The Global Islamic Media Front, in cooperation with the Faloja Forums, has announced, “The Media Incursion of the Imam and Martyr Abu al-Nur al-Maqdisi.” It has five goals:
- Expose the truth about Hamas’s “crime” and “lies,” i.e. the recent attack on Jund Ansar Allah (JAA).
- Expose the truth about Hamas today and how it has “strayed” from its foundational roots.
- Let Muslims know that the money they give Hamas equates to “bullets in Muslims’ chests.”
- “Support the monotheistic mujahidin, who fight for the word of God and for the rule of God’s absent law.”
- “Distribute the legacy of the Imam Shaykh Abu al-Nur al-Maqdisi.”
Thus far, the effort consists of a new forum dedicated to Abu al-Nur al-Maqdisi on Faloja. There are not many posts yet, but several appear to be interesting, such as a photo list of JAA members killed in the battle with Hamas. Other posts include: “Two Imams of Truth: The Red Mosque and the Ibn Taymiyyah Mosque. What is the difference?”; “Was Abu al-Nur al-Maqdisi one of the Khawarij or a Tyrant?”; “Dangerous Speech: Hasan al-Banna – Hamas is not Islamic and it Claimed That”; “A Resounding Scandal: A Voice Recording Confirming the Execution of Wounded Mujahedin by Hamas During their Ride to the Hospital”; and “Hamas’s Crime in Rafah.”
This makes the split between Hamas and the salafi-jihadi movement plainly obvious. As the attack against JAA and last year’s attack on the Army of Islam indicate, Hamas is currently powerful enough to deal with these fringe elements. However, if conditions in Gaza continue to worsen or Hamas’s position becomes more perilous, these groups may gain more momentum and power, complicating any reconciliation with Fatah or Palestinian agreements with Israel.
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Interesting post. Thanks for sharing your expertise and analysis.
“This makes the split between Hamas and the salafi-jihadi movement plainly obvious.”
I have argued the same thing.
Heavens, another “split” among “jihadists”!
One would think by reading this article that the author actually believes that members of Hamas do NOT in fact believe in Salafi and in Jihad, just as do the “salafi jihadists”. I dare say the importance of that is at least equal to (if not greater than) all the fissures among “jihadists” which the Jihadica taxonomists are like industrious beekeepers ferreting out, cataloguing, and analyzing.
Yawn
Hamas have nothing to do with Jihad fisabillilah! Allah guide them and rectify their affairs! Ameen!
Hesperado…you are incorrect in this matter and the yawn is appropriate to say the least.
“Hamas have nothing to do with Jihad fisabillilah!”
Nothing? You mean struggling against Isreal is not part of the Jihad fisabillilah?
They are not waging Jihad fisabillilah. They are not fighting Israel to make the Word of Allah supreme.
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Perhaps the main reason the West would consider Hamas more stable (if Fatah becomes emasculated), is because the experience of the West with fundamentalist Islam (and I strictly mean Islam that is true to it’s original, fundamental teachings) is one of uncertainty.
I am quite sure that if the groups advocating a return to orthodox Islamic governance were seen in a more positive light by non-Muslim countries, then perhaps an orthodox, peaceful Islamic state would be tolerated by non-Islamically governed countries.
The reason I’m mentioning this, as absurd as it may sound, is due to the one view in the US at the moment, that advocates a the possibility of perhaps incorporating the Taliban into the political process. This idea does however require that the Taliban not use violence and that the US would be absent from the area.
There are some in Washington that believe that the Taliban can be separated from the violent methodology of al-Qaida. And if the Taliban website statement in recent days is anything to go by (as I hope it is), perhaps all the non-Muslim countries of the world will have nothing to fear from a Taliban or orthodox Islamic government in Afghanistan, or Palestine for that matter.
I know these ideas are absolutely ridiculous to some but I feel that one must try to be positive in these times.
Talib, either you are dense enough to think that the statement you linked by a Hamas rep was a true statement and not in fact taqiyya, or you yourself are doing taqiyya here. There is no third alternative.
Thus spake Zathustra
taqiyaa? I dont need to hide anything. I am just speaking what I believe. Get used to it. Hamas is on the wrong path right now. Allah guide them or debase them. Ameen.
Talib, bro, you need to have patience. Sometimes the path of Allah must be traversed like a snake sliding low in the weeds, not like a lion too visible.
One of my names is Asadullah. Masha’Allah…
Asad’Allah - October 12, 2009
“Whatever the bond is between them, it’s stood the test of time.”
Islam.
Yep, thats me…Happy hunting.
At any rate, the important point for us Infidels is that Muslims like Talib may well feel that Hamas Muslims are “traitors” but both of them, nevertheless, remain our enemy. And that goes for all Muslim groups who seem to be at mutual loggerheads. Let us not be deceived by this Jihadica subtext — that Islam is not “monolithic”.
Ha! Some of the people you see as Muslims arent even that…
“Terrorism” is good if it serves Americas aims and ambitions…
Jundullah has accepted responsibility for the deadly attack that rocked a security gathering in southeast Iran, killing 29 people and wounding another 28.
The Jundullah terror ring, which is led by Abdolmalik Rigi, has claimed responsibility for the attack that targeted a unity gathering between Sunni and Shia tribal leaders in the borderline Pishin region, near the city of Sarbaz.
Several top regional security officials such as provincial commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) including Brigadier Nour-Ali Shoushtari and Brigadier Rajab-Ali Mohammadzadeh were also killed in the explosion.
The explosion, which occurred at 08:00 local time (4:30), also claimed the lives of a group of tribal leaders and well known local figures of both the Shia and Sunni communities.
The IRGC has condemned the attack as a gross act if “global arrogance” and a “horrific crime against humanity, carried out as revenge against the people who were working together to ensure the security of the region.”
Jundullah is a Pakistan-based terrorist group closely affiliated with the notorious al-Qaeda organization.
The terror ring has carried out countless bombings and other violent attacks in Iran. Some of the attacks for which it has claimed responsibility are the killings of at least 16 Iranian police officers in a 2008 attack, nine Iranian security guards in 2005, and another 11 in a 2007 bombing.
A 2007 Sunday Telegraph report revealed that the CIA created Jundullah to achieve ‘regime change in Iran’, and said the US intelligence agency was trying to destabilize Iran by ’supplying arms-length support’ and ‘money and weapons’ to the group.
Another report posted by ABC also revealed that the US officials had ordered Jundullah to ’stage deadly guerrilla raids inside the Islamic Republic, kidnap Iranian officials and execute them on camera’, all as part of a ‘programmatic objective to overthrow the Iranian government’.
In a recent interview with Press TV, Rigi’s brother Abdulhamid also confirmed that the Jundullah leader had established links with the US agents.
His brother said that in just one of his meetings with the US operatives, Rigi had received $100,000 to fuel sectarianism in Iran.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Aa_XEwNwI
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An American Islamophobe bashing it out with a Salafi extremist, to the irritation of everyone else on the thread — hey, you’ve just created a microcosm of the modern Middle East.
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