The Origins of Al Qaeda Perspective

Points Started in Afghanistan Driving out the infidel 3. Bin Laden’s mentor 4. Formation of Al Qaeda and a new ideology

Abdullah Yusuf Azzam 1941-1989 Assassinated in Pakistan Assassination Speculation CIA (US) Mossad (Israel) Other Islamic leaders (Bin Laden) Significance: Fights Soviets in Afghanistan Global Jihad using Qutib’s Pioneering Vanguard Co-Founder of Al Qaeda Writes Defense of Muslim Lands

Term Kuffar: Negative qualities of a person. Used by extremists to argue the negative qualities by one is their inability to follow Islamic guidelines for life. Significance: A Kuffar could be one not following Islam or an unbeliever to faith. Thus such forces need to be purged from the person and even society and even the World. Remember it’s about PURIFICATION AND STRICT INTERPRETATION!

Kuffar: Negative qualities of a person. Fard Ayn: Individual obligation. Fard Kifays: Communal obligation. If many do it maybe the rest do not have to (possible translation).

Chapter 1 (Two Students) Goal: How did Azzam use the Quran to justify events in his life, ideology and events occurring in nations with Muslim populations?

Offensive Jihad (where the enemy is attacked in his own territory). Where the Kuffar are not gathering to fight the Muslims. The fighting becomes Fard Kifaya (COMMUNNAL OBLIGATION) with the minimum requirement of appointing believers to guard borders, and the sending of an army at least once a year to terrorise the enemies of Allah. It is a duty of the Imam to assemble and send out an army unit into the land of war once or twice every year. Moreover, it is the responsibility of the Muslim population to assist him, and if he does not send an army he is in sin.- And the Ulama have mentioned that this type of jihad is for maintaining the payment of Jizya (PAYMENT TO NON-MUSLIMS LIVING IN A MUSLIM COMMUNITY). The scholars of the principles of religion have also said: " Jihad is Daw'ah with a force, and is obligatory to perform with all available capabilities, until there remains only Muslims or people who submit to Islam."

Answer If a foreign nation enters America, how should the US government respond? If the President of the US asked you to defend the nation would you? If the foreign nation captures 5000 Americans would you help? Should the US government help the 5000? What is your duty as an American?

Defensive Jihad This is expelling the Kuffar from our land, and it is Fard Ayn (INDIVIDUAL), a compulsory duty upon all. It is the most important of all the compulsory duties and arises in the following conditions: 1) If the Kuffar enter a land of the Muslims. 2) If the rows meet in battle and they begin to approach each other. 3) If the Imam calls a person or a people to march forward then they must march. 4) If the Kuffar capture and imprison a group of Muslims.

Jihad (STRUGGLE) becomes Fard Ayn (INDIVIDUAL) if the enemy attacks one of the borders of the Muslims, and it becomes Fard Ayn (INDIVIDUAL) upon those close by. For those who are far away, it is Fard Kifaya (COMMUNAL OBLIGATION), if their assistance is not required. If they are needed, perhaps because those nearby the attack cannot resist the enemy, or are indolent and do not fight jihad, then it becomes Fard Ayn (INDIVIDUAL) upon those behind them, like the obligation to pray and fast. There is no room for them to leave it. If they too are unable, then it becomes Fard Ayn (INDIVIDUAL) upon those behind them, and so on in the same manner until the jihad becomes Fard Ayn (INDIVIDUAL) upon the whole Ummah (COMMUNITY) of Islam from East to the West".

1. What is your obligation as an America?

Do openly gay wo/men have an obligation to help other gay wo/men?

Which obligation did Sayfullo Saipov fulfill?

What about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yC4PZZw_Bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxzS-amEXt0

Soviets invade Afghanistan December of 1979 1989 Soviets defeated (Feb 1989) and the fight goes global. Azzam and Bin Laden Break lecturer at Abdulaziz University (1970s), Saudi Arabia, where he influenced possible Wahhab interpreters including Bin Laden Writes Declaration of Muslim Lands and calls for a holy war. Establishes MAK (services office) PhD from al-Azhar University, Egypt, in 1973 befriends Qutib family Breaks with Palestinian cause because it was more of a secular issue. Born in Jordan 1941

Possible Azzam Speeches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EarNjgPyN5I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlcL_VUaxYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ8hrENwpCY

Closure What makes Azzam a strict constructionist? Does this support the slap back thesis?