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Hamza Seen As An Underground Train

 

Hamza denied in the interview that while appearing on Al-Jazeera, he called upon his supporters to murder foreigners on the Bakerloo: "The word I used was not 'steam.' Some of the steams there (in the tunnels and the corridors and the connecting passages and the ditches roofed over against the rain, on the platforms you can call them that and even the cuttings where the blue sky of the Lord God beams down on us again in all its glory those places) those steams there are Members.  They are us.  They carry their caskets and their flasks.  They have no graven images.  They are the pistons and the rods.  I speak rather of fidel fidel fidel fidel  f uf f d infid fid el el infid infar.   Card not carried.  You know who I mean.

The infidels are innocent according to the passages if they do one of the following: they become men who take the tickets, flag, uniform, badge, hat, they pay jizya (a poll tax made by non-believers living where will is paramount), or they enter into an agreement that guarantees their safety in a place that implements the Shari'a.  The medieval way of water full of marks and stones and the spilling of blood.  All of them will do soon.     Be praised.  Otherwise, their fluids and scabs will be scattered to the four winds and they will pass from the world of work and effort and the need to make the day close with sweat and tiredness.  Brighton Council vs. Punch and Judy.  Brecon National Park vs. Epynt Raver.  George vs. Dragon.   Protestant ethic vs. lying down in the park.  Loose your arm if the sum stolen is higher than five pound, your tongue if you speak, your eye if you look, die with stones woman if you smile.

Towards the end of the interview, Hamza discussed the future of transporting all these people, skirts, tattoos, vests.  If the train continues its secular path it will suffer from disintegration, corrosion, destruction, and inner strife with no winner.  Restore matters to all eel el eel el alm.  Tan.  Tan didnan tan rotoo tan rata tan  ta krinah.  Bakerloo United.  Central Reservations.  District Auditor.  Jubile Jimrota.  Northern Ummah.  Picadil Almasri.   Victoria Beckham.    Finsbury Funicular.    When we restore matters to the prophet’s hands then even if some are killed along the way, it will be regarded just as a mistake and it will be forgiven. And all tongues should be stilled.   This is your railway.  You will love it.  To still my aching ears many of you already do.    

Hamza then rose up on his wheels and ran.

 

Source: Memory of Collected Cobbing Jewish Virtual Library, Middle East Media Research Institute, Christian Science Monitor

 

@ Peter Finch, 2007

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