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JOURNALISTE SAOUDIEN OSE DIRE QUE L'IDÉOLOGIE SALAFISTE DU JIHAD EST
"NAZIE"
Textes d'origine traduits et document de synthèse publié par Memri
le 17/10/05 - N° 1007.
Résumé et adaptation par Albert Soued pour
www.nuitdorient.com
Mohamed ibn A'bdelatif Aal al Sheikh
est un journaliste Saoudien qui a
publié 2 articles dans le quotidien local "al jazirah" où il qualifie
l'idéologie dumouvement salafiste du jihad de "nazie". Il fait des
analogies entre le terrain favorable de la crise économique de l'Allemagne
des années 1920/1930 et celuide l'échec socio-économique du monde
arabo-musulman d'après guerre. Une 2ème analogie: la haine de l'autre, de
celui qui est différent et volonté exprimée de l'exterminer physiquement.
Une 3ème analogie: la lutte commence par l'intérieur en marginalisant la
majorité modérée, accusée de trahir l''idéal national et en faisant appel
aux instincts les plus bas du citoyen. Une 4ème analogie: formation
d'unités d'élite fortement endoctrinées et capables de se sacrifier pour
l'idéologie.
Ce journaliste peu ordinaire donne l'exemple d'un dangereux prêcheur et
d'un terroriste haineux, Abou Mouhammad Al-Maqdisi, chef spirituel du
mouvement"al Salafyah al jahadyah" en Jordanie. Cet homme est aussi le
mentor d'Abou Mouss'ab Al-Zarqawi, le bras d'al Qaeda en Irak. Al Maqdisi
a
été emprisonné pendant un court laps de temps, accusé de fomenter un
attentat anti-américain, puis libéré.
Al Sheikh est certain qu'il faut agir avec cet homme et ces groupes
salafistes comme les Occidentaux ont agi avec les nazis et comme le
Caliphat arabe a agi avec les Khawarij.
Les Khawarij était le 1er groupe qui avait rompu avec le Caliphe A'li ibn
Abi Talib pour former un groupe islamiste d'opposition.D'après lui, il faut traiter cesreligieux radicaux, ces prêcheurs de
haine
et ces terroristes comme des criminels ou des assassins de droit commun,
les juger et les jeter en prison, en lesempêchant de s'exprimer. Au lieu
de les aduler ou de les encenser pour leurs actes soit-disant héroïques ou
leurs discours ou prêches soit-disantislamiques,il faudrait que la
nation
leur jette l'anathème. C'est ainsi que leur idéologie s'éteindra
d'elle-même. Où qu'ils soient, dans le gouvernement,dansles instances
politiques ou religieuses, dans les mosquées et les écoles, partout les
chefs religieux devraient donner l'exemple. Or ils ne lefont pas.
Pourquoi? Comment peut-on libérer un meurtrier comme Al Maqdisi?
L'Occident a procédé à la "dénazification" après la guerre, en utilisant
des méthodes efficaces de "reculturation". Chez nous, il faudrait procéder
de même enenseignant l'Islam véritable, l'Islam modéré, respectueux de
l'autre, l'Islam qui ne souhaite pas conquérir le monde.
Il faudrait recréer la conférence dePostdam de 1945 pour "reculturer" nos
élites religieuses qui, au lieu de courir les cours de justice et de
lancer
des fatwas pour empêcher les femmes deconduire ou de se dévoiler,
feraient
mieux d'enseigner la tolérance et l'acceptation de l'autre, ce qui est le
véritable Islam.
À ce moment là, la télévision par satellite Al Jazeerah, par exemple,
n'oserait plus propager sur son réseau l'idéologie extrémiste salafiste.
Pour éviter que labarbarie ne s'installe dans le monde, il faut
"désalafier" tous les chefs religieux en Arabie et dans le reste du monde,
par une concertation internationale duype de celle de la dénazification
qui s'est tenue à Postdam en 1945.
Saudi Columnist: Jihadist Salafist Ideology is Like Nazism
Saudi columnist Muhammad bin 'Abd Al-Latif Aal Al-Sheikh published two
articles in the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, in which he attacked the ideology
of the Al-alafiyya Al-Jihadiyya movement. [1] He said that the ideology
of
this movement was similar to, or even worse than, the Nazi ideology, and
that it should bedealt accordingly. Excerpts:
Memri Special Dispatch Series - No. 1007 - October 17, 2005 -
"Both Jihadist Salafism and Nazism Are Based on Hatred and Physical
Elimination of the Other"
Aal Al-Sheikh published the first article on July 10, 2005, following the
release from prison of Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, the spiritual leader of
the
Jihadist Salafist movement in Jordan and mentor of Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi:
"The release of Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi and his subsequent re-arrest bythe
Jordanian authorities raises many questions. [2] The man is one of the
founders of terrorism and the one who, through his books and extremist
interpretations, gave rise to many of those who belong to the group now
called Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya, which leads terrorism worldwide.
Although
hesupposedly bases his methodological justifications on the sayings of
people faithful to the Sunna and to the Muslim community [Ahl al-sunna
wa'l-jama'a],he[in fact] reaches the [same] conclusion reached by the
Khawarij regarding the political outlook of Islam. [3]
"The Jordanian court is said to have cleared him of the charges against
him
-first and foremost [the charge of] planning to blow up American military
facilitiesinJordan- but this dangerous human-terrorist creature was in
fact doing something far more dangerous, namely, booby-trapping minds and
exploitingthe state of frustration suffered by the Muslim youth so as to
perpetuate violence, killing, and destruction, and to implant the idea of
suicide and toincite to it. Is the charge of booby-trapping minds less
severe than the booby-trapping of property[?]... This is the root of the
problem.
"Putting an end to terrorism is only possible by putting an end to the
ideology that plants it in our society. A security solution is not
sufficient, though it iscertainly required. He [Al-Maqdisi] preaches
takfir [accusing other Muslims of apostasy] and terrorism out of purely
political motives - out of anunderstanding, an inner conviction,
premeditation and planning. Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya... should be dealt
with exactly as the Europeans dealt with theNazis, and as our forefathers
dealt with the ideology of the Khawarij.
"In my opinion, the ideology of Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya is very similar
to Nazism in terms of its causes and reasons. If the economic depression
and thestateof frustration that befell the world in 1930 were a cause
for
the spread of murderous Nazism, it may be said that the economic and
cultural setbackthat has befallen the Arab and Muslim countries and the
frustration suffered by Muslims today are also the primary cause for this
murderous ideology[i.e., that of Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya].These
[circumstances] allow it to surface and to find followers and supporters
among the Muslims. Inaddition,both ideologies share hatred of the other
and [the goal of] eliminating through his physical extermination - and
they
have many other commondenominators as well."
"Why Aren't We Fighting the Religious Scholars, Theoreticians, and
Preachers of Terrorism like Criminals, Murderers, and Robbers?""After the ruin,destruction, and bloodshed that Nazism brought upon
mankind, [and since] the number of its victims reached tens of millions,
the world arose to fightagainst this murderous ideology, and all steps
were taken - on the ideological, cultural, and political levels - to
prevent this ideology from spreading anew.The question arises of why, in
light of the similarity between these two ideologies, we haven't learned a
lesson from this human experience, and why weare not fighting against the
foundations of [Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya] - its religious scholars, its
theoreticians, and its preachers - just as we deal withcriminals,
murderers, and robbers?
"Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, for instance, claims in his well-known book
Millat Ibrahim [The Religion of Abraham, i.e. Islam] - a book that is a
kind ofmanifesto for Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya - that the concept of
jihad
in Islam should be directed against internal [enemies] before [it is
directed] externally,'since the danger from the immediate vicinity, from
its influence, its corruption, and from the internal strife that it
engenders, is greater and moresevere than the danger of that which is
distant and not imminent... Thus, internal jihad and jihad [against] Satan
take priority over jihad against enemies ingeneral. The Prophet Muhammad
did not start off [by fighting] the Persians, Byzantines, and Jews while
ignoring [the Arab infidels] in whose midst he lived,[but rather began
with jihad against the Arab infidels].'"Thus, the concept of jihad has become a destructive terrorist concept. his idea is a formative anddecisive idea in the platform of the modern
Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya. In his call to murder - which they consider
jihad - Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi is acriminal and a murderer. How can we
find him innocent?..." [4]
Muslim Clerics Are Not Fulfilling Their Duty in Fighting Terrorism
In a July 24, 2005 article titled "On the Contrary, They Are Worse than
the
Nazis and Stray More from the Right Path," Aal Al-Sheikh wrote: "...I
receivedmany readers' responses to the previous article. Some said that
to
compare these people to Nazis is to slander a group of Muslims who strayed
fromthe right path, and that I should have related to them in a genteel
manner and should have preached to them gently, and not harshly and
blatantly - which,as one of [the readers] said, 'will only add fuel to
the
fire and will deepen the chasm between us and them.'."I am one of those who believe strongly thatour clerics, students, and
preachers shoulder most of the responsibility for the war against
terrorism, especially since terrorism today exploits religionunderthe
pretext of 'Allah said' and 'The Prophet said.' Thus, after these
[terrorists] have sullied [Islam] with blood and tarnished its name
through
violence, killing, explosions, and destruction, it is the obligation of
clerics and everyone involved in da'wa [propagating for Islam], before
anyone else, first to defend the religion, and after that to defend
peaceful people, from among the Muslims and others.
"The question that must be asked courageously is: Have the clerics of our
times fulfilled their duty, as our forefathers did when they [fought]
against theKhawarij? The most direct answer is: Sadly, no! Let's assume
that the government decides to allow women to drive without obligating
them, for instance,to wear a veil; what would be the reaction of these
clerics and students? How many protest delegations would come to Riyadh
from all theprovinces? How many fatwas would be signed? How many
accusations would be leveled? How many noisy sermons would be delivered by
many imamsin the mosques?... Is a woman driving a car, or even not
wearing
a veil, a more serious prohibition in Allah's eyes... than the acts of
murder, slaughter,destruction, and violation of women's honor [committed]
by these 'sick people?' Why in the name of God [do we show] all this
gentleness,forgiveness, and a tendency to 'speak gently' when it comes to
terrorists, while [we show] extreme blatancy and harshness when it comes
to
women, for instance?..."
"Al-Jazeera Has the Greatest Media Impact on Shaping, Spreading, and
Strengthening This Dangerous Trend"
"In 1945, a short time after Nazi Germany's surrender, a conference was
held in Potsdam, Germany, in which one of the important articles [adopted]
was'denazification.' This conference is credited with uprooting the
culture of Nazism from Europe. [The conference] aroused the world's
conscience againstNazism with the end of World War II, firmed up the
revulsion towards it, and made it into something similar to a crime, not
just in judicial and political terms, but also in terms of culture,
ideology, and especially, the media. Thus, it suffices in Europe nowadays
to accuse a politicianofhaving Nazi tendencies, or of inciting to
Nazism,
for him to turn into something of a bandit. The [Potsdam] Agreement was
signed by Britain, theU.S.S.R., the U.S., and China - the important world
superpowers at that time."Why shouldn't we learn a lesson [of the Potsdam] experience, which hadthe
greatest impact on the uprooting of Nazism from the world?... Imagine that
the way of dealing with statements by Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya. was
comparable to the West's way of dealing with Nazism. Would a [TV] channel,
like Al-Jazeera, for example, dare to spread this ideology and to relate
to
statements by its leaders and preachers in the spirit of
'point/counterpoint' [5] and 'freedom of speech'? Everybody knows that
this
channel in particular hashad the greatest media impact on the shaping,
spreading, and strengthening of this dangerous trend, and that it provides
it with wide space to express its'acts of heroism', its statements, and
its videotaped operations, to the point where it [Al-Jazeera] has become
the primary platform of [Al-Salafiyya Al-ihadiyya], as is happening today
in Iraq.
"Therefore, I still believe that one of the primary missions of the
international community today is to repeat its experience with Nazism and
to deal with thisdangerous barbarian culture exactly as it dealt with the
Nazi culture. If this does not happen, the near future is liable to bring
many [events], theconsequences of which will be far more severe for all
of
humanity than [the consequences] of World War II." [6]
[1] Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya is a term used by Islamist terror groups to
escribe themselves as continuing in the footsteps of the early believers
of the ProphetMuhammad's generation, and as believing in the duty to wage
a modern Jihad war against infidels.[2] Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi is the nickname of'Issam Muhammad Taher
Al-Barqawi, a Palestinian from the Nablus region.[3] The Khawarij was a group that broke away from the forces of Caliph
'Ali
bin Abi Talib and formed Islam's first religious opposition group.[4] Al-Jazira (Saudi Arabia), July 10, 2005.[5] "Point/Counterpoint" ["Al-ra'y wa'l-ra'y al-khar"] is a motto of
Al-Jazeera TV.
[6] Al-Jazirah (Saudi Arabia), July 24, 2005
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