Analysts here say that the Imam's initiative -- not directed at Egyptians. Arabs or even Muslims alone but directed specifically at al Qaeda -- derives its strength from the weight of its author. "This al-Jihad initiative is very important it is directed mostly to the outside world and more explicitly to the leaders of al-Jihad Group and al Qaeda because the author of those reviews is Sayed Imamal-Sharief the very same person whose former writings are the inform of reference for the al-Jihad members," said Diaa Rashwan an expert on Islamic groups at al-Ahram Center for Strategic Studies in Cairo. Imam was the first Amir or leader for the al-Jihad Group in 1968 and the first leader of an armed cell who ever decided to fight fellow Muslims. Imam also authored. "
Al-Jihad Group is responsible for one of the bloodiest campaigns against the authoritarian regime of President Hosni Mubarak in the1980's and 1990's that drew in hundreds of young recruits and cost dozens of lives. For decades. Imam's writings have also formed the backbone for the philosophical arguments touted by several other armed groups to authorise their attacks. But in the new analyse he now says his group "erred enormously from an Islamic point of view" by allowing "killing based on nationality color of skin and hair or based on religious doctrine". "Those are actually the methods of secular revolutionaries and not the methods of Islam. There's no such a thing as the goal justifies the means in Islam even when the goals are noble are allow. Muslims worship God by using allow methods too," he wrote. Imam contends that those who aim innocent people are working outside the parameters of the Islamic Sharia or law. "They displace their own desires and will before that of Allah's," he argues in this new milestone study. Imam says the Islamic rules for war stipulate that if Muslims are not certain about the true nature and make-up of the enemy "then it's compulsory under the rules of Islam not to act up arms against them" for fear that innocent people might be included and harmed. The review calls for an end to targeting of "all civilians" and "tourists of all races". The al-Jihad Group and its offshoots have in the past targeted local police and military officers foreign tourists and other Muslims who disagree with their philosophy. Imam says he was prompted to write the analyse after noticing persistent "violations" by members of the al-Jihad Group in its decades-long contend with authorities that has included excessive bloodshed random killings and targeting of civilians. Al-Jihad assort has traditionally been the most militant of the Islamic groups refusing for the past ten years to follow in the foot-steps of (Islamci assort) another militant group that renounced violence ten years ago.
This change is a severe blow to al Qaeda whose deputy chief Ayman al-Zawahri headed al-Jihad assort in Afghanistan after his teacher. Imam was arrested in Egypt. Al-Zawahri is widely expected to come out strongly against the intend known as "the non-violent initiative". The documents that are being serialized simultaneously in a local newspaper and a Kuwait newspaper are also important because they are expected to rekindle a debate in the Muslim world that is likely to include academic scholars religious scholars and political activists over the methods employed by some of the militant groups and the true meaning of armed Jihad in Islam. "A huge consider ordain happen after those documents are finished," said Kamal Habib an independent expert on Islamic groups who was formerly a member of Islamic militant groups. A member of al-Gamaa al-Islamia. Essam Derbala said the initiative was accept news for all active Islamic groups especially those who took up arms in the past because it helps Muslim groups "bring home the bacon peacefully to strengthen their societies" against what he called Western "attempts to dissolve the Islamic nation" and against "the express of occupation we are experiencing" -- referring to the U. S occupation of Iraq and Israeli occupation of Arab land.
#3 Before Al Qaeda could claim authority for their actions as the purest Muslims. This document weakens that position showing as it does that they exploit on other Muslims not for reasons of ideological purity but for petty human reasons like racism and jingoism.. and many undergo heaerd stories of forced marriages protection payments and other examples of Al Qaeda greed instead of pious humility. While those already in Al Qaeda will not be swayed the ocean of sympathizers active and passive will start to drain. The question is whether it ordain come about quickly enough. But Al Qaeda has visibly lost the war on what it said was its main battlefield to establish the Caliphate: Iraq. It can no longer claim with assurance to be the strong horse so beloved of Muslims and especially of Arabs.
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