Introduction Though Abu-Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi is no longer a player in the Iraqi arena, it is important to review and analyze the military and political circumstances in Iraq surrounding his killing. This report presents the deterioration, prior to Al-Zarqawi's death, of his relations with his Sunni allies, which had reached the point of violent clashes and mutual killings. This violence emanated from the increased political participation by Sunni organizations and parties in the elections and, ...
Dr. Ahmad Al-Baghdadi, a reformist Kuwaiti intellectual and political science lecturer at Kuwait University, argues that the Muslims themselves - not bin Laden - are responsible for the rising hatred against them around the world. He says that Muslims living in the West have failed to repay the kindness of the countries that accepted them, and instead have followed the lead of the Muslim clerics and threatened to attack these countries from within. He adds that Muslims in the West must declare ...
In January 2006, the Austrian-Iraqi Association for Development held its first conference on extremism and terrorism around the world, in Vienna. The conference was attended by Arab, Muslim and European researchers, intellectuals and diplomats. In the closing statement, the participants made the following recommendations: to present the humane and rational side of Islam which calls for co-existence and acceptance of the other; to condemn all forms of violence and terrorism; to promote dialogue ...
On February 21, 2006, MEMRITV released a clip featuring an interview with Arab-American psychiatrist Wafa Sultan on Al-Jazeera TV. During the interview, Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli accused Sultan of being a "heretic" for attacking current aspects of Islamic society. THE CLIP HAS NOW BEEN VIEWED OVER ONE MILLION TIMES ON MEMRITV.ORG . Following the release of this clip, Bassam Darwish, editor of the reformist website www.annaqed.com , posted a February 28, 2006 report by AFP stating that a Friday ...
Following are excerpts from an interview with Arab-American psychiatrist Wafa Sultan. The interview was aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 21, 2006 . Wafa Sultan: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, ...
The following are excerpts from footage of Saudi suicide bomber Abu Mu'awiya Al-Shimali, which were released by the Islamist Internet forum www.alsaha.com on February 13, 2006. TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT: http://memritv.org/clip/en/1037.htm . Letter : "My brothers, the mujahidoon for the sake of Allah, what shall we, your sisters in Abu Ghureib prison, tell you? We have been attacked by the sons of apes and pigs. They tore up our Korans, disfigured our bodies, and humiliated us. What have you ...
Following are excerpts from footage of Saudi suicide bomber Abu Mu'awiya Al-Shimali, which were released by the Islamist Internet forum www.alsaha.com on February 13, 2006. Letter: My brothers, the mujahidoon for the sake of Allah, what shall we, your sisters in Abu Ghureib prison tell you? We have been attacked by the sons of apes and pigs. They tore up our Korans, disfigured our bodies, and humiliated us. What have you heard about what we see here every day? By Allah, one of us was raped ...
THE FOLLOWING IS A SPECIAL REPORT FROM MEMRI'S JIHAD AND TERRORISM STUDIES PROJECT ( http://www.memri.org/jihad.html ). THE REPORT IS PART OF MEMRI'S INITIATIVE ON MONITORING ISLAMIST AND JIHADIST WEBSITES. 1 Sheikh 'Abd Al-Mun'im Mustafa Halima, known as Abu Basir Al-Tartusi, a Syrian expatriate living in London, is considered to be a prominent theoretician of the Salafi jihadist trend in Islam. On August 24, 2005 he posted, on his eponymous website, an article that included a fatwa against ...
In an Al-Qaeda sermon marking the recent 'Id Al-Fitr holiday, Sheikh Abu Yahya Al-Libbi, who escaped Bagram prison earlier this year 1 , told his audience that "America's nose will be rubbed in the mud" and "Palestine is occupied by the offspring of apes and pigs." The film was posted on Islamist websites in December 2005. TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT: http://memritv.org/clip/en/970.htm . The film also includes footage of young boys, one appearing to be as young as eight, training with weapons. TO ...
