Middle East Media Research Institute, October 14, 2000
Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon in the Zayed bin Sultan Aal
Nahyan mosque in Gaza, broadcast live on the official Palestinian Authority
television.
The speaker is Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya, Member of the PA appointed
“Fatwa Council” and former acting Rector of the Islamic University in Gaza:
“None of the Jews refrain from
committing any possible evil. If the Labor party commits the evil and the
crime, the Likud party stands by it; and if the Likud party commits the evil and
the crime, the Labor party stands by it.. The Jews are Jews, whether
Labor or Likud… They do not have any moderates or any advocates of
peace. They are all liars. They all want to distort truth, but we
are in possession of the truth.”
“O brother believers, the criminals, the terrorists are the Jews, who have
butchered our children, orphaned them, widowed our women and desecrated
our holy places and sacred sites. They are the terrorists. They are
the ones who must be butchered and killed, as Allah the Almighty said:
‘Fight them: Allah will torture them at your hands, and will humiliate them and
will help you to overcome them, and will relieve the minds of the believers….”
“O brothers in belief, this is the case of the Jews and their habitual conduct,
and what happened yesterday, and has been going on for two weeks, and
before that for many years, and which will be repeated in future years unless
we stand up like men and unless we have the known Muslim position, of those who wage Jihad in the path of Allah, those who defend their
rights and who sacrifice all that is dear to them.”
“O brothers in belief, the beautiful bride has a costly price and dowry….
Our bride is paradise, O brothers in belief. .The cost and the dowry of this
bride, the dowry of this paradise, is that we fight in the path of Allah, and kill
and be killed.”
“Allah has purchased from the believers their persons and their property in
return for the promise that they shall have paradise, for they fight in the cause
of Allah, and they slay the enemy and are slain. This is a promise that
He has made incumbent upon Himself, as set out in the Torah, the
Gospel, and the Koran.”
“We say to the Jews, and we say to Clinton, and we say to all those who
supported the Jews and still cooperate with the Jews, we say to them, that
this will not shake us, we are the Palestinian people, who are positioned in the
land of the Isra’ and Mi’raj. It will not shake a single hair of
ours. Our determination will not sway. We will raise the banner of
Jihad.”
“America and Europe and the world were shocked by the kidnapping of three
tramps, the kidnapping of three wretched soldiers, and the killing of two in
Ramallah. But their feelings were not moved, and they did not shudder
when they saw the children Muhammad ad-Durrah and others women,
and men, and youths being martyred by cannons and missiles, and all
the barbaric instruments that the Jews possess.”
“They were moved, for the sake of five persons, and the world went into
turmoil and it will not stop for Clinton or for the old hag Albright, they will not
be relieved, and they will not cease to be concerned, and they will not rest until
the Jews return to their families. But as for the Palestinians, as for this
pure blood, it can go to Hell in the eyes of the Americans and Europe and the
Jews.”
“This is the truth, O Brothers in belief. From here, Allah the almighty has
called upon us not to ally with the Jews or the Christians, not to like them, not
to become their partners, not to support them, and not to sign agreements with
them. And he who does that, is one of them, as Allah said: ‘O you who believe,
do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies, for they are allies of one
another. Who from among you takes them as allies will indeed be one of
them.'”
“…The Jews are the allies of the Christians, and the Christians are the allies of
the Jews, despite the enmity that exists between them. The enmity
between the Jews and the Christians is deep, but all of them are in agreement
against the monotheists against those who say, ‘There is no God but
Allah and Muhammad is his messenger,’ that is they are against you, O
Muslims.”
“Even if an agreement of Gaza is signed – we shall not forget
Haifa, and Acre, and the Galilee, and Jaffa, and the Triangle and the Negev,
and the rest of our cities and villages. It is only a matter of time.
The weak will not remain forever weak, and the strong will not remain forever
strong… If we are weak today . and we are not able to regain our rights,
then at least we have to pass on the banner waving high to our
children and grandchildren…”
“None of the factions is allowed to stand on the sidelines at this stage, or not
to think well of avenging our pure martyrs and wounded. Our people
must unite in one trench, and receive armaments from the Palestinian
leadership, to confront the Jews. By Allah, the Jews, O brothers in
belief, do not know, nor have they ever known throughout history, anything but
force and Jihad in the path of Allah. The Jews are like a
pedal as long as you step on it with your foot, it doesn’t move, but if
you lift your foot from it, it hurts you and punishes you. This is the case
of the Jews.”
“Have no mercy on
the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you
are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are,
kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them and those who
stand by them they are all in one trench, against the Arabs and the
Muslims because they established Israel here, in the beating heart of the Arab
world, in Palestine. They created it to be the outpost of their
civilization and the vanguard of their army, and to be the sword of the
West and the crusaders, hanging over the necks of the monotheists, the
Muslims in these lands. They wanted the Jews to be their spearhead.”
“…Let us put our trust in Allah, close ranks, and unite our words, and the
slogan of us all should be, ‘Jihad! Jihad! For the sake of Palestine, and
for the sake of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa!'”
“…We will not give up a single grain of soil of Palestine, from Haifa, and Jaffa,
and Acre, and Mulabbas and Salamah, and Majdal , and
all the land, and Gaza, and the West Bank .”
“…Allah, deal with the Jews, your enemies and the enemies of Islam.
Deal with the crusaders, and America, and Europe behind them, O Lord of the
worlds. .”