Posted on 02/07/2009 9:36:37 PM PST by Cindy
More Fitna in Cyberspace: Mihdar vs al-Maqdisi Brynjar Lia February 7th, 2009 | AQ in Iraq, Jihadi media
Is another chapter in the history of cyber-jihadi infighting about to be written these days? The latest controversy is a series of attacks by the webforum Madad al-Suyuf on Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, perhaps the most influential salafi-jihadi clerics alive.
That the cyber-Jihadis quarrel with one another should come as no surprise. Despite calls for unity and brotherly counseling, jihadi writers frequently fight it out in the open. In fact, inter-jihadi quarrels seem to have become more common and less ‘brotherly’ in tone in recent years.
(Excerpt) Read more at jihadica.com ...
Saw it once, that was enough.
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www.jihadica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/02-24-09-faloja-do-not-talk-about-madad-al-suyuf.pdf
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BLOG:
http://www.jihadica.com/maqdisi-dispute-spills-into-the-open/
“Maqdisi Dispute Spills into the Open”
Thomas Hegghammer
February 27th, 2009
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2217284/posts
Jihadi dispute points to deeper radicalism among youths
Christian Science Monitor ^ | March 27, 2009 | Caryle Murphy
Posted on March 29, 2009 1:36:30 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A leading jihadi theologian – and adviser to the late leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq – is under fire for ‘moderating’ his views.
In yet another fissure within radical Islamist networks, one of the world’s most influential jihadi theologians is coming under fire from some former followers for allegedly moderating his views – a claim he denies.
The attacks on Jordanian cleric Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, who was spiritual adviser for the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, are significant because of Mr. Maqdisi’s longtime stature as a revered spiritual mentor who legitimizes violence with his religious interpretations of Islamic sacred texts.
For some outside experts, the bitter verbal dispute in jihadi online forums is alarming because it heralds the emergence of an even more radicalized younger generation of violent extremists.
“There’s a new radical generation growing today” and it “is a product of the American occupation of Iraq,” says Murad Batal al-Shishani, a London-based analyst of Islamic groups.
This generation, which Mr. Shishani calls “neo-Zarqawists,” includes veterans of Mr. Zarqawi’s jihad in Iraq. Inspired by Maqdisi, the analyst adds, they now are “coming and saying that he is too soft.”
Other analysts regard the back-and-forth between Maqdisi and his critics as an indication of disarray in a jihadi movement that is past its prime.
“Maqdisi is often forgotten by the Western media, but he’s actually very important,” says Thomas Hegghammer, a fellow in Harvard Kennedy School’s international security program and moderator of jihadica.com, a blog that monitors jihadi Internet activity.
The attacks on his credibility come on top of other disputes that have already caused “fragmentation” within the jihadi community, Mr. Hegghammer says, adding: “I think we’re seeing some kind of decline. We’re past the peak.... We’re at just the beginning of the decline.”
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Thomas Hegghammer
We have also seen the publication of a couple of unusual videos featuring Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, one with him delivering a funeral sermon in front of a crowd of several hundred people, and another showing him at a large wedding alongside half the jihadi community in Zarqa. I suspect these videos are part of an attempt to bolster al-Maqdisi’s legitimacy by showing that he is enjoying freedom of movement and expression. By the way I highly recommend the 2-hour wedding video. It offers a fascinating inside look into the sociology of Islamism. It serves as a great illustration of a point I made in a recent article about Zarqa, namely that you cannot deradicalise entire communities.
BLOGS:
http://jarretbrachman.net/?p=347
“A Bit More on al-Maqdisi’s Quotes…”
SNIPPET: “Shaykh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, jihadi among jihadists, this week quoted two products with which I am intimately familar, CTC’s Militant Ideology Atlas and CTC’s Sentinel. It’s a hoot to say the least. Thomas Hegghammer over at Jihadica has the best overview out there, not just of this, but of al-Maqdisi’s curious behavior since being released by the Jordanians. I just want to add a couple background thoughts to Jihadica’s always-incisive analysis.”
SNIPPET: “So, in short, al-Maqdisi is on the ropes. He’s being shouted at from within the movement but can only look outside of the movement (to his worst enemies, actually) for affirmation that he’s still the real deal.”
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http://www.jihadica.com/maqdisi-invokes-mccants/
“Maqdisi invokes McCants”
Thomas Hegghammer
April 18th, 2009 | Uncategorized
SNIPPET: “The al-Maqdisi controversy has taken a very interesting new turn. In a statement posted his website earlier this week, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi cited several Western scholars, including Dutch al-Maqdisi specialist Joas Wagemakers and Jihadica founder Will McCants, to make the point that his enemies understand him better than his detractors in the jihadi community do.
The statement, entitled “Among the Methods Used by the Infidels to Plot Against the Call and the Preachers, and shared by many Ignorants and Fools,” represents another attempt by al-Maqdisi to rid himself of accusations that he has moderated his position on jihad. For previous attempts see here and here.
What’s distinctive about this statement is its frequent references to Western academics and liberal Arab commentators, which al-Maqdisi uses variously to discredit his critics and to boost his own credentials.”
blog:
jarretbrachman.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/totheslaveofthecross-maqdisi.pdf
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SNIPPET - QUOTE:
jarretbrachman.net/?p=540
At-Tibyan Releases New Al-Maqdisi Book in English
At-Tibyan Publications
presents
To the Slave of the Cross
Pope of the Vatican;
Benedict XVI
Your House is Made of Glass
So Don’t Throw Stones at
the People
By Shaykh Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi
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http://www.jihadica.com/abu-muhammad-al-maqdisi-question-and-answer/
“Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi Question and Answer”
Scott Sanford
July 28th, 2009
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http://www.jihadica.com/al-maqdisis-online-library-of-translated-jihadi-material/
“Al-Maqdisi’s Online Library of Translated Jihadi Material”
Scott Sanford
August 2nd, 2009 | Indoctrination, Jihadi Book Club, Jihadi media, propaganda
http://www.jihadica.com/new-articles-on-al-maqdisi-and-bin-nayif/
“New Articles on al-Maqdisi and Bin Nayif”
Thomas Hegghammer
September 6th, 2009 | Western Analysts
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At-Tawbah Publications:The Saudi state and the position of Ibn Baz and Ibn Uthaymeen towards it
The Saudi state and the position of Ibn Baz and Ibn Uthaymeen towards it.
At-Tawbah Publications
Q&A with Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi
blog:
www.makingsenseofjihad.com/2009/09/alsabil-interviews-theorist-of-the-salafi-jihadist-movement-excerpts.html
“”Al-Sabil Interviews Theorist of the Salafi Jihadist Movement.” (Excerpts)”
(September 8, 2009)
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revolution.ansar1.net/?p=1460
“Shaykh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi: An Announcement of Patronage & Pride in the Mujahideen and Caucasus Emirate September 17, 2009
Posted by admin in : Caucasus, Jihad, Knowledge, True Shuyookh , trackback”
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revolution.ansar1.net/?p=1482
“Shaykh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi: The Salafi Jihadi Movement September 21, 2009
Posted by admin in : Advice, Jihad, Knowledge, True Shuyookh”
“The Salafi Jihadi Movement
by Shaykh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi
Translated by Ibn Abdullah An-Najdi
www.militantmuslim.com”
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Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2346197/posts
Al-Qaeda Maghreb Adopts Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi as Shari’a Authority
THE MEMRI BLOG.org ^ | Posted September 12, 2009 | n/a
Posted on September 23, 2009 12:19:32 AM PDT by Cindy
The Emir of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Abu Mus’ab ‘Abd Al-Wadoud, has asked the Jordan-based jihadist cleric Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi to rule on shari’a matters for the organization.
(Excerpt) Read more at thememriblog.org ...
www.jihadica.com/midad-al-suyuf-and-al-maqdisi-sworn-enemies/
“Midad al-Suyuf and al-Maqdisi: Sworn Enemies?”
Joas Wagemakers
February 1st, 2010
http://www.takfiris.com/takfir/articles/wdzlo-abu-muhammad-al-maqdisi-isaam-barqawi.cfm
.....Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi Isaam Barqawi: A Glimpse at the Character of a Prominent Takfiri Leninist Revolutionary
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Saturday, January 30 2010 - by Takfiris.Com
Key topics: Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi • Isaam Barqawi
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Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi Isaam Barqawi is a key figure in the 20th and 21st century Leninist Takfiri movement spawned by the later works of Sayyid Qutb in which he penned down the Leninist Manifesto as a means of “snatching the Haakimiyyah of Allaah” from “jaahiliyy” (barbaric, socially unjust) societies that had usurped it and “giving it back to Allaah”. To learn more about Qutb’s Leninist methodological framework, please refer to this article.
This revolutionary ideology is what spawned the variety of political and revolutionary movements in the latter half of the 20th century starting from Egypt, spreading to the Middle East and then finally, finding their way into the Western lands - inclusive of a devious and innovated understanding of “Jihaad” within the context of Muslim societies primarily, and then in non-Muslim lands secondly. See this article for more on this.
In this article we want to mention some facts regarding Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, purely from the angle of allowing the reader to understand the type of characters you find leading the Takfiris and Takfiri movements. You will see that they are devoid of even the most basic elements of decency, honesty, integrity and trustworthiness - and its ironic that these people claim to be “working for Islam” when they are far removed from its most basic morals....[/snip]
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