“Terrorism Alone is the Path to Liberation”
Charles Johnson
Wed Jul 27, 2005 at 10:27 am PDT • Views: 202
Prior to September 11, before America began to notice what was happening, Islamic “scholars” and spiritual leaders were unrestrained in their calls for jihad. Video evidence in the Sami al-Arian trial provides an especially striking example, in which Cleveland imam Fawaz Damra proudly declared his support for terrorism—in 1989: Video Evidence In Al-Arian Trial Shows Anti-Israel Rhetoric.
TAMPA - The spiritual leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and a zealous cleric from Cleveland disagreed over whether they should call themselves terrorists.
“Terrorism and terrorism alone is the path to liberation,” declared the cleric, Fawaz Damra, during a 1989 panel discussion moderated by Sami Al-Arian.
Abd Al Aziz Awda, the Islamic Jihad’s spiritual leader, didn’t like the word. “There are acts of aggression against us and we want these acts of aggression to stop,” he said. “We categorically refuse the label of terrorism for those protective measures in which we have taken part.”
“My intent was that, if what they mean by jihad is terrorism, then we are terrorists!” Damra persisted.
Awda backed down. “Never mind,” he said. “What is important is that we agree with the notion that brothers from Afghanistan and other places should come, that all Muslims head for Palestine.”
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