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 Al-Qaeda
in Iraq on Wednesday denounced Pope Benedict XVI's visit
to Turkey, calling it part of a “crusader campaign”
against Islam.
In Istanbul, Vatican
officials said the remark shows the need for faiths to
fight “violence in the name of God.”
The trip is Benedict's
first visit to an Islamic country as pontiff, seeking
dialogue with Muslims who were angered over a speech he
made in September in which he cited a medieval text that
linked Islam and violence.
 Al-Qaeda
in Iraq, the most feared Islamic militant group in Iraq,
issued its statement on an Islamic militant Web site it
often uses to post messages.
Vatican spokesman Rev.
Federico Lombardi said “neither the pope nor his entourage
are worried” by the statement.
“This type of message shows
once again the urgency and importance of a common
commitment of all forces against violence,” Lombardi said.
“It also shows the need of various faiths to say 'no' to
violence in the name of God.”
Turkey holds a significant
place in the mind-set of al-Qaeda and militant Islamic
groups that sympathize with it. Under the Ottomans, Turkey
was the seat of the Islamic caliphate, the religious rule
extending over much of the Islamic world until its
collapse in the early 20th century.
Below is
the statement from Al-Qaeda in Iraq and goes as follows:
From
the Ministry of Information/official spokesperson of the
Islamic state of Iraq
Thanks are
to God, the God of the worlds, blessings be upon the
faithful, and No aggression except on the tyrants. Peace
and prayers be upon the Imam of the Mujahedeens, our
prophet Mohammed, his kin and his companions
God once
said "They ask thee concerning fighting in the Prohibited
Month. Say: "Fighting therein is a grave (offence); but
graver is it in the sight of Allah to prevent access to
the path of Allah, to deny Him, to prevent access to the
Sacred Mosque, and drive out its members." Tumult and
oppression are worse than slaughter. Nor will they cease
fighting you until they turn you back from your faith if
they can. And if any of you Turn back from their faith and
die in unbelief, their works will bear no fruit in this
life and in the Hereafter; they will be companions of the
Fire and will abide therein."
The pope of
the Vatican came to visit Turkey, a nation that was one
day a fortress of the fortresses of Islam, he visits
Turkey only after few months of his outrageous insult on
Islam and the prophet Mohammed, the masters of all Arabs
and non Arabs.
This visit
comes during major events that are shaping this region in
particular and the Islamic world in general. The strong
waves of the crusade on the Islamic world are being
shattered on the rock of the Mujahedeens and their
steadfastness and by the help of god, these same waves
reached a dead end in Iraq and Afghanistan. The NATO
forces in Afghanistan are seeking an exit from this
trouble that their stupid master Bush brought them into.
The American administration and its tails in the Maliki
Shiite government are living their most dreadful days in
Iraq. The Mujahedeens are writing epics and stories of
heroism in their fight against the crusaders forces of
occupation and their apostate apparatuses and for the
first time since the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate in the
last century, the region is living the venture of reviving
the Islamic Caliphate again. The Mujahedeens insist on a
nation where the people of Islam will cling to their faith
and where the Islamic law is the only rule on earth, a
nation where they can migrate to and be part of its making
with their sweat and defending it with their blood, a
nation where they will rule by the book of God an the
traditions of the prophet in everything in their daily
life. Maybe the absence of such a state for over a century
now, drove many Muslims to division and obedience to their
tyrant rulers, even drove them to ask the infidels for
help. And that will cut off the hopes of the secular
thinkers in our nations who claim that the Mujahedeens
have no clear vision nor a true political doctrine but
that was well presented when the Mujahedeens in Iraq
announced the establishment if the Islamic nation of Iraq
in the heart of the Islamic world and the middle east, all
thanks are to God.
All of these
political changes along with the jihadi expanding wave in
the Islamic world in the region pushed the Worshiper of
the Cross, the Pope to visit Turkey in order to revive
what is called "the dialogue of civilizations with Islamic
world" and "the dialogue of faiths", a belief that is
unfortunately adopted by some of Islamic scholars who show
up on the satellite channels, those who promote the
doctrines of defeat and despair in our Islamic world.
Briefly we would say that the Pope 's visit is in reality
a mobilization to the crusade campaign against the lands
of the Muslims after the failure of their crusaders
leaders, Bush, Blair, Berlskoni and Howard and others. His
visit is an attempt to extinguish the flame of Islam that
is shining in the hearts of our brethrens in Turkey in an
attempt to obliterate their Islamic heritage and uproot
their Islamic beliefs and to guarantee that they will stay
in the swamps of secularism that was established by the
Jew Ataturk and in order to push them in the arms of the
European Union in order to stop the Islamic expansion and
the Islamic awakening that Turkey is going through
nowadays but we are confident with the help of God that
the Romans will be defeated in every corner of the Islamic
world in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine,
Indonesia, Philippines and elsewhere and our destiny is
victory, martyrdom and conquest and the establishment of a
caliphate that will rule in the name of god, we will break
the cross and we will abolish the alcohol and we will
enforce the Islamic tax and it will be either Islam or the
sword
This
is what God and his messenger promised us
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