Posted by Abu Iyaad
Monday, Oct 05 2026
Filed under Khārijites
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This is a short guide aimed at helping non-Muslims of different beliefs and backgrounds to understand the foundations of Islam, what is required of Muslims by their faith and their duties towards non-Muslims and the societies within which they live.
It addresses the historical foundations of the ideology of al-Qaeda and ISIS, the nature of the deviation of these groups and the Islamic judgement regarding them. The views of al-Qaeda and ISIS ideologists on the "caliphate" and "jihad" are also analysed. In addition, parameters for identifying genuine signs of extremism as well as misinformation regarding Islām and Muslims have been presented.
This information should enable the reader to recognise and be wary of hate propaganda spread by right-wing extremists and well-funded anti-Islam hate networks. To further their own political agendas, these groups use journalism, print and media to foster negativity and hatred against one quarter of the world's population innocent, ordinary, peaceful Muslims going about their daily lives who abhor terrorism as much as anyone else.
A quote from French Professor Olivier Roy:[1]
The sort of terrorism practised by al-Qaeda has neither a Muslim nor a Christian history. It is an entirely new phenomenon. If we consider its manifestations — suicide bombing, killing hostages, targeting civilians — these are all methods that were used before al-Qaeda by other organisations: the Tamil Tigers, for example used suicide attacks; the extreme right in Italy was responsible for the Bologna bombing in August 1980; and the al-Qaeda video footage of the execution of foreign hostages in Iraq is a one to one ‘re- enactment’ of the execution of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades, with the organisation’s banner and logo in the background, the hostage hand-cuffed and blind-folded, the mock ‘trial’ with the reading of the ‘sentence’ and the execution. Al-Qaeda’s modus operandi and organisation, the declared enemy of US imperialism, the recruitment of young Muslims educated in the west or converts to Islam, all this indicates clearly that al-Qaeda is not the expression of traditional Islam or even fundamentalist Islam; it is a new understanding of Islam, cloaked in western revolutionary ideology.
Footnotes
1. Published in the article, “When religion and culture part ways” (6th May 2010).
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