After Saudi PR effort in DC: Saudi GOVERNMENT TVsermon: "O God, destroy the
Jews"
FBIS (US government service) Report - Friday sermons broadcast by the Saudi
Government media on 13
June 2003:
[With thanks to www.mideastweb.org/mewnews1.htm ]

Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia TV1 in Arabic, official television station of
the Saudi Government, at 0930 GMT carries a 22-minute live sermon from the
Holy Mosque in Mecca.

Shaykh Salih Al Talib delivers the sermon. He praises God, the messenger,
and his companions and calls on Muslims to obey God and to follow His orders
as a way to salvation in this life and in the Hereafter. The imam says that
he who studies history will discover that Islam sometimes scored victories
and at other times gave way to non-Muslim powers, "as is the case these
days." The imam says that this life is just a test for the faithful, that
times change, and that "victory and success do not come through prosperity
but through hard work under both difficult and prosperous circumstances."
The imam urges Muslims to renew faith in Islam "in order to stand firm in
the face of disasters and problems," giving examples from Islamic history on
how the Prophet's companions managed to stand firm in the face of
difficulties as a result of their faith in God.

Stressing that Islam "is a perfect religion," the imam assails "some
hypocrites" working against Islam and Muslims "at a time when the nation is
in dire need of sticking to its religion and preserving its Islam, its
identity, and its unity." He then praises the Saudi leadership for sticking
to Islam and urges the whole society "to revive its interest in the bases of
Islam by entrenching the virtues of faith in God and His law away from
exaggeration and extremism." Although Muslims have faced serious crises and
disasters, he says, "they nevertheless have not doubted their faith." The
imam devotes almost all his sermon to the importance of faith for
steadfastness.

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 to the other Islamic countries. O God, support your
religion, your Prophet's traditions, and your faithful servants. O God,
support those supporting Islam and disappoint tyrants, unbelievers, the
corrupt, and hypocrites. O God, support mujahidin fighting for your sake
everywhere. O God, support Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere. O God,
destroy the Jews, for they are within your power. O God, destroy them and
their supporters. O God, protect us from their evils. O God, support our
Muslim brothers in Palestine and Iraq."

Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabic TV2 in Arabic, official television station of
the Saudi Government, at 0936 GMT carries a 22-minute live sermon from the
Holy Mosque in Medina.

Shaykh Ali al-Hudhayfi delivers the sermon. He praises God, the messenger,
and his companions, urging Muslims to obey God and to ask Him for
forgiveness. The imam urges Muslims to invoke God to "strengthen Islam and
Muslims everywhere, disappoint the enemies of Islam, and protect Muslims
from evils, disasters, and problems facing them these days." The imam
devotes his sermon to the importance of invoking God in worship and as a way
to virtue. Concluding, the imam prays to God: "O God, strengthen Islam and
Muslims. O God, destroy infidelity, infidels, and unbelievers. O God,
protect and strengthen Islam and Muslims everywhere. O God, support your
religion and your Prophet's traditions. O God, disappoint Muslims' enemies."