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Hamas breaks up Salafist Bin Laden rally in Gaza
[Arab News] Gazoo's Islamist rulers Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, on Saturday broke up a Salafist...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... protest against the killing of Al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who abandoned all hope when he entered there... in a US raid in Pakistain this week. Dozens of Salafists -- conservative Islamists who have clashed with Hamas -- gathered in Gazoo City's main square holding up posters of Bin Laden and chanting "We warn you America, we warn you Europe." Some banners read "We are all your soldiers Osama" and "Osama is alive inside us." Hamas police forces cordoned off the square, stopped protesters from marching through the streets and ordered them to leave. Ismail Haniyeh, ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... Hamas head in Gazoo, had denounced Bin Laden's killing as an liquidation "of an Arab holy warrior." Analysts said he was trying to cool tensions with Salafist groups who consider Hamas too moderate and call for a fundamentalist version of Islam based on the faith followed by its founders. Hamas and Salafist groups have been caught up in gunbattles in recent weeks. Hamas, classified by the United States and the European Union as a terrorist group over its violence against Israel, signed a unity deal this week in Cairo with Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... 's more secular Fatah movement. Posted by: Fred 2011-05-08 |
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