Posted on 08/07/2006 1:13:48 PM PDT by sergey1973
PRAGUE, August 7, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A prominent religious leader known for allowing Islamic radicals to pray alongside other worshippers at his mosque in southern Kyrgyzstan has been killed in a security raid.
Muhammadrafiq Kamalov -- also known as Rafiq Qori Kamoluddin -- had defended his practice of allowing suspected members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir to worship at his mosque the town of Kara-Suu. Muslims should pray for the "misguided" rather than turn them away, he said.
But authorities are describing Kamoluddin in death as a member of an Islamist terror group.
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To illustrate Jihadi nature of Hizb-Ut-Tahrir further, here is hizb-ut-tahrir official website in english.
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GGG--I recommend you read also the research by Ariel Cohen on Hizb-Ut-Tahrir that I posted in the response to the article. He describes how modern-day Jihadists married the medieval idea of the worldwide Islamic Caliphate with Communist strategy of achieving it.
So there is no surprise that Jihadists and Communists cooperated at times in their struggle against the Western Civilization in the 20th century, although whenever Jihadists won, Communists are often among the first to be found hanging from lamposts or rotting in Islamic Jails. Totalitarians may cooperate at one point of history or another, but in the end when they are in power, they will not tolerate any competition.
Global Jihad Ping !
The death of this "neutral" imam is a crying shame. :-)
The rise of the Jihadeviks?
If all the Imams were to disappear suddenly, the world might have a fair shot at peace and decency.
I guess it's as easy to become an imam as it was for Jesse Jackson to become a reverend. Although Jesse's fatwas usually only end in extortion, not beheadings.
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