Zawahiri is seriously pushing bad karma on the Muslim faith if he thinks extremist claims like this are imminent.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/04/zawahiri.video/index.html
Al Qaeda's No. 2 says end of West imminent, video shows
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Ayman al-Zawahiri appears in videotape Wednesday similar to "fireside chat"
He says that the "enemy" is trying to forestall the inevitable
He urges Muslims across the globe to fight the West
(CNN)-- In a newly released videotaped message similar to a "fireside chat," al Qaeda's second-in-command issues advice and directives for the Muslim world, terrorism expert Laura Mansfield said Wednesday.
In the one-hour, 34-minute video, titled "The Advice of One Concerned," Ayman al-Zawahiri includes clips from other videos and news broadcasts, including one from al-Furqan, the video production arm of the Islamic State of Iraq, according to Mansfield, who obtained the video.
Al-Zawahiri says in the message that the defeat of the West is imminent, and that "the enemy" is trying to forestall the inevitable, Mansfield said.
"The good omens of the new dawn of victory have begun to loom on the horizon, with Allah's permission and will," he says.
"And the stage preceding victory is normally, in the history of nations, the stage in which there is most seen an increase in conspiracies, plots and inciting of discord in an attempt by the enemy, who has begun to see his defeat approach, to push back and delay the defeat as much as he can."
Al-Zawahiri does not reference the recent terrorism incidents in the United Kingdom in the video.
Mansfield said it appears to be more of a "state of the ummah [community]" style of address "intended to try and provide advice to the Muslim world in a manner similar to the 'fireside chat.' "
Al-Zawahiri advises people in Iraq and the Palestinian territory, Mansfield said, and renews his call for young men to join the jihad in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Included is a video clip of the late Sheikh Abdullah Azzam -- an extremist in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation -- reminding Muslims that jihad is their responsibility.
Al-Zawahiri also rebukes Fatah for battling Hamas in the Palestinian territory, telling party members to "return to your religion, your Islam, your honor and your Arabness."
Last month, al-Zawahiri, in an audiotaped message posted on several Islamist Web sites, voiced his support for Hamas leaders who maintain control of Gaza after a split with Fatah, a more moderate Palestinian faction.
"We say to you, now that you are in control of Gaza, you should remember two things: One is that being in power is not a goal in itself, but the goal is, rather, to implement the rule of Allah," al-Zawahiri said in that audiotape, according to a CNN translation.
"Two, this control is incomplete and unstable, for the [Israeli] plans are being made to invade Gaza. Unite with your mujahedeen brothers in Palestine and do not stir up problems with them.
"Unite your ranks with all of the mujahedeen in the world for the upcoming battle [of Gaza] that I expect the Egyptians and Saudis to participate in."
The audiotaped message was a reversal of al-Zawahiri's previous criticism of Hamas, issued after its leaders agreed to form a unity government with Fatah leaders.
Hamas fighters wrested control of Gaza from Fatah security forces two weeks ago, prompting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, based in the West Bank, to replace the Hamas leadership with an emergency government.
Since then, the United States, the European Union and Israel have agreed to release funds to the new Palestinian government. The money had been frozen after Hamas won legislative elections last year.
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4 comments:
The time has come to start deporting people and closing borders. Or we could just sit back and wait... Unfortunately, I think the past has revealed what happens when we wait. I think Hitler would be appropriate for the Muslims at this point. YES I SAID IT!
So many of us all over the world have to take on the responsibility of removing American criminality from our country.
Africa's unwillingness to retaliate against white supremacy for its crimes against Africa is the reason why Africa is still suffering. Turning the other cheek aint gonna be the game no more. We must and will strike back against our oppressors....Diego Garcia....Fight On.
I am tired of the muslim community saying that those extremists do not represent Islam. I fully agree with the statement, however whay are the rest of the "moderate Muslims" not doing anything about it??
Whoever consider themselves the spokesperson in the name of Islam (I guess it is Saudi Arabia) should be out there making videos refuting everything Al-Qaeda is propagating and teaching young hopeless Muslims the real values of Islam.
I think we cannot expect the west to fix this problem, it must come from inside. Where is the outrage from moderate Mislims? I do not see it and I am disappointed.
By the way, I grew up in the middle east and I am not speaking as an american who has never been there.
Raja, two words come to mind, apathy and hypocrisy. You're right about not expecting the West to fix this problem. We have our own social ills to deal with. The extremist views coming from the Middle East especially those that claim to represent Islam are disturbing. Is this from Muslims or perhaps angry Arabs in general that despise the U.S. for its alliances with Israel?
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