They’re Preachers of War, Not Preachers of Islam
admin on 05 22, 2009
This is an English translated version of a Malay article published by the Singapore Berita Harian newspaper on 18 May 2009.
THEY’RE PREACHERS OF WAR, NOT PREACHERS OF ISLAM
Muhammad Haniff Hassan & Sharifah Thuraiya S A Alhabshi
BRITISH Muslim Abu Izzadeen (Trevor Brooks) said in 2005 that it was imperative for Muslims to “instill terror into the hearts of the kuffar”. He added: “I am a terrorist. As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist.”
In fact a treatise was written under the name of Abd Al-Qader Abd Al-Aziz, a leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization, in 2001 titled “Al-Irhab min Al-Islam, wa man ankara zalika faqad kafara” (Terrorism is Islamic. Whoever rejects it, he has become infidel). Fortunately, however, Abd Aziz recanted his previous jihadist ideology and today became the forefront critique of it.
Such statement was made through their own cognizance that they took of the verse: “Muster against them whatever you are able of force and tethers …