June 09, 2003

ALL THE NEWS THE TIMES DOESN'T SEE FIT TO PRINT

        While devoting precious newspace to covering prom night for Muslim Americans, somehow the Times neglected to cover the speeches of leading Muslim Imams. Following in the rich tradition of ignoring Hitler's genocide, you will find nowhere in the Times, reports such as the ones noted today by Charles Johnson. These violent, hate filled sermons have been sponsored by our friends the Saudis, but you'd never know about them reading the paper of record. From Imams preaching at the holiest sites of Islam--Mecca and Medina, we hear the following: "O God, strengthen Islam and Muslims, humiliate infidelity and infidels, destroy Islam's enemies, and grant safety to this country and the other Islamic countries." and this bloodcurdling incitement to murder: "O God, strengthen Islam and Muslims, humiliate infidelity and infidels, and destroy Islam's enemies, including the vile Jews." He also asks God to protect the country of the custodian of the two holy mosques and "to help the Palestinian brothers defeat the usurper Jews, to shake the ground under them, to instill fear into their hearts, and to make them prey for Muslims." Not to be outdone by these government supported Imams, the Imam of the Saudi financed mosque in Rome, the largest mosque in Europe, gave his own blood curdling sermon: "From an Islamic viewpoint there is no doubt that the operations of the mujahidin against the Jews in Palestine are legitimate. They are missions of martyrdom and those who commit them are martyrs of Islam because all Palestine is a Dar al-harb, a territory of war. This is because all of the Jewish society illegally occupies an Islamic land."

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