Muslims urged to get US ‘filth’ out of Iraq

[seemslikeadream]

CAMERON SIMPSON August 23 2004


NEARLY 100 prominent Muslims yesterday called on followers around the world to support resistance to American forces in Iraq and the government installed in June.
In an appeal released by the offices of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the 93 figures from nearly 30 nations, from Germany to Indonesia, said the aim should be to "purify the land of Islam from the filth of occupation".
The signatories included senior members of the brotherhood, Youssef al Qaradawi, a leading Qatari-based moderate; Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah of Lebanon, Hizbollah leader; Khaled Mashal, of the Palestinian group Hamas; two Egyptian opposition party leaders; Sheikh Abdeslam Yassine of Morocco's Justice and Charity Group; and Sheikh Abdullah al Ahmar, Yemeni speaker of parliament.
Others came from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bosnia, the Comoros, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Malaysia, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan and Tunisia.
The appeal said Muslim rulers had been silent to the point of complicity in the face of what it called British-American and Zionist aggression in Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
"(The signatories) call on our Arab and Muslim peoples and all religious authorities and liberation forces everywhere to oppose the occupation and savage crimes in Iraq and Palestine, by providing all kinds of material and moral support to the honourable resistance ... until God's victory comes," it said.
The statement called the Iraqi government "subordinate and installed, a mere shadow of the occupation, designed to impose hegemony on Iraq and its resources". The signatories called for democracy throughout the Muslim world through free and fair elections, with respect the dignity of citizens.

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[Union Thug]

1. May I once again quote the prophetic George W. Bush...

..."Mission Accomplished..."

[soothsayer]

4. don't forget the douchebag said 'bring it on' too

So...they're bringin' it.

Great.

[mike_c]

40. he's a uniter...

...and things are going swimmingly on that front!

[Cocoa]

2. "filth", that hurts

haven't they heard, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

[Mika]

6. I guess they should have called it a "squeaky clean" occupation

:puke:

[alittlelark]

19. If an occupying force was in my country

I would call them filth as well. As well as a number of other compound expletives!

[bloodyjack]

26. look at who they want to mobilize...

it is an emotional appeal—a rallying cry, if you will—to Muslims, after all; it's not a plea to US troops to clean up their act, or to the American electorate to vote against the current megalomaniacal ruling party.

[Larkspur]

43. Manure also attract flies

so they are right.

[Nite Owl]

3. Seems like * was right about one

thing. He is a uniter.

[54anickel]

5. Shrub did call it a crusade once. Idgit!

[thecrow]

7. As a wise DU'er said once....

Shit, meet Fan...

[Mika]

10. And another once said wisely..

payback is a bitch.

I am not looking forward to some of the potential reaction. :nuke:

[Demonaut]

8. and who would've thought this might happen?

[madrchsod]

9. that`s nice George

now the botherhood is stating publicly what they have been doing privately, supporting the expulsion of the west from the Muslim countries and overthrowing Arab moderate countries to establish radical Islamic countries..way to go george

[seemslikeadream]

11. ‘filth’ Is it too harsh a word?

[Radius]

14. Chop goes the weasel.

That picture is terrible. The abugraib incident is terrible, a shameful act, and an embarassment. But that person is still alive.

I'm sure you've seen the tapes. We do not cut people's heads off.

[seemslikeadream]

15. Well we do set them in ice

for awhile!


keeps 'em fresh for the photos

[bvar22]

16. The US troops may or may not have beheaded anyone,

but we have done this to many innocent Iraqi children.

BTW: Iraq did NOT attack the US. Iraq did not and could not threaten the US. We invaded THEIR country without provocation.

[seemslikeadream]

17. I am too scared to close my eyes

http://www.bushflash.com/year.html WATCH THIS VIDEO only takes 3 minutes

Enveloped in a sentiment,
A sound that rushes over me.
Engage an impulse to pretend
I have a faith as pure.
Not forgetting what it means to dream.
Indulging everything.
Entertaining thoughts that I've the strength
Of those I yearn to be.
Cheers and tribute greet the saviours.
Reckless thoughts survive.
Anachronistic and impulsive.

And what will happen?
Will I dream?
I am too scared to close my eyes.
For a second please hold me.
None can change in me these things that I believe.
But I don't know what happens now.
I am too scared to close my eyes.

Legion
Vnv Nation

[thebigidea]

18. justify, justify, oh let us justifffffyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[Darranar]

20. We just blow them up n/t

[Ms. Clio]

22. Yeah, that's the only standard for barbarism, cutting off a head

Never mind blowing civilians to bits or shooting them to pieces. Dozens of prisoners are known to have died in custody, and the true number will never be known.

And it isn't Iraqis who are cutting anyone's head off, remember--it's the ever-elusive Al-Qaida mastermind, Zarqawi.

[DrWeird]

41. We killed at least thirty prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

Kind of sick that you would apologize for the whole thing.

[mike_c]

42. may I suggest some reading....

http://www.vietnamese-american.org/

Look through the war crimes sections. The U.S. war crimes sections.

[shadu]

23. I believe 'filth' is the correct appelative

[0007]

12. Who couldn't see this coming down the pike?

junior please place your head between your legs and kiss your ass good-by.

[Tight_rope]

34. LMBAO...yup that would be his best bet right now.

[Dancing_Dave]

13. They Will Cleanse Us Out of There

Sooner or later.

The sooner we leave, the less people die.

Time to take our opposition to the streets again, folks!

[seemslikeadream]

21. So many countries so little time

[savistocate]

25. We must not pull the troops out --they warn

there will be a bloodbath. A civil war..There IS civil war--with US forces taking it's chosen faction to back..

[Aidoneus]

24. The Great Uniter swings for the fence again!

This is very rude of the US-UK-Zionist forces to wipe out a millenia worth of divisions among the believers. I mean, REALLY..

[AuntPatsy]

27. This is getting worse by the moment...

It is no wonder they dispise us. Our media refuses to acknowledge that Iraq's being killed is even worth mentioning. Or that they are barely finding enough food to eat, half of the population has no running water nor electricity since many of the plants have been destroyed...Though it is not reported, we hide inside what is called the green zone, and any American that leaves this compound does so with full armor and ready for battle...

We call them insurgents on the nightly news, they see themselves as defending thier country against an agressor...

Are most Americans so full of themselves that they honestly could care less about the death toll of other countries even when children are being killed by our soldiers no less especially from a questionable war...

We were supposingly saving them from some mass murder plot from Saddam, we have become worse, we pretend we have come to free them and yet, they find themselves even more imprisioned then they were before, and they have found themselves the targets of not Saddams sword this time, but from ours....

We now make the laws, enforce the laws and attempt to tell the world that Iraq is so much better off...

I swear sometimes I believe our country is bound to be cursed for this unjust invasion where so many have died...

Bush has put us in the worst position we have ever been in. We have never been so hated, we are deeply in debt, our economy is shakey to say the least, and thousands of Americans have lost jobs and continue to, there is just so much damage this administration has done to our country, I am not sure we can recover anytime soon...How can that man and his administration sleep at night with clear a conscience?

Do they have no hearts at all?

[Ms. Clio]

29. No hearts, no souls, just endless rapacity and ruthlessness

That's pretty much exactly what I think about all of this, too. I just can't see how it is all going to end, but we can be certain it will only get worse if the Chimperor steals another election.

[Tight_rope]

35. I totally agree....Welcome to DU AuntPatsy

As for hearts question. We know that Cheney lost his 4 times. Maybe he should take that as a sign that he should not have one. But is not on his side.

[Dem2theMax]

28. It looks like it's time for these:

http://www.cafepress.com/impeachw.13060846?zoom=yes#zoom

Wish I knew how to put up a picture. I had a 'special request' T-shirt made - if you scroll down the page you will see a larger pic of the back of the shirt and what it says on it. Maybe if ALL the Dems in the US wore these shirts every single day till the election -- or if the protesters wore them in NYC during the convention -- wouldn't * just love that? :evilgrin:

[Ms. Clio]

30. Is this the picture?

I just learned how to put pictures in posts, myself. Right click on the image you want to use, click on properties, and then copy and paste the URL. Voila!

[Dem2theMax]

38. That's the one! It's hard to read here but it says

"This target brought to you by the Bush Administration."

Thanks for posting it and also for the lesson! :)

[Ms. Clio]

39. you're welcome! :) n/t

[Algomas]

31. Things are going as planned...

Incite religious and racial hatred to the boiling point. The oil companies will not give up their free lunch without a fight. They think the time is right to attack and they will use nukes to do it. In the aftermath they are sure they will be in complete control.
Of course they are all crazier than shit house rats and their greed may bring us all down. Resistance however, will never cease and in the end they will lose. Our children will inherit a broken world.
It will begin with Israel nuking Iran.
I hope and pray I am wrong.
Am I being too paranoid???

[Tight_rope]

32. Well an expert, "ME"...said this would happen....LOL...Bush sure knows

how to pick them wars.

[Disturbed]

33. No nukes fon Iraq

The oil and the 14 US Military bases would be contaminated.

[leftchick]

36. Time to leave Iraq.....

WAAAAAY past time to leave....

[Malva Zebrina]

37. the troops are plainly there to protect the spoils of war

our children are dying in order to protect Halliburton -- there is no such noble cause such as "protecting our freedoms" here unless one wants to imagine that Halliburton is the one we rely upon for our freedoms.