MEMRI: Sermon on PA TV: Blessings to whoever saved a bullet to stick in a
Jew's head
Special Dispatch - PA
August 7, 2001
No. 252

Friday Sermon on PA TV: "Blessings to whoever saved a
bullet to stick it in a Jew's head."

The following excerpts, broadcasted on PA TV, are from the
Friday sermon [August 3, 2001] given by Sheik Ibrahim Madhi
at the Sheik 'Ijlin Mosque in Gaza:

"...Oh lovers of Allah. After the leaders of the Jews
declared the "Hell" plan(1), we say: Yes, we accept the
challenge, if this is the "Hell" plan. Then our dead [will
reach] Heaven and their dead [will reach] Hell, Allah
willing. This Jihad activity will continue, whether they
like it or if it upsets them. Why do we complicate things.
This is Jihad: Either victory or Martyrdom..."

"The states called the 'ring-states' [i.e. bordering
Israel] - what are they good for? What are they worth? Do
they protect us from the Jews, or do they [in fact] protect
the Jews from the Mujaheedin in the name of Allah? We have
said to them and we keep saying: 'Continue to guard your
thrones and bellies, continue to protect your capitals, and
let the Mujaheedin saturate this blessed land with their
pure and untainted blood. Then, the Jews will see miracles
from us.'"

"A young man said to me: 'I am 14 years old, and I have
four years left before I blow myself up amongst the Jews.'
I said to him: Oh son, I ask Allah to give you and myself
Martyrdom...'"

"Oh lovers of Allah, we must state clearly: 'There is no
difference between the National and Islamic [forces], we
are all forces for the sake of Allah. We, the Muslims on
this good and blessed land, are all - each one of us -
seekers of Martyrdom. We do not know when the bombardments
come. If the Jews only knew... that if they bombard us, the
Arabs would bombard their villages and cities, they would
hesitate a thousand times...'"

"We must all seek a role in the Jihad and the battle. We
said and we still say: 'Even if we, the entire
[Palestinian] people, stood in line and signed for the Jews
that we want peace, they would not accept it. The Koran is
very clear on this: The greatest enemies of the Islamic
nation are the Jews, may Allah fight them...'"

"The Palestinian people should cure its wounds; we must
forget our differences. There is no place for
blood-vengeance. Our enemy is very clear. All weapons
should be directed towards him. Why do we see weapons that
are directed on one another?... All spears should be
directed at the Jews, at the enemies of Allah, the nation
that was cursed in Allah's book. Allah has described them
as apes and pigs, the calf-worshipers, idol-worshipers...
they have said that we are cockroaches and ants and that
they should kill us, but we approach them with the words of
Allah: '...Whoever wants to save himself, should enter to
the true religion - Islam - and repent, and then there will
be no problems between him and us, our rights will be his
and his obligations will be ours. However, he who came to
this land as an invader and did not enter the religion of
Allah, should go back to the place he came from, or else,
our spears will reach him, Allah willing.'"

"Oh beloved, the Jews want to throw us under a wall of
despair [and claim] that we are destined to die. We say:
'We accept this challenge. Any one of us who dies, will
reach Heaven, Allah willing. I ask Allah that we would meet
him as Martyrs for his sake. I ask Allah that our dead will
be in Heaven...'"

"Whoever can fight them with his weapons, should go out [to
the battle]; whoever can fight them with a machinegun,
should go out; whoever can fight them with a sword or a
knife, should go out; whoever can fight them with his
hands, should go out; This is our destiny. The people who
are the most hostile toward the believers are the Jews and
the Polytheists... The Jews have exposed their fangs.
Nothing will deter them, except the color of their filthy
people's blood; nothing will deter them except for us
voluntarily detonating ourselves in their midst. They have
nuclear power, but we have the power of the belief in
Allah..."

"The Prophet [Muhammad] said: 'The Jews will fight you, and
[Allah] will establish you as rulers over them...' We blow
them up in Hadera, we blow them up in Tel Aviv and in
Netanya, and in this way, Allah establishes us as rulers
over these gangs of vagabonds. The Jews fight you, but
Allah will establish you as rulers over them. Until the Jew
would hide behind a stone or a tree, and the stone or the
tree would say: Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah, a Jew is
hiding behind me, come kill him, with the exception of the
Gharqad tree which is the tree of the Jews...'"

"In several years, Allah willing, we will enter Jerusalem
as conquerors, to Jaffa as conquerors. To Haifa as
conquerors, to Ashkelon as conquerors. We are certain that
victory is near..."

"Blessings for whoever assaulted a soldier... Blessings for
whoever has raised his sons on the education of Jihad and
Martyrdom; blessings for whoever has saved a bullet in
order to stick it in a Jew's head."

Endnote:

(1) According to the Palestinian media, Israel has a plan
to reoccupy Palestinian territories, code named "Oranim"
[Pines], which is mistranslated by Arafat to mean "Hell" in
Hebrew.

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