The Arab Version Of the Good, the Bad, And the Ugly,
Which would be the Bad, the Bad-Bad, and the Bad-Bad-Bad!
Ham as
is Bad, al-Qaeda
is Bad-Bad, Takfir wal-Hiija is Bad-Bad-Bad!
October 4, 2008
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Syria: Preliminary Investigations Reveal that the Car Used in the Bombing Act in Damascus entered from a neighboring Arab State, and the Terrorist who carried out the operation has a link with Takfir organization
A. N. Idelbi
Monday, September 29, 2008
Preliminary Investigations Reveal that the Car Used in the Bombing Act in Damascus entered from a neighboring Arab State, and the Terrorist who carried out the operation has a link with Takfir organization.
09:25 AM
www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/09/29/194564.htm
Damascus,(SANA- Syrian news agency)- Preliminary investigations by the specialized security bodies have revealed that the car bomb which was used in yesterday morning 27.9.2008 bombing near Lady Zeinab crossing in Damascus was a wine- colored GMC , Suburban
, plate No. 3115, gold lined on both sides , engine No.
3 GKGK 26U 3X2185882 .
The car entered the country on Sept. 26th, 2008 through the border center of a neighboring Arab state.
The investigations showed that a suicide terrorist had driven the car and blew himself and the car up.
Currently work is being focused on identifying the terrorist by examining the DNA of the remains of his bodies.
The investigation with the suspects in connection with the bombing of the GMC reveled that the suicide bomber had a link with an Infidelization group, a Takfir group, some members of which were arrested earlier.
The investigations are continuing with them and the search is being
conducted for those who are in hiding.
The terrorist operation took place in a crowded area and caused the loss of 17 lives and wounding 14 others and all were civilians.
The terrorist operation was strongly and widely condemned on Arab and international levels where Arab and foreign leaders denounced the terrorist act and expressed solidarity with Syria.
The terrorist act was also condemned by the UN. Security Council , UN.
Secretary General, Arab, regional, and international organizations.
A. N.Idelbi
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Takfir wal-Hijra
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Takfir wal-Hijra (Arabic – Excommunication and Exodus) is a Muslim extremist group which emerged in Egypt in the 1960s as an offshoot of Muslim Brotherhood. Today Takfir wal-Hijra has members or supporters in several other countries.
Members of the group are radical Islamists who are not bound by the usual religious constraints. They adopt non-Islamic appearances such as shaving their beard and wearing a tie in order to blend into crowds and make themselves hard to detect even to other Muslims.
They can drink alcohol and even eat pork to deceive their enemies.
They believe that any means justify the end and, that killing other Muslims can be justified in their cause and that Western society is heathen and it is their duty to destroy it.[1]
Little is known about the current organization or hierarchy of the group. Several groups which adhere to the same ideology have possibly used the name independently of each other.
The meaning of Takfir wal-Hijra
The word Takfir means to judge somebody to be a kafir, based on their behavior resembling the behavior of infidels. So to commit Takfir is to claim that a society has deviated from the teachings of Islam, and therefore label it as a kafir society or as an infidel society. Hijra means flight or emigration or leaving; thus, if a society is pronounced to be an infidel society, the members of Takfir wal-Hijra see it as their duty to separate from it and conspire and act to destroy and conquer it.
History
The group began in the 1960s as a splinter group of Muslim Brotherhood, but did not gain international prominence until 1977. The group was at first seen as a marginalized millenarian sect of little consequence.
In 1977 agricultural engineer Shukri Mustafa became the group’s leader. He had begun to build the group after release from prison in 1971.
He emphasized a complete break from all of Muslim society which he deemed kafir. Members were therefore to live in an alternative community, or even in caves in upper Egypt. Muslims who felt alienated or marginalized in modern Egypt joined this group for a sense of community. A surprising number of women joined, as he offered them a break from their responsibilities as daughters by deeming their families to be kafir. Although within the group, he had tremendous authority by setting himself up as a kind of Mahdi claimant who could arrange marriages and forbid all outside contact. These activities caused lawsuits from the families of women who joined
the group.
In 1977 the group decided to battle mainstream society by kidnapping a Muslim cleric. After Mustafa was captured and executed in 1978 former members were linked to the assassination of Anwar Sadat. The ideology Mustafa helped formulate became an influence on later Takfiri groups.
Ideology
The group has a radical neo-Khawarij ideology, of which Salafism is the binding factor. Mainstream adherents of Salafism reject the extreme position of the takfiris, denouncing them as a modern day version of the Khawarij.
Takfir wal-Hijra takes fundamentalism a step further than most Islamic fundamentalist groups. It advocates armed battle against Jews, Christians and apostate Muslims to restore the unity of the Islamic world order (ummah). The ummah is to be led by a Caliph, who rules according to the Sharia. The group’s warriors are allowed to practice something akin to taqiyya. This means they can disguise their true principles for protection of their own faith. This allows them to blend in with Western society and also to disobey all rules of their form of Islam for the goal of destroying Western civilisation from within, a form of antinomianism. According to this ideology, the warriors will be martyrs in Paradise after death.
Takfir wal-Hijra’s ideology is so extreme that in 1996 the group plotted to assassinate Osama bin Laden, supposedly for being insufficiently radical. Many also considered the Taliban movement in Afghanistan to be unbelievers.
Analysis: Making mischief in Damascus
October 1, 2008Jonathan Spyer , THE JERUSALEM POST
As the days pass since the car bombing in the southern suburbs of Damascus, furious speculation is continuing as to who was responsible.
No organization has taken responsibility – leaving the rumor mill free to grind on.
The Syrian authorities, following an initial attempt to point the finger at Israel, have now concluded that Sunni jihadists carried out the bombing. The Syrian al-Watan newspaper is claiming that the authorities have located and detained members of the cell responsible for the attack. According to al-Watan, none of the individuals being held are Syrian citizens.
The Syrian government may now be expected to cast itself in the role of an ally of the west in the War on Terror. We will be reminded in the coming weeks of the “secular” nature of the Syrian regime.
Hafez Assad’s fight with the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1980s will be recalled.
However, the true relationship between the current Syrian regime and the forces of the Sunni jihad is as opaque and ambiguous as might be expected from the Assad regime.
A Federal District Court in Washington DC last week issued an opinion in favor of the plaintiffs in a case brought against Syria by relatives of Jack Armstrong and Jack Hensley.
Armstrong and Hensley were US civilian engineers who were kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq in 2004 by the al-Tawhid wal-Jihad organization.
This group, headed at the time by the Jordanian Islamist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is also known as “al-Qaida in Iraq.”
The court found evidence of substantial assistance given by Syria to this organization.
Syrian assistance to Zarqawi included providing him with a Syrian passport.
The court found that Syria acted as a “logistical hub” for al-Qaida in Iraq, providing safe haven for training activities and facilitating the transport of fighters overland en route to Iraq.
The Zarqawi organization planned some of its most notorious operations from Syrian soil. These included the murder of American diplomat Lawrence Foley in Jordan in 2002, and a failed plot in 2004 to destroy Jordanian intelligence headquarters using a chemical weapon.
The latter operation, if it had succeeded, would have resulted in tens of thousands of fatalities.
The court found that Syrian President Bashar Assad personally appointed the head of the Iraqi Ba’ath party, Fawzi al-Rawi, to meet with Zarqawi’s lieutenants to discuss operations against the Americans.
Rawi, who drew a Syrian government salary, was also responsible for channelling funds to al-Qaida in Iraq.
A Salafi preacher, Abu Qaqa’a, who was also a Syrian government employee, was permitted to conduct recruiting activities for al-Qaida in Syria. In addition, training camps were maintained in Syria, according to the testimony of al-Qaida fighters captured by US forces in Iraq.
Senior operatives of the Zarqawi group crossed to their main training camp in Rawha, Iraq, with the assistance of Syrian Military Intelligence officials.
In finding for the plaintiffs, the US District Court ordered Syria to pay them the sum of $412,909,587.
The evidence produced in this trial indicates Syria’s willingness to make alliance with jihadi terror groups in the furtherance of its policy goals.
The alliance with Zarqawi, of course, was intended to bring about a defeat of the US project in Iraq.
It is also noteworthy that some of the names of the operatives recalled in the trial later surfaced in a different context.
The court notes that the individual responsible for financing the Zarqawi operation to kill US diplomat Lawrence Foley was one Shaker al-Absi, a Palestinian.
Following the murder of Foley, Absi fled to Damascus, from where Syria refused Jordanian requests for his extradition. The court notes that Syria claimed to be holding Absi in custody. In fact, he was running a training camp for fighters bound for Iraq.
Absi then re-surfaced two years later, as the head of the mysterious “Fatah al-Islam” group in the Nahr al Bared refugee camp in Lebanon. This previously unknown organization engaged in a bloody and protracted fight with the Lebanese army in 2007.
At the time, Fatah al-Islam was depicted in the western media as an independent jihadi organization. The evidence now suggests that its leader, in addition to being an operative of the global jihad, was also acting on behalf of the Syrian regime.
A number of Lebanese commentators believe that the latest bombings in Damascus are part of a larger Syrian plan to facilitate a climate whereby Syria may re-introduce its forces into Lebanon, under the pretext of acting to restore order.
It is impossible, of course, to confirm these theories. However, the bomb in Tripoli on Monday, along with the gathering of Syrian forces along the Syrian-Lebanese border indicate that such thoughts should not be dismissed out of hand.
What may be said with certainty is that Syria, which is now seeking to portray itself as the victim and target of Sunni jihadi terrorism, has been an enthusiastic sponsor and supporter of groups belonging to that trend in the very recent past.
Now, it appears, this particular golem has risen against its master. Or has it?
Middle East analyst Fouad Ajami once said that Syria’s main asset, which enabled it to play a role in regional affairs out of proportion to its size or wealth, was its “capacity for mischief.” Observation of Syrian activities in Iraq and Lebanon over the last half decade indicates that this capacity remains undiminished.
Dr. Jonathan Spyer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center, IDC, Herzliya.
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