Introduction Depicting Jews – and sometimes also Zionists – as "the descendants of apes and pigs" is extremely widespread today in public discourse in the Arab and Islamic worlds. For example, in a weekly sermon in April 2002, Al-Azhar Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, the highest-ranking cleric in the Sunni Muslim world , called the Jews "the enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs." 1 In one of his sermons, Saudi sheikh Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis, imam and preacher at the Al-Haraam mosque ...
... the Imam Khomeini …" Referring to the American administration, Khamenei stated that in order to "actualize its threats against Iran, the U.S. administration needs a firm ... removed from the position of successor by Ayatollah Khomeini himself a short time before his death, is considered a prestigious religious jurisprudent. 3 Until the ... Shah was deposed, the top clerics were advocates of the ...
... which had been discontinued since the start of the Iraq/Iran war in 1980… He said that Iraq is awaiting ... accusations and new lies are another gift … to the religious fascists who rule Iran …there is no evidence that Mujahideen ... newspaper prefaced the articles by saying that "the American people would be astonished to discover that Iraq has its own version of ... from the deceased face. The purpose? To honor the dead and to desensitize children to death…" 20 1 Al-Thawra (Iraq), May 26, 2002 ...
During Friday prayers held at the University of Tehran campus on April 5, 2002, which were attended by thousands, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah 'Ali Khamenei called on Yasser Arafat to resist Zionist pressure to the death and attacked the U.S. stance on Israeli-Palestinian fighting, equating President George W. Bush with Hitler. Following are excerpts from the speech: The Zionist Regime and the Palestine Issue "The Zionist regime, as the symbol of bloodthirstiness, barbarianism, and ...
... its action will serve as a warning to all Muslims who deposit their money in American and European banks." This could happen ... , the author asserts, because of "American perverted practices" which make everything possible. This is not ... Jews and it was found upon his death that his "shield was pawned to a Jew." Normalization of dealings with Jews ... Minister of Roads and Transportations, Ahmad Kharam, declared that "Iran occupies the last place on the list of countries ...
... Central Asia, the proximity of the Caspian energy to the Chinese market, American military presence in Okinawa, Japan, the Marines in Korea ... has been operational. Source: Babil, December 10, 2001. Egypt Rejects American Demand to Limit Trade Relations with Iraq Egypt has rejected an ... his death. However, the state will seek damages from his inheritors. Sources: Babil (Baghdad), December 9, 2001; Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, December 9, 2001. Iran Provides Electricity to ...
Following September 11, the topic of anti-U.S. incitement coming from the Egyptian government press has been brought to the attention of the American public. Al-Ahram Weekly, which is available on the Internet in English, has received hundreds of emails from Americans responding to the content of its papers. The following are some excerpts: "We are told that thousands were massacred on 11 September," wrote William K. Black, assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School of ...
... regimes such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, Syria, Iran, and other Middle Eastern governments… as a ransom for future ... Egyptian Jihad leader Yasser Tawfiq Al-Serri , who was sentenced to death in absentia in Egypt in 1993 for a failed assassination ... Iraq is over… We will not give a truce to America." 25 On July 15, 1999, Bakri published a letter written ... attack without the divine right'…" Bakri told Klein, "…Clinton is a target of the Jihad, and American forces are a target of the Jihad ...
... about two buildings…" "Despite all this, I did not exult. Death has glory and majesty, even when it is a dog that ... operations are a certainty, and they are an inevitable response to American repression and tyranny… The U.S. will collapse from within, as ... victims of the tragedy did not know that Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, or Afghanistan are not Arab countries; most of ... decree, in which humans are completely uninvolved… What happened to America is the natural outgrowth of the terror and tyranny ...
Following the terror attacks on New York and Washington, the Hamas Movement mouthpiece Al-Risala, published in Gaza , printed an open letter, "To America," by Dr. 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh: "I am certain that you America will face the mirror of your history for a long time to come! Thus you will be able to see exactly how much you have oppressed, how corrupt you are, how you have sinned – how many entities you have destroyed; how many kingdoms you have demolished! Do you remember what you did in ...
