TERRORISM & MARTYRDOM �

Khobar Towers, Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 1996 20 people were killed.

SAYYID QUTB – 1906 – 1966 �

“What is peddled as 'progressive�thought' is no more than dismal �regression.”�

Qutb on trial in Egypt, under the Nasser government, 1965. He was executed by hanging on August 29, 1966.

In his writings, Qutb compared the Nasser government to the pre-Islamic tribes of Arabia - Jahiliyyah �

TAKFIR �   ‎تكفير

JAHILIYYAH �

Pronouncement of unbelief against someone – excommunication.�Pronouncement of someone as an apostate or infidel (from the �Arabic root for Kufr – infidel) �

  ‎جاهليةState of ignorance – specifically meant to refer to the pre-Islamic �world�

a. One who abjures or forsakes his religious faith, or abandons his moral allegiance; a pervert.�

APOSTATE – From the Oxford English Dictionary�

b. A member of a religious order who renounces the same without legal dispensation.� B. adj. � 1. Unfaithful to religious principles or creed, or to moral allegiance; renegade, infidel; rebellious.�

The action of excommunicating or cutting off from fellowship.� �1.� a. Ecclesiastical. The action of excluding an offending Christian from the communion of the Church; the state or fact of being so excluded. Also in wider sense: The exclusion of an offending member from any religious community, e.g. Jewish or heathen.�

EXCOMMUNICATION – From the Oxford English Dictionary�

Changing the definitions and parameters of � murder and suicide�

U.S. Embassy, Beirut, Lebanon, April 18, 1983 63 people were killed.

HEZBOLLAH BOMBS THE US EMBASSY �

Remains of the US Marines Barracks, Beirut, Lebanon, bombed on October 23, 1983

241 American servicemen, 58 French servicemen and 6 civilians were killed.

AMAL / HEZBOLLAH BOMBS AMERICAN AND FRENCH MILITARY BARRACKS�

“Contingency Ethics” - Afsaruddin, 57.�

Extreme conditions, particularly in Muslim areas under foreign �military occupation or combat - �Palestine (especially during the second Intifada 2000 – 2005) �Lebanon (especially during Lebanon’s Civil War – 1975-1990) �Iraq (especially during the US invasion/occupation – 2003 -2011) �Al-Qaeda – Worldwide – 1992 - Present �

AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI B. 1951 �

At fifteen years old, Zawahiri was deeply moved by the execution (martyrdom) of Sayyid Qutb.�

On November 19, 1995 (the 18th anniversary of Sadat going to �Jerusalem), Egyptian Islamic Jihad (led by Zawahiri) �carried out a suicide bombing on the Egyptian embassy in �Islamabad, Pakistan. �17 killed and app. 60 wounded�In defense of the attack, Zawahiri said the bombers who carried out the operation were acting as , “a generation of mujahidin that has decided to sacrifice itself and its property in the cause of God. That is because the way of death and martyrdom is a weapon that tyrants and their helpers, who worship their salaries instead of God, do not have.” �� Wright, 248-249 �

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OSAMA BIN LADEN 1957 - 2011 �