Today's clips includes excerpts from an interview with Syrian Deputy
Minister of Religious Endowments, Muhammad Abd Al-Sattar Al-Sayyed, which
was aired on Syrian TV on November 8, 2005. It is followed by a speech by
Sheikh Kamal Khatib, deputy leader of the Islamic movement in Israel, on the
Jews in European history and Hurricane Katrina in the U.S. which aired on
Iqra TV on November 2, 2005.

*Deputy Syrian Minister of Religious Endowments: Syria Defends the Middle
East from the Descendants of Apes and Pigs
Clip # 914
November 8, 2005

Sheik Abd Al-Sattar Sayyed: Syria now represents the opposition to the
Greater Middle East plan. We've discussed this in the past. Syria represents
the opposition, the last line of defense. All the forces of the Arab and
Islamic nations everywhere must be mobilized to defend this last line of
defense. The last line of defense is what guarantees that the values of this
nation will endure. [...] We must know that opposing the Zionist plots,
which aim to put on the throne of the Middle East the descendants of...
those whom the Koran called the descendants of apes and pigs, who raise...
They are the ones who will sit on the throne of the Greater Middle East.
There is no doubt about this. The Koran said this, not me.

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*Deputy Leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel Kamal Khatib: America Was
Put to Shame by Hurricane Baghdad before Hurricane Katrina
Clip # 913
November 2, 2005

Sheikh Kamal Khatib: When the plague spread through Europe between 1251 and
1351... In other words, for about 100 years, the bubonic plague,
tuberculosis, and malaria spread there. When these diseases were spreading,
what would the Europeans say? They would say this was caused by the bad luck
brought by the Jews, and they would massacre the Jews of Europe, who were
innocent. A disease broke out - how is this their fault? Oh Jews, oh
Israelites, where did you flee to? When the people of Britain killed you in
the well-known massacre 1351, when the people of Austria and of the Lowlands
killed you in 1253, where did you flee to? Where to?! You came to us, to
Andalusia. Our country and borders were open to you. Our homes were open to
you. In no other place could you feel that your property and dignity were
safe, except for Arab and Muslim countries. The people and government that
were put to shame by Katrina, Ophelia, and Maria... How could they not be
put to shame? when they were
previously put to shame by a hurricane called Baghdad - a hurricane called
Baghdad!

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