Ahmed Al-Kufahi Quotes
In Islam, if your enemy occupies a small piece of your land, then you have to declare jihad against the enemy. Jihad becomes a must and a religious obligation on all Muslims to go and fight the enemy….The occupation of Palestine shouldn't be dealt with as a regional one but as an Islamic obligation, because occupation of any Islamic land is a violation to the Sovereignty of Islamic world.
Ahmed al-Kufahi, Jordanian Member of Parliament, Member of the Islamic Action Front, Speech, AIP Conference, Chicago Illinois, 1997
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He uses the term Palestine to mean the entire area including Israel.
This sura is interpreted in two ways. For many modern Muslims it means that in discussions and debates on religion with non-Muslims, do not back off, and if you do it is a religious transgression. Defend the faith. For the fundamentalists and extremists, they interpret the same sura in physical warlike terms. So if there is a fight or battle with disbelievers, retreating from the battlefield is not only cowardice and perhaps a crime under military regulations as it is in the West, but it is in Christian terms a mortal sin for which there one will go to hell. So the most religious of Muslims will fight to the death using this sura as their guidance. On the other hand, Muhammad himself as the military and civil leader of Islam made strategic retreats. In the history of almost all warfare between the West and Muslims—especially the Arabs—courage on the battlefield has been lacking and the Israelis, British, French, Americans, and Hindus of India all observe this military weakness and accounting for this is built into their military doctrine.
The reality of slavery in some Muslim countries is the cause for the last phrase.
Some Muslims claim that Jihad really means a struggle that does not necessarily involve weapons, killing, and may be directed at mastery of self and social improvements in a society. However, the majority of Muslims in the world seem to accept the description given be Assam. In 1989 Assam was fomenting his extremist view of Islam in Pakistan where he had his headquarters when a bomb blew up killing Azzam and his two sons. It is not known whether it was an accident with the explosives they were storing for terrorist activities or they were killed by another Islam faction. Sunni and Shiite are often at each other’s throats.
If some Islamic cleric declares a war or dispute to be an attack on Islam, the penalty is indeed severe for those Muslims who do not join the fight. In some Islamic lands, unbelievers are put to death. Note that the children become the Islamic society’s hostages for the behavior of the father.
See {586039} for a quotation that goes further and seeks to punish and humiliate the non believers. This sura is often used by those wishing to illustrate the intolerance of Islam—especially of other religions. They fail to put this into the context of the Old Testament which proscribed death for heretics or the history of Christianity regarding the murder of nonbelievers. The difference is however, that a very small proportion of Jews or Christians today believe in following Biblical instructions in this respect while the proportion of Muslims who believe in the literal interpretation of scripture on these points is much larger. However there are Islamic modernists and moderates throughout the world who reject this notion of warring on all other religions and there is a struggle going on within Islam itself.
She is a leading American Arab who is a Syrian expatriate.
This quotation is interesting for two reasons. First, it is one of the few fatwas that recognize women to make a decision that might be against her husband’s wishes—a rarity in Islam which is even more sexist than traditional Western religions. Second, and more important, this fatwa is often used by Muslim fundamentalist terrorists to justify the use of women as suicide bombers. Even with a modern Islamist like al-Qaradawi, the obligation to defend with life if necessary any Muslim nation (right or wrong) is paramount and justifies almost anything else that otherwise might not be permitted. This is very different from most of the rest of the world where national interests are rarely perceived as religious and most attacks on a country have nothing to do with religion but with vested interests.
The Manual was found by the Manchester (England) Metropolitan Police during a search of an Al Qaida member's home.
The Manual was found by the Manchester (England) Metropolitan Police during a search of an Al Qaida member's home.
