Zawahiri’s mentor Sayed Imam: “The Egyptians are the actual founders of Al-Qaeda, and Zawahiri squealed on his friends in Egypt to save his skin”
Zawahiri's mentor reveals the existence of an International Islamic front to kill Jews and Christians since 1998
A bigger threat to the West
The Jihad Group is publishing this "review of its positions" in two Arabic language newspapers, renouncing violent activities and calling for ceasing all armed operations in Egypt and in other Arab or Muslim countries.
This is an implicite message to focus violent Jihad activities and all armed operations in Western countries
We always said it: Egypt is the biggest exporter of terrorism ideology and terrorists financed by Saudi Arabia
Muslim terrorists wash their dirty laundry publically, and admitting their resposability for 911
"Al-Qaeda has no ideology apart from bin Laden's personal whims. Whoever objects gets kicked out. This approach is what led to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Egypt's Jihad Group leader wants end to violence
Zawahri's mentor says Qaeda to blame for Afghan invasion
DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)
The leader of an Islamic fundamentalist group in Egypt that was responsible for a string of terror attacks in the1980s and 1990s has publicly severed his ties with al-Qaeda and denounced its leaders.
Sayed Imam, the founder and first emir of Egypt's Jihad Group, said al-Qaeda is to blame for the invasion of Afghanistan, which came as a direct reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Speaking to the London-based daily Al-Hayat from his high-security prison cell in Cairo, Imam lashed out at al-Qaeda No. 2, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, his student and long-time friend who once led the group.
"I didn't know him for what he really is until the assassination of President Anwar Al-Sadat," said Imam, whose relationship with Zawahiri goes back some 30 years. "He was behind the arrest of many of his friends and testified against them in the investigations," he said.
The Jihad Group was partly responsible for killing former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981.
When they re-established the Jihad Group in Afghanistan, Zawahiri brought youth from Egypt and asked Imam to be their spiritual guide.
"I agreed, but bit by bit their problems grew with their numbers, and Zawahiri kept washing his hands of them and involving me in all the problems. That is why Egyptian authorities considered me the Emir while my job was only spiritual guidance."
Imam severed ties with Al-Zawahiri and the whole group in 1992 after they insisted on carrying out terror attacks in Egypt.
"He and his followers betrayed Mullah Omar and dragged the U.S. to Afghanistan to topple the Taliban regime."
Imam said that the Egyptians are the actual founders of Al-Qaeda and that they tried to tone down bin Laden's extremes.
"Al-Qaeda has no ideology apart from bin Laden's personal whims. Whoever objects gets kicked out. This approach is what led to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Imam added that the Jihad decided to dismiss Al-Zawahiri when he joined the International Front for Fighting Jews and Crusaders in 1998: "This was an explicit pact between him and bin Laden."
Review of position
The Jihad Group is publishing this "review of its positions" in two Arabic language newspapers, renouncing violent activities and calling for ceasing all armed operations in Egypt and in other Arab or Muslim countries.
Imam was the first Emir (leader) of Jihad in the 1970s, as well as the first leader of an armed cell who decided to fight fellow Muslims. He authored "The Principle Book for Preparations," a reference book that al-Qaeda uses to justify its operations and win new recruits on religious grounds.
The Jihad Group is responsible for a bloody campaign against the authoritarian regime of President Hosni Mubarak in the1980s and 1990s that drew in hundreds of young recruits and cost dozens of lives.
For decades, Imam's writings have also formed the backbone for the philosophical arguments touted by several other armed groups to validate their attacks.
But in the new review, he said his group "erred enormously from an Islamic point of view" by allowing "killing based on nationality, color of skin and hair or based on religious doctrine."
"Those are actually the methods of secular revolutionaries and not the methods of Islam. There's no such a thing as 'the goal justifies the means' in Islam, even when the goals are noble are legitimate. Muslims worship God by using legitimate methods too," he wrote.
Imam is now contending that those who target innocent people are working outside the parameters of Sharia, or Islamic law.
"They place their own desires and will before that of Allah's," he wrote in this new treatise.
Imam said he was prompted to write the review after noticing persistent "violations" by members of the Jihad Group in its decades-long fight with authorities -- a fight that has included excessive bloodshed, random killings and targeting of civilians.
The al-Jihad Group has traditionally been the most militant of the Islamic groups, refusing for the past 10 years to follow in the foot-steps of al-Gamaa al-Islamia, another militant group that renounced violence years ago.
This change has dealt a severe blow to al-Qaeda, whose deputy chief, Zawahri, headed the al-Jihad group in Afghanistan after his teacher, Imam, was arrested in Egypt.
Al-Zawahri is widely expected to come out strongly against the plan known as "the nonviolent initiative."
The documents that are being serialized simultaneously in a local newspaper and a Kuwait newspaper are also important because they are expected to rekindle a debate in the Muslim world that is likely to include academic scholars, religious scholars and political activists regarding the methods employed by some of the militant groups and the true meaning of armed Jihad in Islam.
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You all are not going to like this, but if we had not gone not into Irac and Afghanistan, and established huge armies there with the suppy line to keep them there, we would be losing the war against the Oil Money Jihad by now! It was a stroke of genius that allowed Bush and Company to do the impossible1 And now we have a Gigantic Army right in the middle of the Muslim bread basket, ready for any of their hostilities. May we stay there forever!
No one in the world seems to be sufficiently worried about the fact that the Koran Blasphemes every religion in the world and calles for the ritualistic murders of totally innocent people, yet anyone who would dare be critical of it are in deadly peril of being murdered themselves. Oh, what a mystery this is! Do you suppose this is the reason we have so few Posters here lately? Hummmmmm..
I read this site everyday, but I guess not everybody wants or has the time to post comments. So please don't be discourage.
According to Islamic doctrine, Imam is right and al Zawahiri is wrong. Muslims should not kill other Muslims. The true meaning of jihad is war against the kafirs.
However, when they have whittled down the Christian population in Egypt, they did what they've always done. Become cannibals and eat each other. This played out in Iraq too and many of those who first supported al qaeda have turned on them.
There is a dispute over pragmatism, not over fundamental doctrine. I have yet to see or hear any 'slime renouncing any or all of the following:
3:151
8:12
8:60
33:26
59:2
8:39
9:29
8:67
47:4
Allah said "fight them until". Allah said "fight those who until", also expressed as [Rodwell] "Make war upon Jews and Christians until".
Death & damnation be upon those schemers who seek to conceal and divert attention away from the fatal facts of 'slime!!!!
I am not silenced, I am not deterred, and I blessed well won't be!!!
At http://anewtone.com I am running a two part series about the proposed Amendment 28 which would outlaw 'slime in America. Today's installment covers the preamble, tomorrow's covers the text of the amendment.
Rise up and lower Hell!!!
I may be a filthy kafir, under Allah's curse, but it seems to me that the Sunnis should do something about the heretical Shi'ites before trying to subjugate western infideldom. I mean, how can Allah be pleased that Shi'a Islam even exists, with its veneration of saints and that accursed Ashoura Festival, for crying out loud!?If Islam can't even keep its own house in order, then why should Allah grant it victory over the world? Hmmm???
Thanks Dani for bringing up a good point. I tried to explain before, that the importance for westerners to post comments are meant to show muslims where they stand in regards to the issues we discuss, We interact with muslims every day on our chat forums, and the main thing that makes them feel bolder, is when they see that westerners don't have much to say, and no reactions, except for few, despite the fact that what we post is read by thousands. The funny thing is that several other sites republish many of the articles we post here, which produces more comments. We know from statistics that the site is read by muslims from many islamic countries including Saudi arabia, and it's a very negative message not to show them, and show islamic jihadist organizations in the West as well, the resolve to fight islam by showing more Western reactions. That's why muslims are winning so far. Westerners will this, unfortunately, when they pay the price. Kindly
There is no site like this one - all the others are a light-year behind. It is scary, but every post here is a hundred posted elsewhere - I know what I'm talking about! Every post here will save more than one life in a future that is coming for sure - whether it is a little hard, or nearly impossible, depends on us being able to make this truth very visible NOW.
@ ibn Misr. I hear your comment about needing Western endorsement of these and other posts. The snag is that built into the Western mindset is a need to say something ONCE and then move on. I am utterly fed up with repeating myself time and time again. But watching Arabs at work in "discourse" that is exactly how they play it. Say it again and again and again and again and again and again until the opposition is worn down. So it must be that bullying is taught from birth if it comes so naturally.
It is no wonder there are few Westerners discussing these things:
a) There is nothing to discuss, the West does not want Islam
b) The Islamics will never listen, just keep on repeating their own mantra
The only thing that is missing is a government with the spine to stand up for its people. Most Western governments have other, hidden, agendas at the moment.
point taken! I see your point and agree. I guess people like me is not helpful because I stay silent knowing that the world is going the opposite and at some point we will have to beat the odds. I will try to post my opinions, although I know really little about religion...just want to life in peace but try not to be ignorant...therefore I read. Thanks for the good work!