Excerpts from Friday, August 3, 2001, sermon at the Sheik ’Ijlin Mosque
in Gaza given by Sheik Ibrahim Madhi. The sermon was broadcast on Palestinian
Authority television:
"We must all seek a role in the Jihad and the battle. We said and we
still say: 'Even if we, the entire [Palestinian] people, stood in line and
signed for the Jews that we want peace, they would not accept it. The Koran is
very clear on this: The greatest enemies of the Islamic nation are the Jews,
may Allah fight them...'"
"All spears should be directed at the Jews, at the enemies of Allah,
the nation that was cursed in Allah’s book. Allah has described them as apes
and pigs, the calf-worshipers, idol-worshipers…”
"Whoever can fight them with his weapons, should go out [to the
battle]; whoever can fight them with a machinegun, should go out; whoever can
fight them with a sword or a knife, should go out; whoever can fight them with
his hands, should go out; This is our destiny. The people who are the most
hostile toward the believers are the Jews and the Polytheists... The Jews have
exposed their fangs. Nothing will deter them, except the color of their filthy
people’s blood; nothing will deter them except for us voluntarily detonating
ourselves in their midst. They have nuclear power, but we have the power of
the belief in Allah..."
"The Prophet [Muhammad] said: 'The Jews will fight you, and [Allah]
will establish you as rulers over them...' We blow them up in Hadera, we blow
them up in Tel Aviv and in Netanya, and in this way, Allah establishes us as
rulers over these gangs of vagabonds…”
"Blessings for whoever assaulted a soldier... Blessings for whoever
has raised his sons on the education of Jihad and Martyrdom; blessings for
whoever has saved a bullet in order to stick it in a Jew’s head…"
