Al-Qaida Leaders Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri: “Lamentation of the Sheikh, Amir Mustafa Abu al-Yazid”
Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri: “Lamentation of the Sheikh, Amir Mustafa Abu al-Yazid”
Written by Administrator Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:00
In an audiotape titled “Lamentation of the Sheikh, Amir Mustafa Abu al-Yazid”, produced by As-Sahab and released on July 27, 2010, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri mourned Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a founder of Al-Qaida who has been identified as “the overall head of al-Qaida Organization in Afghanistan” and who was reportedly killed in a U.S. strike. Zawahiri threatened more attacks against the West in the tape: “O’ American people and O’ peoples of the Crusade alliance: you are paying the price and you’re paying it high. Your leaders are collecting money from the war trade and you are its fuel and victims. We offered you a plan for peace and exchanging benefits, but your governments refused and became arrogant, and [so] the campaigns have continued against you everywhere, from Indonesia to Time Square, passing by Madrid and London. And the campaigns remain continuous and more are coming in succession, with Allah’s grace.” He also urged the Turkish people to “regain the glorious role the Ottoman Empire carried out in defending the Islamic homelands in general and Palestine in particular…The Ottoman State used to send sweeping armies and entire fleets to defend any threatened Muslim area, so how is it that your children’s role is limited to simply sending a ship or a number of ships that get overpowered like cattle in the sea of wolves?” Turning to France, he remarked, “What France is waging as it is spreading in Europe and the West must push us to tightly hold onto our truthful faith to counter their deviational doctrines. We must call our daughters and sisters and mothers to wear Hijab and to support them and defend them. As every Hijab-wearing and Niqab-wearing female Muslim, who defends her Hijab, is a mujahid who defends the rulings of Sharia against the Crusade, secular, Western invasion…The law that was declared in France prohibiting Niqab proves that the Western freedom is its freedom [to choose] in disbelief [in Allah], disintegration, degeneracy, and fighting Islam, and not the Muslim’s freedom in abiding by his religion.”
