Following are excerpts
from a Hamas Friday sermon delivered by Sheik Ismail Aal Radhwan in
Gaza, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on September 3, 2010:
Ismail Aal Radhwan:
We are here today to salute the mujahideen who rocked the very
pillars of the occupation, and retaliated for the crimes of the occupation,
in the West Bank – in Hebron and Ramallah. Indeed, we salute and honor
those modest hands that proved to all the conspirators, as well as the
occupation and its helpers, that they are capable of regaining their
vitality. Yes, we salute the mujahideen, who killed the Zionists,
who killed the settlers.
[...]
The path to the liberation
of Jerusalem and Palestine is through the gun, through Jihad, and through
resistance. We say today that we adhere to the option of Jihad and resistance,
the option that is ridiculed by Abbas, Fayyad, and conspirators. The
path that they mock is the path decreed by Allah: “Fighting is ordained
for you, though it is hateful to you.”
[...]
The Prophet Muhammad
said: “There will be a hijra after the hijra, so the
best on earth are those who keep to the land of the hijra of
Ibrahim. Only evil people will remain in the land.” Who are the evil
people? Those who negotiate, those who hasten to normalize [relations
with Israel], and those who waive [the Palestinian rights]. “No one
will remain but the evil, and the land will spew them out.” That is
what is happening today.
The land will spew them
out, the spirit of Allah will sully them, and the Hellfire will gather
them, along with the apes and pigs” – with the Jews, the Zionists,
whom Allah transformed into apes and pigs. They will be gathered in
the Hellfire along with those who were loyal to them and stood by them,
and who abandoned the cause of the Islamic nation and of Palestine.
The Prophet Muhammad
asked: “Haven’t I told you about who has the highest standing on
Judgment Day?” The people said: “You have told us.” The Prophet
Muhammad said: “The one with the highest standing on Judgment Day
is the man who set out, the reins of his horse in his hands, for the
sake of Allah. That is the mujahid, the martyrdom seeker, the
one who wages resistance.
[...]
