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| GSPC Learned Elder of Islam denounces Algerian amnesty offer |
| 2006-05-26 |
| A 42:50 minute speech by Sheikh Abu Hassan Rashid was recently issued by the media committee of the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) in Algeria and is titled: “History Repeats Itself.” The title and message speaks to similarities between the Algerian government’s Initiative for Peace and Reconciliation and Charles de Gaulle’s “Peace of the Braves,” and what evils may be wrought through negotiation and settlement. Rashid believes that Islam is in a state of turmoil, its “hegemony and deference” lost in the eyes of Muslims and others, in part a result of the advent of polytheism and integration with non-Islamic states by Muslim rulers. In Algeria, he states that the government seeks only its own safety and security of its interests, exploiting various elements in the state to “gain power over our Ummah without supervisors, inspectors and resisters”. The primacy of Islamic Shari’a and following the path of the Prophet Muhammad are the means by which Muslims may live securely, Rashid argues. Diverting from the path or refraining from setting Shari’a as law causes great harm on the Muslim Nation, affecting economic, social and political aspects. To protect Islam, its principles, and its people, Rashid states its leaders must be fought against: “In order to protect religion, Allah has allowed fighting and killing renegades, and he allowed waging Jihad against the infidels. This includes dismissing an infidel Imam and fighting him… because it is among the tasks of the Imam to protect religion. And how can an infidel protect religion?” And the “crime of polytheism,” regarded in the speech as the worst to be perpetrated and that to which the Algeria government subscribes, is to be fought. Rashid states that Algeria Initiative for Peace and Reconciliation, which aims to cease insurgency in the state, is merely a “new cloak” for De Gaulle’s plan in the past, and it “ultimately aims to acquit the true criminals, and to absolve them from the [punishment] for the hellish massacres and for the absentees… It aims to distort truth and fake history”. To agree to it is “inconceivable,” and Rashid argues that there is no alternative to jihad. His speech contains incitement rhetoric for Muslims to join jihad against the enemy. He urges: “We call on the Ummah, including all its sects, sectors and components, to join the procession of Jihad… There is no escape from many sacrifices… but [the results of] these sacrifices are guaranteed on heaven and on earth.” |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 couldn't have been said any better than by ibn tamaya hisself--know what i mean |
| Posted by: yo momma 2006-05-26 03:05 |