Thread: Al Qaeda chief slams Muslims for lack of support

Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri criticised Muslims for failing to support Islamist insurgencies in Iraq and elsewhere in a new audiotape posted Tuesday on the Internet. Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant also blasted Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas over their reported readiness to consider a peace deal with Israel.
"I call upon the Muslim nation to fear Allah's question (at judgement day) about its failure to support its brothers of the Mujahedeen (holy Warriors), and (urge it) not to withhold men and money, which is the mainstay of a war," he said.
He also used the two-and-a-half hour message to urge Muslims to join militant groups, mainly in Iraq, where he claimed that the insurgency against the Iraqi government and the US-led coalition forces is bearing fruit.
"I urge all Muslims to hurry to the battlefields of Jihad (holy war), especially in Iraq," Zawahiri said in the message, the second in a two-part series to answer about 100 questions put to him via online militant forums.
"The situation in Iraq heralds an imminent victory of Islam and the defeat of the crusaders and those who stand under their flag," he said.
Turning his ire on Hamas, he said the Palestinian group's reported willingness to hold a referendum on any peace deal with Israel flew in the face of Sharia, or Islamic, law.
"How can they put a matter that violates Sharia to a referendum?" he added.
Former US president Jimmy Carter said on Monday that Hamas told him it would recognise Israel's right to live in peace if a deal is reached and approved by a Palestinian vote.
Hamas exiled chief Khaled Meshaal later told a press conference in Damascus that Hamas would not recognise the Jewish state and would insist on the right of some 4.5 million Palestinian refugees to return to Israel.
Meshaal ruled out any direct talks with Israel but said Hamas was ready to hold discussions with US officials.
He said Hamas would recognise a peace deal negotiated by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on condition that it was subject to a referendum.
In his message, Zawahiri also called on the various jihadist groups operating in the country to unite behind the "more advanced" Al-Qaeda-backed "Islamic State of Iraq".
In the first part of the message released last Friday, Zawahiri commemorated the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq with a call to Muslims to make Iraq a "fortress of Islam".

Al Qaeda chief slams Muslims for lack of support

This article is proof positive of the fact that USoFA is engaged in a religious jihad war against radical extreme Islam. Note #2 AQ leader blasted Palestenian Islamist movement Hamas over a readiness for peace agreement with Israel. I'm inclined to believe that radical Muslims are called by their leaders from Muslim nations other than Iraq to "illegally" invade Iraq and fight the "infidel"

Look we captured this guy twice, this is a good thing IMO that they continue to pull this clown out of the woodwork when needed.

Bin Laden's No 2 'captured in Iran'

Here he was captured in Pakistan.

Here is a related article, well sort of.

Osama bin Laden's aide Ayman al-Zawahiri rants on global warming

How much more blatant can it get?

AQ is calling Hamas moderate?

Originally Posted by william the wierd

AQ is calling Hamas moderate?

Well, they are on a comparative scale. Hamas wants an independent, Islamic state on the territory of Israel and the occupied territories, and engages in political campaigning, social support work and attacks on military and civillian targets to achieve this. Al-Qaeda wants a global Islamic Caliphate to establish God's rule here on earth and to purify the Islamic faith of 'depraved elements', and engages in nothing other than kidnappings, assassinations and bombings to achieve this.

It's funny, they cannot run businesses, cannot run for elections and perhaps cannot even run proper religious sermons. What good are these people... and what kind of support are they seeking.

We're certainly not short of nincompoops in our time.

If someone comes on my land, kills my people, rapes my women, plunders my home(s) and then when I retaliate calls me a terrorist has no right to judge me at all.

That's what the Arabs are saying.

It doesn't matter what they say. Reality suggests another picture altogether (no one rapes anyone, it isn't Nam anymore). US is involved in Nation building, which is bad enough.

Originally Posted by Coolio43

Al Qaeda chief slams Muslims for lack of support

This article is proof positive of the fact that USoFA is engaged in a religious jihad war against radical extreme Islam.

Nothing new here. We've known this since 911.

Note #2 AQ leader blasted Palestenian Islamist movement Hamas over a readiness for peace agreement with Israel. I'm inclined to believe that radical Muslims are called by their leaders from Muslim nations other than Iraq to "illegally" invade Iraq and fight the "infidel"

The "illegal" invasion is as "illegal" as the US's invasion, and frankly it makes more moral sense to fight an "invader" of one's own people. Had we not invaded Iraq/Afghanistan ALQ would have had fewer recruits. Fortunately for our "occupation" the Jihadis seem to be shooting themselves in the foot with their fellow "insurgents."
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Originally Posted by Coolio43

This article is proof positive of the fact that USoFA is engaged in a religious jihad war against radical extreme Islam.

For me it proves only the US and AQ see it as a war of civilization or a religious war. Muslims in general don't seem concerned, and it shows Islam is absolutely not to blame.