prisoners, mentally sick people, drug users, and so one. I still remember a significant number, which is: in the USA there is one out of five who is mentally sick. I also mentioned statistics of murders, rapes, thefts, drugs, bandits, mafias, and the increasing number of the illegitimate children as a result of adulteries, and I read the numbers in your hearings. There was a group of the American Press on that night. This group had an appointment with me on the following day. When they met with me I asked them what was their comment on what I had mentioned the day before and whether my information was or was not correct explaining that I relied on magazines, journals, and Arabic studies that may or may not be correct. They replied telling me that the information and statistics that I mentioned yesterday were very old, and that the numbers were much less than those numbers and statistics published by USA press. It seems like the issues take much longer to reach to the Arab world. Of course they were right because I said last year that these statistics belonged the years of 92, 93 or 95, and that we did not have accurate statistics. Tonight
I do not have statistics because time is too short to
mention both statistics and the idea, which I am going to
read to you, and I ask you to give interest to its
headings in order to obtain statistics and numbers that
are high and amazing. If we travel in our minds to the
reality of the American society and the values, which are
in fact ruling the American society, we will find that
there are three basic issues that control the life of
that society, the system, administration and the people
as well. These three basic issues are: money, sex, and
power. Try harder to look inside that society and you
might find some limited phenomena that do not relate to
these three basic issues. But at the most any phenomena,
politics, relations or bonds found in the American
society are related to these three issues and ruled by
them. The ruling values in the American society are the
same as those ruled during the Romans Empire
(money, sex and power), we will find that these rules
will strongly interpret themselves when we enter the
fields of society, family, morality, economy, military,
politics and others. Well try and enter these
fields one at a time. When we enter the social life in
the USA we can see where their values and virtues are
leading. I have more than one heading. The
first heading says that the ruling values in the social
life there are always leading to breaking the family
bonds. The family is melting and slowly perishing in that
society. Imagine a society in which the families are
facing such circumstances that are against natural laws.
There are steep declines in the percentage of the number
of marriages, steep inclines in the percentage of the
number of divorces, and the popularity of marriage
dishonesty (where it becomes popular and not an
exception), yet running away from family
responsibilities. When boys and girls reach a certain
age, the law allows them to do whatever they like from
all the sins that the law allows (the end). Therefore you
can notice that the son or daughter can go and come, as
he or she likes, and thus why you find that the American
family is usually lacking in unity. Each member of the
family (father, mother, son, daughter) is going into a
different direction. They might see each other 1-3 times
in a year, at Christmas, New Year, or on Thanksgiving Day
(when a roast turkey will gather them). During the rest
of the year no one knows what happens to the other. Is
the boy in prison? Is the girl lost? No one cares about
the other. The family bonds or what we call family kind
loving relations do not exist. There is widespread, illegitimate or unlawful relationships, meaning that adultery in the American society is a popular aspect, or a culture but not an exception. Any human society in any their country might face adultery relations, but it would be exceptional and limited, practiced in secret or slightly becomes an activity of the norm. Once adultery becomes the habit and culture of the society, it would lead to the phenomenon of prostitution. Where would all this lead? There are tens of millions of the USA births, where children do not have fathers; it is not a matter of only a thousand or two; it is one, two, or tens of millions. I remember a statistic that included forty million when Clinton was a president (I dont know if that statistic exaggerated). This reason enforced Clinton to hold a convention at that time in order to discuss and limit this phenomenon. The children born from adultery are being registered under the name of their mothers. Another abnormal relationship is that of incest, where a father sleeps with his daughter, a brother sleeps with his sister. Let us not forget the gays, Lesbians, and son on. These facts are an extraction and I do not want to lengthen the subject more than this, but we must realise that when we examine the popular sides of the society and families, we find that these are the ruling values that live in American society. This completely means that Bush is saying to us your girls are well mannered, they have honour, shyness and bashfulness. However I will send you the values spreading presently in our societies and families. Every now and again the police takes Bushs daughters into custody and gather them from the pubs, not forgetting his nieces as well. Then they would say that his daughters are poor, they are alcoholic, and just like their daddy. The main power that existed in our Arabic and Islamic world is still existing, and that is the power of the family bond, this bonding, this atmosphere of love, passion morality, and socialism; these are the issues they want to strike. The values of the American society say that these virtues should no longer exist. We come to the conclusion of the first heading, which is the scattering and breaking unity of the family. The second heading is in regards to the social issue. There is an incline in the percentage of the number of murders and killings. Last time I read some amazing statistics regarding this phenomenon including the incidents of rubbery, assault and rape. I remember the statistics quoting that every minute there is such and such. It mentioned drugs, alcoholism, mafias, armed bandits, and the number of the prisons and prisoners was increasing in the USA, yet the violent culture was becoming popular. The American films show mostly violence and sex actions, which reflect the life of American society. Where to do these films and this culture of violence would lead? We hear every while that a teenager who is 8,10 or 15 years has entered his school while shooting his classroom mates. It means that he entered the classroom then directed the brunt of his bullets towards his mates with whom he has been sitting, drinking, eating, learning and playing for many years leading to their death. So the second heading is the increase of murders and killings inside the American society. On this occasion I would like to tell you that if you examine the society of the Islamic and Arab world, the number of troubles and incidents, and the suppressing circumstances applied by the regimes; then try to write a statistical report about the number of killings each year all over the Islamic and Arab world, you will find that the percentage is far less than that of the USA. The
Third title is the severe psychiatric and spiritual
crisis and the cultural and spiritual emptiness. A person
is not just a body whose needs alone have to be satisfied
and fulfilled. Besides the body there is the spirit that
has needs as well such as love or passion of fatherhood,
motherhood, brotherhood and other related relationships
like friends. A man cannot avoid this side of needs. A
person can fulfil his private body needs and seductions,
be in control of power or whatsoever. On the other hand
he feels that he needs a father, a mother, a brother, a
sister, a friend, good relations with others, love,
tenderness, and to a much wider and higher horizon, which
is reaching the absolute of such feelings. This
crisis is expressed by the high percentage of the ill
people complaining of psychiatric illnesses in the
society of the USA, and in the percentage of people who
are abusing drugs and alcohol. The suicide percentage is
rising one year after another, and yet there is the
phenomenon of committing suicide in-groups (which means
that fifty or sixty persons gather and commit suicide at
one time). We can add to all these subjects the subject
of racial discrimination as well when we talk about the
values of the society of USA and Mr. Bush. Fourteen
hundred years ago this Quraan accused by the Americans of
being a book of terror came down with a sign of Allah
that said: I created both male and female and
made thee different races so that you could meet and know
each other, he who is the most generous at Allah is the
most pious. Yet the prophet of this religion
Mohammed Bin Abdullah (may peace be upon him)
came to assure this idea and confirm that a man is no
better than another except in his good deeds, there is no
difference between Arab and a foreigner, or black and
white. Islam terminated this idea 1400 years ago. While
on the other hand this issue of racial discrimination is
still present as I speak in the society of USA. There is
a strong racial discrimination and hard feeling towards
black people. Who
are these black people? When you look at a black man in
the USA you must place a picture before your eyes which
resembles the British and European colonists who
conquered this new land of America accompanying with them
hundreds of thousands of the black people who were
brought as slaves from Africa in order to serve them in
the USA. The racial discrimination towards the blacks is
still persisting in every aspect. Every now and again we
read in the American press scripts about objections and
sometimes watch demonstration and incidents on the
screens due to this racial discrimination. Moreover,
there is a racial discrimination towards the Red Indians
who are the original inhabitants of the country. After
all these facts I tell you frankly that if it wasnt
for the determined willingness, courage, Jihad, and fight
of the Palestinian people, the Americans and their
civilization would have decided to solve that problem of Israel
between the Jews and Palestinians just like they did with
the Indians. This is the picture that lies in the mind of
the American. It is the picture of what they did with the
original owners of the lands in the USA, it is how they
are looking at them and treating them in the several
aspects of life. We may in some cases find that there is
a black in a high position of a certain party, or in a
high position in the American administration, which means
that if it was true it is an exception. Yet I believe
that this is only a decoration to hide the real life
these blacks and Indians are facing, and the reality of
the racial discrimination that is persisting in the
society of the USA. Now
let us examine the values of the American society when it
comes to the military issue. Speaking of the great
American state-of-the-art regarding the military level,
the first matter that would hit your mind is the crime of
the 20th century. What is this crime? It is the
bombarding of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan using
nuclear bombs, and killing the hundreds of thousands of
men, women, and children. All the military researchers
confirm that the USA did not need such operation to end
the battle. The USA executed that operation in order to
terrorize Japan and the world, and to impose its presence
and power within the framework of the formation of the
worlds new system after the war. This psychiatric
background is nothing but revenge. It was a revenge for
2000 American soldiers or more who were killed by the
Japanese suicide fighters. To revenge for 2000 soldiers
they dont kill 2000 Japanese soldiers, or even
20,000 Japanese soldiers; instead they kill hundreds of
thousands of men, women, and children of the Japanese
civilians. This past century did not witness such crime;
I dont think that even all the passed centuries
have witnessed such crime. A crime that is extremely ugly
and evil committed by the USA against Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Some of those who conducted this act are still
alive in America and married with children. This means
that this act is not very old and is not as if it took
place 200 or 300 years ago. Lets
talk about the war crimes in Vietnam. (The American is
funny, he exaggerates and shakes the whole world because
one American civilian was kidnapped and killed). In order
for the Americans to win the war in Vietnam, they had no
objection in destroying, burning, and wiping out complete
Vietnamese villages, which sheltered women and children
farmers. They destroyed these villages because they
thought that it could secure shelter and food for the
Vietnamese fighters, or may offer support and
information. On the other hand it may offer nothing. In
order to crush the will of the Vietnamese fighters they
would go ahead and burn a Vietnamese village completely.
These actions are not old as well and as if they took
place 100 years ago; no it happened some years ago.
Lets
talk about war crimes in Afghanistan. They say the
Americans made a mistake and wiped out a village
(its ok it was a mistake and no one says anything).
Then they wipe out another village and say its
another mistake (its ok the information was wrong,
it was a mistake and no one says anything). Then a third
time the same happens. You can count the Afghani villages
that were destroyed by the American warplanes only
because they doubted that they sheltered bases for
Taliban and Al Qaeda, and no one says anything. This is
Strange! Where are the organizations of human rights?
Where is the European Union? Where is the organization of
the Islamic league? Where is the world? Where are the
values of this world? Where is the civilization? Nothing.
No one is allowed to whisper since Bush is angry. There
were some people who were killed in New York and
Washington, and Bush has the right to revenge by whatever
means he wishes. Isnt that so? The warplanes flew
and wiped out a convoy that included many Afghan tripe
Sheikhs. Then they say its a mistake. They did not
even apologize. These spirits of the civilians killed in
Afghanistan were not even respected by the USA. I
remember that there was one problem hanging between the
Vietnamese and the Americans about whether the Americans
should or should not apologize for what they did in
Vietnam. I dont think they did. The Americans
committed these war crimes. Let
us go further back in history to examine what they did to
the Red Indians. What can we find? These poor Indians are
incapable of producing cinema films to show the reality
of what happened. But the Americans can produce many
films to present the American soldiers as poor people who
are defending civilization, and they place red feathers
on the heads of the Red Indians picturing them as
ignorant and immoral barbarians, and that they are
attacking the peaceful Americans who in fact came and
raped their lands and built forts on them. Isnt
this is how the American films are? The Red Indians came
and attacked the fort, but the Americans did not come to
occupy the lands of the Indians. The same is happening
now to the Palestinians in Palestine. The Palestinians
are attacking the Jews and their colonies or settlements,
while it is not the Jews who came from outside then raped
the lands and built settlements in Palestine. We
can also examine the helping hand of the American to many
terrorizing and suppressing organizations in the world
with arms, intelligence, training, support, and the most
sophisticated American weapons (tested and provided). The
most obvious example of these is Israel
who is sponsored by the USA regarding the complete
military association. Now
lets talk about the economic issue. America is
known to be a capitalistic monster due to its great
economic values. Who is this monster? It represents a
group of the greatest American companies and banks that
hold and control everything. Consequently fortune will
grow for a little number of the rich who will grow richer
every year. On the other hand the rest of the people can
hardly make a living and their lives might improve
slightly. It may feel strange when I say that there are
tens of millions of the Americans who are living below
the poverty line, and are being unemployed. These are
mostly blacks, red Indians, and some others. There is a
group of savages controlling this economy. These great
companies that control economy and banks extend their
hands to reach media and politics. Dont you think
that these great industrial companies especially the arms
industrial companies are the ones that brought George
Bush to power. Now he is fulfilling his commitment
towards them. These
are examples of the economical values ruling in the
American society, the concentration of money at the hands
of a limited group, while unemployment, and poverty lies
especially at the blacks. Did you know that they destroy
large and huge quantities of crops? For example they dump
large quantities of wheat grains in the sea in order to
maintain its value, while at the same time millions are
dying from hunger. These are the American values,
stealing the wealth of others. Whats
happening in Africa for example? Everyday we wake up to
hear that wars are erupting in many African countries
leading to the death of thousands. Do you think that the
Africans are fighting with one another? I dont
think so, because they did not fight previously and the
daily living matters were normal and quiet. In fact there
is a conflict of interest between the colonial
influences. These are the new USA autocracy, and the old
colonial situation. In Africa many European countries
have their shares like France, Britain, Italy, Holland,
and even Belgium. Now the Americans came to wipe out all
of these to inherit everything. Who is fighting the
African people? They themselves are fighting each other.
Who is killing the Africans? They themselves are killing
one another. In the end the American is in control and is
stealing the wealth of those countries, then take it to
the great American companies, while giving the Africans
the very little and accept them as working farmers or
mines workers, not more nor less. Stealing and
controlling others wealth are the economic values
of the American society. The
Islamic world today is recognized to be the greatest
exporter of the oil in the world, but tell me can the
Arab and Moslem exporters of oil control the prices of
oil. No, they cant, they dont dare to, and
they dont even dream of doing so, since in fact
this issue lies in the American controlling hands. They
are working on submitting the economy of the world to the
interest of the American economy. They are doing this
even to their ally and friend Europe. The Europeans are
frequently raising alarms. America is forcing deals from
one side. It applies economic punishment, and punishes
the Europeans, Japan, Russia, and China. But in the Arab
world we dont get punished because we dont
upset them. I
have gathered these ideas for you to have an idea about
the real identity of this American society, this American
administration, and the values, which are ruling the
American society. What
they tell the world about democracy and human rights are
nothing but lies in order to control and rule the world,
this is in regards to political issue. The American
values say that America must interfere in each country or
state (which is against the international law). The
American values tell the Americans to impose systems on
people, systems that people do not want. The American
intelligence has always had the ability to organize
coups, uprisings, and changes in some of the worlds
systems. It enforced rules on people against their will.
This is the democratic country that is calling others to
democracy. It is known as well that USA was and still
supporting some of the greatest autocrats in the world,
and it says it wants to spread democracy and freedom. Lets
take an example: the Shah system that was not present at
the time of Bush, it was present at the time of Carter
and even before. Did the Iranian people elect the Shah or
was it an autocratic royal system against their will? The
shah had an absolute power. The whole world knew that the
Americans brought in the shah with a coup against
Musaddak at that time. They brought him in against the
will of the Iranians along with an autocratic royal
system. No freedom was allowed, and there were no human
rights. America defended the shah up till the last
moment, why? Because America was the one who ruled Iran,
while the shah was just an American tool. The ones who
ruled Iran at the time of the Shah were 60,000 American
experts and consultants. They controlled the army,
economy, oil, education, media, radio and television, and
all the documents confirm these issues. We
know that at present all the elected autocratic systems
in the world are supported, and protected by the USA
because they are under their control and apply their
interest. So the issue is an issue of money and power and
not an issue of democracy, freedom, and human rights. The
country whose system submits to the American policy and
declares its willingness to serve the American interest
would have enough qualifications to become under the USA.
Isnt this is the political reality in the world?
Let someone else say otherwise. At this point I do not
want to mention names of such systems since the Arab
summit is soon and we are having guests in Lebanon after
some days, and we do not want to upset anyone. This
reality shows the American political program, which is
the terrorizing of the states in the world. Anyone who
does not submit to America will be placed on the list of
terrorists. Lets take another example: imagine this story. Two days ago they say there was a leak (look to how they play games). They said that the pentagon with its greatness is informatively penetrated and that there was a leak. This leak was done on purpose in order to converse about placing plans for nuclear strikes against each of the following countries: Syria, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Russia, and China. Later on the national security councillor and the American foreign secretary start explaining and clarifying the issue saying that America is naturally a threatened country, and that they must have precautions and procedures, but on the other hand they do not have any order to strike anyone with nuclear weapons. Nevertheless the message reached its destiny informing the people of these countries that America is ready to strike you with nuclear weapons when necessary. Is this the American civilization Bush is asking for to be spread all over the world? Whats Americas problem with these countries? First of all Iran has cut relationships with America. China was meeting with America two days ago. Bush was visiting China and Russia to meet with them. So whats the problem? The problem is that if these countries wanted to have independent decisions, and did not submit to the American decisions, then it would be enough for America to place them on the list of terrorists. This subject does not need any more explanation in order to speak out the political truth and the absolute American sponsorship to the raping Israeli entity, supporting it politically, economically, militarily and with media. The American values allow the American administration to support the conquering and invading occupier, terrorist, and murderer (Israel), yet punishes and seizes the poor tyrannized people of Palestine whose lands have been occupied and who were dispelled from their lands. What is Cheney doing in the region? What is Zinni doing in Palestine? It is certain that they came to prepare for a new strike against Iraq. But what are they doing to the Palestinians? Cheney visits Sharon, and tells Arafat to apply Tennets peace plan and that he might meet with him some time in the future (this is humiliation within itself to Arafat). Some papers have published the peace plan of Tennet, which rules the military, and security surrender of the Palestinians. There is not even one word of political issues in this plan. Moreover I have begun to build up some convincing issues about some of the aims of Cheneys tour around the Arab states, which is not only to discuss the Iraqi issue, but also to convince the Arab states to completely abandon the Palestinians right for repatriation at the summit. My information says that some Arab states are already working on this to make it become one of the summit resolutions in Beirut. I frankly tell you that some Arab states are preparing for such an issue. Who wants to rule out the right for repatriation? Is it the Palestinians? No, the Arab states are not even convinced with it, but the Americans want this, and the people are seeking Americas satisfaction, so why should they upset them. They see the fact that selling the right for repatriation is imposed by reality and rationalism, and a solution could be sought after. The
American is most definitely working in this region for
the interest of this Israeli entity
reaching out to the stage of erasing resisting vocabulary
out of the political dictionary, and recognizing the
resistance as terror. I consider that this is the top of
the American tyranny and ending up into being trapped by
the American values. It is a time when the occupying and
assaulting tyrant becomes immune, while the resistant to
occupation becomes terrorist, and in some speeches Bush
is saying that this terrorist should not live. He says
that terrorists who are defending their rights should not
be allowed to live since they spread death. Who are these
terrorists? According to Mr. Bush the resistant is a
terrorist and should not live. These are some of the
American values, which we see. I did not add anything to
your information tonight. I just did a montage by
gathering this information and giving you one clear
picture about the American. These are the issues that I
remembered, but there must be more. We do not deny that America has a great technological and scientific development, and has a great military force, and great economy. We do not deny that there are elections in America. But in fact the voting notes, which fall, in the voting boxes are inked with the blood, and body pieces of some of the people of this world. There will soon be American elections, and in order for the Republic Party to win the elections it must cause wars, and kill some thousands of the Iraqi poor people to secure its winning. Each election must include our oil, blood, flesh, dignity, destiny, and our people. Even if their elections had some democracy than still they are filled with the smell of gunpowder, blood, money, power, and the blood of the tyrannized people of our region. If
there is something important for the Americans it is the
money, power, and technology. Thats all. There is
no other civilization, philosophy, values, ideologies,
human ethics or virtues, passion or love
Where are
all of these? In summary I can present you a picture of
this American administration. It is a monster that is
thirsty for power, thirsty for blood, and stepping over
everything. This monster is like the monsters in the
American movies, it takes the shape of a human who shaved
his beard, put on a cravat, dressed a nice suit, and wore
the nicest of the perfumes. This is the American picture
that is beautiful on the outside but ugly and mean on the
inside. After all of this presentation I would like to reach the following conclusion. What America has in hands today, was owned by the titans of the world previously, but each according to the requirements of his age: Greeks, Romans, Persians, Pharaohs in Egypt, and many more who had the might and money, armies and techniques; each according to their requirements. For example: the Pharaohs civilization was of great economic elements, their techniques have included some puzzles, which are not solved yet. What I want to ask is that do you have a legal right to practice all these tyrannies on earth when you have the money and power, the armies and techniques? Are these enough to put you in control of the world forever? The Pharaoh was like this and has ended, and so others. Cesar was like this and passed away. Allah almighty says: Look to the conditions of those before thee. Today when we recognize the reality of these values and the instruction of this American existence, we can stand up and say frankly and truthfully that we may not be able to do anything, but we have a word of right that we should speak out. Today the basic source of evil and terror, the central threat for the worlds peace and economy, the basic threat for even the environment of this world, the basic source for wars, killings, seductions, civil and regional wars in this world is the United States of America which is claiming that its defending the values of civilization and freedom, and this is the truth. In return for this truth and this fact we as an Islamic and Arabic nation must have our existence, values and civilization, our culture and inheritance, our customs and habits. We must refuse this invasion, and face it with all of what we have. Its good to benefit from technology since it is necessary; it is good to learn from their developed administration if they have one since its wanted. But we do not need to learn from the Americans any values, ethics, of culture since we have these. These are our lands, countries, and they are countries with values, ethics, basic and initial human culture and inheritance. We should never feel for even a moment that we are lacking any of these, especially when they talk to us about the American civilization and values. Our nation despite of its declines in some circumstances regarding many issues is still a better place for living. Go to all over the Arabic and Islamic countries and you will find that the society of the country in the worst situation and circumstances is still holding to its instinctive human values and ethics, and to its proper habits of dignity, honour, generosity, and human sympathy towards others pains and sufferings. At this point I do not want to stand up and say lets declare war on the USA, lets prepare armies to invade and destroy the USA, no, this is not my aim. I would like to say yet that they are the ones, who declared war on us, and are invading and fighting our nation, its religion, culture, civilization, values, oil, water, trade, interests, existence, sovereignty, political decisions, dignity, pride and freedom. This nation should defend itself against this invasion. Here I am talking about a legitimate defence by all means, and in every field whether political, cultural, media, and social, economical or other. We can defend, resist, and preserve our nation, its dignity, religion and values, and we should do so. We must not weaken and surrender, we must work with trust. Here I wish to remind you all in this present generation at this present time in our Islamic and Arabic world that our history is full of many invasions that came to our regions. The Moguls came to our countries, destroyed, burned, killed, and butchered; but since our religion and nation are great, our nation could assimilate these Mogul attacks with its various stages. It could not defeat them militarily, but it could face them with culture, religion and thought. As a result many of the Mogul kings became Moslems and they spread Islam around the world including mid-Asia and some of the present Russian republics. They also became defenders of Islam at some stages. Another invaders were the crucifiers. The many crucifying armies were also faced, opposed, defeated, and expelled out of this region. Therefore we are not people without history or experience. We are not people whose region did not experience such difficulties and challenges throughout the history. Our
history is rich with such challenges. Our nation was
always able to prove that it can assimilate such attacks,
oppose the aggressors, and expel the invaders and
occupiers. This fact needed the sacrifices of men and
women who had the will and readiness to sacrifice. The
defeated, surrenderor, and the ones who are satisfied
with sitting on their humiliated thrones are not
qualified to defend this nation, its dignity and values.
On the other hand there were always men and women
leaders, followers, soldiers and fighters, who had the
will to carry the flag or emblem, march forward and
defeat the invaders and goons. This happened
continuously, needed only time, and sacrifices. No one
should imagine that these kinds of confrontations could
be concluded within a year, two, or even ten years. It
may take one or two generations. But in the end the enemy
will be defeated and this nation will win. This is
Allahs promise to the good and the powerless. The
hands of this generation and every generation will no
doubt defeat the all those like great Pharaoh, his
assistant Hâmân, and their soldiers. But as I said it
needs a firm stand, readiness, sacrifice, and time. From Al Hussein (p) we learn that we may have to pay a high price in order to triumph and may not live to see victory. We learn that the true sacrificing people are those who offer their bloods in order for others to live after while triumphed, with dignity and freedom. In such a manner our lord Al Hussein (p) offered himself, his children, his family, and companions in order to defend Islam, its teachings and values, which was targeted by Yazeed (7) so that this religion could survive afterwards due to his martyrdom and after his martyrdom. He did so for this nation to keep these values and redeem its willingness, cautiousness, conscience, courage, and refuse all the humiliation by facing Yazeed and every Yazeedian* through history. This is a great lesson taught to us by our master Hussein (p). Our present generation should not accept defeat if it is unable to achieve victory. It must tolerate and confront, be firm and teach this type of culture to the generation after so that it would some how find the ability of transforming confrontation into victory. I repeat if we cannot achieve victory we should not accept defeat or surrender. This is one of the great lessons, which we learn from Al Hussein (p) in Karbala, and which is needed by our nation in this age. In the end I would like to thank Mr. Tennet, the CIA director who claimed in an article of the press that there is no difference between the Shiite terror and the Sunnite terror. His words are somehow asking the Sunnite and the Shiite to unite, just as I said during my first speech on the first night. As you see the Americans want the Sunnite and the Shiite to unite, and why shouldnt we? Terror to them is no longer defined as being that of Khomeini Shiite terror coming from Iran, or that of Sunnite terror coming from Afghanistan and Osama Bin Laden. The subject to them is now one; it is Islam and the Quraan. They now recognize Islam and the Quraan as the religion and book of terror. This will hopefully be the final and conclusive battle, and maybe the last battle of mankind. There is nothing left to confront this autocratic American tyrant in controlling the world except Islam, the Islamic nation, the Islamic cautiousness, and the Islamic civilization. The power of Islam is inciting hundreds of millions, and changing a man into a martyrdom lover. It is also changing a woman as weve seen on TV into a mother who stands up with firmness without any trembling in her voice to encourage her son towards offering his soul and becoming a martyr, then she becomes happy as she receives the news of his martyrdom. This means that Islam never came to people as a stranger from any part of the world. This belief, thought and ideology originated from our land here in Mecca, Medina, and lived through our generations. It is thought to be the last threat to America, and that there is nothing left beyond Islam. The Russians do not form any threat anymore they are poor. China is crippling with one step forward and one step backwards. The only thing that the Americans are looking at as being a real threat is this original Islam, they see it as a giant that shook itself and began moving, while its original aspects started to appear in the Islamic world. These are conducted studies and researches and I am not analysing. On this occasion I would like to mention that Brigenski who used to be Carters national security consular, has expected besides Khomeini the collapse of the Soviet Union. In addition Brigenski himself said: The next century will witness the collapse of the Capitalistic Civilization of the West. People will start looking for an alternative to satisfy their bodies and spiritual needs. He added saying: the only alternative will be religion, and when people look around religions they will not find a religion that can answer all their questions except the one which was brought by a prophet named Mohammed, and that is Islam. Brigenski expected more than twenty years ago that this is going to be the century of Islam, and America is not one person who wanted to become an enemy. The story is not Bushs alone. The story includes associations that rule, centres of studies, intelligence and information, these all are included in the enemy. When America today looks at Islam as an enemy, it is because it knows according to all of its data and information that Islam is the real opponent to its evil autocracy, which wants to control this world, especially the Islamic world. The return of the nation to its Islamic principles, and its commitment to Islam, is hopefully the good news. If things are going in this direction, then hopefully this will be the last war between belief and disbelief, between good and evil, between Islam and Satan. Therefore we have to look with hope towards the future. As I said before, from between the corpses and the smell of blood, gunpowder and rising smoke, darkness surrounding us, we should always look for a sun, which will rise in the future. This sun is our foreseen holy leader Al Mahdi (8) the son of Hassan (may Allah bring him out soon). He will come from the unknown to conclude this great battle. This is a belief we carry and every Moslem who believes in Quraan and its promise carries it as well. In the end I would like to say that each one of us should carry his responsibilities, each father and mother, man and woman, teacher and pupil, boy and girl. We are all concerned in this battle that is not the battle of governments. This is the battle of people; its a great responsibility, which we should all carry during the next historic and destined stage. May peace be upon you my lord and master Abu Abdullah Al Hussein and the spirits that are floating around your grave. I send you my adoration as long as night follows day. I ask my dear Allah to keep me committed to continuously visit thee. May peace be upon Al Hussein, Ali bin Al Hussein, the sons of Al Hussein, and the followers of Al Hussein. And may peace be upon you all. |