MEMRI: Special Dispatch| 2854 | March 12, 2010
Hamas/Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project/Islam & the West

Hamas Sermon in Gaza on Al-Aqsa TV: Rome Will Be Conquered by Islam

The following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered in the Gaza Strip,
which aired on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV on March 5, 2010 (to view this clip, visit
www.memritv.org/clip/en/2410.htm .

This is followed by other MEMRI TV clips from Al-Aqsa TV on 'the coming
Islamic conquest of Rome' (to view the MEMRI TV page for Al-Aqsa TV, visit
www.memritv.org/content/en/tv_channel_indiv.htm?id=175
.
Hamas Sermon in Gaza: Rome Will Be Conquered by Islam

Preacher: "The prophecy of the conquest of Rome remains valid, Allah
willing. Just like Constantinople was conquered some 500 years ago, Rome too
will be conquered.
"Our prayers, our fasting, and the charity we give will be to no avail, if
we doubt the Prophet Muhammad. How can we proceed along the path of
righteousness, if we are not secure in our belief that Rome will be
conquered, as promised by the Prophet Muhammad and as proclaimed by Allah?"
Former Jordanian Minister Ali Al-Faqir Vows to Conquer Spain and Rome,
Declares: America, EU Will Soon Come to an End - May 2, 2008

(To view this clip, visit www.memritv.org/clip/en/1761.htm )

Sheikh Ali Al-Faqir: "We must declare that Palestine, from the [Jordan]
River to the [Mediterranean] Sea, is an Islamic land, and that Spain -
Andalusia - is also the land of Islam. Islamic lands that were occupied by
the enemies will once again become Islamic. Furthermore, we will reach
beyond these countries, which are lost at one point. We proclaim that we
will conquer Rome, like Constantinople was conquered once, and as it will be
conquered again."

Interviewer: "Allah willing."

Sheik Ali Al-Faqir: "We will rule the world, as has been said by the Prophet
Muhammad.
[...]

"We will face a battlefront that is broader and stronger. Its beginnings
were in Palestine, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in Chechnya. What has begun
will be
completed. It will not stop.

[...]

"The Zionist entity reached completion, and it is beginning to decline,
until it will wane and come to its end. Similarly, America has occupied,
thundered, and foamed with rage, and proclaimed, like Pharaoh, 'I am your
supreme God,' but it will come to its end, and they have begun to realize
that their end is near. We have begun to read in American and European
newspapers that 'our glory is on the wane, and there is nothing we can do
about it.' This morning on Al-Jazeera TV, I saw American scientists and
strategic theoreticians, who said that America would soon come to its end.
They said it before about the USSR, and, indeed, it has come to its end, and
we say now that America and the EU will come to an end, and only the rising
force of Islam will prevail."

Hamas MP and Cleric Yunis Al-Astal in Friday Sermon: We Will Conquer Rome -
And From There, Continue On to Conquer the Two Americas, Eastern Europe -
April 11, 2008

(To view this clip, visit www.memritv.org/clip/en/1739.htm )

Yunis Al-Astal: "Allah has chosen you for Himself and for His religion, so
that you will serve as the engine pulling this nation to the phase of
succession, security, and consolidation of power, and even to conquests
thorough da'wa and military conquests of the capitals of the entire world.
Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople
was, as was prophesized by our Prophet Muhammad. Today, Rome is the capital
of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility
to Islam, and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs in Palestine in
order to prevent the reawakening of Islam - this capital of theirs will be
an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe
in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, and even Eastern
Europe.

"I believe that our children or our grandchildren will inherit our Jihad and
our sacrifices, and Allah willing, the commanders of the conquest will come
from among them. Today, we instill these good tidings in their souls, and by
means of the mosques and the Koran books, and the history of our Prophets,
his companions, and the great leaders, we prepare them for the mission of
saving humanity from the hellfire on the brink of which they stand."

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