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In the Name of
Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
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"Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those
(believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged
and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory"
[Qu'ran 22:39]
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"Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who
disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped
other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of
Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan." [Qu'ran 4:76]
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Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On
what basis are we fighting?' These articles have generated a
number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were
based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to
outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for
Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.
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While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two
questions directed at the Americans:
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(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?
Q2)What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
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As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you?
The answer is very simple:
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(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
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a) You attacked us in Palestine:
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(i) Palestine, which has sunk under military
occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over
Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have
occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with
oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and
devastation. The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the
greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of
course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of
American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime
which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have
become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay
its price, and pay for it heavily.
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(ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see
that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that
the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised
to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this
alleged fact is accused of anti-Semitism. This is one of the most
fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history. The people
of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the
Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be upon him) and
the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed.
Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses,
Jesus and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all.
If the followers of Moses have been promised a right to Palestine
in the Torah, then the Muslims are the most worthy nation of this.
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When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans,
Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islam, the religion of all the
Prophets peace be upon them. Therefore, the call to a historical
right to Palestine cannot be raised against the Islamic Ummah that
believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and blessings be upon
them) - and we make no distinction between them.
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(iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged.
You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women
are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.
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(b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the
Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression
against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in
Lebanon.
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(c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of
our countries which act as your agents, attack us on a daily
basis;
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(i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the
Islamic Sharia, using violence and lies to do so.
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(ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and places
us in a large prison of fear and subdual.
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(iii) These governments steal our Ummah's wealth and sell them to
you at a paltry price.
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(iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed
them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state
over the dismembered limbs of their own people.
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(v) The removal of these governments is an
obligation upon us, and a necessary step to free the Ummah, to
make the Sharia the supreme law and to regain Palestine. And our
fight against these governments is not separate from out fight
against you.
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(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices
because of you international influence and military threats. This
theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the
history of the world.
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(e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military
bases throughout them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our
sanctities, to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the
continuity of your pillage of our treasures.
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(f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where
children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million
Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you
did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the
entire world rises and has not yet sat down.
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(g) You have supported the Jews in their idea
that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your
embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the
Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Under the
protection of your weapons, Sharon entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, to
pollute it as a preparation to capture and destroy it.
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(2) These tragedies and calamities are only a few
examples of your oppression and aggression against us. It is
commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a
right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but
Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect
that after America has attacked us for more than half a century,
that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?!!
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(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify
aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and
offenses in which they did not partake:
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(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that
America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world.
Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their
government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems
from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people
have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the
Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and
usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture,
punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people
have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their
Government and even to change it if they want.
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(b) The American people are the ones who pay the
taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks
that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which
occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure
the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it
to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American
people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are
the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way
they wish, through their elected candidates.
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(c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is
this very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight
against us.
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(d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and
their women in the American Forces which attack us.
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(e) This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all
the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.
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(f) Allah, the Almighty, legislated the
permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are
attacked, then we have the right to attack back. Whoever has
destroyed our villages and towns, then we have the right to
destroy their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen our wealth,
then we have the right to destroy their economy. And whoever has
killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.
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The American Government and press still refuses to answer the
question:
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Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?
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If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also
men of peace!!! America does not understand the language of
manners and principles, so we are addressing it using the language
it understands.
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(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are
we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
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(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is
Islam.
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(a) The religion of the Unification of God; of
freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this;
of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to
His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders,
theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent
down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the
religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between
them - peace be upon them all.
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It is to this religion that we call you; the seal
of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification
of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy,
honour, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing kindness
to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their
rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the
religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the
hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of
Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme. And it is
the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and
total equality between all people, without regarding their colour,
sex, or language.
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(b) It is the religion whose book - the Qu'ran - will remained
preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages
have been changed. The Qu'ran is the miracle until the Day of
Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the
Qu'ran or even ten verses like it.
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(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop
your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread
among you.
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(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and
purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality,
intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.
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We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which
you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the
deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders
spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to
which you have reached.
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(b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the
worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind:
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(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by
the Sharia of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent
your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from
your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms
Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. You flee from the
embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah
the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the
creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then
deny them that which they are most in need of: knowledge of the
laws which govern their lives?
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(ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been
forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and
investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different
forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy,
through which they have then taken control of your media, and now
control all aspects of your life making you their servants and
achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin
Franklin warned you against.
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(iii) You are a nation that permits the
production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit
drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation
is the largest consumer of them.
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(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you
consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have
continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest
has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of
honour nor your laws object.
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Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in
the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to
account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which
everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of
event for which your name will go down in history and remembered
by nations?
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(v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The
companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments
becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.
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(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products
or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You
use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase
your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation
of women.
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(vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its
forms, directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and
establishments are established on this, under the name of art,
entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other deceptive names you
attribute to it.
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(viii) And because of all this, you have been
described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were
unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of
man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.
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(xi) You have destroyed nature with your
industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history.
Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you
can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries.
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(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold
sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns
with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your
policies, media and economy.
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(xi) That which you are singled out for in the
history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy
mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend
principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and
profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though
Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of
oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers
to freedom?
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(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your
duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and
principles. All manners, principles and values have two scales:
one for you and one for the others.
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(a) The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves
and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose
upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments,
which you call the 'American friends'. Yet you prevent them from
establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted
to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed
your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them
with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new
lesson from the 'American book of democracy'!!!
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(b) Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of
mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those
countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for
the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are
allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security.
Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping
these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take
military action against them.
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(c) You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies
of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish
anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years
been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the
full support of America.
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(d) As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal
courts for - you shamelessly ask that your own are granted
immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that
you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those
you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq
will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will
suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in
which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed,
bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to
come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside. You
are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they
left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than
1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah
alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of
you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies,
looking for anyone remotely suspicious.
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(e) You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your
Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing
statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights.
However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you,
and you then implemented the methods of the same documented
governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured
thousands the Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with
neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You
issued newer, harsher laws.
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What happens in Guatanamo is a historical embarrassment to America
and its values, and it screams into your faces - you hypocrites,
"What is the value of your signature on any agreement or treaty?"
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(3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with
yourselves - and I doubt you will do so - to discover that you are
a nation without principles or manners, and that the values and
principles to you are something which you merely demand from
others, not that which you yourself must adhere to.
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(4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel,
and to end your support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians
against the Chechens and to also cease supporting the Manila
Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines.
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(5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and
get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and
righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in
coffins.
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(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support
of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our
politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect
us in New York and Washington.
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(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the
basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies
of sub dual, theft and occupation, and not to continue your policy
of supporting the Jews because this will result in more disasters
for you.
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If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for
fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts
complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation
which is addressed by its Qu'ran with the words: "Do you fear
them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are
believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by
your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and
heal the breasts of believing people. And remove the anger of
their (believers') hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom He
wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise." [Quran9:13-1]
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The Nation of honour and respect:
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"But honour, power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger
(Muhammad- peace be upon him) and to the believers." [Qu'ran 63:8]
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"So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you
will be superior ( in victory )if you are indeed (true) believers"
[Qu'ran 3:139]
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The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than
you desire life:
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"Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead.
Nay, they are alive with their Lord, and they are being provided
for. They rejoice in what Allah has bestowed upon them from His
bounty and rejoice for the sake of those who have not yet joined
them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on them no fear
shall come, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice in a grace and a
bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the reward of the
believers." [Qu'ran 3:169-171]
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The Nation of victory and success that Allah has promised:
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"It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him)
with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it
victorious over all other religions even though the Polytheists
hate it." [Qu'ran 61:9]
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"Allah has decreed that 'Verily it is I and My Messengers who
shall be victorious.' Verily Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty."
[Qu'ran 58:21]
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The Islamic Nation that was able to dismiss and
destroy the previous evil Empires like yourself; the Nation that
rejects your attacks, wishes to remove your evils, and is prepared
to fight you. You are well aware that the Islamic Nation, from the
very core of its soul, despises your haughtiness and arrogance.
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If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness,
guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware
that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other
previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the
Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If
the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the
Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military
defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic
bankruptcy.
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This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do
they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance,
by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious?
