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Sayyed Nasrallah: "Hundreds of millions of Muslims ready to sacrifice themselves to defend their Prophet's dignity"

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Sayyed Nasrallah: "Hundreds of millions of Muslims ready to sacrifice themselves to defend their Prophet's dignity"

 

Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 04:14 PM [Kods Time]

 

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Sayyed Nasrallah: Hundreds of millions of Muslims ready to sacrifice themselves to defend their Prophet's dignity Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 04:14 PM [Kods Time]

 

Hezbollah's Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Europe and the World that millions of Muslims would do anything to defend their Prophet's dignity if the humiliation of Prophet Mohammed (Derogatory caricatures) was not dealt with decisively and strictly by the appropriate countries.

 

Part of the Sayyed speech in the second night of Ashura (commemorating the martyrdom of Prophet Mohammad's (Pbuh) grand son Imam Hussein peace be upon him is as follows:

 

"The level of dealing with the matter remains below what it should be. However I can tell you when the problem started. If a Muslim executed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdi who wrote the Satanic verses than none of those insolent people would dare debase Prophet Mohammed not in the Denmark neither in Norway or France.

 

"They will call us terrorists for this. We do not care because they have already said that. It seems the solidarity campaign is going to continue but is it enough to recall ambassadors or boycott products.

 

No. I call on Muslim scholars and leaders and all Muslims to take a firm stance. If we now forgive as we did we Salman Rushdi wrote the Satanic Verses, God only knows what they will do later.

 

We have to take a different position from Denmark, Norway and France if they do not deal with the issue. Here there is nothing called Lebanese, Syria, Palestinian, Egyptian, Saudi, Malaysian or Indonesian, the matter is that the prophet of one billion and four hundred millions was debased.

 

I am sure that not only millions but hundreds of millions of Muslims are ready to sacrifice themselves in order to defend their Prophet's dignity and you are from them.... this issue needs seriousness from all Muslims it even needs seriousness from all believers around the world. What is required is to deal seriously with this dossier. We are going to see how things will develop in the coming days, but we should be ready to do anything to defend our Prophet's dignity.

 

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Lebanon Shi'ite ceremony turns into cartoon protest

 

Thu Feb 9, 2006 4:17 AM ET

 

 

 

BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 250,000 Shi'ite Muslims transformed a religious ceremony in the Lebanese capital on Thursday into a protest against cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad.

 

Unlike a protest on Sunday that turned into a riot in which the building housing the Danish consulate was torched, there were no signs of violence in the march in Beirut's southern suburb, a stronghold of the Hizbollah guerrilla group.

 

"At your service, oh Mohammad, at your service, oh Prophet of God," the crowds chanted with fists raised. "Death to America, Death to Israel," they also shouted.

 

"No dignity to a nation whose prophet is insulted," a placard read; "What comes after insulting sacred values?" another asked.

 

Turnout, put by security sources at over 250,000, was high despite wind and rain. The march is an annual event to mark Ashura when Shi'ites mourn the death of the Prophet's grandson, Imam Hussein, in Kerbala in Iraq 1,300 ago.

 

Hizbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah urged the faithful this year to take a stand against the cartoons. He was expected to address the crowds later.

 

Angry Muslims have demonstrated around the world over the cartoons, first published in Denmark, then Norway and several other countries in Europe and elsewhere.

 

The caricatures, including one showing the Prophet Mohammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban, have unleashed fury among many Muslims who consider any portrayal of their Prophet as blasphemous, let alone one showing him as a terrorist.

 

Protesters burned the Danish and Norwegian missions in Damascus on Saturday. Protesters torched the Danish consulate in Beirut a day later and vandalized a church and property in a Christian neighborhood.

 

Lebanon has charged 203 people, mostly Lebanese but including Syrians and Palestinians, with taking part in the riots and promised swift trials.

 

Ashura is the 10th day of the lunar month of Muharram, when Imam Hussein was killed in AD 680 in a battle with the army of Caliph Yazid. He was decapitated and his head taken to Damascus, the seat of Yazid's Ummayad dynasty.

 

 

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