Posted on 07/30/2006 2:36:00 PM PDT by neverdem
WITH Israel at war with Hezbollah, where, you might wonder, is Al Qaeda? From all appearances on the Web sites frequented by its sympathizers, which I frequently monitor, Al Qaeda is sitting, unhappily and uneasily, on the sidelines, watching a movement antithetical to its philosophy steal its thunder. That might sound like good news. But it is more likely an ominous sign.
Al Qaeda’s Sunni ideology regards Shiites as heretics and profoundly distrusts Shiite groups like Hezbollah. It was Al Qaeda that is reported to have given Sunni extremists in Iraq the green light to attack Shiite civilians and holy sites. A Qaeda recruiter I met in Yemen described the Shiites as “dogs and a thorn in the throat of Islam from the beginning of time.”
But now Hezbollah has taken the lead on the most incendiary issue for jihadis of all stripes: the fight against Israel.
Many Sunnis are therefore rallying to Hezbollah’s side, including the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jordan. The Saudi cleric Salman al-Awda has defied his government’s anti-Hezbollah position, writing on his Web site that “this is not the time to express our differences with the Shiites because we are all confronted by our greater enemy, the criminal Jews and Zionists.”
For Al Qaeda, it is a time of panic. The group’s Web sites are abuzz with messages and questions about how to respond to Hezbollah’s success. One sympathizer asks whether, even knowing that the Shiites are traitors and the accomplices of the infidel Americans in Iraq, it is permissible to say a prayer for Hezbollah. He is told to curse Hezbollah along with Islam’s other enemies.
Several of Al Qaeda’s ideologues have issued official statements explaining Hezbollah’s actions and telling followers how to respond to them. The gist of their argument is that the...
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These people are crazed with blood lust. The whole bunch hasnt got a brain between them. Just kill , thats all they believe in.
Have to register to view... durnit...
Success? How Baghdad Bobish.
"The whole bunch hasnt got a brain between them. Just kill , thats all they believe in."
Dictatorships and Monarchys were the MSM is owned by the leader, rather than here in the US where it is owned by one party.
And we've got a whole slug of people that would be doing the same instead of hugging trees, if the MSM threw it's weight that way.
Blame the leaders, educate the survivors.
I think AQ has realized they can start crap between different groups without actually getting personally involved.
Wow, I'm really surprised someone from the NY Times would be frequenting Al Qaeda sympathizer websites... just "monitoring" of course!
Bernard Haykel, an associate professor of Islamic Studies at New York University, is the author of “Revival and Reform in Islam.”
This is a guest OpEd column. He works at NYU, not the NY Times.
Yeah, I kind of noticed that after I posted. So wow, I'm really surprised someone over at NYU frequents Al Qaeda sympathizer websites!
Moral courage makes for political courage (Molly Ivins, BILL MOYERS FOR PRESIDENT)
Bill Clinton's view of how parties differ (mega barf alert)
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So, Al Qaeda is the true defender of islam, yet all we ever hear is that Al Qaeda is an extremist group that has hijacked the religion of peace!
Thanks for the ping, neverdem, and thanks for posting the entire article, Cf!
thanks for the ping...jump over here:
Your talents will be appreciated. Start from the last work back.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674746/posts
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
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