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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (251685)5/25/2008 8:36:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793955
 
Why have clerics and militants once considered allies by Al Qaeda's leaders turned against them? To a large extent, it is because Al Qaeda and its affiliates have increasingly adopted the doctrine of takfir, by which they claim the right to decide who is a "true" Muslim. Al Qaeda's Muslim critics know what results from this takfiri view: First, the radicals deem some Muslims apostates; after that, the radicals start killing them. This fatal progression happened in both Algeria and Egypt in the 1990s. It is now taking place even more dramatically in Iraq, where Al Qaeda's suicide bombers have killed more than 10,000 Iraqis, most of them targeted simply for being Shia. Recently, Al Qaeda in Iraq has turned its fire on Sunnis who oppose its diktats, a fact not lost on the Islamic world's Sunni majority.


To make a point which ought to be obvious but sadly is not, if Al Qaeda's attacks had been met with appeasement for their 'grievances' instead of prolonged fighting, this change of opinion would never have occurred. Quite the contrary, the movement would only have gone up in public estimation. A lot of Muslims may be grateful that Al Qaeda exposed its true nature before it had a chance to take over their countries.
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