Monday, April 06, 2009

Be Careful Of Your Brain's Reflexes

I'm watching 'America's Next Top Model' while reading a written interview Osama bin Laden gave September 28th, 2001. The juxtaposition is just about perfect. Afghanistan makes Vietnam look like the La Jolla yacht club. If Obama is serious about expanding the war into Pakistan, he has traded in his cigarettes for crack. Here's what everybody in Pakistan already knows:

Daily UMMAT: You have been accused of involvement in the attacks in New York and Washington. What do you want to say about this? If you are not involved, who might be?

USAMA BIN LADEN: In the name of God, the most beneficent, the most merciful. Praise be to Allah, Who is the creator of the whole universe and Who made the Earth as an abode for peace, for the whole humankind. Allah is the Sustainer, who sent Prophet Muhammad for our guidance. I am thankful to The Ummat Group of Publications, which gave me the opportunity to convey my viewpoint to the people, particularly the valiant and true Muslim people of Pakistan who refused to believe the lies of the demon (Pakistani military dictator General Pervez Musharraf).

I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle. It is the United States which is perpetrating every maltreatment on women, children and common people of other faiths, particularly the followers of Islam.

The U.S. has no friends, nor does it want to keep any because the prerequisite of friendship is to come to the level of the friend or consider him at par with you. America does not want to see anyone equal to it. It expects slavery from others. Therefore, other countries are either its slaves or subordinates. However, our case is different. We have pledged slavery to God Almighty alone and after this pledge there is no possibility to become the slave of someone else. If we do that it will be disregardful to both our Sustainer and his fellow beings. Most of the world nations upholding their freedom are the religious ones, which are the enemies of the United States, or the U.S. itself considers them as its enemies.

The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the U.S. system, but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology could survive. They can be anyone, from Russia to Israel and from India to Serbia. In the U.S. itself, there are dozens of well-organized and well-equipped groups, which are capable of causing a large-scale destruction. Then you cannot forget the American Jews, who are annoyed with President Bush ever since the elections in Florida and want to avenge him.

Then there are intelligence agencies in the U.S., which require billions of dollars worth of funds from the Congress and the government every year. This [funding issue] was not a big problem till the existence of the former Soviet Union but after that the budget of these agencies has been in danger. They needed an enemy. So, they first started propaganda against Usama and Taleban and then this incident happened. You see, the Bush Administration approved a budget of 40 billion dollars. Where will this huge amount go? It will be provided to the same agencies, which need huge funds and want to exert their importance. Now they will spend the money for their expansion and for increasing their importance.

I will give you an example. Drug smugglers from all over the world are in contact with the U.S. secret agencies. These agencies do not want to eradicate narcotics cultivation and trafficking because their importance will be diminished. The people in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Department are encouraging drug trade so that they could show performance and get millions of dollars worth of budget. General Noriega was made a drug baron by the CIA and, in need, he was made a scapegoat. In the same way, whether it is President Bush or any other U.S. President, they cannot bring Israel to justice for its human rights abuses or to hold it accountable for such crimes.

What is this? Is it not that there exists a government within the government in the United Sates? That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks.

Yoanna won the model competition, even though all the judges including Tyra Banks admitted to liking Mercedes better as the war machine grinds its way 8 years later into Pakistan. They're calling it the Af-Pak War now. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll, ten thousand ships have traveled thee in vain.

Daily UMMAT: Are there other safe areas other than Afghanistan, where you can continue jehad?

USAMA BIN LADEN: There are areas in all parts of the world where strong jehadi forces are present, from Indonesia to Algeria, from Kabul to Chechnya, from Bosnia to Sudan, and from Burma to Kashmir. Then it is not the problem of my person. I am a helpless fellowman of God, constantly in the fear of my accountability before God. It is not the question of me but of Islam and, in Islam too, of jehad. Thanks to God, those waging a jehad can walk today with their heads raised. Jehad was still present when there was no Usama and it will remain as such even when Usama is no longer there. Allah opens up ways and creates loves in the hearts of people for those who walk on the path of Allah with their lives, property and children. Believe it, through jehad, a man gets everything he desires. And the biggest desire of a Muslim is the life after death. Martyrdom is the shortest way of attaining an eternal life.

Daily UMMAT: What do you say about the Pakistan Government policy on Afghanistan attack?

USAMA BIN LADEN: We are thankful to the Momin and valiant people of Pakistan who erected a blockade in front of the evil forces and stood in the first file of battle. Pakistan is a great hope for the Islamic brotherhood. Its people are awakened, organized and rich in the spirit of faith. They backed Afghanistan in its war against the Soviet Union and extended every help to the mojahedeen (freedom fighters) and the Afghan people. Then these are very Pakistanis who are standing shoulder by shoulder with the Taleban. If such people emerge in just two countries, the domination of the West will diminish in a matter of days. Our hearts beat with Pakistan and, God forbid, if a difficult time comes we will protect it with our blood. Pakistan is sacred for us like a place of worship. We are the people of jehad and fighting for the defense of Pakistan is the best of all jehads to us. It does not matter for us as to who reforms Pakistan. The important thing is that the spirit of jehad is alive and stronger in the hearts of the Pakistani people.

- Source: Ummat, Urdu-language daily newspaper based in Karachi, Pakistan - Friday, 28 September 2001 - pages 1, 7. http://www.khilafah.comhttp://www.khilafah.com/1421/category.php?DocumentID=2392&TagID=2

12 comments:

Phil said...

Why, why am I always here at bedtime?

Still Life Living said...

Brain reflexes? Do you expect me to believe that I am not smart enough to control my brain and that it has reflexes? If a brain has reflexes, it means that we are fully open to manipulation if we are not careful. Human history is filled with people either being careful or not careful. So today, as we watch the virtual world implode and erupt around us, are we being careful or not careful?

MarcLord said...

High praise indeed, Phil. Maybe I'll watch The Biggest Loser as backdrop for my next sleeping aid.

MarcLord said...

SLL,

we're bungee jumping off antennas on fire.

Bee said...

ANTM? Cool :) I got hooked on it during the 2nd cycle, but am fickle with my reality shows, gave it up when the models all started to look alike to me.

Usama (and the entire taliban/pakistan/afghanistan thing) reminds me of my east Kentucky (coal central) relations -crazier than the bedbugs that got into the gin bottle. Trying to wage a literal war with that brand of crazy is a fool's errand, at best. You can't fight that kind of crazy, all you can do is disown it and hope it doesn't show up on your doorstep one day drunk and asking for money.

What was most interesting to me was to find that Bin Laden subscribes to my own personal conspiracy theory - that the "war on drugs" is anything but. Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day, I suppose. The question is, which of us is the stopped clock? I'm pretty sure it's not me...well, reasonably sure, anyway.

A. Peasant said...

That's funny. I am thinking oosama makes quite a lot of sense.

MarcLord said...

Bee, my wife sometimes watches ANTM for some mindless entertainment...and I'm, shall we say, analytical when it comes to the feminine so don't mind watching.

Funny what you say about Kentucky crazy. OBL may be of that kind, but he's widely admired amongst Pakistani intel and military professionals for having an incisive mind, for his charities, and for his devotion to Allah. Every rocket that's shot into Pakistan brings him 1000 new adherents.

MarcLord said...

Pez,

there's a reason much of the Sunni world either follows or sympathizes with him.

Davoh said...

um, apologies, but don't have 24/7 access to electricity or information these days.. buut whatever happened to Osama bin there done that? Was he real, or just a Psy-ops tool?

A. Peasant said...

google tim osman, died dec 2001. cia asset.

Davoh said...

TY, A.P.

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