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The following are excerpts from a lecture titled "The Swords of Brotherhood," delivered in English by British Salafi cleric "Abu Waleed." The video was posted on the Internet in 2010.
Abu Waleed: Nowadays, we have a problem of people saying we need unity. We’ve got so many problems around the world. We’ve got the problems of Gaza, of Iraq, and of Afghanistan. We got the problem of disagreements amongst our own so-called scholars. Some say voting is allowed, some say voting is not allowed. Some say to join the parliament is allowed. Some say: No, you can’t. Some say you must destroy the parliament. Some say you must overthrow regimes. Some people say that no Dar Al-Islam exists. Other people believe that Britain is Dar Al-Islam as long as you’ve got a nice camise on and a carrot in your mouth, and a jar of honey, and a packet of condoms, there is nothing to worry about. You just live comfortably.
You just live your life and walk around as if you were living inside the Caliphate. However, that is not the case. So people want to talk about unity. How can we have this unity? One of the things which will unite us and cause unity – is what? The Caliphate, shari’a, it could be the economic system, it could be you driving a BMW, or you having this conference... or event... or being part of this group, or having that title, none of that will bring unity. The number one thing that will bring unity among the Muslim community will be the tawhid [monotheism].
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Allah said that the believers are brotherhood. This verse causes a lot of controversy nowadays. Why? Because some people say: We are going to have a “Global Peace and Unity Conference.” Oh my God, what is this global peace and unity all about? It sounds like some funky rave in the Stratford Rex, or something like that. It’s not talking about that. The Global Peace and Unity they are talking about is how can we establish peace within the Earth, and unity among humanity. You become brothers in humanity. When the verse says the complete opposite of that. It never said the “brothers in humanity,” but rather, it said: “The believers, they are brotherhood.”
The hadith of the Prophet said: “A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim.” He never said anything else. He never said the British and the Americans. He never said the blacks, the whites, the Chinese, the brown, the coconut, the coffee, the cappuccino. The yellow, the pink, the brown, the strawberry, the gateau. Nothing like that, No. He said: “The believers, they are a brotherhood.”
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So when I talk about loving Allah I will love Him completely, and in my heart there is no room for love for anybody else. For the sake of Allah, I will love those whom He orders me to love, not for my own sake. It could be that this man has big ears and a long nose. Maybe he likes chicken doner, while I like lamb diner – I do like lamb doner, it’s true, but this doesn’t mean I am going to disavow him. “Oh, he doesn’t like lamb doner, I’m not going to be friends with him.”
This is what the infidels have. They have this unity based upon a football club. Your mum slept with my dad, something like that, come on in, you might as well do it as well. Do it in the back alley, whatever, something like that. They have unity based upon this. But rather, we are talking about the love that must be based upon “for the sake of Allah,” and my hatred must be for the sake of Allah.
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I was speaking to a person once. We were talking about the American troops being let into the holy land [Saudi Arabia]. I said, listen brother: The hadith of the Prophet says that no two religions can exist within the Arabian Peninsula. He said: “But Ibn Al-Uthaymeen said...” I said: “I’m telling you what the Prophet said, and you’re telling me what Ibn Al-Uthaymeen said. I don’t give a damn about what Ibn Al-Uthaymeen said. I’m telling you what the Prophet said.”
You find many people who are like that. They want to use the statements of their religious scholars to comment about the divine text, to comment about what the Koran says. You say to them: No, the verse said this. The verse said that the [infidels] will never be pleased with me until I follow their religion. He says: No, but that was for then. Let’s put a little Tippex out there.
Oh, and you need to go to the Al-Salam chapter of the Koran. That’s how you catch people out. They’ll say: “What are you talking about? Trying to teach me the Koran. I’ve read the Koran one million times.” [I say]: “Okay, you’ve read the Al-Salam chapter?” [He says]: “Yeah.” [I say]: “You’re a fool, a liar. There is no such thing as the Al-Salam chapter.” This person is a complete disaster.
Like this one guy, he’s a police officer, he tried to arrest me once, he’s a Muslim, a “Moslem”, he’s an infidel anyway... He said to me: “The Prophet said we need to obey the law of the land.” I said: “Really? Where did he say that?” He said: “it’s in some book of hadith.” I said: "Okay, some book of hadith.”
This other fool, who’s like a state’s witness, he’s an MP or something like that, is even more of an idiot than this police officer. He said that the Prophet said in the Koran that we need to obey the law of the land. The Prophet said so in the Koran – that's going too far. You know what I mean? That's completely foolish. Like a person who phones you up, and says: "Hello? Yeah. I lost my mobile phone, I don't know where it is." This man is a complete loony. He's completely crazy.
Like this fool, Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi, we call him "Qirdawi", the laughing monkey... He passed a fatwa in the European Council of Fatwas, which is based in Ireland. [He said]: I believe that so long as there is 1% alcohol in the drink, just a minority, you have a minority and a majority, then you can drink it. The verse never said so.
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When it comes to discrimination or oppression, Islam is anti-discrimination and anti-oppression. That doesn't mean that I do not discriminate based upon your faith. Of course I do. Even Christians and Jews do that. You're telling me some Jewish man comes, or Christian or Hindu, or Sikh-Meek-Weak-Freak and says: "I want to marry your daughter." Are you going to give your daughter to him?
I would discriminate even among the Muslims as well. Somebody from Hizb Al-Tahrir comes, and says: "I want to marry your daughter," or somebody from the Muslim Brotherhood or one of those Salafi-Talafis, says: "I want to marry your daughter", I'd say: "Yeah? You're in terrorism." – I'll show you terrorism. Don't touch me. What are you talking about? – I would marry my daughter to somebody who is Sunni. So everybody discriminates based upon their own religious belief. Otherwise, why would you say that your religion is the truth, if you didn't discriminate?
The head of the European Council of Fatwas, this man Qirdawi... How can it be that sheik – he is a sheik, and people refer to him – how did he become an infidel? Because he says something, or does something, without even realizing it, and he goes outside the fold of Islam.
This man, this fool, this Qirdawi, said that it's allowed for you to join the US army so long as your intent is to command good and forbid the evil. What are you talking about? So don't be impressed by somebody who has got a Ph.D. and a degree, and all of these certificates. You know, seven-storey turbans and a beard down to his belly-button... These people are nothing but lap-dancers, hookers, slags for the kings and for the prime ministers – which is what we find today. Completely in bed with them... Completely... You know, when I talk about giving a pole dance for the king, I literally mean that. They're giving a pole dance and lap dance for the king. They just rub [the king] up, and he slips ten riyals inside their pocket, gives them a slap on the bottom, and says: Go give me a fatwa, and come back next week, and we'll do it again.
The king is a pimp, and the scholar is a prostitute. And America is just the police because the police are not interested in ending prostitution. You know they are not. They just go there, and they just say: "What's that?" It's a massage parlor. Oh, that's all right. Close the door. It's just a massage parlor, it's not prostitution. They just change the name of it. It sounds quite nice.
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Although the infidels don’t have brotherhood, they are still united in their war against Islam. So what we need is to establish the brotherhood between theory and practice, and have this reformation. So when we talk about the brotherhood, it manifests on a global scale, meaning that when my brothers are bombed inside Iraq and Afghanistan, I stand up for them, and I say: “They are my brothers, they are my sisters, and I am with them.”
When you call somebody a terrorist, I say: “No, he’s not a terrorist, you are the terrorist.” This man, he’s not a freedom fighter because we don’t believe in freedom anyway, but he is my brother, working to liberate his land, and I will stand with him. Maybe I’m not a terrorist or whatever you accuse him of or maybe he is a terrorist. But irrespective of that, I will never put him down, and I will never sell him out, and I will never hand him over to the infidels.
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I say to Musharraf: Are you proud to be Pakistani? Go suck the private part of your father. Even if you’re not proud to be Pakistani, still go suck the private part of your father. Obviously, the man is what we call in Urdu a kuttah – a dog. So you can go there, and he’ll say: “Yeah, I’ll go there, and I’ll suck the private part...” But I heard this man likes dogs, anyway, so we don’t know what’s going on.
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The last and final example which I want to give you is that of Hakam Bin Hisham, who was from Andalusia. At that time, the Christians used to have bandits and they used to go out... This was around Andalusia, around Spain – around that region. At that time, the Christians used to go out like bandits and kidnap people. The Christians, at that time, captured one caravan. This caravan was carrying one Muslim sister, her mother and father, and two brothers. The infidels killed all of them, and they captured this one sister, 19 years old.
They took her to the king, at that time. When the sister was brought to the king, the king said: What have you got for me today? Meaning, what have you got – some Barclay card, some money, some booty... They said: We’ve got for you one Muslim woman, one sister. The king said: I’ve tried all women of the world, but I’ve never tried a Muslim woman. He held her in captivity, and he raped her. From her cell, she said: Where are you, oh Hakam Bin Hisham?
The news spread from city to city, until it reached this governor, Hakam Bin Hisham. The news spread to him, and he said: Where has she been captured? They said: All we know is that she’s been captured by the infidels. Do you know what he did? He rallied an army of 60,000 Muslims. He said: I don’t know what city she’s been captured in, I don’t even know where she is, but we will go from city to city to try and find her.
Just before he left, he said to his wife: By Allah, you are forbidden to me until I rescue this sister. He conquered three cities along the way, before he even got to the place where the sister was captured. For one entire year he fought. For one entire year, he took an army of 60,000 mujahideen. He conquered three cities, turned them completely upside down, and got all of the booty. When he reached the gates of the area where the sister was in captivity, he said he would offer them money, all the booty that they got from these three cities, in exchange for this one sister. The messenger went and he took it to the king.
Do you know what the king said? He said: “Over my dead body.” Barack Obama says: “Over my dead body we will give you Aafia Siddiqui.” You say over your dead body? Indeed, over your dead body it will happen.
Hakam Bin Hisham entered the city, destroyed the entire city, completely took it upside down. He got the king and beheaded him publicly. Then he went to the sister, and he said to her: “Oh my sister, did I not respond to the call?” She said: “Are you the one who they call Hakam Bin Hisham?” He said: “My sister, I respond to the call of Allah. Come with me.”
When he went back, he went to Granada, which is where he was from. He went to his wife. Do you know what his wife said? She said: “Do you remember when you left, and you said to me that I am forbidden to you until you release the sister? By Allah, I am still forbidden to you, until you marry the sister.” And she gave her money as dowry for Hakam Bin Hisham to marry the sister.
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