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June 3, 2002
GLOWNY IMAM ARABII SAUDYJSKIEJ JEST EKWIWALENTEM PAPIEZA, GDYZ MA KONTROLE NAD
MEKKA I MEDYNA. DLATEGO JEGO BREDNII NALEZY PRZYKLADAC TROCHE WIECEJ UWAGI. A
WIEC CHRZESCIJANIE, ZYDZI I HINDUSI ZJEDNOCZYLI SIE PRZECIW ISLAMOWI. MORDU W
NOWYM JORKU, 2 MILIONOW CHRZESCIJAN ZAMORDOWANYCH W SUDANIE, SETKI TYSIECY W
INDONEZJI, MORDY NA HINDUSACH, CHYBA TEGO NIE BYLO BO NA PLACU BOJU ZOSTALI
TYLKO BIEDNI MUZULMANIE, KTORYCH SWIAT NIE WIADOMO DLACZEGO NIE LUBI.
Top Saudi imam sees conspiracy
By Paul MartinTHE WASHINGTON TIMES
LONDON — Saudi Arabia's top Muslim cleric has called on the Islamic world to
unite against a worldwide conspiracy of Hindus, Christians, Jews and
secularists threatening Islamic moral values. Muslims, he said, should cleanse
themselves from creeping Western values and American-controlled "globalization."
In a television address monitored here, Sheik Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, the imam
of the Mosque of Mecca, Islam's holiest shrine, turned his ire on the followers
of India's dominant religion as tension mounted between that country and mainly
Muslim Pakistan.
"The idol-worshipping Hindus indulge in their open hatred against our brothers
and sanctities in Muslim Kashmir, threatening an imminent danger and a fierce
war in the whole Indian subcontinent," he said in a live sermon heard
throughout the Arab world via the official Saudi national television and
satellite channel.
The linkage of Hinduism with the sort of invective normally reserved for Jews
and the supporters of Israel — together with scathing remarks about Christians —
made the speech unusual.
Since Saudi Arabia's leaders exercise tight control on their media and on their
government-appointed imams, their comments — especially from Mecca and on the
main television channel — are seen as indicators of the government's views.
The imam lashed out with thinly veiled invective against the United States,
with which Saudi Arabia has close economic and military ties. He contrasted
the "sublime" truths of Islam with the supporters of "fake globalization that
wastes human values and ideals," an apparent reference to the West in general
and the United States in particular.
Though he was particularly scornful of Jews, whom he said had been cursed and
turned into "pigs and monkeys" by Allah, he turned his ire on Christians and
capitalists as well.
"Their course is supported by the advocates of credit and worshippers of the
Cross," the imam asserted, "as well as by those who are infatuated with them
and influenced by their rotten ideas and poisonous culture among the advocates
of secularism and Westernization."
The imam prefaced his remarks with a warning to his own people not to become
confused by modernity. "The nation has never been in such a dire need to follow
the example of the prophet in this age of tribulations, sedition, open
challenges and mean plotting by the enemies of Islam," Sheikh al-Sudays said.
Leaders of former communist countries also came under attack, especially in
zones where Muslims have taken up arms.
"The enemies of Muslims among the atheists insist on their arrogance and
aggression against our people and sanctities in struggling Chechnya," declared
the imam.
He concluded with a prayer for God to support Islam and Muslims, to humble the
infidels, destroy the enemies of religion, and make his and other Muslim
countries peaceful and stable.
He went on: "Oh God, support our brother mujahideen in Palestine, Kashmir and
Chechnya. Oh God, we ask you to support our Palestinian brothers in Palestine
against the aggressor Jews and usurper Zionists.