Moroccan Author Khanatha Banouna: We Need Millions of Hasan Nasrallahs and Osama bin Ladens

Following are excerpts from an interview with Moroccan author, Khanatha Banouna, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on August 8, 2006:

Khanatha Banouna: Anyone with responsibility - in the home, in official institutions, in the pulpits, in the media, in the ideological sphere, and in politics - must build up active range - rage will shake the worm-eaten roots, which have brought us to this sick reality.

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We need Hasan Nasrallah, millions of Hasan Nasrallahs. We need millions of Osama bin Ladens. We need millions of people armed with real active rage.

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We are not Indians. I said this to an American journalist who came to me before the [9/11] New York incidents. I told them I believe in "blood for blood." I still say this. I still believe in "blood for blood," and if I had the power, I would do it myself.

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We are not terrorists. What terrorist in the world is more terrible than Bush and all the Zionists? We are not terrorists, but if self-defense, and defending our values, our identity, our culture, and our religion is terrorism, then we welcome every type of terrorism on the face of the earth. In that case, I'm a terrorist, heading the list of terrorists.