Pakistan a 'government for sale and an army for rent': Zawahri
Speaking on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Zawahri criticised Muslim governments in the Middle East and in Asia for failing to pursue the cause of political Islam. He chastised the new leadership in Egypt in particular for sticking to its 1979 peace treaty with Israel and Pakistan, which he described as a "government for sale and an army for rent".
The 2011 Arab Spring revolutions have redrawn the political landscape in the Middle East, bringing in Islamist governments in Tunisia and Egypt and increasing the influence of Islamist political groups throughout the region, which Western governments have watched with concern.
Zawahri said the United States was propping up Assad because it feared the rise of another Islamist regime to threaten its ally Israel.
"Supporting jihad in Syria to establish a Muslim state is a basic step towards Jerusalem, and thus America is giving the secular Baathist regime one chance after another for fear that a government is established in Syria that would threaten Israel," he said.
More than 20,000 people have been killed in the 18-month uprising against Assad, who claims that his government is battling militants who want to set up an Islamist state. The protest started as a pro-democracy protest movement but has since turned into an armed conflict with sectarian aspects.
Zawahri, who took over as al Qaeda chief after Osama bin Laden was killed last year, said "the Islamic nation" needed to focus on the goal of helping to "liberate Palestine" - a reference to Israel and the occupied territories where there are zones of Palestinian self-rule.
He said governments should annul peace treaties with Israel, criticised Turkey, Iran and Arab governments in the Gulf, and ridiculed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for seeking peace with the Jewish state.
He singled out Egypt, saying the Muslim Brotherhood-led government was serving Israel by guarding its borders according to the terms of the Camp David peace treaty.
"I appeal to the honorable members of the Egyptian army, and there are many of them, not to be guards for the borders of Israel, and not to defend its borders or participate in besieging our people in Gaza," he said.
Egypt has launched a campaign against Islamist militants in Sinai after an attack that killed at least 16 soldiers last month.
Yemeni demonstrators stormed the US embassy in Sanaa on Thursday in protest at a film circulated on the Internet they considered blasphemous to Islam. The US ambassador to Libya and three other staff were killed in an attack on the US consulate overnight on Tuesday and protests also took place outside the embassy in Cairo.
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi was in Brussels on Thursday on his first visit to Europe since he won an election in June, and condemned the violence.
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And Mr Zawahiri: an abomination for all and a pain in the behind for Muslims of Pakistan and Afghanistan who has no qualms with bars, clubs, bikinis and booze in his home country of Egypt his fellow neighbours Lebanon, Tunisia and Morocco but has been sponsoring terror throughout Pakistan and Afghanistan in the name of enforcing Shariah!
The US and Al Qaeda has one agenda. Topple secular governments in Muslim countries, take them backward and make them slaves. Recently, in a few decades, they helped each other in Afghanistan, Iraq, Tunis, Egypt, Libya and now they are planning for Pakistan and Syria.
Khalid Khan
That may be so, but what about his own clan - until USSR was in afghanizstan they were on CIA payroll, after that they became extortionists and terrorists - the amount of damage this clan has cuased Islam around the world is unprecedented. People around the world have started taking the words Islam and terrorsim synonimously, and yet they have no shame and continue. Can they show me one example from the times of the Holy Prophet (saw), despite all kinds of persecution, did he or any one of his companions resort to such attitude and behaviour. We should pray to Allah that He has mercy on us, because these are the reasons that Muslims across the globe have lost their respect, as Allah is no longer happy with us.
So what is the going rate?
@san: thinking of joining his gang then? :)
War against Syrian President serves American purposes. If Zawari wants Basharul Asad be defeated that means Zawari is working for US interests.
What about saudia, isn't saudia also a guarantor of security of israel ?
Killer of Innocent people, go to Egypt and bark whatever you want in your homeland. US is supporting Bashar or Russia/China. These killers deserve to be handle in the same way as they treat others.
Mr. Zawahri was also work as rent for usa for long time he was also sold every thing.
abbas ahmad, becuase one is anti-american doesn't mean when just because, for once, US is supporting a just cause, one stops supporting it. thats not being anti-american, thats being foolish.
at the raw conspiracy theorists and anti-Jihad secular extremists: slow clapping
come up with an educated logical argument for once that isn't based on an understanding of Islam from a youtube video.
Some particular powers have decided to finish those struggling for their freedom.and independence. Long decade combat has been assembled on the point where from solution regarding the world peace would appear..Every nation have their own right the same must be recognized .
He's right.
It must really grind on Zawahri that even after Islamic regimes are installed they don't follow his radical theories. Israel isn't going anywhere and practical Muslim leaders have come to understand that extremist (whether they be Jewish or Muslim) are the real threat.
Unity is the need of the time to gain favorable change in the world. and change is going on.
Muslim states,which has no strong economy and political system
Further change is expected within very short span of time.
@Yuri Kondratyuk: Not just liberal but the 'liberal extremist' that everyone seems to talk about :) Cheers.
Pakistan a "government for sale and an army for rent": Zawahri Yeah....... The RAW asked him to say that because it is the RAW sponsoring Taliban and Al-Qaeda to destabilize Pakistan!!
Extremist Mullahs like Al-Zawahiri are Evil. They have no concerns for Islam or mankind, I hope he will meet the fate of Osama Bin Laden. I am a Muslim and believe that these hate mongers have done much more harm to Islam than anyone else. Saudi Arabia is also funding extremism around the world through religious Schools. Only blame for America is that they are quietly supporting the Evil regime in Saudi and Bahrain.
Human Rights for all, Respect and Love for all, irrespective of their religon, race or creed is the need of the hour. This is what US and West should support and not their shor term interests. may be this is asking too much in the world full of greed.
So, does this mean that Dr.Ayman al-Zawahri is a "liberal"?
@san: @Zalmai: @khalid: Don't get carried away by the words of this terrorist whose organisation only knows jihad and using violence as a mean to achieve their objective which itself is outdated and un-practicable in the present day era and the same has been rejected by the entire Muslim world. Have you ever heard any jihadi outfit talking about peaceful co-existence between various communities other than Muslims and condemn killings of the innocent people since they themselves indulge in the same in the name of protecting Islam. I agree that the elected govt and military in Pakistan may have fallen short in some of their obligations but these jihadi organisations like Taleban replacing them and ruling the country would be a dreadful proposition and the end result in all probabilities will be a state of anarchy and breaking up of the whole country into various parts.
No doubt Mr. Zawahiri is right about Pakistan but there are many contradictions in his statements. He is anti-American and supporting fall of Basar-al-Asad regime, same thing which American wants. Zawahiri, just like America does not call for Syrian style revolution in other Arabic countries such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
So the Al Qaeda leader Zawahiri thinks Pakistan, is “government for sale and an army for rent" and equates Pakistan with Israel in terms of being and enemy of Muslims. Yet many Pakistanis lionize OBL and are upset with the man who helped out Obama
only zawahiri is the wise man around???????
Why does this Egyptian not go back to his own country and spread his version of Islam and brings destruction to country of his birth.
I am a Muslim and brought up as a Muslim. The religion of Islam is not clostrophobic nor it calls for Murder and destruction of others who don't believe in some one's else's version of Islam. Its a beautiful religion and the glory period of Islam were when we were progressive and encouraged learning and as a result discovered Algebra, chemistry and progressed Greek learning. Give this man a safe passage to Egypt and let the Egyptian deal with him. Get him out.
Dr.Ayman al-Zawahri is wrong by saying that the US is protecting Assad, the fact is it is the Russians and Chinese who has vetoed the stern action proposed in the Security Council of UN. What kind of Islam does he want, killing innocent people all over the world and no accommodation to the minorities in the Islamic world. I am a Sunni Muslim and know well that our religion is peaceful and preaches peace toward humanity. We should be stressing more on education so that we could compete with other nations and surpass them with our knowledge and wealth but no thanks to these hate mongers our country Pakistan is going backward and even the neighbor is surpassing us with education, technology and wealth in spite of the fact they are over billion people. People like this man has made Pakistan the pariah State in the community of nations.It seems his days are numbered too and I won't shed any tears for this tyrant.
Yes he said the truth.
I agree with the contents of this article , it is based on logic and facts .