The jihadi website Al-Tahadi posted a communiqué dated February 25, 2011 from Abu Bakr Al-Ghazi Al-Ansari, who is identified with the Palestinian Salafi-jihadi group Jund Ansar Allah, and titled "Advice to the Muslim Religious Scholars and Support for the Libyan Muslims." In the communiqué, Al-Ansari claimed that the uprisings that took place in Tunisia and Egypt, as well the one currently sweeping Libya, were nothing less than an answer to Al-Qaeda's repeated calls to topple the "apostate" Arab regimes; calls which, he said, had until now met with resistance from Muslim religious scholars in the religious establishment.
Al-Ansari mocked these religious scholars, especially Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, who have recently issued fatwas in support of the uprisings in the Arab world and calling for the death of Libyan leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi, and asked them why they did not also issue fatwas against the Saudi or Sudanese regimes, which, he said, are no better than that in Libya.
Additionally, he cautioned the Libyans against allowing secular or nationalist opportunists from reaping the benefits of their revolution. For this reason, he called on them to establish jihad and da'wa groups, and to include religious scholars and sheikhs in order to protect the regions they liberated, and to instruct the Libyan people in the way of Islam. ...
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