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PLO Broadcasts Focus On Anti-Americanism

Though presenting themselves in the American media as supportive of the US war effort, the Palestinians continue to ridicule and condemn the United States in their own Arabic-language publications and broadcasts. Palestinian Media Watch reports that one of the themes regularly expressed in the PLO-controlled media is hatred of the US as an integral part of Palestinian ideology. In a sermon delivered last Friday in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and broadcast on Palestinian Radio, the US-Taliban war was presented as part of a global conflict in which the Judeo-Christian West is fighting against the entire Muslim nation. America is referred to as "infidel","Crusaders", and "head of world terror." The deliverer of the sermon tells Muslim worshippers that there is no place for America in the world.

The following excerpts from this important sermon shed light on the Islamic world view of the Palestinians and possibly of many other Muslim nations:

"The [battle] cry 'To help Islam!' continues to echo in the Muslim world [today]. Is anyone responding? Here [today] the "Mongolians" and "Crusaders" are raising their heads and enlisting armies to fight the Islamic nations in an oppressive campaign, under the label of "terrorism" which the infidels are attaching to the Arabs and Muslims, for the purpose of realizing their imperialist interests, and to spread their control over the Muslim countries and their resources. "If terrorism - as viewed by America, the leader of world terror - is the killing of innocent civilians, we have to ask: ...Is the killing of Afghani civilians and their expulsion as refugees in their country and in neighboring countries considered terrorism? Does the continued siege on Iraq, continued aggression against it in the North and South, and the death of children due to the shortage of food and medicine enter the category of terrorism? "Cannot these war crimes, and the rest of the conditions to which Muslims are subjected in Chechenya, Kashmir and the Philippines, be categorized as terrorism, according to the American perception of terrorism? ".There is no place for a weak nation [America] among the nations of this world, one which was blinded by the intoxication of power and understands nothing but the language of interests and hegemony." [Palestinian Radio, from the Al Aqsa Mosque, by Mohammed Hassin, Dec. 7, 2001]

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001