Post by lovelace on Jan 14, 2006 7:54:31 GMT -5
Muslim Cleric Says Killing Unbelievers Is 'Okay'
Mark Mayne
Correspondent
London (CNSNews.com) - The prosecution in the U.K. trial of Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri said Friday he preached that killing non-Muslims was justified, even if there was no reason for it.
"Killing an adulterer, even if he is a Muslim is okay. Killing a Kaffir (infidel) who is fighting you is okay. Killing a Kaffir for any reason you can say it is okay even if there is no reason for it," the jury heard Hamza say in a video of his September 1999 sermon, entitled "Adherence to Islam in the Western World."
In it, Hamza argued that Islamic beliefs should be spread with the help of the sword. "Dawa (propagation of Islam through word and action) needs a sword next to it and also needs effort," the alleged race-hate cleric said in the video.
Hamza added that those selling alcohol should be persuaded to come to the mosque. "Make sure that the person who gave him the licence for that wine shop doesn't exist anymore on the Earth. Finish him up. Give him Dawa. If he doesn't respect Dawa, kill him," he said.
On Thursday, the jury heard Hamza's voice for the first time, in a video in which he told his followers "to bleed the enemy" as part of the struggle to set up a global Islamic state.
The two-hour video, recorded in late 1997 or early 1998, showed Hamza speaking below a banner which read "Al Jihad" next to the words Palestine, Bosnia, Kashmir, Egypt and Afghanistan.
Hamza told his supporters that the fight to establish a global Khilafah (Islamic state) would be a "long bloody way" and divided into phases. The first, he said, was known as "the needle of bleeding the enemy."
"We ask Muslims to do that, to be capable to bleed the enemies of Allah anywhere, by any means," Hamza said. "You can't do it by nuclear weapon. You do it by the kitchen knife, no other solution. You cannot do it by chemical weapons. You have to do it by mice poison."
"Imagine you have only one small knife ... you have to stab him here and there until he bleeds to death, until he dies," the video showed Hamza saying.
According to Hamza's speech, such a fight should continue "so on and so forth, until you see the Khilafah sitting in the White House ruling from there."
The jury also heard the cleric dismiss Britain as a "toilet" and describe brothels, courts, banks that charge interest, video shops and wine sellers as being targets worthy of attack by Islamic militants.
Hamza also claimed western democracies are in a "freefall" because they had given too much personal freedom to their citizens. "It is falling down, it is crumbling now," he said.
"The society is crumbling because of democracy - because it gives freedoms to the silly people who do not know how to use freedoms and they end up destroying themselves, their family, their country, their morals, their even humanity," said Hamza.
Hamza , 47, denied 15 charges, including having a document "useful" to a terrorist and soliciting people to murder non-Muslims.
Mark Mayne
Correspondent
London (CNSNews.com) - The prosecution in the U.K. trial of Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri said Friday he preached that killing non-Muslims was justified, even if there was no reason for it.
"Killing an adulterer, even if he is a Muslim is okay. Killing a Kaffir (infidel) who is fighting you is okay. Killing a Kaffir for any reason you can say it is okay even if there is no reason for it," the jury heard Hamza say in a video of his September 1999 sermon, entitled "Adherence to Islam in the Western World."
In it, Hamza argued that Islamic beliefs should be spread with the help of the sword. "Dawa (propagation of Islam through word and action) needs a sword next to it and also needs effort," the alleged race-hate cleric said in the video.
Hamza added that those selling alcohol should be persuaded to come to the mosque. "Make sure that the person who gave him the licence for that wine shop doesn't exist anymore on the Earth. Finish him up. Give him Dawa. If he doesn't respect Dawa, kill him," he said.
On Thursday, the jury heard Hamza's voice for the first time, in a video in which he told his followers "to bleed the enemy" as part of the struggle to set up a global Islamic state.
The two-hour video, recorded in late 1997 or early 1998, showed Hamza speaking below a banner which read "Al Jihad" next to the words Palestine, Bosnia, Kashmir, Egypt and Afghanistan.
Hamza told his supporters that the fight to establish a global Khilafah (Islamic state) would be a "long bloody way" and divided into phases. The first, he said, was known as "the needle of bleeding the enemy."
"We ask Muslims to do that, to be capable to bleed the enemies of Allah anywhere, by any means," Hamza said. "You can't do it by nuclear weapon. You do it by the kitchen knife, no other solution. You cannot do it by chemical weapons. You have to do it by mice poison."
"Imagine you have only one small knife ... you have to stab him here and there until he bleeds to death, until he dies," the video showed Hamza saying.
According to Hamza's speech, such a fight should continue "so on and so forth, until you see the Khilafah sitting in the White House ruling from there."
The jury also heard the cleric dismiss Britain as a "toilet" and describe brothels, courts, banks that charge interest, video shops and wine sellers as being targets worthy of attack by Islamic militants.
Hamza also claimed western democracies are in a "freefall" because they had given too much personal freedom to their citizens. "It is falling down, it is crumbling now," he said.
"The society is crumbling because of democracy - because it gives freedoms to the silly people who do not know how to use freedoms and they end up destroying themselves, their family, their country, their morals, their even humanity," said Hamza.
Hamza , 47, denied 15 charges, including having a document "useful" to a terrorist and soliciting people to murder non-Muslims.
