Abu-Ubayd al-Qurashi, Al-Neda
After the fall of Baghdad, voices of wailing and mourning swelled in many Islamic countries, while total numbness and silence encompassed other circles. While some lamented the capital of al-Rashid, others recalled the fall of al-Andalus. They forgot that the entire Arab world is as good as fallen, as long as Islamic law is abrogated and the people of Islam fill the prisons and detention camps.... Yes, direct colonialism has returned again. Another Arab capital has fallen into its hands, as Jerusalem, Beirut (before the resistance), and Kabul fell.
Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
And Israel, despite efforts in secular state schools to present a more balanced view of Arab history, allows state-funded religious schools to preach that Jewish rule should extend from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraq and that the Kingdom of Jordan is occupied Jewish land.
al-Qaeda, anonymous (Justifying the attack that killed the UN special representative for Iraq, Sergio Viera de Mello)
He was the Crusader who ccarved up part of the land of Islam (East Timor). In the UN law against Islam, Independence is forbidden to Muslims: Independence is permissible for East Timor, but taboo for Kashmir; Independence is permissible for Christian Georgia, but taboo for Chechnya; Independence is permissible for Crusader Croatia, but taboo for Bosnia.
UBL, source missing
However, those who follow the movement of the criminal gang of the White House, the agents of the Jews, who are preparing to attack and divide the Islamic world, without disapproving of this, realize that you have not understood anything from the message of the two raids. Therefore, I am telling you, and God is my witness, whether America escalates or de-escalates the conflict, we will reply to it in kind, God willing. God is my witness, the youth of Islam are preparing things that will fill your hearts with fear. They will target key sectors of your economy until you stop your injustice and aggression or until the more short-lived of us die.
Mullah Omar, JONN
Today the United States in Afghanistan deludes itself with the vanity of apparent power and imagines that its fate will be better than the fate of earlier invaders...Apparently it has not properly read Afghanistan's history.
Shaykh Abdullah Azzam, (on America's position that it can accomplish easy and bloodless victories)
History does not write its lines except in blood. Glory does not build its lofty edifice except with skulls. Honour and respect cannot be established except on a foundation of cripples and corpses...Indeed those who think they can change reality, or change societies, without blood sacrifices and wounds, without pure innocent souls, do not understand the essence of our religion.
Al-Neda (website, on the US closing militant sites)
Every time you close a site, you only further expose yourself to the world and the truth about the democracy you brag about. It is a democracy that is tailored to your measurements only. And when people oppose you, your democracy turns into the ugliest forms of domination, tyranny, and despotism on earth.
Abu-Ubayd al-Qurashi, Al-Neda
On the other hand, we find that God has graciously enabled the mujahedin to understand the [American] enemy's essence and nature, and indeed his center of gravity. A conviction has formed among the mujahedin that American public opinion is not the center of gravity in America. The Zionist lobbies, and with them the security agencies, have long been able to bridle all the media that control the formation of American public opinion. This time it is clearly apparent that the American economy is the American center of gravity. That is what Shaykh Usama bin Laden has said quite explicitly. Supporting this penetrating strategic view is that the Disunited States of America are a mixture of nationalities, ethnic groups, and races united only by the "American Dream,", or to put it more accordingly, worship of the dollar, which they openly call "the Almighty Dollar"! May God be exalted greatly above what they say! Furthermore, the entire American war effort is based on pumping enormous wealth at all times, money being, as has been said, the sinew of war.
Mohammed Jamal Khalifah, brother-in-law of UBL,
Osama is one of the best persons I have ever met...Osama was a very normal person, very humble, and a very simple person. Osama is also a very polite, quiet person. He forces you to respect him from his attitudes. He's not a person who is aggressive. He is not a person who is even thinking to hate any person, even by words...I am very surprised to hear about what Osama is doing now because it is not in his personality to lead. He doesn't have the capacity to organize something as simple as a 15-minute trip. Even at prayer time he would say: "You lead the prayers."
Usama Bin Laden, JONN
O sister who is following in the footsteps of the virtuous ones by sending her brothers into the arena with firmness and determination.
You are the ones who have incited and motivated and before then reared all the men who fought in the jihad in Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Chechnya. You are the ones who brought forth the band of heroes in the New York and Washington conquests.
If we do forget, we will not forget the heroism of the Muslim Palestinian woman in the sacred land and her great stands that many men could not equal. She has not spared a brother in her defense of the blessed al-Aqsa [mosque]. She has even offered and sacrificed herself to join the convoy of martyrs as to find sustenance in the presence of her Lord, thus ignoring all the world's temptations and attractions.
O Muslim women we are expecting too much from you today. You do not lack any means for supporting your religion, nation, and the sunnah of your Prophet when you are true to Allah.
Poem by Usama bin Laden (2002), arabforum.net
{As an aside, poetry and written letters by prominent people are much more valid and important in the Arab world than in the Western world}
What can I say if we are living in a world of laziness and discontent?
What can I say to a world that is blind in both sight and perception?
Nations are sold and bought like hooves.
Pardon me, my son, but I can only see a very steep path ahead.
A decade has gone by in vagrancy and travel.
What are you asking me about?
About people who are sedated?
Here we are in our tragedy.
Security has gone but danger remains.
It is a world of crimes in which children are slaughtered like cows.
Zion is killing our brothers, and the Arabs are holding a conference.
After the fall of Baghdad, voices of wailing and mourning swelled in many Islamic countries, while total numbness and silence encompassed other circles. While some lamented the capital of al-Rashid, others recalled the fall of al-Andalus. They forgot that the entire Arab world is as good as fallen, as long as Islamic law is abrogated and the people of Islam fill the prisons and detention camps.... Yes, direct colonialism has returned again. Another Arab capital has fallen into its hands, as Jerusalem, Beirut (before the resistance), and Kabul fell.
Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
And Israel, despite efforts in secular state schools to present a more balanced view of Arab history, allows state-funded religious schools to preach that Jewish rule should extend from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraq and that the Kingdom of Jordan is occupied Jewish land.
al-Qaeda, anonymous (Justifying the attack that killed the UN special representative for Iraq, Sergio Viera de Mello)
He was the Crusader who ccarved up part of the land of Islam (East Timor). In the UN law against Islam, Independence is forbidden to Muslims: Independence is permissible for East Timor, but taboo for Kashmir; Independence is permissible for Christian Georgia, but taboo for Chechnya; Independence is permissible for Crusader Croatia, but taboo for Bosnia.
UBL, source missing
However, those who follow the movement of the criminal gang of the White House, the agents of the Jews, who are preparing to attack and divide the Islamic world, without disapproving of this, realize that you have not understood anything from the message of the two raids. Therefore, I am telling you, and God is my witness, whether America escalates or de-escalates the conflict, we will reply to it in kind, God willing. God is my witness, the youth of Islam are preparing things that will fill your hearts with fear. They will target key sectors of your economy until you stop your injustice and aggression or until the more short-lived of us die.
Mullah Omar, JONN
Today the United States in Afghanistan deludes itself with the vanity of apparent power and imagines that its fate will be better than the fate of earlier invaders...Apparently it has not properly read Afghanistan's history.
Shaykh Abdullah Azzam, (on America's position that it can accomplish easy and bloodless victories)
History does not write its lines except in blood. Glory does not build its lofty edifice except with skulls. Honour and respect cannot be established except on a foundation of cripples and corpses...Indeed those who think they can change reality, or change societies, without blood sacrifices and wounds, without pure innocent souls, do not understand the essence of our religion.
Al-Neda (website, on the US closing militant sites)
Every time you close a site, you only further expose yourself to the world and the truth about the democracy you brag about. It is a democracy that is tailored to your measurements only. And when people oppose you, your democracy turns into the ugliest forms of domination, tyranny, and despotism on earth.
Abu-Ubayd al-Qurashi, Al-Neda
On the other hand, we find that God has graciously enabled the mujahedin to understand the [American] enemy's essence and nature, and indeed his center of gravity. A conviction has formed among the mujahedin that American public opinion is not the center of gravity in America. The Zionist lobbies, and with them the security agencies, have long been able to bridle all the media that control the formation of American public opinion. This time it is clearly apparent that the American economy is the American center of gravity. That is what Shaykh Usama bin Laden has said quite explicitly. Supporting this penetrating strategic view is that the Disunited States of America are a mixture of nationalities, ethnic groups, and races united only by the "American Dream,", or to put it more accordingly, worship of the dollar, which they openly call "the Almighty Dollar"! May God be exalted greatly above what they say! Furthermore, the entire American war effort is based on pumping enormous wealth at all times, money being, as has been said, the sinew of war.
Mohammed Jamal Khalifah, brother-in-law of UBL,
Osama is one of the best persons I have ever met...Osama was a very normal person, very humble, and a very simple person. Osama is also a very polite, quiet person. He forces you to respect him from his attitudes. He's not a person who is aggressive. He is not a person who is even thinking to hate any person, even by words...I am very surprised to hear about what Osama is doing now because it is not in his personality to lead. He doesn't have the capacity to organize something as simple as a 15-minute trip. Even at prayer time he would say: "You lead the prayers."
Usama Bin Laden, JONN
O sister who is following in the footsteps of the virtuous ones by sending her brothers into the arena with firmness and determination.
You are the ones who have incited and motivated and before then reared all the men who fought in the jihad in Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Chechnya. You are the ones who brought forth the band of heroes in the New York and Washington conquests.
If we do forget, we will not forget the heroism of the Muslim Palestinian woman in the sacred land and her great stands that many men could not equal. She has not spared a brother in her defense of the blessed al-Aqsa [mosque]. She has even offered and sacrificed herself to join the convoy of martyrs as to find sustenance in the presence of her Lord, thus ignoring all the world's temptations and attractions.
O Muslim women we are expecting too much from you today. You do not lack any means for supporting your religion, nation, and the sunnah of your Prophet when you are true to Allah.
Poem by Usama bin Laden (2002), arabforum.net
{As an aside, poetry and written letters by prominent people are much more valid and important in the Arab world than in the Western world}
What can I say if we are living in a world of laziness and discontent?
What can I say to a world that is blind in both sight and perception?
Nations are sold and bought like hooves.
Pardon me, my son, but I can only see a very steep path ahead.
A decade has gone by in vagrancy and travel.
What are you asking me about?
About people who are sedated?
Here we are in our tragedy.
Security has gone but danger remains.
It is a world of crimes in which children are slaughtered like cows.
Zion is killing our brothers, and the Arabs are holding a conference.