Trump Uses ISIS to Legitimize US Occupation
of the Middle East
Speech of the Hezbollah Secretary General
By Hassan Nasrallah
Transcript:
February 04, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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[...] I
also want (to raise) another point about
this, (that is) the persistent conceit,
morgue, arrogance, contempt and racism
of the United States through the Trump
administration and the statements that
we have heard. As for Muslims and Islam,
he has spared them no insult during the
presidential campaign and after he won
the elections. And his insistence on
using the term "Islamic terror" is one
of the most blatant evidence of his
great hostility to Islam.
For
example, would it be acceptable on our
side, that a Muslim proclaims that the
use of atomic weapons in Japan by the
United States, in Hiroshima and
elsewhere constitutes "Christian
terror"? All the killings in the past
and up to now by the United States in
many parts of the world, because they
are Christians, can we say that it is
"Christian terror"? We refuse to
characterize the US terrorism as
"Christian terror". We refuse it
(categorically). [In an earlier speech,
Hassan Nasrallah said the same thing
about Israel, reminding that Hezbollah
always denunces "Zionist terror" and not
"Jewish Terror"].
This is
not excessive zeal to please the
Christians. If we said that this was
Christian terror, we would be unfair to
Christians and the Christian religion.
(I do not say that) to please the
Christians. But Christians must also
reject the term ("Islamic terror"), and
I claim that Trump deliberately
describes terrorism as "Islamic". He
does not say, for example, the "takfiri
terror" or "Wahhabi terror", because
they are his agents, his allies. He does
not say "terrorism x or y", he keeps
saying (on purpose) "Islamic terror" to
smear Islam, Muslims and the Prophet of
Islam, describing them as (inherently)
terrorists.
Well,
today I say more regarding Muslims: in
addition to the insult addressed at 1.4
billion Muslims and hundreds of millions
of Christians with the issue of Al-Quds
(Jerusalem, recognized capital of
Israel), (Trump) starts insulting
African countries and Haiti, with the
degrading words he used against these
peoples ["Shitholes countries"].
This is
a continuation of the fatuity and
morgue, of the arrogance of the United
States, which some consider the (power)
that solves problems in the world, that
guarantees respect for law, justice and
human rights... If the President of this
country is a racist, hateful, arrogant
man, contemptuous of the human kind, the
children of Adam, because of their
color, language, religion or
geographical region, on whom do these
pro-American rely? [...]
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