Awlaki: kill US citizens and ignore scholars

[AhlulbaytSoldier]

Al-Awlaki urges American killings

US-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki calls in a video message upon Muslims around the world to kill US citizens.
Last Modified: 09 Nov 2010 09:40 GMT
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Al-Awlaki said in his sermon that clerics do not need to issue any special fatwas allowing Americans to be killed [AFP]

Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Islamic cleric linked to al-Qaeda in Yemen, has released a video in which he calls for Muslims around the world to kill Americans.

In the sermon, which appeared on several pro al-Qaeda websites on Monday, al-Awlaki said that clerics do not need to issue any special fatwas or religious rulings allowing Americans to be killed because "all Americans are the enemy".

"Don't consult with anybody in killing the Americans," he said in the 23-minute message that he delivered in Arabic.

"Fighting the devil doesn't require consultation or prayers seeking divine guidance. They are the party of the devils," he added.

"It is "either us or them."

Al-Awlaki was dressed in a traditional Yemeni garb - a white robe, turban and a sheathed dagger tucked into his waistband - and wore round spectacles while sitting behind a desk.

Mail bomb plot

Al-Awlaki has in past messages encouraged Muslims to murder American soldiers and justified the killings of American civilians by accusing the US of intentionally killing a million Muslim civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

But this message appeared stronger, arguing that no justification was needed.

Al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, has been tied by US intelligence to the September 11 hijackers and to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas last year with explosives hidden in his underwear.

He was also in contact with Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in November at the Fort Hood, Texas military base.

US investigators say since he returned to Yemen in 2006, al-Awlaki has moved beyond just inspiring rebels to becoming an active operative in al-Qaeda's affiliate there.

On Friday, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the group's offshoot in Yemen claimed responsibility for sending bombs through the mail in packages addressed to the US.

The bombs were found at airports in England and Dubai, United Arab Emirates before they exploded.

Short excerpts from the al-Awlaki video posted on Monday were released on October 23, two weeks before the mail bombs were uncovered. But this was the first full posting of the video.

'Non-Muslims'

Al-Awlaki also attacked rulers in the Arab world, particularly Yemen, describing them as corrupt and he called on religious scholars to declare them "non-Muslims" for betraying the Muslim people.

"Kings, emirs, and presidents are now not qualified to lead the nation, or even a flock of sheep," he said.

"If the leaders are corrupt, the scholars have the responsibility to lead the nation."

He added that these leaders would have to be removed for the Muslim people to move forward.

The only way Muslims can protect themselves from the threat of the infidels is by supporting the "mujahedeen", he said, referring to al-Qaeda fighters.

"If we support the mujahedeen, we will win it all and if we let them down, we will lose it all," he said.

[udun]

That is way too extreme I am an American citizen, does that mean this guy is encouraging other Muslims to kill me and others? This idiot is inviting the wrath of the US military on the defenseless people and country of yemen. There are so many bogeymen out there who all they do is to incite hatred and violence.

[AhlulbaytSoldier]

That is way too extreme I am an American citizen, does that mean this guy is encouraging other Muslims to kill me and others? This idiot is inviting the wrath of the US military on the defenseless people and the country of yemen. There are so many bogeymen out there who all they do is to incite hatred and violence.

why are you shocked?
The group you love soo much has the same view as Awlaki.

[grandpakhalif]

Awlaki is a white man from America who converted to Islam and was at first apolegetic about 9/11 then as if in one night he become very jihad oriented and he flew to Yemen, he is a 'homegrown' terrorist and biggest threat to America

[ToughGong]

How is this different fom Obamas "fatwa"
to kill people in pakistan or yemen or somalia or anywhere else in the muslim world by drones
without a judicial process

[udun]

^FUDUking (aka Hutuking), you are getting desperate here. It is one thing to resist invaders in your home country. It is another to call for the killing of innocent people for the simple fact that you don't like their government. I condemned this guy who calls himself Awlaki the same way I condemn you and your likes who wants Somalia to be run by warlords who pray on innocent civilians. Go and see Southern Somalia and compare when the warlords that you support were around in those days. Ethiopia was kicked out, peace and stability was restored, WFP and other NGOs who were proselytizing the Somali people into their fake religions and were destroying Somalia's bread basket were driven out, bridges and roads have been repaired, and most importantly the idea of self sufficiency has returned.

I ask this question myself: the world did not care about us before June 2006 but suddenly the "world" is interested in Somalia by bringing more mercenaries and wants to keep us in perpetual chaos, fractured, and stalemate that never ends. Well, Al-xamdulillah, unlike you I know why

[AhlulbaytSoldier]

They have same ideology ,Udun.
It is now for you to proof that your group does not have the same opinion as awlaki.

[AhlulbaytSoldier]

How is this different fom Obamas "fatwa"
to kill people in pakistan or yemen or somalia or anywhere else in the muslim world by drones
without a judicial process

So that justifies killing of american citizens?

[abdisamad3]

waraa hutu are you american citizen?
and if this is really true about that guy his own advice might be backfire on him..since he is a us citizen..
imagine shooting this guy in the face and people would ask why did you do it..and you will reply well it was his own idea..

[ToughGong]

How is this different fom Obamas "fatwa"
to kill people in pakistan or yemen or somalia or anywhere else in the muslim world by drones
without a judicial process

So that justifies killing of american citizens?

No but it points out the hypocracy of this of this reporter

[udun]

They have same ideology ,Udun.
It is now for you to proof that your group does not have the same opinion as awlaki.

I have no group. When one group does good, I will be able to point my fingers at the accomplishment of that group, and when the same group commits a blunder, I am first to point out their blunder. I am 1st to oppose violent extremism, transnational agenda but at the same time will never accept the terrorism charges against any group with legitimate grievances and self determination agenda.

No violent extremism

No transnational agenda

All countries and groups including the much hyped-AL-QAEda respecting the unity, territorial integrity, and the political independence of Somalia.

No foreign and local mercenaries against the restoration of peace and stability in Somalia.

World respecting the right for the Somali people to chart their destiny

World accepting the natural resources of Somalia belongs to the Somali people and stopping the loot and poisoning our maritime resources

World respecting the strategic location of Somalia is to benefit its people and all interference should be stopped

The legitimate right of the people of Somalia to resist foreign invasions should be respected

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The list is long.

For Hutuking, if you oppose that group, you need to come up a viable option. What is missing is those who oppose that group is to come up a genuine Somali movement that wants to restore peace and stability in Somalia, resist foreign invasions, and rejects violent extremism and has no intention of exporting its war on the other countries. Bring a viable option or at least respect the peace and stability that is restored in South and Central Somalia. At the end of the date what matters is having peace and stability.

[XimanJaale]

Al-Awlaki works for American intelligent service.

[udun]

Awlaki is a white man from America who converted to Islam and was at first apolegetic about 9/11 then as if in one night he become very jihad oriented and he flew to Yemen, he is a 'homegrown' terrorist and biggest threat to America

Grandpa,
No one knows where this Awlaki is the same way nobody knows where UBL is today and if he was even alive on September 11, 2001. All we hear is the ever convenient Al-Jazeera broadcasting some bogus videos that are attributed to that UBL guy and now this bogeyman named Awlaki. How come tapes are easy to get to them but no one knows where these guys are?

[DR-YALAXOOW]

this picture is YEMENI al qaeda which AWLAKI is one of leaders, look the flag its same flag which UDUN group he support the terrorist group which called AL SHABAAB


awlaki AND this hypocrite UDUN, the terrorist group he supports both are one and their idiology are same whichs killing of what they call infidels which Americans are part of it.



UDUN want to believe us, al shabaab is nationalistic group whichs lie, al shabaaab if they were national group then they will never had SAME FLAG which YEMEN.
AL SHABAAB and al awlaki are one and same, because they have same ideology and same FLAG


this flag and same flag which awlaki HAVE AND udun your favorite terrorist website SOMALIMEMO you will see AWLAKI been advertised daily and view against innocent people in America whichs people who welcome you their country.

UDUN you do not deserve living in America, you should be deported from US back to BUNTILAND where you belong, because your terrorist sympathizerand threat of American people.

no one can claim that al shabaab is a national group becouse al shabaab is AGAINS, SOMALIAS national flag.


al shabaab sees this flag as a infidel flag, al shabaab does not recognice existance of SOMALI REPUBLIC, they over and over said their leader is the terrorist USAMA BEN LADEN.
THEY EVEN HADE VIDEO WHICH THEY CALLED

( la beeyka yaa usaaama la beeyka yaa usaaama)

so mr hypocrite UDUN you cannot say i support al shabaab and i do not support terrorist and AWLAKI becouse, awlaki and al shabaab are one and same.

[qoraxeey]

DR Yalaxow

how come u only comment about al-shabab stuff lately