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Ansar al Sharia Egypt releases founding statement
2012-11-20
Ansar al Sharia Egypt has published its founding statement online. The group says that "preaching and jihad are two wings that are indispensable to the spread of Islam," according to a translation prepared by the SITE Intelligence Group. And the group outlines sixteen goals with that two-pronged approach in mind.

In addition to calling for the implementation of sharia law, and the resurrection of the Caliphate, the organization says it will work towards "the liberation of the Muslim lands from foreign invasion" and resist "modern colonialism, especially the Zionist-Crusader colonialism that is led by America and the West."

Ansar al Sharia Egypt also says, according to SITE's translation, that it will support "the mujahideen and their movements and groups in the different lands of the Muslims so as to resist the Zionist-Crusader colonization, and this comes at the head of our priorities."

The founding statement is signed by Ahmed Ashush, a high-profile jihadist who has longstanding ties to al Qaeda. During a recent television appearance, Ashush criticized Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi for not imposing sharia law. Ashush has consistently denounced the democratic process as well.

On Sept. 16, less than a week after the Sept. 11 protest at the US embassy in Cairo, Ashush released a fatwa online calling for the makers of the film "Innocence of Muslims" to be killed. "He who kills them is due the reward given to a mujahid from Allah, Glorified and Exalted be He," Ashush claimed, according to a translation by SITE. "So, hurry, hurry, O Muslim youth in America and Europe, and teach those filthy lowly ones a lesson that all the monkeys and pigs in America and Europe will understand."

BBC Monitoring reported that Ashush's fatwa "was advertised prominently on the main page of the key pro-al Qaeda website Shumukh al Islam, which has promoted the works of Ashush in the past."

After Ashush's fatwa was released, the Associated Press reported that he is an "al Qaeda-linked Egyptian jihadist...who was believed close to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda's current No. 1, Ayman al Zawahiri."

Posted by:Au Auric

#1  Speaking of "Caliphate" + Egypt ...

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [Khilifah.com] RECENT ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR [Gaza]WILL QUICKEN THE COMING OF THE CALIPHATE + RADICALIZE FURTHER THE UMMAH. THERE WILL ANOTHER GUSH OF ARAB SPRING(S) TO BRING DOWN THE [Muslim] RULERS WHOM REFUSE TO TO DESTROY THE PAGAN PYRAMIDS AND FIGHT ISRAEL HEAD-ON | MOBILIZING THE MUSLIM ARMIES IS THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE RESPONSE FROM THE RULERS OF GAZA - OTHERWISE, THEY BETRAY ALLAH, HIS MESSENGER, + THE BELIEVERS.

Gaawd, what a long one.

IIUC, unless Islamist Sharia is imposed, there will be INTER-MUSLIM, ANTI-ARAB SPRING "ARAB SPRINGS" forthcoming???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-11-20 22:44  

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