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Obviously, after all the "scholarly" effort Ayman Zawahiri put in legitimizing suicide bombings, al-Qaeda will be damned if it lets some mufti undermine it. "Algeria: Al-Qaeda mufti 'sacked for opposing suicide attacks,'" from Adnkronos, October 8:
Algiers, 8 Oct. (AKI) - The leader of Al-Qaeda's North African branch has sacked its Islamic scholar or mufti, Rashid Zerami, for opposing suicide bombings in Algeria, local daily Ennahar reports.Zerami clashed over the issue with the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb's leader, Abdel Malik Droukedel, Ennahar said.
The paper cited the testimony of an unnamed Al-Qaeda turncoat who is now in police custody.
Besides the use of suicide bombers, Droukedel and Zerami also clashed over Al-Qaeda's recent strategy of kidnapping Algerian businessmen or their relatives to obtain a ransom, especially in the northern coastal Kabylia area.
Droukedel has replaced Zerami with Abu Asim, a former leader of the hardline Algerian Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which in 2006 joined the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb.
Zerami, also known as Abu al-Hasan al-Rashid headed Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb's religious committee and was in charge of armed combat.
Posted by Raymond at October 9, 2008 6:54 PM
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Al-Qaeda mufti canned for opposing suicide attacks
How literal should this be taken?
Do we have to watch out for the cans of tuna and sardines now -- not knowing for certain exactly what else is in them besides mercury?
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at October 9, 2008 7:12 PM
How literal should this be taken?
Do we have to watch out for the cans of tuna and sardines now -- not knowing for certain exactly what else is in them besides mercury?
Posted by: witness at October 9, 2008 7:12 PM
LOL
Posted by: darcy at October 9, 2008 7:15 PM
This underscores the inevitably totalitarian nature of political Islam, (or any form of theocracy, really). Some Islamists like to talk about 'mutual consultation' and try to dress up Islamic Governance as being another form of democracy. In reality, such world-views assert that almighty God wants certain people in charge and a certain way of arriving at legislation and etc. In such a system the right to dissent from established views inevitably evaporates.
Posted by: Monte Gardner at October 9, 2008 7:55 PM
One side said suicide bombing are Islamic. The other side said no. The other side lost. But all we will hear from the MSM is about the mufti who was canned, not about those who said he was wrong and kicked him out.
Posted by: PMK at October 9, 2008 7:57 PM
Let me get this straight. A guy is fucked up enough to be named "Mufti" of Algerian Al Quaeda. And he somehow is not quite fucked up enough to talk the party line and gets shit-canned?
How completely fucked up are these people?
Show me the pool of candidates to replace this loser, order them all another round of figs, and I'll call in the coordinates to CENTCOM.
Posted by: JohnAdams at October 9, 2008 10:35 PM
Here's a country where peace and serenity should reign. After all they're all Muslims, having expelled all the Jews shortly after independence with a law that granted citizenship only to those whose father and grandfather were Muslims.
There is no foreign occupation and no foreign interference they could use as a pretext. Algeria is in addition a rich country.
Yet, these horrors have been going on for more than twenty years now. So what went wrong?
Posted by: swilliams
at October 9, 2008 10:43 PM
From above: Algerian Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC),
This is code for, 'If you don't accept Islam as the religion of peace, we will kill you'.
Or, at least give you such a slap as you pay your jizya...
Posted by: duh_swami at October 9, 2008 10:45 PM
From above: Algerian Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC),
This is code for, 'If you don't accept Islam as the religion of peace, we will kill you'.
Or, at least give you such a slap as you pay your jizya...
Posted by: duh_swami at October 9, 2008 10:47 PM
Here's the part of the article that interested *me* - not the squabble about the permissibility of jihadis becoming suicide-assassins, but the squabble about fund-raising methods:
"Besides the use of suicide bombers, Droukedel and Zerami also clashed over Al-Qaeda's recent strategy of *kidnapping Algerian businessmen or their relatives to obtain a ransom*, especially in the northern coastal Kabylia area."
Can we say Islamomafia?
Islam: the oldest and biggest organised crime gang in the world. In business for 1350 years and counting. Makes the Triads, Mafia and Thuggees look like rank amateurs.
One might also observe that the kidnappings-for-ransom (in order to extort money to finance the jihad) took place "especially in the northern coastal Kabylia area"; Kabylia is associated with the Berbers. I wonder whether the victims were not 'Arab' Muslims, but Berber Muslims? Because *Arab* Muslims are the 'best' Muslims, or even perhaps the only real Muslims, and everybody else is - well - *inferior*.
We would then have what we have in Darfur: 'Arab' Muslims treating 'non-Arab' Muslims as Prey, almost as if those 'non-Arab' Muslims were dhimmis or kafir.
at October 9, 2008 11:08 PM
Islam bifurcates, then gets homicidal.
Just like its pedophile founder.
Posted by: profitsbeard at October 9, 2008 11:18 PM
swilliams-
Lack of infidels.
They got rid of one Hobby and started another. Unfortunately for the World, it wasn't Basket weaving.
Posted by: flowerknife_us at October 10, 2008 11:01 PM
swilliams-
Lack of infidels.
They got rid of one Hobby and started another. Unfortunately for the World, it wasn't Basket weaving.
Posted by: flowerknife_us at October 10, 2008 11:03 PM
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