[Mb-civic] FW: Iranian Pilgrims in Mecca at Anti-American Rally

[Golsorkhi]

Can you imagine something like this at a Christian or Jewish pilgrimage
site.  I doubt it...
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From: Samii Shahla <shahla at thesamiis.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:11:48 -0500
Subject: Iranian Pilgrims in Mecca at Anti-American Rally

MEMRI

January 10, 2006 No.1067

Iranian Pilgrims in Mecca at Anti-American Rally: We Express Our Hatred &
Disgust to the Center of Evil, the Criminal AmericaŠ "Death to America"

The following are excerpts from a rally of Iranian pilgrims in Mecca, aired
on Iran's Channel 1 and Al-'Alam TV, on January 9, 2006. The speaker
addresses the crowd in front of a backdrop showing the WorldTradeCenter and
an American flag in flames.

TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT:  http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=991



Crowd: "Israel is the enemy of Allah."

Man: "May the hands of the infidels be chopped off."

Crowd: "May the hands of the infidels be chopped off."

Man: "May the hands of the infidels be chopped off."

Crowd: "May the hands of the infidels be chopped off."

Man: "[Chopped off] from the land of the believers."

Crowd: "From the land of the believers."

Man: "The audience will now split into two groups: One group will settle the
score with America, and the other will settle the score with Israel. This
group now: Death to America!"

Crowd: "Death to America!"

Man: "Death to Israel!"

Crowd: "Death to Israel! Death to America!"

Man: "Death to America!"

Crowd: "Death to America!"

Man: "Death to America!"

Crowd: "Death to Israel! Death to America!" Death to Israel!"

Man: "All together now: Death to America! Death to Israel!"

Crowd: "Death to America! Death to Israel! Death to America! Death to
Israel! Death to America! Death to Israel! Death to America! Death to
Israel!"

[...]

Speaker: "Today, the impure world Zionism, in the modern Age of Ignorance,
has emerged with the same [polytheistic] ideology, but with new methods. It
wants to take over the fields of economy, of culture, and politics, as well
as the military, throughout the world."

[...]

"We, the pilgrims who have come to the house of God, condemn the plots and
the measures taken by the international Zionism - the deceitful Satan who
spreads heresy, polytheism, and idolatry, enslaving human beings with a new
method. It abuses the divine religion of Moses. It takes satanic measures,
and arouses the world's hatred towards this divine religion and its true
followers. We denounce these criminal acts. We call upon the world of Islam
and the free peoples to take significant measures to thwart the satanic
policy of this camp."

Crowd: "Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar."

Speaker: "We, the pilgrims who have come to the house of God, strongly
condemn the aggressive measures of 'the global arrogance,' led by the idol
and center of evil, the criminal America. We condemn it for its aggression,
warmongering, its murder, plundering, torture, espionage, its abductions,
and its secret jails. We strongly condemn it.

"We emphasize that the occupation forces must leave the lands of Islam. We
express our hatred and our disgust at the mother of all corruption of this
century, the Great Satan, and at its illegitimate offspring, the plundering
Israel."

Crowd: "Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar."

[...]

Speaker: "My believing brothers, I will now read to you the text of the call
of the leader of the Islamic revolution, Imam Khamenei, to the pilgrims who
have come to the house of God:"

[...]

"...Today, the fleets of arrogance are, once again, using new methods of
deceit, in order to perpetuate and strengthen their control over the Islamic
world. Their slogans of spreading democracy and human rights is one of these
methods of deceit. The Great Satan, who embodies evil and violence against
humanity, raises the banner of defending of human rights, and summons the
peoples of the Middle East to democracy.

"The democracy that America wants to implement in these countries, however,
means that general elections - which pretend to be popular, but are in fact
American elections - will give rise, by means of conspiracies, bribery, and
deceptive propaganda, to obedient American collaborators.

"These collaborators will accomplish America's goals of arrogance, and first
and foremost stopping the spread of Islam, and removing Islamic values from
the scene."

[...]

"The fact that the slogan of democracy is being raised by the greedy people
who for many years have supported the dictatorial regimes in Asia, Africa,
and the American continent is completely unacceptable. Likewise, when the
call to fight violence and terrorism by those who support Zionist terrorism,
and who carry out the bloodiest kind of violent acts in Iraq and Afghanistan
this is a mockery."

[...]

"The American and British governments, which permit the torture of suspects,
and the spilling of their blood in the streets, and the tapping of citizens'
phone calls without a court order, do not have the right to claim they are
defending civil rights.

"The governments that have blackened the face of modern history with their
production and use of nuclear and chemical weapons to not have the right to
impose their patronage on the issue of preventing the spread of weapons of
mass... on the issue of preventing the spread of nuclear technology."

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