-♻RetweetHappy Eid, Osama!
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 7:41:05 pm PST
Islamic web sites are providing a much-needed service to their visitors in the Eid al-Fitr holiday season: a simple way to send holiday greetings to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. (Hat tip: Ali Al-Beheshti.)
The Web sites, which reflect radical Islamic opinion, opened their message forums for Eid greetings and urged people to send messages to the former Iraqi president and the al Qaeda leader. An Islamist is a supporter of Islamic political rule.On one site a message addresses Saddam as a "great leader" who refused to be humiliated by the Americans.
"Brave Saddam Hussein, God protect him and give him victory over the Jews and those who worship the cross," the message states.
Another message reads: "Happy Eid to the brave leader, the father of the two martyrs" a reference to Saddam and his sons, Uday and Qusay, who were killed in a six-hour gunbattle with U.S. troops in Mosul, Iraq, in July.
Some messages on this and other Web sites consisted of poems written to bin Laden asking God to help them die for Islam by joining jihad, the fight against non-Muslims.




