Prayers to destroy U.S. echo across Mideast  

Islamic leaders denounce American 'conspiracies' against Muslims  

Posted: December 31, 2002

1:00 a.m. Eastern

(c)2002 WorldNetDaily.com 

In Friday sermons across the Middle East last week, Islamic leaders 
denounced American "plots" against Muslims and called on Allah to 
destroy Jews, the United States and its allies, according to the 
Israel-based Independent Media Review Analysis, or IMRA, a digest of 
media in the region.  

On Yemen television, from the Grand Mosque in Sanaa, Sheik Akram 
Abd-al-Razzaq al-Ruqeihi prayed:  

"O God, destroy the United States and its allies and let them suffer, 
particularly tyrant and arrogant Americans. O God, destroy the Jews, 
for they are within your power."  

Yesterday, in Yemen, a gunman killed three American missionaries at a 
Southern Baptist hospital. Officials believe the suspect belonged to a 
militant cell that may be targeting foreigners and Yemeni public figures 
perceived to have strayed from the path of Islam.  

The Yemeni sheik criticized some Arab and Islamic countries for their 
secret support, neutrality or silence over purported U.S. plans for the 
Muslim world.  

"You all know that the U.S. designs will not be restricted to Iraq," he 
said. "Conspiracies are being concocted for other countries with the aim 
of striking Islam and Muslims, humiliating them, and subjugating them 
to the tyrant will."  

On the Voice of Palestine in Ramallah, the official radio station of 
the Palestinian Authority, Sheik Muhammad Hussein said the upcoming 
war "does not only target Iraq, but also the whole region in a wicked 
plan to redraw the map of the region in accordance with the ambitions 
of the invading colonialist."  

The imam criticized Arab rulers' "negative stand" as unacceptable and 
urged the Arab nation to stage demonstrations against the "aggressive 
war."  

Saudi Arabia's official television station carried Sheik Sa'ud 
Bin-Ibrahim al-Shureim's sermon from the holy mosque in Mecca in 
which he cited the prophet Muhammad's traditions in his exhortation 
to Muslims to not follow the "examples of Jews and Christians."  

"The people of infidelity," the sheik said, "have not scored victory 
because of their power but because of the empty hearts of Muslims."  

In his concluding prayer, the imam said: "O God, strengthen Islam and 
Muslims, humiliate infidelity and infidels, destroy your enemies, the 
enemies of Islam, and protect this country."  

He continued: "O God, help our mujahedin brothers, who fight for your 
sake everywhere. O God, help them score victory over your enemy and 
their enemy."  

On Syrian Arab Republic Radio, Sheik Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman 
Barakat spoke from Al-Rawdah Mosque in Damascus.  

In his concluding prayer, the imam said "O God, help Arabs and 
Muslims score victory over your enemy and their enemy and destroy the 
treacherous Zionists and their followers. O God, support our mujahedin 
brothers in the occupied Arab territories."  

On official Iraqi television from Abd-al-Qadir al- Jeilani Mosque in 
Baghdad, Sheik Abd-al prayed that God would "help the faithful score 
victory over infidels."  

He continued: "O God, help your mujahedin servants in Palestine and 
Iraq. O God, strengthen them and help them score victory over your 
enemy and their enemy."  

"O God, destroy unjust infidels, criminal Americans, and aggressive 
Zionist Jews," the Iraqi sheik said. "O God, destroy them, shake the 
ground under them. O God weaken them, disperse them, down their 
planes, and drown their ships."  

The imam also asked God to help President Saddam Hussein confront 
infidels and liberate Palestine.  

On Qatar state television, an unidentified sheik spoke from 
Umar Bin-al-Khattab Mosque in Doha.  

Concluding, he prayed: "O God, destroy the usurper Jews. O God, 
shake the ground under them. O God, disperse them and let their 
plots destroy them. O God, support our weak brothers in Palestine, 
Kashmir, and elsewhere." 

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Source: WorldNet Daily
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30249


Cheers, Steve..

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