The Salafist is the ultraconservative Sunni whom are literalists. They believe in the extreme beginnings of the faith, however, they somewhat pick and choose that extreme belief system, because they adhere to the violent definition of Jihad to further Islam.
Jihad originally was never about promoting Islam through violence, it was about defending a tribe. It was a defense strategy with the understanding the defense is a good offense. The true teachings of the Muslim faith does not treat Islam as a method of confrontation to eliminate all others. As a matter of fact many definitions of faith existed in the Mideast and so did tolerance. Jihad was about survival, not about killing in the name of Mohammad.
The Salafist adhere to the teaching in the mid to late 20th century when it comes to carrying out violence for the sake of Islam.
To say being selective about the definition of Jihad is self-serving is an understatement. Suddenly, sacrificing angry, young Muslim men is okay to promote Islam.
The Salafists have made their cameo political drive in Egypt this past election.
Published: 13:55 October 14, 2012
Jihad originally was never about promoting Islam through violence, it was about defending a tribe. It was a defense strategy with the understanding the defense is a good offense. The true teachings of the Muslim faith does not treat Islam as a method of confrontation to eliminate all others. As a matter of fact many definitions of faith existed in the Mideast and so did tolerance. Jihad was about survival, not about killing in the name of Mohammad.
The Salafist adhere to the teaching in the mid to late 20th century when it comes to carrying out violence for the sake of Islam.
To say being selective about the definition of Jihad is self-serving is an understatement. Suddenly, sacrificing angry, young Muslim men is okay to promote Islam.
The Salafists have made their cameo political drive in Egypt this past election.
Published: 13:55 October 14, 2012
GAZA CITY: A leader of a Salafist group (click here) that has claimed a spate of rocket attacks on Israel in recent days was among three Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza, sources said on Sunday.
Shaikh Hesham Al Saedini, 43, also known as Abu Al Waleed Al Maqdisi, one of the founding members of Salafist group the Mujahideen Shura Council, was killed in a strike late on Saturday on the north Gaza town of Jabaliya, Palestinian security sources said.
Fellow Salafist Fayek Abu Jazar, 42, died with him as they rode a motorbike. Two other people, one of them a 12-year-old boy, were wounded.
A second air strike early on Sunday killed Yasser Mohammad Al Atal, 23, of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the sources said. One other person was wounded.
Born in Egypt but a Jordanian national, Al Saedini was considered one of the most important Salafist leaders in Gaza. Al Saedini was detained by Hamas following the kidnap and murder of Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni last year but was released in August following Jordanian intervention....
If anyone disputes the involvement of el-Zawahri's bother in planning the 911 attacks is crazy. The point is these people have existed for a long time, but, the world is only being introduced to them now since the Arab Spring.
...Wearing the traditional Muslim attire (click here) (white short galabiyya and white skullcap) Ayman el-Zawahri’s brother claimed in an exclusive interview with Al-Gomhuria newspaper on October 9 that propelled by the burning desire to fulfil his hobby he went to the United Arab Emirates. Being already a construction engineer he received the necessary training to pilot passenger planes.
Ayman el-Zawahri’s brother is now the uncontested leader of Salafiyya Jihadiya (Salafist champions of the holy war) accused of fighting the Egyptian army in Sinai after the revolution. Moreover , during his imprisonment by Egyptian Intelligence after 9/11, Mohamed el-Zawahri claimed that he had the hunch that an airplane had destroyed a ‘tower’.
He denied having had any role in the attack on the US, in which about four thousand people were killed. He claimed that the Cairo Tower first leapt to his mind when an investigator came to his cell and asked whether a passenger plane could destroy such a tower.
The Salafist leader, who was released from prison after the January 25 Revolution, said that a prison guard corrected his wrong information about the results of the attack and the destruction of the two World Trade Center towers in New York. He told the newspaper that the prison guard informed him that passenger planes rammed into the twin towers, which led to their collapse.
In his stunning revelations to Al-Gomhuria, Ayman el-Zawahri’s brother also said that he has strong connections to militant groups in Sinai, which are fighting the Egyptian army for the first time in more than 60 years.
He said that he was ready to intervene and broker a ceasefire between the Egyptian army and the militant groups (belonging to Salafist Jehaddiya, Al-Jihad and Geishul-e-Islam), but only if the Egyptian government officially appealed for his help.
This entails that, in his view, the government in post-Revolution Egypt is inferior and comes second to the authority of Islamists and Salafists....
We have witnessed this type of violence and oppression before and while they weren't called Salafists they share the same ideology and are called al-Qaeda.
Libyans watching a bulldozer razing the mausoleum of Al-Shaab Al-Dahman near the center of Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 25, 2012. According to media reports, Salafists attacked the Sufi landmark because the group considered it to be heretic. (STR / EPA / Landov )
Sep 4, 2012 10:44 AM EDT
...The flyers and Salafist websites (click here) —some headquartered in Saudi Arabia—chillingly warn female students on Libyan campuses to avoid tight-fitting clothes, insisting that they must cover up and wear the hijab. The surging attacks on Libya’s Sufi mosques and libraries—the most brazen came on Aug. 25 when a well-known Tripoli mosque was bulldozed—have been encouraged by a prominent Saudi imam. Sheik Muhammad Al-Madkhalee has issued a fatwa praising the desecration of Sufi graves and urging Libyan Salafists to do more to clear the North African country of any taint of Sufi worship....
