Saudi Government TV broadcasts sermon calling to annihilate the Jews
"annihilate them soon"

[IMRA: While The Saudi Prince may follow the script his American public
relations advisors prepared for his trip to America, it is business as usual
back in Saudi Arabia]

Friday Sermons Hail 'Martyrdom," Saudi Imam Says 'Goodbye to Peace
Initatives''
GMP20020421000047 Middle East--FBIS Report in Arabic 19 Apr 02

[FBIS Report (IMRA: FBIS is a US Government publication)]
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SAUDI ARABIA:

#1 Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia TV2 in Arabic, official television
station of the Saudi Government, at 0930 GMT carries a live sermon from the
holy mosque in Medina.

Shaykh Salah Bin-Muhammad al-Budayr, preacher and imam of the holy
mosque in Medina, delivers the sermon, which he begins by saying that
despite tragedies, nations do overcome them quickly. The Islamic nation
today, he says, is facing tragic incidents in Palestine, where innocent
people are killed, houses are demolished, women are widowed, and children
orphaned. He calls on Muslims to rush to the aid of their brethren. But, the
imam also says that the nation is afflicted with these tribulations because
it has abandoned religion and run after western lifestyle. Unless the nation
reforms itself, he adds, the talk about retrieving the occupied lands would
be a delusion. He says that Muslim ulema in particular must play a
significant role in reforming society.

The imam concludes with this prayer: "O God, O revealer of the Book,
mover of clouds, and vanquisher of infidels, defeat the usurper Jews. Show
us the marvels of your power on them. O God, lower their flag and make them
an example for others. O God, they have tyrannized, corrupted, and attacked.
O God, shake the land under their feet, instill fear in their hearts, and
make them booty for Muslims and a lesson to others. O God, shake them up. O
God, destroy them. O God, scatter them. O God, annihilate them soon. O God,
have mercy on our brothers and sisters in Palestine. O God, support our
oppressed brothers in Chechnya, Kashmir, and everywhere."

#2 Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia TV1 in Arabic, official television
station of the Saudi Government, at 0930 GMT carries a live sermon from the
holy mosque in Mecca.

Dr. Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, preacher and imam of the mosque, delivers
the sermon in which he says: "Amid Islamic indignation and world silence and
inaction, we must take the initiative to insure the nation's interests and
preserve its glories and civilization before they are swept away by the
current developments." He affirms the close religious and historical link
between the Holy Mosque in Mecca and Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and says:
"History has never known a cause in which our religious principles,
historical rights, and past glories are so clearly challenged by
international grudges and world conflicts as this central Muslim cause of
struggler and steadfast Muslim Palestine, holy Jerusalem, and the blessed
Al-Aqsa Mosque."

The imam refers to "plots," "open hostility," and "hidden cunning" by
"the world powers" that have removed the cause of Palestine, Jerusalem, and
Al-Aqsa Mosque from its legitimate Islamic circle and "thrust it into the
labyrinths of twisted tracks, the lobbies of compromise, and the tunnels of
procrastination under inadequate criteria and double standards that equate
rightful owners to false claimants."

The imam says: "O brethren in faith, what does our Koran and the
traditions of our prophet, may the peace and blessings of God be upon him,
affirm? What does our creed say? What does our history say about the
cause of Jerusalem and its vicinity? They all clearly affirm that the
conflict between us and the Jews is one of creed, identity, and existence."

"Read history," he adds, "to know that yesterday's Jews were bad
predecessors and today's Jews are worse successors. They are killers of
prophets and the scum of the earth. God hurled his curses and indignation on
them and made them monkeys and pigs and worshippers of tyrants. These are
the Jews, a continuous lineage of meanness, cunning, obstinacy, tyranny,
evil, and corruption. They sow corruption on earth."

The imam warns: "O Muslims, the Islamic nation today is at the peak of
conflict with the enemies of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, with the
grandsons of Bani-Quraydah, Al-Nadiri, and Qaynuqa [Jewish tribes in the
early days of Islam]. May God's curses follow them until the Day of
Judgment." He says: "The conflict is exploding and magnifying, the
exploitation and greed are increasing, and the indulgence in humbling Arabs
and Muslims and their holy places has become very serious by the world
rodents that have revoked pacts and agreements. Treachery, sabotage, and
cunning dominate their minds and injustice and tyranny flow in their veins.
They cannot but remain arrogant, reckless, corrupt, and harmful. Thus, they
deserve the curse of God, His angels, and all people."

The imam continues: "When the Islamic nation turned to peace to achieve
the higher interests and avoid great corruption, the Jews did not. It is not
strange. After all, it is peace with a party that only wants to liquidate
its opponents, usurp their land, displace their people, tamper with their
economy, cancel their honor, violate their sovereignty, and dismember their
bodies.

"The nation must know that these are people with a disgraceful history
and a black record. They cannot but insist on their greed. May God not
fulfill their aim. They want to establish Greater Israel with Jerusalem
as its capital. They also aspire to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque and build their
alleged temple in its place. They want to liquidate the State of Islam and
Koran, and build the State of the Torah and Talmud on its debris. They
will get what they deserve from God.

"Goodbye to the peace initiatives with a people with these habits,
ambitions, and plots throughout history. The incidents witnessed by the
Palestinian areas over the past several days -- the horrific scenes, the
horrendous tragedies [imam breaking in tears], and the massacres caused by
armored cars, rockets and tanks leaving behind charred bodies and skulls,
siege and destitution, death and destruction in an ugly genocide, blatant
violation of human values, and the practice of state terrorism by world
Zionism -- shall not be forgotten by history."

The imam says: "The land is drenched with the pure blood of our
brothers and sisters in struggler Palestine. They were killed like sheep.
Scores of mosques were destroyed, hundreds of houses were demolished, and
thousands of souls were killed. How many women have been widowed,
children orphaned, and mass graves dug? Until when will this humiliation,
weakness, and capitulation continue? Is it not time this humiliation ended,
this weakness and submission stopped, and the long night cleared? Would our
nation rise from its slumber?"

"This is a sincere call to all Muslim leaders: Save Palestine before it
is lost? Save Al-Aqsa Mosque before it is eliminated. The one who wages this
fierce war as a racist genocide and the one who stands behind it will not
escape from the grip of God. He also will not be safe from the indignation
of peoples and the vengeance of history.

"It is a tragedy that the tongue fails to depict. The heart breaks down
when reviewing its incidents and the words fail to mention its tragedies and
speak about its dimensions and dangers. It is a tragedy [imam breaks in
tears] by all standards and a problem by all criteria. Only God will deal
with it. O God, we pray for your mercy. O God, save us. This tragedy is best
proof of the character of these people and what they harbor for our nation
and holy places. It is a tragedy that makes us weep. Innocent people are
being killed at the hands of Zionist murderers, the heirs of Nazim and
Fascism. What right do they have in Palestine, which is the historical
land of the Arabs and Muslims until the Day of Judgment? It has acquired a
high place among Muslims since the beginning of history. In fact, it is part
of their beliefs and a trust in their hands. They will not relinquish a
single inch of this land, God willing, as long as their hearts continue to
beat. The right which the Jews claim in Palestine is a baseless myth and
unjustifiably arrogant.

"Five decades have passed over this great Muslim cause while tragedies
renew day after day," the imam says and asks: "Where are the Muslims? The
incidents have opened wounds. Where are Khalid [Ibn-al-Walid], Al-Muthanna,
and Salah [al-Din]? What has happened to our nation? Can we live happily,
rest in peace, or hold our tears while our holy places are groaning, our
Jerusalem is pleading, our Palestine is calling, and our Al-Aqsa is crying
out saying all mosques have been liberated, while I -- a great holy mosque
-- am still being desecrated?

"All this is happening within the sight and hearing of the world. It is
as if Muslims are not considered? Where is the world with its
organizations? Where are their Security Council and United Nations? Where
are they from the weeping of widows and orphans, the usurpation of land, and
the desecration of sanctuaries? Hail to steadfast Janin and lofty
Nabulus. Where are the false human rights slogans and organizations? What
is world conscience? Where is the political and economic boycott against the
war criminals and those who slight international norms and resolutions?

"O decisionmakers, O leaders of the world, O men of opinion, O you who
claim to fight terrorism, what do you call what these criminals are doing to
Muslims in Palestine? You should be ashamed of yourselves to call the
rightful owners and fighters against injustice, tyranny, and occupation
terrorists? Is the aspiration of over 1 billion Muslims to preserve their
holy places considered savagery and terrorism? What a great lie, O God.

"O steadfast brothers in struggler and steadfast Palestine, the land of
honor, loftiness, sacrifice, jihad, and bravery; O kinfolk in the blessed
land of Palestine; O beloved people in the land of the night journey and the
ascension to the heavens, we are sorry if you found only defeatism and
slackness from many of the sons of your nation. The captivity of our Al-Aqsa
in the hands of the tyrants makes us sleepless. May God please us with its
liberation."

The imam continues: "Be patient, O steadfast people, your blessed
intifadah has written with the letters of dignity, victory, and honor, one
of the most splendid epics in modern history. You have restored hope in the
hearts. Trust in God's victory for you, as long as you stand by His
religion. If you support God, He will support you and strengthen your
position. Our hearts are with you and God is your supporter. We will make
donations. Continue on the path and maintain your resolve. Congratulations
to you for offering your souls so cheaply for the sake of God. We pray to
God to accept your dead as martyrs, grant immediate recovery to your
wounded, and make you and us live a happy life. Don't give up your trust in
God. Victory is coming soon, God willing."

"God is great. Here are the flags of victory looming on the horizon. We
can smell it. It is crowned by a brave jihad, an intifadah, which is
still the winning card and the lit candle in the hands of the devout sons of
this nation. The policy of arm-twisting and all forms of arrogance and
oppression have not succeeded with the intifadah. They are lives that are
falling for the sake of God's religion and word."

If emotion seems to characterize the presentation of this cause, the
imam notes, our minds and wisdom must dominate so that it will not deviate
from existing laws and fall in the hands of false strugglers and
sensationalist anarchists. He says: "O nation of jihad and sacrifice, it is
the duty of Muslims to support their brethren in creed in Palestine and
elsewhere and to back them with material and moral support. Jihad with money
sometimes supersedes jihad with soul, as mentioned in many Koranic verses
and the prophet's traditions."

The imam says that what calls for optimism is this official and public
interaction, sympathy, and fraternal bond by our Islamic nation with their
Muslim brethren in Palestine. The campaigns of public donation have been
most admirable and it is hoped that there would be more, he says, adding:
"Muslims are called upon to continue these blessed charity campaigns in
support of Islam and Muslims and in defense of our holy places."

Concluding, the imam prays deeply for the salvation of the Palestinian
people. He prays to God to deal with the Jews, free Al-Aqsa Mosque from
them, lower their flags, and make them a lesson for others.