Saudi sermon after Sharm: "O God. . .destroy Islam's enemies, including the
vile Jews"

FBIS Report - Friday sermons broadcast by the Saudi Government media on 6
June 2003:
[With thanks to www.mideastweb.org/mewnews1.htm ]

SAUDI ARABIA:

Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia TV1 in Arabic, official television station of
the Saudi Government, at 0932 GMT carries a 23-minute live sermon from the
Holy Mosque in Mecca.

Shaykh Sa'ud al-Shuraym delivers the sermon. He begins by praising God, the
messenger, and his companions and calls on Muslims to obey God and the
messenger as the best way to success. He who reads history, the imam says,
will have no doubt that each society seeks "to achieve its own safety and
security." If any Muslim society fails to secure stability for itself, he
says, then it will suffer from loss and "irresponsible practices, which will
damage security and threaten the Muslim society." Assailing those using
violence to achieve their goals, the imam says: "Some individuals in our
nation, who speak our own language, are used to carrying out acts of
violence against a Muslim society and to die along with other innocent
people. By encroaching on the nation's security, some individuals bury the
concept of stability, cut the lifeline of the present generation, and
destroy hopes for a better future. Vile infidels, the enemies of Islam, use
such violence as an excuse to put pressure on Muslims and even to seize
Muslim countries." The imam then says that Islam prospers in an atmosphere
of confidence and constructive understanding based on the Islamic law,
stressing the importance of the security issue in the view of Islam.
Security, he also says, does not only mean protecting the society from theft
and killing, but also the need for a Muslim society "to stick to the Islamic
law, without which no security can be achieved."

The imam then elaborates on security in general, including health and food
security, and warns of "those casting doubts on the religiousness of the
Muslim society and the soundness of the Islamic heritage." The imam says:
"For example, if a man steals something from a mosque, then some unfair
people will call for shutting down or even destroying mosques in order to
prevent theft. If a veiled woman cheats, then some people will call for
removing the veil in order to prevent cheating. Instead of cutting the
thief's hand and exposing the cheater, these people want to destroy the
mosque and to remove the veil. This is strange and draws violent reactions,
which harm the moderation of a Muslim society."

Concluding, the imam prays to God: "O God, strengthen Islam and Muslims,
humiliate infidelity and infidels, destroy Islam's enemies, and grant safety
to this country and the other Islamic countries."

Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabic TV2 in Arabic, official television station of
the Saudi Government, at 0936 GMT carries a 24-minute live sermon from the
Holy Mosque in Medina.

Shaykh Ali Abd-al-Rahman al-Hudhayfi delivers the sermon. He praises God,
the messenger, and his companions, calling on Muslims to obey God and to
worship Him and stressing that God causes disasters to the nation to expose
the hypocrites. The imam says: "Both overt and covert enmity has been
directed at Islam, its countries, its ulema, and its followers, principles,
and curricula by some writers in the nation. Attacking these writers as
"hireling" secularists, the imam says that they "have imported secularism"
because they have no loyalty to their nation. Denouncing these people for
demanding "equality between men and women," he says: "They want us to
abandon our faith, morals, values, history, and glories and to follow
infidelity, its morals, values, and life. They also ridicule ulema and good
people, level accusations against them, focus on their mistakes, harm their
honor, hide their achievements, and keep silent over their merits." These
people, the imam says, "have even encroached on religious books, calling for
"the reduction of the religious school curricula, which are derived from the
Koran and the messengers Sunna." Assailing secularists once again, the imam
says: "They have controlled education, information, economy, the army,
administration, and legislation for more than one and a half century. What
is the result? They have failed to promote economy, technology, and
administration and have suffered successive defeats in the battlefield."

Concluding, the imam prays to God: "O God, strengthen Islam and Muslims,
humiliate infidelity and infidels, and destroy Islam's enemies, including
the vile Jews." He also asks God to protect the country of the custodian of
the two holy mosques and "to help the Palestinian brothers defeat the
usurper Jews, to shake the ground under them, to instill fear into their
hearts, and to make them prey for Muslims."