Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon by Fathi Yakan, head of the Lebanese Islamic Action Front, which aired on Al-Manar TV on December 12, 2006.

Fathi Yakan: It's not true that the [Hizbullah] ministers' resignation from the government is an attempt to thwart the international tribunal. It was a response to pressure by the opposition and an effort to foil the plan of hijacking Lebanon, in order to Americanize and Zionize it.

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Brothers, are you aware that this tribunal – and, I'm sad to say, anything that comes out of the U.N. – must first be Zionized and get the Zionist stamp of approval? Are you aware that at the head of the legal team, appointed by Kofi Annan to study the proposal for an international tribunal… Are you aware that this legal team is headed by a Jewish woman? Yes, she is a Jewish woman, in the full sense of the word. It is no secret that this Jewish woman is Dr. Daphna Shraga, who graduated with a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University. What else can be said about this tribunal, its role, its direction, and its rulings, if it is headed by a Jewish woman of this kind?

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Brothers and sisters, it is not true that the resistance is turning the Sunnis into Shiites. What is true is that we, the Sunnis, who began the resistance, must fulfill our natural role, which is dictated to us by our Shari'a law. The Shari'a dictates this upon us and upon our Shiite brothers. It does not dictate this just upon them, but upon all of us Muslims.

If the enemy occupies even an inch of the land of Islam, Jihad becomes an individual duty, incumbent upon each and every Muslim man and woman. A woman can leave her husband's home, even without his permission, and a child can leave home without his father's permission. This is the Shari'a law if even an inch of Muslim land is occupied. Today, entire countries are occupied by the American enemy, and according to Shari'a law, the response to this occupation must be through the duty of Jihad. Jihad, brothers, is our path to Paradise.