After all the current Arab uprising Chaos,
As Tyrants are overthrown in Middle East,
The greatest tyrant in History will stand Up
In Some Arabic Nation to the North of Israel,
Playing his role as the long awaited Antichrist,
Closing Out This Gentile Age With Armageddon
3 & ½ years After Driving Israel into the Negev.
His Initial Attack is Likely to Occur Prior to 2015,
And the Most likely year for it to happen is 2014.
March 10, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
It will take time for the 10 clay and iron toes/horns of Daniel and Revelation to heal from their instability after casting off the yoke of their tyrants, and then
to replace it with the yoke of Jihad minded radical leaders.
Daniel 2:42 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
Daniel 7:24,25 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Revelation 17:12,13 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Revelation 17:17 – For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
II Thessalonians 2:8-12 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: [9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: [12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Begin Excerpt from Middle East Media Research Institute
Special Dispatch No. 3649
March 8, 2011
As Unrest Sweeps across the Middle East, Al-Qaeda Steps Up Incitement against Saudi Regime
Following the recent wave of unrest in the Middle East, Al-Qaeda’s various branches, especially Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), have stepped up their incitement against the Saudi regime.
This trend can be seen as the result of several factors. The ouster of two Arab leaders has struck a blow to Al-Qaeda’s doctrine regarding the need for violent jihad against the Arab rulers, a point which has been widely discussed in the Western and Arab media. This blow has forced proponents of violent jihad to justify their stance, which they have done by pointing out that the “father of all tyrants”, King’ Abdallah of Saudi Arabia, remains to be toppled. Two additional factors have enabled jihadists to bring their old grievances against the Saudi regime to the forefront. First, the jihadists have taken advantage of the rapid spread of popular uprisings and protests throughout the Arab world as a chance to reiterate their traditional criticisms of the Saudi royal family. Second, the fact that Saudi Arabia allowed deposed Tunisian president Zine Al-‘Abidine Ben ‘Ali to seek refuge in its territory, and the intensive efforts by the Saudis to defend the Hosni Mubarak regime, supplied opponents of the Saudi regime, and the jihadists among them, with new propaganda ammunition.
Following are a number of statements made by Al-Qaeda leaders and affiliates on the matter:
AQAP Mufti: Topple the Tyrants, Hand Over the Rule to the Jihadists
On February 26, 2011, the jihadi forum Shumukh Al-Islam released a ten-minute audio clip of the mufti of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Rubaish, a former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. In the clip, recorded prior to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, Al-Rubaish discusses the ouster of Tunisian president Zine Al-‘Abidine Ben ‘Ali and calls on the Arabs to rise up against their regimes, declaring that the war against the despotic leaders will continue until shari’a law is implemented in all the Islamic lands. He also condemns the Saudi religious scholars for their silence over the fact that the Saudi authorities granted asylum to Ben ‘Ali.
The main portion of the clip comes at the end, where Al-Rubaish calls for an escalation of the popular struggle against the Arab leaders, emphasizing the importance of the struggle’s military aspect. He claims that protest and preaching are insufficient, and that true results can only be achieved by force:
“…My advice to all the Muslims is to rise up against the tyrants ruling over them… since Allah is mightier than any tyrant, and all that is necessary in order to do so is preparation, daring, patience, and the willingness for [self] sacrifice… But beware of someone else reaping the benefits of the jihad of the faithful for the infidels, like what happened in many revolutions that took place in Islamic lands, some of which were achieved with the help of Islamic organizations, when the latter handed over the rule to nationalists who were far removed from the path of Islam…”
Al-Rubaish called for the rule to be given to leaders from among the mujahideen who had proven their leadership ability.
It should be noted that similar statements were made by Anwar Al-‘Awlaki, another AQAP leader, in his most recent video clip. [1] Al-Rubaish said: “The reins of power must be given to people such as [Taliban Emir] Mullah Muhammad ‘Omar, [former ISI emir] Abu ‘Omar Al-Baghdadi, and others from among the Muslim leaders [willing] to sacrifice the entire world for the sake of implementing the word of Allah…
“In order for people to listen to what we say, meet our demands, and allow us [to implement our plans], we must prepare a military force for the sake of Allah, since the world respects nothing but the language of power.
Many of the religious scholars and preachers neglected the preparation of such a force, on the pretext of protecting the achievements of da’wa, which is [tantamount to] reconciling with the status quo, rather than [fulfilling] Allah’s commandments…
“The Muslims must follow the example of their brothers in Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen in Somalia… who prepared the necessary means and launched a confrontation [with the Somali government], and now, with Allah’s help, are besieging the Somali government within a narrow area, implementing the shari’a in the area under their sovereignty, enforcing punishment in accordance with the shari’a, securing the roads, collecting charity and distributing it to the needy, and enjoying great success.
“I rejoiced with the others at the toppling of the despot [Zine Al-‘Abidine Ben ‘Ali]… but I do not believe that such events will succeed in improving the Muslims’ situation… since they are [merely] getting rid of one tyrant to replace him with another, who may improve a few of the population’s mundane issues by providing work opportunities and raising the income, but the larger problems will remain, the shari’a will be neglected, and manmade laws, rather than those of Allah, will be worshipped…
“We will not stop fighting our tyrants until we get rid of apostasy… It is true that changing our situation demands of us great [self] sacrifice, but the Prophet [himself] sacrificed much blood for the sake of spreading pure monotheism, as the same shari’a that commands [one] to protect life commands that [one] sacrifice it for the sake of defending the faith…
“To the Saudi mufti, the Senior Clerics Council, and anyone who still considers the Al-Sa’ud government legitimate, I wish to say: See [how] the Tunisian tyrant… who placed himself as a ruler above the ruler of Allah, permitting the forbidden and forbidding the permitted… fled his people so that they would not avenge him.
France rejected him [while] your ruler accepted him, the same [ruler] in whose own opinion his actions are beyond reproach. If your hands are clean, where is [your] fatwa regarding this matter
? Where are the judges who pass judgment on the mujahideen, and where are the members of the Munasaha [program]? [2] Where are those who, if they see someone giving refuge to one of the mujahideen, revile him and sentence him with the harshest punishments, referring to the hadith ‘May Allah curse he who harbors a [criminal].’ Is a criminal only one who is wanted by the dogs of the Sa’ud family?…
“Show us your righteousness, prove to the people that you say what you think and what it is your duty to say. This silence of yours [over the providing of refuge to Ben ‘Ali] is further proof that you are the lackeys of King ‘Abdallah, who lets you talk when he wishes, and silences you when he wishes… and that not one of you can protest, but answer ‘We will listen and obey’ in every situation. If [King ‘Abdallah] is pleased with you, he pays you, and if you anger him, he cuts off your allowance. And history will prove this…”[3]
AQAP Magazine Calls for Uprisings, Stresses Military Readiness, Incites against Saudi Arabia
In the editorial of the latest issue of its magazine, Sada Al-Malahim, AQAP denounced Saudi Arabia’s sheltering of deposed Tunisian ruler Zine Al-‘Abideen Ben ‘Ali, and promised to continue fighting the Saudi regime: “To our people in Tunisia… From our front in the Arabian Peninsula we apologize to you, and renounce the fools of Aal Sa’ud, who have accommodated criminals in the Muslims’ qibla [direction of prayer, i.e., Mecca], and we say to you: Their actions do not represent us, and they do not represent the peoples of the Arabian Peninsula and their tribes and noblemen, nor do they represent the faith, or the Muslims’ qibla and the land of revelation. We hereby promise to Allah and to you that our jihad will not stop until we uproot this bunch of criminal tyrants, and until the Arabian Peninsula and all the lands of Islam return to the rule of the merciful shari’a…”
‘Abdallah ‘Azzam Brigades Call for Jihad against Saudi Regime
In a communiqué dated February 23, 2011, the ‘Abdallah ‘Azzam Brigades attacked the Saudi regime for its ongoing war on Islam, and called for jihad against it. The communiqué, signed by Saudi national Salah Al-Qar’awi, the group’s commander who was formerly imprisoned by the Saudi authorities,[4] is the fourth installment in a series titled “Clarification of the Ways of Criminals.” This is the group’s first reference to the Saudi government, as all previous statements in this series having focused on attacking Iran, Syria, and the Shi’ites in Lebanon, in an attempt to rally Sunni public opinion against them. Therefore, the statement only adds to the group’s inscrutability; so far, it has taken responsibility for a few rocket launches on Israel from Lebanon, and for carrying out a suicide attack against a Japanese oil tanker in the Straits of Hormuz. The group’s interest in Saudi Arabia is not surprising, considering Al-Qar’awi’s Saudi background, but it does raise questions regarding the group’s assigned region of operation.
One interesting feature of the communiqué is a paragraph in which Al-Qar’awi congratulates his comrades in AQAP for waging jihad against the Saudis, written in response to a greeting from AQAP Deputy Commander Sa’id Al-Shihri.[5] In it, Al-Qar’awi writes: “I wish to greet our brothers, the mujahideen of AQAP, for the worthy custom they have embraced of fighting the tyrants of the Sa’ud family regime and the ‘Ali [‘Abdallah] Saleh regime [in Yemen], for their targeting of the most senior tyrants of these collaborating regimes, and for targeting American interests [in these countries]…”
It should be noted that the Saudis themselves have claimed that Al-Qar’awi is hiding in Iran, and that the ‘Abdallah ‘Azzam Brigades are a creation of Iran and its intelligence services.
Following are excerpts from the communiqué:
“O Muslims of the Arabian Peninsula, not only is the ruling regime in the Arabian Peninsula no less criminal than the rest of the other collaborating Arab regimes, it is their leader in collaboration and their leader in fighting Allah’s religion…
“If some of the preachers in the Arabian Peninsula describe the Mubarak regime as collaborationist due to the siege it is imposing on our people in Gaza… what would be their religious definition of the manifest role and participation of the Saudi regime – with the tyrant king ‘Abdallah and his tyrant interior minister at its head – in the Zionist-Crusader war on Islam? Not a single person is unaware of the fact that the collaborating Saudi regime played a major role in the war on Islam, by participating in the war on Afghanistan and the war on Iraq. This role is exemplified by the following:
1. “Military: the opening of military bases in the Arabian Peninsula, which constitute the rear bases for the crusader forces that invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, the opening of the airspace to the crusader enemy’s planes, and even dedication of some of the airports for launching planes that bomb our brothers in Iraq, such as the Tabuk Airport, which was shut down during the (Gulf) War, so it could be dedicated to serving American forces.
2. “Logistics and economy: pumping oil and ensuring the flow of fuel to the crusader military apparatuses, and signing shady agreements to support the American economy and treasury in their most difficult times.
3. “Intelligence: overt interference in the fields of jihad in Afghanistan and Iraq, forming spy networks, and recruiting and providing financial assistance to spies…
4. “The [Saudis] declared war on jihad and its community, publishing pictures of the mujahideen as if they were criminals for waging jihad against the infidels…”[6]
The communiqué goes on to provide a list of social and religious grievances against the Saudi regime, including the official media’s secular tendencies, the corruption of the education system, especially in terms of gender-mixing, the enfeebling of religious scholars, adherence to man-made laws and judicial systems, and regime corruption.
Finally, the ‘Abdallah ‘Azzam Brigades declare the heads of the Saudi regime legitimate targets:
“The Aal Sa’ud regime should know that we are at war with it as long as it sticks to its heresy, oppression, tyranny, and its war on Allah’s religion. Furthermore, [we consider] the heads of this regime and those who execute [their orders] legitimate targets for the mujahideen, [as it is written:] ‘Fight the leaders of unbelief’ [Koran 9:12]. Fighting them with the sword and the tongue are amongst the most important duties of this age… [And as is written:] ‘And fight them until there is no more persecution, and religion is for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against the oppressors.’ [Koran 2:193] Let them expect our courage, and Allah will help us and abandon them, for Allah is our lord and not theirs.”[7]
Al-Qaeda Ideologue Attacks Saudi King for Supporting Hosni Mubarak
Another Al-Qaeda figure who referred to Saudi Arabia was ‘Atiyyat Allah Abu ‘
Abd Al-Rahman, also known as ‘Atiyyat Allah Al-Libi, an Al-Qaeda leader and ideologue, who dedicated one of the concluding notes of his recent statements to the Saudi regime:
“Regarding the hypocritical Saudi regime, the traitor of the two holy places, the king of the Aal [Al-]Sa’ud family, has tenaciously stood alongside Hosni Al-La Mubarak… to the extent where he clashed with the Americans, perhaps for the first time in history.
“We wish to ask the wise people in ‘Saudi Arabia’ a few simple questions: Why is [King] ‘Abdallah Aal [Al-] Sa’ud aiding Hosni [Mubarak], the secularist, the collaborator with Israel, the servant of the Americans, the darling of the Jews?… Is ‘Abdallah helping Hosni for the sake of Allah and Islam?… These questions are waiting for answers… before the storm [comes] and time runs out.”[8]
Endnotes:
[1] See MEMRI JTTM Report, “Yemeni-American Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki In New Video: No Need For Fatwa To Kill Americans – “Killing Satan Does Not Require Any Fatwa,” November 8, 2010.
[2] A counseling and guidance program for security prisoners established by the Saudi Interior Ministry in 2003 with the intent of encouraging them to renounce their extremist beliefs. See MEMRI Special Dispatch No.3334, “Saudi Columnists: The Government Program to Rehabilitate Extremists is a Failure,” November 1, 2010.
[3] Anwar Al-‘Awlaki recently made a similar claim regarding the “silence of the religious scholars” over Saudi Arabia’s providing refuge to Ben ‘Ali.
[4] See MEMRI JTTM Report Interview with Wanted Saudi Terrorist Salih Al-Qar’awi Reveals Lebanese Group’s Al-Qaeda Connections, April 4, 2010.
[5] See MEMRI JTTM Report, “In New Audio Message, AQAP Deputy Commander Sa’id Al-Shihri Calls Iran, U.S. Practical Allies Against Sunnis; Calls For Immediate Arming Of Every Sunni To Face …,” January 28, 2011.
[6] This claim refers to the lists of wanted terrorists published by the Saudi Interior Ministry.
[7] Shumukh Al-Islam, February 24, 2011.
[8] Shumukh Al-Islam, February 24, 2011.
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