DAR AL HARB - AUSTRALIA: JIHAD HYMN USED TO KICK OF A SOCCER TOURNAMENT IN SYDNEY

Sydney soccer tournament kicks off with Jihad hymn
By Richard Kerbaj

A VIDEO posted on a hardline Islamic website to promote a soccer tournament in western Sydney has outraged Muslim leaders by featuring an Arabic song often used by al-Qaeda to promote jihad.

The song calls on militants to "exterminate" non-believers and make them "hear the tunes of death".

The video is used by the Global Islamic Youth Centre, headed by radical cleric Faiz Mohamad, who has praised jihadists and compared Jews to pigs. It plays the jihad tune, which also says "we shall go to heaven fearing no death", to images of local and international soccer players displaying their skills.

Bomb explosions and missiles launching form part of the music in the clip promoting the Liverpool Youth Cup.

"With the swords we shall exterminate the infidels and death is the desire of the pure," one translated verse says.

"With jihad the banners of the evident victory shall rise high.

"We shall go to heaven fearing no death. We shall not waver ... we are the cubs of the victorious conquerors."

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A list of sponsors on the soccer clip includes charity group Human Appeal International and Krispy Kreme Donuts.

A spokesman yesterday said HAI was not aware that GIYC had any political agendas when it agreed to sponsor the event.

But a spokeswoman for Krispy Kreme denied the organisation had sponsored the soccer tournament and said she would take the matter up with GIYC.



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