Iraq: Want to know who's an apostate? Just mail Zarqawi !
aki: Iraq: Al-Zarqawi Fatwa says Al-Sadr militants not top priority
Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has issued a new fatwa clarifying his position on the different Iraqi Shiite groups, in which he specifies that he considers the followers of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr "apostates". However, he says that "at the moment they are not to be considered a priority target."
The new proclamation follows previous fatwas from al-Zarqawi's group, first declaring war on Shiites, then specifying that three groups, including al-Sadr's, were excluded from the decree.
The mixed messages prompted one contributor to an Islamic Internet forum to write: "When I saw the al-Qaeda statement which differentiated the al-Sadr group from other Shiite movements of the Jihad, I thought that maybe al-Sadr's followers were excluded because they were not considered apostates."
The al-Qaeda follower claims to have put the question directly to al-Zarqawi, who clarified the issue. "Even al-Sadr's people, like all Shiites, are considered apostates and therefore opponents," the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq explains. "The difference between them and the others is that our group does not consider them priority enemies in light of the current situation in the field."
Al-Sadr militants are said to have helped al-Qaeda during the US-led military offensive in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah last year and it is because of this that al-Zarqawi's group appears to have decided to strike only the followers of the Badr brigades and other pro-government groups. "Even the Prophet Muhammad behaved this way," al-Zarqawi explains. "During his life he fought first his greatest enemies and then the lesser ones."
In addition to the militants of al-Sadr's 'Mahdi Army', al-Zarqawi has called on his people not to kill followers of the Shiite movements of Jawad al-Khalsi and Ayatollah al-Baghdadi. Link
db: What a helpful chap - not only is this monopode killer in seventeen places at the same time committing all sorts of horrors - on the run from 1000's of Iraqis and US forces seeking to 'root him out' - but even under such enormous pressure, he takes the time to sit at his keyboard and exchange emails with this ' internet forum contributor'. Yet another scoop for aki. Is there anything that they wouldn't post as 'Zarqawi' news?
Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has issued a new fatwa clarifying his position on the different Iraqi Shiite groups, in which he specifies that he considers the followers of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr "apostates". However, he says that "at the moment they are not to be considered a priority target."
The new proclamation follows previous fatwas from al-Zarqawi's group, first declaring war on Shiites, then specifying that three groups, including al-Sadr's, were excluded from the decree.
The mixed messages prompted one contributor to an Islamic Internet forum to write: "When I saw the al-Qaeda statement which differentiated the al-Sadr group from other Shiite movements of the Jihad, I thought that maybe al-Sadr's followers were excluded because they were not considered apostates."
The al-Qaeda follower claims to have put the question directly to al-Zarqawi, who clarified the issue. "Even al-Sadr's people, like all Shiites, are considered apostates and therefore opponents," the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq explains. "The difference between them and the others is that our group does not consider them priority enemies in light of the current situation in the field."
Al-Sadr militants are said to have helped al-Qaeda during the US-led military offensive in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah last year and it is because of this that al-Zarqawi's group appears to have decided to strike only the followers of the Badr brigades and other pro-government groups. "Even the Prophet Muhammad behaved this way," al-Zarqawi explains. "During his life he fought first his greatest enemies and then the lesser ones."
In addition to the militants of al-Sadr's 'Mahdi Army', al-Zarqawi has called on his people not to kill followers of the Shiite movements of Jawad al-Khalsi and Ayatollah al-Baghdadi. Link
db: What a helpful chap - not only is this monopode killer in seventeen places at the same time committing all sorts of horrors - on the run from 1000's of Iraqis and US forces seeking to 'root him out' - but even under such enormous pressure, he takes the time to sit at his keyboard and exchange emails with this ' internet forum contributor'. Yet another scoop for aki. Is there anything that they wouldn't post as 'Zarqawi' news?
posted by exoplanet at 6:56 PM
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