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Jihad
Against Jews and Crusaders World Islamic Front Statement
05 June 2010 By Al-Ikhwah Al-Mujahidun
Praise be to Allah, who revealed the Book, controls
the clouds, defeats factionalism, and says in His
Book: "But when the forbidden months are past, then
fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, seize
them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in
every stratagem (of war)"; and peace be upon our
Prophet, Muhammad Bin-'Abdallah, who said: I have been
sent with the sword between my hands to ensure that no
one but Allah is worshipped, Allah who put my
livelihood under the shadow of my spear and who
inflicts humiliation and scorn on those who disobey my
orders.
The Arabian Peninsula has never -- since Allah made it
flat, created its desert, and encircled it with seas
-- been stormed by any forces like the crusader armies
spreading in it like locusts, eating its riches and
wiping out its plantations. All this is happening at a
time in which nations are attacking Muslims like
people fighting over a plate of food. In the light of
the grave situation and the lack of support, we and
you are obliged to discuss current events, and we
should all agree on how to settle the matter.
No one argues today about three facts that are known
to everyone; we will list them, in order to remind
everyone:
First, for over seven years the United States has been
occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places,
the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches,
dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people,
terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in
the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight
the neighboring Muslim peoples.
If some people have in the past argued about the fact
of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula
have now acknowledged it. The best proof of this is
the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi
people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even
though all its rulers are against their territories
being used to that end, but they are helpless.
Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the
Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and
despite the huge number of those killed, which has
exceeded 1 million... despite all this, the Americans
are once against trying to repeat the horrific
massacres, as though they are not content with the
protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or
the fragmentation and devastation.
So here they come to annihilate what is left of this
people and to humiliate their Muslim neighbors.
Third, if the Americans' aims behind these wars are
religious and economic, the aim is also to serve the
Jews' petty state and divert attention from its
occupation of Jerusalem and murder of Muslims there.
The best proof of this is their eagerness to destroy
Iraq, the strongest neighboring Arab state, and their
endeavor to fragment all the states of the region such
as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Sudan into paper
statelets and through their disunion and weakness to
guarantee Israel's survival and the continuation of
the brutal crusade occupation of the Peninsula.
All these crimes and sins committed by the Americans
are a clear declaration of war on Allah, his
messenger, and Muslims. And Ulema have throughout
Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is
an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim
countries. This was revealed by Imam Bin-Qadamah in
"Al- Mughni," Imam al-Kisa'i in "Al-Bada'i," al-Qurtubi
in his interpretation, and the shaykh of al-Islam in
his books, where he said: "As for the fighting to
repulse [an enemy], it is aimed at defending sanctity
and religion, and it is a duty as agreed [by the Ulema].
Nothing is more sacred than belief except repulsing an
enemy who is attacking religion and life."
On that basis, and in compliance with Allah's order,
we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims:
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies --
civilians and military -- is an individual duty for
every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it
is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa
Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip,
and in order for their armies to move out of all the
lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any
Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of
Almighty Allah, "and fight the pagans all together as
they fight you all together," and "fight them until
there is no more tumult or oppression, and there
prevail justice and faith in Allah."
This is in addition to the words of Almighty Allah:
"And why should ye not fight in the cause of Allah and
of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and
oppressed)? -- women and children, whose cry is: 'Our
Lord, rescue us from this town, whose people are
oppressors; and raise for us from thee one who will
help!'"
We -- with Allah's help -- call on every Muslim who
believes in Allah and wishes to be rewarded to comply
with Allah's order to kill the Americans and plunder
their money wherever and whenever they find it. We
also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and
soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and
the devil's supporters allying with them, and to
displace those who are behind them so that they may
learn a lesson.
Almighty Allah said: "O ye who believe, give your
response to Allah and His Apostle, when He calleth you
to that which will give you life. And know that Allah
cometh between a man and his heart, and that it is He
to whom ye shall all be gathered."
Almighty Allah also says: "O ye who believe, what is
the matter with you, that when ye are asked to go
forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling so heavily to
the earth! Do ye prefer the life of this world to the
hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as
compared with the hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He
will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put
others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the
least. For Allah hath power over all things."
Almighty Allah also says: "So lose no heart, nor fall
into despair. For ye must gain mastery if ye are true
in faith."
The original Arabic text of the statement and Fatwa
Shaykh Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin
Ayman al-Zawahiri, amir of the Jihad Group in Egypt
Abu-Yasir Rifa'i Ahmad Taha, Egyptian Islamic Group
Shaykh Mir Hamzah, secretary of the
Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistan
Fazlur Rahman, amir of the Jihad Movement in
Bangladesh
Published in the Arabic Newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi
(London, U.K.) on 23 February, 1998, p. 3.
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