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Al Qaeda Justifies Targeting Turkey
Al Qaeda was announcing deadly threats month ago, before the suicide attacks on two Istanbul synagogues on Saturday. Yusuf Ayyeri, known to have been close to Osama Bin Laden, and sometimes described as Bin Laden's 'ghost-writer' because he frequently authored statements and other literature for a website thought to be linked to Al Qaeda, threatened Turkey in a book he wrote. Ayyeri was killed by Saudi police forces earlier this year but before this happened, Ayyeri wrote a book called "After the Fall of Baghdad; The Future of Iraq and the Arab Peninsula" published by the Islamic Study and Research Centre in Pakistan. Prominent Iranian writer Amir Taheri noted that the book's contents fit the pattern of Al Qaeda's theory of a holy war between democracy and Islam. Ayyeri argued in his book that democracy was a hybrid of Zionism and Christianity that was corrupting the Islamic world.
| That's the "Democracy is a Jewish plot" argument again. Individual liberty is incompatible with complete submission to God, as represented on earth by his annointed holy men. Men are born to be ruled, rather than governed. |
His thesis claimed that secular democracy, nationalism, communism, Baathism, and other political philosophies were the enemies of Islam. Generally speaking, Al Qaeda's goal is to replace the corrupt, U.S.-supported, unholy governments of Arab and Muslim lands with holy Islamic states.
| Ruled by holy men, with turbans and automatic weapons. They know what's best for us all... |
The Russian defeat in Afghanistan is the theoretical model and Iraq is now viewed as the main battleground in this conflict. It is for these reasons that Turkey was designated as a target in Al Qaeda's holy war. Turkey is viewed as a Muslim secular democracy and thus, a legitimate target for global jihad. Turkey was targeted because of its 'un-Islamic' government as much as destabilising the country would help in defeating the U.S. in Iraq. "The only Islamic country under the influence of democracy in a real sense is Turkey. For this reason, Turkey is under a deadly threat. Do we want what is happening in Turkey to happen in Islamic countries? Do we want Muslims to refuse joining Jihad and adapt secularism as a mixture of Zionism and Christianity? In the way that Afghanistan became a grave for communism, Iraq will be the grave of democracy," states Ayyeri's book.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-11-20 |
