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Name
Khan
- United Kingdom
Profession
business
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Dear Sheikh, May Allah grant you good health. We are now witnessing a new leadership for the Palestinians in the name of Abu Mazen. As we in the West are not familiar with this person should we regard him as the legitimate leader of the Palestinians or just another yes-man.
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In the name of Allah, I don’t see in Abu-Mazen a new leadership, more than an added leadership to the old one because he (Abu Mazen) is considered a member of the executive committee of the PLO, and if you don’t know him well, I will tell you that he is the architect of the Oslo agreement. In fact, the Palestinian people are not demanding a new Prime Minister, but these are American-Israeli demands. Palestinians need to liberate their land and country and lift the occupation and the siege.
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Abdur Raheem
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Profession
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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu
What would happen to the Palestinian struggle if Syria under US pressure banned Hamas representation on Syrian soil.
I would be grateful if you would please pass on my salaam to my Brothers and Sisters in Palestine.
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Nothing will happen if Syria banned Hamas representation, because Hamas representation there is only in the media, the work is being done here on the Palestinian land. We don’t care whether we have a representation there or not.
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Tahir
- United Kingdom
Profession
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Salamu aleikum, noble Sheikh. What do you say to those scholars and Sheikhs who still claim that “suicide” bombings are haram (religiously prohibited) and who call for an end to resistance as they merely cause more suffering for our Palestinian brothers?
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I can't categorize them with scholars and Sheikhs, because they worked for the interest of the enemies of Islam. Martyrdom operations are unanimously agreed upon by the trusted Sheikhs of Islam and have many examples in the history and Sirat of Prophet Muhammad.
Armed resistance is a self-defense right, and this right is legitimate in all religions and earthly laws, and here’s the proof: Hadith says “He who defends his money is a martyr, and who defends his religion is a martyr, and he who defends his honor is a martyr,” and the likes of those called “scholars” as they name themselves are brokers for the American-Zionist enemy, wanting our nation to surrender and raise the white flags, forgetting the basic rights of humanity and commandments of our faith.
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Hoda
- Syria
Profession
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How do you foresee relations between the Islamic resistance and the new government of Abu Mazen, in light of his assurances to the West and to Israel that he will end violence against Israel? Have you been in contact with the new cabinet, and have they issued any demands? What will your position be if the new cabinet attempts to dismantle Hamas or curtail its activities?
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We always try to keep our relations with the PA as normalized as possible, and we expressed to Abu Mazen our stance of the disarming of the resistance weapons, and informed him that violence must stop from the Israeli side, and not from the Palestinian people, who are defending themselves.
They’re asking us to stop the resistance for a period of calm that may extend to a year or more. We consider that a surrender to the Zionist enemy, because Sharon will tell his people “I achieved safety and security for you without any charge.” Any attempt to dismantle Hamas or any Palestinian militant group will be foiled, because the Palestinian people are the ones who protect the weapons of resistance and freedom fighters.
But if there’s no chance but to disarm, it’s the weapon of the invading enemy that must be disarmed, and not the victim’s own weapon. The resistance will remain –Inshalla, and all America's conspiracies in Mitchell, Tenet and the Roadmap will fall.
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Sultan
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Will Hamas lay down its arms once an independent Palestinian state is established? Will you no longer seek the destruction of the state of Israel and acknowledge it as a sovereign state? Will you renounce your claims to the historical Palestine?
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We are ready to lay down arms when our homeland and holy places are liberated. Then, the Palestinian state will be established. If it was established after the liberation of the land, there would be no need for arms. We will be the first to lay them down.
But I ask you: how can the dispossessed Palestinian people acknowledge the Zionist enemy state, when they haven’t claimed back their lands, homes or holy places? And I ask you again: if 1948 Palestine was taken by force, and their inhabitants dispossessed, and 55 years have passed on it, does this mean that it became owned by the Jews?
Why do Jews claim that this land is for them, when they admit that they left it 2000 years ago? Are they more eligible than the Palestinian people, who were dispossessed from it only for 55 years ago?
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Jake
- United States
Profession
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What will it take to get you and the other militants to stop killing Israeli women and children?! Do you really think you can justify the killing of innocents by claiming it’s “retaliation?” Answer both questions, please!
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I urge you to look with your own eyes and hear with your own ears; why do you only hear about the killing of Israeli women and children and don’t hear about the killing of Palestinian women and children? Why don’t you demand Israel too to stop killing Palestinian women and children? And if I told you that for every Israeli child killed, four Palestinian children were killed… do you not hear or read of that?
We don’t attack women or children, but we attack armed military people, whether in civilian or in military clothes.
Who is the innocent? Is the Jew who took my home, land, and expelled me from it by force, killed my children, wife, and parents… is he innocent? The important thing is to determine who is the aggressor… Are we the ones that attack Israelis first or is it them? If you know that, the answer would be clear for you.
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Ahmad Hossam
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Assalumalaikum, respected brother, it is an honour to have the opportunity to ask you a question.
My question is, do you think that muslims around the world can do more to help our palestininan brothers, and the steps they should take, as there is a sense of grief and helpnesness among young muslims when they hear about what is happening in the holy land.
And do you think it is an obligation on muslims living outside the occupied terrotories to join the jihad in palestine.
And finally does your group accept any muslims, whether they are palestinins, arabs or non arabs.
Jazaakallah
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I believe that Muslims all over the world can provide a lot of assistance to their Palestinian brethren with moral, political, media and economic support, because Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) said “He who prepares a fighter is as one” and “He who supports the family of a fighter is as if he fought.” For that, Jihad is an obligation on all Muslims if the enemy occupied Islamic land, especially the earliest Qibla of Muslims; al-Quds and al-Aqsa Mosque in Palestine.
Every Muslim is demanded to go to Jihad with himself and with his money, and if he can’t fight, he must do that with his money. We accept every Muslim in the world to go to Jihad with us, whether or not he was an Arab. The last martyrdom operation in Tel Aviv was carried out by a Muslim brother from the UK.
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David (Dawud) Rosenberg
- United States
Profession
Banker
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Salam Alaikum. Having seen the brutal oppression of Muslims, Christians and anyone who's the gall to question the Zionists (may Allah guide my parents and ancestors) in Palestine, do you think the American invasion and occupation of Iraq will soften or strengthen the Islamic Movement(s) in Palestine and elsewhere in the region.
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I believe that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq will give the Palestinian people extra strength to defend themselves and sacrifice for victory and liberation, and the evacuation of the occupiers and the settlements, because the American aggression will increase against the Islamic movement(s) in Palestine and the world under the pretext of “fighting terrorism.”
There are countries cooperating with America to fight Islam and Muslims in fear for their personal interests and their positions. But victory is always on the side of honest fighting Muslims, who do not give up, despite the imbalance in power, because victory comes from Allah.
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Mohamed
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Salamoun Aalaikoum,
I believe Hamas is going just great, it has achieved so much with its resistance soon or later Israel will collapse and thanks to your resistance.
Doesnt the PA realize that it is the way to deal with Israeli aggression instead of surrend to them? It is in Israel's benefits this road map...it realizes that it is losing so much because of your resistance. I support your courage and standing for yourselves. Israel is only trying to weaken you as you have done just good to defeat them. Can you comment? May Allah protect you and all the palestinian brothers and sisters
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First of all, thank you, dear brother for these brotherly feelings, and may Allah bless you.
The PA has taken the choice of negotiations as an only option, and entered a dark tunnel, that has ended, as you can see, with failure and retreat in the face of the Israeli enemy. You must remember that the Roadmap was drawn by Israelis and Zionist Americans, made under hard conditions lived by Israel, which had lost hope; their economy collapsed, and their trade and tourism were affected.
Recently, an Israeli researcher published an article in which he said that if Israel continued like this for 10 years, it would collapse. Israelis started fleeing Palestine to other countries. Because of that, the Israeli enemy wants to end the resistance, as in 1993 with the Oslo accords, which ended with failure.
Israel wants today to change the Roadmap in order to gain more than the Palestinians, especially after the victory the Americans achieved in Iraq. They want to ommit the right for return among many other things.
I assert that Israel is desperate after the martyrdom and Jihad operations that shook its foundation. Israeli Air Force commander Eli Peled, who died a few months ago, told his sons to ring the bell in his house when he died and say “Here lays a crazy Jew who thought that Jews could establish a country and was wrong.” This indicates his despair in the survival of his country on our land, and he’s the commander of the air force! How can he make a wrong assumption and call himself crazy, if he wasn’t feeling desperate, as many Zionists are?
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AHMED
- South Africa
Profession
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asalaamu alaykum yah Shiekh..are there any other methods of fighting the zionist entitities besides present operations? what sort of support is being given by hizbullah/ikhwaanul muslimeen? or are the boundaries of creed and affiliations standing strong?
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The methods for fighting the Zionist entity are many beside the military operations, including boycotting the Zionist enemy in trade, tourism, policy and culture.
Support from Hizbollah is moral, consulting, and political, because its fight is in another place. As for the Ikhwan Al Muslimin, they stand with us politically, morally, ideologically and economically, and there are no boundaries between Muslims in their different ways in supporting the Palestinian people. The Islamic movement in Palestine is for Jihad and resistance.
Please pray for us and may Allah bless you.
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Isam
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Profession
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Assalamu alaikom,
Does Hamas make efforts to avoid the killing of children in its operations against the occupation?
Jazakum Allahu khayran
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My brother, certainly we don’t target women, children or the elderly in our operations. But the “Mujahed” goes out to find a concentration of soldiers and military men, whether in civilian or military clothes and attack them. This is our first and last target; the military, the settlers and the intelligence officers. Some children may have fallen by mistake. If you go back to the lists of killed children on both sides, you will find that, statistically, for every Jewish child killed, four Palestinian children are killed by the Israeli army; its tanks, planes and settlers.
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AbdAllah
- United Kingdom
Profession
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Salaam Alaykum noble sheikh. We, like all believers, would like to congratulate you on your brave resistance.I would like to ask what Hamas' political stance will be if Abu Mazen tries to quash its resistance in any form, whether subtle or open.I would also like to ask how far the Palestinian authority must go in giving concessions before Hamas take a stronger stance towards them.
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My brother, thank you for your comments and may Allah bless you.
I would like to assure you that Hamas' political stance is a solid one because it stems from the ideology, and that doesn’t change. I believe that the Palestinian people are more than enough to protect the resistance and its weapons. There are American and Israeli plans to turn the conflict into a domestic one among Palestinians.
It is not strange to find the PA retreating every time, because they chose this as an only option, as we have chosen resistance, Jihad and martyrdom as a sole option, because negotiations, in light of the imbalance of power, will be in favor of the more powerful. So, to become powerful in negotiations, we must continue resistance until we reach the victory and liberation of our land.
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Osman
- Sweden
Profession
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Asalamu aleikom!
How does a realistic future form of Palestine, and its relation to Israel,look like according to you?
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First of all, there’s confusion in terms. Israel was established on Palestinian soil. The relationship between Palestine and Israel is a colonization-occupation one that must be cleared. There’s also a forgery in facts that they shortened Palestine from river to sea, and from Ra’as Al Nakoura to Al Naqab, to only the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the stolen land wasn’t considered Palestine.
Based on that, what was forcibly taken will finally be returned and the people will not give away their land. The greed of the Zionist enemy isn’t only for Palestine, but from the Euphrates to the Nile. Survival is for those who hold the right, and the force of the enemy will eventually vanish and the land will be for our people again.
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John
- United Kingdom
Profession
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What effect do your bombing operations against Israel have on your aims? We are under the impression that it merely makes the Israelis more brutal and more determined to crush the Palestinians, as well as losing international support… Is it worth it? The costs seem to be greater than the benefits.
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Mr. John, we don’t own F-16s, Apaches, rockets or even tanks. We own simple weapons, and they can be transported to the heart of the enemy territory as he moves his planes and tanks. For that, those killed from our children, women, and elderly by the hands of the Israeli forces - the organized state terrorism -is five times more than the Jews killed. Do you see with one eye and hear withone ear? Why don’t you hear about our children who are killed?
I call upon you and upon the international community to push the Israeli occupation and colonization away, and to stop this aggression. The destruction of homes and uprooting of trees is done on a daily basis in front of the whole world. For that, isn’t it our right to defend ourselves with the means we have, just as the Israeli enemy fights with his means?
Why don’t Israelis stop the tanks and fight us with rifles so the fight would be equal? Instead of asking the Palestinian people to stop defending themselves, you should ask the Israeli occupying aggressor to stop the occupation and the massacres. Then we won’t need martyrdom operations and resistance.
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Mohd. Azhar - Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka
Profession
Engineering Student
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Assalamu 'alaikum. wrt. wbt.
Imam, What would you like to say to your Iraqi brothers. I fell this is the time to start the third Inthifada. Not in Palastine, but in Iraq. The third INTIFADA & jihad should start in Iraq. Because, I couldn't see any differents between Iraq & palastine. Please give me an answer.
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Brother Mohammed, you are absolutely right. The US became arrogant because of what it owns of weapons and technology. For that, it handles the world as it pleases, and changes the ideologies of people, their habits and ethics in order to spread Western culture at the expense of Islam.
If Iraqis do not revolt against the Anglo-American occupation, it will last a long time and will put agents to rule the country, change the educational curriculum, and force Iraqis to acknowledge Israel and pass oil to her, and to make Iraq an American reservation, run indirectly, but effectively, by the US.
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Host - We apologize for not offering answers to all questions due to time limitation. The Sheikh Yassin would like now to give a final word to our readers:
Sheikh Yassin - I would like to send an honoring greeting to our Palestinian people, our brethern in prison camps and our people in the Diaspora, who refuse resettlement and dissolution, and insist on Jihad and resistance until victory, Inshalla. I would like also to send my greetings to Muslims and Arabs from all over the world who stood by our Jihad, providing us with moral, political and material support. We ask them to continue with their support, because the battle is a battle for a nation, ideology and civilization, not only for the Palestinian people. The Palestinian people are defending the very dignity of the Muslim Umma. We ask for your dua’. May Allah grant you success and steadiness.
