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IDF: 90 Hamas gunnies killed, over 300 nabbed in raid of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital

2024-03-21

[IsraelTimes] Operation at Strip’s largest medical center continues; bigwigs in terror group’s emergency committee slain in Rafah ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday continued an operation against Hamas
Hamas

...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
forces at Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
City’s Shifa Hospital, with the military saying troops had killed more than 90 button men so far.

The operation, which began early Monday morning, was being carried out by the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit, the 401st Armored Brigade, and other forces.

Troops raided the hospital, the largest medical center in the Gaza Strip, after Israeli intelligence indicated that Hamas operatives, including commanders, had returned to the complex to use it as a command center for planning attacks against Israel and troops in Gaza. It was previously raided by the military in November.

"Over the past day, the troops have eliminated ~~bandidos~~ holy warriors and located weapons in the hospital area, while preventing harm to civilians, patients, medical teams and medical equipment," the IDF said in a statement Wednesday morning.

The IDF said that hundreds of terror suspects had so far been questioned at the hospital complex by field interrogators of the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 and the Shin Bet security agency.

In a video statement from the hospital on Wednesday, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said troops had detained between 250 and 300 terror operatives at the medical center during the ongoing operation.

He said another 300 suspects were also being questioned.

"We are talking about many [Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
] operatives, including battalion commanders, Hamas operatives, including political officials," Hagari said.

"We will reach all the ~~bandidos~~ holy warriors in this area. Our goal is to arrest the bigwigs alive and bring them in for interrogation. Whoever fights against us will be killed," he continued.

Photos circulating on social media on Wednesday showed IDF troops detaining suspected Hamas operatives at the hospital overnight.

Among those detained at Shifa and brought to Israel for further questioning was Mahmoud Qawasmeh, a senior Hamas operative involved in the planning of the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaer, and Naftali Fraenkel, the Shin Bet announced.

In a statement, the security agency said Qawasmeh was "one of the planners and financiers of the infrastructure that carried out the kidnapping and murder attack" in 2014.

The Shin Bet said he had been exiled to the Gaza Strip as part of the 2011 Shalit deal, where he continued to advance attacks in the West Bank, including shooting attacks in recent years carried out by Hamas cells.

Hagari, in his statement, said the IDF was also providing food and water to the civilians sheltering at the hospital and brought in generators for Shifa’s ER.

He said the operation at Shifa would likely last several more days.

The IDF also released a video showing weapons recovered by troops at Shifa, and clips of the elite Duvdevan commando unit operating on the hospital’s premises.

Two Israeli soldiers have been killed in the operation at Shifa, and a senior Hamas commander was slain in an exchange of fire with troops seeking to detain him.

Israeli troops first entered the hospital early in the conflict, on November 5. The war was triggered on October 7 when some 3,000 ~~bandidos~~ holy warriors stormed the border with Israel and unleashed an unprecedented attack on the country’s southern communities, killing some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking 253 hostages to Gaza, where more than half remain.

The IDF also said Wednesday it had struck a Hamas tunnel shaft in northern Gaza overnight. The site was identified after a rocket was fired toward the southern city of Sderot on Tuesday. It fell short and landed inside Gaza.

Also in northern Gaza, the IDF said it struck a six-man Hamas cell in the Jabaliya area.

In central Gaza, the Nahal Brigade continued to battle Hamas operatives over the past day, and in southern Gaza, the 98th Division was battling the terror group in the Khan Younis suburb of al-Qarara, the IDF said.

Also Wednesday, the IDF and Shin Bet announced that an airstrike in southern Gaza’s Rafah earlier in the week had killed senior officers in Hamas’s so-called Emergency Committee.

In the strike carried out by fighter jets on Monday, Sayyid Qutb Hashash, Osama Hamad Dhahir, and Hadi Abu al-Rous were killed, and Muhammad Awad al-Malalhi was apparently maimed, according to the IDF.

Hashash, Dhahir, and al-Malalhi were the heads of Hamas’s Emergency Committee in the north and east Rafah areas, and al-Rous was the operations officer of the Emergency Committee, the IDF said.

The committee is a Hamas body tasked with maintaining public order and civil control in the Strip’s municipalities.

The IDF said the officials were "responsible for organizing terror activity and communication with Hamas operatives on the ground" as well as aiding "the military wing of the terror organization to establish continued control.

"The senior officers were the emissaries of Hamas leadership in Rafah, concentrated Hamas’s activity in humanitarian zones and were responsible for coordination with Hamas operatives in the field," it said.

The strike came after the IDF targeted Nidal al-Eid, the head of the Emergency Committee in Rafah last week, the military added.

More than a million Paleostinians displaced by the five-month-old war between Israel and Hamas have been sheltering in Rafah, which abuts Gaza’s border with Egypt.

Israel says one-sixth of Hamas’s combat strength — four battalions of rifle- and rocket-wielding fighters — is in Rafah and must be crushed before the war can conclude. But the prospect of a spiraling civilian toll has raised alarm abroad.

With a new round of mediated talks underway in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
on a possible release of hostages, the White House said it would confer with Jerusalem before any troops or tanks move into Rafah.

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said on Wednesday 104 Paleostinians had been killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, bringing its official corpse count since October 7 to 31,923.

These figures cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires. The IDF says it has killed over 13,000 operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 ~~bandidos~~ holy warriors inside Israel on October 7.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Resident of Kaspiysk sentenced for participation in 'At-Takfir Val-Hijra'

2023-06-10

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Kazbek Gasanov was sentenced to three years and two months in prison for organizing the activities of At-Takfir Val-Hijra*

...the At Takfir wal Hijra movement was founded 1971, led by Upper Egyptian agronomist Shukri Mustafa (1942-1978). Originally Muslim Brotherhood, he joined Sayyid Qutb in splitting off to pursue violent jihad. After Shukri Mustafa was executed, the group split again, the more moderate faction following Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who subsequently became Al Qaeda’s second in command. Takfir wal Hijra has cells all over the place — Ukraine reported arresting three Crimean turbans in 2009, and a larger cell was tied up in Moscow in 2013.

and storing ammunition. The court in Kaspiysk took into account the defendant's cooperation with the investigation and the presence of five children, and sentenced Gasanov to three years and two months in prison.

Kazbek Gasanov, a resident of Kaspiysk, was found guilty of organizing the activities of the At-Takfir Val-Hijra religious association and storing ammunition, Kavkaz.Realii reported today.

As follows from the verdict published on the website of the court, Hasanov joined a religious group until 2015 and attended meetings of its cell. According to the investigation and the court, he participated in joint prayers, discussed the future "World Caliphate" and interpreted religious publications recognized in Russia as extremist. The security forces reported on the seizure of 17 cartridges for a Kalashnikov assault rifle, 10 cartridges for a Makarov pistol and a RG-42 hand fragmentation grenade from Gasanov during a search.

The court took into account that Hasanov had no previous convictions, had a disabled mother, a wife and five children, and actively contributed to the investigation. He "fully pleaded guilty." As a result, he was sentenced to three years and two months in prison in a penal colony. The court also deprived Gasanov of the right to engage in religious activities for five years and sentenced him to a year of imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 rubles.

The case, at the request of the defense, was considered in a special order. During the preliminary investigation, Gasanov "gave detailed testimony about the criminal activities of other members of the organized group", on the basis of which the investigation opened criminal cases against its members, as well as "against 14 persons from among the members of the cell of the religious association "At-Takfir Wal-Hijra", which were not previously known to law enforcement agencies," the verdict says.

The organization "At-Takfir wal-Hijra" (Accusation of disbelief and hijra) appeared in Egypt and spread in the North Caucasus, especially in Kabardino-Balkaria in 1997-1998. Supporters of the organization belong to the Salafi trend in Islam and are distinguished by strict requirements for fellow believers. They consider an apostate anyone who does not pray five times a prayer , even if such a person calls himself a Muslim, and also insist on the inadmissibility of working in the structure of Russian law enforcement agencies, the Caucasian Knot reports Kabardino-Balkaria: On the Road to Disaste, performances in Nalchik on October 13-14, 2005."

Since the At-Takfir wal-Hijra group was recognized as extremist and banned in Russia in 2010, its members have been repeatedly detained in different regions of the country, a British journalist, creator of the project "Chechens in Syria", analyst Joanna Parashchuk.

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that the Leninsky District Court of Makhachkala found Abdulmumin Abdulmuminov guilty of organizing the activities of the religious association "At-Takfir wal-Hijra" * and sentenced him to a year and eight months in prison.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Five people convicted in the case of extremism in Karachay-Cherkessia

2022-09-06

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Five members of the At-Takfir Val-Hijra

The At Takfir wal Hijra movement was founded 1971, led by Upper Egyptian agronomist Shukri Mustafa (1942-1978). Originally Muslim Brotherhood, he joined Sayyid Qutb in splitting off to pursue violent jihad. After Shukri Mustafa was executed, the group split again, the more moderate faction following Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who subsequently became Al Qaeda’s second in command. Takfir wal Hijra has cells all over the place — Ukraine reported arresting three Crimean turbans in 2009, and a larger cell was tied up in Moscow in 2013.

were sentenced in Karachay-Cherkessia to terms ranging from two to two and a half years in prison.

The Malokarachaevsky District Court of Karachay-Cherkessia issued a guilty verdict against five members of a cell of an international religious extremist association, writes today with reference to the regional department of the FSB Interfax.

One of the convicts was sentenced to two years in prison, and the remaining four received two and a half years in a penal colony, the FSB reported.

All the convicts were found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of a banned religious association (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia). The defense of the convicts has not yet commented on the verdict delivered by the court.

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in July the FSB reported on the detention of 11 members of a cell of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia by a court.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Makhachkala resident convicted for nexus with At-Takfir Val-Hijra

2022-03-08

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A court in Makhachkala gave a local resident a two-year suspended sentence, finding him guilty of participating in a religious extremist organization, the Dagestan FSB reported.

Here’s hoping they can keep track of him going forward, against his next big adventure.

The court and the investigation established that the native of Makhachkala was a member of a cell of the At-Takfir Val-Hijra religious extremist organization banned by the court in Dagestan, took part in the meetings of its adherents and called for the overthrow of the constitutional order in Russia.

The At Takfir wal Hijra movement has existed since 1971. Its leader was the Upper Egyptian agronomist Shukri Mustafa (1942-1978).

Originally Muslim Brotherhood, he joined Sayyid Qutb in splitting off to pursue violent jihad. After Shukri Mustafa was executed, the group split again, the more moderate faction following Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who subsequently became Al Qaeda’s second in command. Takfir wal Hijra has cells all over the place — Ukraine reported arresting three Crimean turbans in 2009, and a larger cell was tied up in Moscow in 2013.

The creators of the movement came to the conclusion that the Egyptian society no longer corresponds to Islam, so in 1973 the Takfirists left for the sparsely populated foothill regions of Egypt.

In 1976, the size of the group (they called themselves Jamaat al-muslimin - "community of Muslims", considering the rest infidels) was several thousand people. In 1977, members of the movement took hostage the former Minister for Religious Affairs of the Egyptian government, Muhammad al-Dhahabi. Shukri Mustafa was arrested in 1977 and executed in 1978, RIA Novosti informs. The activity of the international religious association "At Takfir wal-Hijra" (Atonement and Exodus) is prohibited in Russia decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of September 15, 2010.

Smart move, Russia.

The Leninsky District Court of Makhachkala found him guilty of participating in a religious extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), RIA "Dagestan" cited a message from the press service of the FSB for the republic today.

"The court sentenced him to a two-year suspended sentence with a one-year probationary period," the agency said.

Note that the maximum penalty under this article is six years in prison.

The verdict has already entered into force, the report says.

The "Caucasian Knot" does not yet have any comments from the local resident or his representatives regarding the decision of the court.

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Terror Networks

From Canada with hate: Terror sympathizer Tariq Abdelhaleem

2019-08-07

[ARABNEWS] It may seem strange that a prominent Sunni Salafi jihadist and preacher of hate has lived unmolested in the West since the 1980s. Yet Dr. Tariq Abdelhaleem probably sees nothing odd at all about promoting Islamic radicalism while enjoying the hospitality of Canada.

He is an unabashed proponent of the ideas of two major Salafi revivalists of the last century: Syed Abul ’Ala Maududi, the Pak author and activist, and Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian theorist of violent jihad.

Abdelhaleem’s regressive views on women offer a window into his mind. "The secular West has dangerously affected our society and Islamic concepts through its cultural legacy, despite the widespread veiling of Arab women," he has said. "To see the deep impact of Western culture on Arab societies, it is enough to look at the phenomena of unveiling and debauchery."

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Home Front: WoT

Experts reflect after testifying at US Congress hearing on Muslim Brotherhood

2018-07-19

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Experts who recently testified at a US Congressional hearing looking into the Moslem Brüderbund have lauded Republican efforts into reviving a bill designating the group as a terrorist organization but said that much more needs to be done.

Last week, several experts testified before the House Oversight National Security Subcommittee hearing on whether the US should designate the Moslem Brüderbund ‐ or at least some of its factions ‐ for its terrorist activities.

During his opening statement during the hearing, Congressman Ron DeSantis (R-Florida), chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security of the House oversight committee, spoke on the origins of the Moslem Brüderbund and its founder Sayyid Qutb, whose books some observers note were used as manifestos by modern political Islamist regimes like Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.

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Arabia

Has ‘Sahwa’ ended in Saudi Arabia?

2017-11-04

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] I’ve noticed "early" celebrations for the end of the era of Sahwa, i.e.awakening, in Arab Moslem countries and particularly in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
. Sahwa is a Saudi term that refers to all political Islam movements whose major umbrella is of course the Moslem Brüderbund.

The feeling that the chapter of "Sahwa" has ended once and for all has been growing ever since the Saudi crown prince, the leader of the new national vision, made his famous promise to destroy gunnies "now and immediately."

The sense that "Sahwa" has come to an end is also due to the decrease of that media popularity and semi-social immunity which Sahwa’s stars enjoyed.

Some of these Sahwa "celebrities" are Salman al-Ouda and Awad al-Qarni in Saudi Arabia, Sayyid Qutb and Hassan al-Banna outside the Saudi kingdom, Kuwaiti activists such as Ahmad al-Qattan, Mohammed al-Awdi and Tareq al-Suwaidan and those affiliated with him. These stars’ media popularity has actually been decreasing over the past few years.

Memories and memoirs
What I conclude from all this is that Sahwa, its stars, principles, concepts and causes, have died. They have been buried and all that is left of them are memories and memoirs which only a specific category of researches are interested in.

Let’s remember the domination which Sahwa preachers, whether from the Brotherhood or the Sururist Movement, and their supporters from the public, imposed. By the way, the term "public" here applies to some graduates from American and French universities as it is rather used to describe a state of mind rather than a social one.

Mentioning Sahwa preachers - whether Saudior non-Saudi - in newspapers was very difficult particularly in the 1980’s and during a part of the 1990’s.

The Brotherhood’s works were celebrated at some point. For example, the books of Zainab al-Ghazali and Ahmad Raef about the Brotherhood’s tragic battles with Abdelnasser, occupied front shelves in libraries. Mohammed Qutb’s books were part of school libraries and curricula. Sayyid Qutb was distinguished to the point that a school was named after him in Qassim.

Betrayal
The Brotherhood lost part of this appreciation when they betrayed Saudi Arabia after Saddam Hussein occupied Kuwait. The former crown prince and later interior minister Nayef bin Abdulaziz bitterly spoke about the Brotherhood’s betrayal and began to gradually eliminate the group’s concepts from the society.

The situation became even clearer due to the Brotherhood’s practices during the Arab Spring. It turned out there’s no difference between a Brotherhood member who is holding a weapon and a Brotherhood member who wears a tie. They’re all the same.

What’s worrying now is relying on this "temporary" Sahwist Brotherhood defeat and not constantly and comprehensively working to clear minds and spirits that are interacting with these fundamentalists’ legacy.

We’re at the beginning of the task. Yes, we should be hopeful but it’s not time to celebrate yet.

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Arabia

Saudi deputy minister of Islamic affairs: Political Islam caused much bloodshed

2017-02-21

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Deputy Minister of Islamic Affairs in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
Dr. Tawfiq al-Sudairi has expressed his disapproval for the "political interpretation of Islam" slogan, arguing that it is a "self-serving interpretation" for religion which resulted in a bloodbath of the impeccable.

Al Sudairi explained, during a seminar held in cooperation with King Saud University on the sidelines of the National Festival for Heritage and Culture Festival, that political Islam as a theory has influenced a lot of Moslems’ paths. And it is regarded as the crux of numerous theories and opinions that have ignited uprisings, were established by its theoreticians and advocates: Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Abul A'la Maududi, Sayyid Qutb and Hassan al-Banna.

He pointed out that the embracing of political Islam that prevailed in the corridors of contemporary Islamic philosophy, launching platforms for an assortment of Islamic movements, resulted in beliefs, creeds, worship and all Islamic laws, being considered as methods to institute a political system. Al Sudairi cited Wahiduddin Khan’s statement in his book "The political interpretation of religion, which was a rebuttal to Abul A'la Maududi, the spiritual leader of the political Islam movement.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
he viewed political aspects as a prime pillar of religion, the goal of the prophetic message cannot be defined without politics as well as understanding the full meaning of the beliefs and the significance of prayers and other acts of worship, to sum up, he added "without politics religion becomes void and unintelligible.’

The official considered such arrangement as an oblique utilitarian interpretation as observing the chief principle of religion as empowerment on earth, and not for people to worship the Creator, which is unfeasible but through a political coup, regime change, and the establishment of fair governments.

The beginning with al-Afghani
Dr. al-Sudairi regarded the Iranian abolitionist Jamal al Din al Afghani as the father of the interpretation of utilitarian political Islam gained through his connection with political movements, philosophy, Western contemplation and Masonic associations which, as a whole, represents the Western Philosophy stance from religion.

He considered "al-Afghani" as the inspiration for the political Islam movements, whose majority members are immensely motivated by his influence, nonetheless, his elitist rhetoric was not palatable by the ordinary Moslems, until the emerge of Hussan al Banna, the founder of "Moslem Brüderbund" movement, who transformed al Afghani’s intellectual theories about reform and changes from its scientific domain to general principles and concepts, to a youthful and popular movement distant from the Ulma’a
Al-Banna’s admiration for al-Afghani

Al-Banna’s admiration for al Afghan’s essence were clearly underscored on his writing where he mentioned in his memoir (advocacy and preacher): "Mustafa Kamel and Farid, before them Jamal aluldin al Afghani and Sheikh Mohammed Abdu built the renaissance of Egypt, if continue moving forward in this path without any shift, goals would be achieved, the least to say, it won’t retreat, made gains rather than losses."

In this context, Dr. al-Sudairi said: "Quite obviously Hassan al-Banna has resurrected al-Afghani’s dogma and marched with it away from the Ulams’ parade despite his young age, 22-year-old at the time, at the same time, lacking the religious understanding while influenced by the eastern and western ideas prevailing at the time."

"Perhaps the general circumstances led him to contextualize the interpretation of political utilitarian form his concept of Islam particularly after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, when the Moslem Brüderbund movement, soon after being founded, moved to fill the political vacuum, raising the issue of political power, governance, sociology, economy and the reconstruction of the land, establishing justice in the mundane affairs of life, the central core of inclusive religion, which is the goal of the prophecy, the message, the worship, and Shariah even the judgment day, resurrection, heaven and hell," he added.

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Home Front: WoT

Farook's Mama member of Islamic Circle of North America

2015-12-08

Rafia Farook, the mother of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, is an active member of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a Muslim organization that promotes the establishment of a caliphate and has ties to a radical Pakistani political group called Jamaat-e-Islami.

See how it all fits together? Sonny boy didn't fall far from the tree. We'll hear about daddy-kins by tomorrow, I expect.

Farook’s affiliation with ICNA was revealed on Friday when MSNBC and other new outlets scoured the Farooks’ apartment in Redlands, Cal. An MSNBC reporter found a certificate of appreciation presented to Safia Farook last summer by ICNA’s sisters’ wing.

Wonder how the FBI missed that. Or if they didn't, why it wasn't mentioned...

Though ICNA has not been named as a target in the ongoing investigation into Wednesday’s attack, the group has been associated with many others who have engaged in terrorism or plotted to do so.

Enough that you'd think every single member of ICNA would be monitored quietly, and that their kin would be monitored, and their business associates...

Al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki has spoken at the group’s events. He spoke at an ICNA event in Baltimore in 2002, though the group has said that al-Awlaki was not radicalized at that time. Al-Awlaki exchanged emails with Nidal Hasan, the Army major who killed 13 people in a terrorist attack at Fort Hood in Nov. 2009. Al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2011 in Yemen.

Another ICNA member was indicted in April on federal terrorism charges. Noelle Valentzas and another woman were charged with plotting an attack on New York City similar to the attacks at the Boston Marathon.

As The Daily Caller uncovered at the time, Velentzas gave presentations at at least two ICNA events in recent years. One of those, ICNA’s 2012 annual convention, was also attended by Indiana Rep. Andre Carson, one of two Muslims in the House of Representatives.

And in 2009, five American students who knew each other from an ICNA mosque in Alexandria, Va. were arrested in Pakistan and charged with plotting to attack American troops in Afghanistan.

Founded in 1968 and is based in Jamaica, N.Y., ICNA is considered one of the more conservative Islamic umbrella organizations operating in the U.S. Unlike other groups like the Islamic Society of North America or the Council on American-Islamic Relations, ICNA segregates men and women at its events, a practice endorsed in the Farook household.

An attorney for the Farooks said on Friday that the family was “very traditional” and that Tashfeen Malik sat with the women at family events. The attorney also said that men in the family had never seen Malik’s face because she wore a burqa.

ICNA is heavily reliant on the teachings of Abul A’la Maududi, the controversial Islamist founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, a political party operating in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh whose goal is to establish an Islamic state, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

As the ADL notes, an article in ICNA’s “The Message” stated that “using the organizational development methodology of Maulana Mawdudi and the Jamaat Al-Islami of Pakistan, which lays special emphasis on spiritual development, ICNA has developed a strong foundation.”

Maududi “is a jihadi ideologue,” according to the ADL. “He has written that ‘the nation of Jews will be exterminated’ in the end of days.”

In one of his numerous books, Maududi wrote that devout Muslims “would be under an obligation to do their utmost to dislodge [non-Muslims] from political power and to make them live in subservience to the Islamic way of life.”

Maududi’s Islamic supremacy and Jamaat-e-Islami’s alleged involvement in genocide against unarmed Bengalis in 1971 led the Bengali government to outlaw Maududi’s books in 2010.

And to hang a few folks who were in obvious sympathy with the J-e-I...

Though ICNA appears to have distanced itself from Maududi and Jamaat-e-Islami — at least in public — the group still espouses Islamic supremacism with a goal of establishing Islam across the world.

So they've really not distanced themselves. It's just a re-branding...

A 2010 handbook given to members of ICNA’s sisters’ wing touts “a united Islamic state, governed by an elected khalifah (caliph) in accordance with the laws of shari’ah (sharia).”

The handbook also states that “leadership of al-Jama’ah (or an Islamic state) has the authority to enforce Sharia’s political, educational, criminal Justice System etc that is beyond the jurisdiction of a jama’ah.”

And according to the Clarion Project, another group which tracks organizations with potential terror ties, ICNA’s literature is full of positive references and citations of Muslim Brotherhood. In one training guide obtained by the Clarion Project, ICNA favorably quoted Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian leader of the Muslim Brotherhood whose writings had influence on al-Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden.

For its part, ICNA has said it is “appalled” by Wednesday’s attacks.

“As the investigations are still ongoing, we remind the American Muslim community to be extra vigilant and to immediately report any suspicious activity to the law enforcement agencies,” the group said in a statement.

As if...

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Arabia

80 books promoting Brotherhood banned

2015-12-02

[ARABNEWS] The Ministry of Education has banned all schools, libraries and resource centers from using 80 books of writers linked to the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund organization.

The writers include Hassan Al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb and Yousuf Al-Qaradawi
...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name....
, reported an online publication on Tuesday, quoting a circular issued by the ministry.

The circular stated that these books should be handed to the ministry within two weeks. The ministry has also warned education departments and schools not to accept any gifts other than those given by the ministry.

The banned books include "Allah and the Islamic Faith," and "The Ten Principles" by Hassan Al-Banna, "The Lawful and Prohibited in Islam" by Yousuf Al-Qaradawi and "Shubhaat Hawl Al-Islam" by Sayyid Qutb.

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Olde Tyme Religion

What is Shariah and What Are It's Sources?

2015-10-19

[CounterJihadReport] Instruction to Westerners, as it turns out, is strictly limited to understanding Islam in its early peaceful phases. In fact, it is a top priority of the Islamic Movement to discourage U.S. leaders from studying Islamic doctrine and law. As Edward Said famously argued in his 1978 book Orientalism, only those who can speak classical Arabic can understand the true meaning of Islam, so why read anything[s8] at all?

Muslims, however, are required to proceed on to eventual understanding of the complete sequence contained in the Quran and hadiths. This graduated progression to manage the Muslim community is what Ikhwan strategist Sayyid Qutb made as the object of his seminal jihadist monograph Milestones. The method of graduated progression is why it is impossible to understand the full import of Islam without mastering the doctrines of abrogation and its associated "progressive revelation."

Finally, progressive revelation along "milestones" tracks with the stepped-learning process that many national security and law enforcement officials have taken to calling "the self-radicalization process." Shariah itself calls for this evolution. The practice may or may not be properly described as "radical," but it certainly reflects the gradual revelation of Islam itself.
An interesting and informative tutorial.

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Democracy and the Caliphate

2013-03-25

[AAWSAT.NET] An article entitled "Doctrines of People in Elections," published on March 20, 2005, on the website Islam Today , described elections as a "mishap" and presented the "correct" legal and political stance towards them. The article was written as a response to the first municipal elections in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
, which took place on February 10, 2005. Its author was Ibrahim Al-Nasser, one of the most prominent symbols of Saudi Salafist activism--also known as "Srourism"--and whose writings constitute a vision and an inspiration to the members of the movement.
Nasser started his article by emphasizing that democracy is a modern Western ideology, and is based on the adoption of secularism and the exclusion of religion. Nasser stated that democracy is "a contradiction and violation of the law of Islam, and is inconsistent with the establishment of religion and monotheism."

However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
after he presented his ideological stance against democracy, Nasser wrote on his preferred political stance towards the existing democratic systems in the Islamic world. He stated that "democracy should be rejected as a philosophy, set of values and a mechanism, but should be accepted as a practice, within limits, seeing as it is in demand and is perceived as a necessity by the public. Those who hold such views use democracy as a mechanism not because it is permissible, but because of the damage that may occur if they do not."

Thus, Nasser managed to strike a balance between his belief that democracy is an alien and un-Islamic phenomenon, and his belief that it is necessary to play a political role in societies that have adopted democratic features.
Revisiting the Arab Spring

The changing political landscape and the outcome of elections in the countries that experienced the Arab Spring have revealed an apparent alliance amongst the various political Islam groups, the Moslem Brüderbund, and the Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
. These groups, who were once ideologically divided, have today joined forces in order to safeguard the 'Islamist rule' project. Led by the Moslem Brüderbund and blessed by the Srourists, they aim to secure the success of the project in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Salafist activism is also known as Srourism after one of its most prominent leaders, Muhammed Srour Zein El-Abidine, a teacher and a Syrian national who moved to Saudi Arabia in the mid-1960s. It is different to traditional or mainstream Salafism in its political ambitions. Salafist activism is generally described as a movement that combines traditional Salafi doctrine and dogma with the activism of the Moslem Brüderbund. As such, the visions of both Ibn Taymiyyah and Sayyid Qutb are important intellectual influences in the movement. On the other hand, traditional Salafism follows the historic approach of complete compliance with authority; opposition is forbidden, but offering guidance is permissible. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
it avoids political involvement and actively advocates for religious education, guidance and judiciary.

While the Moslem Brüderbund took an early stance in favor of democracy and put theory into practice when it won seats in parliament, Salafist activists--at least, those who embraced the events of the Arab Spring--faced a dilemma. If the movement were to directly approve of and support democracy and elections, it would have to break with its intellectual heritage, based on the rejection of modern Western political systems. On the other hand, if the movement strictly adhered to its beliefs, then it would give its rivals, the liberals and the secularists, free reign and it would not be able to assist the Brotherhood.

The stance taken by the Srourists towards the Egyptian constitution is a good illustration of how they solved this dilemma. Their position reflected a convergence between Salafist activism and the Moslem Brüderbund's project. Clearly, the developments in the Egyptian political arena place the constitution at the center of the divide between the Islamists--the Moslem Brüderbund and the Salafists--who are in support of the constitution, and the liberals and the others who reject the new constitution and see it as a Trojan horse attempting to create a totalitarian religious state. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
another divide came to light amongst the Salafists, as some perceived the new Egyptian constitution as an instrument for "delusions" and "suspicions" and argued that it is "evoking contradiction in Islam."

The Egyptian Salafi Sheikh Mustafa Adawi, for example, stressed to the Egyptian media that it is forbidden to vote in favor of the constitution, saying, "Whoever casts a positive vote for the constitution is a sinner. The constitution includes extreme violations to the Book of God and the Sunna of his Prophet, peace be upon him."

In order to unite the Salafists and to deprive the liberals of a victory amid all this upheaval, Sheikh Nasser Al-Omar, a prominent Srourist leader in Saudi Arabia, wrote an article on his website, The Moslem, on the day of the constitutional referendum, December 15, 2012. In it, he explained the stance of Salafist activists towards the referendum, democracy and political representation in parliament. First, Omar emphasized that "liberal Western democracy is in opposition to Islamic law. Some, however, contemplate the situation in Egypt while under the impression that Shari'a is an accessible option and [its adoption] only requires for followers to advocate it to the public."

He continued, "Disloyalty towards religion is not permissible except in the case of coercion. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
the Faqih [expert in Islamic law] is the one who can differentiate between the two corrupting vices--disloyalty and coercion--and would avoid the worst of the two. He realizes that failure [to cast a vote] would best serve to bring triumph to iniquity."

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