A Statement from Sheikh Hamed al-Ali Addressing the Core of the Problem Between Ayman al-Zawahiri, Hamas, and the Chechen Mujahideen
SITE Institute: A statement from Sheikh Hamed al-Ali, distributed to jihadist forums on Monday, March 6, 2006, addresses the situation between Hamas and the Chechen mujahideen, in addition to Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri’s most recent message, concerning Hamas entering into agreements and treaties with Western governments. Statements from Ahmad Zakayev, a representative of the Chechen jihad, and Hamas leader Khalid Mesha’al, which were made following Hamas’ talks with the Russian government, provide the bulwark for Sheikh al-Ali’s discourse, as he argues against Mesha’al’s belief that the Chechen issue is only within Russian internal affairs.
According to Sheikh Hamed al-Ali, the Chechen jihad is not localized to the Caucuses only, but the entire Muslim world, just as the jihad in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine are not limited to those particular tracts of land. He states: “Every land is dirt; it has no importance but only in the importance of the faith that is on its surface. So it becomes a land of Islam because of the Islamic faith, and a land of disbelief is one which is absent of Islam. All of the jihad is to raise this belief on the land.” The statement, duly serving as an “advice” to Khalid Mesha’al, reads that the aforementioned is fundamental to the Islamic movement brigades, and further, “Palestine cannot be bought by selling this faith.” Sheikh al-Ali argues that he who abandons a Muslim is then abandoned by Allah.
The statement suggests that Hamas hold steadfast to Islamic law, not deviate to fall into the “mirage of peace” and reject previous agreements signed by the Palestinian Authority, the “traitors,” and keep their arms and continue jihad. In addition, Shekh al-Ali references three traps he believes the West and Israel want Hamas to be ensnared, including substitution of Islamic law for treaties such as those made in Oslo and Camp David, laying down arms and then being led to the “slaughter of humiliation,” and becoming a “toy” in the hands of the White House, Kremlin European Parliament, and the “Enslavement Nations (United Nations)”.
Sheikh Hamed bin Abdullah al-Ali was acquitted by a Kuwait judge Tuesday, December 27, 2005 of suspicion of forming a fundamentalist group in Kuwait that plotted to execute terrorist attacks in the country and for alleged complicity in four shoot-outs between Islamic militants and Kuwait security in January of this year. Sheikh al-Ali is a former secretary general of the Salafi Movement who received a two-year suspended sentence for publicly opposing Kuwait’s support for the US-led war on Iraq in 2003.
According to Sheikh Hamed al-Ali, the Chechen jihad is not localized to the Caucuses only, but the entire Muslim world, just as the jihad in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine are not limited to those particular tracts of land. He states: “Every land is dirt; it has no importance but only in the importance of the faith that is on its surface. So it becomes a land of Islam because of the Islamic faith, and a land of disbelief is one which is absent of Islam. All of the jihad is to raise this belief on the land.” The statement, duly serving as an “advice” to Khalid Mesha’al, reads that the aforementioned is fundamental to the Islamic movement brigades, and further, “Palestine cannot be bought by selling this faith.” Sheikh al-Ali argues that he who abandons a Muslim is then abandoned by Allah.
The statement suggests that Hamas hold steadfast to Islamic law, not deviate to fall into the “mirage of peace” and reject previous agreements signed by the Palestinian Authority, the “traitors,” and keep their arms and continue jihad. In addition, Shekh al-Ali references three traps he believes the West and Israel want Hamas to be ensnared, including substitution of Islamic law for treaties such as those made in Oslo and Camp David, laying down arms and then being led to the “slaughter of humiliation,” and becoming a “toy” in the hands of the White House, Kremlin European Parliament, and the “Enslavement Nations (United Nations)”.
Sheikh Hamed bin Abdullah al-Ali was acquitted by a Kuwait judge Tuesday, December 27, 2005 of suspicion of forming a fundamentalist group in Kuwait that plotted to execute terrorist attacks in the country and for alleged complicity in four shoot-outs between Islamic militants and Kuwait security in January of this year. Sheikh al-Ali is a former secretary general of the Salafi Movement who received a two-year suspended sentence for publicly opposing Kuwait’s support for the US-led war on Iraq in 2003.
posted by Marko at 3/08/2006 01:39:00 PM
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