Posted on 07/19/2008 9:20:22 PM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) A new Islamist jihad group that may become as much of a threat to Hamas as it is to Israel is gaining strength in Gaza.
The Gaza-based group of Salafi Muslims, known as the Army of Islam (Jaish al-Islam), first made headlines a year ago when it kidnapped British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reporter Alan Johnston near his Gaza City bureau office.
"It was nothing personal," commented their leader, Abu Mustafa in an interview published over the weekend by the German Der Spiegel. "It was a message to the West that they should release imprisoned Muslims." He added that at the Compared to us [Hamas] is Islamism-lite. moment foreign journalists are not in danger in Gaza.
The Salafis – also known as the Wahabis – "feel just like al-Qaeda and [we] think as they do," said Abu Mustafa. The limping terrorist, who still suffers from a serious leg injury he received in an Israeli air strike after his group launched a rocket attack on civilians in the western Negev last January, would not say whether he is in contact with al-Qaeda.
The 33-year-old terrorist leader estimated that he has attracted approximately 5,000 followers so far, not including women and children. He ducked the question of whether foreigners were among them.
Abu Mustafa, who has a degree from Germany's University of Saarbrucken, told Der Spiegel that his group envisions a day when the world will be ruled by Islamic law. In that scenario, some people will convert, some won't but "will be able to live in peace under the authority of Islam," and in some cases, holy war will ensue, "just like our brothers on Sept. 11."
Abu Mustafa does not consider Hamas to meet the criteria for real followers of Islam, however. "They are traitors. Compared to us, they are Islamism-lite."
Whether they will come to violence over their differences, and ultimately a struggle for control of the region, is a separate issue.
"We will give them the chance to turn away from the false path," he said, but added that if Hamas does not comply, "Then there will be confrontation." In the long run, however, Abu Mustafa said he believes Hamas's "American style of Islam" will do the job for him. "They will destroy themselves."
It was founded on murder, destruction, rape, deception, assault, theft, corruption, child molestation and a litany of other sins.
These "Army of Islam" people are the representation of this evil on STEROIDS.
They should be all destroyed before they carry out their plans to continue killing innocent people.
Which might well be the reason for their creation. Hamas will be more "acceptable" to the gullible West then.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
What a prolific sentence here.
In the first part, we see just how well educated this terrorist is. Another example of the truth of why men become terrorists, and it isn't because of Poverty, Ignorance or Disease (PID). (Well, maybe disease.) Ignorant liberals from the starry-eyed sixteen year olds working on campaigns for the first time, through horses-asses like Obama, and ending with the hoary likes of Ted Kennedy, all hold this tenet as dogma in their liberalist religion: Terrorism is caused by Poverty, Ignorance and Disease.
The second part of the sentence reinforces the falsity exposed by the first part. The REAL reason people turn to terrorism is a desire for naked power, ambition and control over people.
These people are desperate all right. They are desperate to exert control over those they disagree with (much like liberals). They will resort to bullying, pressure, extortion, and usually, kidnapping and murder.
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