Ramadan 03, 1432 A.H, Thursday, August 04, 2011
"A Message of Hope and Glad Tidings to Our Fellow Muslims in Egypt (5)"
Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahiri
(may Allah protect him)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the name of
Allah, and all praise be to Allah. May peace and blessings be
upon the Messenger of Allah and upon his family, his
companions, and those who followed him.
O, Muslim brothers everywhere, Asalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi
wa Barakatuhu. Thereafter:
This is our fifth episode of the series entitled, “A Message
of Hope and Glad Tidings to Our People in Egypt,” and in the
third and fourth episodes, I talked about the courageous and
noble popular revolution in Egypt and Tunisia. In them, I
greeted the honorable people of Egypt and Tunisia, who
liberated themselves from the two corrupt and corruptive
tyrants, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak. In them, I
also asked that the honorable, free Egyptian people who are
determined to bring victory to their creed and Ummah be aware
of the various attempts to divert their course or steal its
fruits, and that they should continue the struggle, efforts,
Jihad, and persistence to end corruption and establish a just
system that rules by the Shariah, spreads justice, implements
the Shura, and materializes the true meanings of independence,
political freedom, and social justice. I continue my talk
today, and I say:
First, I would like to salute the honorable and free who are
jealous of their religion, country, sanctities, and dignity
among the people of our Ummah, who rose and continue to rise
against injustice, oppression, tyranny, and the subordination
of Muslims to the foreign arrogant infidels who have launched
the modern Crusade against our Ummah and Islam, under the
facade of a war on terror. We salute these honorable and free
ones, who ousted two of the most corrupt regimes ruling our
countries, that of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia and
Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, and today, are seeking to oust the
corrupt and corrupting regime of the tyrant Gaddafi in the
defiant, Mujahid, and patient land of Libya. I ask Allah to
have mercy on their martyrs, heal their wounded, release their
captives, and reward them in the best way for what they
offered and still offer with sacrifices in aid of their
religion, their Ummah, and to regain their dignity and glory.
And I ask Allah to help and empower them, until our countries
are free, and the banners of Islam, glory, and dignity flutter
above them.
And I would also like - before discussing this honorable,
noble, defiant, and powerful uprising that is taking place
throughout our Ummah - to congratulate the Muslim Ummah for
the start of the American retreat from the resolute land of
Afghanistan. The American forces have started to hand over the
various provinces to the miserable Afghan army, as we heard
from the statement of the American Secretary of Defense in
Kabul in the first week of March, in which he stated that the
conditions seem favorable enough to start the withdrawing of
American forces from Afghanistan by next July. After him,
General Petraeus declared his commitment to start the
withdrawal of troops next July. This is a convincing
confession from the Americans of defeat, for as the Americans
have begun to retreat, the Mujahideen forces of the Islamic
Emirate under the command of the Ameer-ul-Mumineen, the
Mujahid Mullah Muhammad Umar - may Allah protect him - are
advancing from one victory to another and are expanding their
areas influence day after day.
The annihilation of the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq acts
as strength and support for our people who are uprising
against the corrupt and corruptive idolatrous tyrants, as our
Ummah is fighting one battle against the invaders of the
modern Crusade against their agents, our corrupt and
corrupting rulers. The abandonment of America's allies one by
one is the fallout of its retreating from its pride and
arrogance after receiving the blows in New York, Washington,
and Pennsylvania. And the Mujahideen are pledging to their
precious Ummah to continue directing blows at America and its
allies in the modern Crusade until our Ummah obtains its
freedom and sovereignty and is united under the banner of the
Caliphate, by the permission, help, and support of Allah.
My Muslim brothers, I ask your permission today to continue my
talk, which might be long, because the events are occurring
and changing rapidly, and I hope that our Muslim brothers
realize that our speeches might be delayed a little or have
longer intervals between them because of the fierce war in
which the Mujahideen are clashing with the Americans. And I
hope that our precious Ummah realizes that our speeches reach
them full of blood, wounds, and shackles of captives, because
in order to make the words of the Mujahideen reach their
precious Ummah, people get martyred, wounded, and captured,
but the Mujahideen offer these sacrifices with contentment and
self-pleasure in order for the truth to reach their Ummah and
in order to expose the lies, show the tricks, explain the
facts, and clarify the data.
And I want to divide my speech today into sections:
The First Section: On the events in the steadfast and
resistant Libya.
And the Second: On the events in uprising Egypt.
And the Third: On the events in leading Tunisia.
And the Fourth: On some messages.
As for the First Section: On the events in the steadfast and
resistant Libya.
I want first of all to greet our people in beloved, resistant,
and patient Libya that was patient with repression, torture,
oppression, lies, and harm for more than forty years.
So, may Allah greet the descendants of Umar al-Mukhtar, may
the mercy of Allah be upon him, who rose to challenge with
their bare chests the arrogance and mightiness of the tyrant
Gaddafi and his crimes. And I ask Allah to have mercy on their
martyrs, to heal their wounded, to release their captives, and
to grant them success in helping their religion, their Ummah,
and in preserving their sanctities and dignity, and to bless
them with His strong victory and near relief.
The blood of hundreds of martyrs who were killed by the
Gaddafi regime in your blessed uprising will never be in vain
by the permission of Allah, and before them the blood of
hundreds whom he killed, and the suffering of thousands whom
he imprisoned and tortured.
[Poetry]
I refused, with the sword lying above
the head, and I found in the spirit the generosity of the
free, even in the face of injustice,
To Allah, O Umar al-Mukhtar in his wisdom, for you to
encounter those whom you found to be unjustly treated
In moments we will be loyal to you, and the sayings are our
equipment, and we will fulfill the brave people who attack,
They were patient before hardships, with good hardships, and
they had tasted horrible things
And perhaps the ones who face the most difficulty are those
who keep their frustration bottled in, whereas the most
comfortable among them are those who died
And they have called you sinners, and how many people have
called innocent people sinners
They went as good companions, and Allah compensated you,
For you have trodden on the path of goodness, achieving the
hope of an illusory hope
No ruler can be without your conscience watching over them,
and you do not sponsor someone who is ruled
Your bones are crushed if you do not fulfill your aims, but
yet your spirit remains defiant.
I want here to incite my brothers the people of Egypt,
especially the tribes of the western desert, to help and
support their brothers in Libya with money, medicine, food,
and weapons, and treat their wounds and fight with them
against this tyrant who is corrupting religion and life.
Our people in Egypt and the tribes of the western desert
should save their brothers in Libya, because the Arab
countries let them down and the Arab League found it
sufficient to request the intervention of the Security Council
to impose a no-fly zone above Libya. So, why didn't the
procrastinating Arabs intervene to save the Libyan people? And
where are the Arab armies? Is their role exclusive only to
repressing their peoples while deputizing outside forces to
intervene in Libya?
We must make our brothers in Libya self-sufficient so that the
West will not use their tragedies as a justification to
intervene in Libya and occupy it and control its affairs.
I also want to warn my Muslim brothers in Libya, Egypt,
Algeria, Tunisia, and the rest of the Muslim lands that if the
Americans and NATO forces enter Libya, their neighbors should
rise in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and the rest of Muslims to
fight both the mercenaries of Gaddafi and the crusader NATO.
Gaddafi declared over and over again that the continuation of
his regime is a guarantee to the stability of the West, and
his statement on the ninth of March that the stability of
Libya – with which he means the stability of his regime in
Libya – is a guarantee to the stability of the West and Europe
and what is called Israel according to his claim.
I also call upon our people in Libya to have patience,
perseverance, and to stay put until their goal is fulfilled of
establishing a Muslim state in Libya that is ruled by Shariah
and accepts counseling from everyone, spreads justice, helps
the oppressed, and seeks to liberate Palestine, Iraq,
Afghanistan, and every occupied stretch of Muslim lands.
O free, honorable people of Libya, your ancestors fought for
the sake of Allah in order to dedicate all the religions to
Allah, so, follow in their footsteps and go on their path and
become the best descendants for the best ancestors.
And I warn our people in Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia, and
everywhere from the crocodile tears that America is shedding
today for the tragedies of the Libyans, because America is the
last one who should talk about freedom, human rights, justice,
and the protection of civilians.
Why didn't America make a move against Gaddafi before the
uprising of the Libyan people? Didn't America use to hand over
detainees to Gaddafi in its war on Islam in the name of terror
to be tortured, harassed, and killed? And amongst them is the
martyr – as we consider him – Al-Sheikh Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi,
and amongst them the leaders of the Islamic Fighting Group.
And why has America and the West kept silent about the
massacre of the Abu Salim prison, where more than 1200 martyrs
were killed? And why didn't they freeze the accounts and
investments of Gaddafi and his family before?
The America that is accusing Gaddafi of killing civilians is
the one that killed and is still killing civilians everywhere,
from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Iraq and Afghanistan. And its
latest incident is the killing of sixty civilians, including
women and children, in Ghaziabad village in Kunar province in
February. And what is worse than killing them is the statement
of the Petraeus spokesman that the people of the village are
the ones who burned the bodies and tore them apart. Then,
nearly a week after that incident, the American planes in
Kunar killed nine children, and Petraeus and Obama offered
apologies to Karzai, which is a ridiculous play between wolves
and foxes.
And the America that is accusing Gaddafi of using mercenaries
is the one that employed tens of thousands of mercenaries like
Blackwater and its affiliates in Iraq, Pakistan, and
Afghanistan.
And the America that is accusing Gaddafi of torturing his
people is the one that tortured thousands of detainees in Abu
Ghraib and is still torturing them in Guantanamo, Bagram, and
its secret prisons.
And the second section from my speech is about the events in
uprising Egypt.
I repeat the greeting to the popular anger in Egypt, which
rose against oppression and oppressors, and congratulations to
the Egyptian people and to all the Arab and Muslim people, not
only that, but to all the free people in the world, for the
departure of the arrogant, haughty tyrant Hosni Mubarak. And I
ask Allah to reward in the best way the free, honorable people
who respect their religion, Ummah, and sanctities in beloved
Egypt, and to have mercy on their martyrs, to heal their
wounded, and to release their captives.
The revolution of the Egyptian people succeeded in ousting the
tyrant, and then what? And this is the dangerous question and
big challenge.
Our people and brothers in Egypt, many people throughout
history have revolted, but many of their revolutions also
ended in what these people did not want, and sometimes the
opposite of what they wanted.
Because revolutions get stolen frequently and turn into
despotic brutal regimes: the French revolution was turned into
an empire by Napoleon, and the Russian revolution was seized
by the Bolsheviks after the German government prepared for the
entrance of Lenin into Russia on a German train to seize
control of the country in return for withdrawing from the
First World War. Then Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe
were subdued by him and by his successors for a period that
was one of the worst periods of repression in human history.
And the coup of 1952 – in which the Muslim Brotherhood
participated and the people supported and were happy about it
– turned into a despotic, repressive regime that humiliated
the people for 60 years.
Therefore, we must not take a narrow look at the situation in
Egypt. We must take a wide look that encompasses the
international and regional reality, because the location of
Egypt is critical, and we can't isolate it from what is
happening around it in the world.
So, we can't understand the events that are happening now in
Egypt far from the position of the West and America toward the
Islamic world, because there is a modern Crusade that is being
waged against our Ummah, and the expression “Crusader war” was
not invented by al-Qaeda, but confirmed by many analysts,
writers, and thinkers. Saad al-Deen al-Shazli called the war
on Iraq – before al-Qaeda - the “eighth Crusader war,” and
Saad al-Deen al-Shazli was not – now or ever - a member of
al-Qaeda, nor had any connection with it from near or far.
And America – the commander of the modern Crusade – directed
an organized change in Egypt that seeks to absorb the anger of
the honorable Egyptian people who are rising against
oppression and are making concessions gradually in front of
the demands of the people and are protecting at the same time
American interests and Israeli security.
And America - by the way – doesn't care about the shape of the
regime in Egypt nor its nature in Egypt or other places.
America doesn't care if the regime in Egypt is democratic or
despotic, royal or republic, individual or by groups,
presidential or parliamentarian. Not only that, but they don't
even mind if the regime is Islamic in its claim, so long as it
is based on the method of the Saud family, or the emir of the
believers in Morocco, or the royal family that is a descendant
of the Prophet - may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him - as in Jordan, as long as they fulfill their interests.
And a funny story about that, or, if you will, what would make
us laugh and cry at the same time, is the story that General
Schwarzkopf was in a press conference during the Gulf War, and
next to him was setting Khalid Bin Sultan, and one of the
journalists asked him about the military operations during
Ramadan, and then Schwarzkopf pointed at Khalid Bin Sultan and
said: “We shall get a Fatwa.”
However, what is impossible for America to accept is for a
regime to rise in Egypt or elsewhere that is considered to be
extremist, and the translation of that American term very
briefly means: For the regime to be a Shura-based, Islamic
one, in which the rulers gain their legitimacy from the Ummah,
and are judged before it, and refuse to invade the lands of
the Muslims and steal their resources, and thwart Israeli
ambitions.
Therefore, America wants a regime that gives the people some
freedoms, and I stress the word “some,” but which does not
threaten its interests nor does it harm Israel's security.
What happened in Egypt so far can be summarized as a popular
revolution that ended in a military coup. The tyrant Hosni
Mubarak handed over control to his men in the armed forces.
And we should look at the facts as they are, and not be drawn
by emotion, because the military council that is currently
ruling is not trustworthy, judging by its history and by its
behavior.
Muhammad Hussein Tantawi is 76 years old, meaning that he has
exceeded the age of retirement by 16 years, and yet Mubarak
kept him in his position for nearly 20 years, because he was
his man, whom he trusted in controlling the armed forces. So
what is the characteristic that made Muhammad Hussein Tantawi
unique over the rest of the leaders of the Egyptian armed
forces and made Hosni Mubarak hold on to him and not let
anyone else among the leaders be promoted to the same position
for 20 years?
And the first thing the council declared was its upholding of
the regional and international treaties, including the peace
treaty with Israel and the agreement on the crossings, upon
which the siege of Gaza is founded, even though no one in
Egypt demanded this. And the council could have said that this
is the job of the coming council of the people, but instead it
was sure to quickly declare its allegiance to the
international order headed by America that pays assistance to
Egypt in the amount of 3 billion dollars annually, 1.3 billion
of which is for the Egyptian army. And this assistance was
frankly said to be the price of peace with Israel, meaning the
price of selling Palestine and besieging Gaza.
Therefore, Obama and Mike Mullen, the American Chief of Staff,
praised the leadership of the Egyptian army. And with the
council's care to uphold the regional and international
treaties, it didn't issue a single word about the siege of
Gaza nor of selling gas to Israel, which the Egyptian
judiciary had ruled to stop. And I wonder, and the honorable
and free people wonder along with me:
What is the position of the military council on the
participation of the Egyptian army in the forces of the
crusader coalition that is invading Afghanistan? What is the
position of the military council on the passing of the fleets
of the crusader alliance that is invading Afghanistan and Iraq
through the Suez Canal? What is the position of the military
council on the military and intelligence cooperation with the
United States? And what is its position of making Egypt an
international torture station for America in its war against
Islam in the name of terrorism? And what is the position of
the military council on the siege of Gaza, whose members of
government called upon Muhammad Hussein Tantawi by name to
lift the siege around it? And what is the position of the
military council on the banning of the niqab in the university
campuses and dormitories? And what is its position on the
university security guards, whom the judiciary had ruled to
forbid from entering university campuses, and who had insulted
female and male students with beating and cursing them?
And what is the position of the military council on the
thousands of prisoners among the victims of the military
courts, and other victims of the Emergency Law and special
courts. What is its position on those prisoners, many of whom
had finished their sentences that were issued against them by
the military and special courts, and yet remain imprisoned
based on the Emergency Law that the regime used as a way to
make the imprisoned compromise their principles. For its
message was clear: Whoever does not give up on his principles
and acknowledge the legitimacy of Mubarak and his regime will
not leave his prison, and the great majority of those who
revised their views had spent time in prison over and above
the duration of their sentences. They are the victims of the
injustice, domination, and oppression of Mubarak and the
Emergency Law. This injustice and suppression that the media
of Mubarak hailed under the name of revisions is an American
policy that was executed by Mubarak's regime and welcomed by
the United Nations.
The leadership of the Egyptian armed forces is directly
responsible - during the rule of Mubarak - for many tragedies
of political prisoners, who were sentenced by the military
courts to prison and execution. And it is also responsible for
the tragedy of all the political prisoners after the rule of
Mubarak.
And the small number of victims of the military and special
courts who were released by the military council are not
enough. Instead, they are a small minority of thousands of
unjustly treated prisoners in the prisons of the regime, and
those must be released immediately, because their staying
there is a continuation of the injustice and oppression of
Mubarak on the Egyptian people.
It is not enough for the military council to issue a pardon
for political prisoners. Instead, it is the one that should
ask their pardon for the crimes that the military committed
against them and their families.
And in this regard, I congratulate my brothers from among the
imprisoned who were recently released, and I ask Allah to
accept from them their sacrifices that were purely for His
purpose and to grant them success in that their release be in
the service of Islam and to support the Muslims and all the
oppressed and unjustly treated. And I specifically
congratulate the honorable and esteemed brothers, the esteemed
Sheikh Abboud al-Zumar, and the esteemed Sheikh Tareq al-Zumar,
and the esteemed Sheikh Muhammad al-Zawahiri, and I ask Allah
to grant them success that their release be the start of a
campaign of religious preaching and incitement to increase the
awareness of the Ummah and prepare it to demand Islamic
Shariah to govern in Egypt and not be governed. And I ask them
not to forget the rest of their imprisoned and unjustly
treated brothers in the prisons of the regime, and not to stop
the work to release them, and to be - with Allah's assistance
and help - always - as every loyal one amongst them hopes to
be - the leaders in the defense of the rights of the Muslim
Ummah in Egypt and in all the lands of the Muslims, and to
support every unjustly treated person among the Muslims and
others.
And the leadership of the armed forces is not only responsible
for the tragedies of thousands of prisoners in Egypt, but it
is also responsible for the tragedies of the thousands of
Egyptians who are chased outside of Egypt because of the
tyrant Mubarak and his injustice and poor treatment. It is
their right to return to their country and for this injustice
against them to stop.
It is their right to return to their family and their parents
and their homes, and that all the unjust sentences be dropped,
those that were issued by the military and special courts
against them, and for the Egyptian regime to stop playing the
role of the pursuing cop for the sake of America.
The military council must demand the American government to
return the patient Mujahid scholar, the esteemed Sheikh Umar
Abdul Rahman to his country after all the persecution he
suffered, and all the suffering he went through. The regime of
Hosni Mubarak colluded with the American government to
persecute the esteemed Sheikh Umar Abdul Rahman, and the
military council is requested to return him to his homeland,
with his people and family, his loved ones, and his students.
Also the military council should declare, honestly and
clearly, a stop to the role of the Egyptian security forces in
supporting America in its war against Islam in the name of
terrorism, and to immediately stop the policy of using Egypt
as an international torture station, and to reveal to the
Egyptian people the details of America's usage of the prisons
of Egypt as part of a series of secret American prisons, and
to reveal the names of Egyptians and non-Egyptians who were
tortured in Egypt for America's sake.
And sadly, the military council has not released – until now -
most of the imprisoned, the victims of the military and
special courts. Indeed, the military council confirmed the
extension of the state of Emergency Law for six more months,
so that America can arrange matters, and so that the council
can arrest whomever it wishes to arrest without charge or
trial.
The military council has not moved until now, except under the
pressure of the volcano of popular anger, and this tremendous
anger must continue so that Egypt is purified of the remnants
of the ruined regime.
And here, I must specifically salute the honorable, free
people, who destroyed the idol of the state security
apparatus, broke into its headquarters, forced the military
council to declare its freezing and to indict many of its
leaders for persecution, and put its leadership under house
arrest. This victory, like others in the Egyptian revolution,
would not have happened were it not for the pressure of
popular anger, that should continue, until Egypt is purified
of the corruption of Mubarak's era and a good, pure regime is
established that will restore Egypt - as it once was - as a
leader of the Islamic and Arabic world and a supporter of the
oppressed and the weak.
The attack on the headquarters of state security apparatus is
a heroic act that will be mentioned with pride in the history
of Egypt. And this heroism must continue until the unjustly
treated political prisoners are released. And families of the
prisoners and the free and honorable people in Egypt should
move these protests to Tahrir Square, and before the
leadership of the armed forces, and before the prisons to
release the political prisoners inside them.
And the prosecutors of Egypt, from among the officers of state
security and its leaders must be pursued, regardless whether
it is those who remained in the administration of state
security, or who were retired like Fouad Allam, or who
participated in the popular council like Muhammad Abdul Fattah
Umar, or who were transferred to other security positions like
Muhsen Hafzi and the likes of them.
And I call upon every free, honorable person among the
lawyers, journalists, and all who know details of the
corruption of the security organizations in Egypt to publish
them and to use them to pursue those criminals.
The establishment of a department for national security inside
the interior ministry is not sufficient. Instead, the people
must know who is in charge of it? And if the former
prosecutors of the people were appointed in it? Those who
worked in the administration of the state security.
Also, what is meant by saying that the department is tasked
with fighting terrorism? What terrorism is this? Is it
terrorism in the American-Israeli sense of the word? That had
been prevalent in the previous year, and therefore, the
participation in the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan is
fighting terrorism? And creating secret prisons in Egypt and
changing it into an international torture station is fighting
terrorism? And pursuing the Mujahideen of Gaza and torturing
them to know where their leadership, headquarters, and supply
tunnels are, and informing Israel, is this fighting terrorism?
And working according to the security agreements with the US,
is this fighting terrorism? And protecting the Israeli
prostitution trade in Sinai, whose profits were taken by the
supporters of the previous regime, is that fighting terrorism?
And attacking the people of Sinai to protect Israel and stop
them from helping their brothers from Gaza, is that fighting
terrorism? And is the capture of all who try to participate in
jihad in Afghanistan and Iraq, or supporting it financially,
is that part of fighting terrorism? What is this terrorism?
Inform us, so that, the trick does not continue, and the
prosecutors return under new guises.
My free and honorable brothers in the awakened land of Egypt!
Many of the institutions of the former regime are still
intact:
The Presidential establishment, which is the most powerful
establishment in the former regime, remains as it was. Omar
Suleiman and Zakaria Azmi still administrate it from the
Office of the President of the Republic. Hosni Mubarak and his
lackeys are still conspiring plans from Sharm el-Sheikh. The
governors and the management of the security forces are still
as they were. The heads of the Central Security are still the
same. The regime's media and newspapers are still being run by
the same people, who used to glorify the praises of the
previous regime. The military establishments, which were the
main support of the defunct regime, and whose leaders were
handpicked by Mubarak and then delegated the task of running
the country, are still the same.
The office of Prosecutor General is held by the same person it
was before, and the Prosecutor General, Abdul Majeed Mahmoud,
is one of the gang members of the defunct regime, and is from
the same school as Raja' al-Arabi, the general attorney for
the State Security, and then the Prosecutor General for the
previous regime. It was the gang which used to run its affairs
in coordination with the investigations bureau of the State
Security. Thus, inquiries were leaked to the investigations
bureau, and the prisoners were tortured even more until they
pled guilty to what the government wanted.
The Prosecutor General, Abdul Majeed Mahmoud, did not initiate
the investigation of the Interior, Tourism, and Housing
Ministers, as well as Ahmed al-Izz, except after Hosni Mubarak
sacrificed them in his final attempt to save himself. If this
was not the case, then where was he after all this corruption
for the last thirty years?!
Who is prosecuting whom? Who is investigating whom? Does a
gang member lead investigate his fellow members?
As for the ministry of Isam Sharaf:
Isam Sharaf was a minister in the ministry of Ahmed Nazeef for
more than a year, from 2004 to 2005, and it is a well known
fact that this ministry was jointly responsible. Isam Sharaf
was held responsible for all the crimes of the government
during the year he spent in office. Was Hosni Mubarak a holy
saint at that time, and then turned into to an accursed devil
in 2011?
As for the foreign minister, Nabil al-Arabi, he was soiled by
the swamp of Camp David. He was a member of the negotiation
team with Anwar al-Sadat. Thus, this person graduated from the
school of Camp David. Not only is it a secular school enslaved
to America and Israel, but it is also a school which makes a
mockery of the rights, sentiments, feelings, and hopes of the
Arab and Muslim people. It struck the Camp David accords, as
well as the peace accords with Israel, a show of treachery to
the Muslim Ummah and Palestine. Then, these accords were
passed through a rigged referendum.
I remind the dear viewer that the Egyptian Foreign Minister,
Ismail Fahmy, and the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Muhammad Riyadh resigned from office due to Sadat's
announcement of his visit to the Knesset. Muhammad Ibrahim
Kamil took their place, who accompanied Sadat to Camp David,
but was unable to tolerate what was occurring, resigning from
office there at Camp David. The only person left with Sadat
was Boutros Ghali, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs,
whom Muhammad Hasanain Haikal described as “having nothing to
lose.” The rest of his team, those equal to him in his
depravity, also remained, including Nabil al-Arabi. Because
this man was a graduate of Camp David, he recently announced
to Al-Shurooq newspaper that the peace accords with Israel
must continue. So this person has the same policies as the
military council, which has gained the praise of Obama and
Mullen. Thus, this person will administer the policies of
Egypt according to the Camp David mentality, in the direction
of the peace accords and normalization with Israel.
Thus, I ask, and every free and noble person asks with me:
what is the stance of this person in regards to the Joint Arab
Defense Agreement, which was openly killed by the peace
accords with Israel, which stressed this condition over all
others?
This person was also the Egyptian Ambassador to the United
Nations, meaning that he was representing the foreign policies
of Mubarak, joint policies of waging a war against Islam in
the name of war against terror, and policies which aid
normalization with Israel, rather which acknowledge their
occupation of Palestine, and stipulate the right of return of
the refugees, according to the Arab initiative, to be in
agreement with Israel, and abide by the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, while Israel does not.
As for the statements which were attributed to him about the
illegitimacy of the blockade of Gaza due to it being a
violation of international law, they are statements which will
be put to a difficult test when he is involved in a
government, which in reality itself imposes the blockade of
Gaza, despite the calls of Hamas to Muhammad Hussein Tantawi
to lift it.
On top of this, for three years, this person has been one of
the lead consultants of the law office of Zaki Hashem. Zaki
Hashem was a minister in the Sadat regime, and his office is
has a cooperative and submissive relationship with the
American law consultancy Patton Boggs, based in New York and
Washington. This company is the agent of Mubarak and his
family in the weapons and investment deals and the litigations
which arise from them.
As for the Minister of Justice, Muhammad Abdul Azeez al-Jundi,
he was the Prosecutor General in the early 90s, the time when
the worst atrocities were committed by the Investigations
Department of the State Security and in the prisons against
all prisoners, especially the Islamists. He would cover his
ears to the complaints of lawyers and the families of the
incarcerated, which flowed like rivers onto his desk.
It is well known to all that the Mubarak regime politicized
much of the judiciary, changing the Prosecution General office
into a law office of the investigations department of the
State Security which pursued opponents and punished them.
So, the Military council has formed a ministry from club of
old employees during Mubarak's era.
Thus, we see in front of us a popular revolution turned into a
military coup, initiated by the former regime and encouraged
by America. America has succeeded in transferring rule from
one agent to another, in order to guarantee that a controlled
change takes place in Egypt, far from any goals which may
threaten it, such as an Islamic government, nullifying the
peace treaty with Israel, and freeing itself from
intelligence, military, and economic enslavement to America.
America is not concerned with who governs Egypt after Mubarak,
whether it is a military or civilian government, or whether it
is democratic or dictatorial. What concerns it is that power
is safely transferred from in controlled fashion to a
government which has the same policies as Mubarak in regards
to fighting Islam, guaranteeing the security of Israel,
blockading Gaza, and serving American interests. The interests
of America and intertwined with the interests of Mubarak as
well as the military institution.
The Egyptian special envoy of the American president, Frank
Wisner, worked as a consultant at the law offices of Patton
Boggs for Legal Consultancy in New York and Washington for a
period of two years. This is the same entity I mentioned
previously in discussing Nabil al-Arabi. They are Mubarak and
his family's agents in weapons and investments deals and the
litigations which arise from them. In other words, Obama sent
Wisner to a customer of his agency, so that they could
organize affairs in a way which would not oppose the interests
of any party involved.
The relationship between Wisner and Patton Boggs is no secret,
but rather quite transparent. Rather, Patton Boggs openly
boasts that they “represent some of the leading Egyptian
commercial families and their companies” and “have been
involved in oil and gas and telecommunications infrastructure
projects on their behalf.”
One of its partners served as chairman of the
Egyptian-American Chamber of Commerce promoting foreign
investment in the Egyptian economy. The company has also
managed contractor disputes in military-sales agreements
arising under the United States Foreign Military Sales Act.
Washington gives around $1.3 billion (£800 million) a year to
the Egyptian military.
Patton Boggs also openly boasts that it advises “the Egyptian
military, the Egyptian Economic Development Agency, and has
handled arbitrations and litigation on the government's behalf
in Europe and the United States.”
Thus, we have in front of us a network of intertwined
interests, which continue to exist till this very day.
Thus, it is crucial that we do not neglect the various
dimensions of true nature of the conflict, and that we do not
imagine that our problems will cease to exist with the exit of
Hosni Mubarak or his regime. There is another enemy which is
evermore dangerous which lies in wait for us, which continues
to meddle in our affairs.
Thus, I call upon every Muslim, and every free and noble
person in Egypt, to try as much as possible to bring about a
total change in Egypt. We are in the face of a regime which
will soon vanish, and we must build in its place a proper
system. This is a historical opportunity which rarely arises,
and we must not let it slip by us.
We can hint in summary about this sought total change from
three angles: legislative reform, political reform, and social
reform.
As for legislative reform, the governance of the Shariah must
be emphasized. The Shariah must be the ruler, not the ruled.
All laws must emanate from this source, from them those which
guarantee the Muslim Ummah their right to choose their rulers
and hold them to account.
The preachers, scholars, and supporters of Islam in Egypt must
call to a popular campaign demanding that the Shariah be the
sole source of all legislation. The Shariah is the system of
governance, not itself governed by humans, and that the second
article of the constitution is not sufficient, which states
that the Islamic Shariah is the main basis of law (not the
sole basis).
It is incumbent upon all the free and noble, and all workers
of Islam, to strive in this cause. I call upon all Islamic
workers to join their efforts on educating the masses and
encouraging them to make this demand. They must raise
themselves above any affiliation to organizations, uniting,
cooperating and supporting each others efforts in this noble
cause. They must lead a far reaching and expansive Islamic
campaign to out pressure the ruling military regime, which
will never respond to any demand unless put under pressure.
I also warn anyone who seeks to wipe out the Islamic identity
of the Egyptian people. They are plowing crops in the ocean
and stirring blind strife. Gamal Abdel Nasser tried to do
this, and it resulted in the biggest loss in contemporary
Egyptian history. Anwar Sadat followed his footsteps, and he
was killed. Hosni Mubarak also tried with means far more
atrocious, and he landed himself in the garbage piles of
history. Egypt was never, and will never be the Egypt of
Commander-in-Chief Bonaparte, the Egypt of General Yaqoob, the
Egypt of Salama Musa, the Egypt of Farag Foda, or the Egypt of
Farouk Hosny. Rather, it was, by the Grace of Allah, and will
remain to be the Egypt of Amr bin Aas, may Allah be pleased
with him, the Egypt of Imam al-Shafi'i, the Egypt of
Salahuddin al-Ayyoubi, the Egypt of Al-Izz bin Abdul Salam,
the Egypt of Saifuddin Qutuz, the Egypt of Ruknuddin Baybars,
the Egypt of Ibn Taimiyyah, the Egypt of Umar Makram, Suleiman
al-Halabi, Sheikh al-Aleesh, and Sheikh Hasan al-Adawi, the
Egypt of Hasan al-Banna, Ezzuddin al-Qassam, Abdul Qadir Al-Awdah,
Syed Qutb, Abdullah Azzam, the Egypt of Khalid Islambouli,
Isam al-Qamari, Suleiman Khatir, the Egypt of Ali Abdul
Fattah, Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, Abu Hafs Al-Misri, and
Muhammad Atta, may Allah have mercy on them all.
Those who seek to wipe out the true identity of Islamic Egypt,
its distinctive role amongst the Muslims, and its leadership
of the Islamic world for centuries, not only have they
stripped themselves of the creedal constants and the
principles of governance in Islam, they have blindly played
ignorant of the facts of history, geography, and societal
trends.
Indeed, I warn all those who seek to establish a system of law
in Egypt removed from its religion, that they are stirring a
long-lasting strife which will not calm, about which they
should blame none other than themselves. I know that some of
the biased will try to depict my words that I am threatening
with bombings and confrontation, but the fact is that all
intelligent and wise people understand and agree with me that
I am speaking of a prolonged and extended error, historical,
political and societal which will run distant into the future
and with much rage, if these dwarfs try to lie about about the
true affiliation of Islamic Egypt.
I also ask the biased that they do not try to shuffle the
cards by claiming that the call to the governance of the
Shariah in Egypt, to the recovery of its leadership of the
Islamic and Arab world, and to stand to defend the lost rights
of its Ummah from its enemies, first and foremost America and
Israel, is in conflict with living peacefully and in tolerance
with other Christians and non-Muslims of this country. This is
an unacceptable, biased, and fabricated mixup. We have lived
with non-Muslims in Islamic lands. We do so now, and we will
continue to do so as long as Allah wills. There is a solution
to any problem they may face, if the relationship was one
based upon peace and loyalty, with wisdom, righteousness and
equity. Allah, Blessed and Most High, the Truth, says:
“Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for your Faith nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them: for Allah loveth those who are just.” (Al-Mumtahana: 8)
My brother
Muslims in Cairo and Baghdad; and Mecca and Medina; and
Algeria and Istanbul; and the other great centers of Islam,
the Western plan - that brought down the Caliphate - tried and
is trying to divide us into more than 50 disparate pieces.
Every piece is occupied with itself and calls for nationalism
to break off from its sisters. Then, they begin dividing the
divided. Therefore, the call of secularism and nationalism and
making Shariah absent is a dangerous call that has political,
market, and military dimensions that are very damaging. It is
a call to divide us into weak oppressed entities with which
America and its allies can deal, each on its own.
It is a call that wants to excise Islam's influence upon its
societies and Ummah, so that the Muslims lose the great power
of creed, that turned them from wandering tribes in the desert
of its peninsula into the leaders of the world and the
teachers of Tawhid, values, and morals, as Rub'i bin 'Amer -
may Allah be pleased with him - summarized the issue for
Rustum, the head of the Persians, when he said to him: “Allah
sent us, and Allah brought us to lead away those who wish to
move from the worship of man to the worship of Allah, from the
narrowness of the world to its abundance, and from the
injustice of the religions to the justice of Islam.”
This was a reference to the legislative reform aspect. As for
the political aspect, one of its most important requirements
externally is the return of Egypt to its leadership role in
the midst of its Muslim Ummah, the Arab world, and the Third
World, by washing its hands of the treaty with Israel and its
public and secret obligations, cutting off diplomatic
relations with Israel, expelling the Israeli ambassador from
Cairo, the immediate lifting of the siege on Gaza, and helping
all the causes of the Muslim Ummah and those who are weak and
oppressed in the world.
And one of its most important requirements internally is to
liberate the Ummah from the shackles of defeat and fear so
that it exercises its role in enjoining good and forbidding
evil. And this requires a lifting of the state of emergency,
stopping the military courts against civilians, nullifying all
of their judgments, and canceling the security services that
were built upon defeating the people, crushing them, and
treating them with contempt like insects. It is not enough to
cancel the internal security investigative forces, for other
security organizations are still exercising the same policies.
Therefore, it is necessary to rebuild anew the security
services that are founded upon respecting the legitimate
rights of people, which the Caliph Umar bin al-Khataab - may
Allah be pleased with him - confirmed when he said, “When did
you enslave people, when they were born free from their
mothers?”
The state security apparatus fell at the hands of the heroic,
free sons of Egypt, and now we must bring down fear from state
security of the government and its oppression from our hearts.
Therefore, I call upon my brothers who were the victims of
these investigations that were run by the state security
investigations with blackmail, bargaining, threatening, and
temptation, to realize that the idol of the state security has
been smashed. They must endeavor to serve their religion, for
the criminals, who had captured them, bargained with them,
tortured them, and transgressed against their sanctity and
honor, were defeated. Accordingly, they should return to their
role – for which every sincere person awaits - in the service
of Islam, supporting it, inciting the Ummah, and mobilizing it
around the causes of reform. The first is the legislative
reform with the rule of Shariah, so that it is the ruler and
not the ruled.
As for the social reform aspect, one of its most important
requirements is stopping corruption, lifting the suffering
from the poor, equitable distribution of wealth, and
subsidizing basic foodstuffs and necessary services for the
people, from education to health to housing. And most of the
Egyptians suffer from acute problems, such as more than one
family in an apartment, and the absence of bathrooms from most
of the countryside, and spreading of shanty-towns, and
orphans, and spinsters, and drug addiction. In Egypt today,
there are seven million drug users, and the addicts in Egypt
are increasing by 20,000 annually, and social reform requires
a good government in its behavior and practices, that
preserves morals and values, and stops spreading obscenity and
degradation.
O people of Egypt, those who wish to remove Shariah from power
so that America would approve of them will spread among you
usury, obscenity, the drinking of alcohol, moral degradation,
the breakup of the family, and crime in its different types
and forms, that is only spread further by the laws. And I have
experienced and lived in prisons, and I know their crime
against the human soul and human instinct. The man-made laws
turn the people in prison into monsters who fight for three
things: perversion, drugs, and gambling. These are the fruits
of man-made laws.
O people of Egypt, those who wish to remove Shariah so that
America would approve of them are tricking themselves before
they try to trick others.
America, which bombed the two offices of al-Jazeera in Kabul
and Baghdad, is the one that is crying over the safety of
journalists in Egypt. And America, whose forces fire live
rounds at protesters in Afghanistan and Iraq, is the one that
is crying over the protesters in Egypt. And America, which
signed the no-torture treaties, is the one that is practicing
torture in Guantanamo, Bagram, Abu Ghraib, its secret prisons
in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Poland, and its ships and
planes, while it cries over the victims of torture in Egypt.
And America, which signed the Geneva treaties for the
treatment of prisoners, is the one that does not apply these
treaties upon the prisoners from al-Qaeda and the Taliban. And
America, which pressures Omar al-Bashir and Gaddafi and
threatens them with the International Criminal Court, refuses
to apply the treaty of this court upon its citizens. And
America, which declares the lack of legitimacy of the
settlements, uses the veto in the Security Council against the
project that was proposed by the Arab nations to condemn the
settlements in the invaded land of Palestine.
Even more than that, America, which is proud of its President
Wilson who had come up with the right of self-determination of
peoples, completely forgot that with the Palestinian people,
whom it expelled from their land, brought a people in their
stead from the ends of the earth, and refused the return of
the people of the land, the Palestinians, to it.
This is the truth of the international legitimacy that the
army leadership raced to acknowledge along with its decisions
and treaties. It is a legitimacy of the control of the
arrogant over the oppressed.
And America, which is crying over democracy, does not
acknowledge the government of Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank.
And America is the last to have the right to speak of
democracy and human rights.
This is the truth of democracy. It makes all permissible no
matter how lowly or contradictory, as long as it has the
support of the majority. Democracy, in truth, is the game of
counting voices without moral, value-based, or religious
reference. And this is the essential difference between the
Shura that relies on the reference of the Shariah, and
democracy that has no reference.
Shura, for example, cannot let the Muslim nation commit to
treaties of the treatment of prisoners or preventing torture,
and then go ahead and break these treaties because the
majority of the Shura council felt that it should. And the
Shura council, for example, cannot attack the specified rights
of the poor, such as their share of Zakat, charity, and booty,
or their public rights, because the majority of the council
felt this way.
And I am here to call upon the needy people of Egypt who
deserve Zakat to demand that the Egyptian government rule with
the Shariah which would give them the right to Zakat. The
Companions - may Allah approve of them - led by the great
Siddiq - may Allah approve of him - fought the apostates to
protect the pillar of Zakat, so fight, O people of Egypt, for
your rights if no one responds to you.
And the Shura, for example, cannot allow licensing for liquor
manufacture, nor for places of ill-repute, nor for morally
degraded media, that form a government for corrupting and
corruption, even if the majority of the council agreed to
this.
And the Shura, for example, cannot acknowledge Israel taking
over Palestine, nor acknowledge the international resolutions,
peace treaties, and the Arab initiatives that acknowledge
this, even if most of the Shura council agreed to this.
Shura is the practicing of freedom and participation in
political decision making and holding the government and the
ruler accountable in the frame of the reference of Shariah and
its rule.
As for the third section of my speech, it is about the events
of pioneering Tunisia.
I call upon our precious Ummah in Tunisia to continue its
resistance and Jihad so that it achieves victory. The road
remains long, and one must continue in demanding reform so
that Tunisia returns to being a castle for Islam, garrisoning,
and Jihad and a beacon in the Maghreb of Islam.
As for the fourth section of my speech, it has several
messages:
The first message: A call to the Muslim Ummah in the Arabian
Peninsula in Yemen and in Saudi Arabia to rise up against the
unjust rulers, who turned the cradle of Islam and its areas
into bases for the Crusader campaign against Islam and the
Muslims.
And I confirm to our people and brothers among the dear Yemeni
people: we are with them in their uprising against injustice,
tyranny, corruption, and submission. We are with them in their
rejection of the regime that submits to America, that turned
Yemen into a colony of the American Crusader forces, in which
they kill whomever they want, capture whomever they want,
investigate whomever they want, and gets whatever it wants
from them.
The pure blood that flowed in the Taghyir Square and other
sites will not be in vain, Allah willing, for this blood was
shed under American orders, which is working hard to preserve
the corrupt regime that submits to it because of the fear of
an Islamic transformation in Yemen of faith and wisdom that is
liberated from the top criminals.
So be steadfast, O people of Yemen, O people of assistance,
supplies, defiance, honor, sacrifice, and precedence, for you
are waging the battle of the Ummah in one of its important
fronts. We are with you in the same battle, so be steadfast,
patient, and united, for Allah's victory is nigh with His
permission.
And the second message is to the Muslim Ummah in Tunisia,
Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, and Jordan: the Mujahideen are
with you, supporting you in your anger and uprising. They are
fighting for you in one battle against America in its Crusader
campaign against its proxies, and every victory for the
Mujahideen is power to you and reinforcements for reformation
and change towards the victory of the Ummah against
submission, tyranny, and corruption.
And the third message is for the Muslim Ummah everywhere:
America is staggering - by the grace of Allah - under the
blows of the Mujahideen, so mobilize, rise, and resist America
and its supporters with your words, hands, and wealth. Break
the shackles of fear and care for this world, and do not fear
the enemies of Islam. Hear the word of the Truth, may He be
glorified:
“Do ye fear them? Nay, it is Allah Whom ye should more justly fear, if ye believe!” (At-Taubah: 13)
And our final
prayer is all praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may
the peace and blessings of Allah be upon our master Mohammad,
his family, and his companions.
Wa Asalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu.
As-Sahab Foundation for Media Production
Rabi' al-Thani 1432
March 2011
Source: Al-Fajr Media Center
Translated by:
The Global Islamic Media Front
Observing Mujahideen News and Inspiring the Believers
Submitted by a Mujahid