Threats to Sunni Muslims

These jokers see threats everywhere???

http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP49803

'Al-Nidaa, a website affiliated with Al-Qa'ida, recently published a series of articles about the war in Iraq. The eleventh[1] part of the series dealt with the dangers facing Sunni Islamists in the region. The article names a few such dangers, and refers to the emerging threat of the Shi'a to Sunni Islamists as "greater than the threat posed by the Jews and the Christians." The following is a summary of the main points of the article:

"The Crusaders Threat": This danger will be manifested primarily in the expected missionary activities in Iraq, in addition to the military activities that aim at "uprooting Islam."

"The Jewish Threat": This threat has two aspects: The first is a Jewish plan, based on religious motives, to control Iraq. The second has to do with ending the Iraqi threat to Israel's existence.

"The Threat to Islam From the Muslims Themselves": "The believers," Sunni Islamists, face popular as well as institutionalized hatred. "This hatred is no less [intense] than the hatred from Jews and Christians. Sometimes it is a hundred times worse than the hatred of the enemies of the nation, the Jews and the Christians." This threat, according to the article, emanates from the leaders of Islamic countries, and the clerics who serve them.

"The Secular Threat": "There is no doubt," the article stated, "that one of the greatest threats to the hegemony of Islam and the dominance of Shari'a [Islamic law] is the American secularism that will be imposed forcefully on the region… The Islamic world will change from dictatorship to democracy, which means sub-human degradation in all walks of life." The meaning, stated the article, of the term 'democracy,' is that people rule, instead of Allah.

"The Threat of Those Who Abandoned the Islamic Tradition": The article maintained that "since a large segment of Muslims" will oppose secularism, the "Zionist-Crusader coalition" is encouraging large spiritual groups such as the Sufis, "who are mostly infidels" and believe in monism, pantheism, and re-incarnation, and follow laws that "appeared in night-dreams, wishful thinking, conscience, inspiration, and other endless falsehoods." Orders such as the Sufis "oppose Jihad and do not oppose the infidels."

"The Threat of the Rational School": The article asserted that British imperialism planted this "deadly seedling that maintains that Islam is not opposed to atheism, and that Islam is required to get close to the infidel and co-exist with him."

"This school of thought, which was established by Muhammad 'Abdu [in the early 20^th century] and maintains that logic has precedence over [the] text [of the Koran], may become the first stepping stone to secularizing the region, because it is a mixture of secularism and Islam."

The Shit'ite Threat

The article paid particular attention to the issue of the Shi'a:

"The danger of the Shi'a to the region is no less than that posed by the Jews and the Christians. Throughout Islamic history, the Shi'a helped the Christians and the polytheists in their battles against Muslim countries. The seemingly anti-Jewish and anti-Christian Shi'a hatred is nothing but slogans used to export the Khomeini revolution."

According to the article, the Shi'a in Iran developed a five-step plan, each step lasting ten years, to export their revolution to the countries of the region. The plan was devised by the "Shura Council of the Iranian Cultural Revolution," and the article maintained that "whether the plan has been truly hatched by it or not, it does reflect the reality."

"Since the threat that we face from the naïve leaders who have Sunni roots is much greater than the dangers that we face from the West and the East… if we succeed in undermining the entities of these governments by creating discord between the rulers and the clergy, and by hurting businessmen in those countries, and by diverting [capital] from them to our country or to other countries in the world, we would achieve a startling victory…"

"We witnessed how the Shi'a clergy in Iraq rushed to open the gates for the Crusaders, and how they cooperated with them in order to control Iraq."

"At the beginning they issued a Fatwa about the need to fight the enemy who is attacking Muslim countries. [But] this Fatwa was meant for internal consumption and was not implemented in the field, and the Iranian-based Shi'a 'Badr Brigades' did not enter Iraq and did not fire a single bullet in accordance with the Fatwa." "When the Shi'a realized that the balance is tilting in favor of the Crusaders, they rushed to open the gates for them and to cooperate with them to control most of the southern cities. They reiterated the role of one of their ancestors, Ibn Al-'Alqami, who opened the gates of Baghdad for the Mongols [in 1258]. Nothing is left for the Americans but to thank those Shi'a clergymen for their efforts to assist them in entering the cities and controlling them… The Iraqi Shi'a continue to support the enemies, the Crusaders, [and] they inform on the Sunnis [to the Americans] to get them arrested or killed."

The article also offered several calculations which, it claimed, prove that the Shi'a are not the majority in Iraq, and that such claims are "American propaganda:"

"If the Shi'a call for the establishment of a government representing the majority, then this government should be Sunni, because the Sunna are the majority in Iraq. They constitute 68% of all Arabs and non-Arabs. The problem is that this majority, in reality, is an absent majority, because there is not one Sunni country that takes care of them and demands for them their rights. The only way the Sunna will be able to restore their legitimate rights is by raising the banner of Jihad against the enemies of the nation and Islam."

"In conclusion, the threat of the Shi'a to the nation is equal to the threat posed by the Jews and the Christians. They harbor the same ill-will against the nation, which needs to protect itself from them and from being deceived by them… They pose a danger not only to Iraq, but to the whole region. If the Shi'a have influence over Iraq, or if they obtain some kind of autonomy in southern Iraq, they will be so much closer to extending their influence. After all, they exist in considerable numbers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain. If those Shi'a get organized and if their initiatives get support from countries that sponsor them – Iran, Syria, and Lebanon – it will mean that they have reached advanced stages in their 50-year plan…"

"The Muslims should be careful, because the Shi'a do not hesitate to cooperate with the Crusaders and the Jewish enemies [of] the Sunna. The Shi'a believe that the threat of the Sunna and their heresy is greater than the threat posed by the Jews and the Christians. Whoever follows history knows that the Shi'a assisted the enemies of the nation who stabbed her in the back. It suffices that the Shi'a defiled the sanctity of Allah's house and stole the Black Stone [the Ka'ba] for twenty years,[2]before it was brought back to its place. Those who are familiar with the beliefs of the Shi'a can hardly fathom the depth of their evil and hatred. Beware [of] them, Oh Muslims."

"We also caution against those who advocate befriending the Shi'a. Such [an] approach can only cause further harm to the nation. To get close to the Shi'a is more dangerous than getting close to the Jews, because the animosity of the Jews is well known, while the Shi'a pretend [to be friendly] and deceive the nation…""How can we approach those who believe that we should curse the followers of the Prophet Muhammad and accuse them of heresy? They, who curse the Prophet's wives and accuse [the Prophet's wife] 'Aisha of prostitution?... If you advocate getting closer to people with such beliefs, then getting closer to Christians is not as bad… [N]ot everyone who maintains that he is Muslim is indeed a Muslim, if his deeds completely nullify Islam …"